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I may need to take a drive on the Pacific Coast Highway sometime soon.

GT350 for me too over this. I like it, but I aint really wowed by it! Only the Hellcat and Redeye really wow me with the over 700 horsepower club. The Vette ZR1 wows me too, but just a tick above wow. The GT350 wows me more than the ZR1. The thing is... Id take the ecoboosted 4 cylinder convertible right about now and I dont care if its only a 300 horse turboed 4 cylinder!

It didnt make any sense to drop billions into a platform and all that metallurgical technology for it and a brand new state of the art V8 just to kill it off a couple of years later... But then again. This is GM we are talking about. It wouldnt have been the 1st time to kill off a brand new billion dollar project car. Hell, it wouldnt have even been the 2nd or 3rd time either after a short time being sold in the market place... So...anything coulda/woulda happened with the news of the plant closures and certain car models being killed off...

The MkIV Supra was also expensive. The turboed one cost just as much as our beloved Corvette. In 1997, when the C5 Vette came out, both the Vette and the Supra were in and around 40 000 US dollars. Performance wise, from a Motor Trend High Speed edition from May 1997, they tested and compared 7 cars. Dodge Viper GTS, Ferrari F355, Porsche 911 Turbo, Acura NSX-T, Mistisbishi 3000GT VR-4, Chevrolet Corvette, Toyota Supra The Vette was sometimes top of the pack and at times mid pack while the Supra was mostly below the pack. All this to say that with the Supra, then, it did not matter how fast it was as compared to its competition. And it was quite the tally of cars... The Supra was finally compared to a Vette. A Porsche... A freakin' Ferrari???!!! A Supra was able to go head-to head with a Ferrari! Sure it came no where near the performnce specs of that Ferrari F355, but boy oh boy did the Supra come a long way from its humble beginnings to be even mentioned in the same breath as a visceral Viper. Just as visceral Porsche 911 turbo (in 1997, the 911 turbo was a freakin' beast). It did fairly good against its Japanese brethren, beating out the Mitsu all the time and hangin' in there with Japan's top dog, the NSX. Remember, the NSX was a mid-engined exotic while the Supra became a wild muscle car that could handle...(this was 15 years before the Camaro and Mustang did the same thing...) It was more or less on par with the Vette. Sure, the Vette always beat it in the performance categories of these high speed tests Motor Trend conducted, but it did good for itself. You know, dont kid yourself, I think with "only" 300 some odd horsepower, I think the Supra will surprise some of you in its performnce specs... OK...it does not look like it will win any bikini contests. Or any wet T-shirt bonanzas...at least it aint a retro designed car with old Supras in mind just to sell nostalgia... And THAT is refreshing. For me at least. And we all know how much I LOVE the Challenger and Mustang I might add!!!

Very similar indeed!

OK then! Try this young sexy lass on for size ?????

PS: THAT is part of the appeal (to some)... To others... They like to laugh hysterically

GM hasnt done crappy badge engineering since the bailout. I dont need to remind anybody about the FWD J Bodies or the FWD A platform or the W-Bodies, etc. Other than GM dumping their 3.6 V6 and their 2.0T in all their vehicles today without any relevant tuned differences between the models, Id say GM is doing a fine job in creating different driving experiences between their cars and CUVs. Kinda. EVs are a lot more easier to be able to differentiate them especially when it comes to steering and ride and road feel due to the fact that EVs are easier to be programmed by computers. Hence why Tesla does this update software thing... The hardware is hooked up to the computer and voila! The internal combustion engine since the 1980s has been able to be configured by computer. Fuel injection was the start of that evolution...As hard as that was to get the ball rolling, the computer controlled ICE is almost perfected today with all kinds of computer controlled mondules and sensors...ICE has been digitized. And with this, ICE can be configured very easily to make an engine as efficient as possible, or that very same engine, as racy and visceral as possible. An electric motor is almost made perfect for computer controlled configurabilty... so there is that regarding your wishes. As far as silhouettes go, as long as the skateboard platform is scalable, its up to GM and how much money they are willing to spend on different body styles and shapes and you got your wish there. You say that EVs are "souless". But that may be farther from the truth. PS: Electricity does make noise. And its possibly the most eerie sound a machine can make. It may not be a symphony like what we are used to with ICE... But Id like to challenge that argument too... How many Average Joes like to hear a Harley Davidson rumble past them? How many Average Joes like to hear crotch rockets scream past them? Alls I know is that muscle cars and all cars actually were muzzled quite a lot sometime in the 1970s because most people regard ICE cars just too darned loud. THAT is a fact! Motorcycles were left alone but zoom by often enough in your motorcycle in the morning or late at night and see how fast your SOB neighbour will call the cops on you...

