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Molson Canadian commercial Captain Kirk parody of said commercial. Just For Laughs comedy festival...in Montreal.

Dan Aykroyd, Mike Myers, Kiefer Sunderland, JOHN CANDY, MICHAEL J. FOX, Eugene Levy...from Schitt's Creek, Martin Short, LORNE GREENE just to name a few. Leonard Cohen (From Montreal, as is Captain Kirk) was mentioned. That is not photoshopped. That is an actual mural painted in his honour after his death.

From Montreal. Most of the skits are filmed here.

Yeah...the lyrics are kinda sad. How 'bout some Motley Crew CELEBRATING the um...exotic dancer and the pole...

Maybe she should learn to use her tits to her advantage so she could get out of her rut, then. Lord knows us males are a sucker for them.

And in New York too! Did you plan that? My dad always watched CNN so when the 1st plane hit and the newsfeed went to NYC and the news was focused on the "accident", he saw the action unfold from the get go. He woke me up immediately to tell me about it. 15 minutes later we were both discussing this as if it was a terror attack. The perception at CNN before the 2nd plane was confusement and bedazzlement. Shortly there-after the 2nd plane hit... It took me 24 hours to sink in but I tell you...that following day, I was in tears all day. Took me about a week to get back to normal. And then anger set it... My wife, who I hadnt met yet, I met her in late November, was actually in NYC. She got in on the 10th. By train. She has an aunt and uncle living in Astoria. Well, she was gonna be doing sightseeing on the 11th. And yes, the Twin Towers were on the agenda. She stayed in NYC for about a week. She has all kinds of personal photos of NYC during that fateful day and week. She still has her train ticket. Her too, was devastated by this event. We discussed this event maybe on our 3rd date just before XMAS and she showed me her pictures and we both cried. Actually, Im about to cry right about now... Love from Montreal!!!!

The XTS looked like shyte as a limo. The XT5 even worse. Please, do NOT ever post the XT5 as a limo EVER again! The CT6 is passable. There is something amiss with the front end. I think, as far as car based Caddy limos go, these last two might very well be the last of the awesome lookin' Cadillac limos. Then comes the Escalade. I wont post pics of past Escalade limos, but this render of a possible next gen Escalade Limo promises to be EPIC and continue the lineage of awesome Caddy limos.

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A Tale of Two Chevys. What a contrast I must say. In a Couche Tard parking lot (7 Eleven if you will) At one end of a 7-8 car parking on the left. An all black C7 Corvette Z06 with the Z07 package and at the complete other end, a 1988-'89ish blue Corsica and no other cars in the middle. The Corsica was in extremely good condition. As I zoomed past the depanneur, this is the visual I got:

I am not into this self-driving/self-help features on cars such as self parking and Tesla's valet thing. Maybe when Im old enough to NOT be able to drive properly and need a walker will I probably appreciate this kind of technology. About smaht pahk. Ill be a smahtty pants about it. About the only thing I was impressed by it, it was a great Superbowl commercial.

Glass (as in the Canadian rock band) Canuck Rock Rules!

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As far as concepts go, this is awesome. It meets the criteria of a concept of being over-the -top. If they tone it down a tad, but not too much, I think it works and blends in with what Ford, Dodge and Chevy/GMC are doing. So much so, that I think this truck blends all 3 D3 trucks elements in its styling. The hood reminds me of a Silverado/Sierra. OK...indentation versus bump...but still a hood stamping of some sort. The grille of a RAM and the contouring " [ ] " style LED lights of an F-150 I hate the blue neon thing. I actually like that weird triangular C pillar, but I admit, it would probably look 1000 times better had it been a square instead. Good for GM in...following in the footsteps of Ford with Rivian. But more to it than that... GREAT for GM for trying to cash in with the ridiculous stock appraisals that EV start-ups get because GM would NEVER get that kind of stock gains. Wallstreet a$$holes prefer to inflate start-up stock prices because there is literally trillions of dollars to be made trading from this EV thing. Its just a way for Wallstreet to make money and less about the product... Therefore, if GM invests in a start-up like this, GM can also benefit from the cash that is about to be splurged...

Am I missing something? I do not know about the other motors in the other brands. But knowing that Nicola Tesla invented the 3 phase induction motor and that Elon’s Tesla car company’s motor IS in fact a 3 phase induction motor, producin’ AC current, I think Tesla the company is a very appropriate name.

My partner has got one (Tesla). Two of my immediate neighbors have got EVs. (Both Teslas). One of those neighbors had a 1st gen Volt. A mom of one of the girls I coach in softball has got one. (Tesla) And I shoot the shyte with ALL them regarding their EV ownership. And guess what? None of YOUR fears, and fake EV news relate to their world of EV ownership, dipshyte.

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You know I support your argument here 100%...but... That bolded statement is not exactly 100% correct nor factual. Vehicles that are well maintained by their owners for those 15 years actually DO run they way they were engineered all these years... THIS...should be applied to all of us. Anything less of this....is hypocritical. And THAT applies to ALL of us.

powered by...gasoline? Maybe diesel?

