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Im reading @ccap41 posts about @smk4565 and his opinions of Elon Musk's flip flopping positions of affordable Teslas and memories of reading @smk4565 and his opinions of level ### of self driving vehicles and all that and Im laughing to myself. Several reasons as to why Im laughing to myself. There is no need to put anybody on the ropes here. And then the TV in the backround plays a commercial with this song and I find it befitting as that is how I feel about @smk4565 and @ccap41 trying to rub it in and especially Elon flip flopping around all OVER the place trying to score a future where he is THE Messiah. Que sera sera Whatever will be will be The future's not ours to see Que sera sera What will be will be

I would have never been able to guess that the Model S is actually longer and the Taycan the shortest. Visual styling cues doing their thang. The Model S looks the stubbiest... The Taycan being the sexiest although I prefer its Audi cousin a LOT more. Ill repeat, the Super 7 is attractive, but its the 'looking over your shoulder stealing your answers in a test cheating highschooler kid' of the 3 of them.

the c pillar is definitely more Porsche. The Porsche is more stretched out making it look longer than the Speed 7. The Taycan is longer than the Tesla but the Super 7, in pictures, looks like its more akin to a shorter body like the Tesla. Anyway you sees it, the Super 7 is an attractive machine, but as Chinese usual, its a knock-off with many COPIED inspirations from other vehicles and signature design languages from other brands.

Right on!!! And dont forget it also has the silhouettes and profiles of a Tesla Model S. Despite Elon, Id rather be driving the Model S than the Chinese knock-off.

I second that. Although I LOVE bech seats, I have come accustomed to a center console myself. And Im not so sure modern folk would like bench seats. In a techy world filled with many selfish gadgets are abound like a smartphone or a Yeti and Stanley cup for our liquid quenching needs as we drive, modern folk would find a bench seat very annoying. Ironically, not realizing how cozy it is to have a lover sit close to you while we drive. Ironically, I have seen some porn where love making is posted on the interwebs while the self driving car is engaging is self driving but the love making is soooo ackward because of said center console. And tbhis is the irony, how much easier it is to love make when there is NO center console and its just a bench seat rendering "socializing" easier... But then again, I am of age that love making in a car would be too uncomfortable as my wife and I are no longer as flexible. BUT...like my previous rant above, been there done that when I was younger. There is no need for me to explore that kind of thing anymore... Again...its up to the Millennials and the Gen Zers to explore and discover those joys. Boomers and Gen Xers already experimented with that.

Yes!!! But you have reached that point of time in your life where "get off my lawn" is in your lexicon. Which is the next step in your life. You earned that. Some other folk our age, you are slightly older than I but still, prefer to do world cruises and be surrounded by other same minded folk. Others like to do bingo nights. Maybe that is/was a Boomer thing. Cruises were a Boomer thing but Gen Xers do it too. Millennials and to a certain degree Gen Zers, have isolated themselves on their own at very young ages. We socialized when we were young. They do the old geezer thing at their prime of their young lives. Gen Xers also have isolated themselves in that very same way, waaaaay before our old timer ages, but at least we HAD a social youth to begin with. I have ranted a lot about dumb populaces and greedy conmen and politicians lately and i also have blamed all that on us because we have aloud the degradation of our social lives to these types. But still, the whole bunch of us STILL like to blame others for OUR poor choices. Zuckerberg introduced Facebook to us and the Twitter dude for us to Tweet which he became 44 billion dollars richer when Elon bought it from him yet he is STILL involved with Twitter now X, but the USERS of these platforms are ULTIMATELY to BLAME because we STILL choose to use these shytty things... We KNOW its detrimental, yet we dont let go. And we as a society allow journalism to not only acknowledge the but to normalize the problem and blame the problem unto someother scapegoat but we never seem to actually FIX the problem which is to STOP with the social media platforms. Its the same with the economy. We KNOW inflation exists and we know that it will FOREVER exist and we KNOW that we cant afford things and all of that jazz, but we lay blame to this guy and that guy and this politician and that politician and that political party and that political party and we blame high interest rates and greedy bankers and all of that yet the one solution to NOT spend money and NOBODY acknowledges that or does that. We all do the opposite of that...

