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I have faith in him in that he will stop trolling. I dont like to use the ignore feature. Its a neat feature. But seeing as we arent teenagers in these parts...

Ive got several favorite liveries.

Too soon If I say "you snooze, you lose" to you?

Actually. The Model 3...as an EV vehicle...is a SMASHING HIT success. https://cleantechnica.com/2020/03/10/tesla-passes-1-million-ev-milestone-and-model-3-becomes-all-time-best-seller/#:~:text=Tesla is the first of,the LEAF almost 10 years. Tesla...for 2019 and Im assuming for 2020 too https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202002/17/WS5e49c4c0a310128217277e35.html#:~:text=Tesla topped the world as,international electric vehicles sales database. That would make Tesla #1 in their respective marketplace. Both in year to year sales and as an all-time EV manufacturer. Yeah...I know...moot point when in comes to profits. But...as I said before, Tesla has monetary backers that simply wont let Tesla die... Just like GM, yet, GM's luster is dulling fast and if the Lyriq fails to entice consumers, and IF sales are worse than Audi's E-Tron....yikes for GM. And its quite the possibility as even Audi's over all sales IN THE US, are HIGHER than Cadillac's. (moot point for luxury cars not necessary for being high. Audi does have VW to fall back on as Cadillac has Chevy/Buick/GMC to do the heavy lifting. And Lyriq sales NEED to be high enough...I would think HIGHER than the E-Tron JUST BECAUSE its about EV dominance for the new frontier that is EVs) Anyway you slice it...Tesla and their Model 3 and Model S are #1 brands in the EV world WORLDWIDE. Tesla > everybody else Model 3 > everybody else Model S > everybody else We COULD discuss their lack of profits if we wanna diss Tesla, but as a brand...Tesla is unbeatable.

Well, it has to take a manufacture to step up to have a business plan that sells EVs to the masses. I guess THAT business plan is frowned upon just yet. The Ford Mach-E is not quite in that price range. But its the right type and size of EV to BE sold to the masses at an affordable price to BE successful in the market place. About the Nio. Its a sedan. In an SUV/CUV world, even it it were priced at a theoretical price of 38K, I dont think it sell well. The Model 3 sells well. Its a Telsa. Tesla is God right about now... Nothing they do could do no wrong in the market place. Well, the Cybertruck may fail. it has ALL the ugly ingredients that logic states it will fail. But then again. Its Tesla. Tesla is God right about now. Tesla is shredding all previous rules and creating their own...

Well...it WAS funny either or. Its too bad that I wanna make a point with your hypocrisy. THAT is the BLU I want back though. The funny Blu. The interesting tales Blu. I could live without your disparaging opinions MAINLY because YOU dont accept discourse. THEREFORE when I see shyte that dont jive...I WILL make sure YOU know about it... That would include your confusing emoji voting and laughy shyte you do... That falls under the "insulting my intelligence" category... If YOU refrain from the DISPARAGING opinions OR if YOU engage in discourse REGARDLESS of how DISPARAGING your posting style may be...I wont have a problem. Continue on the way you are now...and it be fireworks every. single. time. I promise you that.

Its not an EV. So...are you gonna downvote what I just said? Or are you gonna RESPECT MY preference for EVs? Tough choice you got there...

