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    They’re cool looking, but it took ‘industrial appropriation’ to pull it off. It would be simple to make a tight seal twixt tractor & trailer; make the gap concentric with the pivot point... but then it’d always have to be hyundai tractor AND trailer together.
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    I question how these estimates are computed.
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    And what are fiat & alfa doing??
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    That's an insane, Hollywood-esque windfall deal.
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    That was my point; the Regal is now nearly synonymous with ‘awful cladding’ (of which it actually has none of; that’s merely black trim), meanwhile I basically never see the same comment made about any of the other two dozen vehicles wearing the same or worse.
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    NP. I driven numerous manuals (3, 4, & 5-spd), and I own a 4-spd currently. I also certainly call myself a car enthusiast... but manuals do not appeal to me. Its personal preference only; the ‘one with the car’ mantra is BS in my opinion, and one certainly could make the argument that refusing to drive an auto is “refusing to accept change”, were one so inclined. Personal preference.
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    In the U.S., automatics surpassed manuals in sales in 1954. Yes; I need to see your sources for “last 10-20 years”.
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    Cost. No way interested in paying that much for a depreciating asset. There are hundreds and hundreds of other much better values. I wouldn’t even put that much into my ‘59, and I love that car. Which is precisely the opinion of most vehicle consumers. Which is precisely what's keeping EVs as a niche segment after a full 20 yrs (since the hybrids).
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    Let me put in a different way. I am totally, completely ready to embrace a 2020 Porsche 911 first thing tomorrow morning. Place you best guess; what's stopping me?
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    There really isn’t any ‘party’. If and unless EVs become price competitive, they will only ever be a niche product.
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    ^ I mean; c'mon already. Lamborghini pricing there. For what? - - - - -
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    I see Bollinger has released pricing for it's 2 planned-to-be-produced models. For those of you who expected the built-inna-backyard stark minimalism and Lego styling to logically mean it would start around $40K, guess again. No; Bollinger has leapfrogged BOTH the Tesla Model X AND the mercedes g-wagon, with a starting price for either at $125,000. For that you get very very little creature comforts, a 100 MPH top speed and a 200-mile range. Good luck.
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    Well, I've posted a quarter million lovely curved autos here; I have no idea which you might be thinking of. But 'history' and 'reproduce' sounds like straight up retro. That could work, but likely it would not. Meanwhile, we all have to suffer looking at BMWs and nissans. The question I have is, if electrics ever gain a foothold in the market, will aerodynamics in the name of CAFE be able to get tossed in the dust bin?? - - - - - I don't have the link for the article, but the man's name was Henry Bliss.
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    It's not being lazy. It's being artificially and onerously constrained by CAFE, NHTSA, IIHS and the federal government. - - - - - I learned today that the first pedestrian fatality in the U.S. occurred in NYC in 1899. The offending vehicle was an electric taxi On a related note: also recently read that the federal is finally drawing up the requirement for electrics' artificial noise generation, to be in effect up to 18.5 MPH to be comparable to IC vehicles for low-speed noise/ to alert pedestrians. There goes the (quiet electric) neighborhood.
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    No comments on the generous cladding?? Oh, right; it's not the Regal.
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    Will cars EVER come close to looking this good again?
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    See page 2...
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    You mean; toyoter vibe.
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    I've heard it nicknamed 'batwing' by more than one source. I prefer the bubbletop, of course, plus this has a B-Pillar. ?
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    This showed up at my buddy's shop the other day, owner wants to get it running. Obviously has been in a garage; last registered in 1974, the odometer shows 56,xxx miles. Stovebolt 6, 3-spd manual and zero rot.
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    A billion to develop/certify, for like 300 sales per year.
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    ^ theres really VERY little stylistic difference between all the BMWs.
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