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If I had lots and lots of money...I mean lots of it...like...a lot. Id own a mansion. Nothing too big. But big enough to have a game room. No pool table or bar...but an arcade game room. Id have maybe 20-25 even 30 vintage arcades. You know, the standards. The classics. Donkey Kong. Pac Man. Arkanoid. Mortal Kombat. QBert. Space Invaders etc... Pinball games. Bad Cats. Terminator 2. High Speed 1 and 2. Older classics like KISS etc... Id have movie posters on the walls. Neon Lights a la 80s with different motifs like Cocktail the movie neon. Movie props here and there like a life size Darth Vader and a Terminator figure. Robocop.... A Millennium Falcon. That sort of thing. And right smack in the middle of that game room would be this fantastic piece...

Crack in the frame sounds like an expensive fix. Almost a catastrophic failure type of problem to where maybe your Olds might be scrapped if you are not willing to fix it. I hope I am not correct with my analysis.

for 1.3 million, you could have a vaporware, Audi Quattro inspired EV https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a36879338/1980s-audi-quattro-homage-e-legend/ The car will be constructed around a lightweight carbon-fiber monocoque and a 90.0-kWh battery, which the company claims will provide 249 miles of range according to the European WLTP methodology. Although no specifics on the electric motors were provided, the EL1's 805 horsepower will be sent to both the front and rear axles. E-Legend says that this is enough oomph for the EL1 to zip to 62 mph in 2.8 seconds, to 124 mph in less than 10 seconds, and on to a top speed of 158 mph.

You have assumed...wisely

Add the Fusion to that. But the Fusion has been very reliable tho... Its kinda of a bummer to be in the shop as many times as it was, but like you said, each and every time the Fusion was recalled, I had a loaner. No biggie.

@David I dont see a difference...

I was kinda hopin' for something else

That was a long time ago. And even then, that famous Toyota reliability was on a few select models. As many tough and reliable cars and trucks they sold in America in the 1970s and 1980s, Toyota had as many shyteboxes, rust buckets and unreliable crap in that same time frame. But nobody talks about that. Today, what Toyota does better than everybody else: Nothing really. Well 1 thing. They have a loyal following. A braindead flock of people if you ask me...

Happy Canada Day! At the same time Go HABS Go!

Les Blue Blanc et Rouge to be exact. Les Sainte-Flanelle if you will! He re-did the song for this year. As much as I hate this hockey club, I got teary eyed listening to this song. Im really proud of my city. I love Montreal. I must admit, I still am a Montreal Canadiens fan deep down inside. He re-did this one too.

*sigh* yeah... The Lightning have got everything. 1. The offense 2. the defense 3. the goalie 4. the big guys 5. the fast guys 6. the play off experience 7. the reigning Stanley Cup champs The Habs have got the goalie. The Habs have got the heart. But the Habs also are 2-3 pieces away from being true Stanley Cup champs including the knowledge of what it really takes to win the Cup. Suzuki and Caufield the last game cost a goal because they let up just a tad in back checking. But they are rookies. Caufield barely had a handful of games played before the play offs started. As I posted the Habs/Lightning map, Lightning scored to take the 2-1 lead with .03 seconds left in the 2nd... SHYTE!!! But THAT is how and why champs become champs in all sports. The little miracles that happen that champs seem to be on the right side on... Yeah...the Habs need tonight. If not. Tampa becomes Champs 2 in a row. EDIT PS: Tampa also circumvented the rules just a tad. Loop hole that NEEDS to be closed. 18 million over the cap because of the injury list thing, but the rules dont punish teams and allows this for play offs... Crap if you ask me...

Stud (usually I'd post a picture of myself here, but I wouldn't want to make my fellow posters jealous and mess with their fragile egos. I'm much too modest for such things...)

Pro Trump States versus Pro Biden States? Move over Cowboys...America has got a NEW team!!! GO HABS GO

Yup... she tried to kill me too when I tried to have a looksie under her skirt too... Wait! Wut?

