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  1. balthazar
    I have a stack of '50-60s house plan books. Some cool stuff in them.
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    If the red car pictured above is the Supra, I kinda like it. If it's the grey job; meh.
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    Horrible, of course. Built to float. Watching the 'NASCAR car on Nurburgring' linked elsewhere and it's interesting- my B-59 (decidedly not stock) shares similar specs, it'll be heavier by a lot/will have more HP/TRQ, but the ladder bars/Panhard bar, posi, adjustable coil overs and 315/60-15 drag radials should keep it planted pretty well. Has lowered HD coils up front (don't have the front shocks yet), quicker steering, plus the body shell was reinforced. It would be interesting to take it on a track, I'd do that.
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    I'm just reacting to your posts as written, you understand. An EV version of a next gen platform is one thing. Buying Rivian and producing that alongside converntional IC trucks, when the 2 vehicles would share nothing, is what doesn't make sense to me. In other words, were GM to offer an EV version of a Silverado, they don't need Rivian to do so.
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    You said 'use it for the next generation F/S pickups & SUVs.' I read that as all of production, not a doubling of the truck/SUV product line. Doesn't seem likely as a viable business case in that scenario, it basically would throw economies of scale right out the window.
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    "Supra loses on Nurburgring" = car not worth building. ?
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    The price of all SIlverados would immediately double, which would probably cut sales by 2/3rds minimum, if not significantly more. There's really no 'Hmmmmmm' here.
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    But you LOVE overpriced cars.
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    What "cheap body shell knock-offs"??? Where? And good luck marketing such a product when it becomes known it was built with "free prison labor".
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    I've read elsewhere that it may, in fact, be happening. Let's see.
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    Christine, gettin' snuck up on by a B-59.
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    The Dynacorn shell is over $16,000, and it's 10 pieces (body shell, 2 doors, trunklid, 6 hinges). Now they just have to add another 1500 parts/pieces, plus the re-engineering of the shell where needed to incorporate the EV bits. I'm going to peg a company-sustainable price at minimum of $140,000.
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    Having a 'Corvette SUV' is EXACTLY like having a '911 SUV'. As much as people may espouse the 'brand within a brand' ideal, it's not viable or sensible, IMO.
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    How bizzare: some studio photos, a drawing, a computer rendering and what appears to be a Hot Wheels car. Maybe they're ALL computer renderings. This vehicle will NEVER happen.
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    Why would younger people worried about having to schedule a 20 min oil change at 10,000 miles even BE at a car show? I thought this age group was crushed under student debt and unable to afford anything more expensive than a street kitchen burrito, nevermind a totally discretionary older vehicle that they are then going to put 10s of thousands into to convert to an EV? It's easy to spout automotive platitudes in casual conversation, let's see what they actually DO.
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    RE the NYT piece, some counterpoints to consider: • If/when the 'Blue Wave' hits; a number of it's players have floated forgiving all student debt, so that could disappear with a signature. Unfortunately, that bubble will just pop up somewhere else. But even if student debt is upheld, just out of college adults are not buying houses & cars, they're a literal non-factor in the economy on that scale, so their debt is not going to crash the economy. • 'Stocks are down 1.5% this year'. OMG, no. Let's ignore that they were up 19.4% last year (S&P 500).
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    The very very last thing on the mind of those restoring older vehicles is less maintenance. Restoring & maintaining is the entire point. What leads you to believe any savings seen on costs is going to be passed on to the consumer?
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    Auto headlight dimming has never not been avail since it debuted in '52, but it was primarily a Cadillac feature, so it may have seemed otherwise. GM used to market the new tech pointedly, they would run full page print ads for power steering or Autronic Eye, etc. '90s and newer tho, I don't really see ANY brand marketing a singular feature like GM used to.
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    Aging factor may be a slight contributor, but it's certainly not driving the trend. Neither the average American's age or the average car buyer age has remotely shown the degree of change that car sales have fallen off by. This is more so preference and/or product driven. EDIT :: average new car buyer age in 2000 was 43.7. As of 2015 it was 51.7- an 8 yr difference. Unless it's gone to 61.7 in the last 3 years, I don't see age driving car sales down to the circa 35% they are of the mix now. The 2015 average age of the population was 36.8, BTW,
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    Don't they need those platforms to, you know, build their own vehicle??
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    THIS is why electric cars will not come down in price either, esp since they are unilaterally coupled with running solidly in the red. Hmmm... some quick calculator work and : the 14 full electric cars available in the US right now have an average STARTING price of $43K. Not even comparable, because some -Model 3- can escalate their price by $10K or more with 3 or 4 options checked off. So, so far; electrics are ALSO driving the price of new cars higher. The couple of trucks in the pipeline are priced well over than number, so the average is going to increase. Get ready to pay a lot more for a new car than you already are.
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    Did toyoto make any announcement that the yaris is going to be discontinued? They've only moved 26K thru Nov, and that's a 39% decrease from the year before. Seems logical it's on the chopping block; all the brought-over scion models are dead, 86/FRS has only sold 3K units/yr and that's down 40%; another car waiting to die. Lexus could happily survive on the ES & LS cars (plus the SUVs)- toyoyo has a lot of house cleaning to do.
  25. balthazar
    Here's the other thing; toyota is chained to cars - that's where their volume is. Their CUVs sell well but their trucks do not, and they can't figure out how to get around that, so cutting cars to shift (partially) to trucks wouldn't work for their business model.
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