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I havent listen to the video. No need. I knew this was coming a couple of years ago. It was just a matter of time. GM really has no other choice. This was a decision that the majority of the world leaders took. All car manufacturers have to comply. For better or worse, BEVs are the way forward. Technology will catch up (and surpass) to where we are with the internal combustion engine... Choices? I really didnt have a choice when GM went all in with FWD and shytty 4 cylinder Iron Dukes, buzzy Quad 4s and 6 cylinder engines to replace ageing, emissions controlled, choked up V8s. Nor did I have a choice when right after that, GM took away its 6 cylinders to give me turbo 4s and turbo 3s and cancel sedans for CUVs... Besides, Quebec produces hydro-electric power, so when I charge my next car, instead of pissing my money away on foreign fuels, Ill be pissing my money and it will go directly into my home economy. All is good on all accounts. Hoping EVs lose some weight along with torque vectoring across those 4 wheels and happy times will be here again...for performance oriented vehicles. Because as we have it now...FWD, top heavy, turbo3 and turbo 4 cylinder CUVs just dont cut it for me... If I want to buy a Chevy or just American without breaking the bank...for a performance vehicle...

I cant believe Im actually gonna post a Debbie Gibson song on the internets. But..somehow, the song seems appropriate in this thread, even though I never really liked this song nor Debbie Gibson Im fully 100% on board with Gen E!

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The Horsepower Obsessed video I posted got blocked on the site I think? Anyway...Ill be posting his latest one. Hopefully this video wont get blocked. He has heard rumours that the Z06 will be POBISSIBLY REVEALED in July. THAT doesnt mean the Z06 will be available for sale. THAT rumour could very well be true that the Z06 will be availbale for sale in 2023. But its POSSIBLE that Chevy will REVEAL the Z06 in July! Its not much...but its something!

That must be a law abiting shark (yes...intentional spelling mistake for obvious pun reasons) Seeing that the shark was seemingly only wanting to bite the boat, maybe there is a law in Florida for sharks not to bite stupid humans? On a serious note regarding the idiot that wanted to pet the shark: I cant believe the idiot said that the shark wanted to play when the shark showed its belly. Yeah...I think the shark was playing alright. Playing with him in a Machiavellian kind of way. I think the shark was telling him "do that one more time motherphoquer, and you'll end up in here!"

Covid 19 prognosis for the Oldshurst442 family = a big FAT - which in turn becomes a HUGE + Got r rezults yestr-day just before noooon. Left for work to flip some burgers and dress some hot dogs right away as soon I got the rezult.

Hmmmm.... There seems something wrong, but I cant put my finger on it. Seems something dirty is in the air. Cant see it. Its not in the water. That be in Boston 'Cause the Bruins beat that shytty Pennsylvania team...in Boston tonight. Oh yeah! Its clear to me now... Good 'ole Bugsy boy didnt turn left at Albuquerque Nobody put baby in a corner and Sidney didnt seem to care because of it...

@balthazar Im thinking about ways to rebuttal. Thanx for giving me one. All of a sudden, my brain has gone mush and Im not accessing the necessary smarts needed to give you a proper discussion. Give me some time.

Despite our...um...slight differences in poli I sure phoquing agree with THAT statement!!!

No... These are just EXCUSES from people closing their eyes and shutting theirs ears. Take example #1: Same as air inside as the outside. So...diesels emit a certain emission and when a diesel bus drives along a certain path, the air is the same inside the bus as it is outside IMMEDIATELY where it passes... Does THAT mean there is NO pollution? Like at all? The POLLUTUED air outside is the same inside the bus so THAT makes it OK to continue to pollute? Of course there is pollution! LAST link recommendations: Well...MY critical thinking tells ME: MONEY is the SOLE reason as to why NOTHING is BEING made for change... We are ALWAYS putting MONEY in front of HEALTH. MONEY is the SOLE driver... Dirty dirty money. And we IGNORE how dirty dirty dirty diesel is... Even when DAMNING reports are THERE...we CAREFULLY word things that its "safer" to 'NOT use passenger cars for transport because accidents' and 'MAINTAIN diesel buses to reduce...' NOTHING to do with how harmful diesels are and how we should avoid using diesels but DEFLECTING the issues by mentioning traffic accidents that have NOTHING to do with diesel emissions and maintenance as as somehow maintenance is the KEY to reducing harmful emissions. ALL maintenance does is NOT increase the emissions due to broken down mechanicals but the harmful emissions are STILL present with perfectly fine mechanicals... But yeah...critical thinking...