Id like to add: When batteries finally reach charging times equivalent to gasoline fueling times, EV charging stations as 3rd place spaces will cease to be a thing. And that is JUST around the corner. 2-3-4 years away? Possibly 5 or even 6? (We have had this convdersation 8 years ago in these threads...in this website. Time flies...and technology improves just as fast...) And then EV charging stations will just become the next gasoline pump station. But again, gasoline pump stations already EXIST at strategically perfect locations in urban and in rural areas all over the industrialized world where cars roll. A huge advantage though with EV charging stations is that electricity travels on its own with the help of long distance wires that only need to be installed once, but more effectively than that, is that solar panels attached to the roofs of the charging hubs could turn solar light into electrons and keep the electricity tank full... And quite honestly, with 300 mile ranges and in 2024, we have reached 400 mile ranges with EXISTING battery tech in our EVs today, plus the quick charging times of 8-15 minutes netting you 80-120 miles of range, EV charging stations as 3rd place spaces is probably not going to happen. All we need though is MORE strategically placed EV charging hubs... Gasoline stations SHOULD be THAT destination RIGHT now. The Rove concept is soooooo a decade ago. THAT business model SHOULD have been done a DECADE ago. Quebec HAD that idea a decade ago give or take and we did install some EV charging stations at some participating Quebec based restaurant chains and grocery stores. Never went full on but we did start it and we kinda continue on with that model. Imagine what infrastucture we could have had a DECADE ago when Elon was sort of normal and business savvy people where more focused and moronic and agenda driven conmen were NOT filling up the world with miss and diss information... The transition from ICE to EV might have been done ALREADY here in North America. The tech on effeciancy of solar panels exploded in the last ten years. So has the EV cars and especially the battery tech. Ford and gm might not have needed to ask Biden and Trudeau to tariff Chinese EVs at 100%... The Equinox EV would have reached production 2 years ago and gm might have had that elusive 30 000 doallr EV RIGHT now... Elon too, might have ditched his Cybertruck and would have had the INCENTIVE to actually PRODUCE his version of a REAL 30 000 dollar Tesla...

I do agree that 3rd place spaces are needed and are in decline, but I dont agree with this statement here (the bolded part): Its up to the Millennials and the Gen Zers to make a 3rd space place for themselves and NOT corporations or companies... All they have to do is put down the damned smartphone or tablet and cease the utilization of social platforms and social medias and actually go out and meet REAL people. They could decide what would be those 3rd place spaces and the corporate world or mom and pop shop businesses would GLADLY set up shop and do business... For Boomers and Gen Xers, bars and dance clubs would be those 3rd place spaces. As would video movie rentals. Granted, Gen Xers would be responsible for the demise of the video movie rental place as such a space, but we did do the club scene quite well as the Boomers did. Boomers had drive-in movie theatres and movie houses as did we. Boomers had milkshake diners with roller skating waitresses serving them and then went on cruising with their cars. As did we. We didnt really have the roller skating waitresses but we did have the roller skating rinks that the Boomers left us. We actually left the house to do things is what Im getting at and NOT have fake friends on social media platforms tik toking away and ordering Uber Eats to deliver our food and streaming movies from the comfort of our homes...alone and even of we were with another loner friend or two, we actually had CONVERSATIONS with our MOUTHES and not texting away. Like I said, Gen Xers killed the movie rentals, but we did socialize in ANY environment. If Gen Xers and Millennials want to have 3rd place spaces, THEY need to create them and ditch the loner enabling lifestyle of what is the smartphone and tablet... Their actual 3rd place space is the VIRTUAL one in EVERY aspect of their lives. Its up to them to ditch that lifestyle...

