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Different views for different people adapting and adopting different hurdles of and for different fuel propulsions. Like I said in another post, its up to the people to decide for themselves how much and how far they are to accept and change for EVs. In my neck of the woods, the citizens, the government, the local businesses and our local economy are on the same page regarding EVs. Its to everybody's benefit in our community for us to adapt and adopt EVs. Ill agree with the "who gives a phoque what Koenigsegg thinks", but Koenigsegg doesnt really build pedestrian family sedans therefore not really slamming his own products. PS: I dont give a phoque what he thinks of the Tesla Model 3 myself if I wasnt clear enough. But...Ill say this about that...HIS attention to detail in his products are second to none in the automotive business. Tesla...not so much. Well....the electronics and software and stuff, Tesla is second to none. The finishing details...are admittedly lacking. The world IS full of small inconveniences and God Bless capitalism for allowing everybody a more or less equal chance of profiting from that. But then again...unchecked capitalism is also responsible for incredulous business practises. Is a 9000 dollar option for AWD one of these incredulous instances? A fool and his money and buyer beware are two of my favorite sayings. I dont know about anybody else though, if they share those thoughts... But then again, capitalism does dictate market value for some of these things some find incredulous. Others find need and pay for it negating the negative feed back... Tesla products are luxury only in price and the luxury in question is the technology. Luxury as in precious metals and excessive comfort is not a Tesla quality. State of the art technology however...

I didnt catch the humour. LOL. Words on a screen. Words on a screen..... Yeah... The Expos downfall... Many reasons.... But NONE of them are because the fans let down the team and soured and let them die only for the Expos to leave town just because... MLB economics and politics failed The Expos. Ownership...the original owners, the second owners, the third owners being Jeffrey Loria and his little puppet Samson and finally MLB ownership failed the fans of Montreal, the city of Montreal and the the team. The Quebec government and the city of Montreal also failed the fans and the team. Although I could not expect public funds to help build a stadium....especially when the province of Quebec, the city of Montreal was in deep deep deep economical crisis with a a dilemma of separating from Canada being front and center. The Expos drew more attendance than the Canadiens in the 1980s. Not fair you say because the Olympic statdium sat 50 000 people as compared to 18 000 at the forum and the Expos played 80 home games versus 40 for hockey? Yeah but hockey IS religion in Montreal and when baseball season starts in the Spring is when hockey season really starts in Montreal...but in the 1980s...the Canadiens werent all that hot. They won the Cup in 1986...but the Expos WERE the team of the 1980s...and the team of the 1990s... The Expos drew MORE attendance than the Yankees in those 1980s... https://exposnation.com/en/montreal-expos-attendance-per-year/ You will see in link above that the fans in Montreal...ARE baseball fans. This video...from urinatingtree...sums up the truth with the Expos part. Urinatingtree usually makes fun of sports teams, and usually stretches the truth...as all humour, sarcastic satirical medias do but with the Expos part...the truth is more sarcastic and funny than comedic satire itself... The chronic underachieving of the Expos never really soured the fan base. We always had awesome diamonds in the rough players to root for. Larry Walker being one of those players. It was the constant fire sales and the two strikes/lock-outs and the spiraling payrolls that we couldnt afford that drove us away from MLB.... NOT from our Expos or baseball the sport. But from MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. The Expos left, but parents kept on enrolling their kids in baseball and the kids continued playing baseball. In fact. Baseball grass roots GREW over the time that the Expos left town...

