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@David I LOVE that Riviera. Detroit Speed does resto-mods the right way!!! An awesome job they did. Kike they always do. I also love that many many Oldsmobiles are still available for purchase in pristine condition even after 20 years have gone since its death. Its nice to know that plenty of folk still care for the brand enough to keep Oldsmobile alive in our hearts and minds.

Pennsylvania is home to Hershey – the chocolate capital of the world. Philadelphia Zoo is the first zoo in the United States. The Great Dane is the official state dog in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania’s Rockville Bridge is the world’s longest stone arch railroad bridge. Kennett Square in Pennsylvania is the mushroom capital of the world. Indiana county is the Christmas tree capital of the world. Nazareth is the birthplace of Martin Guitars. The Moravian Pottery and tiles operate as a working museum. Philadelphia is the birthplace of the cheesesteak sandwich. ********************************************** #2. I believe that. Philadelphia fans of ANY pro sport they cheer for are ANIMALS. #7. Jesus Christ...of Nazareth coincidentally...was also um...born in Nazareth. You know...of Judeo-Christian fame. Quite honestly, Ive NEVER heard of this fella named Mr. Guitars. Mr. Martin Guitars. #9 I also thought that Philadelphia Cream Cheese came from Philly. Dont forget Rocky Balboa. The Italian Stallion. Hey...badda boom badda bing!

To be fair... you engaged by reacting. If you didnt want any engagement and you disagreed, you should have...i-g-n-o-r-e-d But you did not. You simply put ME on the spot and called ME out by face-palming me. Then you tell me its nothing personal. Great. I potentially said something...stupid...according to you. Told me so BY reacting with the voting system...tell me its nothing personal. And you got finicky when I asked why... You tell me to ignore the whole thing by telling me its nothing personal because what I said was beneath you...but you STILL feel the need to...call me out. So...Im supposed to ignore you? Somehow? Maybe, if you didnt want ME prying in asking you what it might have been said that you obviuosly felt the need to facepalm... I put me foot in my mouth with @David. He didnt faceplam or nothin'. Answered me in kind. You however, are still at it. I...even posted a funny so we could get on with our lives. But nope. Call me out again to tell me that I should be satisfied with said response and that I want to argue with myself. Well...I AM an only child. I tend to do that ALL the time. Its fun to see other people's reactions. Yup...they faceplam me all the time for that. But yeah... Thank-you for being a friend...

Im not a truck guy. I have just recently started accepting them and adoring them. But I adore them as muscle cars. I LOVE the go fast, go anywhere, insane versions of those full sized pick-up trucks. You know....the Raptor and TRX versions. I still wouldnt consider a pick-up truck UNLESS I was buying a Raptor or TRX. Oh...yes I would most DEFINETELY own a Raptor or TRX. But a regular ole' pick-up. Not a chance. Therefore, ICE 1500 or EV 1500 or the 2500 versions of those regular 'ole pick-ups still dont do a bloody thing for me. I do like the idea of a range extender EV truck using a gasoline engine to help out with the lack of an EV infrastrucutre for someone that needs it. I question though how popular an EV extender pick-up will actually BE in places like Texas or Alberta. Something tells me, you'll have to pry their cold dead hands away from an ICE powered truck before any of 'em will own anything resembling an EV. These good 'ole boys would rather have a 160CC Honda lawn mower engine powered full sized 2500 mudder than anything with a battery...me assumes.

@Drew Dowdell Ill one up you... @surreal1272 first reaction @oldshurst442 reaction @surreal1272 second reaction @oldshurst442 second reaction Hopefully we could could to this outcome I probably got my dumb hat on today. I do not get it. I understand the whole 45 degree latitude thing. Montreal is above this line. Closer to the North Pole....yada yada yada. I dont get the connection. Im missing something. Please 'splain to me...

To be more precise, BECAUSE I havent had an option to machine the rotors since the late 1990s, I knew that my rotors were in need of change and so I was the one to tell the Acura technician to change my rotors for new ones. The mechanic just confirmed what I already told them that the rotors...needed to be changed and so they complied.

Seriuosly NOT!!! YOU called me out by saying that I called you out. I didnt. YOU reacted to something I said. Facepalmed. I didnt ask anything of you. I asked if you wanted to elaborate, you didnt, but you acted like a child by saying that I called you out. I didnt. I then just reciprocated your "nothing personal" bullshyte of when someone says or does something negtive and responds as nothing personal.... Dude, lighten up... Hopefully you dont respond back to this post and you...just move on....

