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Im always on the business side of things. But... This is exactly how I feel. But this is how I also feel as well. And I applaud this. But we wouldnt need laws preventing that kind of shyte if only people wouldnt be so sheepish in giving into corporations. Yet some people will NEVER listen to what a government tells them. But die on a hill following conmen, evil doers and greedy corporate entities whose CEOs are all three: conmen, evildoers and greedy mthereffers.

That is why there is a lot of forest fires both in Italy and in Greece in the summer. Because of the dryness and the heat.... Southern Spain too. All three countries and people resemble one another quite closely. That makes that fact very interesting.

widows... Not a very smart or appealing marketing choice for those that know the truth about Mediterranean women wearing black. LOL Maybe...I havent heard anything. We do have something close though. "Kefi" I would contribute that to olives, olive oil, the Mediterranean sun and sea, but most importantly, the care free lifestyle they seem to strive for and enjoy. OPA! This is a +1 The blue sky and the blue water just disguise and mask how dry certain areas look.

Its a start. With charging stations and everything else involved in this deal and journey to go all green. 800 EVs is a good start. Im also assuming Dominos would also want to start other types of green avenues that help save the planet. I bet that Dominos is gonna invest millions of dollars in all kinds of planet saving projects. One step at a time... Their pizza is BEYOND terrible. I agree to that.

Now...when you finished imagining Cadillac and their choices, imagine Mercedes' engineers to put to good use their engineering chops and engineer a very sleepery drag coefficient EV without them looking like used bar of melted soap design language from the 1990s.

Good to see Domino's go with the Chevy Bolt. General Motors has got that economies of scale to probably offer Domino's a very interesting purchase price along with a very interesting maintenance program for a model that is fast nearing its life cycle. Its probably a good business deal for both.

Genesis really has their game on. Exterior styling on most offerings are sexy. The interiors are just fantastic. Stylistically offering a variety of colour style and quality of materials. Hyundai, KIA and Genesis are a force to be reckoned with. Acura is sure feeling it. Ive said this before and Ill say it again, what Acura did to Pontiac and Oldsmobile in the 1990s Hyundai and Genesis is doing to Acura. General Motors better figure it out with Buick in North America real quick because Genesis will finish what the Japanese started and almost succeded in ending Buick. GM decided to end Oldsmobile instead. Infiniti as well. It dont look good for Infiniti in North America either. Mercedes better smarten up with their EVs because I see Genesis screwing up Mercedes in North America as well. Combine that with what Cadillac is going to do with EVs and Mercedes might end up where Cadillac was in the late 1990s and for the next 20 years...

My favorite of all three

My reaction to all three concepts, inside and out.

If I was living in a Mediterranean climate, 1. Summer, summer aaaaaaaaand....summer. 2. Spring and Fall 3. Winter Buuuut... All the old Greeks that I have talked to over the years, the ones that were born in Greece and immigrated to Montreal, and I mean ALL of them, they told me that Greece is beautiful in the Spring and Fall. In the Spring, it rains and green greenery everywhere as opposed to the summer when it doesnt rain at all and its brown and hot. Like hot hot. Autumn is just as nice as its not as hot, one could still swim in the water and relatively NO TOURISTS. Which was a BIG thing with those old school Greeks. So...me loving the summer for a Greece scenario comes from the experience of me being a tourist in Greece and not as an inhabitant and obviously only visiting Greece IN the summer. Maybe Id have the opinion of loving spring and fall more than summer like those old school Greeks if I actually lived there.