To be honest, he won more awards and stuff with the Rockies. He spent more years in Colorado. I want him in a s an Expo because his years as an Expo were great too. But maybe not as a Hall of Famer great. But rookie year and young and all. He did have 2 Gold Gloves with the Expos out of the 6 years he spent in Montreal...33%, but he did win 5 in Colorado. 5 out of the 10 years he spent there. 50% of the time he was there. He also had 3 batting titles...in Colorado. MVP of the league while in Colorado. He was supposed to be a hockey goalie, but that never panned out. "Twas the Expos that scouted him...by chance. But the Expos organization always had the knack of finding such talent that no other in the League could ever do. The Cards? I always respected the Cards. In baseball for me though, I HATE all other ball clubs. Especially the Yankees, Red Sox, Braves, the Blue Jays, The A's... But I have the utmost respect for the Yankees and the Red Sox. The Cards, The Cubs, The Pirates, The Phillies, The Reds, The Giants, the Dodgers ... Yeah...teams like these I may not like...hate might be tooo strong of a sentiment, but these are teams that are...dare I say...likeable? The Dodgers and the Giants...I kinda like their New York origins. I may not like their California destination... So...I could see the Rockies as a choice for Walker. I cant see the Cards though. PS: I HATE the Nationals... NO! Not because the Expos moved there. But because they NEVER acknowledged the Montreal tie-in. NO!!! They dont absolutely have to acknowledge Montreal... Rightfully so Ill say!!! BUT!!! In NO WAY should they also acknowledge Raines, Dawson, Carter, Guerrero as part of their history if that is the case. Carter gets inducted...no acknowledgement. Dawson and then Raines...nothing... Finally Guerrero gets in and all of a sudden, the Washington owners and fans want to be tied in with Montreal? Why? Because that ballclub now has 4 inductees? PHOQUE OFF is what I say to them! Im happy for him for that too... I do not know about Colorado...but that statement for Montreal is 100000000000000000000000000% FALSE!!! People in Montreal LOVED him. First of all...CANADIAN.... Second of all...we lOVED our Expos. Every single one of them. Listen to the Lyrics. The refrain...of all the Expos that played in Montreal for close to 40 years..."Larry Walk" is mentioned... Says a lot about how Montreal fans feel for him. Keep in mind that this Montreal song artist made this song in 2010. Waaaaaay before Gary makes the HOF. Waaaaay before the Expos might be returning back to Montreal. This song was made shortly after the Expos left town. "This one’s for the Kid and the Cat and the Hawk And this one’s for Grip, Larry Walk and the Rock This one’s for El Presidente, Mo and O-Cab and this one’s for Spaceman, Crow and Vlad"

1 moron did not vote for Derek Jeter!!! How pathetic. Anyway... Another Expo in the hall of fame!!! Colorado or Montreal? I hope its the Montreal Expos jersey he and the League will choose!!! But Ill understand if its the Rockies. The 2nd Canadian in Cooperstown!!! Larry, in my world, you were THE man rather than THAT machine way back when...

What's more blasphemous? A Porsche with a Subaru boxer 6 swap? (I googled quickly and I saw a handful of 944s, one 911 and even 1 Beetle with a Subie swap) A Corvair with a Porsche engine swap? A 911 with an LS swap? A front engine conversion Corvair? I personally think all those swaps are awesome. They all make sense and just augment the aura of the car in question that much more. OK...an LS swap is no longer unique. One could say its cliché at this point. But sometimes, an LS swap just makes sense. A 911 with an LS swap just magnifies the 911's characteristics that much more. ( A turbo 911 (993), is a beast, and AWD helps calm the beast down, but an LS swapped 993 without AWD just augments that beast mode times a million...and the LS is more or less the same external size as that Porsche 6 with the turbos making a tad more power but that much more torque. A hater will only see Chevy small block V8 rather than see that the "personality" of the 911 with a LS is the same as a turbo 993 911, but with more chest hair...) The only one I have a problem with is a front engined conversion of a Corvair. That messes with the Corvair's original intent. It augments nothing. It changes everything. So....to get to a point, tying this thread of it being about an EV Subie. I dont think an electric Subie WRX STi changes what a WRX STi is all about with enthusiasts. An EV Subie WRX STi with 4 motors like that Rivian truck, but tuned and softwared to be a rally race car for the street, like it is now actually, more or less, rather than offroad/wildlife life style truck is good by me.

