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From @dfelt link above... https://electrek.co/2020/06/25/chevy-bolt-retrospective/ But here, I remember this article... https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1119613_honda-joins-gm-others-in-heated-opposition-to-trumps-epa-fuel-economy-freeze So which one is it? Does GM agree with the rollback or does GM NOT agree with it? Because I also found THIS article... https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-10-31/epa-trump-emissions-lawsuit So...what happened between the first article that was published in Oct 2018 and exactly ONE YEAR later with the other article? (Oct 31. 2019) Im confused...

Im curious about it. Is it a 3.6 V6 or is it a Northstar? What kinds of repairs and maintenance does it need? How many miles? I love the STS. From 1992-2011. I dont like the 1st generation Seville. I HATE the bustleback 2nd gen. Im dont like the 3rd gen. But then the 4rth and 5th gen get born and Im in love. And finally the 6th gen RWD. I love that one too. Like it better than any CTS including the last gen CTS. Only the CTS-V last gen gets a nod above from me from the STS you have. I just wished Cadillac had updated it and not left it to whither and...die.

Its a good looking sedan. Stately. The exterior is very elegant but also conservative somewhat, but that is what makes it good looking and stately. In my eyes at least. The interior is very very conservative. And boring. But it befits the exterior. The Arteon looks to be a nice, plush, posh sedan to drive in to and fro from work. It has a nice air of elegance to it despite the "for the people" badge it wears. For Audi A4 money, and the A4 being a smaller vehicle, I would choose the Arteon over the A4. Its more stately and its bigger and therefore more comfortable. And I think THAT is the Arteon's selling point... And if I was a VW/Audi fanboi, I wouldnt be looking to snub VW just because of the badge so I could 'upgrade' to the Audi. I would be owning and driving the Arteon with pride...

Not fabricating...those issues were real. BUT over-inflating them and putting a lot of time and effort pinpointing them out. And about the Japanese and German reliability issues were not as merely as talked about and advertised... Sure... Coincidentally, Ive seen plenty of my friends and family that owned American cars, and they have CRUCIFIED the American cars for the very real issues they had and when they switched over to German and Japanese cars, the reliability issues they had with those were...calmly brushed off... The hypocrisy of both my friends and family and Consumer Reports is both comical and phoquing frustrating at the same time... And THAT is false. That is just false... Ive had many friends of mine with shytty Ford Escorts from the 1980s and 1990s and Ford Escapes with well over 300 000 kilometers with no issues on the odometer while Ive had many friends with Accords of all decades and Odysses with all kinds of transmission and engine failures... Yes...ENGINE failures. Hondas...WITH ENGINE failures... All kinds of suspension and steering problems. But we dont EVER hear of those... UAW is just a scapegoat that fits nicely into our current narrative. UAW workers are lazy. They make too much for the little they do...blah blah blah... Truth is, the political and corporate winds have been at war with ANY union since the 1980s... The very reason why manufacturing has left the US and gone on to China. CHEAP LABOUR and American labour is supposedly too expensive. Meaning, Americans are NOT WORTHY to make money producing stuff... Goes back to what I said... Americans workers should NOT get paid. American workers are a monetary liability and the first line to be targeted by cost cutting measures to beef up the bottom line IS the American worker... Listen...I did say that GM and Ford are both the victim and culprit. Cheapening of parts to beef up the bottom line is an issue. But the UAW is NOT the problem. GREEDY CEOs to appease greedy, clueless shareholders is THAT problem... I agree with this 100% though!!!