Long hood, short deck styling. I like it. Sort of... There is something amiss in the styling yet something that attracts me and makes me play that video over and over again because there are elements that I truly like about it, yet I do not know what I do not like about it and elements that I do not know why I like it! Strange as that is, I most definitely welcome it as I cannot stand looking at another CUV reveal. And because this new Supra now exists for us car guys, then us car guys have some little hope in surviving this zombie CUV epidemic we are currently going through. So yeah, this new Supra is my new Trans Am!!!

Shown, like an actual vehicle? Or a rendering of one? Because the picture above looks like a computer generated and pixelated photograph. In just curious, because pictures have a nasty habit of changing how the actual physical concept will look like and from there, actual physical concepts have the unfortunate luck in looking waaaay different than their real life selves that will go on sale a year later... In that picture, the EV in question does look nice. For a CUV that is... Im excited to read about (and obviously actually see) how that platform will be flexible and what vehicles it will accommodate. I also am very excited to see what tech this will be packing. Battery size and range. Performance specs as compared to Tesla and Porsche and Mercedes etc... What electronic gizmos and internet connectivity and internet upgrades GM will be doing (if any) to compete with Tesla, etc. (Not that I personally value those things, Im just curious on how the other players such as GM and Porsche etc, other than Tesla will go about their EV business...) Let the EV games begin.

Apart for this being a CUV and obviously having a shytty name, I dont get the hate for it. 1. Its a 3 row cute ute made to sell in huge numbers a) Because that is what the consumers want b) Because that is what sells. 2. Its a cute ute. There is nothing any designer COULD do to make cute utes...cute. They are ungodly ugly things by nature. a) either they get to be a box (with a hatchback) b) either they get to be rounded off boxes (with a hatchback) 3. Maybe Cadillac Deville would be a better name for this CUV? With that being said, Cadillac really dug into its past to design the rear 3/4 panel area. I give you late 1960's Cadillac rear window designs 1968 1970 2019 The 2019 looks like a combo of that 1968 and 1970 design rear window... I think it looks the part of a modern soccer mom station wagon. I think it looks OK for what it is and I think it looks good for a Cadillac CUV. No...it will NEVER be a classic Cadillac car, but hey, North Americans want to be able to sit their old fat asses (even if they are not old or fat or both) in their CUVs with ease... You reap what you sow... Dont be complainin' about how crappy lookin' transportation pods have become, because ya'll be buying them by the boat loads, these fancy cute ute vehicles you be buyin' because you be favorin' how you get in and out of them...

Like I said..take a plane. Take a train. But now...you are just trying to FIND a kink in the EV thing. Giving me hypothetical problems...that is why Im giving you hypothetical solutions... And...if you and your spouse WORKED ALL DAY... The BEST thing to do is NOT DRIVE AT ALL... You wouldnt want to endanger the lives of your kids while traveling...battery powered or gasoline powered. Driving while being tired AND on a stressed scheduled is just begging for disaster to strike. There is NEVER a good reason to put you, your loved ones and others in danger just for the sake of making "good time". That is why a plane ride is the way to go if you feel the need to get to where you are going in a limited amount of time. Money problems for taking a plane... You know what? Take a good night sleep and leave in the morning if you really need to drive...EV or not! But stretching out different scenarios to prove me wrong...like I said, in reality, it aint a problem unless you want it to be... And that is fine. It is your opinion for 45 minutes of charge up time too long for you. But in reality, it aint...

You could think its unacceptable...I wont argue with you. I aint here to tell you how to think or how to live your life. You could live your life the way you want to. But in reality. It aint a problem...

I agree with you on this too. I more on the 'lets see what the Joe Public wants' on this EV thing in North America. But, something in the back of my mind tells me that the US will follow suit like the rest of the world sooner or later. Maybe not by governmental banning of ICE cars, because in America, we like our so called freedoms and we certainly do not want big government telling us what to do and meddling with our lives...but by sheer peer pressure. Truer words were never said. ?

