G. David Felt

AND YOU MISS THE POINT WITH APPLES TO ORANGE COMPARISON Good Grief Charley Brown! ?

Yes Fenders, to me front quarter panels. glad to know you can get the parts to restore it if you wanted to. I agree with @balthazar, the bigger question is it financially worth it. Would have to be a true labor of love. I was also wondering by those giant air tube if that was factory or 3rd party AC. Thank you for asking.

YAWN, just stating some obvious facts with nothing of substance to discuss or cover why the changes and why it could not make a profit. Fair points are brought up in this story and yet why post it here rather than the Random Thread where it is probably more inline with random discussion. They briefly mention GM was developing EVs before Musk was born, but the focus of the story was on their down sizing. Fair question to ask is can Mary as she makes GM a very profitable company turn it around and into a growth company with their upcoming EV platform auto's? That would then be fair game for here to discuss. I honestly think Mary is looking at the long game of changing GM from a Global ICE company to a Global EV company and has sold off the parts that would drag the company down as they move to re-invent themselves. Thank you for posting Blu, appreciate the read.

Could you even buy the missing quarter panels? I can see this as a parts auto for someone that has an existing 56 Eldorado, but this seems past recovery.

Recent update from the state Goverment. 37 Dead in Washington 568 quarinteened positive patients 4,000 plus awaiting results 6,001 have tested negative. Gov. Inslee has anounced all schools public and private are to stay closed through the end of April to help in reducing the spread of Covid19. Washington State has the most Confirmed cases in the nation of Coronavirus. Boeing Everett plant, largest airplane assembly plant in the world has confirmed 5 assembly line employees have tested positive for Covid19. Plant is being cleaned, all those involved are being taken care of by Boeing Health services. All electrive surgeries across the state are suspended to free up medical supplies to deal with covid19. Space Needle is closed through March 31st. Public libraries and museums are closed till end of April. Private museums are closed till March 31st, decision will be made at the end of the month on if they need to stay closed longer.

I hope GM is paying attention to VW who is going to charge their id3 EV lower than a comparable Golf. The price is supposed to be equal to the GOLF Lite but be feature rich like the normal Golf. This will help VW gain market share and happy customers as they sell a decent EV at a lower price. GM needs to sell a equal EV to the Equinox LT but at an L price. That way you gain fans of the auto, feature rich EV at a value price.

Yes on top of the S-class so maybe 10,000 get sold, still profit and Cadillac can do that too. Nothing to say they cannot till they try and if they do go cheap on the inside then you will have every right to say " I told you so" YET till they try you really have no clue if it will succeed or not.

Governor just shut down all schools state wide for the next 6 weeks. Kids will be going to school during the summer. Schools will be creating meals to insure kids get breakfast and lunch. Meals will be sack lunches to pick up and go. I also do not get it, but Costco's here are out of TP, Paper Towels, disinfectant wipes, bleach, rubbing alcohol, sanitizer wipes and gels, all types of rice, (yes big asian population) still. Last week, when it started, I was shocked to see the Costco freezers empty out as people bought everything. Yet Costco has restocked, over head racks are getting a bit bare, but the gov is saying have 2 weeks of food and basic supplies on hand here if you end up with a positive test result so you isolate yourself for at least 14 days.

Yet you say 5,000 Maybachs are big profit for MB, so why not for GM doing the same thing.

Here school districts are planning meals still to insure kids get breakfast and lunch. Those that can walk to the school to pick up a sack meal can and they said some will be delivered. Interesting to see how this all plays out.

All of my GM SUVs have had them in the same place that Tesla put theirs and they are much older than this model Y.

BMW Yesterday reported a 29% drop in profits for 2019. They also have announced they will cut in half their ICE power train portfolio and models as they move to an EV portfolio in support of the global market. 50% will no longer be produced starting in 2021. https://electrek.co/2020/03/13/bmw-to-cut-half-its-internal-combustion-engines-as-profits-slump/#more-126366 i8 hybrid auto is now dead also as BMW focuses on EVs that are part of existing brand lines such as the 3 and 5 series.

