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18 minutes to 80% is pretty good. That would be what(?) 280 miles? That would be sufficient to go back home wherever home would be anywheres in the continental united states OF america, ummm...almost. obviuosly Im being sarcastic about the going home anywheres in the us with a gasoline tank of 280 miles. But I AM being serious in saying that 18 minutes for 280 miles is not detrimental for anybody wanting to buy an EV and using said EV for road trips. Even if that means traveling from the mid-west to death valley... Im sure right now in trump's/maga's vision of utopia where charging stations for EVs are wanting to be limited and existing charging stations to be exterminated. (dramatic statements all around for sure...but just doing it to prove a point that range anxiety was a hoax as far back as even 6 years ago...)

10%-100% giving you almost 320 miles and out of curiosity, how long did it take to charge up?

The inline 6 in these are insanely good. I dont get why Toyo fanboys didnt appreciate this engine. Its everything they ever wanted in a Supra. A relatively light inline 6 that makes great stock power but is tune-able and hotrod-able to make INSANE but reliable horsepower with ease. Im a big fan of both BMW and Toyota version's style. Long hood/short deck styling is spot on and both cars have a unique look to them. The BMW looks like an evolution of past Z4s and the newest generations were good looking cars. The 1st gen no so much but that was also 20 plus years ago. The Supra has an acquired taste look about it, but BECAUSE it looks like no other car on the road, past or present, I LOVE it. Especially in today's world full of shytty CUVs/SUVs and dull retro muscle cars. Yeah sure, I die on the Challenger Hellcat hill and I fight alongside my confreres Mustang and Camaro on that hill, one has to admit that the muscle car retro looks is waaaaaaay past the expiration date. And what @Drew Dowdell said. Fantastic drivers. Sporty and fun. Not much that is offered today could be said that is sporty and fun. Honda Civic Si and its Acura brother. Toyota Corolla GR. What else is there really?

While there are some folk up here with lifted trucks and Jeeps, its not to the extent of that stupidity. But I also think that Quebec has laws that prevents owners to have the tires protrude the wheel wells. The vehicle above may not be street legal in Quebec, I dont think. And Ill agree with you 100% with your bitchin' here. The article talks about downsized engines, but does not mention not even ONE downsized turbocharged engine that has problems... Im sure they do, but the article does not mention any. What the article DOES mention though are GM's V8s, Toyota's twin turbo'd V6s, and Ford's ecoboosted engines, and I assume they want to bitch about the 1.5 liter and the 2.0 ecoboost... but dont mention what ecoboost engines are a problem. The 1.6 liter ecoboost had fire issues, but those were fixed. The 1.6 was reliable... The 2.7 and 3.5 V6s were all reliable. The early 3.5s had teething problems but were fixed. What the article REALLY focuses on though are the THIN oils manufacturers WANT to use. For fuel savings. I personally dont think downsized 4 cylinder engines are a problem. MOST of them are quite reliable. Again, with proper maintenance. But as with the article states, thin oils probably dont lubricate enough and well...problems... The article states that even with thicker oils, that only masks the problem and then uses GM's newest gen 6.2 liter V8 to use as an example. Well...a 6.2 liter V8 from GM was not exactly downsized. It was upsized from the 5.7 liter LS1 and 6.0 liter LS2 from 20 years ago. If Toyota and GM did shytty manufacturing on their engines lately, THAT has NOTHING to do downsized 4 cylinder turbo'd ones... If Honda done phoqued up with their 1.6 liter turbo 4 because of headgasket issues, well...Honda done phoqued up with their headgaskets. Its NOT a downsized problem issue. Its a manufacturing issue. Like the title suggest: Manufacturing shortcuts and tighter tolerances compromise reliability across major brands. But NOT how the take-away points out Key Points Modern engines face high failure rates, prompting massive recalls from major automakers. Downsizing, turbochargers, and thin oils increase engine stress and vulnerability to defects. Automakers need to prioritize durability over marginal efficiency gains. Its NOT about downsizing and turbo-charging. It IS about thin oils and manufacturing short cuts...