Closer to a 4 hour trip...but that 3 hour statement was to make a...point....in a jokingly fashion. But there was a point being made... Point being, when traveling, 4-5-6-7 hours by car. Its exactly THAT...4-5-6-7 hours on the road. If you are in a hurry. Travel by airplane. If you dont want the hassles of stopping to pee, or charging up...travel by train... If you take the bloody time to travel by car...4-5-6-7 hours, you invest 4-5-6--7 hours of your life on the road....45 minutes to pee and/or to charge up/fuel up is a NON-ISSUE! You could make up all kinds of deterrents in your head, in reality, there are none! THAT is the point. Where do you need to go and that quickly for 250 miles that a 45 minute piss stop or charge up would be an issue for you? You are already on the road for 4-5-6-7 hours...obviously an extra 45 minutes to piss, or to charge up aint a big deal... You could make into a big deal deterrent, I suppose. But it really aint!

I dont want that shyte on my windshield. I hardly tolerate GM's wonderful HUD system on my windshield. This is just a big NO WAY!!!

Im one of those people that think the switch to EVs (in some parts of North America) will happen quicker than we think. (places like Alberta or Texas where they make their $$$ with oil, much much later) With that being said, only time will tell what will happen with this EV revolution. There are several factors though that will push this thing through whether Lancaster Penns. natives, Albertans and Texans like it or not. Different countries around the world have already set a date where new ICE vehicles will no longer be able to be sold and eventually banned completely from their roads These countries that have done that, the major car manufacturers of the world all sell their cars there. There is one country in particular that has done this, and its the biggest car market in the world forcing all car makers to abide by this ban because all major world car makers want a piece of that Chinese car selling pie Because all the major world car makers wanting that piece of Chinese car selling pie, it seems that these car makers are shoving EVs down our throats. They kind of have no choice either, because that is where the $$$ are. But...its not ONLY all the major world car makers that are shoving EVs down our throats, but the countries that havent yet banned ICE vehicles yet, its only a matter of time before they also do. So, once again, all world car makers do not really have a choice in the matter... In other words, whether Lancaster Penns. natives, Albertans and Texans want them or not, EVs are the next wave of transportation methods for the masses. Even if it takes 20 years to make up 5% in the US, at least the infrastructure will be there. And the people that have bought EVs, well, there wont be waiting in line to charge up like how it is now because too many people need batteries charged and not enough stations to accomodate. But...there are engineers that are trying to invent cordless charging/charging while driving.. So...maybe all those charging stations might become overkill??? Not for the 20 years to attain 5% market share angle, but because technology evolves and improves. And what if hydrogen becomes a thing?

True. But, a 250 mile road trip is what...3 hour drive? You are speeding doing that trip in 3 hours so you will probably get stopped by the authorities. Where do you need to go and need to do to be driving that fast, bro???!!! SLOW THE ? DOWN!!! With that being said, a 250 mile trip... SCREW THAT!!! Ive got a Bolt...I need to see my cousin in Boston...(for real, I actually DO have an American (Greek) cousin in Boston. He is a pure Bostonian, accent and all!!!) It aint an emergency because Id FLY there. Take a plane... So...an ICE car gets me to Boston in 5 hours. Like in 5 hours flat WITHOUT speeding (well, carefully planned speeding) If Id roll the with the speed limits it would really take me 5 hours and 35-45 minutes...) All the cars that I have ever owned and driven down to Boston, I had enough gas to get there but Id have to gas up soon after arriving in the city. Like in the city...not aroung city limits, but in the city. When I was single, I NEVER stopped, did that drive DIRECT! Ive been to Boston with the family once and been to Toronto (same distance and time as Boston give or take) once and both times, the wife AND/OR the kids MADE ME STOP TWICE...you know, for bathroom breaks and for snacks...a loss of about 30-45 minutes...or an addition to traveling time... So...a 250 mile trip, or a 300 mile trip...in an EV...one DOES have to make a stop for charging JUST before the destination's city's limits to charge up for another 100% so one does not run out of battery...TRUE!!! About 45 minute delay... But as you can see...being married and traveling with the family...I NEVER have been able to do such a trip non-stop anyway...so...FOR ME...MOOT POINT... I have to stop to pee and eat BBQ chips anyway...charging up aint no big deal...and since the charging network is being beefed up, using a Bolt...will not be a problem finding a charging station... But...if Im traveling with my family...why in the hell am I traveling in such a small car? Id take a Tesla Model 3 or Tesla Model S or better yet, the Tesla Model X over the Chevy Bolt for sure...and if that is the case...250 miles could maybe even be done REACHING the 250 mile destination without stopping...but impossible knowing my wife and kids would want to stop to pee anyway!!! All that just to say, when traveling, especially for fun...what is the damned hurry anyway???!!! But even traveling for business, EVs have come along way even in the short time you and I discussed this EV thing 3 years ago...NO EXCUSES NOW... Oh...you can find weakness still, in 2019...but I doubt you will find these weaknesses in 2021...

