G. David Felt

Amazing video of a parking garage that actually is a multi-floor of auto repair companies and a ton of auto's, some expensive and rare that are not being taken care of. WOW https://jalopnik.com/5f5593c6-fc77-4988-b48f-115c845ad3de Love this read on why people need to pay attention to the 4 door Skylines. https://jalopnik.com/you-should-care-more-about-four-door-skylines-1842334914 Seems Susuki knows there is a market for Mini pickups, so the local Suzuki retailers are doing their own conversions to sell new Mini Jimnys Suzuki Pickups. https://jalopnik.com/suzuki-new-zealand-converts-jimnys-into-tiny-flatbed-tr-1842341271 Very interesting read on why all new auto's moving forward just needs to go to sliding doors front and rear. https://jalopnik.com/put-sliding-van-doors-on-all-the-vehicles-1842322962 Have to say it does make sense for ease of getting in and out especially in parking garages. https://jalopnik.com/put-sliding-van-doors-on-all-the-vehicles-1842322962 Another interesting read on why skateboard platforms are a challange and helps to explain why GM has moved away from them. Interesting...... https://jalopnik.com/skateboards-are-more-challenging-than-they-seem-1842317012

Here are last nights pictures from Fred Meyers. I honestly have never seen our grocery stores this bare of product. Makes me think, Depression era, cold war, Russia, North Korea, etc. etc. etc. ?

Amazon just put out a notice that in larger cities, deliveries will be delayed till product comes back in stock on select items and you might only get a partial order delivery. https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/real-time-coronavirus-updates/281-b258146d-219a-40a0-8874-cb0fb4f81ec2 Local news here has updated that Washington State has the most cases in the nation. 40 dead 642 confirmed cases over 4,000 pending results over 8,000 negative results All local ski resorts, sporting events, convention events, etc. are closed till further notice, Supreme court just approved the county purchase of hotels and sites so that King County alone will run 6 different isolation sites from various purchased hotels. These places will have fences erected around them with security and health care workers to insure everyone stays isolated and no one leaves till healed. Kent lost their lawsuit against the county that was wanting to purchase the hotel as a coronavirus site. Over all ugly, and the stores are just crazy vacated on stuff. People really are acting crazy!

Costco here in the Seattle Area have removed the tables, you can still order food from the food court, but must be eaten outside in your auto or take home. No standing around inside to eat. Fred Meyers, part of the Krogers family of stores here on the west coast was normal traffic flow I thought when I went to get stuff for my senior parents and drop it off at their house. Yet the produce had areas empty of product, freezer, meats, dairy, etc. all were pretty empty. TP and Paper Towels were gone. Processed foods area like Campbell soup was heavy empty, boxed food stuff was heavy empty. Bread area was decent stocked, but chips, junk food, etc. was all low. Very weird seeing the stores like this, so cold war, depression like.

No wonder you jump all over the place in comparing 3 door to 2 door and weight, You pretty much are just regurgitating what Motortrend is also saying about the 4 door amg gt coupe. https://www.motortrend.com/news/mercedes-amg-gt-4-door-coupe-nurburgring-lap-record/ According to them this car can take the crown from the Corvette ZR1 2009 model that set the speed record then. It is the fastest 4 seater 4 door coupe car today, but we have not seen the top of the line C8 corvette which will leapfrog this car no problem I am thinking based on the history of the top of the line Corvettes that have beaten the MB auto's. Then the Germans will come back. Always a back n forth between auto companies. No one ever stays the winner winner chicken dinner for ever.

Follow the instructions here to change it back to single click. https://www.isunshare.com/windows-10/open-item-by-single-click-or-double-clicks-on-windows-10.html https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-start/turn-off-double-click-for-single-click/61d104de-e9f9-405c-b9bf-284807193d13 Hope this helps.

@ocnblu I think you might have accidentally turned on the double click as a single click. This can happen same with keyboard where if you hold down a single key, it thinks you want multiple and sets it up as a hot key which can cause all kinds of weird issues on the keyboard. Try this: How to change mouse from double-click to single-click in Windows 10 Step 1: Open the File Explorer Options. To do that, first, open Control Panel , choose to view by Small icons and then click the File Explorer Options link. Step 2: On the File Explorer Options window, select the General tab, select the "Single-click to open an item (point to select)" radio button, and then click Apply followed by OK.

Maybe your own electronics do not like your attitude towards EVs. After all they are related. Washington State just announced we are up to 41 dead due to Coronavirus. Vail Ski resorts are shutting down globally for the next 2 weeks to allow the Coronavirus to settle down. WOW, good thing I got 14 days in of skiing so I more than broke even.

Or too fast for you to handle? ?

You talking this Hornet Concept they did? It would make a nice EV with a large Frunk!

