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Not a real Ferrari in the movie...but you get the idea... Not a real Ferrari, but you get the idea Not a V12...but a flat 12...but you get the idea 12 cylinders + Ferrari = the best ?

I guess Ferrari is better than Mercedes. Suck on that!

That Hellephant 426 That and the SD455 from Trans Am Depot/Worldwide Just about my two favorite crate motors today!!!

Well... You either swear by Consumer's Report or you dont... If, in 2005 you found that Consumer's Report was crap because it crapped on your favorite brand, then in 2019, you cant just magically start respecting Consumer's Report's reports just because THIS time around you like what you hear from them... And then start calling out people on it on how you are a wizard for hatin' on the brand Consumer's Report dissed on... I...LOATHE Consumer's Report even for dishwashers... Tesla cars arent even close to being built without faults. Like far far from... But they are built to a world wide standard that is more than satisfactory... Fiat...there is NO surprise that Fiat cars were always built lower than the industry average. Its common knowledge. Nobody needs Consumer's Reports findings to acknowledge that fact. Ford...on the Fusion has had plenty of quality recalls... I dont see you, Blu, waving the Conser Report report on the Fusion and laughing... You dont see me dissing on Ford nor do you see me complimenting Consumer's Report just because it suits my dumb ass biased agenda... I never got flaky and sentimental when GM was and probably still gets dissed by Consumer's Report, nor do I cheer for Consumer's Report when they sometimes downgrade a Toyota product... THIS is why, once again, your genitalia and your ownership of a Chrysler/Fiat product gets shat on by some... Tesla cars have got something that GM/FoMoCo/Chrysler cars has lost a long time ago. But...truth be told, GM/FoMoCo/and Mopar trucks have never lost, and Corvette, Mustang and Challenger will NEVER lose... But it is fun to seeing the pissing matches between you and the others regarding this Jeepiat/Tesla feud... Thanx for the long lasting memories!

The only one Id go outta my way for, if I was a millionaire/billionaire playboy, would be the GNX. Not the regular Grand National, but the GNX. My favorite G-Body though would be the Olds. Then would be the Grand Prix. Then would be the Regal. But not just any Regal, the T-Type and the GN/GNX. Unlike the Cutlass and the GP, those I like in any trim. Then in 4rth place its the Monte Carlo. The SS is cool, but Id rather the LS over the SS. I like the SS, but I prefer the LS. Say what you will about the G-Bodies. They make for really cool beaters...

I forgot about the Corinthian Leather... That commercial too has been etched in my memories! I just forgot about it... ha! ha! ha! get it???!!!

Thanx!

I got several. Typical 80s groove! And the "Like a Rock" Chevy truck commercials. Only because I always loved the song. I loved the 1st and 2nd "Like a Rock"commercials too, in the beginning, but then I got fed up of the those commercials and eventually got fed up of the song because of the commercials. I was slightly older with these ones And I know that the topic is when we were young, but I love this recent commercials that have had a mark on me as well. I wont do all the Led Zeppelin Caddy commercials, Ill just do one, my favorite of all of them. But I do love all of them. And then there is the Dodge Brothers commercials. I love those too! Ill probably will never forget these.

Yeah... Part of the house when installed. Dishwashers are considered fixtures because they are hard to install, requiring plumbing codes to be respected so once installed, they become part of the house like the other plumbing fixtures in a house such as toilets and bathtubs. Not that dishwashers are mandatory to be installed in a house in Quebec, but once installed, become a fixture in the house. Whether you want to use it or not.. So that would be the connection to the discussion. I believe in Washington, if I understood correcty, as @dfelt was explaining, dishwashers are mandatory... Daughter is going to be 13 in Sept. and my son is going to be 12 in June. So...Wildwood and Cape May are close to each other... And Wildwood was my personal choice to begin with. Ocean City in Maryland was a suggestion made by my best friend...? Me thinks Im gonna be visiting your State Mr. Balthy... PS: Ill be coming with a Tahoe and a Hitch. Ill have your 2000 dollars in cash ready for you, I expect the Buick to be ready for me... Ill sign the proper legal forms that the Buick is not to be driven...