You know what Im talking about... Dont act coy... Secondly...one MAIN reason of why we are having a Honda/Toyota discussion of why it may be "American" is the market share they both have gained in your (and my) country at the expense of Ford, GM, Chrysler and its BECAUSE of build quality arguments.. And...Consumer Reports is one of these shyte rag mags that has influenced you with this BS. You see... you fell for that hook, line a sinker... Does Consumer Reports shyte on Honda with their transmission problems the way they have sh@t on GM, Ford or Chrysler? And here we are, with Honda's transmission problems that stem from the 1980s all the way to 2010...and YOU dont even bat an eyelash for...but you shyte on Ford... So...why do you think the US is in the place that it is in concerning ALL manufacturing...not just automotive...but we will stick to the automotive narrative. Is it because American car workers are pathetic? Well, the Camry and Corolla is built in America... and we all know that the Camry and Corolla are the best damned cars in the world... Is it because you think the Japanese have tighter tolerances and impose that on their American factories and the American car makers dont? I know for a fact that Toyota had a really bad stretch for reliability...including said Camrys and Corollas, but yet, that shyte narrative is still parrotted. What about the Germans? Their cars always seem to be handicapped by reliability issues... Cars built in Germany versus cars built in the US, maybe? So it MUST BE that American workers are shyte... Or is it because Ford, GM and Chrysler cant make cars worth a damn? (Dont forget, Honda, Toyota, Mercedes, BMW, VW, Audi...ALL have had reliability problems over the years...) In case you missed what Im saying is: German vehicles built in the US are German, because THAT is the popular narrative that the the German companies want Americans to believe in. Japanese vehicles built in the US are somewhat American BECAUSE of "American content" BECAUSE THAT is the narrative the Japanese companies want Americans to believe in. And POLITICIANS that play BOTH side of the fence want to shyte on American car companies for building cars in the US AND for them building cars OUTSIDE the US...well...for POLITICAL purposes and THAT is what these guys want Americans to be divided on... Question is What the phoque are YOU going to do to get jobs and manufacturing BACK to the United States of America? (general question not necessarily direct ONLY towards @ykX, but to ALL Americans) Are you gonna start DEFENDING US car makers and the American car worker and American workers in general? Or are you gonna continue to shyte on the American worker? Which ALSO means that you have to put pressure on American corporations to ACTUALLY PAY the worker what he is worth and to PRODUCE product IN THE US but THAT also means that YOU...THE AMERICAN CONSUMER...MUST START THINKING ABOUT PAYING FOR AMERICAN MADE PRODUCTS A LITTLE BIT MORE BECAUSE THAT PRODUCT IS MADE IN AMERICA... NO MORE MADE IN CHINA... BUT IT STARTS WITH YOU...THE AMERICAN CONSUMER...

when American society in general STOPS treating the American worker as the enemy, then maybe manufacturing will return to the US... Its all about dollars and cents. And when the American worker...ALL WORKERS are looked at being as monetary liabilities and are exposed to be the MAIN go-to cost cutting measures to beef up the bottom line, then what do you expect American manufacturing to do? They just follow what the rest of the country does. They shyte on the American worker and dont give him any jobs... That is NOT just a Ford, GM, Chrysler thing. There is a war with minimum wage workers in the US... American people dont want minimum wage workers to make a decent living. American people want minimum wage workers to just go away. They are a nuisance to them. They are poor, uneducated and dont serve them properly. American people want their minimum wage workers to get an education and to quit their minimum wage job if they arent happy with the conditions of them serving the rest of us... On the other hand, the UAW has one over the corporations and these guys make money hand over fist, and yet, American people HATE the UAW for that... But...American people have NO PROBLEMS with CEOs making tons of money, phoquing us all up the butt, because they made us believe they deserve the salary they do because they are soooooo much better and smarter than the rest of us. They cheat on their taxes, they find loopholes in the tax system, they inside trade and make all their brotherhoods even richer... They convinced us that the average worker in the US should be limited in pay, they convinced us that EVEN CHEAPER labour SHOULD be attained in other lands so we could CONTINUE to buy the useless shyte they peddle...and all that useless shyte they peddle, SHOULD NOT be built in the US. Why? 1. too expensive to be built in the US 2. American build quality is shyte compared to the Germans and the Japanese. 3. Chinese made American products, its OK for THAT tombe built like shyte because we could just throw THAT out to buy new new new shytlly made Chinese produced American product... Its all phoquing surreal.... Here we are, and for the last 30-40 years, we continue to have this stupid discussion of what is more American. A Toyota or a Chevrolet. For the same criteria, we dont even QUESTION if a Mercedes and BMW SUV built in the US IS American...we simply say its German... (doesnt fit the German engineering is better than American cars motif the German companies brainwashed us with as opposed to what the Japanese are brainwashing us with...) We wage war on the American worker on a daily basis, yet we fakely defend American manufacturing... So...@ykX Do you believe the shyte rag of a mag that is consumer's report that American cars are subpar to cars like a Toyota? And...why do you believe that? Is it because American workers are pathetic? Well, the Camry is built in America... Is it because you think the Japanese have tighter tolerances and impose that on their American factories and the American car makers dont? I know for a fact that Toyota had a really bad stretch for reliability...but yet, that shyte narrative is still parrotted. What about the Germans? Their cars always seem to be handicapped by reliability issues... Cars built in Germany versus cars built in the US, maybe? So it MUST BE that American workers are shyte... So...why are you KNOW defending American manufacturing? Which is it? You cant have it both ways... And to which is why THIS discussion is such a shyte discussion. Its all over the place. Its MOSTLY corporate bullshyte that has brainwashed the American people for FAR to long... GM and Ford is both a victim and a culprit for this. But its mostly the American people's fault for allowing corporations and politicians to dictate to them how they should feel and act and that have ALLOWED this mess to happen in the first place...

