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Function over form. It looks small but big enough. Nimble. Looks like the postal worker need not leave the truck to deliver mail in that mail box. I guess when the situation and mail box allows that to happen. Just to compliment that military pic, Ill do one of my one too. This 'Hog' of plane is one ugly mother, but it does its one job very, very VERYwell! Function over form

I know I have heard of the group before, but I didnt know if I knew any of their "songs"... Turns out I am familiar with at least 2. I was inspired to find out when I read Balthy was inspired to found out who they were. With the being said...

Its NOT just the testing and evaluation. Its also the actual 'how to' that is lacking. There is NO actual driver training. What I mean by driver training, I LITERALLY mean driver training. There is no training on car control. Like what a police officer has to go through. And yes...THAT kind of rigorous driving training. Maybe not the PIT maneuver, but teach drivers how to respond and drive in emergency situations. Teach them not to panic. Teach them how to understeer. How to oversteer. How to gain control back. How to brake hard. What to do when braking hard. In rain. On snow. On gravel. On clean dry tarmac. And so forth. And by teaching them these skills, only then could the mindless dolts realize the IMPORTANCE of keeping FOCUSED when driving. And who knows? Maybe when these mindless dolts master the basics at the very least and at most, be proficient in the hard skills of driving maybe they will become enthusiastic about the whole driving culture... But when driving schools across North America even fail to teach people to parallel park, what else do you expect on our roads?

And its more complicated than that in Quebec... Its more staggered. Full license is obtained at 25 years old. But I got the feeling that you understood where I was going with this. I wanted to show you that yeah...in Quebec, we have pushed forward the age of driving...to a sense, right? I mean, teenaged Quebecois could start to learn to drive at 16, staggered license up until 25... Edumacation is the key though if we are 'after the problem'. In Quebec, we actually DO a good job in TEACHING the new drivers the RULES of the road. In theory FOR the theory of driving. But for the ACTUAL driving part, we fail as hard as anybody else so yeah...I agree with your sentiment 100% about young folk and old folk and all that...

Double posted... Ill start clean post.

I do not know what happened, but I made a mess with the posting stuff... Ill erase the other post too...and start again.

Yup... With Washington's NFL team and MLB's Cleveland team and with all else...I am not surprised. Nor am I mad about it. 'Tis the times we live in. (But in no way am I saying that people shouldnt feel offended either. If that is how they feel, then THAT is how they feel...who am I to tell them otherwise? And if they no longer want their heritage to be stereotyped that way for commercial purposes, then yeah...I AGREE with them!)

In Quebec, Im not sure about the age, but when a person reaches 70 years old, they need to redo their driver's test. Eyesight, reaction time etc. https://saaq.gouv.qc.ca/en/road-safety/clienteles/seniors/health-and-safety/ But we are not a litigious society up here... Maybe in the US this type of thing will not pass law so easily.

I dont care anymore...

The ice storm of '98. It was a CRAZY time, ese. Si...it wasnt a CRAZY idea after all...

I do not get it...

head

The thing is...you hit a nerve with him. And THAT would sum it all up...

This is a Facel Vega. I posted it a couple of days ago The one in the pic below the Cougar ad is this one I believe 1964 French car with Mopar muscle under the hood!

LOL THAT was NOT the point of this thread. I nerded it up back then, and you guys are nerding it up now. What we SHOULD have done, then and now, is just sit back, relax and ENJOY the jokes...

UPDATE: Tesla phoquing drivers...with more money than brains, dishing out 10 thousand motherphoquing dollars who think autonomous driving and autopilot means the same phoquing thing. (granted...Tesla marketing asshats brilliantly and mistakenly have falsely named their system this way) I havent encountered one of these idiots, yet. But I am apprehensive knowing that these humans actually exist.

I remember this thread. I flubbed it back then as I was tooo nerdy about the whole thing. Ill fix it. Chevrolet Bolt 149 kW of pure electric electricity and 360 Nm of pure neutral neutron torques. So a millennial could use the Bolt's navi system to get to the nearest Starbucks because regardless if that millennial drives by Starbucks EVERYDAY, he is more into shytty electronic gadgets than he is with sleepers anyway...