See @Cmicasa the Great post. That post may explain a lot too. GM knows that about Corvettes. ..but another angle to compliment Casa's is that GM upped production because the C8 will be coming soon and so the Bowling Green plant will close to re-tool for the C8...so GM is to produce as many Corvettes as GM thinks will sell from now up until Bowling Green closes down for the re-tooling... Like there are sooooo many possibilities for this reason...why are you so concerned about it? GM doesnt seemed alarmed... Like I said...GM knows about this cycle...Corvette is in its 8th generation after all...I think GM has Corvette production down to a science...why would you think otherwise?

I cant upvote anymore!!! @balthazar I wanted to upvote your hobbies too. Tomorrow! I used to ski plenty. No time now. I used to play hockey. Outside. And indoor floor hockey. No time now. I used to weight train. Never to be bulky, or to be cut. But to have stamina and strength and speed for my baseball and hockey games. 3 times a week in my 20s. I never took my kids skiing just yet, but I will. Soon. We used to skate often in the winter, but the last 4 years, nada. Too cold. One winter was too warm... Yes..ive become a wimp regarding freezing weather, but really, too cold. I now coach my daughter's city league softball team every summer. It will be my 3rd year this year. I coached my boy's baseball team two years. Not last year as I was too busy with the restaurant and the Greece trip stole my time for me to commit to his team. But this year I will try to assist his team while Ill coach my daughter's team. I do practice with them on the field. Get them into shape. Helps me get into shape too. I also coordinate my kid's respective team's practices. I stopped collecting die cast scale 1/18 cars. I have 73. Or is it 70? 71? Somewhere there. I used to have 100. 103? I dont drink alcohol anymore, but I to love to BBQ in the summer and invite certain friends and neighbors over for some beer or wine or any kind of alcoholic spirits while we enjoy the summer night breeze and smells of the BBQ. They drink, I dont. Sometimes my partner would have the BBQ party...he has a smoker...I dont. Sometimes my brother-n-law has a BBQ party. So yeah, that is a hobby too. Eat. and then eat some more.

Yes..drain pan/drain line...and that is the only requirement. No electrical code. Plumbing code. Code none-the-less. Liabilty, insurance... Fine if its in a single home dwelling. No biggie other than if not installed properly, insurance wont pay you for YOUR damages. But if you install improperly in a multi-complex unit, not only will your insurance not cover your losses, but you are gonna be liable for every home that you flooded and caused damage. Pretty expensive for a lowly dishwasher...and THAT is why I made the connection for a dishwasher... Well...there is a difference. That the EV charging unit would be on MY territory. I could give you the 2000 dollars for your Buick. But..you'de have to ship the Buick to me. I wont be using it, but it be on MY territory. ? In this case, the Buick would be in my way as I have a single garage but place for 4 cars in my drive-way, as opposed to a smallish charging unit, but hey...this is a discussion I wont back down on either... so Ill live with the Buick in my driveway.

Dishwashers ARE required to stay with the home in Quebec. Dishwashers ARE coded in that the installations ARE required to meet certain water flooding prevention methods... Who says that 220V/30AMP outlets for EV chargers could not be used EVEN IF the owner of a house does NOT own an EV. As a society, we are dependent more and more on electricity than we are on gasoline... 3D printers...no, not the little ones. But the bigger ones may use 220V. And those will be part of our future too. Or some other high voltage necessity going forward into our future... Even if you dont own an EV but have a charger outlet installed or even a charging unit...it does NOT cost you more to have it in your house...only the 2000 or less dollars it initially costs you...and as we are going into our future, EVs are it... And in the grand scheme of things...2000 dollars or less is NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL. Its just there. Like I said. I have bought a house where the rough for the basement bathroom was an option for me to have made. I paid for that option. My basement is finished yet the bathroom in the basement is just a storage room. The rough is there for the next future owner for him to make a bathroom if he chooses. It an easier sell. And an easier job for me or future owner(if any) to make a bathroom. I paid for something that I will NEVER use...and it cost me around that mythical 2000 dollars we keep on mentioning. Well...like I said...much ado about nothing... Installing wiring and the like, after the fact becomes a hassle. So why even fight it? EVs are at 2%. And will grow...its part of the grand design anyway...