You are lucky! I never got to meet my grandparents on my dad's side. They past away before he even got married. I met my granddad on my mom's side twice, but he past away in Greece when I was 7 years old. I got to see him when I was 4 years old and 6 years old. I do remeber him at 4 years old and I remember him vivdly at 6. My kids, my dad died before my son was born, he was in his mom's belly. My daughter was 1 year old. Their other granddad died before my wife and I met. My mom past away almost 3 years ago. My daughter remembers her well. But not my son. The other grandma is doing well!!! Forget about great grandparents on both sides!!! That is remarkable Blu!!! I like that!!!

Everyone seems to forget about the charging stations owners of EVs have at home Or do those 43 000 charging points INCLUDE the EV owner's garage? So, technically, if those 43 000 charging stations do not include home charge ports then there are more charging stations than 43 000... And this is where it truly becomes interesting... Because if EV charging stations on public Streets and private businesses make up for 25% of all fueling stations of any kind for only 2% of market share, then that means that the governments and EV makers are indeed getting ready for an all EV market pretty darned soon...so we North Americans are ready to buy and use EVs... Also, another point of view that I thought about, is that to once and for all, eliminate this non-starter/non-issue range anxiety thing that seems to be pushed by the anti-EV movement. The more charging stations there are, the less that argument holds true. So...43 000 for only 2%. But both numbers will grow. Its best to be ahead of the game with charging stations than behind the 8 ball... And...again, charging your EV at home eliminates any negative argument about charging networks...because if you charge at home before leaving your house, you start with a full charge and full driving range until you need to charge up again for another 300 or so miles... 300 miles... Distance between Boston and Montréal equals to approx 307 miles... Distance between NYC and Boston equals to approx 214 miles... Distance between Tornto and Montréal equals to approx 336 miles Distance between San Francisco and Los Angleles equals to approx 383 miles Distance between Los Angeles and Las Vegas equals to approx 270 miles Distance between Dallas and Houston equals to approx 239 miles Interesting indeed. When Ive heard all the anti-EV arguments regarding range and charging stations. Alls I see, now that the charging network is beefing up and all the people involved in the EV world (governments and EV makers and all that) are making all the necessary moves to make the transition to EVs from ICE as smooth as possible, to be ready when GM, Ford, M-B, Volvo, Tesla and all others gives us an onslaught of EVs to choose from, then we will see what Joe Public really wants. Does Joe public want EVs? Or does he want ICE? Because as I see it, there are no more excuses and arguments and discussions... Everything will be in place for an EV transition. A variety of EVs will be offered. A charging network in place. Battery even at 300 miles is a non-issue and that will go up soon enough. Fast charging times at more stations will be coming soon too... But will the people flock to them? Interesting indeed!!!

I dont say this often about convertibles, but Id rather the coupe on this one. I love the coupe. Ever since Lexus showed us the concept about a decade ago. Dont get me wrong, this makes for a very sexy convertible, but I prefer the coupe.

Im not telling you how to write Drew... Its creative writing and I get that. Im not the one to mess with journalism. If I was a head coach of an NFL team or coach of an NHL team, Id have a problem with sports journalists doing creative writing about my team, but obviously this is not what this is. You are not being deceptive. Too strong of a word deceptive is. It is truth you wrote, but its creative truth... I just see it differently. A different truth than what you wrote... #fakenews is a different animal all together. Now, if we had HuckaSands to tell us how SHE sees it, then we could settle this once and for all...

I just regret one thing thaat I said. About the Model S needing a better quality interior. I do not think it needs that at all... Even if Mercedes or Porsche have better interiors and the panel gaps are waaaay better, which they will be, Tesla has them both beat with their computer touch screen and the way they do their updates online. Couple that with Tesla's supercharging network and Mercedes nd Porsche will have a tuff time beating Tesla, not the other way around...UNLESS Mercedes and Porsche duplicate what Tesla does with their computer touch screen...they dont have a chance against Tesla. I wont even mention the charging network Tesla has...but I did. It may need a new body though...to keep it fresh on the outside.