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Q: What the egg say to the boiling water? A: I can't get hard, I just got laid.

Just to make it clear, Im laughing at the choice of the video. Nice choice! Fits in perfectly. But Im taking this very seriously, though! Just to make it clear. I wasnt trolling with the songs. Im in a very musical mood these past few days. It was a way to ignore. It was a way to say all Im hearing is music. Hence with the first choice of song. But message is understood. Has been for awhile. Bad boys with their bad behaviours... Boys will be boys. (gettin' into trouble) Baaad boys. Baaad boys. Boys will be boys...

Because the songs didnt need to suffer the same fate. I love these sings anyhow.

Hence the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Originally, I wanted to do gold hued early 1970s cars within those mid level luxo cars to match the soundtrack. But I wasnt finding any. I didnt want to do a 1966 Toronado. I wanted an early '70s motif. The Buick Boattail Riv had a hue that could have worked, but I couldnt find anything on the others. The Good: Buick The Baaaaaaad: Chrysler The Ugly: Mercury

I hate dealerships myself. I dont like the buying process. Its not the back and forth haggling that gets me. Im OK with that. I do this. I do my due diligence before hand. I know what I want so when I actually sit down in the salesman's office, Im ready to buy. I haggle, he/she haggles, we come to an agreement. SOLD! That process takes 10-15 minutes. Maybe 20 at MOST. My do diligence is done days, weeks, and sometimes even months before to which I know what car I want. My problem is when we agree on price, its the ordeal when I go to the finance guy's office. I have to pass credit. No problem. Its the next thing that I cant stand. The shyte phoquing questions and up-selling about individual extended warranties on the engine -- steering wheel -- tire fill-up valve, TRUCOAT, Febreeze on the seats, special winter air for the tires in the winter and special summer air for the summer... and its usually all no answers for me, but it takes a phoquing hour/hour and a half. The thing is, if I was allowed to talk anytime during this process, it be a quick no to everything and in 5 minutes we'de be done, but its part of the process...

Lamborghini Urus, Mercedes-AMG GT, McLaren 570S, KIA EV6 GT, Porsche 911 Targa 4, Ferrari California T

Every time I see an article or thread about dealerships and the protection of and car salesmen and the like...I ALWAYS think about this scene ???

I didnt get a chance to see it. I saw some noisy posts here and there and just went on about my business...

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1131744_2022-kia-ev6-with-tesla-model-y-beating-acceleration-and-charging-the-stinger-of-evs The EV6 is Kia’s first dedicated electric vehicle Kia’s claiming quicker acceleration times for its top EV6 than what Ford has teased for the Mustang Mach-E GT Performance Edition or what Tesla currently claims for the Model Y Performance. It also charges in less time. The EV6 is a five-seat hatchback. Kia describes the silhouette of the EV6 as “crossover-inspired” and “designed to deliver something different in the crossover class,” so it’s an entry that, at first look, might appear like a car or a utility vehicle. The EV6 will be offered in six different variants. EV6 and EV6 GT-line models will offer a choice of 58.0-kwh or 77.4-kwh battery packs, with rear- or all-wheel drive. Power figures start at 167 hp and 258 pound-feet of torque with the small battery and RWD to 321 hp and 446 lb-ft with the larger battery and AWD. The top-performance EV6 GT version offers 577 horsepower and 546 lb-ft, and is capable of getting to 62 mph in 3.5 seconds. The EV6 GT version gets an exclusive software-based limited-slip differential for more able all-weather handling. While the performance part of it depends on the battery and configuration, all versions are capable of charging from 10% to 80% in just 18 minutes, using 800V fast-charging (exact power not yet disclosed). It can recover 62 miles of range in less than 4.5 minutes (in rear-wheel-drive form, with the larger pack). On the range front, there’s not a lot of news to report quite yet. The EV6 will get WLTP range results up to 510 km (317 miles). EPA-cycle results aren’t yet available, though based on other EV results it might equate to nearly 300 miles—meaning that it might also be on par with the Model Y Performance's current 303 miles. The same platform is due to underpin seven of the 11 battery electric models from Kia due by 2026, as Kia targets 880,000 annual global sales of battery electric models by 2030—with hybrids, plug-in hybrids, and battery electric models together adding up to 40% of its sales by then. Meanwhile Kia disclosed that it expects to sell about 100,000 EV6s annually, with just 20,000 of those headed to the U.S. (30,000 will be sold in its home Korea, and 40,000 will go to Europe).Kia notes that it will be available for online reservations starting March 30 in some markets. The company revealed that first deliveries won’t happen until early in 2022. Exact U.S. details are yet to come.

Now that the laughter that General Motors received for changing their logo has subsided, we could now focus our attention to ridicule Volkswagen when they officially change their name of their EVs to Voltswagen. (Their internal combustion offerings will continue to be Volks-wagen, until they dont produce no more of them...) At least according to the RoadandTrack article stating that its NOT an April Fool's Joke and according to their sources, the name change is real. https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a35969854/voltswagen-name-april-fools/

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BMW is to merge a vast majority of their ICEV and BEV to a common modular platform by 2025. https://www.autoblog.com/2021/03/29/bmw-neue-klasse-modular-platform-ev-ice/

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This is all you wanna do...right?

stop trolling. THAT is my problem. STOP trolling. YOU didnt read anything. You wanted to troll David or myself or whatever JUST to be a contrarian... Phoque off with that! Leave this go and contribute to something POSITIVE in this thread... Not this contrarian bullshyte you wanna do. Dont phoquing confuse contrarian with disagreement. Stop the trolling... I already dealt with your trolling right here @ccap41 Now...STOP THE TROLLING and the back and forth for a 3rd time I ask of you!