A decade is both a short period of time as it is a long period of time. Technology advancements in a decade's time frame is EONS from now. A decade ago, 13 years ago to be exact, Apple shook up the world with their iPhone. A decade ago, 12 years ago to be exact, Tesla introduced the Roadster. A decade ago, 11 years ago to be exact, GM went bankrupt. A decade ago, 8 years ago to be exact, Tesla shook up the world with their Model S. its not Tesla's fault that other OEMS are shuffling their feet with EV technology. Tesla is a DECADE ahead in EV tech with some OEMs... In a DECADE from now, when guvment schlubs have mandated that ICEVs are no longer acceptable and banned, imagine where EV tech will be? GM VW TESLA FoMoCo Volvo Toyota and many many others are full steam ahead with their BILLIONS of dollars of R&D in ADVANCING EV tech and infrastructure. In the LAST decade, TESLA would be the ONLY one to concentrate on EV tech. And TESLA has really upped that bar to which they are LITTERARLY a DECADE above everybody else... At the turn of the last century, automobile advancement was made fast BECAUSE there were MANY players. Many failed. But many picked up the pieces where the others failed. TESLA...has many backers that WANT the company to succeed. No different than when GM went bankrupt and the guvment bailed them out. Tesla also has many detractors. Again, no different than from GM when people did NOT want the guvment to bail them out. Tesla is said to have quality problems and THAT has many haters. Again...no different than for GM during GM's malaise era. EV haters dont like change. Well...tree huggin hippies of the '60s HATED gas guzzling muscle cars... Big Oil got and STILL gets guvment subsidies. The internal combustion empire got all kinds of subsidy help for infrastructure. Billions of PRIVATE money too. Guess what? Same for EVs... I could go on and on with this... Point being...guvment schlubs ALWAYS put their grubby minds and HANDS in ALL we do. Dont wear masks/Wear masks Buckle up Just say no War on Terror Weapons of mass destruction McCarthyism where everything is Communist when its not done the American way 55 MPH Speed limits CAFE Again...I could go on and on and on...

Pastitsio THAT would be the leftovers. I made some meat sauce. The wife made the bechamel.

Problem is... OCNBLU does NOT respect MY opinion on EVs... He BULLIES his preferences unto others... I RESPECT his decision to not accept EVs. What I do NOT respect is his IGNORING of discourse on EVs. Because on my day-off from work, I decided to cook dinner for my family. We just finished dinner. So it took awhile to get to his post. As you could see though...I do NOT shy away from discourse. YOU on the other hand are a victim playing assh0le. Not that I need to defend myself. In fact, I SHOULD HAVE ignored your meaningless post BECAUSE you NEVER answer any of my inquiries regarding ANY discourse Good luck to you...

Being profitless or successful is NOT the point here. Being supportive of a technology that you may not agree with is NOT the point here either. I dont care whether Blu agrees or disagrees with EVs or not. I DO care however of not having my intelligence insulted. Id like some consistency in a discussion when tooting about Patriotism and about soulless transportation pods whether electric motored or lawn-mower displacement-ed frumpy CUVs... What is good for the goose Tit for tat pot meeting kettle I also do NOT appreciate having one man try to bully HIS opinion unto others WITHOUT proper discourse. I do NOT expect that person to fold unto my point of view, but at the very least, if that person does NOT want to have a discourse, he REFRAIN from pushing HIS FALSE agenda unto mine. TODAY...HIS FALSE PATRIOTIC AGENDA IS AN EXAMPLE. HE DONE IT WITH CVTs TOO... JUST AS HE DOES WITH EVS. HIS OPINIONS? SURE. BUT HIS OPINIONS MEANS SHYTE TO ME AND I GOT THE RIGHT TO CALL HIM UP ON HIS BULSHYTE. HE COULD TROLL HIS WAY THROUGH HIS BULLSHYTE. ILL CALL HIM OUT ON THAT TOO...