Why dont we ask the reverse question? (and actually answer the question...) How much Japanese are these cars? 5. Honda Odyssey (Lincoln, Ala.) | 6. Honda Ridgeline (Lincoln, Ala.) 7. Honda Passport (Lincoln, Ala.) 13. Honda Pilot (Lincoln, Ala.) 14. Acura RDX (East Liberty, Ohio) 15. Honda Accord (Marysville, Ohio) 16. Toyota Tundra (San Antonio) 17. Acura MDX (East Liberty, Ohio) 25. Acura TLX (Marysville, Ohio) 27. Toyota Highlander (Princeton, Ind.) 28. Lexus ES (Georgetown, Ky.) 29. Toyota Avalon (Georgetown, Ky.) And then we will get a more clear picture of how much American those cars above REALLY are...

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Canada, unfortunately, does NOT belong to me... I wish it did. All those gold mines, diamond mines, hydroelectric powah. MINE MINE MINE.

I wasnt sure if I wanted to state something in this thread. (no politics rules and all) But... I feel for George Floyd. I feel for the police. Law and order above all else. But then again, police are NOT judge, jury and executioner. They are ONLY to bring alleged criminals to justice, NOT render justice... With that being said...and because Peter Gabriel was the talk on the music thread. LOVE THIS SONG. I was into this song maybe 2 years ago. Like a lot. I mean, I knew about this song back in the day, and I never have forgotten it. But about 2 years ago, I just felt that I needed to hear it again. I cried then listening to the lyrics. I think its a VERY appropriate song to play right about now.

That is why I chose to use baby llamas for my "controversial" post. To get a rise from people. They are sooo cute and adorable that when I mentioned they get sacrificed (at the Tesla Motors altar), I was hoping some of these Muskian religious zealots would start hatin' on me. Id get clicks and some fame and Id get my own shock jock TV or radio show or something. ] But alas, that didnt happen. I only seem to get a rise with people when I say shyte like rich, bitch, WHITE middle aged "Karens" drive Porsche CUVs... Oh well... Ill continue on my shock jock ways until I get my day in the shock jock world of entertainment some day.

Peter Gabriel has such an awesome voice. I never knew Genesis with him as the singer. I got to experience that on youtube. But his solo career I knew quite well back in the day. He was a staple on Montreal radio. Liked him then. Like him even more today with youtube. Cool version indeed!!!

Its been 30 years man. I still dont know what it is you cant touch. Could somebody PLEASE tell me what you cant touch. The beat? He stole that from Rick James so OBVIOUSLY its a beat you CAN touch. Either way. Its a phoquing cool song to dancer to. Sometimes though, I prefer to get SUPER FREAKY if you know what I mean!!! Ive pumped up the jam many a time in 1990!

