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  1. oldshurst442
    wow...54 000 dollars lost in two months... or 2 months salary gone... I dont care how much money someone's got...THAT is WASTEFUL and STUPID in my opinion. Billionaires the likes of Trump, Gates, Vladimir Putin and Bernie Ecclestone, where those monies get replaced through billions of products sold or...CORRUPTION...I could understand this mindset... But any poor schlep that works for a living....even an idiot 40 year old that makes $500 000 - $600 000 thousand a year is just pissing his money away. That is NOT a knock on a Mercedes product, its an observation on how stupid some humans beings could be. Kudos to Mercedes to sell (LEASE) these things to those people...
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    It must be because of that shot of his. Yes, Im pondering on that idea...since I dissed hard shots two posts up...
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    I know. Like I said, The Tesla story has not been written yet, We both have to wait and see. Listen. I know the Model X is NOT the iPhone 3, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, or iPhone 5...or iPad, whatever iPads are up to...including iPad minis and airs...and Musk may very well not be the suave car salesman Steve Jobs was, but we still have to wait and see, because Tesla is not only about cars, it is about batteries AND recharging infrastructure.
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    Yeah...Id keep Jones too. I think people, including GMs, have their minds clouded on "hardest shot"... Going back to Al Iafrate, sure he scored many times with that shot of his, but I believe, Ray Bourque's precision wrister had more goals... "hardest shot" for me is waaaaay over rated. MAybe its because Chara plays on my team, and while his is THE hardest, it aint the most precise, and maybe THAT is why I think its over rated. But I also believe Jones is better defensively than Weber is.
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    Its a cute little car. Hence why its not my cup of tea. Its cute Its little. Not my style. The Volt is where I am. In Quebec, this will sell very well. I predict better sales than Volt. Better than any other EV also.
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    For Ryan Johansen. Nashville needed a center Blue Jackets needed a defenceman. Both are huge pieces from their former teams filling up huge holes that their future teams need. I believe its a one on one deal. I think its good...good for both teams.
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    Yeah, higher price points. I wanted to specify that, which I failed to do. Higher price points to propel Buick in the higher levels of premium luxury and eliminating the few that cant afford this vehicle and consequently getting a higher status...leaving the few that wanted to own this Envision to drive off either in an Encore or a Chevy...or a Bimmer X1/X3...but its OK...even for Buick, not every garage needs to be filled by a Buick, only the few that want and could afford a luxurious Buick. PS: I hate this cliché: entry level luxury, its an oxymoron that should NOT exist, but sheeple and badge snobs continue to buy into this mess of marketing BS.
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    That is Michigan...part of the old guard. Quebec and Ontarion and Canada in general and California are Tesla friendly. Finland and Sweden and Norway and France and Britain are also Tesla friendly.... France...where the French are also very protective on their own car industry, do indeed help Tesla out.
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    Europe uses different plugs from Nrth America, right? Even different voltage ratings in their household appliances, right? For a hundred years this has been going on, right? I mean, the same LG OLED 55 inch TV in Europe has a different transformer than the one that is US bound, right? I mean, LG finds a way to produce, right? And because Telsa has invested all these BILLIONS in this infrastructure in which some monies were given by some governments to help Telsa...EL K...if you think Mizz Barra has a strong saying to what kind of plug will be used...you got another thing coming... Money talks...bullshyte walks...and Tesla has given a lot for this infrastructure...to create a 'green paradise' Dont forget, everybody seems to be wanting a piece of that green paradise dream as of lately, and Tesla is riding high on those wet dreams...governments are sleeping with Tesla as we speak...
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    Tesla has got the investors....so the capital will be there. Millions of students graduate in the fields of electronics and computers every day across the globe. Engineers of all kinds too. There wont be a shortage for Telsa to choose from. Governments are actually helping Telsa with the recruitment of workers and engineers. Governments are also helping Tesla with the infrastructure... I know Quebec will be investing billions in this... Hydro-Quebec is also working GLOBALLY to standardize plugs, and Tesla is one company that is amongst the companies that give feed backs... And NO, this wont be a Beta/VHS or Blu Ray/HD DVD as world Governments are involved in this process... So...all this is just fear mongering from you folk...
