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Pretty impressive skyline. ALMOST makes me proud... as how I feel like a Montrealer tho... r

sure... I never suggested otherwise just because I didnt mention FWD appliance vehicles in my rant there. But with CUVs though, the appliance, meh factor is accentuated 10 fold..

And I too, understand where you are coming from. About the Flex: 1. NOT a CUV. More like a station wagon. On the D4 platform. Sure, the Explorer is based off of this platform, but so is the Taurus. The important thing about that is that the Flex is low to the ground. Im will to bet that the Flex and Taurus have the same ground clearance. While the Taurus drives like an old man's car, the Flex does not. Ive driven all three (Flex, Taurus, Explorer) when my Fusion was under all these recalls. The dealership was giving me these as loaners. The Fusion had over 10 recalls.... Anyway. The Explorer, with its higher ground clearance, tires not meant for spirited driving coupled that with suspension tuning geared for low common denominator zombie sheeple with no aspirations of having ANY kind of fun...wallowing around. Vomit inducing ride....like I was on a freakin boat on the high seas... The Taurus had almost the same feel, but at least the Taurus was lower to the ground minimizing the wallow-ey suspension travel. I could live with that moreso than I ever could with the Explorer. The Flex, had a more conventional car ride. It does not wallow at all. But the Flex was not marketed to people that are devoid of having any kind of fun in their lives. It looked different because it WAS different from all those other boring suburban appliances we call CUVs. It didnt drive like its only mission in life was to haul little Johnny to baseball practice while watching the game through their smart phone's camera lense while texting and sending pics to friends how little Johnny caught a fly ball...

To be honest, it is a CUV and ALL CUVs are bottom feeders. Appliance compliance vehicles for the sheeple masses driving along like zombies to their pathetic jobs, to their pathetic shopping and eating habits of shopping centers, retail outlets and fast food drive and shyytty coffee joint drive- thrus. Hauling their spoiled bratty offspring to their weekly sporting events where everyone is a winner... CUVs being bought and sold to the lowest common denominator consumer no matter what social and/or economical class one belongs to. To me, these people have given up in living life as there is NOTHING appealing to owning ANY of them. Chevy, Ford, Tesla, Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Toyota, Honda, Subaru, Volvo, VW, Porsche, etc... It dont matter, ALL CUVs are bottom feeding shyttyy vehicles to own and drive.

When I dont care for things, and there are many things I dont care much for, and Ive also reached an age where I dont even care for not even caring, this is the kind of dance I do physically and mentally whenever I am not caring. (minus the smoking part but I especially like the smoking part even though I dont much care for smoking!!!)

I dont much care for... indifference

@ccap41 https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-sued-258-billion-190433065.html Elon Musk was sued for $258 billion on Thursday by a Dogecoin investor who accused him of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency. In a complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan, plaintiff Keith Johnson accused Musk, electric car company Tesla Inc and space tourism company SpaceX of racketeering for touting Dogecoin and driving up its price, only to then let the price tumble. Musk is CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX. "Defendants were aware since 2019 that Dogecoin had no value yet promoted Dogecoin to profit from its trading," the complaint said. "Musk used his pedestal as World's Richest man to operate and manipulate the Dogecoin Pyramid Scheme for profit, exposure and amusement." The complaint also aggregates comments from Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and others questioning the value of cryptocurrency. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/news/spacex-employees-denounce-ceo-musk-170623252.html A group of SpaceX employees derided flamboyant billionaire Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk as a "distraction and embarrassment" in an internal letter to executives. Musk, also head of electric automaker Tesla Inc, has been in headlines and late-night comedy monologues in recent months for a tumultuous quest to buy social media giant Twitter, a reported allegation of sexual harassment that Musk has denied as well as crude comments online and a foray into political discourse. "Elon's behavior in the public sphere is a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment for us, particularly in recent weeks," read the letter, which does not single out any controversy in particular. Reuters was provided a copy of the letter. "As our CEO and most prominent spokesperson, Elon is seen as the face of SpaceX - every tweet that Elon sends is a de facto public statement by the company." https://ca.news.yahoo.com/spacex-fired-employees-behind-letter-092313006.html SpaceX has fired employees who circulated a draft for an open letter, which said CEO Elon Musk's behavior in public is "a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment," according to a New York Times report. Three SpaceX employees told The Times that the company fired some of the organizers behind the letter on Thursday afternoon. The Times also reviewed an internal email from SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell, which confirmed the company had "terminated a number of employees involved." In the email to employees, Shotwell called the letter "overreaching activism" and said the distribution had "made employees feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied, and/or angry because the letter pressured them to sign onto something that did not reflect their views," per The Times. The Times reported that it wasn't clear how many employees had been fired. Two sources told Reuters SpaceX had fired at least five employees over the letter. @ccap41 You are 100% correct. All these distractions could not possibly BE a distraction to Tesla as if he is NOT a micro managing idiotic boss. I kinda felt bad for a second when @surreal1272 mentioned Elon was on the spectrum. I had forgotten that Elon mentioned that himself. Bu then I came back to my senses for not giving a shyte whether he is on the spectrum or not, because he mentioned that on his opening monologue on SNL. Not exactly a podium for me to be empathetic to his situation regarding Tesla and him BEING on the spectrum. He is quite aware of his actions...DESPITE him being on the spectrum. He CRAVES being in the limelight. The other CEOs in the other companies you mentioned dont behave like Musk does... John Z DeLorean was said that he also behaved more like a celebrity rather than a Pontiac or Chevy boss. Eventually landing him, rightfully or wrongfully, in trouble with the law. Elon has been sued quite a few times already... whether or not he has escaped being liable, if this trend continues, eventually one lawsuit WILL stick and the way he runs things, as a micro manager, it wont bode well for ANY of his companies. He is lucky that investors keep on dishing out billions to him for Tesla... Him running his mouth off towards Rivian and Lucid make him look like a fool... https://insideevs.com/news/592252/elon-musk-says-lucid-rivian-are-tracking-toward-bankruptcy/ But you continue doing you, being ALWAYS against the grain pretending you are a righteous internet poster...

