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My response was to David, not Horse. It was specifically to the line "... the real world is doom and gloom if you go into any major city with Federal buildings." They're all real alright. REALly good at scamming people into giving them their money for the promise of hopes and dreams. Let's just overlook the "real" religions that absolutely certainly do not have issues molesting children.

News flash, buddy. They're all fake.

No argument from me there.

That's kind of my point though. "any major city with federal buildings" and it certainly isn't the case. Again, I'm sure it is the case in some cities, but it isn't a blanket statement that's true.

Maybe they're going to the Firestone in the background to fix...everything... 🤣

Thank you for all of this and I'll have to do some digging when I get home tonight to said laptop. All I really know is it's a Microsoft OS and probably about 6-8 years old at this point. Believe it or not, I used to actually kind of pay attention to computers and the specifications that mattered. I used to game some..

Again, not true. I literally work directly across from a federal building in STL and that is not the case. I'm sure the one in Seattle is that way, but you can't just blanketly cover every Fed building as the same.

Get off the internet for awhile. The real world isn't nearly as doom as gloom as scary headlines make it out to be. The internet does a good job of making the real world look a lot worse than it actually is. Just live your life and control what you can control.

Oh i completely agree with buying quality once and "be done" with it, but I have to be able to justify buying a $1200 laptop for using Microsoft Office Suite and the internet. Neither of those things really necessitate much hardware requirements. How do I go about wiping it clean and starting from scratch? I know how to save things externally so I don't lose certain documents. I just don't want to lose the Office Suite if I don't have the right stuff to reinstall it. I don't know how or when, but there is so much BS running in the background and it's only ever been used for college classes things and Office Suite items.

I do really need a new laptop (or somebody to clear it and start fresh), but I don't use it enough to justify anything close to this price.

I can't imagine this will last. They HAVE to revert back. This is such an idiotic decision.

Were you expecting 50's/60's pricing to come back or something? I don't understand your comment. Also, I do believe it was said that it will get worse before getting better.

Sub 60db really is pretty dang quiet. I guess when you spend a grand on a unit, it ought to be quiet, too.

Exactly. It completely contradicts the whole "EVs are simpler" idea. And now you'd have another ICE to maintain, hahaha.

One of my better friends and his wife wanted a Transit Connect for the same exact reasons you just listed. He hasn't gotten one yet, but the hold up was the prices of used ones. apparently they hold their value pretty well and you'd be buying a fleet one from somebody with a ton of miles. He said it just didn't really seem to make sense, at least yet. If I'm camping, give me the CO2 of the F150 hybrid over the noise of a generator. There's little worse than ruining the quiet of nature with a generator running for hours.

I think it is safe to assume that @A Horse With No Name is not looking to spend millions on an RV... That's a pretty silly comparison. I thought a major point of going EV was not to have yet another ICE to maintain and carry gas around for..? If you're worried about going places that don't have a charging infrastructure, why not just save the thousands of dollars up front and just buy an ICE/hybrid and then just not worry about this situation? Get an F150 hybrid and you have a 36 gallon generator that will last you so much longer than a portable generator on top of being near silent, compared to any of the loud generators you listed.

Buying a near-$1000 generator to do outdoorsy things for an EV owner is pretty damn silly, if you ask me. Also, lugging a 200lb generator not only takes up a very significant amount or space, a 5 gallon gas jug does, too. There is no chance I would even consider an EV if this scenario was the way to get to/from my destination(s). This is possibly the worst solution to an issue that could very easily just be avoided at the dealership.

I seem to see a few of them every day. Not a lot, but a few. I'd like to test drive one and feel-out the size of them. I think they're a little too small for two kids in huge-@ss child seats, but I wouldn't mind driving one every day.

If higher voltage systems are more efficient AND last longer, then I am 100% on board with that and agree with your previous statement. Thank you for the information. I believe when I bought my Navigator my credit rating was 804. I'm not sure where it is now though. I'd assume in that ballpark. I think this is suck a colossal mistake on their part. Everybody loves mirroring their phones and can jump in any car and instantly know how that system will work with AA/CP. I have a feeling they will reverse this eventually.

Meh, charging speeds is overrated. 400V is more than enough for everybody who is smart enough to own an EV and charge at home every night. Personally, I'd rather the companies work to make them even more efficient than charge that much faster.

FWIW, the Lightning is kind of on the same slowly increasing sales trend:

I'm sure there is a backlog but they also just had their best quarter (Q3 2025) of sales since it went on sale in 2020: 20,177 units. They've been slooowly selling more and more each year.

It's funny, because I've seen the same burning/melting from modified McLarens, Ferraris, Lambos, and Audis. It's a pretty simple concept, when you're making a lot more power than the factory designed them for. More power = more heat. How have we never seen a picture of your daughters Z06?!? In all fairness, they added to the lineup before getting rid of something. The Bronco Sport was added and now they're canceling the Escape. So they haven't lost anything in the compact CUV space. FWIW, I think it's a mistake to cancel something that moves that many units a year without actually announcing its replacement. The Mach-e and Lightning are doing well, aren't they?

It's freakin INSANE how we can agree about automotive things on an automotive website. Who would have thought when politics aren't involved, things are civil?!? It's. Just. Crazy.