balthazar

Uh-oh.

Constantly evolving 'technology' is supposedly something everyone is supposed to unconditionally love and embrace, but the fact of the matter is, 1. it's a personal preference, and 2. most consumer technology is merely marketing. A smart phone was a huge advance over a dumb phone. An iPhone 12 is 102% of a iPhone 10. Your needs remain fairly static; what worked for you in 2015 still works in 2020 [feel free to pull those numbers apart another 10 years].

Numbers I saw said kia sold 9700 tellurides in October and Ford averaged 20,000/mnth in the 3rd quarter 2020. The ass kicking is the other way around, apparently.

If EVs ever become mainstream, there’ll be plenty of that.

How is BMW unique vs. the other makes? Or Mercedes? Or any mass mainstream brand? To be honest about it, the auto industry has embraced MASSIVE homogenization. 1990 vs. 2020 :

Rivian only has 2 upcoming overpriced lux models with no variants. Look at Tesla- they sold less than 35,000 vehicles in 2019 withOUT the Model 3, and Rivian has nothing priced like the Model 3, only like the Model S. But you can "easily see" Rivian selling 2 million pickup/SUV vehicles? NOW who looks at thing 'realistically'?

It’ll take Rivian 30 years to sell what the Silverado does in 1.

I don't know -and this is ME talking- that I care tho. Dey still nowhere near as sweet as a '64 C-10, and consciously thinking about any styling connection doesn't make me any more likely to buy one. High Country trim looks the best, lower trims look pretty rough. 2500 styling : 4/10 1500 styling : 8/10

• Finished prepping the hood hinges & shot them in epoxy primer. • Did some metal prep on the major crossbrace that connects the 2 front fenders / the grill hangs off of. Have some other similar pieces I might as well prep and get into epoxy primer. • Decided to hold off on sending stuff out for chrome until next year. If a lot of businesses shut down over the winter, I don't want rare parts sitting somewhere else for who knows how long. So here was a sched I posted in May. Done pretty good, I think (plus, I did a number of other minor tasks). The roof insulation I have been holding out trying to get exactly what I want. The door speaker holes wouldn't take but an afternoon, but the header is a number of sessions and I've been avoiding it. Will get it done before 12/31.

[raises glass] "Here's hoping Great Uncle Floyd can get himself behind the wheel of an electric car faster to 100 MPH than a Porsche 918 Spyder!!"

Except the Autoblog piece put the term "upgraded" in quotes. Then asked at the end if it was, in fact, and "upgrade" over a nissan. Schlubs.

^ You still have to deal with that poor quality, despite who's name is on the title. It seemed totally obvious via the images, but thanks for the verification. Bolinger will be the Powell Sport Wagon of the '20s.

'57 Lincoln, but yeah ?

C'mon Bill. For the same (equivalent) $90K, one could have this hideous marshmallow or a Model S- they aren't remotely close in any category other than both being electric. Progress within the EV vehicle field is inarguable. Mainstream acceptance (the lack thereof) is likewise inarguable. The market will continue to set the pace here, not Gov't mandates & bans.

LOT of ugliness in that collage of EV trucks. No way does Bolinger survive; the price vs. appearance is totally inverted. The Big 3 by far have the best chances moving forward.

Wheelies are an interesting subject. I hope it doesn't; it does have the build-in discouragement of a 123" wheelbase. I've looked at a built BBB currently for sale online. Stroked to 496 CI, runs on 93 pump gas, has the same cylinder heads I have. It's taken a '69 Buick GS to a 6.5 sec @ 103 in the 1/8th mile, which equates to a 10.1 in the quarter. I don't know what that GS weighed; but every 100 lbs is one tenth in the quarter, and my car will be around 4100 without me in it. I'd guess I'd be 5-600 lbs heavier. This car weighs 4040 lbs & runs 10.4's :

^ Don't forget bedsides as high as the roof toward the front- forget about bed access other than at the tailgate. Nope!

Poor metallurgy, not merely salt. datsuns, nissans, toyoters, honda of the '70s all died furiously quick deaths. Then you'd have a vehicle like a Dodge Dart lasting commonly into the '00s as a daily driver. BTW, the environment here is peachy. And not all East Coast states use/used salt.

That would have to happen after I'm dead and another family lives here. Tesla picl-up is the ugliest production-threatened vehicle I've ever seen. I'd rather drive the '58 Aurora.

In this context tho, 'China' and 'folks' does not refer to individuals.