Winning...and dining = Charlie Sheen And if that is the case, Im guessing what happens in Hawaii stays in Hawaii? ? EDIT... I SWEAR I SAW WINNING in there. I had to restart my quote to you and before I knew it...winning was gone.

Electricity will be taxed (for income) just like gasoline is now, making electricity less cheaper than it is now. Maybe, making electricity just as pricey as gasoline is now. Especially in European countries. Hydro-Quebec has fairly cheap electricity rates. Cheaper than most North American rates. Quebec has fairly steep gasoline taxes. More than other North American places. I KNOW electric rates WILL be going up when EVs start eating up ICe sales. Quebec THRIVES on taxing their citizens... Its inevitable. Its logical and frankly, its the only course of action for governments to keep the coffers full.

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Yes but, gasoline powered generators exist and most of the gasoline stores I know, in my neighborhood at least, have these things and gasoline could be pumped. If car batteries are not used as generators as 2nd and 3rd life in buildings, factories and homes, then we are crap out of luck... If solar powered roof tops are not a thing, then we are crap out of luck. And it seems, when talking about an EV future, and talking about ICE bans, we are not exactly talking about actually implementing alternative power sources to help us out when the electrical grid goes out. I guess its because, if we actually DO engineer a reliable solar, wind and battery back-up system like a Tesla power-wall, to power our homes, our businesses without "Big Electricity", then we wont need "Big Electricity" then Big Electricity corporations wont exist... Think about it. If my house, has a Tesla Power-wall, with a solar powered roof, enough battery tech to power my stuff inside my home, enough battery power with MORE than enough batteries that the solar roof I have installed ALWAYS keeps my batteries charged and the energy I use NEVER exceeds that usage, I will NEVER need Hydro-Quebec... If battery tech advances so much as they say it will, even hospitals will NEVER need to use the corporate grid. But Im guessing THAT will never happen. Capitalism only works if there are businesses around to sell goods and services. Therefore, I do NOT see a future where humans will produce the energy they need to wane off of "Big Energy". So, we are forever gonna be stuck in this cycle of paying through the nose for energy. So...if we put ALL our eggs into one energy basket, we are gonna be far worse off than we are today...

I MOST HEARTEDLY AGREE with this. If government wants to play for everybody, than everybody needs a chance to own one. NEW. And since taxpayer money will fund this project of switching from ICE to EVs, than the market should be able to sustain itself because there simply isnt an infinite amount of public money around . There are other NECESSARY projects that need public funding. I agree, and what @Drew Dowdell gave as a response, IS NOT a VIABLE solution. Its not safe. In ANY WAY, its not safe. Its ugly. Yada yada yada. And what I said about wireless charging and charging on the fly tech. Is ALSO not a viable solution as what North America has as a road infrastructure, its super expensive and nearly impossible to dig up all our roadways to install a wireless, charge on the fly system. There needs to be a ban for ICE as it will FORCE the change. Too much oil money is out there for the EVs to fully gain traction FAIRLY. Is a change to EVs a better, cleaner solution? Nobody knows really.... But for it to work, to be cleaner, then ALL the pie in the sky EV hooplas HAVE to be put into play. All the battey recycling programs and ideas HAVE to be adopted by ALL the countries in the world. The 2nd and 3rd life of car batteries as housing and building energy sources and when those lifes have ended, to recycle the elements once again NEED to be part of our future as well. And EVERYBODY on the planet NEEDS to follow that same path. No rogue countries... With that being said, what I just wrote. Its a daunting, almost impossible task to achieve. 1. EV supporters also have a greedy, seedy side to them as much as big oil. 2. Money. Where is all this money going to come from that is needed to achieve all of this? Its great that Communist China is gonna fit the bill for part of it. Elon Musk too. But that is just a smidgen of how much is REALLY needed to achieve this eutopia. And NOT everyone is on board with this. 3. The technology is not where it needs to be just yet to make the switch as how you discussed it. (I understand fully where you are coming from) 4. Its like autonomous driving. Its nice to talk about how peachy it will be in the future, but have the folk that want this discussed how much electrical energy is needed to be produced for ALL cars in the world to be powered by electricity? How will this happen? In Quebec, China, I could see how. In Italy and Greece, Oaxaca, Mexico (drug cartels and corruption amongst the problems) and other poor, landlocked areas, not so much. Nuclear power is worse than oil in terms of pollution. In case of a natural disaster...ouch. 5. If the electrical grid fails, for whatever reason, how are we gonna cope with that? What I mean by that is, it seems that we wanna wane off of oil, nuclear power...we want to put all our eggs in th electricity basket. Solar, wind, water. The thing is, all that energy is distributed with the same transportation. IE: generator stations producing or collecting the energy than distributing it along cables and lines. But its the SAME network.... If that network is severed, then NO power at ALL. With oil, oil is distributed by rail, by ship, by pipelines by trucks. PLUS, oil today, has a companion in nuclear and electrical to feed us humans power. We want to sever the ties with oil and nuclear as a power source... I wanted to show you, that I fully understand and support your stance. I wanted to find common ground with you. I think we have succeeded in complimenting each other's point of view.

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