G. David Felt

@Robert Hall We need the Rain / Snow, Washington is moving into Drought conditions while the rest of the country has plenty of rain/snow. Please share. Washington just had the driest November on record since they started keeping records.

Listening to Japanese Jazz while working today.

Hopefully it will come sooner than later as a mid year update. They need that motor in this CUV.

This is an EXCELLENT Video about EVs and why today they fail in regards to Towing, but this is only the start and with battery tech slated to improve, this will be rectified. I like what he has to say, worth watching. 18 min video Very cool clear example of efficiency of EV versus ICE.

Like the looks of this version of the Santa Fe, shame they cannot get a properly powerful engine that has smooth linear delivery of power.

I wish I was more aware of cars as I would have told my Grandma to give me her 71 or 72 2-door Orange Buick Skylark hard top with fake white roof and big block V8. She drove that car like hell on wheels and it was a blast. Would love to have it now.

In a 500 mile circle of where I live, I can only find 3 Tesla 3 for sale and none are under $45K Yet I have 69 Cadillac CT6 available for sale in my 500 mile area. Of which 4 of those lovely CT6 are Blackwing Vs

One would have thought "What If" GM had actually realized they could have one engine development team for all of GM in the 60's or 70's where GM would be today and if the Bankruptcy could have been avoided. Course one could then say, where would Chevrolet be now if GM had not Wasted money on Saturn but invested that money / tech into Chevrolet. Always can say "What if!"

We'll ya know Lead in those batteries makes it a slow go kinda like lead in the butt. Yet change does happen.

Rare in tact GM EV1 found sitting in a parking garage in Atlanta. https://www.thedrive.com/news/31345/theres-an-ultra-rare-1999-gm-ev1-abandoned-in-an-atlanta-parking-garage

Seems the Lincoln Aviator Hybrid Details came out today. Lincoln Aviator Grand Touring plug-in hybrid gets the following: 21 miles of Pure electric driving Gas only is 23 mpg Combined Electric/Gas of 56 MPG-e 494 Horsepower 630 lb-ft of Torque Base price of $69,895 This makes it the most fuel efficient 3 row CUV in it's class and the closest competitor is the Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid which only has 13 miles of pure electric, 22 MPG gas only, 455HP / 516 lb-ft of torque with base price of $82,450. https://www.autoblog.com/2019/12/09/2020-lincoln-aviator-grand-touring-phev-fuel-economy/

Time for some Push it!

Lady Gaga time while working

ROFLMAO, Canada sure likes their Snow, Columbian Snow for Xmas!

For me the choice is based on past auto's from those vendors so I would put the V8's in this Order: Olds Chevy Pontiac Buick Curiosity Question to the Yoda of all things old. So the big blocks in the Cadillac, Buick, Olds and Chevy all came from the same department in GM?

@trinacriabob I looked through the thread in the Forum Frogger posted and while cool that you can do an update yourself, even with Shielded wire there was low engine noise. I would save up and you can get some nice 300 to 400 Android / Apple head units for your auto that would get you modern current. Work great and I honestly cannot believe I waited so long to do it in my SS. Worth the money. I went to Car Toys. You can also get the head unit, wiring harness, etc. all online and do the install yourself.

She is so lovely, way better than Marlyn Monroe!

So we have Tesla 3 smashing into Police car in Connecticut in Autopilot mode. OUCH Idiot owner was Checking on his dog in the back seat when the auto hit the police car dealing with a disabled auto on the side of the road and hit the disabled auto before stopping with hitting the second police car there too. ? IDIOTS, Driving is your only responsibility, not the damn dog. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/tesla-model-3-autopilot-crash-police-car/ Yet now Mercedes-Benz is talking up their self driving S-Class cars in California. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/mercedes-benz-bosch-self-driving-s-class-san-jose/ ? This does make one want to think twice. Seems Musk is out driving the Cybertruck and cannot help but drive over stuff. I can honestly say I hate it, the rear seats have head room below the front so your always blocked from any view. Clearly he cannot drive something so big.

Only in Canada would this happen or would it? Seems a very long dedicated Infiniti buyer, aka mayor of the city wanted to go EV and yet Infiniti does not have an EV yet till 2021 as a 2022 model. Local Infiniti dealer who always sold to him got a used Tesla 3 in trade. The mayor bought it till Infiniti has their EVs. https://electrek.co/2019/12/09/infiniti-delivers-tesla-model-3-loyal-customer/ VW Congratulates Tesla for Swiss Car of the Year, Challenges them with the ID 3 that will be out next year in a Paid AD by VW. https://electrek.co/2019/12/09/tesla-vw-kudo-ad-car-of-the-year-award-challenges-id3/#more-114331 Gotta hand it to VW, this is smart marketing. The message in the ad is in German and roughly translates to this (via Google Translate):

Weird, but older singers tend to have more songs I like than newer singers. Fiona Apple, Some of her songs I really like, most I can just pass on. This is not bad, but a Pass for future listening.

Nations Largest Trucking Firm Celadon to Declare bankruptcy by Dec 11th and strand as many as 3,200 truckers across the nation. In 2019 640 trucking firms have declared Bankruptcy among one of the largest turn downs in Freight industry as only 175 firms declared bankruptcy in 2018 due to a reduction freight in the country for the last 11 months. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/an-american-trucking-giant-is-slated-to-declare-bankruptcy-—-and-it-may-leave-more-than-3200-truck-drivers-stranded-and-jobless/ar-BBXXdx6?li=BBnb7Kz

Awesome, all updates are good for moving this tech forward.

That sounds like a First World Problem.

Back to the 80's with a Fun song! Run Runaway

How about some Cherry Bomb This morning? Not your thing, then I give ya some Magic Man.