A feasible rendering of the Z06 version of the C8 which the rendering mimics the C8R to a tee as reference. (it IS the C8R. The C7 and C6 Z06s do really mimic their respective 'R' versions) The rest are high priced toys. Functional toys. In the same spirit as that poster. Ferrari 512 BB track car = Corvette C8 Z06 track car Porsche 928 GT car = HUMMER EV Mercedes sedan = Lucid Air Corvette C4 convertible = restomod American muscle Douchebag Bimmmer = Douchebag Dodge pick-up truck

Elon knows how to throw a party. And when he does, the world invites itself to the festivities. GM had that after the war and well into the '60s. GM still has it, but for certain vehicles only. But I do agree that the Cybertruck is a clown show. I do think it will look like that as Tesla has many deposits for that exact Cybertruck. He cant go back on it now. Tesla will lose too much credibility if they change up the looks of it now. If When the initial sales dwindle to nothing, Elon WILL change it. He said so. The HUMMER promises to be an EXCELLENT EV. What GM has been giving out as info over their EV tech, it promises to be on par or greater than what Tesla has got going on. The only thing is that Tesla's tech is improving too so when the HUMMER and the Lyriq come out, Tesla wont be where they are at now. But I think GM knows this as GM has been in this type of "warfare" for over 100 years. GM EV R&D has been 100% full throttle for 3 years now. People tend to forget that. INCLUDING Sandy Munro. But that just proves ME right when I say shyte like if it aint a Tesla EV...

Yes! In today's Bizarro world of multiple (lazy) ways of making income, higher income definitely over higher education. I was referencing a late 1980s poster theme. I like this theme so much that I tend to (over)use it still today! With that being said tho...isnt hair brained schemes trying to make fast money THE quintessential American Dream? FINALLY, after all these decades, the internet comes through for the lazy, no good rascal to make some dough. His time has come!

Justification for Higher Education '20s Edition Money no object re-imagined restomod

Well...GM marketing is starting to create buzz for the HUMMER https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a35320417/gmc-hummer-ev-race-car/

Well...engineers and dreamers are the ones that drive his business. Engineers for his tear downs that pay him to reverse engineer the details of a certain vehicle in his primary business and dreamers for his Autoline Detroit, Youtube channel and various blogs and vlogs fans he has got. He will be doing a tear down on a Cybertruck just because he will be owning one. He is also being paid to do it. But his fans on his "internet/social media" exposure demanded the Rivian. Fans are dreamers and very much sooooo NOT the barometer of what WILL sell in the market place. But...it also could be a taste of what may BE popular in the market place. And it seems to me that there is NO HUMMER buzz amongst the peeps. 2 Months in and it seems that HUMMER is not being talked about anybody. Mention Tesla...and EVERYONE goes batshyte! The Cybertruck had the internets blazing as SOON as Elon mentioned it. GM mentioned the HUMMER and you could literally hear crickets over the internet. It wasnt like that for the Corvette C8 though... Speaking of Sandy Munro. Im watching this now...

Oh...I agree 100 and 10 percent! But as it is now...I am perhaps reading too much into the situation...BUT... When Sandy Munro was discussing on Autoline Afterhours that his next tear up vehicle for analysis would be the Rivian, he explained that he went to his viewers and followers on-line to ask what vehicle THEY want to see to be reviewed. HIS viewers made an almost unanimous decision to choose Rivian and hence his next subject. HUMMER, CYbertruck among others were choices...but as HE said, NOBODY chose the HUMMER. OK...the Cybertruck also had few votes...kinda proving your point about Tesla. BUT...also kinda proving MY point about HUMMER. Maybe my #1 point is not all that accurate as to say that Telsa is infallible. And my #2 point is also less than accurate about Tesla too...however, HUMMER may NOT be such a hot commodity JUST because its a GM product and its name IS HUMMER... GM marketing has to work crazy overtime hours to make this a hit BEFORE it hits the showrooms. Its BEHIND the 8 ball as we speak. PS: I am NOT doubting the capabilities of the HUMMER. Just the star power of it and the lack thereof.