More like immediate Corvette buyers know that the C8 will be available soon... These immediate Corvette potential owners are also aware that the C7 bones are closely related to the C5 bones and that the C8 will be completely new from the ground up, even if not mid-engined... so probably the immediate Corvette buyers that will be will and are holding off to buy a brand new Vette waiting for the C8 to arrive. Corvette sales always do this. The final years especially THE final year of the generation ALWAYS slips waaaay below the sales charts. But then when the new generation arrives, the sales spike up again...so...no biggie for that stat you hold dear to prove a point of some sort. So I wouldnt be using the Corvette as an example is what Im saying.

Yeah...USB outlets shoudlnt be that expensive, I tried to make the story (true story though) dramatic to prove a point. I wish I had the hindsight to do all that you do 10 years ago and let the home contractor do it for me. Plenum tubing and USB outlets and really, computer friendly home ready for the internet and blutooth and whatnot. Not quite full out smart and connected home, but computer friendly at the minimum. My house is a new house, but its an "old school" house. Other than it being a super insulated home with air exchangers and the like, its still "old" tech in regards to the computer reality world we live in. I see the options that are out today with that such as computer controlled lighting where I could choose from a single panel what lights could go on and off and and what times and the like and Im jealous. Sure...old school gadgets still exist for that, but its like recording TV programs with an old VCR versus modern DVRs...and sure I could buy the hardware to do it myself....but I have top do it myself... Good to know that you have the option to install a charger that you could uninstall. I imagine a Tesla owner would prefer to take his Tesla supercharger rather than leave his at the old home and go into a new home with a generic ho-hum charger... Exactly though, as long as the home has the required 220V 30AMP outlet already there.

We all have hands. We could wash our dishes the old fashioned way. And household dishwashers are not the industrial, hotellerie (restaurant and hotel business)dishwashers that wash dishes at super high temps in like 2 minutes. Household dishwashers take 1/2 the day to do the job. Washing by hand takes 5,10 minutes for a regular family of 4... EVs...WILL be the future whether you like it or not... Like I said last week or so. Everybody in the car biz and the governments are leading us up to this. THIS is just another way to facilitate the transition. A building (house or industrial) is supposed to last us past 100 years, right? Let us not put a number on it but buildings are more or less for the very long term. Even the stadium that Ruth built, lasted 85 years only to be DECLARED "obsolete"...but still...85 years. Fenway is still open more than 100 years. Some homes in the US are 150 year old homes and STILL people are living in them. In Europe, older than that still... Therefore, if EVs are the way to the future, then home EV charging is gonna be an integral part of our way of life going forward. 5 years ago, USB charging ports were not even dreamt up anywhere. Today, if one buys a new home...this is an option to them I wish when I bought my home 10 years ago, I had that option...but I dont. I have to fork over 14.99 or so per outlet plus all the electrical crap to install it...after the fact... Point being, EVs are our future, if the electricals are part of the system going forward now, the transition will be that much easier 10-20-30 years down the road. We got to plan ahead...and we have already planned our future with the automobile, and the automobile will cease to run on gasoline at some point... My house, if I decide to sell it 30 years from now, I will be 76, alive and kicking I hope...well, my house wont be ready for the EV future even YOU say might be a thing...30 years from now...because I dont have an EV charging port... But a house being built in two years from now, and it will have a mandatory EV charging port, the dudes that buy that house, WILL be EV ready... My house, when Ill be a 76 year old geezer, if Ill refuse to do the necessary renovations, well, even if EVs will not be the main propulsion cars on our roads, there will be a lot, Ill be limiting myself to potential buyers... Like I said, it wont hurt to have EV charging units in your home. It WILL be a plus, not a negative... Just like having A/C unit installed even in Quebec...its a plus. EVs in Quebec are becoming a tour de force. In Quebec at least, owning a home charger unit now is a plus... One question... If you installed an EV charging unit in your home, does it become part of the home like a dishwasher and the owner wont be able to take it with him? But at least the wiring and outlets will already be there!!!

