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I dont drink coffee either. People, like all the time, are really really surprised that I dont drink coffee. Then some of them go on a rant telling me how weird and rare it is for a restaurant owner not to drink coffee. I dont know what to tell these people... Id give it a try, this Balthazar coffee. But it probably be coffee flavoured milk syrup more than coffee tho. I would prefer JUST to visit Lisbon and drop by this coffee place. Have their pastries instead. Although I dont drink alcohol anymore, Id rather try Portugal's famous port wines. That would be more my thing if I ever visit Portugal. Then drive myself to Spain, see Gibraltar, Valencia, Barcelona. Then off to France. Marseille. And if there is any time and money left, onward to Italy. The Mediterranean is where my soul belongs. But I would ALWAYS come home. North America is home! (North) EAST COAST REPRESENT!!!

Id consider restoring one, with an idea of electrifying it. Dual motor, 100 KW/H battery from a wrecked Tesla Model 3. To keep the restoration costs down since GM's E Crate stuff is expensive and the real hot E Crate set-ups are even crazier expensive.

Its not called a pandemic for no reason... Many folk (in the US and Canada) do not understand the meaning of the word 'pandemic'. Many more others (in the US and Canada) simply havent experienced anything uncomfortable of this magnitude. We have been living life very sheltered since 1945. Other than socio-economic falters along the way that much includes the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and some really bad racism, for the most part, Americans and Canadians have simply lived a very very aristocratic life and are much too phoquing tone deaf to see what the rest of the world had and continues to go through with poverty, wars, racism, REAL loss of freedoms or never had ANY freedoms to begin with on TOP of Covid... Forgetting that there has been multiple famines and ebola outbreaks and all kinds of other pandemics that actually never hit North America since the end of WW2 in 1945. But now we are dangerously close in going political... We should stop this direction right here...

There is an uptick in Covid cases in Quebec and especially in the Montreal area the last few days. Our government now is talking about 4rth doses and pleading the population to get their 3rd doses. 3rd doses have stalled the last couple of weeks. The mask mandates were said to be lifted in mid April. But now the government is not so sure. This was yesterday's news conference. Our Premier tested positive for Covid as well. Not so sure how the Quebec folk will feel about the mask mandates not being lifted. So far, Quebec folk have been very civil about this whole Covid thing for the most part. I sense minor civil unrest this time around.

1. Height relative to one another? Common... You know that slooping raked windshields is the real culprit here... 2. Semantics... And Tesla's battery tray and floor is flat like Saskatchewan and Manitoba... Lucid Air is the one with a small hump in front... Volkswagen is the one that did it wrong. About the semantics part...you are free to look at reviews about the Lucid Air's interior room, headroom, legroom front and rear, seats front and back and you will quickly realize that height relative to one another is just Porsche (Taycan)and Ford (Mach E) designed their sedan and CUV EVs to simulate 911 and Mustang respectively... (Audi just used the Taycan as a base) But if you take a look at the Model 3 despite it being a smaller EV, there is NO compromise to interior room. And if one looks at the CUV offerings of Model X and Model Y, with a very obvious tall but sleek design albeit dorky, one could easily see that there is NO compromise of room. Im just questioning why the obvious and blatant false angle you have taken about this? If Chevy possibly phoques up thee interior space of an EV Equinox, its definitely NOT because of where the 'relative height of everything' is. The floor is flat and while you ignored my first point, Ill repeat it again. Not ONLY is the floor flat, but the battery pack on both the Lucid and the Telsas are BELOW the middle of the tire's height. The brake disks are ABOVE the battery pack. The seats sit at the brake disks level. Nothing intrudes the passenger compartment. In the Lucid Air, their is a hump, but because the Lucid Air hasnt sleeked its sedan to death, it hasn't affected any interior room for the negative. The way it did the battery pack in the rear, the feet of the rear passengers get to rest IN the battery pack tray... Ive posted enough REAL cutaway pics and diagrams that showcase that. Tesla, Lucid and even Porsche has made it a point to show us this of what skateboard platforms do. These are FACTORY pics, showcasing the ENGINEERING of what a flat floor is all about... Even GM has done this THAT would be the Hummer. Why so thick the battery tray and pack? Because the Hummer's battery's are double of what everybody else has at 212.7 KW/H and are STACKED one on top of the other. But its the SAME principle... Ill tell you what though.. If GM wanted to make the Hummer sleeker and raked the windshield 68 degrees like it did with the 4rth gen F Body and made the interior chunky like the HUMMER H1, would you blame the lack of interior space on the battery packs and the height relative to one another too? Very disingenuous of you if you did...

You just wanna see what you wanna see... Which is to falsely assume that a skateboard platform is not flat and the body sits directly on top... In fact, the skateboard frame is a tray that houses the battery and the body shell goes on top to which the seats are directly on top of the battery pack. For Lucid, the battery pack ends where the front seats end making it possible for the rear passengers feat to actually be housed in the battery tray itself... The motors of both Lucid and Tesla is where the tires are front and back and nothing enters the passenger cabin. Like a FWD or rear engined car. Plus...there is no transmission, so... The battery cooling systems are in the battery tray within the battery pack... The body shell literally just goes on top... Tesla Model S (Computer generated shell) Lucid There is a small intrusion in the cabin up front for the Lucid, but nothing to scream and whine about lack of interior space... In fact, the Lucid Air has more interior space than the Tesla Model S despite the Air's battery tray being less flat. All pictures posted give a crystal clear idea of what is what. No need to be Doubting Thomas about this... If a manufacturer makes the interior a tight space, its because they are doing it wrong. Maybe designing the rake of the windshield too steep making the A, B and C pillars too low in trying to make a sedan more sports car like and designing interior dashboards and center consoles chunkier than need be... But that has NOTHING to do with the skateboard platform and where the battery resides... Like I said, maybe design an EV sedan less like a Porsche 911 if one wants interior space to be maximized... But Porsche and Audi gets its wrong with their battery tray...