I couldnt find a Subie swap, I wasnt trying too hard either, but I did find a Porsche 911 swap But like always...a ton of LS swaps... Even front engine conversions

https://electricautonomy.ca/2019/06/24/solving-the-electric-vehicle-garage-orphans-problem/ https://lecircuitelectrique.com/welcome Garage orphans would be the name for this latest EV concern. There are many ways to overcome this. But it takes a change in the mindset of the federal government, the provincial government (or in the US...the individual state government), the municipal government, the local businesses including gas stations and the people... Above are two links. Canadian point of views and what Canada and some of its provinces do to help change the landscape of how we drive gas powered cars to to ease the change to electrics. The second link is what Quebec does. What are its plans for the future and how it eases the use of EVs in our province. Quebec. We have hydro-electric power. Its a crown corporation that provides us with electricity. Which also means, it makes financial sense for us to switch to EVs because the money that costs to produce and sell electricity to people of Quebec, stays in our province... We have also have an abundance of it that we also sell to New York, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and some parts of Ontario. Maybe there are other states and provinces... We've talked about how local businesses, such as restaurants, grocery stores, hardware stores could partner up with the 1 or 2 or all 3 levels of government to provide chargers. 1 or 2 or all 3 levels of government could provide on the street, many streets, in many urban areas street chargers. In Dowtown Montreal we got lots of them. It says...no parking except EVs that want to recharge. And lastly, gas stations themselves...could provide EV stations. Petro-Canada has started to create its own charging network in their gasoline stations across Canada... Where there is a will, there is a way. If citizens want to resist change, then that is a whole 'nother ball game. But...300 mile range EVs are gonna be common place from 2020 and on. That number will go up 2-3 years from now. Fast fast fast supercharging is but 2 years away also. That means that to get an additional 30-40-50-miles of range, it will be done in 10-15 minutes, if not in less time and for more range even, which also means, THAT would be almost on par to refueling your car with gasoline. Now...I am NOT saying EVs are the way of your future because I understand politics, I understand people dont want change, I understand how electricity is made and in some places, coal powered plants are STILL in use. In some places, nuclear is also frowned upon so its hard, almost impossible, for a mass migration to electric from gas... In Quebec, where I live. We dont seem to have much resistance for us to go from gas to electric. Its easy peasey for us...

And All Wheel Drive that will shame ICE powered cars. EV Subaru, EV Jeep, EV GMC and GMC HUMMER and Toyota EV 4Runner, EV Land Rover and any other off road, snow conquering electric vehicle will have this feature... And if electric wheel motor hubs get perfected, then ALL EVs will be able to do this...

Im assuming, that you dont forget to gas up. Im assuming, the majority of the folk that drive gas and diesel powered cars, do not, for the most part, forget to gas up. Why would plugging in an EV car be any different? It will become just one of those little tasks in life when owning an EV... Cell phones have been a common commodity since the mid 1980s. Exploded unto the scene since the 1990s. Laptops have a similar timeline to cell phones and along with tablets...also require to plug in. Today, we charge headphones, drills, electric mowers, grass trimmers....toothbrushes.... Like gasoline and diesel cars, EVs, cell phones, tablets, PCs all have a gauge to tell us that gasoline or battery power is low and it may be time to fuel up or power up and recharge. In all honesty, anyone forgetting to fuel up or recharge may be a dummy in my eyes... If getting gas is no big deal, then plugging in at the comfort of your own home, should not be a big deal either...if anything, its less of a hassle than to drive to a gas station to fill up. Not in theory, but in reality. And one does not need to experience an EV for one to come to that conclusion either. One could easily see that advantage a mile away. If one gets a wireless charging station at home....by God...there is really nothing to do but to drive to your parking spot in just the right spot so the magnetic coils in the charger align with the magnetic coils in the car and voila...hands free...like everything else we like in today's lazy world. Like you, I only gas up every 14 days or so, give or take a day or two, and the gas station is along my drive, but even with that, Id rather not stop and gas up....Id rather plug in at home. Yes....Im one of those lazy folk I just bitched about in the previous paragraph.

I gassed up today. Not quite empty like I usually do, I had around 20 miles left as per the car computer. It took 3-4 minutes for the pump to go gloo gloo gloo up to the brim and at least 1 -2 minutes to pay. So yeah...about 5 minutes sounds about right. But today though, I had to wait in line to use the pump so about another 5 minutes went by. So 10 minutes in total. But usually though....5 minutes. Ive used that same pump before though, and at least 3 times in the past, it actually seemed like an eternity to fill up. ONly at that particular pump in that particular gas station. Im guessing 8-10 minutes to go from empty empty to full full... SMK's story is very plausible though. We shouldn't question his numbers because sometimes it will take us 5 minutes to gas up while other times it may take 10. Over the holidays I had to wait 15 minutes to pay because one old man wanted to buy a ton of lottery tickets along with his gas. My fault though as I could have paid with my bank card/credit card at the pump without having to go inside to pay... I dont do that...lots of fraud with that where I live. So always cash it is when gassing up for me...

