G. David Felt

Me Too, I love a lovely Pussy Cat, that is why I am married! ?

Cracking up over this ford.

Union BS is what has happened to people wanting to be paid to wait around and do nothing till the person responsible for picking up one item does their job first before the second one does there. The inefficient unions have gone from the early days of helping people to making them lazy as costs go crazy up assigning a job to one person and everyone waiting for them first. It is pathetic how lazy basic manual labor has become in the last 40 years due to corrupt labor unions. I can believe that, dogs love even when you yell at them. Cats, too independent and focused on licking themselves.

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Ya know that type of stupid thinking is what has hurt the rest of Cadillac. A german idiot trying to make Cadillac like the germans. Will never happen and cannot come fast enough to dump the ICE German bullshit names and back to real American Names on the EVs.

Yes we have had plenty of Tahoe, Yukons, Escalades that have had dry engine knock and oil issues after being hard tested. Real world will always show what was missed in the QA process.

Yea, I do wonder what all is going on as Drew has been way too quiet.

Yes, my son when he bought his Samsung Qled 75" Q8 TV he also bought from Costco at the time the Bose Lifestyle speaker system. They install very easy and other than power, the wireless system works well so your able to put the bass anywhere. For his place, more than loud enough. Update, was wondering who else has come out with wireless speakers and I see lots of options now. Worth it to consider just having power where the speakers are and wireless connections for clean easy use. Will look into this more when I upgrade my home theater system. https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/best-wireless-speakers/

DOH, Valid point, should have stated that better. That is the problem with being bought by another speaker company, they kill off all the relationship speakers. So at the time Velodyne was sold by higher end audio stores here in Washington and Martin Logan Electrostatic speakers is what I bought with them. Velodyne and Martin Logan has a close long term relationship but I now see that it does not show up.

Various web sites say 5 miles on a full charge. Hybrid system is more for added Motivation than for running pure ev mode.

Better Scenery, great road trip!

I do not have Samsung Speakers, everything I have is Velodyne. Guess ya need help with English reading?

Robert ya got me thinking so took a look at the State of Washington which is a big truck market. Chevrolet Mega Ugly Trucks of the 1500, 2500, and 3500 has 389 of which 1500 makes up 302 new 2019's sitting on the lots. GMC, Superior looking Trucks of the 1500, 2500, and 3500 has 75 of which 1500 makes up 68 new 2019's sitting on the lots. Ford nice looking truck of the F150, F250, F350, and F450 has 2,408 of which F150 makes up 1,670 new 2019's sitting on the lots. Ram nice looking truck of the 1500, 2500, 3500, 4500, and 5500 has 1,568 of which 1500 makes up 941 new 2019's sitting on the lots. From this review, Clearly GM is far better at managing inventory than Ram or especially FORD. Yet this does not take into account the strike at GM or sales rate which Chevrolet is behind Ford and Ram. Chevrolet is still a BUTT UGLY Truck. GMC far better.

LOL, Yes Told my kids to pay up and buy the charger to get it faster. They still at times think Dad will buy it for them. Nope on their own now. I do have a real Home Theater setup as stated, My Receiver is a Yamaha, I do believe Samsung could build an equal receiver but I agree their speakers suck and as such have Velodyne Subwoofers and speakers from https://www.velodyneacoustics.com/ which by the way was purchased in November 2019 by Audio Reference Co. http://www.audioreference.co.nz/ I will say they have nice stuff too, but for now I am very happy with my speakers and dual matching subs from Velodyne. Interesting that the guy who was all about music is now focused on Lidar for EVs. His new company is https://velodynelidar.com/ Some pretty cool tech and clearly a very smart man. I will say, he mad AMAZING Subwoofers and speakers. Nope not off topic considering that Polk does have in auto sounds systems that are sold. Very nice but surprised they have not made more progress on getting their speaker / sound systems into more auto's. Sweet Setup!

HAPPY DARWIN DAY!

I also have a Yamaha Receiver from Costco. Just saw that Costco is closing out what was Yamahas $2,500 7 channel surround receiver for 4K TV at $499.98. I see the professional Magnolia HiFi rooms at Best Buy have the newest Yamaha 8K 7.5 Channel surround sound receivers. Gonna go play with it to see the Internet menu as they now come with an interface to compete against Roku. Would love to simplify my setup so I just have one less item to deal with, but right now Roku is just so efficient and fast for moving between streaming services.

@daves87rs I think you need to go to another market if you do not find any Jeeps in the mid teens. Here in the Greater Seattle area, I did a search on AutoTrader and found 197 AWD/4WD Jeep Renegade Sport and Latitude models all from $16 to $19k. Here is just the first few in the long list.

That is weird as I have had nothing but positive experiences with Samsung phones, TV's, Blue ray players, Speakers. The only thing in my home theater setup that is not Samsung is the receiver as they do not make a 7 channel surround sound system other than their fake virtual surround that I am not a fan of. I want the real thing. Unlike my kids that love their apple phones even the newest 11 but bitch all the time about the short battery life and slow charging speed. Excited for the even faster charging speed, camera 8K, etc. Be interesting to see if the wife wants the Galazy Z folding phone or not. She loved her Razor from Motorola back in the day. I have been comparing the new Q9 Samsung TVs to the LG OLED Postcard TV and I have to say both are awesome looking, but I really do like the thin postcard LG TV. Gonna be hard to choose as I suspect by the time my TV dies, they will all be 8K TVs. Might be scary to see such fine details on the actors / actresses!

As a big person with big hands, small phones suck as the keyboards just do not work for me. No problem with bigger phones, tried, but no real use for me of a tablet. Fablet phone is fine. I am excited for the 7" Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra which I am hoping works better for me when typing. Small phones suck.

At least it is not your shake n bake current cars or CUVs. ?

@balthazar Thought you would like this. Citroen built to spec a new 1922 Sahara Half-track. https://jalopnik.com/citroen-recreated-one-of-its-legendary-sahara-crossing-1841610315 Pretty Cool

Drop Dead Sexy, Fords New Liquid Carbon GT. ???

Seems Yamaha has decided to get into the EV Motor game. You can buy it as a crate motor for conversions, but they are also offering full engineering services to talor their EV motors to customers needs in both the Auto and Motorcycle segment. The Yamaha EV Motor can hand from 35 kWs to 200 kWs or for those wanting to know in traditional ICE terms, 47 hp to 268 hp. No torque figure or any other details were released yet, but they did release this video showing a converted Alfa Romeo 4C to EV.

Seems VW is not wanting to loose anymore money like Honda does on their Ridgeline pickup. As such, according to the story, VW is killing the Tanoak CUV based pickup. https://www.thedrive.com/news/32166/volkswagen-doesnt-want-the-honda-ridgeline-problem VW points to the loyalty of the American buying public for trucks and says even Toyota has not been able to crack the Truck Nut. Having 1 or 2 percent of a market does not justify the R&D to get the product done. VW does say with the EV Trucks, this is what they see as a potential RESET of the Truck market and while there will still be strong loyalties, he says VW might come in with a competing AWD / RWD Pickup EV.

Marketing of DOHC Twin Turbo Bangers does not mean it really is the best long life engineering solution. YES, The German brands to me DO have it Wrong and it is NOT impressive when they are driven. But then I drive auto's that have outlasted pretty much everything those brands you brag about have built in the last 30 plus years. I see more American Small block motors lasting much longer than the Germans and even in the asian rim, it is amazing to see how many people also convert and install an american small block V8. The engineering of the Small Block V8 has out performed so much of the European motors. There are rare exceptions but they are rare.