My cousin from Boston is a stout republican. Not a trumpster. But will NOT vote democrat. He was one of those morons that didnt vote last year, but I digress. He was a dentist. He is retired now. Went to dentistry school here in Montreal. McGill University. Like my daughter. Didnt think of that before... Im digressing again... He stayed with our aunt in common. My dad's and his mom's sister. Point being, he lived in Canada while going to school in Canada where tuition is not as expensive as in the u.s. and is SUBSIDIZED with SOCIALISMS governmental helps and hence why he did not go to Hahvehd or some other highfalutin massholecheussetts school system and came to get his edumacation in Frenchie-land Quebec Canada at affordable McGill prices. (sarcasm for all the shytty republicans including my cousin) Also...while his mom did not see Medicare up here in Canada because when she left for Boston, Canada didnt have Medicare just yet, HE saw Medicare in action. He took his/my aunt to doctors appointments and hospitals and all that. He saw when I was a baby and young kid get all the hospital care a child needs with no problems. Come income tax time, he saw what his/my aunt pay in income tax. He helped her do her taxes... I remember the discussions he had with my dad/his uncle regarding Medicare... He was against from then as a young adult. Well...his sister has epilepsy and his mom and dad had indebted themselves silly because insurance was steep. His mom/my auntie eventually got diabetes 30 years ago, and she went blind. The insurances they had all dropped them. His dad passes away but he took care of his sister and mom. But that also meant that their home was not only mortgaged 2 or 3 times before my auntie went blind, but when the insurances dropped them, he had to re-mortgage the family house an additional 2 or 3 times.... And yup...he didnt want Medicare then also. Called it socialist communist. Still to THIS day...he does not want Medicare. He wasnt a fan of Obama... But he aint racist though. He is just a stupid stupid stupid person with a dentistry degree. From Montreal. Born and raised in a city where Hahvehd exists... Point of the story: Yeah...american insurances are evil. My family in Boston had to indebt themselves silly because american insurances are evil.

I betchoo that most of Luigi's supporters cheering him on were females. The guy is a very well dressed and groomed individual. He is also kinda good looking too. Some girls like that kinda thing in a guy. Plus the whole murder thing and he is the bad boy some of them crave to tame. (maybe...what the hell do I know???!!!) Well...he does know what looks good on him at least. Knows what works for him. If nothing else, he does not dress like a slob and look like a bum. Better to look good than to feel good, I guess. Which brings up his mental well being... Perhaps, a loved one may have gotten their insurance claim denied, or their policy terminated and he vowed revenge on the next insurance CEO suit he observed... "Let them eat cake" kinda thing and with a "off with her head" result. Im indifferent to murders like this one. People gonna snap when injustices are prevalent. People revolt... Maybe this CEO was a sweet man and his insurance company he represented and worked for accomplished the tasks of angels. Or maybe not. All I know is that human beings are supposed to have 2 eyebrows...

Well...I do not know about all that... Its easy for me to hate on ANYTHING american right now. As you guys know... But I will give praise where praise is due. u.s. airliners are amongst the safest of all airliners in the world. Maybe not THE safest but BECAUSE the FAA and the NTSB are quite strict and those entities are BASED in the us, american based airliners COMPLY. And to be fair, the AMOUNT of americans flying for coast to coast daily, INCLUDING ALL the professional sports teams that fly coast to coast, there isnt ANY incidents. This year was an anomaly. Quite a few of them incidents did happen. Most of that had to do with trump firing air traffic controllers and the like all in the name of musk's doge bullshyte. Delta had a couple of questionable incidents and I get it... But all in all, the airplane industry in the u.s.(except for maybe Boeing the last 15 years and doge) is the ONE industry where money does NOT come before safety and human lives...

Canada's waterbomber fleet These guys Manitoba's fleet is 40 years old While Quebec's youngest fleet is also at 40 years old while its oldest is 53 years old. Spain, Greece and France also have the same age range as Quebec's. The older version which is the CL-215, is 50 years plus in service for all that use it. They are still flying. The next gen CL 415 is 30-40 years in service for all fleet users. Canadair/Bombardier has sold the license to Viking and they are currently working on updating the airplane. It is called the CL 515. European users are desperately wanting to replace their fleets. Deliveries of the new CL 515 is said to be in early 2026. With the water bombers, its not just cycles that put pressure on the sheet metal for metal fatigue. Its the weight of the water itself taking off from a lake. But mostly, when the water gets released. HUGE amounts of pressure stresses the structure when the water is released and all that weight that is released instantly and is no more.

