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Ive never had a Jersey tomater. Ill take your word for it. But...Ive had fresh from the vine Greek island tomaters. Let me tell you, those were/are very delish. Just sayin' About Jersey. We recently viewed The Karate Kid. Huge surprises in that movie. Forgotten details and the like. One of 'em is that Danielson comes from Newark. I always thought he was from the Bronx... Anyway, anytime I see New Jersey anywhere, I think of you. And I say that with love.

I clicked on the link... Anyway. I once praised the return of the Supra and I once liked the car's styling. Well...that sentiment was short lived. Even if it has a rockin engine going forward.

Stunning I dont think I ever saw Turkey Hill ice cream around here. Ill keep an eye out for it. I love posts like these.

I know I wanted to reciprocate the joke by showing a GIF of a Canadian (NHL) hockey player playing in a very historical series between Canada and the USSR in 1972. Hatred for the Russians in Canada was very real, and Im sure Russians hated Canada and Canadians just as much too. It wasnt just about a hockey tournament. It was political. The Cold War. It wasnt just about who has a better hockey team, hockey program. It was really about Capitalism versus Communism. Us against them. Phil Esposito really wanted to tear a Russian hockey player's head off. That was a real emotion and action from Esposito. Canadians usually dont express that kind of hate and anger. The whole Canadians are polite thing.... I thought it was funny. But I think we should just end it because I see fireworks could be started easily with the last coupla posts... Back to tomatoes I think... Gee Balthy...those looks like delicious tomatoes you are growing there!!! ?

Some guy = Phil Esposito?

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Tomato? None of this? Or this? Or even this? Because underneath all that melted cheese and pepperoni awesomeness lies tomato sauce... You poor poor thing. You dont know what you are missin'

Well...if this was a Charlie Brown cartoon This is what the USA looks like right about now... Time will come when we could play together again. But not now. Until then, Canada is happy going on at it by itself. Sorry.

Yup. fix yer shyte! Do your homework, tidy your room, take out the trash, mow the lawn and walk the dog and then maybe we could go outside to play together.... Until then...

Please do. I want to hear what you are thinking about it. Obviously my post was a quick simplification, but I feel as if GM had not spent an ungodly amount of money chasing impossible dreams of acquiring Fiat, SAAB and creating a new brand, all that money spent could have been spent on the existing brands and their existing, immediate products as well as their future product and still have money left over to create awesome marketing campaigns for each and every car and truck the built during that time line. Sure, a Lotus Carlton/Opel Omega/Vauxhaul whatever maybe wouldnt have been a money pit (re-engineering it to meet North American safety standards, etc...) but how is that different from buying up SAAB, and creating models for both EU and NA markets? A TON of money was spent doing this and SAAB was a money pit for GM anyway... A Lotus Carlton for Chevrolet and/or Pontiac and/or Oldsmobile and/or Cadillac would have had an impact with car enthusiasts. A well engineered and reliable Lotus Carlton for the American branch brands 20 years BEFORE the Holden Pontiacs and Chevrolets and 5-7 years BEFORE the Catera would have been wonderful. The Carlton in Europe was revered. That means diddly here and I understand that. If a first gen Cimarron was better made into a Cadillac, and it dont matter if it be a sales succes or not, if the Cimarron was an actual Cadillac worthy car, (because as much as I defend the Cimarron myself, it really wasnt a REAL, Standard of the World Caddy) imagine what a 2nd gen Cimarron would have been like? Combine the balls with Pontiac offering AWD with their 6000 and Cadillac choosing to do this, Cadillac would have had a ballsy first gen Audi A4 competitor in the mid 1990s with an AWD Cimarron. Like I said, I would LOVE to read your opinion on this. I love and want to hear your side of things. Makes me think that much more...