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    That story has not been written yet. It may or may not be as you say, El K. The dot. com bubble burst...but not for everybody. Actually, Facebook has only grown in size since then. Twitter was born after the dot.com bubble went poof. Apple, grew in leaps and bounds... This reminds me a helluva lot of Apple actually. Steve Jobs being an asshole aside, he had an a great ego problem....I see parallels with Musk on this...but I dont want to talk about that... I remember people making fun of Jobs and Apple... "nobody wants a touch screen phone" was what naysayers were sayin'... "Apple, what do they know in making phones?!" were what naysayers were whisperin'... "HA! The iPhone does not even have a copy/paste feature!!!" the naysayers were snickerin'... Copy/paste feature and the lack thereof was a major focal point in their laughter... The naysayers forgot about all the other innovations that Apple brought to the table...which led to the downfall of Blackberry and Apple dethroning Nokia and Motorola in becoming a MAJOR force in the cell phone/smart phone industry...also paving the way for LG and Samsung phones to be major players in this area... Nokia and especially Motorola who have been the pioneers for this industry... Same here...we laugh at Tesla for being novices, yet we are too blind to see what innovations they brought to the table...the way they actually schooled pioneers in the car building industry... Sure...a rookie mistake was made with my partner's situation...yet a simple solution could be made through an internet update on the vehicle... Funny...I remember Rick Wagoner mentioning the 'electrification of the vehicle', yet he never took a page out of Apple or Windows to update your software on your computer device, yet Tesla took this 'elecrification of the automobile' dream...Wagoner's words...and made it a reality... Hyper and Drew and yourself El K, say that Musk may be the downfall of Tesla, unlike how Jobs was with Apple, OK...I could live with that thought process, but...Tesla is here for the long haul...Tesla has a cult following like Apple does, so long as the dreams that they have promised us continue to be produced.
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    Im just copying Drew's opinion. I like the fact that only Premium Group 1& 2 trims are offered for the same reasons Drew states. Pushing Buick higher in the premium luxury market. AWD only... Its probably how vehicles in this price range are bought across this market range. I guess the product planners have done their homework...so who am I to question that move? Which Im not, Im happy they did that.
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    GRRRREAT!!! We FINALLY got to the conclusion to which I alluded from the get go!!! It took 3 pages...but we got there... I must admit, the fix to fix the Pontiac Grand Prix`s master was indeed...WOW!!! Tooo bad he aint a Chicago fan and he is a Detroit fan...Id post a Blackhawk Down movie poster... Or a resident of Washington D.C....Id post an Olympus Has Fallen movie poster. Id prefer the Olympus Has Fallen version as he is of Greek Decent.
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    And of course Duran Duran
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    I also miss good 'ol Canadian Rock from those same early to mid 1980s.
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    I miss early to mid 1980s pop songs.
  17. oldshurst442
    Health and wellness technology? I dont need any kind of tech for my health and wellness... Eat proper foods. Plenty of exercise. And for me to stay the hell away from this vehicle. It creeps me out. Like the colour though.
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    El K....I may have to follow your lead. Any modern Bugatti, starting with the ugly EB110 of the 1990s and the Veyron...do not push any G-Spot buttons for me. The Veyron looks good, and I respect the engineering behind this machine, but unfortunately, I feel nothing for it. I still prefer a Countach centerfold in my room. This new Chiron will probably not move the needle either for me. If...I had a couple of oil fields in Saudi Arabia with a harem of minimum of 1 virgin, 1 slut and 4 milfs fanning me and feeding me grapes, Im sure Id reconsider its status with me, though.
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    This new E-Class has not made a friend out of me... That is all I have to say. Maybe one other thing. I hope they dont fudge the next generation CLS...
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    Cheers to you too CCAP. PS: I asked my partner why in the 'blazes' (yes...pun intended) did he choose a Model S? He said 1. AWD 2. Electric drive 3. Big enough to haul stuff...especially golf bags. 4. Looks good. Not awkward like my car. So he had to zing me...now...I hope his mother$%%# Tesla burns to the ground...
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    Im gonna pour more fuel to this fire Did someone say amateurs building cars? Did someone post a link on a Tesla fire? Alls I got to say is 1.6 liter ecoboost for Ford...since Drew took HONDA window switch fires.:..because Ford has got that covered too. I wont even bother mentioning Ferrari. OOOPS...I just did!!! Feels good to beat a dead horse...in that Surreal and Drew already covered this. I have nothing more of importance to say... One could argue, when do I ever say ANYTHING of importance? That age old question...when will Oldshurst shut his trap? To that I answer....probably never.
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    I naively did not want to believe that...even as far back as when I posted my first response in this thread. Which was October. I defended Sergio when it came to the Viper because I naively thought he could have just closed the door on it when he acquired Chryco. All he did was just green light a dead project on arrival, because in hindsight, its true what you said, some love from Ferrari would have been welcomed... But...when Sergio forced Ferrari to share technology with the other brands, that is when Ferrari people and engineers had a fallout, so maybe, all this blood may not be solely on Sergio's hands, maybe 'tis Ferrari that was not comfortable in sharing tech with a "low class, redneck sports car"... Because..I find it strange that Sergio just green lit a project in which he could have just let die. What did I just say? Let me rephrase that. The Viper was ALREADY dead when Sergio acquired Chryco. Sergio green lit what the Viper team had in store for the next generation Viper....but those plans died when Chryco. went bankrupt. So...Sergio did not have to green light anything....but he did. And THAT is what is sooooooo perplexing to me. Why waste money on a project that WONT bring any money back to you? Fresh from a bankruptcy with more pressing issues for platform sharing than a dead sports car anyway...because the Viper was gone by that time... Why waste money on a project when you know that there wont be a budget for? Why waste money on a project when you know you arent serious with it to begin with....because this Viper really had no major improvements from the last generation because there was no money. I remember Ralph Gilles saying he had to perform miracles with the budget and technology he had to work with... So...good on the Viper team to actually make competition for better technologically advanced machines... So...my question is: Why DID Sergio green light a project when we all know today, he was really not interested in it? I believe he had some interest in it, but Ferrari clashed with him so he said eff it in the end...
