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Most Tacoma and Colorado owners carry their bikes same way, difference is you can fit couple bikes instead of one. Diesel? First of all diesel is as expensive, secondary according to fuelly, for diesel: I would be interested to upgrade if they make maybe this little guy as a hybrid or even EV so I get a serious jump in fuel economy.

Simple solution that I implemented on my wife's SUV - all weather rubber cargo mat. I use my wife's crossover often for Home Depot duty and of course it gets dirty, so I only need to wash the rubber mat and it is all good. No need to overcomplicate things. Sometimes things don't fit inside and open bed will be more useful. For me personally, I do mountain biking and if I can just throw a bike in a bed instead of taking on and than removing bike hitch that would be a huge convenience. But due to my long commute, truck even a compact, would kill me on fuel costs.

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Sport Adventure Vehicle is probably a good description for it. Looks like will be good for people who do outdoor stuff or small Home Depot runs for the house, but don't want a bigger, less efficient truck. Ground clearance is 8.6in which is respectable. If they make more efficient, maybe hybrid model, I would probably consider it as a daily.

The only reason ICE vehicles considerably increased in costs is because now active safety systems became standard. That alone increased costs of all vehicles by at least $3-5k. Before active safety systems came into play the yearly increase in vehicle cost was only few hundreds at most to compensate for the inflation. The price disparity between comparable ICE and BE vehicle is still significant and so far doesn't seem to decrease. It might change in the future, but as of right now it is a valid argument. It is a dead horse argument already but so is getting daily bombarded about other side of the argument which you seems to ignore.

https://www.torquenews.com/1083/toyota-rav4-prime-2nd-fastest-selling-vehicle-america Toyota RAV4 Prime Is 2nd-Fastest-Selling Vehicle In America. A new study ranking the fastest-selling vehicles in America puts the RAV4 Prime second only to the Chevrolet Corvette. ----------- Seems at least for now, people prefer the flexibility of PHEV over pure EV. (Also number one is a kick ass ICE vehicle )

@David Any reason you are using this company wax products? I am going to do it sometime soon, but never did wax before.

Top Plywood Companies and Manufacturers in the USA and Worldwide (thomasnet.com) Hmmm, I don't see ONE company located in Texas. Not sure what power outage has to do with plywood or Tesla price increase. Care to expand?

Exactly. Everyone likes what they like. For example, I personally like cars from 50s even though they are way before my time, just like their swoopy aerodynamic (or what they thought aerodynamic at that time) shape. It just balthasar and David making comments about how badly designed old Ferraris or Lamborghinis are while adoring some over chromed bricks seems a bit funny to me. But as they say, whatever floats your boat.

Personally to me Mehh is most American cars from the late 60s, early 70s and 80s you guys are posting. Huge, misproportionate, land yachts full of chrome and bad taste. I don't see them as beautiful at all. Plus they drove like crap too. The only cool cars from that period are muscle and pony cars. But that's just my personal opinion

Sure, nothing special. I am not a Lamborghini fan but at Car and Driver Lightning lap Urus ran 2.55.8. Just for comparison Cadillac CTS-V did in 2:56.8, Camaro SS 1LE did the lap at 2:54.8, C7 Corvette Stingray did it in 2:53.8. It is much faster than Q8

That bike is cool as hell! Congrats!

I love Durango and would love to have either Hellcat or Jeep but you do realize at warmer temperatures Urus would probably win even in a straight line? And if there will be turns, like track or twisty road it will easily walk away from both of them. Urus faster than most sports cars. Nevertheless, there is something infinitely cool about large three row SUV that is that fast.

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I really like the Kia twin , but Sonata front is so horrendous! How a designer could think that it will be a good look? I wonder how it compares to Accord Hybrid.

I know that AZ vaccine is using completely different technology than Pfizer and Moderna and I wasn't implying that system is broken. Not sure where you got it from my post. Please show were exactly I wrote anything even close to that. It was released in Europe and it was in the process of certification here in US. I am just saying that FDA certification process is not a bunch of bureaucratic red tape like some people implied here.

Proper testing and certification is in place to avoid things like that: Official: EU agency to confirm AstraZeneca blood clot link (apnews.com) A top official at the European Medicines Agency says there is a causal link between AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine and rare blood clots

I want to summarize points I wanted to make. Correct me if anything I say is wrong: 1. mRNA based vaccines were never used on a wide scale before. Yes, there was a long research before but until now it didn't achieve any commercially available vaccines and medications. 2. FDA gave Pfizer, Moderna and J&J vaccines Emergency TEMPORARY approval (EUA) because of the pandemic in order to bypass regular medication certification process. That process is not just bureaucracy, but was written with human lives when there were failures or misdirections from pharmaceutical companies. 3. Pfizer and other companies will have to submit for a permanent FDA Biological License Approval when they have enough data to get fully certified that vaccines are safe short and long term. It might take few months, it might take few years. They still collect data. Basically the whole world is one big experiment at the moment. 4. At the moment all the vaccines are very effective with very small percentage of people having severe reactions to the vaccine. There are still a lot of questions to be answered. So I perfectly understand some people who are cautious at the moment. Personally, to me the question is a consideration between getting sick and possible long term affects of the vaccine. I choose vaccine because like many others I want to continue my life. However, if I have a choice, I prefer J&J vaccine.

All these renderings were taken from reliable publications, like CDC and WHO and medical magazines, not Wikipedia However, here if you like quotes from wikipedia: The rhinovirus (from the Greek ῥίς rhis "nose", gen ῥινός rhinos "of the nose", and the Latin vīrus) is the most common viral infectious agent in humans and is the predominant cause of the common cold. There are no vaccines against these viruses as there is little-to-no cross-protection between serotypes. At least 99 serotypes of human rhinoviruses affecting humans have been sequenced.[23][8] Nowhere it says that common cold is in the coronavirus family.

I didn't say say that. It seems you do not follow what I am trying to say. This is COVID-19 under microscope This is Flu virus under microscope This is common cold under microscope COVID-19 closer to flu in its structure than to the common cold

Seriously? I just gave you a quote from Society of Microbiology on precise definition of Covid and flu genome and you give me Wikipedia quote and compare it to Sonic?

I think all big cities that have a lot of traffic and that experience real winters have really bad roads. NYC is not much better, maybe even worse.

How you criticize this as design problem when you like this ugly, over chromed, disproportionate thing?

NOWHERE I compared COVID with the flu. Talk about taking things out of context This is what I said and the point was that different people react to illnesses differently. If anything COVID closer in its structure to the flu. This is from American Society of Microbiology COVID-19 and the Flu (asm.org) "Coronaviruses and influenza viruses are both enveloped, single-stranded RNA viruses, and both are encapsidated by nucleoprotein. However, the genomes of these 2 viruses differ in polarity and segmentation. Influenza virus is comprised of 8 single-stranded negative-sense, viral RNA segments. SARS-CoV-2 has single-stranded, non-segmented, positive-sense, viral RNA. "

Are you serious? Talk about taking out of context. I thought this thread was called Vaccine discussion, but i guess it is only "discussion" if you agree with everyone, otherwise people are getting attacked.