Im not calling you out. But the facepalm thing is quite dumb. THAT is me calling you out. Nothing personal.... Choose NOT to engage, your thang. But YOUR thang remains quite dumb. Nothing personal, Just something I dont agree with... Because pressing on the upvote thing with a faceplam or negative emogi WITOUHT explaining is something that I dont agree with... Again, nothing personal... Did you pick up on the sarcasm of the "nothing personal" thing when someone says that while passively agreesively insinuating a negtive?

I LOVE glass roofs. I feel less clausterphobic. I do have a slight case of clausterphobia I suspect. Nothing debilitiating though. I have a slight light sensitivity too. But I have shyte brown eyes. But the sun sometimes pierces through my brain through my eyes. Its worse in the sunny winter days as the snow and ice reflects the sun rays back up. I wear sunglasses too. Not during cloudy days though.

I didnt know. I would like to apologize if my question came out as arrogant or stupid or anything negative. I didnt mean to sound like a dumb shyte. But I dont know how a person with skin cancer deals with UVA and UVB sunlight rays as sunlight is pretty much inescapable in the daytime. I took your concern seriously, but I couldnt compute the message and the necessary solutions. And this is why I couldnt compute what @David was saying because I thought that automotive windows already blocked UVA and UVB rays and I was assuming that glass roofs were built that way as well. I wasnt cynical about what David was bringing up, was just not understanding how someone that may have skin cancer issues has to deal with such a thing. And seeing this as a possible solution... I didnt even THINK about that.... I dont think RAM will oversee such a thing, however, in the video, the presenter nor the vehicle itself suggests that a screen will be available to cover the windowed roof. I personally dont see skin cancer as a minor thing in our society. However, I do take it for granted that I dont have such an issue. I take MANY things for granted, many HEALTH oriented things for granted because I dont suffer, my wife and kids dont suffer, from ANY kind of health problems. So its easy to be nonchalant about health issues. However, I have empathy for those suffering with health. Ive lost a father to colon cancer that went general. Plus...Im human after all. Those pesky human feelings make me empathize for our fellow man. Yes. Very valid point. Again. Im very sorry for my foot in mouth. Like I said, I take it for granted that I, for now, dont have any health issues. So details like this, I will miss and not understand so well.

Im not calling you out. Im asking a question to @David because he raised a concern that I dont understand. I also raised a concern that you evidently dont understand or agree with my rant. I asked David to set me straight. You arent asking me to set anything straight, however I am asking you what it is you dont agree with. Is it the comment that the concept truck is vaporware? I found out why that may be. Is it the comment/rant about cow hide and plant based alternative materials? Is it the caveman thing that caveman ate animals and turned their hides into clothing? Is it the last thing I said to which I stated Im not a right wing nutter or left wing whack and that nonsense snowflake shyte has got to stop because sooner or later, we will come to the conclusion that breathing air and drinking water will cause concern for the planet and will look to alternative ways of breathing and drinking? My guess is the last part... Its sarcastic in nature MEANT to cause controversy. But yeah.

Huh... I never questioned the mechanics who told me I need to change the rotors. I havent witnessed any machined rotors since my dad's 1994 Grand Am waaay back in 1998 or something. I dont think I machined my Alero's rotors and I certainly havent machined my Acura's. I needed to change the rears in the fall. I never asked for machining and I never thought to ask why they didnt offer me that option. Now, I have learned why without asking. Cool!

Just thinking aloud. People with skin cancer, do they go outside at all? Like ever? If people that are susceptible to skin cancer and live in strong sunlight states like Florida and California, maybe a window roofed vehicle is the least of their cancer related problems and maybe, these folk should take up residence in less sunny areas. Not to sound cruel or anything, but I dont comprehend the issue you are trying to raise here. @surreal1272 facepalmed me for the same reasons Im asking a qusetion here. I am open to discussion to explain what it is that made ANYONE facepalm my rant. Just friendly converstaion I want to partake in.

I commented on the other thread about the RAM 1500 EV being vaporware. But now with the last 2 posts I see what is going on behind the curtains... Its a fun rant I did. Bitchin' and whining about several things about life and how we choose to live it all because of a RAM EV video. I find connections and LOVE to rant... The usual shyte I do!