I also think its fine for people that do not have access to a home charger or work charger or have access to any kind of charger that is convenient for them to charge their EV. Hybrids or gas generator charger type of EVs like gm's former Voltec tech and in this Scout are great solutions. But I feel its just masking the incredibly lazy attitude and/or reluctance of a subset of American (and Canadian) people to accept the fact that the world is going all EV. What we should be doing of course IS erecting EV chargers... The EV deniers are always complaining about EV range forcing EV makers in this stupid part of the world to offer htis kind of thing. Because us North Americans simply just cant get off the oil addiction we have. Its a tired argument we have had in this forum here and all of our resident EV deniers have all quit this website. BUT...there are plenty of these EV denying morons left in our society despite them not posting at this website... *sigh* All over the world, solar powered EV stations are being erected and new business solutions and city planning to go along with it have been invented, produced and practiced but still in 2024 in North America, we still whine about range anxiety... At least in California, yeah...liberal batshyte crazy California, they emulate what the rest of the world is doing. Amenity packed EV charging stations... Its not as if gasoline stations do that...in Quebec they do. Costco also does. Besides, gasoline stations especially in North America already have gasoline stations strategically PERFECT for gas powered cars to fuel up. And they are EVERYWHERE. All they have to do is just add EV chargers and BECAUSE they are EVERYWHERE, NOBODY shpuld be complaing that EV chargers cannot be found. And BECAUSE its big oil PRIVATELY OWNED gasoline stations, MAINTENANCE on the chargers WOULD be done... and therefore range anxiety is done for in North America. But we gots to be always be pushing for that anti-EV/pro gasoline tirade. If DJT wins, he would be drilling baby.... Its not as if big oil in Europe hasnt done the transition and will be following through to what I have said... What I find extremely funny is that all this whining and we the people and our Automakers GM and Ford in Canada and in the US has forced our political leaders to put a 100% tax tariff on Chinese EVs so Chinese automakers cant sell their EVs here. So there IS a market for 100% EVs in North America WITHOUT hybrid or Votlec type technology is alls Im saying. Its just that like everything else in North America concerning the dumb populace coupled with the grift political leaders we like to cling to, we like to dumb down everything for these idiots. Hybrids is the way to go we say. Yet the technology to let go of gasoline powered cars is right here right now. And the beauty of it is that our own auto manufacturers have the EV technology to rule the world. But our idiotic dumb populace hamper North American progress...

Yes. The pick-up does have Rivian vibes. But better looking vibes. In my eyes, the Rivian signature front fascia is just weird lookin'. I dont like all that lightbar across the whole front end with those weirdly stacked headlight look which aint even stacked headlights. I didnt like that front end then when first introduced and I havent much endeared to it now. The Scout SUV is a cool shape. I like how it keeps the C-Pillar from its classic predecessor. I also get Ford Bronco vibes from it. All the Scout SUVs of the 1960s and 1970s had similar vibes to the Bronco of that period so its only fitting that the ressurected versions of both keep the vibes the same 50 years later.

Thank-you. I got pretty angry that someone could possibly admire a thing as a Hitler. We could praise some things that thing managed to do but as a former political leader (Trump)trying to get back into power its just appalling of Trump trying to emulate some sort of emption for that thing. What is worse, the so called 'news' platform of which he announces such admiration for a monster like Hitler enables him to do so. Which makes me even angrier. And Im amazed and confused and even angrier still that DJT still has followers. I would love to administer Mr. Trump's dosage of cyanide if he admires Hitler so much and wants to emulate him. Ill just cut to the chase and avoid all the unnecessary fascism and destruction and go straight to the conclusion... We ALL know bhow it ends with Hitler. Why go through all of that? Cyanide to Trump right now and cut the middleman, right?

I never did like Rush. A couple of songs here and there. This is one of those songs that I kinda like. LOVE the guitars and the drums. ESPECIALLY the drums in this song. She has a thousand times better voice than Geddy Lee. I prefer her rendition of this song. BUT...Neil Pert is UNTOUCHABLE and especially in this song so the cover lacks greatly as compared to the original. a But...Ill let you into my mind by showing you my thought process when I post songs and cars together in this thread. I either choose a song or car or era. Then I try to marry them together with the other elements. We (you) chose the cover of a Rush song. Tom Sawyer. 1. OK...Rush is a Canadian band. 2. Tom Sawyer...and American mythical character. Mark Twain is the author of which the subject is named Tom Sawyer. 3. Both lyrics of song AND Mark Twain himself are about being a rebel of free spirited mind. I try to think of a car that closely matches these descriptions... And I got one. 1. I chose the Ford GT because its an American icon with a free spirit and rebel attitude. 427 cubic inches of raw American V8 power winning against puny motored European and Italian sports cars. 2. This version that I chose is built in Canada. With an even more rebelious and free spirited mind in that its a turbo V6. Always keep them guessing what your next move will be. Rush is Canadian. 3. The pics: the first one is snow covered in the backround, possibly in Canada. But snow and Canada are synonymous one could say. The second pic is photograghed in Montreal. And theres you have it. What the thought processes are.