https://ca.yahoo.com/finance/news/chinese-carmakers-target-more-european-000000060.html Several interesting things to come out of this article. Chinese EV OEMs want to sell tons of EVs in Europe and they are focusing on 3 things to impress European would be owners. 1. Affordable EVs 2. Lots if tech and gadgets 3. 5 star rated crash test EVs. GM and Hertz made a deal for 175 000 EVs a month or two ago. It would seem that BYD and Sixt view this business deal as It seems #3 looks to be a struggle though, but it looks like Chinese EV OEMs how found that recipe for quality car making and their products to be safe for European and American crash safety standards. Chinese OEMs will put many Japanese, European AND American EV makers out to pasture and THAT is why GM and VW and others have commited to be full on EV full swing. The thing that peaked my interest, and the reason why I posted this article here is this reason: Fleet sales make up about half of all car sales in major markets including Germany, France and the United Kingdom, and many corporate buyers put a premium on safety. "Fleet sales are very important and a lot of fleets have a mandatory five-star rating for buying cars," Avery said. CAR RENTAL COMPANIES What's more, many fleets want to switch to EVs fast to meet sustainability goals. But corporate fleets have struggled to get enough EVs in Europe as supply chain issues have pushed waiting times for some models to more than 12 months. High demand for electric cars amid supply chain shortages has allowed European carmakers to raise EV prices and focus more on retail clients, rather than customers such as car rental firms that have traditionally been less profitable for them. That has created a window of opportunity for Chinese EV makers that have already stolen a march on most foreign rivals in China, by far the world's biggest market for EVs. In October, for instance, German car rental company Sixt said it would buy about 100,000 EVs from BYD , starting with its Atto 3 SUV which received the coveted Euro NCAP five-star rating the same month. GM and Hertz made a deal for 175 000 EVs a month or two ago. It would seem that BYD and Sixt viewed that business deal as a way forward. As a smart move.

And this is how Porsche gets my attention every single time. Not with Carrera GTs or Cayennes and Tiguans. But how they improve the 911 every single generation. How they dissect it and re-invent it and keep on rockin' with it while not deviating from it since its inception in 1963. But even before that when its was just a humble people's car in wolf's clothing as a war machine. From air cooled to liquid cooled to naturally aspirated to turbo to rear engined and to AWD to lowered and hunkered down and widebodied to lifted and offroaded.

A new type of muscle car. A pure American definition of. Unlike the Alpina Bimmer above. The muscle truck. But with a new flavour to the muscle car/truck theme. Off road. And I adore.

My favorite is 1. Summer 2. Fall 3. Winter 4. Spring Yeah...I hate Spring. Spring here is schizophrenic. It doesnt know if it wants to leave behind winter or summer to start and just BE Sping. Sometimes Spring doesnt exist and it goes from winter to summer. March is the worst. For 2-3 days its summery feeling and the next is the worst kind of winter. It could be well BELOW freezing or it might blizzard a few feet of snow only to melt the next few days only to repeat the process. Then April comes. We might get snowfalls in April, but its the slush that rules the roads and sidewalks in April. Its ugly and disgusting. I LOVE the seasons and weather in Montreal between the the first week of May all the way to mid October. Mid October to the first week of January is my second favorite. From the first week of January to the first week of May is my anathema. I love the warm, spring is in the air almost summer aura that the month of May gives us. I love the warm to slowly cooling air and the fall colours that Autumn gifts us equally. But my happiest time is the summer. Love the sun. Love heat.

We got 10 centimeters, 4 inches, of snow last Wednesday. But it melted away on the streets as the weather has been frolicking above freezing. There are parts that are slushy, and I HATE slush. Its just so dirty.

-2 Celsius here. Google tells me -2 C is 28.4 F. Sunny. Snow in my backyard but not on the streets. Id say its a pleasant day here. I wouldnt want to be in Buffalo NY though. Perfect now that the storm is gone. The ski slopes over at Stowe Vermont are probably rockin' with all that snow. But clearing all that snow must be a bitch. With that being said, I am looking forward to Montreal's first snow storm of the season. None in sight so far though.

There was a thread about Chevrolet's new commercial featuring its EVs with Fleetwood Mac's Everywhere as a song choice. I LOVE that song. And I keep seeing the commercial. So kudos for GM and Chevrolet to actually MARKET their products... But...Imma gonna post MY Chevrolets that I associate with the time period of the song. Looks like my dad's Celebrity (Wanted to do a 1987 Eurosport, but I saw this one. 1986. Iron Duke. Yeah. This one makes the post!) And we got our first snow fall of THIS season today. A S-10 Blazer 4x4 to finish the thought.