While true, that big folk have to try out to see if they actually could fit inside the vehicle they intend to drive, little folk like myself also needs to do this. Although its more likely that little people like myself will probably be comfortable more often than not as opposed to big folk like yourself, small folk like myself ALSO have our OWN challenges. If, for instance, even if the seats go forward, how comfy is the driving position going to be in relation to our butts in the seat, our hands on the steering wheel, our feet to the pedal and our overall eyesight looking out the windshield and the speedometer. Cars are usually made for the AVERAGE height. YOU are WAAAAAAAY taller than average height and Im a tad shorter than average height. I will admit that my plight will be less severe than yours. But that doesnt mean I dont have a plight myself... Just curious though, If dealerships go away, and buying cars happen ONLY online, how to you figure you are gonna test fit your vehicle purchases?

I have noticed what it seems like forever, that birds, have ALWAYS flew RIGHT in front of my cars while I am driving. No matter what speeds Im doing. Im going down a road or boulevard and birds seem to fly from a perpendicular street and zoom by successfully in front of my car. Im like thinking, they are playing a game if they could beat the speeding car and succeed in flying in front of it successfully getting to the other side. Ill repeat, I think birds are PLAYING A GAME, a game of chicken, in testing out there own agility and speed in trying to out race a car by flying perpendicular to a car and seeing if they can succeed to fly in front of it to get to the other side of the street. I honestly do think birds do this on purpose to test out and practice their flying abilities. Pretty gutsy. Pretty smart. Pretty awesome Id say.

Thumbs up on the 1st part. And no, you and I both do NOT need to work on being less verbose. Its in our (my) Greek and (your) Italian DNA to actually be emotionally expressive with lots of dramatic words and dramatic hand gestures to communicate. Let us NOT forget the tone and reflections of our voice. Sarcasm, sassiness and plain old a$$hole responses is what our cultures do. We should be proud of that!!!

I never said his tweeting is a direct result of why they have quality issues. But his wasting of time tweeting is definitely not fruitful in running Tesla the way a multi-national, multi-billion dollarr company should bee run. Hell, my small enterprise couldnt be run well if I wasted all that time tweeting and speculating like he is doing... But read what @riviera74 and @Drew Dowdell wrote to you. Ive also mentioned and hinted at what they both are telling you. Its OK... once again, we have differing points of view. Sometimes I sees where you are coming from. Not this time tho...

what does this quote even mean? She is running the company. Not her mouth... Ditto for GM. People LOVE their Volts and Bolts.. People LOVE their C8 Corvettes... People LOVE their fullsized pick up trrucks and SUVs from Chevy, GMC and Cadillac. Once upon a time ago, GM ALSO had sheeple... Look how THAT eventually turned out... But even with all those words...you still didnt make ANY correlation as to how Marry Barrra should be held to thee same scrutiny that we have ALL put Elon to. I guess you are a big proponent of free speech on Twitter because I dont see you give a shyte about Johnny and Amber...