Kool-aid

GM needed new leadership from the 1970s. Got complacent. Got too big. Got too scared and greedy. Got too stupid to see that what they had was good if not great and all they needed to do was NOT to be CHEAP and UNDER-engineer. Cadillac needed a smaller, mid-sized European fighting luxury car. Too cheap to engineer from the ground up car so they chose a shytty mid-sized plebean platform car that even used F-Body underpinnings. 7 year old F-Body underpinnings at that. But were smart enough to spend the dough to at least re-engineer it as if it was a real Cadillac and it turned out to be a somewhat worthy Cadillac. But, 2-3 other platforms that were new for the 1970s were very cheaply done. And those platforms were going to define the new fuel efficient era that was also going to stop the Japanese onslaught on American soil. THAT was the fight to win. And GM lost! Too cheap and stupid that they UNDER-engineered almost EVERY single new platform that brung in the new era that was the '70s and '80s to keep at bay the Japanese. UNDER-engineered the Citation II. UNDER-engineered the Fiero. UNDER-engineered the Vega. UNDER-engineered the Chevette. UNDER-engineered diesels. UNDER-engineered the W-body initially. UNDER-engineered the Northstar V8. UNDER-engineered the Quad 4. Under-engineer the 1990s minivans. The 1990s bread and butter segment. Spent too much phoquing money on establishing a new car company and ultimately UNDER-engineered their cars (Saturn) and eventually Saturn just became just another badge engineered GM brand. Spent too much phoquing money on trying to be global in failing to buy Fiat, in which GM had to pay billions to and spent too much phoquing money on buying SAAB which resulted in UNDER-engineered vital products for Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Buick in which GM already had the makings of PERFECT cars IF GM had not wasted time, money and energy on SAAB. Opel would have NOT been UNDER-engineered and Oldsmobile AND Buick could have had European styling and engineering from as early as 1990. Cadillac too. Imagine a better quality, better more reliable Northstar V8 in the STS? Better interior... And the Northstar V8 would have been offered THE FIRST YEAR...along with a better engineered ALLANTE... What about a more refined Buick Reatta? Could Opel have used a Reatta for itself? I think so. GM made an Opel roadster from a Lotus that preceded the Opel GT/Pontiac Solstice/Saturn Sky by at least a decade. It was a transverse mid-engined car heavily based on the Lotus Elise. A fantastic car. Pontiac could have had one of those... GM thought the Fiero failed because Americans didnt want mid-engined performance? I guess too stupid to realize that it was their UNDER-engineering of the Fiero that killed the Fiero... What if Opel had a luxury roadster based on a Buick a decade before the Speedster? Speaking of Lotus. How about Oldsmobile having this in its stable in the early 1990s? Or even Cadillac? How about a correctly engineered Pontiac Fiero? A correctly engineered Opel Omega for North America to which a better suited brand could have it? Which reminds me. The Cimarron... But what if GM actually took the time and money to actually do a proper Cimarron even if it was a J-Body? GM offered AWD in a Pontiac 6000. In 1989...but dropped it shortly there after. Audi built their phoquing image with AWD just a few years before. But even then, THAT image was cultivated in the mid 1990s... A Cimarron with AWD? GM had ALL the right cars but their execution was shyte shyte shyte!!! Hyundai is now occupying many of those areas that GM occupied in the 1980s and 1990s. Sad really. Acura/Infiniti/Lexus has been occupying the other areas where higher end Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles and Buicks once occupied in the 1980s and 1990s. GM actually had OK market share even in the 1980s and 1990s. All those FWD W-Bodies, FWD H-Bodies, the G Platform, the J-platform cars from the '80s and '90s now lost forever to the Japanese and Koreans. But something was off with a certain formula that GM management wanted in the 1970s and it slowly rotted the company from the inside out... PS: It aint about the EVs like you make it sound like. Far-phoquing from.