Yes and ummmmm...no. Yes. Metal fatigue is a very real thing in aviation. Its more about how many times the sheet metal has expanded and contracted under stress rather than the age of the airplane itself. 10 years is somewhat too young for an airplane to be retired as airplanes are engineered fly double and even triple that age. Unless of course the airplane in question has taken off, flown and landed enough times that would equal its maximum lifespan in 10 years. This latest accident, UPS had a 34 year old McDonnel-Douglas MD-11 flying around. Now...at 34 years of age, this airplane should been of concern... yes. Like I said, airplanes' lifespans reach 30 years. Sometimes more than that if maintenance is done properly and rigorously. Using google and Wikipedia, if fact, 2 months prior, the airplane in question HAD been grounded for 6 weeks because cracks were found in the fuel tanks. Corrosion was also found in the structural beams in its fuselage. Repairs were made. However, with airplanes, age is not a criteria for maintenance. But hours of flight and "cycles". A cycle is 1 take-off and 1 landing sequence. The airplane had logged 21000 and change cycles and the maintenance threshold for what had ultimately failed in the airplane was not due until 28 000 and 29 000 cycles. Now...at 34 years old, maybe more vigilance was needed... This is how the airplane safety industry works. It takes an accident to amend and/or instate new safety regulations. Maybe with this accident, NTSB will implement an age criteria too alongside flight hours and cycles. At age 30 and a more rigorous inspection is to happen and not rely solely on cycles and flight hours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_2976 The aircraft, N259UP, was a 34-year-old McDonnell Douglas MD-11F with manufacturer serial number 48417. The aircraft was first delivered to Thai Airways International in 1991 with the registration HS-TME,[7] after which it was converted to a cargo aircraft and delivered to UPS Airlines in 2006. It had flown 21,043 cycles and for about 92,992 hours,[8] and was equipped with three General Electric CF6-80C2D1F engines.[9][10][11] The last visual inspections of the left pylon aft mount were performed in October 2021. More rigorous "Special Detailed Inspections" for the mount lugs and wing clevis were not yet due, as the aircraft's 21,043 accumulated cycles were well below the 28,000 and 29,200 cycle thresholds required for those checks. Two months before the crash, it had been grounded for six weeks to repair a cracked fuel tank, and corrosion was later found along two structural beams in the fuselage. The aircraft re-entered service a few weeks before the crash.[12]

Happy Birthday!!! Cheers!!!

Yes. Ferrari was always a company selling towards the top tier rich. I am not sure about Porsche's marketing after 1945, but I do know that Porsche wanted to go up market, really up market, to sell to the rich in the late 1990s. Rolex watches were always expensive. But not always being a chic jewellery accessory. Rolex watches were expensive time pieces because they were highly precise time pieces meant for professions that required time pieces that were precise in time telling. Also, Rolexes were also engineered to be tough and not break in those job environments. Therefore the high price tags of them were because the high standard of engineering that went into them. The value of the brand went up because of the people that bought them praised them. It was after the quartz movement of the 1960s and 1970s that Rolex needed to re-invent themselves as battery powered watches were MORE precise ate their lunch. So...like many other "swiss" automatic watch makers launched their new image as luxury time pieces. It was easy for Rolex to do as Rolex was coveted as a great engineered watch to begin with. Like I said...its a boys club that they want to be known as and bought by (rich) people that have bought into that boys club mentality. It aint for you or for @ccap41. Even if you or @ccap41 had the money, its obvious that you guys have not fallen for this marketing gimmick. Its barely for me either. 1. I cant afford Ferraris, Porsches or Rolexes. 2. I do not want to be in a Porsche Boys club. I like Porsches and all, but Im not in their camp. Not because of the boys club marketing schemes. Its just that I am not a rabid Porsche guy fanatic. 3. If I had 1% money, I am not sure Id be a Ferrari guy either. After deep thought, I am more of a Ferrari guy than I am a Porsche guy. But maybe not enough for me to fall for this kind of sales scheme either. 4. Rolex... I do like a Rolex. But I am not one to boast about what kind of time piece Im wearing. So...nix me on that club as well. 5. It looks like I am aligned with you and @ccap41's take on this, but with me, I shrug it off. I see why the companies want to go down this road. And I see why there are some people...rich people...that do not mind giving their monies away to these companies. And at the end of the day, its what makes them happy and superior to the rest of us as we do not have the time or money or will to buy into any of this. And kudos for them for buying into that lifestyle. At the end of the day, whether we are talking about Ferrari or Porsche or Rolex, some of their product, past and present, have been REALLY REALLY EXCELLENT product. Whether we are talking about looks and style or engineering and technology, all 3 have styled and engineered awesomeness. We could talk about their products that were failures, but wouldnt that signal some sort of sour grapes analogy on our part? Its a company's right to mold their brand image as they wish. Whether we agree to it as individuals is irrelevant. What is relevant though is how collectively we ALL feel about it. In Ferraris case its a huge success. Porsche and Rolex have to work on it just a tad more. But I feels its successful. If there is a downfall for Porsche, I think it has more to do with their decisions to being a sports car maker ALONGSIDE being a (rich) family grocery getter/soccer mom SUV maker. The failure of having two opposing identities is killing Porsche. And it is a double edged sword. On the one hand, if not for the SUVs, Porsche would have been gone by the early 2000s. The inevitable was prolonged? Rolex... Too many boutique time piece makers have propped up in the last 15 years that took their place in some areas of the really expensive realm. Quartz time pieces keep on being a nuisance to them. This time around its the fashion watch trend. The name brand watch sellers like Michael Korrs and Hugo Boss and even Porsche that have taken some of Rolexes market share. The advent of smart watches also hurts them. So they decided to change it up in the sales realm. Are there enough Rolex worshippers out there that will buy cheaper Rolexes or older models just to get that one highly anticipated limited edition time piece? Well...although watches are strictly fashion devices today, there are more than enough fashionable time pieces around for people to by-pass Rolex fandom. Some have their own unique look to them and are sought after and some just emulate Rolex but watch brand snobs are too few today so Rolex has a steep hill to climb because most people that wear watches dont give a shyte what kind of watch you wear. Unlike cars, car snobbery actually still exits... Hence why Ferrari is still king of the douchiness and going on strong. Stronger than ever Id say.

