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I wanna know who's generation likes and WANTS this kind of shyte and gets entertained by it???!!! It cant be the phoquing boomers??? Is it MY gen. The Gen Xers???!!! Its cant be the millennials or the Z gen. These things are waaaaaaaaay too expensive for them... At least this what the popular word on the street is. This is what we are led to believe that most of them whine that there are no jobs and its tough for them to buy shyte. Shyte like houses... It might as well BE them that ask for this idiocy as I also heard these phoquers dont want to drive...they like their phoquing phones better!!!! Let me explain: I went to the Ford dealership a couple of days ago to set yet another appointment for yet *SIGH* another recall on the Fusion... double *SIGH* This is when I jumped into a Bronco that was in the showroom floor. To my horror...and reaction: When I saw what greeted me when I sat down...where the SPEEDOMETER IS SUPPOSED TO BE!!! Is this what has become of our society? That we need phoquing pictures and photograghs on little screens? Who the phoque decided that a picture where the speedometer is supposed to be is such a great idea that will entertain us when we...drive? Are we phoquing little children that we need this shyte? As a welcome when we get into our car? The Fusion has this Ford start up thing going on. I guess expensive cars greet you by name. If memory serves me right, Tesla does it... I repeat...are we children???!!! I HATE IT!!!! I dont want ANY pictures of wild horses on the big screen and I dont want pictures of rivers where the phoquing speedometer is supposed to be. I just want a phoquing speedometer, a tach at the most. Little idiot lights could be on a TV screen. Any of that could be on a TV screen. I want REAL phoquing buttons to change the temp and radio station in my car. I dont want all the other little shyte that we have today. I just want to DRIVE the phoquing thing. I dont want anything else... Is THIS the reason why cars go up in price? For unnecessary bullshyte like that???!!! Please make it go away?

Yes! I was thinking that as well when I posted it.

What's with the face??? Its a tribute to Burt Reynolds. The watch from one of his movies that he wore and his movie cars. Mainly the Trans Am. I dont understand where the EV smugness comes from regarding an EV Trans Am? I dont understand the connection you wanna make with it? But...you are more than wlecomed to post not only an EV Trans Am, but any car you would want to post. EV or otherwise...

Those are cool themed watches for sure!!! And while Tag's hue of blue for the Formula One is a classy choice lending itself in being a very nice watch, this is where my philosophy of staying classy goes haywire. (Not too take anything away from your watch choice @Robert Hall, but showing you guys how my twisted mind works sometimes) Ive mentioned several times that I dont like gaudy watches or saying things like a gentleman stays humble and doesnt reveal his watch etc... But like my colour choices in muscle cars and exotics and actually,exotic hyper cars not being my thing... I somteimes veer away from that "righteous" path and say shyte like: Sure, that Formula One Tag with a blue face is classy but in my funky world BECAUSE its a Formula One themed watch, I think Id like a more flashy Formula One Tag: The face has got the same blue hue, but with more pizzaz. Extra complications and a gulf livery stripe to it. Why would I contradict myself like that? Because I dont know... In my head, Formula One is extravagantly rich and arrogant. A watch that is based on that entity needs to copy that. With that being said, that Pan Am Timex is PERFECT!!! Id rock that watch and wear it daily!

I would want an EV 442. But not 2 seats. Ill take 2 doors, but I would want at least 4 seats. This, as you guys know, is a Dodge version of what I want. And Dodge cheekily has made it that 2 extra small doors could be made to make it a 4 door. Suicide style... Like this And it TOTALLY works for me.

In all honesty. I hope that it is the case that the fire was NOT from an EV. I am almost 'there' in the TOTAL acceptance THAT THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE AND THE VEHICLES THAT ARE POWERED BY THEM to be relegated to the history books. I am not quite 'there' in actually buyng an EV just yet, though. Especially now that my gravy train has made its final stop... EVs are just a tad out of reach for me, now. The Mach E was seriously in the forefront of me buying one in the next 2-3 years. But that notion was quashed as I have another annoucement to make when the time comes... News of products of not so in the distant future such as the Ultium Vehicle to Home tech, or Tesla's now veteran Powerwall system and other systems that WILL be coming online soon enough where a battery pack could be installed in the home, recharged either from the grid or by other external natural means such as (better/newer tech-ed) solar panels to facilitate V2H, V2L, V2G. Its exciting, Maybe not as glamorous as say a dawn to a new musclecar era, but it sure will change our ways of living.

I just realized...a very high end watch was inspired by a Bulova Computron from the 60s and 70s... A digital watch of all things. I like very high end watches, but an old money millionnaire once told me back when I opened up my restaurant once told me: Its money wasted to buy expensive watches. Cheap watches tell time as well as, if not better than the most expensive ones. They could be just as stylish. And a gentleman NEVER shows his time piece. Its humbly hidden under his shirt sleeve or pocket (pocket watch). And I tend to follow that logic more often than not.

A 25 thousand Tesla is a mythical creature. The shear mention of either brings hope and joy to millions. The promise of some sort of monetary compensation or gain... A figment of somebody's wild imagination. Both could be metaphors that we could use in life. But really, all we could do is dream that we may be able to find that pot o gold at the end of that long rainbow. In many cases in life, we do fall upon a financial windfall. But in Tesla's case, its more a case of wishful thinking. And there is sadly, nothing else to say. OK...maybe one thing. It actually sells no matter how it looks like. People have realized its a good little EV.