Computer CAD drawings. Some words typed on a teleprompter that sound good as to what we should expect because Tesla is the benchmark. Those same words are also on a website because teleprompter is soooooo last century. However, no real data...just some of those magical words: Class leading and state of the art. A mock-up or two for some sort of presentation. (We dont know if in the video, that truck is powered by a battery and a motor or a Chevy small block V8 and gasoline...) No concrete date of when the actual product will be ready for people to buy. Or when production will begin. Or if those CAD designs are actually approved for production. Or if those CAD designs are an exercise of what a human can do with a 3D computer program...but in reality its just a 3D drawing on a computer screen.... I will refrain to comment further on this up until we get NEURON EV to actually have a real working product, ready for production and ready for sale... Why I say this? Because I remember this presentation a while ago. And if memory serves me right, this too, was a Tesla killer or competitor or whatever... We are still waiting...

Hmmmmmmm..... Gearz of some sorts. What are they turning? This looks to be huge. It cant be a transmission because gears in those are different sizes to account for different speeds, right? Same for watches and clocks. Different sized gears for different changes in time....second hand and minute hand and hour hand and then another tangent gear for day and/or month. This is an engine of some sort? Because Im stumped. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model 3. Minimalist? Yes. Luxury? No. Arsty Fartsy? Quite possibly. A pain in the ass to access certain things that need to be accessed? Some say no. Some say you get used to it. I say....there are certain things in life that do not need to be digitized on a TV screen. Buttons work well...extremely well. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Yes exactly. At least that much much. I thought they were completely useless. But like you said, it was a high truck. I mean, Im 5'6 and half inches tall. Those hooks would do nothing for me anyway. LOL. So...100% completely useless for me. But if I ever wanted to be saving Barbie from Nikolai Volkoff and the Iron Sheik from tyranny, Ken with his ascots would just just choke himself to death, but I...with my Hummer...could save the world. And THAT was the idea behind the H2, and like you said, they sold like hotcakes with crazy high pricetags. And immediately after that, the HUMMER brand was expanding...

I didnt know that. I thought they were totally useless. LOL

Looks mean different things to different people. The H2 could have never been made to look anything else BUT like a H1. THAT was the whole purpose of the H2. To be a smaller, more user friendly H1. It was never about being being user friendly. It was more about it being more user friendly as a baby H1... The H1 was a military vehicle through and through. Just as how the Willys Jeep was. When the CJ came out after the war, Civilian Jeep, it retained all the military specs of being a military vehicle. In other words, it wasnt a comfortable ride for civilians. Hell, it wasnt comfortable for soldiers either, but the army doesnt give a shyte about the comfort of the soldiers, at least back then...THAT is how the H1 civilian was. The H2 was just a vehicle to simulate a military one, with the comfort of a real civilian vehicle. It even had those hooks on the hood to be airdropped like the H1, but of course they were fake on the H2...and THAT was THE point of the H2. Im not saying you had to like that, Im just sayin' the target market for the H2 DEFINATELY WANTED that. And THIS is where Fap's rhetoric holds no water. GM gave the HUMMER buyers what they wanted. The H3 and other future products were then created to take on JEEP. Which never panned out. But that was never the H2's mission. To be a Jeep competitor, The H2 was supposed to fill some of the market's need to be G.I. Joe. Something that the Wrangler forgot it was a loooooong time ago... But...when the brand HUMMER was phased out, the Wrangler got more brutish in looks, huh? Makes you think why that is...

