balthazar
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{Smiles, everyone!} Welcome, my friends, to 2005!!
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What a racket (updates). I have a dedicated GPS I use frequently for work. I updated it via the web. Now I get a start-up screen when I run the GPS that says my maps are 55 months out of date. Pfft. In all my wanderings, there's been 1 new road about 1/8-mile long that my GPS shows me driving over an expanse of 'grass'. 'Update every 2 years to be semi-accurate'? Hyperbole. Once every 5 years would more than suffice. Any OEM pedaling 4 updates a year is simply fleecing the customer.
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^ Again & again it happens: each election cycle tosses 2 'new lows' in candidates at the people, to try and prod the electoral college which way to vote. This time we get a twitchy baboon and a self-serving career criminal. CYA, people, only one person is looking out for you!This 'step behind / step ahead' slant is a lot of false worry. At well over 100 years history on both companies, there will always be market/ product shifts and ebbs & flows.Verification: Olds started producing trucks for export only in '36. Identical to Chevys except for badges, they went to Australia, Holland & Great Britain. The above is correctly captioned; it's a '37 6-ton forward control Olds COE, with hydrovac brakes & a 2-speed axle. Once war broke out in Europe tho, Olds ceased truck production. Prior to that, Olds produced limited truck models up thru 1924.Drew- check it !!
Made new 'KUSTOM' stream and they are there. Forum is much tidier; I may start posting again.I don't have those edit buttons in the above pictured 'Unread content' block.Camaro starts @ $25.9K. Malibu starts @ $21.6K. They are both below the new car ATP and in the same ballpark. Where the picture differs is that there are that many more layers above the base Camaro now, and that many less in the Malibu line. That's where the Camaro now can earn much higher stickers in high trim levels. Good for GM, good for those who are demanding such. There is nothing equivalent to the Chevelle Malibu SS396 anymore, or there'd be correspondingly higher trims there, too. And yep; a $60K Camaro is still a Camaro, just as a ZL1 Camaro was one at double it's base MSRP back in the day. Try again.On another board, a poster who likes to lord his 6-figure income and deride Cadillac buyers as 'value shoppers' ordered a Model 3 and was quick to point out how he hoped he was early enough in the cue to get the full $7500 tax credit (he won't). In my experience, having numerous multi-millionaire clients; they are JUST as 'value conscious' as anyone else. Bolt is likely to get higher federal rebate than the Model 3… whenever that car may eventually come to market. More at issue will be the disparity of price, when the Model 3 is sticking for $50K, a LOT of people are going to be shocked and ask 'where's the "affordable" Tesla again?'Wrong; Tesla hit 125K units at the end of 2015; Tesla is a full year ahead of GM. I do believe GM will surpass Tesla within a few years; Tesla sales are largely flat. And the incentives are pro-rated; they go to 50%, then 25%, then 0. Here's how the rebate is stepped once a brand hits 200K units :I was also born in Helene Fuld in Trenton, and initially lived in Ewing. Family moved in '75 to rural Hopewell Twsp.As of end of 2015, Tesla had moved 125K EVs on their way to the EV allowance of 200K. The brand should in the neighborhood of 175K at the end of 2016CY. By my calculations, the Model 3 will only see a short stretch of $1875 credit (25% of the original $7500). Question is, how many of the 400K people who put deposits on were calculating '$35K -$7.5K = $27,500'… when Musk has already stated most will be closer to $50K than $35K. $50K is pretty much double $28K.Only same-track times I could find between these 2 : Virginia Internat'l Ferrari 488 GTB, 661 HP : 2:45.10 Corvette GS, 466 HP : 2:47.10 That's not enough difference to revamp a 50+ yr heritage as FE into ME; anyone racing these cars together (if that's even ever happened) would be racing modified versions. In the C&D Lightning Lap, Corvette GS was registering record lateral Gs in certain turns (1.20), and lost far less MPH in the Climbing Esses than either the Porsche GT3 RS (500 HP) or the McLaren 570S (562 HP). Neither abundantly more HP NOR mid (or rear) engine placement gained these cars much, and sometimes cost them performance. 570S has a far inferior 42%/58% weight distribution, so does the 488 GTB. Mid engine is not the be all, end all of performance- a serious sports exotic has to do their homework… ALL their homework.Not bragging, just stating my scenario. Everyone is different. I naturally wake up after 5-6 hours, I'm not depriving myself. Sometimes I will clock 7-8 hrs, but it's unusual. EDIT: This Saturday morning; set my phone alarm for 6:56AM but woke before it at 6:48. No work, no where to go, just was done sleeping. Went to sleep around 12:30, so that was around 6.25 hrs.
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