Don used cars count? It dont matter, one could just eliminate the used cars in their minds when reading my post. In chronological order of ownership. Used 1989 Pontiac Firebird New 1994 Pontiac Grand Am Used 1985 Oldsmobile Delta 88 New 1999 Oldsmobile Alero New 2005 Chevrolet Impala New Ford Edge New 2009 Mazda 3 (foreign) New 2012 Acura TL (foreign) New 2013 Ford Fusion But...THAT is the thing. We want to toot toot toot the Patriotic card here! But...in the US Constitution THE BILL OF RIGHTS GUARRANTIES CIVIL LIBERTIES IN THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE WHATEVER PHOQUING VEHICLE YOU WANNA DRIVE! MORE TO IT THAN THAT! IN A FREE MARKET SYSTEM, IN A CAPITALIST STATE...A CONSUMER HAS THE FREEDOM OF OPTIONS AND CHOICES! AGAIN...WHEN A TONE DEAF IDIOT PRAISES HIS CHOICES ABOUT HIS SO CALLED AMERICAN PURCHASES BY HIS DECEPTIVE FLAG WAVING...AND THEN PISSES ON SOME POSTERS FOR CHOOSING FOREIGN JOBS...YET HE HIMSELF HAS BOUGHT FOREIGN JOBS...YET STILL THINKS HIMSELF AS A PATRIOT...YET BULLIES OTHER POSTERS ON THEIR RIGHT TO CHOOSE A PHOQUING EV... ILL SAY PHOQUE HIM AND HIS HYPOCRITICAL SHYTTY AND DECEPTIVE OPINIONS... BLU IS EITHER A FRAUD OR A DUMMY! I DONT HIDE BEHIND MY EMOTIONS, BLU. I SHOOT FROM THE HIP. I DONT DECEIVE AND I DONT TROLL. YOU COULD TELL ME YOU BOUGHT TONS OF AMERICAN CARS...BUT WHEN YOU TRY TO MUZZLE ANOTHER PERSON'S RIGHT TO AN EV BY FALSELY DISHING OUT MIS-INFORMATION AND MISDIRECTING AND IGNORING DISCUSSIONS. YOU ARE THE LOWEST OF THE LOW! YOU ARE US UN-AMERICAN AS THEY COME! How do you like THEM apples? YOU DUMB PHOQUE! TESLA IS AN AMERICAN COMPANY, YOU ASSHAT!

While you are very correct...to be fair. Im the one that baited him. But I had a fun time laughing at him, using his own "ammunition" against EVs with his enthusiastic post of a soul sucking CUV... Again...irony of tone deaf idiot calling me tone deaf... He is a re-incarnated Wings the last 2 years...and yup The thing is chit chatting with Balthazar and Robert and Dave is always fun. So THAT is why I stay. CCAP and Horsey and DaveRS and REGfootballl and ykX even SMK and others are also fun There WAS a time when even Blu was fun. But I guess as the political climate changed in the US, as did he... So...I KNOW Im pushing it when Im posting this way AGAINST another fellow member and the dudes I just mentioned dont like it...but...Ive had to endure the shytty side of Blu bullying me (and others...new posters) for 2-3 years. Im just manifesting against that shyte now. Im having fun doing it although it may not be fun for others...but hey...

But... true to your hypocritical, STUPID, nature...you just uncovered and unraveled...IN YOUR VERY OWN WORDS IN THAT VERY POST above why your "philosophical" reasoning of ANYTHING does NOT have merit. Bet you cant see why Im saying this... THAT is funny to me. Irony of tone deaf idiot calling ME tone deaf... Good luck to you Blu.

This is how close minded and racist and homophobic you are... One could take that remark and think it was sarcastic in nature... Especially the way you always downvote points of views different from yours. Good luck to you Blu...

This is where you are sadly misinformed and too stupid to accept any other point of view... And about Ronald McDonald. is that supposed to hurt my feelings? Like I said, I have PRIDE in MY restaurant and its staff and the work we do to serve our loyal customers for the last 24 years.. McDonald's is ALL over the world. Serving burgers for close to 100 years now. Nope...I aint like McDonalds. My restaurant is...what I and my partner are... And its made us a lot of money, employing many from OUR community satisfying MANY folk eating at our establishment in the process for the last 24 years and counting...

