ccap41
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I think this part is where things will become too costly for a business standpoint. They definitely cannot do this at all dealerships as not all Chevy dealerships are 1) Cadillac dealers so you will not get the level of treatment you're talking about(that I agree with) and 2) They aren't all large enough to even partition off a part of the showroom for something like this without rebuilding the entire building. Everything else you said I pretty much agree with 100%.
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Haha no problem! ..probably because it was surprisingly low on the lap time..
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Ehhhh Camaro doesn't look the greatest to me, I'm over the Viper.. Just better all around cars for the money, imo. It's a monster track car but it sucks at anything else. But I do love Cadillac and Mustangs! Did you watch any of the lightning lap videos? The Grand Sport looked like you could do almost anything with it and it would just stick.The V6 1LE actually didn't even sound too bad either.. Grand Sport, GT350R, and 1LEs are just monsters in their respective classes. US really had a great showing."Birds vaporized by Ferraris: 1" - Hahaha best thing read in the article! 1LE in any form is one badass track-ready car. Period. Little Focus RS on the heels of the 707hp Charger is pretty cool. Grand Sport punches waaaay above it's weight class on a race track. It finished basically door to door with the baddest of the bad 911's. GT350R put a surprising hurting on the M4 GTS. By the ways of 1.1 seconds. 130k track-ready M4 bested by a Ford at it's own game. V6 1LE bested a 2011 GT500, 2015 Mustang GT, 2009 CTS-V, 2011 CTS-V Coupe, 2007 R8, 2008-9 M3, 2006 Vette Z51, and the list of impressive cars it put the smack down on goes on... Alpha:1 World: 0 ...I still don't care about the Viper...Good, be picky about where you get your tint. If it gets screwed up it's a pain to either get places to fix, schedule another appointment, or even find a second place to fix it.Absolutely. The only times I drive more than 200 miles in a day are visiting my sister which I just looked up my address to hers and it's 335 miles. So I would definitely need a charge up in the middle somewhere. Other than that even a 100 mile day is pretty rare for me. With that said.. Having a 100 mile day being rare a Volt fits in there pretty well because MOST of my driving daily is only about 20-25 miles mon-fri and usually more on the weekends.You even said 170-200k range for the first year or so. Even cut that in half to 85-100k and I don't know about you but saying "same area" as the current Vette isn't 35k or 37% MORE. I'd give 10-15% mark up to be in the same area but not 37% cutting your 170k in half to 85k. I said no chance because from what I've heard the current Vette will still be along side it so there has to be some price spread to make it even worth buying the "regular" Vette. No it doesn't HAVE to be priced way higher but we all know it will with the other Vette still hanging around. They will want some exclusivity and it will likely have a new engine, new everything, and be one badass car. I just don't see any way this will be priced "near" the current Vette...Ahhh I didn't know this. Good to know."About a half hour or so later, the little Chevy Bolt and I rolled into the restaurant parking lot. I parked at a Level 3 fast charger and plugged in. Without particularly trying, I’d covered 241.4 miles, averaging 4.6 miles/kW-hr with an estimated 38 miles of range left. According to a screen I can’t specifically talk about, I’d used 51.9 kW-hrs of the battery’s 60-kW-hr capacity. Chevy says the Bolt, supported by Level 3 chargers like the one I’d plugged into, can gain 90 miles worth of range in 30 minutes, 160 miles worth in 60 minutes, and a full 238 miles of range in about two hours." MT Bolt "Review" I thought that was way cool. Sounds VERY promising!The math should be do-able minus the start-up building a charging infrastructure that would probably be the most costly for a fleet of buses. Well...nvm.. No clue how many miles they drive daily/yearly to calculate anything. Edit: I thought this was pretty cool venturing from that link you posted, dfelt. "In general, most American transit systems expect their buses to have a useful life of twelve years and 250,000 miles." So really, they only have a useful life of 12 years or 250,000 miles. Figure the math for that shouldn't be too difficult then.Ohhhhh Okay, I gotcha. I gotchaI could also see a bus like this having about 2 more rows of seats in the back because they don't need a huge diesel engine and a cooling system back there. the entire bottom could be batteries as tall/thick as they need them and it will still likely have a lower center of gravity than what's out now. More seats, ass ton of batteries, crazy range. This is huge and if the companies using these can get a good charging system(hopefully a majority can be subsidized by solar) I don't see why every city/county(the bus I use is county owned/run)/state/private business shouldn't use these.Cool beans, no worries. I just want to make sure all of the credit goes to dfelt for his article.On the timeline there are multiple lines of the same "thread title". I thought I've changed my "stream" to not show things like that. Also, kind of a side question, how do I delete or edit a custom stream?
This thread was started by me..? Huh?@Drew Dowdell "This topic will be closed to further replies as an article version has been created. you can copy/paste your comments into that one once it is published." This is a prime example of what I think @dfelt and I have been talking about.Well, while not including the C8 because I want pictures..lol 2005 Ford GT 2017 Ford GT 2004 Cobra 1969 GTO Judge 2017 GT350R 2017 ZL1 2002 WS6 Trans Am Now for the dailies.. CTS-V Raptor or FX4(No reason not to get the raptor..) GMC Denali 2500 DieselYup, it's a pretty terrible segment, for the most part. Even in the compact car segment there are 'hot' versions. I mean the new Fusion Sport is about it now.I think I have my list but I'm going to sit on it for a bit to make sure something else doesn't come to mind.. I'm not 100% about one of them.. Does the C8 count as a "one off" or "prototype"..? Or can't use it yet?
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