Another thing Although the 'roomba' style robot thingy to drive itself under the truck to find itself the charging point to charge the vehicle sounds neat and all, I think its a waste of energy trying to engineer such a thing and consequently, a waste of money for the developpers to do this and a waste of money for the end user as such a thing will be passed on to the end user JUST to cater to our (human) lazy ways. Talk about shyte that is not good for the environment... More useless technology that requires useless energy use to manufacture and build and wasted materials to produce such a shytty thing. Sure, as a driver of such a vehicle, we park it in our garage and a robot charges our vehicle without ANY intervention on the user's part. Is it sooooo phoquing hard and time consuming to plug the bloody thing in? The answer is a big fat NO. If we want to save the phoquing planet from being poisoned and eventually killing us, then we MUST end OUR finicky, princess-y ways of living our phgoquing lives. Using cow hide as seat materials and jackets is NOT detrimental to the planet. Engineering useless tech like this 'roomba' charging robot, however, is!!!

cool video. cool truck. but when the concept truck becomes functional to actually show us what the crazy concepts shown to us could do, the RAM 1500EV remains vaporware. I know I said Stellantis (PSA Group) has been thinking about and engineering EV platforms for quite some time and are actually succesful in Europe selling them and we shouldnt be surprised by such a sudden reveal of a RAM 1500 EV but...there was nothing functional on this truck other than the easy mock-up details of a pass through from the bed to the frunk and the seats on rails. But...even with that, the seats were stationary and the dude couldnt get in and out of the driver's seat very convincingly. He wasnt gracefull and he looked awkward. OK...maybe all the features talked about were actually functional but because there was like only 1 or 2 of these in existance, maybe Stellantis didnt want nothing to break... I dont doubt however, that the features both physical and electrical will be offered and I do think the STLA platform and battery tech is fleshed out and minor tuning will be made and will be available for production soon. One thing though, since when using cow hide has now being considered as wasteful and NOT earth friendly and not recycable and not environmentally friendly? Using plant based materials such as the apple by-product material for the seats requires just as much farming land as farming cows if we are going to mass produce plants to re-engineer them to become materials to use as clothes or seats... Also, greenhouses to produce plants year round in certain areas of the planet require energy... ALSO, eating cows and using their hide as clothes has got to be the most basic way of re-using what we eat INTO clothes. Caveman been doing THAT for THOUSANDS of years. Im not some sort of far right nutter or a left wing snowflake, Im just a normal phoquing human being using my phoquing noggin the way humans NEED to use their phoquing noggin but this ultra woke shyte has GOT to stop. We are going overboard in over-thinking things to the point that eventually we will find fault in breathing air and drinking water...

Quite honestly, the EQS (whatever number), the one that I posted to make fun of, doesnt really look all that bad. I dont have a problem with it, really. Its just that its design language is from the 1990s. A design language that is 30 years old. That would be my beef with it. Not because it looks like a used bar of soap. ALL cars from the 1990s look like a used bar of soap. And some cars of today too.

And mind you, the S Class works JUST as good... So...moot point. Right?

True... But there is the funny little thing I did and showcase an evolution of various E Class generations starting with the first one as a new bar of soap and through the generations unto the "S" Class EV evolving into used bar of soaps. The funniest of all, is that the EQS's roof line MATCHES that used bar of soap. My post was never meant to discredit him. My post was to make fun of the EQS's inspiration of used bar of soaps. Noticed I didnt address him on anything other than just showcase used bar of soaps and E Class Mercedes cars over the years? Nothing more, nothing less.