If you guys noticed, the battery pack is BELOW the middle of the tire's height. The brake disks are ABOVE the battery pack. The seats sit at the brake disks level. And there is virtually nothing that enters the interior cabin. Now compare that to a RWD unibody Only FWD unibody or BOF comes close to a skateboard EV

If a manufacturer is losing interior space with its skateboard EV platform, they are doin' it wrong... Lucid Air

Darn tootin'! I reckon' that is a mighty fine Dodge! Let's go muddin'!!!

Love the exterior on that gen Bonneville. Like it better than the Aurora of the same year. Both of the same platform. But...I prefer the Oldsmobile's interior much much more.

I much much prefer Oldsmobile's interiors of this era than any other GM brand. Of course when this Grand Prix entered service, Oldsmobile was no more. Intrigue (of the previous W-Body platform as compared to the last Grand Prix before it became the G8) Alero 1st gen Aurora Those would be my favorite GM interiors of this era being the late 1990s-early 2000s.

Ive had all kinds of little songs and ditties (yes...with a d not a t) in my head this past month. Because of certain events. And I was equating them to cars. So, here is another. This time its a TV commercial. A local commercial and possibly national ?(Canada) I just LOVE the song. I didnt know who sang it. Google sometimes helps. I had to dig deeper than google. Turns out to be a local Montreal artist. Turns out it is just a sample song specifically made for the commercial. It also turns out to be a cover. From a very known French and global super star singer. The video was mostly shot in Montreal from what I recognize. And Edith Piaf's original. I find that the cover version is just as sensual and possibly have a more French (From France) flair to it despite having an English verse to it! Love both!

And the reason for these Bentleys

Check my ride, meng. Issa Cadillac, meng. Custom made for Razor! Rest in peace, Chico!

I guess its not all that uncommon to listen to 1980s Cold War related music. I definitely did Nikita in the beginning of the month right after Putin invaded Ukraine. I also did these two German ones

But by me posting airplanes, even military ones, I dont want it to go further political. I just want to post pics of airplanes. It does become sketchy with the military ones because airforces of countries are being posted when there are wars going on and assumptions could be made. With the exception of the Antonov AN- 225 that I posted being destroyed and the Ukrainian MiG 29 right after, that is as far of a political statement that I wanted to make. The Russian Bear bomber with the American fighters intercepting it would also kinda be a message. Kinda like a "phoque you Putin!" The rest of the pics I posted (in the creation of this thread) is just me celebrating my love for all that is airplanes.

Nothing out of NASA, flight wise, has been developed without war technology first or war technology first in mind. I agree that as a species, in 2022 AD, we should be above and beyond killing each other. We have all our past history to learn from that war should never be the answer and our current advancements in life improvement technologies such as the internet, medicines, transportation, etc should tell us that we should never have to kill ourselves ever again because all these technological advancements have and will propel humanity to areas that are ancient ancestors regarded as Godly... But humans are a strange species. It seems that once in awhile, humans are content in destroying all in the name of control. Irony is that Putin has an ungodly amount of riches and has an incredible (mind) control of a percentage of his people and even that is not enough for his ego and his legacy. Somehow he wants more... Just hoping his war stays conventional. Its doing enough human carnage already without the need to go biological or nuclear...

Unfortunately, airplanes have been major contributors in warfare since WW1 (never forgetting that the Wright Brothers first successful flight was done in 1903) and major aircraft development and technologies were made because of its war contributions. Airplanes and war go hand in hand. Even going in space and to the moon wouldnt have been possible in the 1960s had it not been for the need to improve airplane technology and the need to fly faster and climb higher during WW2. Rocket fuel was but one of these technologies to come out of WW2 that assisted space flight. Aerodynamics of the fuselage and wings are another. Breathing apparatus is another. But all these technologies discovered is for one reason and one reason only: to kill ourselves in combat. Airplane travel for vacation destinations across the planet is not happening unless Country A figures out how to produce a long distance bomber to bomb the shyte out of Country B... Sorry, but that is how it is...

Tesla's main concentration on their next 3 product launches are all expensive and niche. The Semi is commercial. Expensive for regular folk. Rigs cost 150 000 dollars and I gather the Tesla Semi would be in that price range as well. The Cybertruck is a lifestyle thing and it wont be affordable JUST of the nature of the thing. Its niche. Especially the way its styled AND engineered. Musk says it will be sub 40 thousand. Musk also said that the Model 3 will be sub 35 thousand. And it hardly was that price. The roadster is a sportscar. Niche. And it wont occupy Corvette's market either. It will occupy Ferrari's entry level price market. As far as GM and Ford goes in offering a 25 000 dollar EV. I dont see why not? I dont have an idea how FoMoCo could accomplish such a thing, but GM's Ultium platform is super versatile and scalable. GM will have a family of motors that will be paired with several KM/H battery packs mixing and matching and creating more than 30 vehicles. I dont remember how GM's Ultium battery tech compare's to Panasonic's 4680, I seem to recollect that both battery techs are very similar.