1993 Camaro Z28. New fat tires. Faded red paint. T-Top. Original mags. Awesome car although it was an automatic... Came to my drive-though. Couldnt talk to the guy. The guy was in his 60s. 1984-ish Camaro Z28. That awful beige colour that was offered then. The skirts were goldish as well as the 5 spoke mags. All original. Paint looked to be in real good condition. The car as well. Parked exactly where the orange 1969 Camaro was parked on Sunday. (on a side street of the main road that I use to go back and fro from work in front of a modest house) Camaro enthusiast? Its funny though that all these years, its the first time that I see these cars in front of that house.

Gregory

In all honesty. All small and medium sized CUVs look pathetic. Jeep Wranglers and GCs excluded. There are some CUVs that are acceptable. Barely though. The Model S is a good looking car. But its a tad dated now. It desperately needs a refresh. Not a mild one either. A major exterior overhaul would be welcomed. The other Tesla cars are not exactly pretty. The Model 3 and Model Y for me fall under the barely acceptable category. The Model X is pathetic. The Mach E for me is a notch above acceptable but below good looking. I prefer the Jeep GC over it. The Mach E edges out the Ford Edge for me. And yes, I kinda like the Edge. But I much much much prefer the REAL SUVs from FoMoCo. You know. The big guys. The BOF ones... I probably would like the Bronco. On the same level as a Wrangler. And a Toyota 4Runner. (Well, if the 4Runner didnt have that fugly face) (I realize this post reads like Im drunk or high...I assure you, Im sober...)

Just to finish what Balthy started

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Hurst left it alone in 1974. But I prefer the front and back end of the 1973 model Cutlass over all other Colonnade Cutlasses. And yes, I too prefer the original Olds opera window, but I dont seem to mind the smaller, 1973 Hurst opera window. And to be honest, its a much better opera window than what Oldsmobile ended up doing with it in the later years. At least in my opinion. I didnt know that Hurst did another in 1975. No opera window Im observing... And Im honestly thinking no opera window looks best. Of course with the T-Top!!! I love the F-150 in Raptor form myself!

The last couple of days, including today. In order of seeing/spotting/noticing them C4 red Corvette on the Mazda dealership used car lot section. Still there today. I havent had time to stop and see the details, maybe tomorrow. dark grey Cadillac CT5. Probably the 2.0 Turbo. It has presence on the road seeing it out in the wild, but I wasnt really impressed with it. Probably the colour doesnt do justice to the car. That and I dont like grey on cars. Probably because the base car is kinda bland also. Too far away to really analyse it but close enough to have an opinion if I like the exterior or not... North American market MkIV Supra rolling on the opposite side of the road going the other direction. (Yes, the steering wheel was where it belongs!!!) Silver. I dont think it was the turbo model, didnt look like it was. Wasnt riced out. (Thank the lord. It looked stock.) Body was of a well driven Quebec car after all these years. No signs of rust. Probably kept in the garage during the winter, but it did have some battle scars on the body. It was a decent car. 1971 blue Chevelle SS with dual white racing stripes. 15 inch Torque Thrust II mags. Well restored car parked on a street. 1969 orange Camaro. All orange. I doubt it was Chevy's Hugger orange colour. Maybe it was. Another well restored car. Had modern 17 or 18 inch 5 skinny spoke mags. This car too, was parked. I stopped to analyse the Chevelle. I didnt for the Camaro. No time. mid 1960s Chrysler Newport convertible. Blue-ish grey-ish. Nicely restored car. In a McDonald's parking lot while I was driving towards a softball practice that was in Montreal. And today. I was going to Home Depot, to Reno-Depot (A Canadian-Montreal based -home renovation store) and back to Home Depot... 2 miles at the most apart. A red on red 2002-2005 Ford Thunderbird. He was leaving Home Depot while I was going in. When I left Home Depot to go to Reno Depot, I saw that 2002-2005 Thunderbird at the Reno Depot parking lot. While I was driving to Home Depot initially, a Dark Grey (kinda like Carbon Fibre grey colour) C7 Z06 with a Hennessy cursive logo on the back bumper left side was in the right lane to me driving forward while I turned left to go to Home Depot. Well, that same C7 was was parked in the lot at the 2nd Home Depot trip. Coming back home from this romp, an all black no chrome, nothing shiny CT5 was coming towards me on the opposite side. I dont think it was a V car, but it definitely was a Sport trim. This version had a ton more presence. This version looked mean and good and awesome. I LOVED this version!