GM did no such thing with the H2. If fact, it was the opposite of what you say. Riding on the coattails on Ahnold's H1 civilian version and with the start of the SUV craze in the early 19990s and on Lincoln's Navigator, GM purchased the rights to HUMMER and listened to what folk said that went batshyte for the H1 so GM created the H2. (The 1st gen Escalade was already done and the 1st gen Escalade is where you could take your idiotic rhetoric and be correct) The H2 was not underwhelming. It was EVERYTHING a HUMMER buyer EVER wanted in his HUMMER purchase. If you do not know what those criteria were...then YOU might be the problem... The H2 was NEVER about luxury. The H2 was BRILLIANTLY recreated to EMULATE the H1...just to give you a hint. So much so, that IMMEDIATELY there after, the most sought after SUV WAS the H2. Then the 2nd gen Escalade came along as the 1st gen was a patch job in missing the market and GM just like that, had a 1-2 punch with a blink of an eye that dominated EVERY OTHER automaker that built and sold top dog SUVs... So much so that HUMMER's product line IMMEDIATELY broke open with many many many products down the pipe line. HUMMER died...but not because of how your twisted mind works against GM and HUMMER... If you do not comprehend that, or you simply refuse to acknowledge, then YOU might just be the problem... They way YOU go on about EVs and Teslas...that statement right there...is kinda ironic from where Im sitting...

If we are going to do this sexist thing and call white males dumb. We might as well do it right: Dumb white males and their muscle cars/exotic cars with their scantily clad bimbos!!! ? Dont forget the rock-n-roll!

^^^ I had the same thought when I read DFELT's post. A picture is said to be worth a thousand words. But...art could also be translated a thousand ways. A photograph is most certainly art. If one person wants to interpret that photogragh as a sexist one, than that person is sick in the head. Those women, are free to work, make money and buy anything they want to buy. They dont need a "man" to support them. What I see also, in that pic, is that a man is reliant on a woman, MANY women, to get his car on the road because it seems he is incompetent to do it on his own. WAIT A MINUTE???!!! You are correct, it IS sexist. It shows that older white males are dumb and stupid and cant pump their own gas and need women to survive. I call BEE ESSSSSS on that!!!

Point(s) also taken on my part on your rebuttal. True, but I was more talking about how we went from normal sized cars from the end of WW2 to the excess craze that happened from the mid-1950s that lasted all the way to the mid-1970s and each year in that time period, chrome got more utilized, wheelbases increased, cars got longer and wider, etc. Granted, 1920s and 1930s luxury cars were huge too, but that is for another discussion another day. Yes, todays cars are heavier, but they arent bigger or wider. Ill secede some of my rant, its true that us too, in North America, we are heading to a more European and Asian trend of going smaller. Some reasoning is that of what I said about Europe. But more of the polluting side of petrol cars rather than rationing it. But...its the governmental push worldwide that is forcing us North Americans to go that route. At least we still have our wide open spaces though... And our 2500 and 3500 heavy duty pick-up trucks as a last middle finger salute to all opposed of our excessive way of life!!!

In all fairness, that would be a different market and the rules been played with are waaaaay different than what rules we play with. And moreso to it than that our luxury rules are pretty much bigger is better, which not only lends itself to mean bigger engines and more power, but it also means huge, large, heavy vehicles to go with those bigger engines, and those huge vehicles actually do require bigger engines and bigger outputs BECAUSE they got bigger. And we still play by those rules somewhat today. In Europe though, old cities exist, and when I mean old cities, I really do mean old. Quebec City is as old as it gets in North America, but by European standards, Quebec City is STILL in its infancy... With that being said, there arent many wide and open spaces in Europe to accomodate EVERYONE to own our kind of luxury for cars. And after 2 devastating wars on that continent, petrol rations and taxes on said petrol to rebuild have made their mark as to why in Europe, small cars and small engines continue to be. So... Yeah...I also agree with CCAP's statement. In OUR market for OUR market. Thankfully, I dont live in Europe, nor do I ever plan to live in Europe. Europe, could kiss my Greek ass... (great history Europe has, but the political hypocrisy is so much more unbearable there than here. California and Hollyweird times a thousand to give you a clue) I do see myself visiting Greece often though... its not so bad there. Really. Plus Im...Greek.

Yeah...I remember that. LOL I have since forgotten in what context that statement was made. But thanx for the memories.

Quebec hasnt changed their plate since they went to Je Me Souviens. Boring white backround with blue lettering. With that crappy inscription. I like love the Fleur de Lys though. I understand the reasoning for that inscription, I just think in 2019-2020, Quebec should move on from playing the victim. I think if they went back to La Belle Province, they, as a people, would have a stronger identity in Canada and in the world going forward. Playing the victim, you always have a chip on your shoulder and you could never overcome your "status" as a "victim".