Just a random thought... EV conversions that I think are interesting...

(The one and only wascally wabbit) Bugs Bunny

I was looking at past threads to see if I could bring them back to life with relevant content to contribute. The Lucid Air thread was funny because I was thinking about why is it that I like a jellybeaned styled vehicle all day yesterday when I came to a conclusion only to stumble across a thread on it of which a poster thought it resembled what could be an Oldsmobile product. Anyway. I have always like the Pontiac Rageous concept of the late 1990s. I thought it be a great vehicle for it to be conceived today. It might have been a tad wild styling wise and toooo far ahead of its time then, but as a CUV/SUV alternative, slightly raised in stance to BE an SUV type vehicle and with just a tad softer front-end styling, I think it could work in today's world. Side profile is spot on for today's vehicles. I think GMC could use this...as an EV. Possibly even badged as a HUMMER by GMC. Picture the HUMMER EV drivetrain in this machine... With that Freedom mode. Phoquing rocket ship to go anywhere...really really fast. And no terrain would be a challenge. Competitors would have nothing on it. Lucid Air Porsche Taycan Possible Taycan Cross Turismo Audi E Tron Possible Faraday FF91

The downvotes are a a bastard of a thing... 1. A post not agreed with getting a downvote WITHOUT additional explanation is maddening... ESPECIALLY on a fact based post or thread If the downvoter could express his/her reasons as to why he disagrees, then a clear discussion arises and the whole point to the forums gets achieved... If not...its just trolling A troll gets to be exposed when PROPER discourse is being made. 2. If a downvote is being made on an OPINION piece...than that is just wrong. And kinda rude. Which again is just trolling by the downvoter. 3. Then a pattern gets established when a downvoter is CONSTANTLY downvoting. TROLLING gets to be the mantra of downvoting...all. the. time. In my honest opinion...TROLLING in a public forum is MORE detrimental than talking about politics or religion. IF PROPER discourse WITHOUT trolling is made, EVEN when politics and/or religion is THE main topic, then there are NO problems. (Im not even going to mention uneducated-ness and close mindedness because IF PROPER discourse is being made...then civilized discussions are being made...no PHOQUING NEED TO DOWNVOTE...) The up votes is yes...a feel good treat. Its human nature to feel good about things. A troll gets his goodies off by pi$$ing people off... Again...its OK to disagree...and to downvote...but PROPER discourse should ACCOMPANY a downvote. And a DECENT rebuttal should ensue. If not...its trolling. A whole bowl of not good...

Ah...yes! I see (GM) Oldsmobile W-Body written all over it now that youve mentioned it. I also see 4rth gen Trans Am from the side profile. (Dont ask. Explaination in the random thoughts thread...) All in all, Lucid Air could easily pass off as a General Motors product of the 1990s that has evolved to today. The rounded aerodynamic body lines. The C Pillars. The rounded front and rear quarter panels. GM products from the late 1980s to the early 2000s all had that kind of styling. Yeah...I feel right at home when looking at the Lucid Air. I like it a lot.

Star Trek

Im excited to see these platforms come to life. Im excited to see what new forms of vehicles engineers and car designers could come up with. IF the new generation of "drivers" are as enthusiastic about cars as we are and WANT different cars to DRIVE and NOT be what I think they will be...just mindless dolts not caring about what they are driving and be seen driven in...to which these new platforms will just be shytty isolation pods... Like SMK just said. From Corvettes to panel trucks ALL on the same scalable platform. The sheet metal changes. There will NOT be ANY confinement due to an engine and transmission and all that "old" tech that comes with ICE taking up that space. The electric motors and batteries are all tucked away from the passenger compartment freeing up all the real estate in the cabin, and the exterior dimensions, well, the designers could go wild... But...like I said...all the space gained in the cabin, and the mindless dolts would probably prefer to brush their teeth and brew their coffee in that shytty isolation pod on the way to work... GM's Hy-Wire at the turn of this century To what Peugeot took to the next level 20 years later. On a skate platform. With today's tech and vision

damned hippies