Those that pray and sacrifice babies at the altar of Tesla Motors inc. . Baby llamas all the way to baby humans. As an example:

Im bald on top. So you beat me there with the hair. I shave my face every damned day. Working in the restaurant industry just makes it that more cleaner for the customers, health inspectors and when the bosses (my partner and I) lead by example and we both are clean shaven everyday, it makes it that much more easier to (not demand) by politely suggest that we prefer that our employees are clean shaven too. We cant force employees to be clean shaven, but we have to enforce a mandatory beard net as that is the law. But we much prefer that employees are clean shaven. Its a cleaner look. But all that is for nothing as we wear medical masks now... Not mandatory, but we prefer to do it that way for our customers. (and for ourselves, I guess) And it gets hot in the phoquing face. And hence why I had to vent yesterday. Nothing really happened. I just got overwhelmed with this whole Covid thing. The masks fogging up my glasses. The heat and sweat on my face while wearing the mask in the kitchen. The constant repeating of ourselves, both the employees to me and me to my employees because we cant hear ourselves communicate to each other due to the muzzling of our voices due to said masks on top of the regular restaurant kitchen noises... It finally blew over and I hd to vent. I vented in my car screaming with every little thing that has bugged me over the last month or two. LOL. Plus I vented with a post on here due to something that has bugged me on here, but then I edited it and posted that I vented and now Im happy. But I bet I got more chest hair than you. Im more macho than you in THAT way at least.

I have no idea. What my mom told me that day has stayed with me ever since. Sometimes there is wisdom to be learned from old tales that our parents, grand parents, great grandparents, great great grandparents have passed on to us. I love fresh figs. I dont really care for the dry figs. Ill eat them, but I do much prefer the fresh figs. I love birds too, but like your dad, if I had a fig tree or two and birds ate my figs, Id have a conniption or two.

What it is with these millennials and hipsters? You are killing the razor industry. (What category do you identify with? Hipster or millennial?) (oops, here I am doing this stereotyping thing again) (bad bad on me) (rhetorical question...and me trying to be funny...dont answer) (trying to be funny are the keywords here) (Dont @ me) (I dont even know what "dont @ me" even means) Anyway...cute dogs. @Robert Hall You got cute dogs too. @balthazar I got a similar story to share. When I was about 4 or 5 years old. I found a wounded baby sparrow in the alleyway next to where we were living. I took it with me inside my home and I remember crying to my mom that it was injured. My mom told me that she was afraid its mommy wont accept it anymore because we touched it. We nursed it together for about 3-4 weeks until it was well and we released it. But I never got to see it again.

It feels good venting. Im glad I got that off my chest. I could be happy again.

Depending on what answers you want to seek and believe in. Consistency in logic is the reason for the many questions.

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I criticize Cadillac for that. YOU dont critize Mercedes for that. Or BMW for that matter. "Engineered Like No Other" and "The Ultimate Driving Machine" in 2020 seems like a farce and a lie, dont it? You just give me excusatory replies and deflections... Id like to see you write that Mercedes SUCKS for producing the GLA, CLA and A Class. Go ahead...WRITE IT IN BOLD LETTERING WITH SIZE 18 FONT AS IF YOU ARE SCREAMING IT ON TOP OF THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING SO ALL OF US COULD SEE AND HEAR IT!!!

I see a 4rth gen black Firebird or Trans Am there 4 cars in. If I lived in a more warm than cold months USA, ID pick that up and do a project with. If the car is not too far gone, that is. Same with that Fiero 2 cars in. The 3rd gen Camaro 3 cars in also intrigues me.

FWD with AWD optional and M-B DEFINITELY tries to pass this turd as something fancy. Bullshyte 4Matic trim making AWD standard making it seem this turd is fancy FWD with AWD optional and M-B DEFINITELY tries to pass this turd as something fancy. Bullshyte 4Matic trim making AWD standard making it seem this turd is fancy And bottom of the barrel turd. FWD with AWD optional and BOTH Mercedes and BMW are hiding the fact that they both wants to sell to former buyers of Chevrolet Cavaliers, Pontiac Vibes (Toyota Matrix) and Saturn Ions.