Interesting EV news. November 2019 VW started ID3 ev production but deliveries would not start till Summer 2020. Since then VW has acknowledged that the reason for hording the EVs is the software was not complete to their standards and now that they are in final testing mode, will look to deliver 30,000 ID3 EVs at the start of delivery as production continues to ramp up. On top of this, the EV will be cheaper than the Gas equal Golf and on par to the cost of a Golf Life. https://electrek.co/2020/03/13/vw-id3-electric-car-cheaper-than-gas-cars/#more-126388 Tesla Y is finally getting delivered and the first pictures are out showing a better interior and hidden compartments for storage. I honestly think the interior is on par with Chevrolet entry level auto's and is a copy of how GM has used hidden storage compartments for years. I really do not see anything ground breaking on the interior. https://electrek.co/2020/03/12/tesla-model-y-pictures-reveals-secret-compartment-interior-look/#more-126284 Interesting read on how wallstreet says EV adoption is now decoupled from gas auto's due to the drop in gas prices. Interesting read, I think the one thing still is the much cheaper maintenance and the desire for tech by younger people over tinkering with an ICE auto. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1127438_will-cheaper-gas-slow-tesla-s-surge Cheap gas is great for now, but will not stop me from moving to EVs once the full size EVs are out.

While that would be true if we still had the same board and CEO now. Mary has proven that she is moving forward with reinventing GM and going EV and she has said recently as posted on LinkedIn that GM needs to hit the points that customers are complaining about. This makes me think that a $200,000 EV Sedan could very well be way better than anything anyone else has produced in a long time. This includes the S-class Maybach, Royals Royce, etc. We know from Lemans racing that when the US companies want to step up, they can put forth competing products. Maybe this is the time that Cadillac truly does produce a worthy 6 figure sedan.

I can see this as pushing more companies to move away from the desktop and into laptops with docking stations. Dell Tech internally only issues laptops with docking stations to all employees. Only under special circumstance with mgmt. approval can you get a desktop.

Teams works, half of Dell uses Teams, the Engineering side uses Slack. Like them both, Have numerous funny parties on the channels. Never a boring day that is for sure. We have found Zoom to be far more reliable then WebEx or the built in meeting software of Slack or Teams.

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Could it be that the CT cars get replaced with EV names?

Where in the World is @Drew Dowdell

Yes, agree some space for customer meetings, but the rest can easily be done via Zoom or Slack for meetings.

His normal hang out seem to be missing him, I hope it is just the new job that is keeping Drew away from C&G. He is missed.

The Toto ones in Japan also wash your bum with pressurized warm water. Washington state in our 3 largest counties closed all schools for the next 6 weeks, all sporting events are canceled till further notice. Libraries are all closed for the next 6 weeks, county / city pools, gyms, etc. are all closed till further notice. Gonna be interesting to see just how dead the roads get and what it is like having so many at home. I do wonder how hourly people will be able to pay bills and live. This is crazy, but serious.

Ignore it at your own Peril. Our state is ignoring reporting first to dumb and dumber in DC. We now have confirmed 31 dead as of 5pm today here, 457 confirmed, tested sick individuals and over 4,000 awaiting results. This is not something to take lightly. I hope that no one here nor their families or parents or grandparents or friends, etc. catch this bug. Healthy folks are still looking at 2 to 5 days to recover. If you have any immunity suppression issues like asthma , diabetes, or any immunity issues that you do not get this illness.

Yes I am being Sarcastic, Would suck to get the Corona Bug!

Will be a good time to pick up depressed stocks of value. Ford stock closed at $5.35 GM stock closed at $23.04 Tesla stock closed at $560.55 FCA stock closed at $7.82 BMW stock closed at $45.27 Daimler stock closed at $28.30 Toyota stock closed at $112.20 Honda stock closed at $21.45 Nissan stock closed at $201.40 Everyone is down.