Yes! But to be fair, Cadillac HAS been doing exactly that. The CT4 and CT5, ESPECIALLY the V versions are fantastic on ALL fronts of the standard of the world equation. Room to improve. Of course. But it doesnt seem like Cadillac is letting off the gas pedal so to speak. The Lyriq's quality fit and finish and attention to detail seems to have left off where Cadillac's current products are, and then some.

Well, not quite. Mind you, I LOVE the Crosstour. The 5 Dr hatch Fusion actually doesnt look all that different from the regular Fusion. Its actually sleeker, but the profile is the same. Not quite a hatch look to kill any success from American natives hatin' on hatchbacks. But actually very sleek to counter the SUV craze. regular Mondeo/Fusion Honda Accord Crosstour. Wierd and ugly. It is unMISTAKENLY a hatchback which is killer for an American audience UNLESS its a CUV or SUV. The Crosstour doesnt evoke ANY SUV-ness and its too proud to show itself as a hatchback. The Acura ZDX is weirder and uglier, and it actually tries to resemble a CUV. I wont post pics of it...because its too out there design wise. It wanted to be too much of a SUV coupe thing to ever succeed. At least a BMW X6 had that gangsta vibe to it. Russian mob badassery about it. The sedan Acoord is actually quite nicely styled. A bit boring, but Americans seem to like their boring Japanese family haulin' sedans. And the coupe was surprisngly a success story...when FWD coupes were an almost extinct species. So... in my opinion, I dont think a Fusion 5 Dr hatch would fair all that badly. I think it would have sold more than what Honda mustered for the Crosstour.

The 5 dr hatch is what this car needed. My wife and I would have most appreciated this. The trunk is huge on the Fusion but the roofline is too coupe-like. The opening is also huge but the problem is that roof-line cuts in too much into the top of the trunk and one cant access the back of the trunk too well. Huge trunk opening.... And huge trunk is But its a deep trunk and the back of the trunk is a bitch to get to.

Yes and no, about Cadillac doing minimal effort on the V version Escalade. While Cadillac could have put more engineering effort in the AWD system to work better with the suspension set-ups, especially when the Escalade has the magnetic shocks, to make the Escalade a faster quarter-mile warrior. The question to ask though, is: Does Cadillac really need for the Escalade V to be a faster vehicle? Its composure during the quarter mile run is not confidence inspiring, true, but at the same time, the Escalade V doesnt really need to compete head-to-head with a HELLCAT Durango. In the video, which I saw last week, Thomas says (the Briish dude, not the bearded Canadian dude) that if you never sat in the Escalade, you would never know how DOWNMARKET the Durango is. THAT is one POWERFUL statement that means only one thing, one vehicle is a Dodge, and the other is a CADILLAC. While its true that its a V Cadillac, its strength as a vehicle lies not with it being a V Cadillac, but it being a Cadillac. At the end of the day, the Durango is a Hellcat after all. Losing to a Hellcat in a drag race is not that big of a deal. The Escalade V is still the second fastest SUV in the world. Not including the EV SUVs. The Hellcat Durango gives fits to EV SUVs... Like I said, not that big of a deal if the Escalade V is not tuned to be a drag racer. What WOULD have been a problem is if Chevrolet made a Tahoe SS version and THAT SS version would have behaved in the same manner the Escalade V behaves. Then Id be inclined to agree with you. At the end of the day, the Escalade V is crafted beautifully inside and out, worthy of THE Cadillac badge. The V Escalade sounds mean. Its loud like a Hellcat engine. Its actually louder and meaner...and its hella fast. And THAT is good enough for a V designated Escalade.

As a Fusion owner, a 2013 1.6 ecoboost version, there were far too many recalls to keep count. Like at least a dozen... So I know first hand what is what and could assume safely that Ford rushed the Fusion to production and had too many nagging issues to fix after launch that cost FoMoCo several millions. EV transitions and sedan sales diminishing and one could see why FoMoCo decided to axe a 250 000 unit/year sedan. Fusion would have probably been a sales leader right now as the Fusion is a right sized sedan and good looking to boot.