Just a little reminder to Donald J. Trump about requesting his generals were like Hitler's I especially would LOVE to remind him about this incident regarding loyal Hitler generals. One of several... And yes Fox News, all those generals were NAZIS. Even those who wanted to kill Hitler. And there were many of them wanting to kill Hitler. His best general wanted him dead. But karma bit his ass too and well...cynanide pill. Same death like Hitler's a little over a year later. Therefore, do I see a suicide cyanide pill death for Donald J. trump too? f@#k Nazis, f@#k Hitler and all of his generals and f@#k Donald J. Trump along with all his rotten supporters.

We allow snake oilsalesmen and dirty CEOs to become billionnaires and we are against helping our societies grow... We believe in these snake oilsalesmen's shytty dreams and we make them demigods. All tech related products like Apple products or Paypal or Amazon is great, but all these billionnaires OWN us. We worship them but we allow them to control us even further... Bezos, Musk, Steve Jobs and others... All these folks are a detriment to our FREEDOMS alongside shytty politicians... But this is what we ultimately wanted... We made our beds. We shall now sleep in them...

Socrates and Plato said something similar about democracy and voting and allowing uneducated and untrained people to decide what is for the good of the polisfor everybody. Also, one of the two mentioned how easy it is for corrupt politicians to fool and to manipulate the dumb populace on what the corrupt politicians would want to influence. Also both mentioned that perverse democracy leads to tyranny. And to know what really is mind blowing is that what is happening in the US and Canada right now and for the past 40 years with its stupid populace voting and especially voting for blatant corrupt leaders that dont even hide their agendas is that this very thing happened in Athens 2500 years ago and Socrates not only called it but he witnessed it with his own death... Plato preached the faults of democracy and despised idiots voting. Democracy is not a bad thing per se, its a very good thing. But its severely flawed when the general populace is dumb as phoque and dont realize how they get played by the ruling class they keep on voting in. In North America is quite evident that EVERYBODY including us...yes us right here posting right now, are just stupid pawns. At least in France, Greece, Spain, Italy and maybe a couple of other European countries, the populace riots when their governments get out of hand. Us here in North America, we wait in line like a bunch of jack asses for thext iPhone, or we cause a ruckus when Taylor Swift tickets are too expensive for us to attend her concerts or we cant get FM radio on our Teslas (yeah a while back there was a slight backlash) or when GM decides that they dont want to offer Apple car play in their cars etc... We listen to Youtubers and podcasters that make money on the monetized internet for clicks but we crucify legit scientists. We are blinded by and worship corrupt politicians but we question the legit ones. We idolize monetized Joe Rogans and Alex Jones and basterds like that... And for the last 40 phoquing years North America has been on the decline.

Funny, but I dont understand or I dont know of this "Montreal special Canadian edition" bathroom is all about. Hopefully its not how foreigners think about Montreal. But then again our Olympic stadium might have influenced the foreigner views of our city. Toilet bowl and the surrounding pathways are the pvc piping in the picture there...

yeah... I heard Heart's Who Will You Run To on the radio several days ago. Havent heard that song in a loooooong time. Forgot it existed but always had their other hits on my mind. Regardless, as soon as I heard it and the song remained in my mind ever since, tons of memories flooded my mind from that time period. 1987 to be exact. Those are pictures of Montreal. The church is right next to the Eaton center downtown and was 'lifted' to expand our underground city. In 1987... Along with the Champ-de-Mars pictures, the area, and all of Old Montreal really, is what keeps on playing in my mind as the songs make me reminisce of 1987. Heart and Soul is also a song that I think about when I think about Downtown Montreal and Old Montreal in 1987. The song Alone, also in 1987, makes me think about my highschool. And yup, that would be my highschool. The other buidling is Paul Sauve arena. I used to play hockey for my highschool in that arena. It was close to my highschool as you could guess. That specific Hitachi VCR and the cable channel box is what we owned in that time period. The cars play a part of my life as well during this time. Went to Greece for a couple of months that summer. I got a different set of music and cars for those memories of Greece. Yup, that post was a very personal one. The memories are still vivid in my mind. LOL I do it with some sort of connection to the cars I post. Meaning, I have a car or cars in mind, then I partner them to songs. Different reasons on how I partner up cars to the songs. But you do you. Just entertain us is what I ask.