Dodge has filed to renew the Trademark on the auto name Hornet while also filing a number of EV patents and a few ICE patents. Makes one wonder what Dodge might be up too. Hornet ICE or Hornet EV? ? https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2020/03/nameplate-from-the-past-returns-in-trademark-filings/

While I await the full size EV SUVs, I love to learn about old auto's that we really have never seen here in the states. Today it is the FORD CONSUL 1953 in outstanding shape for sale for $12,800 dollars. https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2020/03/rare-rides-a-ford-consul-from-1954-little-beige-bathtub/ Seller site here: https://www.allsportscars.co.uk/vehicle/1953-ford-consul/

Solid State Battery Break through by Samsung. Half the size of traditional batteries with 500 mile range and guaranteed 1,000 times recharge cycle with no cell death. https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-presents-groundbreaking-all-solid-state-battery-technology-to-nature-energy https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-groundbreaking-all-solid-state-battery-technology.html March 9th, SAIT (Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology) and SRJ (Samsung R&D Institute Japan) presented their findings on long lasting all solid state batteries to Nature Energy, the world's leading scientific journal. By having such safe solid state batteries that can handle repeated charging at half the size but considerable density of power you remove range anxiety all-together and bring about battery packs that can go way beyond 100,000 miles. This brings up the million mile battery pack desire Tesla and others have talked about. Samsung believes they will have this battery pack in production, in auto's as well as all types of electronics by mid 2020's. Graphic to show the differences between today's Lithium-Ion battery and solid state.

Some cool speed freak auto comes from Apex AP0 EV that weights 2,645 pounds and is faster than a McLaren 720S and is 500lbs lighter than it too. https://www.autoblog.com/2020/03/14/apex-ap-0-electric-track-car-augmented-reality/ Seems the Iconic London Black cab has become the hot new Delivery van of Europe but as a Hybrid van from Geely. https://www.autoblog.com/2020/03/13/geely-london-black-cab-hybrid-delivery-van/ To quote the story: Although full technical specifications remain under wraps, the fact that the VN5 shares its mechanical components with the TX suggests it's fitted with a plug-in hybrid powertrain that consists of a turbocharged, 1.5-liter three-cylinder borrowed from Volvo and set up as a range extender. It sends the electricity it generates to a 33-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack that in turn zaps a 110-kilowatt motor into motion. The VN5 is capable of driving for up to 63 miles on electricity alone, a figure that will allow owners to avoid paying to drive into London's emissions-free zone, and its total driving range with a full charge and a full tank checks in at 301 miles.

It is always a shock to learn of places that still have poverty average income. WOW? Thank you Balthazar for sharing this.

True many young adults and teens are never shown how to take pride in any job, but if the manager of the place is properly mentored to have pride and they instill this in each of their workers then pride should show in the end result. Fast food work should never be a life career. Minimum wage was NEVER MEANT to be a Living wage. It was meant to give small profit margin businesses a way to hire young no experience folks and let them earn some coin while living at home with their parents and gain some work experience. Sadly the death of chain businesses is due to poor leadership, mentoring and the lack of instilling pride in their employees in every job they do. Pride should never be ignored in the work anyone ever does.

This is one of the best reads about GM's new Modular EV system and NO it is NOT a Skateboard concept. They say that is actually limiting and as such have created BEV3 as a Modular system that has a high speed over air update capable electrical system with motors front and back and a battery pack that will allow Unibody cars and CUVs and still also work in a Body on Frame design for the full size Trucks / SUVs. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1127366_evolution-11-keys-to-gm-s-electrified-future GM has developed their own EV motor Family. Two motors are permanent magnet motors and one is induction. This allows for a coverage of a base motor with 235 hp to a total of 1000 hp in a 3 motor design. GM has the 70kw induction motor, 180 kw permanent magnet motor and the 255 kw PM motor. Depending on battery configuration, these motors can have the stated maximum power or less. The Hummer by GMC truck and SUV will use 3 of the 255 kw PM motors to achieve the 1000HP and 11,000 plus lb-ft of torque.

Is that the Wendy's Baconator burger? Saddest one I have ever seen. Usually juicy, decent looking fast food that satisfies a protein desire. Sad when even fast food employees cannot take any pride in their food making.

There are those resto jobs that truly are a labor of love. I am thinking of auto's that have been in a family for generations and are not special enough to have a ton of value but they restore it as a connection to great grandpa X or Great Grandma Y. I have seen those projects and while the auto is amazing, one knows that the money spent on restoring it will never be recovered, just the memories and connection to the past for the family.

SUPER BRONCO built from welding an F250 with an Excursion. Awesome looking SUV. Have to say all the build pictures are awesome. So cool to see some still being able to custom build their dream auto. https://jalopnik.com/man-builds-incredible-custom-super-bronco-by-welding-a-1842127571 This is a crazy way to build dangerous but cool looking wheels out of cheap steel rims. https://jalopnik.com/cutting-cheap-steelies-into-fake-bbs-wheels-is-incredib-1842300899

Ug, Dealers are showing big declines, expecting negative Q2 sales and now they say the ability to sell 16.6 million new auto's in 2020 will not happen. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-autos-usa/drumbeat-of-bad-coronavirus-news-starts-to-hit-u-s-auto-dealers-idUSKBN2103HI Starting Monday, GM and Ford will have all White Collar jobs work from home for the immediate future with no end date in site as to when the employees would return to the office. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-autos-ford-motor/gm-ford-to-have-white-collar-employees-work-remotely-starting-monday-idUSKBN2102DB

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.