A hypocrite's words COULD be turned around to justify the very thing he despises... I think EV's can be made to connect emotionally with their owners. I do miss my ----------at times, but alas, certain US customers made it clear to the world that they don't want EVs, even in most EVs, which are supposed to be ready. There are quite a few videos over onto the YouTube (an internet video site) that illustrate the comical, cheeky, endearing nature of EVs, as reported by owners and reviewers. And to answer your question: Do you speak to your hotdog and hamburger customers with that mouth? YES I DO! The ones that DO NOT respect MY restaurant, MY staff, MY staff's hard dedicated work to serve the best food we can... You see, I dont NEED shytty customers. I have PRIDE in MY restaurant. You sound awful when you turn that way. Only to those folk that when upon hearing the truth about themselves... (would that include you?) (You sure went bitter when I gave you YOUR own taste of medicine...)

^^^ I dont really care how you justify your reasoning Its a generic appliance. Its got no soul. sound familiar? I bet not as its hard for a hypocrite to look at a mirror and see who and what is staring back at him...

I was about to ask how long should a part or a whole car sit there... But then I got an answer. 32 years for some. But...can we really fault somebody for not wanting to wait that long and just get rid of it? On the other post you said something to the effect of a new Gladiator could be destroyed as its still in production and FCA (Stellantis) will just build another... but old cars are not being made. True. And I see where you are coming from. Not necessarily disagreeing with you about "no time to destroy" vintage parts. But...are we to keep everything we humans have ever built in history just because its vintage and its not being made again? Like I said, I aint disagreeing fully, but time marches on, technology advancements makes things obsolete. Obsolete things get to be set aside. And that is the core of MY issue. As far as restoring old "obsolete" things. Im all for it. But if one gets to be totaled because of...dumb commercials, so be it says my other side.

Hey @ocnblu

I DO know... And Im gonna stick it to you every. single. time. you toot your horn about such pathetic vehicles...as an enthusiast you claim to be. Also... BECAUSE you OBVIOUSLY have FALSE information on other things...and you seem content on being ignorant...I will stick it to ya every. single. time. Because it... ENTERTAINS ME. Nothing personal. I just post in here...for amusement...

Im so excited. And I just cant hide it. Oh boy...the Ecosport AWD SE...with NAV I might add...is ion sale for 21K! Oh boy! A lawnmower sized AND engined CUV. Im gonna run. Run all night and day. Im gonna run 'cause the feelins' right, Im gonna run all night (and day) JUST to be in that CUV. Where I could feel safest of all. I could lock all doors. Its the ONLY way to live. With a lawnmower sized AND engined CUV. And THIS is what you are comfortable with for a future? GTFO! You lose credibility every damned day...

Coco Chanel No 5

So true. It costs a lot to restore. Labour intensive too. But not as much as what dear old David was hinting at. LOL I read that part too. Then I stopped reading at that point. I knew that the reason WHY they did what they did is because it was CHEAPER to buy a clunker (couple of grand) versus CGI-ing the whole thing as THAT would have cost MORE to do... It sucks. But at the same time, if Im to understand the story correctly, the old Gladiator sat for a loooong time (without any suitors) for ANYBODY to restore it... My opinion on the whole thing: Even if the car vehicle in question was a 1970 Olds 442 -matching numbers at that- (MY dream machine), I wouldnt bat an eyelash about the whole thing. Id say the same thing Im saying here. IT SUCKS! But at the same time, nobody had stepped up to save it all this time, and since vehicles are machines/appliances, its time had come up for it to be recycled and destroyed. PS: If I was living in a warmer climate, Id BE restoring old cars, classics or not, as a hobby. Sometimes Id keep them in their original state, and other times Id resto-mod them. Id do the BEST I could with my workmanship for quality and Id try to sell them. For a tiny profit at most. At cost at the very least. And Id keep the ones that fancy me.

That was supposed to be the punchline, yes. I suppose. But not when THAT song is (over)played in movies*cough like in this one cough* as it is and it being a sports anthem song all over the world no matter what sport. But I guess the joke got its cheap laughs no matter what I thought of it. And yeah. I like AC/DC for me to be so anal about a shytty joke like that.