balthazar

Stepped over a personal border tonight. Will report back in 2 hours.

IMO, a brand that has a vehicle in the #1 sales spot for FORTY-FOUR YEARS has more 'cache' than MOST other brands. Sales = best, remember? With your metric again stated, how is Mustang Ford's #1 model? Wouldn't they have called the Bronco an 'F-100' or the like if they wanted a name-inspired sales boost? I do tend to agree that I don't care for the Mustang naming connection with the Mach-E, but it certainly looks a ton more appealing/ interesting/ aggressive than the Model Y.

Well, I don't know about a Hi-Po CUV... but a Cadillac Hi-Po BE 2-seater sports car is coming... say WHA-AAT?

Oh, right Got it. Also a 'meh' by association.

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B-but it's a generic, FWD, transverse-engined appliance! And yes; quite unattractive.

None of those are Ford-built. :)

^ Right. GM didn't have a mid-engine/ RWD/ V8 platform for the C8... before it did. Vehicles take more than a day to develop.

The "FWD / transverse engine" aspect you consistently look down on is rendered 100% non-applicable once you go to battery packs / hub motors.

Ugly but still lovable.

New Age Aztek.

I already stated above : 'of course NJ is not responsible for privately-owned stations.' And I would say 99% of the time, TBH.

No; of course not. But it seems to go hand-in-hand. Maybe. Sort of. I don't know. This state blows thru money like it's getting pumped into 10,000 giant incinerators, by the truckload, by the hour.

I like the '21 'E', esp the Premium trim with the chrome blade grille... but the Sport fascia also looks refined/cohesive/sharp. Cadillac has it nice & snug to the front axle line, too.

Me either, thru-out NJ and southern NY. Only have noticed a single out-of-order pump once every 5 or 7 years, it seems. It's more common I feel to see a pump that was obviously struck and inoperable, vs. just 'not working'. NJ is pretty on top of public stuff like this, in most cases. I believe they're near the top in road repair/maintenance per mile. Seems WA needs some infrastructure upgrades!

RE the ‘62 Pontiac: I believe the 4-spd would be a RPO by that year- it came out in ‘60. Car may have well been ordered, but 4-cog should be RPO. 8-lugs came out for late ‘60, these look to have ‘63-64 center caps / trim rings.

^ Ugh. I suspect the continual shift to SUVs/CUVs is a prime driver here; they're always more expensive that the equivalent sedan. I'd say BE's are a huge upward price wedge, but they don't sell nearly enough to even make the needle twitch.

'70s AMC Hornet sedan, red, pretty worn, pulled up to take-out pizza place.

That’s a long while back, and was rescinded; it’s not a factor now. How many pumps total at Costco? I believe mine can fuel 20 cars total at once.

But they don't need the Tesla home charger- they can "charge it overnight and be full in the morning" out of a 110 outlet (don't all Teslas come with the adapter for that?). And they'll be "charging it every night to be topped off the next day". Or so I've been assured here. But for some reason, on New Year's Day [almost everyone is off work / stores are mostly all closed], 7 local people (at the moment I spun by), were sitting at a Supercharger station for who knows what multiples of a half hour, getting kWs at double the rate as at home. I just don't get it. Yeah- it a micro sample but I'm trying to make sense of it. If it was evening hours, sure; you drove around during the day, your place of employment has no chargers, you sit at the Station for an hour to get ready for tomorrow. But on a day no one has to be anywhere... why get up, get dressed and drive to a commercial parking lot to pay double rates? - - - - - Yes, sometimes gas pumps are out-of-order; they are electrical/hydraulic/mechanical devices. But when many charging locations have 2 outlets, and one is busted AND you have to wait an hour for the guy at the other one to go... it's a far different scenario. At least by me, most gas stations have on the order of a dozen pumps, not 2, and fueling only takes a few minutes.

The "crazy" formula was grade-school straight forward : cost per mile. And the piece I quoted literally was 'real world'. - - - - - New Year's Day there were SEVEN Teslas at the Supercharger station across the road from me, with another pulled off to the side. Around 9AM. Saying 'most people charge at home' may not be accurate... because at that date & time, the station should've been completely empty. If most people charge at home, why the fenzied push to build more & more Supercharger stations? Doesn't everybody have an electrified home?

It's 2021, but we can't seem to get electricity to flow with a consistent dispensing rate. It's not like these are 1970s 'electron pumps' that haven't been calibrated since 1981 or something.

Here's another article that seems to show that the much-touted EV fueling savings either have major caveats... or don't exist. This is not the first time these hard data examinations have dispelled the common breezy press release narrative. https://autos.yahoo.com/tesla-model-3-proves-evs-202600251.html Seems that if you use a Tesla Supercharger regularly, you not only are paying the equivalent kw of $8.75/gal of gas, but your fuel cost per mile is on par with a BMW M340 with a 382-HP 6-cylinder getting 26 MPG. - - - - - MB's uses 3 separate screens behind one plane, it's not a true full-width screen. The different shapes/sizes/positioning of the screens also looks pretty haphazard. They stretched it to go around the HVA/C vents to make it look a lot bigger than it actually is... which also makes it look a lot more bland. Could use some subtle framing...