Yeah...Rolex too. *sigh* I am not enraged by this kind of business model, though. I understand the reasons as to why some brands go for this. If the marketing and the sales tactic itself is done correctly, it ensures that the brand is viewed as prestigious and in turn desirable and the limited object that is sold is therefore rare and exclusive. Which in turn makes more money than brain folk think they have an object that nobody can have and makes those that do not have it wish that they did have it which in turn creates a must obtain it before the other guy obtains it. Ferrari has perfected this formula. No matter what limited car they come out with next, anybody with some money and clout and obviously more money than brains will always feel like they need to own the next big thing Ferrari. Ferrari has been doing this since forever. Porsche and Rolex only figured this out recently. They have some bugs to work out with their marketing though. Ferrari's marketing is unbelievably excellent in preserving the prestige it has created for itself. The question of the the sales tactic itself? Well... its a private club that the company wants to create for itself. And that is all that it is. The company wants to control who is to own their product. The company protects their image this way. At least in theory. It also protects the current club members ensuring that if they want to depart with their older classics, they will get top dollar for their purchase to buy the latest new desired product, instead of the top dollar money going to scalpers of you will... This also prevents depreciation of the older product, increases desirability for the older product AND the newer product. It ensures that the older club members continuously buy newer more expensive product ensuring the company have future sales of future newer products. Creating desirability and creating new members to join that so called exclusive club. Does this create brand loyalty? That is the hope. But it does create, if done correctly, brand desirability and prestige.

This better sell for Porsche because it will be lights out in Stuttgart. US tariffs are messing up with their sales in the US. EV sales have also stalled in China. On top of that, some buyers of their real cars, the sports cars like the 911, are frustrated with Porsche's exclusive sales tactics of their dealership network that force would be buyers of limited edition 911s to buy their CUVs and SUVs before being awarded to own a limited edition 911. I guess I was wrong. I said that nobody complains about Porsche's sales tactics that emulate Ferrari's tactics like they bitch about Ferrari. Well...only auto journalists, youtubers and a handful of internet posers bitch about Ferrari. These guys do not bitch about Porsche. However, Ferrari owners comply with Ferrari's demands. It looks like Porsche would be owners are talking with their wallets. Ferrari does not produce Ferraris by the boatload and THAT is why that tactic works. Porsche builds all the 911s they can sell making a 911 not that rare to begin with. Ferraris are rare even though Ferrari sells more vehicles today than they EVER had. Ferraris are more or less exclusive. But I wonder, what will the US automobile market will look like when average americans wont be able to buy bread let alone 50 000 usd Porsches and Genesis vehicles?

Yes. I got it. Thank you! Apparently, I do NOT know how to open up a zip file. I know how to open up a zipper... But when it pertains to zip files.... I am like this guy!!!