Problem tho. Several. GM has a LOT on their plate right now to resolve. Bolt battery fires. Production delays with Camaros, Corvettes and just about all other vehicles in their line-up. Corvette Z06 rumors that transmissions are failing or crank cases are cracking or whatever the rumor is... Mary Barra is NOT out there trying to buy Twitter using GM shareholder and GM investor monies...and causing a real shyte show with Twitter's IPO AND Tesla's and having all investors involved in a phoquing tizzy... Mary Barra is NOT out there DOWNPLAYING the Bolt battery fires like Elon is doing with the NHTSA autopilot investigation. Mary Barra is not tone deaf and sticking her nose in a physical and sexual abuse case when Musk's own company has a very very serious problem of its own regarding sexual abuse of its own. FYI, NOBODY asked Elon his opinion on the matter for him to interject it anyway even IF he dated Amber Heard just right after Johnny Depp's marriage failed with Amber... He wasnt even called upon as a witness DESPITE his generosity of him giving money to charity in Amber's name... Kate Moss stayed out of it and she testified... Marry Barra is actually running her company. Elon is running something...his mouth. How is Tesla robotics gonna solve Tesla's sloppy manufacturing? Its an issue that NOBODY is ignoring in 2022. Only Musk, Tesla sheeple and Sandy Munro are ignoring this issue. It seems that Musk is ONLY concerned on how Johnny and Amber move on from this trial... He has several female employees that want to discuss THEIR sexual abuse within Tesla. I wonder if he has a clue on how his company moves on from these allegations...maybe he should forget about Aquamaaaaaan and Captain Jack Sparrow and start dealing with Tesla's problems... Maybe he should start tweeting on how he will address Tesla's issues and maybe he should forget about free speech platforms and Hollywood's shytty drama...

I did a sad face thingy vote, because its not funny from the point of view of your HR director. But regarding Elon Musk's leadership, concerning himself with everything important of what is going on in this world, EXCEPT for actually running Tesla correctly, its phoquing funny!!! 1. Lends Ukraine his Starlink satellites to counter Russian blackouts and propaganda. (Good thing) 2. Tries to buy Twitter all in the name of freedom of speech, except he ignores misinformation platforms are not beneficial to the freedoms of anybody. And he forgets that he doesnt actually have the LIQUID cash to buy Twitter, and the Tesla investors are not exactly continually giving him money to fund a Twitter buy out. (Bad thing) 3. Concerns himself with a lawsuit case that has really nothing to do with him. He might have dated Amber Turd, and he gave her some money to help her feed her personality disorder lies, but really, nobody gave a shyte about his opinions on the matter, INCLUDING his former narcissistic girlfriend. (Bad thing) (He just proved himself to be a beta male cuck) 4. Instead of focusing on his OWN legal battles. Tesla's own sexual abuse claims in the workplace AND the NHTSA probe into Tesla's autopilot failures... (Bad thing) Sandy Munro's MAIN complaint about Tesla has ALWAYS been Tesla's sloppy manufacturing. And THAT hasnt improved. And Sandy Munro thinks that Tesla's sloppy manufacturing aint gonna be a problem and the other OEMs will fail but not Tesla? What a joke! Hence why your story is also funny!!! I have come to LOATHE Tesla... (because of Elon)

A LOT of musical genius came out of Seattle. Im very impressed by that. Im not so impressed by all that rain. But then again, Ive NEVER been that way, so what the hell do I know about being Sleepless in Seattle (pop culture reference ) and the rain Seattle accumulates... Nirvana was the group that is mistakenly credited with "inventing" or "introducing" grunge to the world. Some say it was Neil Young. Maybe Nirvana was the first to popularize grunge.

I too, love Pearl Jam. Of course Boeing. I was just using the most simplistic stereotype of each region be funny. For shytes and giggles. I have nothinh against Seattle. Other than maybe, the rain.

Again joke and sarcasm... But you got to admit. More of the WORLD's pop culture, not just the US pop culture, talks about NYC and California than they do about Seattle... If they actually do talk about Seattle at all...

I dont hate grunge. Not my favorite style. But I dont hate it. I HATE Nirvana though. But its more for the group and singer rather than the style of music. But when all is said and done, Its called a joke. Sorry to disappoint you in you thinking I was serious. I thought maybe the Back to the Future Gif was an indication...

@David A group from QUEENS singing about California!!! New York rappers trading places with California's own beach bum Beach Boys doin' the wipeout They all got that New York Groove, baby PS: Dell Griffith and Neil Page. You havent seen this movie? You are missin' out. Its a holiday classic. Its reallyy really funny. I suggest you watch it, around Thanksgiving, of course. Its a GREAT movie!!!