There might not be a universal standard for everyone that is unilaterally good for everyone. That is a true statement that resonates in all areas of life. But... Regarding gasoline for individual human transportation-al needs, yeah...change NEEDS to be done. We as humans cannot continue going on with that. That HAS to change. It aint about money. There are things MORE important than money regarding the health of the planet. Oh no! The planet WILL survive. It will be sick a little bit. The living things on it will perish. Not all. Some will survive. But life adapts. Life will survive. The planet will survive and nourish the living things that would have adapted to the new change. Change ALWAYS happens. Whether we like it or not. And a universal standard for everyone is evidently NOT for everyone. Only the strongest survive and adapt to the new change... Humans on the other hand, might NOT survive the way we are going on about. We are poisoning our food and water the way we are going. We NEED to change that path we are on. The path that we have decided upon might NOT be THE right path either. But we NEED to change something. If we as a species see that using batteries as a fuel source for our individual human transportation-al needs aint good for our future either, well, we will need to change that too eventually. But our quest to not kill ourselves NEEDS to continue. Maybe you dont believe that gasoline as a fuel source is detriment to our survival, but it is... Its not about "wanting" to change. (From gasoline to batteries as a fuel source) Its a NEED to change. No choice. We are poisoning our food and water sources... yes. Well...no. When scientists and engineers and scholars, etc, decide upon a thing, its good up until a new better way is found to do it. Knowledge, knowledge of technology, new materials... Whale blubber was once a way to light our homes. It was a good way for awhile. We found a way to produce electricity and that took over for then next 100 years. Coal, nuclear, hydro electric power... Coal was good for awhile. It no longer is a viable way. Nuclear? Yeah...nuclear. Is it good? It has it ups. Huge ups. But the downs are really really bad...for our planet. @David posted what a European Nordic country wants to do with storing the nuclear waste down down down Earth's crust buried in cement tombs good for 1000s of years... SURE! LETS DO THAT! Bury the waste DIRECTLY in the earth so if their is ANY leakage of any kind...because nothing leaks right? Lets bury the waste DIRECTLY in the earth so we could also poison the earth from the inside... Lets rot her out inside and out... We our smart enough as a species to understand that whatever we decide upon, there will be results that we didnt account for. We SHOUDNT be RELUNCTANT TO ADJUST again and ADAPT FOR OTHER CHANGES... As a species, for 10 000 years...that is all we HAVE been doing anyway...

Unfortunately, this sentence is only half-right. Only 50% correct. Yes, Quebec is Canada's second most populous province. But no...it aint behind British Columbia. Ontario would be the province that Quebec is behind in most populous province. Quebec would be the LARGEST in area. Ontario being the second largest in area. But in terms of population, the roles are reversed. British Columbia is in 3rd place in both in terms of area and population.

In other words... Lincoln has economies of scale because Lincoln shares its platforms with Ford. *SIGH* yes...Lincoln would LOVE to sell more vehicles. Especially the sedans. Shyte has happened and that boat has sailed. HOWEVER...Lincoln SUV sales are hot. Lincoln SUVs are NOT looked down upon. Lincoln sales are not too shabby. Lincoln is not Porsche. In other words, Lincoln SUVs are not performance oriented as how Porsche SUVs are. Although Id like to know how much of a performance machine the little Porsche CUV really is... Lincoln as a quiet luxury vehicle offering is actually quite a success story in Lincoln's recent history.

In other words...you are placing Porsche on too much of a high pedestal... Porsche was a faltering company going slowly down the loo. The only model that sold WAS the 911. Anything and everything else was a failure. The Boxster also nearly failed in the market place. Porsche had to re-engineer its mission for it and definitely had to re-market it as the Boxster was following in the same footsteps as other Porsche sports car offerings NOT named the 911. The 914, 924, 944, 964, 928... All failures. All these failures were slowly sinking Porsche and its brand image. Its funny to see. The SUVs are the ones keeping the lights on at Porsche even to this day. It keeps the 911 alive for the folk that are crazy for the 911. But the 911 cannot survive WITHOUT the SUVs raking in the money. But the SUVs that Porsche sells dont help with the 911 sales...

Porsche in the 1990s was in the very real danger of going bankrupt. Porsche in the 1990s 1. didnt have volume 2. didnt have the bread and butter volume products to MAKE money 3. believe it or not, Porsche didnt even have brand cache in the 1990s. Especially from going away from their air cooled engines in their 911. 4. Porsche's brand image was on a steady DECLINE since the 1980s. Actually, since the 1970s, but most will not admit to that. Two things happened in the 1990s. Mid to late 1990s. 1. Porsche re-branded itself with specializing the 911 into many models if you will. It took awhile for folks to understand what a GT2 911 was all about. Which had a different mission from the Turbo model for example. 2. Porsche started developing a model BELOW the 911 to get people in the show rooms. They tried that before in the 1970s and failed MISERABLY. They did that in the 1980s and ALSO failed miserably. The 911 was always a strong seller. But very very low numbers. The Boxster was a semi success as it was an ALL OUT PORSCHE effort rather than a VW collaboration as the previous 914 of the 1970s was. Marketing was better in that regard too. 3. Porsche started doing the SUV thing. THAT alone did not make Porsche any money. It brought volumes to Porsche. As where the 911 was expensive for folk and the 911 was sold only to a SPECIFIC set of people, the SUVs brought in NEW clientele. Clientele that were and still are NOT pure Porsche fanatics... 4. What DID bring in the money is that Porsche used Volkswagen platformed SUVs as a way to save on the economies of scale thing. And the VW sharing part was kept on the hush hush... And if it leaked out that the SUVs were VWs, Porsche marketing at that point had placed Porsche engineering on a high list of a selling point. So no... Had Porsche NOT been able to 1. sell SUVs 2. switch to a VW platform SUV 3. market THAT successfully Porsche woudnt be here today... But they did switch in making SUVs at the time when SUVs were getting to be hot. Got economies of scale with using VW SUV platforms. But now...it seems there are 2 kinds of Porsche clientele. 1. 911 clientele 2. Porsche SUV clientele that might not know what a 911 is or really care.