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Europeans have for a long time, used concrete to build their homes. Not just the foundations that we do here in North America, but the whole house. Dare I say for thousands of years? But even in modern times, Europe (Greece as the next sentences is anecdotal) has used concrete for their foundations and walls as long as I remember going back to the late 1970s. The concrete is bare inside and out as I recall. Maybe today they paint? And these concrete homes are not mansions for rich peoples, but homes for everyday peoples. I dont mind concrete for the whole house. If I was living in Europe that is. Here in North America I prefer my wood framed and drywall homes. In a modern mansion? Concrete? Id say maybe. Depending on how the home is styled I guess. But I dont like big mansions either though. I find huge homes useless and lifeless. I would have a huuuuuuuuge garage though. And the garage would be fully concrete. So there is that. I grew up with a mother that hated colour in her home. White walls. White appliances. White dishes. But flower patterned sofas and chairs. French Provincial style on top of that. And flowers everywhere. The colour in our home came from real plants. I hate white walls. I hate flowers in the house and I LOATHE French Provincial anything and everything... I hate grey on anything. Especially cars. But my basement walls where my TV resides, the colour of the walls are dark grey where the TV is and the other three sides are a lighter shade of grey. I hate grey rainy weather. Grey is such a depressing colour. Black on walls? Ill pass. But as an accent somewhere I wouldnt mind.

Ever since Rush announced that they have found their new drummer, Anika Niles, and have announced that they will start touring againwith their new drummer, I found myself immersed in Rush songs. And...I cannot even escape Rush even when I am not listening to them on my own as I watch hockey or even the World Series and in the background either the stadium's DJ or the arena's DJ or the TV channel itself, will play Tom Sawyer or Limelight. Even Spirit of the Radio. I'll listen to many of Rush's songs from the 70s and 80s on youtube. But I have been playing Limelight more than the others. I have to apologize to Rush fans everywhere. To Rush and Geddy Lee himself. I was too immature to fully appreciate Geddy Lee's singing. I always LOVED Rush's sound. Their music. Their instrument playing and mixing and all that they do is just extraordinary. 3 awesome talented musicians and their sound is just soooo powerful. Just 3 of them. 3. I always respected that aspect but I never liked Geddy Lee's voice. I always thought he sounded awful. Until now... He does sing great. I just now...realized how great he is. He has a certain tone to his voice that I never "got" and I mistakenly judged him for it. I always knew that Rush's music would not be the same if not for Geddy's unique voice but I didnt like it and that made me not like Rush. Again...until now. I have turned the corner with Rush and now I could say that I am a fan. Canuck Rock Rules!!!

Going back to the Ultium platform. I said that the batteries on the trucks are stacked up on each other and amongst other things that make it an 800V system. While true that the batteries on the Escalade, Hummers and Chevy EV pick up truck ARE stacked on top of each other, that does NOT make the system an 800V system. The fact that the two battery packs are connected IN SERIES makes them an 800V system. And that was what I was inferring to when I said "amongst other things". I read somewheres that GM knew to make the Ultium platform an 800V system at launch but figured the EV charging system was not capable of charging at those 800V fast charging speeds then so a 400V system was good enough. Again, I do not know if this is misinformation. GM went to dual 400V systems on two battery packs connected in series to emulate an 800V system on the trucks in that GM knew that range and charging speeds and all that where GM has an advantage to other truckish EVs were going to be a factor. The EV range on these truck EVs are amongst the best EV ranges in the world. Never you mind that there are two huge battery packs with a shyte ton of KW/H to them making at least one of the three trucks, the Hummer EVs, a very piss poor efficient EV. (The Hummer SUV and the Hummer pick-up are blended into one product in my rants) Some folk talk about how bad the efficiency is. But most applaud the range of these EV trucks. Also, these two huge battery packs make for extremely heavy EVs. I would assume the most heavy of ANY civilian EVs on sale to date.

In other news. The usa still sucks shyte!!! If its a Democrat problem, then arrest all democrats on raping women, sex trafficking and sex with under age girls. Yeah about that.... Trump is also on that list so... Lets get this right. The main idea on this is that trump is on that list... And it would be your president. Shameful, disgraceful and disgusting. Unlawful, unruly and ungodly. Not trustworthy, not ethical, not honourable and quite frankly, quite phoquing scary that americans are capable of accepting this shyte as their representative of their country and people. ALL americans...

GM's Ultium formerly known as, is actually a 400V system. The Chevy EV pick-up truck, the Hummer EV and the Escalade are dual 400V set-ups working in tandem to emulate a 800V set-up. I guess the way the battery packs are set-up in that truck platform. The batteries stacked up one on top of the other. Amongst other things, I suppose. The other Ultium platformed EVs with the single battery pack is just a 400V set-up. But I also read somewhere that GM has an 800V successor platform ready to go on sale in China right now. But is stalling due to reasons. Stalling here and there... Rumours and/or disinformation it could be though.