But...why is it that we complain for EV chargers being non-essential and not for dishwashing machines? Dare I even suggest A/C units being non-essential? Even for areas like Arizona? Maybe Im pushing it for A/C units in Arizona, but in areas like Quebec, Ontario, New York, Massachusetts, Washington, Maryland, Oregon, Illinois, etc...TOTALLY NON-ESSENTIAL!!! Why must we solely focus on EV charging units?

yes! exactly! Part of that post that was ghosted was explaining how I prefer to drive on family trips and not take a plane if I dont have to cross any large amounts of water, like the Atlantic because scenery is what I want to take in. Stop and see interesting places. Take the time to take it all in. Florida is too far for the available vacation time I may have this summer. My partner and our employees need to go on vacation too. I cant hog up all the summer weeks... And yes...a full size SUV is the way to go. THAT is another reason why I love American land yachts. Those cars gobbled up the miles in comfort. I guess the new Roadmasters and Delta 88s and Bel Airs and Bonnevilles and Chrysler New Yorkers are the Durangos and Expeditions and 'Gators and the GM quintuplets (Caddy versions of the Tahoe and 'Burban) But yeah. Slowly but surely, I will visit the USA. There is sooooo much I wanna see. I could forego Las Vegas. But the Grand Canyon is a must! I could forego the Bible Belt, but within the Bible Belt, there are quite a few areas of interest. Then there is Europe....

I like this piece of news and I like the name Corsair as well as Nautilus. Bravo Lincoln!!!

I had a nice long response written for you...but *sigh* I pressed on something and all my tabs disappeared including the CheersandGears website and when I clicked back on the website to get to your post to respond to it, well, the site did not save the response!!! ? All to say thank-you for your input and Ill look into Cape May, NJ. Florida will be visited another year. We may go with my neighbor to South Carolina together, but probably not. Ocean City with my best friend and his family looks like the winning possibility. Or by ourselves. But I will look into Cape May and suggest that to my friend. Now, all you get is this cheap, watered down response. ?

I was thinking the same thing!!! Well, maybe not the Suburban, but a Tahoe/Yukon. Gas is cheap in your land. The Suburban might be overkill, but then again, its AMERICA! Overkill is the ONLY way!!!

This summer we are thinking about travelling down to the States for some vacation time. Hit some American beaches...on the East Coast. I dont think Ill have the time to drive all the way down to Florida (I do want to drive, so my kids get to see some American paysage. (scenery) South Carolina and Mytle Beach? My other neighbor, to the right of me(the neighbor to the left has the Tesla Model 3), he goes to Myrtle Beach every year. Maybe too far south still... Virginia Beach? Wildwood New Jersey? My best friend has gone to Ocean City Maryland twice and he recommends we go there. There is Massachusetts with Cape Cod or Martha's Vineyards or the Hamptons but we've been to Boston before to see my cousin and my daughter has a school trip there just before school finishes and the beaches that north arent exactly...well, Im used to Greek beaches... Further south and the beaches look awesome. Out west even better... Anyway, the point to this long winded story is about car rentals...yes car rentals...I might as well continue the car rental talk. We sometimes take our own vehicles for family trips and sometimes we rent. Depending on my moods. This time Im thinking about renting. And this time, since today's fullsized cars are midsizers of yore, me thinks Im going to go with an SUV. There...my story is finished.

You dont like toast? You mean, you dont make any at home? Or you use a blowtorch to roast bread because you live the life of an adventurer?

Yeah... True all that you said... But...like a washing machine...or the rough in a basement potential bathroom. The plumbing for both could be part of the cost of the new house which sometimes is "standard" that comes with the house but if you dont want either a dishwasher or bathroom in your basement, you are forced to buy it or it could be an option, like some cases and if you change your mind 10 years later, costs a lot more to install. And then once you buy a dishwasher, then that dishwasher becomes part of the house as a fixture and the owner selling the house cannot remove the dishwasher. The house is sold with the dishwasher... We could cry all we want about these costs...it really is much ado about nothing... Having an EV charging unit in your brand new home that you bought that you will personally will never use...well, it wont hurt you to have it there. A house is a 200 000-1 000 000 plus dollar investment (if you take care of it)...I think its kinda whiny for anybody to complain about a 2000 dollar unit. Mortgaged for 20-25 years. Peanuts... And in the recent past, people opted for 30-40 year mortgages and to this day, continue to re-mortgage the mortgage pushing the total to 60-70-80 years to finally pay off the house because we over consume with non-essential items. I get that some of us HATE the word mandated because we Americans do NOT want ANYBODY, especially the government telling us what to do. But really, not a big deal. Besides, 3D printers are gonna be a thing even before EVs will be a thing. Really really BIG 3D printers may also be a thing. And maybe those really really big 3D printers will require those washing machine/EV charging unit plugs...in other words, it wont do any harm to have them installed, only brings up the value of your home in the long run.