From Montreal. Happy Birthday USA!!!

Ill go out on a limb and say: Cost of operation and initial purchase price and all the minute details regarding cost means very little in terms of us humans turning the corner and trying to live more environmentally friendly. Take that how you will, but this being an EV thread, we could discuss how green fossil fuels are versus how green electric power grids are. The mining of battery elements versus oil drilling is the same. Both need diesel power equipment to extract the materials from the earth. Moot point. The transportation of said natural materials to their processing destinations is also the same as both use diesel and gasoline powered vehicles for delivery. Transportation of final product (battery) and actual gasoline is also the same. Gasoline needs to be refined and that sometimes means that the energy used is not green and electricity is sometimes produced by coal powered plants so that too is the same. After the life of the battery is done, recycling of the battery is not yet defined. So that could be an advantage for the fossil fuel advocates. The problem though is that electricity in some cities/countries is produced by actual green sources and where the electric powered vehicle really gets an advantage over the fossil fueled one is that when an electric vehicle is used, virtually no pollutants are released in the atmosphere. Remember though, even if a coal powered plant is used to produce the electricity for recharging purposes, the electricity is being transported by wires to the charging station... But...oil and gasoline CONTINUE to be transported by fossil fueled vehicles to the gasoline station on a daily basis. Everyday. Every week. Every month. Every year. Every decade. Sometimes...the initial purchase price is really not that important when you factor in how we humans SHOULD be changing how we go on about our lives going forward in 2020 and beyond. Unless of course you dont think how humans live now is not harming our planet. Then it doesnt matter what I or anybody else says. Go on about and live your life the way you want to. Humans do have that choice to do what they want and we have that over the other animals we share our planet with. We have free will after all...

Sorry for your Grandfather. I too lost dear family members this past year. Not to Covid though. My 99 year old auntie past away last September 3 weeks shy of her turning 100. And my mother-in-law past away exactly 1 month ago. She was young. 69 years old. Organ failure due to new arthritis medication. Yes with me also. Driving alone late in the wee hours of the night/morning when I was single always relaxed me. I dont do that anymore, so I dont get that escape anymore, but I do use my diecast model car collection to leave this world and go to another place to reset. That and music. Youtube is a life savour for me. I dont relax when I drive anymore as there are far too many cars on the road, too many selfish drivers around to actually enjoy the ride. And late night romps dont exist as Id rather be safe at home with my family at or beyond the witching hour. I do miss driving late at night with nobody on the streets, but Im not a 20 something year old single guy without any family responsibilities... I got a wife and kids to come home to and to be there for. Speaking of which, she is my other source of escape. We are always in each other's face, but that is a good thing as we are always talking to each other, planning our future together, making small adjustments to our hopes and dreams regarding our family, growing old together.

I have been very amical and social with my neighbours before Covid. Since we moved into our home actually a decade plus ago. All my neighbours, on both sides, in front, in the back, 2-3-4-5 houses down in all directions, we are all friendly to each other and we look after each other's back when one of us is on vacation etc. Its super cool. But at the same time, sometimes, I wanna be anti-social after a loooooong day at work, but I have to say hello... With me, I kinda have no choice but to be social. All around. I cant shop in my neighborhood in peace. LOL 1. Im a social butterfly by nature with always a smile on my face. 2. People in general know me from the restaurant as my restaurant is EXACTLY 10 kilometers from my home. (about 6 miles) 3. I also coach my daughter's city (more like town) league softball team for the last 4 years. I help with my boy's city league baseball team for the last 5 years. Combine all that together and Im pretty well known in my town's circle.