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I do not want tech in my cars. I do use apple car play for google maps or waze while I am driving to baseball parks I do not know where they are. But I could just as easily find them the old fashioned way of using google maps at home, like a regular McNally paper map, and just hop into my car and drive and observe the roads... I did use google maps earth street view to observe landmarks. So I am not entirely agaisnt modern technology. Its just that I do not want modern tech gadgetry in my damned car. All waze/google maps did in my car is that it made me lazy. And I hate that. Plus its more dangerous because now, I look at the car's TV screen more often that just observing the roads and street signs... So I guess I WILL be nixing GPS mapping in my car soon enough. I like digital gauges. But I find it soooooo stupid that digital gauges mimic analog ones. I would rather do the 1980s digital than today's. If we are just mimicking analog, Id rather the analog. Looks better too. 1980s style digital still seems futuristic and awesome to me. Id rather that for digital. Imagine how much nicer 1980s digital would look with LED greens and reds with the bars and stuff???!!! LED lighting with the analog gauges rock. It looks more luxurious. Especially with the high end analog gauges of a couple years ago in those high end cars. Of course this is just the aesthetic that I prefer. Ive ranted about push button start before. Hated it then with my Acura, hate it worse now with my Honda. I tolerate it with my Honda as its just a shytty 4 cylinder car. At least with the Acura, it was a V6. I prefer to start a more or less, powerful engine the old fashioned way. Insert the key. Turn key and feel the engine come alive through the ignition. Ironically, Ferrari with their F1 racing push button starting tech just made starting a vehicle like turning on and off an appliance. This kinda thing REALLY hits home with the advent of EVs...

You dont really need a car if you are only doing the Montreal downtown core along with Old Montreal. We do have a fantastic public and Metro (subway) system for that. Plus its walkable...in the summer/fall. Spring is rainy and slushy. Its your choice really on that for the Spring. Winter is doable if you do not mind snow. Its not that cold nowadays with climate change. Oh...we do have the REM that goes from Pierre Elliot airport to Downtown now. Like I said, no need for a car. YUL is actually a not too bad airport to accomodate visitors. THIS being the REM. Above ground subway. Its electric. Part of the solution that was going to be between YUL and downtown and a fast railway to Mirabel that NEVER materialized in the 1960s and 1970s. Which was a third of the fatal flaw of Mirabel that I was talking about earlier. SOOOOO.... we got a part of that solution in the mid 2020s. Better late than never. YUL still shares another fatal flaw with Mirabel. LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION. YUL is smack right in the middle of a very very populated city. Mirabel had the opposite of that. Mirabel was/is situated very very very far from the city it needed to serve. It was located there for political and economical reasons. The economical reasons was it was supposed to serve Ottawa as well. But...a highway or two was needed to be built linking Ottawa and Montreal VIA the town of Mirabel. Highway 13 and Highway 20 to be completed. Highway 13 is still a mess while Highway 20 being completed 10 years ago. Better late than again... Plus the railway way systems I mentioned earlier.

I knew about this. But thanks in re-introducing this knowledge to me. Neither NYC nor Montreal have anything to complain about regarding their problems as compared to Osaka Kansai LOL

Dorval airport or Pierre Elliot Trudeau International Airport to non-Montreal natives is a lot worse. I am too exhausted to start naming ALL the bloody things wrong with it but everything that NYC's 3 airports have as flaws, Dorval has those. Plus hundreds of others. Mirabel was constructed in the 1960s to fix YUL (to those that travel a lot know Trudeau airport by its calling) but Mirabel had 3 fatal flaws in it and that is why now its only a cargo, private jet and Bombardier Aerospace/Airbus airport. BTW, YUL also shares 1 of those Mirabel flaws... Montrealers and tourists alike deal with it. Barely. Drivers in Montreal are suppressing their anger towards it. And Quebec announced in July that another 10 BILLION will be awarded to renovate it again. To accommodate increased tourist capacity and business growth . Phase 1 to completed by 2028. Phase 2 by 2035. Mirabel cost Quebec BILLIONS to solve increased tourist capacity. EXACTLY that amount that YUL is expected to accommodate. But referendums to split from Canada destroyed those tourist dreams and business endeavors. Its come back I guess. But Mirabel is no longer able to be transformed for civilian air travel... What Im saying is, Id rather have NYC's airport problems than Montreal's...

How many billions is that going to cost? Have the Red States fund them...