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Its NOT about the watches nor the car. Its about the WHOLE picture. About the watches first. The brand: Pargiani Fleurier. A new Swiss watch company. Made in...Switzerland. The land of fine watches. (rolls my eyes as watch snobs have this place as some sort of mythical watch making land) Tis true that Switzerland is home to many fine watch makers. Almost all are of the high end. Careful and precise horology engineering. OK...ALL watches posted are of the watch maker Parmigiani Fleurier. And ALL of them are under the Bugatti name and were specifically made for the car. The Veyron, The Chiron and all other successor variants of... I ONLY like the first watch posted. I HATE the middle one and I appreciate the last one. BUT...the middle and last one will always be appreciative with me. Not about the looks or the c=very very very high price tag, but for the very precise and out of the box thinking for a watch. And I LIKE that kind of wierd thing for watches. The cars themselves: I never liked the Veyron and the variants of. But the engineering IS insane on them. But...if we glance at the WHOLE imagery of the pics posted: elegant with old mansions, in France, Paris in some instances. Elegance and arrogance in a European kind of way. Elegance and Arrogance in an American kind of way was kinda already done when I posted the watch theme with the Rolex and Cartier a while back. I could revist this theme. Actually I will. With an American arrogance of luxury and privilege!!! I may include songs too... GREAT IDEA. I I WLL DO THAT!!!

I never thought about it. 2035 would BE just about the time Id be considering retirement as well. Im guessing that the landscape from now until then will be just as much of a dramatic change as it was going from the 40s to the 50s. The 50s to the 60s. I remember conversations with @balthazar that automotive design was drastic and rapid change during those times but from the 80s onto to today was/is slow. Well, imo, when the EVs come kicking in, and when we get to the 2030s, the 2020s will look sooooo dated as how cars were back in the good 'ole days decade to decade.

The bolded parts. In a sarcastic, jealous tone. "wooooooo. lucky for you!" No. Seriously. Good on you. Paying cost. On a Rolex. Lately, Rolexes, no matter what vintage go for a mint above and beyond fair market value. And your Rolex aint exactly old either. A couple of years old is still new to me. ESPECIALLY if no scuff marks are on it. Its pretty hard to scratch up the crystal glass as well. So Id say, a very smart and awesome purchase. I am positive you ARE enjoying it. So...ENJOY IT!!!

And about 5 years ago, EVs had barely 2%... I recall a certain @balthazar laughing at the prosect of EVs even cracking 5% in a decades time... And I know this is about the good ole USofA... Globally, EVs have a 14% market share. And it has spiked considerably...the last 3 doubling each year... So yeah...I think @smk4565 is rght on about this declaration: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1371599/global-ev-market-share/ EVs are almost an obvious choice now... In the next 5 years, EVs will almost be a no brainer. By 2035, they will most probably BE the ONLY wise choice to make...

We have had prolific egg shape on wheel styling since the 1990s. Ill agree that it has become old and outdated and perhaps archaic? But Im not hatin' on the Aehra design language. Im not full on enamored by it. Im accepting of it. I am GRATEFUL that whether its the SUV or sedan, they do NOT have the stereotypical crossover look to them. They got the new crossover CROSSOVER transition of the CUV to look like a sedan... A sleek sedan. But sedan nontheless. Like this KIA for example. Except the cab forward design taken to extreme like how you said @Robert Hall.

Should electric vehicles follow the styling elements of internal combustion engined vehicles? In an EV, there is no huge block of iron (or aluminium) to HAVE to be accounted for in the first third of the vehicle and then to stylize and prepare for the cabin. I mean, designers and engineers, cant they have carte blanche to design an EV with a brand new way of thinking and engineering? Do they need to be shackled by old engineering and design standards? When the automobile was first concieved and the body of the vehicle that housed the passengers was directly lifted by the horse and buggy carriages. It took a couple of decades to get off of that idiotic way of engineering the 'horseless carriage'. I think, today's engineers and designers are smarter, wiser, keener than our forefathers when they done the first automobiles... I also think its wiser to design and engineer EVs like they are their own entity. Because they are... Stylistically. There is nothing wrong with it. And if EVs start plopping out looking like that, inherently, there is nothing wrong with that either. Smartly, they would be engineered this way to look exactly like that... I presume, inherently, because of the lack of a huge iron or aluminium block up front, lends itself for there to be more cabin space for the passengers... Something that was thought of 20 some odd years ago...I might add. From General Motors as it were... Those Italian car pictures mimicking the HYWIRE pictures...

1. We wont know the Ultium platform Bolt's msrp until it comes out. Whenever that will be. Nothing has been announced . At least Im not informed of anything. 2. The Equinox EV's starting msrp is said to be around $30 000. 3. But...GM is pulling an Elon Musk move and will not sell that 30 000 dollar version tout de suite. GM will sell the higher trimmed versions first. Not a bad move per se... But shytty none. the. less. 4. I have a sneaky suspicion that GM will further copycat Elon Musk and wont offer a 30 000 dollar Equinox EV. And this is where a 30 000 dollar Ultium Bolt comes in... Its starting msrp now is $27 000. So yeah, its possible that the starting price tag for the Ultium Bolt will be 30 000. And the Equinox will be bumped up to 35 000 or maybe even 38 000... But in a world where avg US transaction prices for new cars has hit 50 000 American smack-a-roonies... The American consumer is just as much to blame for this mess as is the car makers that sell cars in North America... American and Canadian car consumers dont seem to want cheap, stripped cars... We want all option boxes ticked even in the most cheapest cars available to us to buy. Its like going to Micky Dees. We NEEEEEEEED to supersize everything. We need just about all the shytty phoquing tech in our most basic of transportational cars. Maybe with inflation being sky high as it is, maybe we could live life a little bit more humble? But nah! That will never happen as we American and Canadian consumers are spoiled phoquing little brats!!! But we sure like to whine a lot, dont we???!!! PS: Canuck rock RULES!!!