I...beg to differ

Several reasons for that. Ideal economies of scale have not been reached yet with this vehicle. Remember, this vehicle came out in 2020. Its one of the first EVs to come out on the MEB platform. Its a tad higher than the Tiguan, yes, but amortization costs are higher on this model because it is one of the first models to come out... Another reason is that the ID 4 is a tad more upscale model than the Tiguan. Why? To bring in more money to finance electrification... The ID 7 comes 3 years later after the launch of the ID 4. VW is the #1 EV sales leader in Europe. The Tiguan starts @ 28 000 and ends @ 38 000. The ID 4 starts @ 38 000. The mid level ID 4s are @ 43 000-48 000. Ends @ 51 000 The Arteon starts @ 44 000 and ends at 51 000. IMO, the ID 7 will comfortably start at 45 000 and the mid level offerings will probably be @ 55 000 and more. The Atlas, a way bigger CUV starts @ 38 000 but...the price swells to 53 000. The Atlas acts like the Passat in that VW uses it to sell it to the masses as a cheap alternative to mid level luxury for people that think they are getting mid level luxury and for the people that want to fully exercise their mid level luxury offering could option the Atlas out to 53 000. However with all that, I think that is as close to price parity as we could get if the ID 7 starts the way I said it will. And there is no reason to doubt. VW has achieved economies of scale with their EVs. VW is NOT Tesla... I didnt mention Ford for that exact reason. But, Ford's Lightning is optioned like an equivalent ICE F150. Problem is that Ford FORCES you to buy the Lightning with those options with that price tag so Ford could recoup the EV development dollars. Ford as of yet hasnt got any other models on any other platforms to help with economies of scale. The Mach-E is on one platform and no other EV is made on it yet and the F150 Lightning is on another platform and no other model is used on it yet. I dont know how Rivian is implicated with the F150 Lightning. If Rivian is actually implicated at all. GM is methodically releasing vehicles on Ultium. GM is also selling these EVs in China. GM is achieving economies of scale. GM WILL release the Equinox EV @ 30 000. No reason to believe they wont. GM also said that the Corvette C8 will be released BELOW 60 000 and the C8 WAS released BELOW 60 000 and for 2 years the MSRP for the C8 STAYED below 60 000. This year, the starting price for the C8 went slightly above... There is no reason to doubt GM and their stating of a starting price of around 30 000 for the Equinox EV. Ive said this 3-4 years ago. When Tesla was tooting an affordable EV and they didnt deliver, I said the ONLY OEMS that COULD achieve that WOULD be VW, GM, Toyota and perhaps Ford. This is what I said and this is what I will continue to say. IF Toyota gets serious about EVs and Ford STOPS their quality control problems. But VW and GM have got this in the bag. No problem!

There are several things that peaked my interest with this car 1. 435 mile range 2. sedan to rival Tesla Model 3 and Model S. Especially the sedan part. 3. 116.9 inch wheelbase with an overall length of 195 inches. 4. GLOBAL car. American market. European market. Chinese and probably elsewhere in the Asian market. Economies of scale on a global level. 5. MEB platform based. Several EVs are built on this platform already. Economies of scale on a platform level. 6. Reasons #3 & #4 makes me assume that the ID 7 will be more or less in the same price range as an equivalent ICE car. a mid level offering and there is no reason to believe that it will be more expensive to buy than what a current Passat (sans rebates because Passat was going away) or Arteon. But everything to believe that it WILL cost as much as ICE equivalents. The idea of EVs being expensive holds no longer any truth. Lets not forget that Chevrolet's Equinox EV per Chevrolet's website will be about 30 000 for the 1LT. With 300 mile range. The ICE Equinox 1LT is 29 000. Price parity between ICE and EV for VW, GM and even perhaps Stellantis (in Europe) is 99% achieved for 2023.

PSA Group has been serious about electrification for quite some time it seems, and its paying off right about now. PSA Group and Dodge SRT engineering, when SRT engineering was announced that will help to engineer to electrify Chryco and Dodge and we in North America feared that meant that SRT engineering was disbanded... Well...as I assumed back then, SRT engineering went to work IMMEDIATELY to electrify the RAM and NOBODY know a thing about it and when Stellantis announces an EV RAM, we in North America are all in shock. But we shouldnt be. PSA Group has been on the electrification program for quite some time and its paying off dividends right now.

I dont know anything about Stellantis EVs. I dont think Stellantis EVs could be THAT bad since in Europe, Stellantis EVs have surpassed Tesla sales. I read the report over the summer. https://insideevs.com/news/602158/stellantis-overtakes-tesla-europe-ev-sales-targets-top-spot/ Now, I know that sales do NOT equal quality, but...I DO know that Tesla has had a feverish, zombie-like cult following, here AND in Europe and to have former PSA Group automobiles (Peugeot and Citroen mainly) pass Tesla and ALSO give VW EVs a run for their money for the top sales...may not mean that Stellantis has THE best EVs, but they couldnt be THAT bad either. Stellantis EVs at most, we could say, are competitive with what is out there. One thing is 100% certain. Is that in Europe, there is a very very greater amount of EV offerings than what we have here in North America... I was googling...and I find it very very...VERY interesting that in 2018, PSA Group was already announcing that PSA Group would have just 2 platforms for EVs going forward... https://www.carlist.my/news/psa-group-to-have-only-two-platforms-fully-electrified-product-range-by-2025-64646/64646/