@ccap41 Ironic I talk about racism and sexism and you question why black females and Cadillacs... There is nothing nefarious about black females and Cadillacs that I decided to post on about. Unless that is what you see. Which would be on YOU. Its just a silly post. Nothing more nothing less. Black females are human. Just like Taylor Swift and Salma Hayek that I posted half naked in a Greek motif post. The answer you are looking for is not that hard. Its in the music. And I chose the most respectful of pics of beautiful black ladies that I have never really posted on about. I would think you would question Taylor Swift and Salma Hayek as they seemingly have NOTHING to do with what else was posted. You pin pointed black women... Why was that? Now tell us why THAT would intrigue you?

Those days are looong gone. No longer a teenager dreaming about the west coast. California. I did think about joining the US Airforce right out of high school. When I was ashamed of being a Quebecois. When English Canada shunned Quebec. When Canadian Pride amongst ourselves was supposed to be hush hush unless you were of course from Quebec. Then you couldnt even speak your mind about anything. Including in the USofA, Quebecois were laughed at. If you were from Quebec, you were an outsider. A freak. The only thing that Canada and Quebec were aligned in was that if you were an Anglo or Frenchie, you were OK. Oh yeah...immigrants were tolerated and over all accepted, but there was a hidden negativity about being non-Anglo, non-Franco. And the Anglos on top of all that felt superior to the Frenchies as well... But in that time...Canada grew from their problems. Lots of painful discussions were had and are still being held regarding racism and sexism and Canadian Pride and Indigenous peoples and the respect they deserve in their OWN land that was taken away from them. It looks like YOU stupid Americans are still trying to figure this out. With BLATANT racism abound... Now...why would I leave MY birth country to which it seems we are figuring it out peacefully to come and live in yours with all the bullshyte that is happening? Answer is I wont want to. Canada is my country. Greece is where my ancestors come from and my second home. The USofA is where I wouldnt even take a piss and a shyte...

Look at the garbage you are posting... Im laughing too.

Its whatever YOU want it to be... YOU are the one making the issue about black females and Cadillacs... YOU are intrigued by it...

Hidden message answer/post to satisfy your question. translation: For my own personal pleasure...

Holy sht, dude. What happened to you? This is a discussion forum. You don't have to elaborate at all. I was just asking a question for discussion. Nothing has happened to me. Same ole. Just a tad more cynical. But knowing you, you always have an angle as to how you want the conversation to go. I never said anything was hidden. I was just asking a question. Again, you don't have to answer. Like I said. You found a (non-existent) angle you want to exploit. Ill explain that comment further down. Sorry for asking you a question about your post. You are not sorry. I touched a nerve somewhere either with the No Diggity/Cadillac EV post or the last post I made to you. I never said anything was hidden. You have pictures of humans mixed in with pictures of Cadillacs. Not the first time Ive had humans posted in these beautiful car threads. Maybe my 3rd or 4rth the past couple of years. Ive also had private jets, beers, brandys, watches, places on earth... Even phoquing donkeys for Christ's sake. Birds... Next will be fish. I promise you that. If you're going to be a d!ckhead, this is a "Beautiful *Cars* appreciation" thread, not humans. Create a beautiful people thread then. Like I said...I touched a nerve somewhere. Tell us what you are REALLY thinking about. I am not the penis head here. You are. By me posting pics of donkeys and birds and beers in this thread, do I really need to create a sexy donkeys thread and a beautiful bottle of beer thread too just to appease your curiosity? Its just a silly post like any other in this thread that I have done. Enjoy it. Or do not. I do not care. So there is a link between the images then? What's the link? What's the vibe? Its literally right there. Nobody needs a doctorate degree from Oxford Uni to figure it out. And whatever you think it might be, then that is what YOU took from it. I got pictures of a half naked Taylor Swift and Salma Hayek. You are not inquisitive about that. Im surprised nobody asked me WTF does a half naked Taylor Swift and Salma Hayek have to do with Greece and its antiquity...

Looks like Buick's front end design language. Mainly the headlight design language but also the front end coming to some sort of peak making it seem that Acura is trying to mimic Buick. Granted that Acura's front end comes to an end in form of a peak while Buick is rounded, but still. Weird also that Honda has dropped GM with their EV partnership... Honda...get your own face, will ya???!!! Its not even appealing. Not on Buick, not on Acura either...