yes What fault is it of the engineering of FoMoCo and its Mach E if the infrastructure is not well kept? It becomes a PROBLEM for EVs if the infrastructure sucks, but its NOT an inherent EV problem. I found out though, that EV haterz will use ANYTHING to detract the use of EVs ANY which way they can to SLUR EVs... PS: Tesla was smart to build its OWN infrastructure though as to NOT have ANY 3rd party phoque ups wrecking the image of EVs... such as this...

LOL I was thinking the SAME thing last night to post. I was just too tired (lazy) to do it. So I just posted the Corvette C8 video and went to bed. Enema and the next word would be: EMINEM (the only song I truly know and like from him...only because the sample of the song was a hit for me in da clubs back in the day)

That tidbit of news is bitter sweet. Backlogged with regular Stingray orders just shows how popular the C8 is and will continue to be. But...the Z06 halo car is eagerly awaited by most enthusiasts (even enthusiasts that are not Corvette people) JUST to see what the car can do. What is mental with the C8 is that with ONLY (less than) 500 horsepower, the performance times are those of vehicles that have 50-60-70% MORE power. Electric or gasoline... The track performances of the regular Z51 Stingray is so close to sports cars that are dedicated track cars. Patience is a virtue as they say.

Now...let's hope that the EV public will accept it. There are several things that are against it and it isnt even out yet. 1. Its NOT a Tesla 2. Because its a GM product and NOT a Tesla 3. Its name is HUMMER. 20 years ago, It quickly went from a stud to a dud BECAUSE green people shunned it for being a gas guzzling SUV. We do not know if GM/GMC and/or HUMMER shook that stigma off, even if it IS 20 years ago in the past... 4. We already know that there are some ICE people that will hate on EVs no matter what...so this EV HUMMER cant even rely on the macho-ness of the big, brutish V8 SUV crowd... Like you have implied with Cadillac going all in with EVs but Chevy will continue on selling V8s and ICEs... The big brutish SUV crowd will just ignore this and go on and buy Yukons, Tahoes and TRX's from Dodge...

THAT seems HIGHLY inefficient... WHY? Well...Paris' (France)subway system, which Montreal and Athens, Greece use, IS an electric powered subway. Our newer Azure trains Athens Metro anyway... 1. the subway system does NOT need to be recharged as there is a continual stream of electricity flowing through the middle rail... And at least in Montreal...its hydro-electric power. Dont know about France and Greece. (Dont really care either right about now...) 2. even as back as the 1980s, the system was autonomous. Actually, I think even NYC's old school subway is autonomous...also back in the '80s... and the next one is where Elon's idea might be shyte... 3. THESE are TRAINS... HUNDREDS OF TOURISTS AND REGULAR CITIZENS USE THE SUBWAY AT ONE TIME...rather than a shytty taxi service... And dont kid yourself...these trains are fast. 4. Some other countries use MAG LEVS that are even faster than Elon's cars... 5. Montreal will also get an electric train ABOVE ground in 2023...to operate alongside taxis, ubers, public buses, metros and the shytty old school train system we got...

The thing is though, if we wanna praise horsepower...Bugatti has had 1000 horsepower for over a decade. Bugatti right now has 1500 HP. On good 'ole ICE. On good 'ole ICE, WW2 airplanes have had 1500-2000 HP. But we are on the same page here. I loved what you said about Tesla's performance numbers are on heavy, family hauling sedans and not super touchy, super expensive, space deficient exotic cars. THAT is incredible. And what Tesla could do with their motors, batteries, softwares and everything else Tesla is known for... @balthazar once said that, and I really believe in what he said, is that the next big frontier in the EV world WILL be weight. The next EV maker that could get weight down with batteries and the like, WILL win the next EV battle and thus win market share.