@ccap41You got caught trolling. Own it. If not. Phoque off!

I got something for you guys...] STOP THE PHOQUING TROLLING! If YOU guys do NOT believe this to happen, the DO NOT post in this thread! Plain and simple! If you happen to be skeptical. Great! Come with a GOOD argument. Because if not, then what I say IS true. Its EASIER to whine and diss while the PHOQUING planet passes us by. THESE articles that Dave and I post are actually SHYTE that is HAPPENING in the world. THESE people ARE going to make it happen as its ACTUALLY HAPPENING as we speak...

Well...I have an open mind. YOU clearly don not. In this instance...YOU found fault where there was none as there were NO details. You got called up on it and yet here we are... In a circle jerk of nothinginess... You brought up a Harley Livewire where there was NO need. THIS was about a JAPANESE battery consortium thing. IN A LOGICAL POSITIVE THOUGT PROCESS, one could deduce that a MORE ADVANCED battery pack WOULD BE AVAILABLE BY THE TIME THIS ENDEAVOR would come to be... THAT Harley is already 2 and a half years old using 2 and a half year old battery tech... Dont be a deflecting on me now... Got it???!!!

I see... Problem is that the Japanese bike consortium thing does not really dwell into that...just maybe it could be a thing to swap batteries on a road trip. The battery swap thing is more of a battery pack that is the same between the consortium and one could keep the battery pack and swap company... Its a partnership that has started a couple of years ago. There are no known engineering details yet of this endeavor as Im assuming the engineers and production logistics folk are still in the thinking stage on how this will come to be... For me: my nudge against you remains the same. Its easier to whine and diss and sitting around with doing nothing but whining and dissing rather than understanding what the rest of the world is doing and we just sit there while the rest of the world passes us by... The four companies created an organization back in April 2019 for this sort of purpose called the Swappable Battery Consortium for Electric Motorcycles. And the group has now announced that the manufacturers have agreed on the specifications for motorcycle batteries that can be interchanged among each company's motorcycles. So if you have a Suzuki, you can use a Honda battery, or vice versa. This idea presents quite a few interesting possibilities. The manufacturers could sell bikes with or without batteries, since you might already have a battery from your previous bike, or just another one you own, so you wouldn't have to shell out to buy an entirely new battery. If, for whatever reason, you needed a replacement battery, it should be easy to get one, since the same type would support bikes from a variety of manufacturers. The pipe dream of battery swapping stations might even be feasible because of the standardization and support. And having the batteries relatively easy to remove could be good for apartment dwellers, since they might be able to bring a battery inside to charge. The manufacturers haven't said exactly what the specifications are for these interchangeable batteries, nor when they'll be implemented. But we'll be eagerly awaiting more information in the future.

Nah you didnt... https://www.gogoro.com/smartscooter/2-series/plus/ if you actually took the time to read and understand what the phoque it is you are reading...you would see that 1. this is about scooters a) Asian countries in and around...Asia...which actually does include India, folk get around by bikes and scooters and the like... 2. you would have read that this particualr scooter has a range of 170 KM...or slightly more than 100 miles. Maybe 105 miles. Nobody is talking about long road trips with these. Its clearly you having an agenda against this...for whatever reason. I wanted to show that the Japanese manufacturing companies are going to engineering bikes so that their batteries could interchange using the same battery pack. THAT article states that if you wanna buy a bike without a battery, you could if you already owned a previous motorcycle so you could bike swap from Yamaha to Honda to Suzuki. The initial purchase would be with a battery, and then you could buy another bike without the battery, saving you money JUST buying the bike. Keep the battery long enough and it starts to degrade, BECAUSE there will be soooooo many bikes on the road with THAT same battery pack...meaning mass production will probably make that battery pack that much cheaper, one could buy another battery pack that wont be too much pressure on the wallet. You could charge that battery INSIDE your home/appartement/condo/office building etc. And other ways that will make such a thing a positive. The scooter article was DIRECTLY DIRECTED at YOUR conversation with @David regarding India's future and THEIR plan to go fully electric. David said that Indian people DO use bikes and the like, and there was much noise about that...no need to rehash the details of THAT conversation... There is a sticking point to what the Asian countries wanna do with batteries. Whether we are talking about the Taiwanese scooter thing or the Japanese motorcycle consortium thing, they want to make it easier and cheaper for people to use. And to go fully electric...by 2030-2035. Cheaper because if there is a STANDARD battery pack across the board with the 2 wheeled variety of transportation, that will enable folk to change over to electric that much faster. Ease of use BECAUSE these battery packs will be interchangeable. AND...if MORE batteries are in production, the cost per unit of production of batteries WILL go down. And THAT will be for ALL batteries as a battery pack from Tesla or from the Yamaha/Suzuki/Honda consortium will probably be the SAME kind of battery... The Taiwanese link is the company's actual website and it states that they are investing in NEW tech batteries for even greater range and cheaper to produce... I guess it easier to whine and diss than to clearly understand what the REST of the world is doing...