100% percent!!! I wrote it as sleepy Joe in sarcasm. I know the maga folk and some from the left like to call him that but I wanted to be known that he was wide awake and AWARE of the Chinese threat. He was also tough when needed to force an ally, Canada, to adopt the same tariffs. Trudeau was asleep at the wheel for that one and Biden forced him to comply with US demands. And I have no problems with that. There are times when our respective political leaders NEED to force upon one another certain demands. And THAT kind of relationship is a healthy one when hard decisions like that will benefit BOTH countries. Weapons of mass destruction and Jean Chretien, then Canada's Prime Minister, did not buy what George Dubya and the US military complex was selling and did not support the Persian Gulf War 2.0. And Canada initially did not join that coalition. And Canada was outcasted by many Western nations. But that allowed Canada to have its own voice different than the US. That made the world respect Canada and in the long term, the world saw that Canada's intelligence is far greater than just being a lap dog for the US. Also, that signaled to the US that Canada is not a yes man to US politics and in later years, other US political leaders respect Canadas decisions making for a stronger bond between our 2 nations. Obama had a GREAT relationship with Canada. I would also say Biden too.

Even BEFORE Trump became #47, Biden hit China with 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs because even sleepy Joe KNEW that China would just flood the US market with ACTUAL AFFORDABLE EVs and that would sink GM, Ford and Stellantis in the US. Sleepy Joe even forced Canada (Trudeau) to do the same. Yes...Sleepy Joe FORCED Trudeau as our Canadian government was reluctant to do so at first. So Canada also put 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs. But now, China upped their tariffs on Canadian canola oils and beef and stated that its because of our own tariffs on their EVs... Our government NOW knows that it be best to leave those tariffs because Chinese EVs WILL flood the Canadian market but that will also close down GM, Ford and Chrysler factories IN Canada. So our beef and canola oil industry may have to suffer a little in the Chinese market... When Ford and GM want to peddle high priced EVs... When Stellantis wants to peddle Hemi powered 15 year old Durangos to stay afloat... I understand what @Drew Dowdell told me about the Durango being a place holder. Still does NOT change the fact that once again, the US auto industry was caught with their pants down not having the right product for an ever changing industry. Although they did react ON time this time around, they STILL fumbled it... Tesla lead the god damned way, but their leader failed them. GM realized it right on time, made all the right decisions on time, but mis and dis information phoqued a nation with an ever changing world...

Waaaaaay tooooooo late for that. Since before Covid hit, in these very forums, you and I David fought tooth and nail with some respected posters (forget about the trolly OCNBLU) that the world needs to go EV and he didnt think that would EVER happen in our lifetime even. THAT would be his mindset, and he was VERY VERY intelligent, but most importantly, THAT was and STILL IS the mindset of America... The US. Not Canada OR Mexico. Keep 'em stupid is the mantra. And yes, even Balthazar was bamboozled... I kept on STRESSING that the WORLD wants this change. But uneducated people and American exceptionalism STILL rules. The irony is that people in the US STILL think battery production and EVs pollute MORE than gasoline and the oil industry... Ironically, people in the US STILL think that the US is some dominating force at the world stage... Waaaaaay toooooooo late as GM and Ford are way way way behind in technology. Tesla too. Waaaaaaay tooooooo phoquing late as the US STILL has not got the EV infrastructure to where its gotta be as compared to the rest of the world and most importantly, the citizens of the US are not only NOT ready mentally for an EV change, still tooo much mis and dis information rolling around regarding EVs, but now, economically, American people cant even afford grocery needs, housing needs, let alone the purchase of a new car whether ICE or EV... And...the domestic car manufacturers are being forced to be ONLY a US market producers and sellers.

Car safety has come a long way. The philosophies regarding which engineering forces need to be examined and controlled for better passenger safety has vastly improved. Let us all be grateful that that we as a society along with the automobile industry listened to the guidance of what government safety boards were suggesting... In the video it seems, weight and heft seem to be the only factor. But Im not so sure passengers in the full sized sedans would be fairing that much better as opposed to the passengers of the compact cars. And absolutely nothing was mentioned of what the results would be when two full sized sedans collided headed on. Now, I love me some classic full sized sedans and coupes from the era of that video, but I sure do realize that I, as a passenger, is part OF the crumple zone in those cars. My safety cage, ie my skull and my ribs, would do phoque all in absorbing all that kinetic energy. We may bitch and whine about high belt lines and thick A pillars, but they sure do the trick in being part of an intricate plan of absorbing impacts. I do find it funny though, that football was the inspiration of passenger car safety in those primitive times.