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    But the thing is, the old guard doesn't repeat the same mistakes. Any recalls the old guard have to issue have to do with execution of something g they already know how to do-they're cheap instead of ignorant, in other words. Tesla is riding a brutally steep learning curve, not merely because of their propulsion system, but because they truly don't know how to build cars all that well. Perhaps they will eventually if the money and customer goodwill doesn't run out. But as you yourself mentioned, your partner regards the car as a status symbol or appliance moreso than a car. In such a situation it is even more critical for a manufacturer to build something that even a non-gearhead can operate safely. I dont know if I want to agree with this post or disagree. I will however agree with this statement 100% Regarding why my partner bought the Model S? I dont know why? I dont know how he views it. He is not the one to flaunt, so it may not be as a status symbol...however, he did like the fact that I got an Acura...yes...as a badge. His former car was a Subaru Legacy. His wife still has a 2006 GMC Acadia. Runs beautifully and is in no hurry to change it... As an appliance? For sure! His main goal was to get off of oil. I thought he was gonna get a Chevy Volt, he really liked the first generation. He test drove it and all and wanted to wait for the second generation to come out. He did not wait....he pulled the trigger on the Tesla... Why? Because it is not a Chevy? I think Ill ask him on Monday when I see him again. We are closed tomorrow. I dont work Saturday, he does. I work Sunday, he doesnt.
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    That was because M-B screwed the pooch with that merger... SMK...look at how they engineered and sold the Crossfire...YOUR own example... THAT was the kind of crap M-B let happen in their showrooms... BEFORE that...not that Chrysler was a model company for reliability and for quality, but at least their designs WERE class leading and state of the art. Before that, at least Chrysler was spending money in R&D trying to figure out different ways to manufacture cars... Prowler was just an experiment to see how they could use aluminium in mass produced cars and how to manufacture mass produced cars withh aluminium. Cab Forward design was another R&D development program. The LH cars were some of the most spacious and comfortable cars in that era. The cloud cars, the JA platform aka, the Breeze and the Stratus and the Cirrus, never mind the build quality, were also some of the most spacious and comfrtable cars in their class. The merger of equals failed because the German overlords thought they were too good for their American counterpart. The German overlords FAILED to actually use ALL the resources they had at their disposal..THAT would include Auburn Hills engineers and product planners... After the 1980s...where Chryco failed...the 1990s were Chryco's finest in terms of products...and product planning...M-B failed to capture this specialty... And to tell you the truth SMK...M-B has NOT learned from their mistakes with that merger... M-B is just producing vehicles in all kninds of niches hoping they would be succesful in them. Whatever sticks is a huuuuuge success, but whatever fails is a huuuuuuuuge failure. But there are many failures.... Smart cars for one. The R-Class for another.
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    I also know how to drive RWD in snow. I grew up in Montreal. I still live in Montreal. I learned to drive RWD in snow in a 1988 Chevy fullsized 350 cubic inch V8 van. No weight...like at all...at the rear wheels. Oh...only one wheel turning. I guess no posi for me. I dont do RWD...I dont do AWD either. Yeah, my Acura TL is AWD...that is not for snow...that was because I like the car...and the car comes with AWD. Sure, I could have settled for the FWD version....the thing is...I like the 3.7 liter with 305 horsepower... Anyhoo, FWD is what I want in snow. Not RWD. I dont like fishtailing in snow and ice when other cars are around me. I dont like rocking my car back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth just to get out of a parking spot... And up until recently, I did not have to change tires in the winter for snow tires...all season tires were good enough for me. FWD...all the weight...a lot of weight over the drive wheels and all seasons were perfect. Problem is now, Quebec mandates and obliges winter tires. I got my SH-AWD winter tired Acura TL...and I literally never get stuck, nor have to rock my car back and forth back and forth... That is super cool. PS...I never got stuck with FWD either....true, with FWD I had to rock back and forth a couple of times...but it was only a couple of back and forth maonouevres, so it wasnt anything serious either. Unlike RWD to which it seemed like for ever...back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And the tires spinning going ZZZZZZzzzzzzzz. ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz What I might do though....since winter tires are mandatory anyway...and today there is traction control....but traction control is crap to get your self out of snow...I might try a modern RWD car in the snow and see how she feels. Because Im curious to know if modern RWD cars behave the same way as a RWD fullsized V8 van in the winter... OH...I also remember helping to push my dad out of very slippery spots with his RWD 1974 and 1979 Impalas...not much fondness there either with RWD...
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