balthazar

My '64 Catalina (4-wheel drums, and not the aluminum upgrades) never concerned me in the least, and I drove it 25K miles as a daily... and hard. But I believe the A-Bodies -tho weighing close to what my 3800lb car did- had smaller brakes than mine.

I still don't get why they didn't put the big slab of glass in ALL EQS's, instead of cheaping out. It's a $102 grand car, for crap's sake, and it's supposed to inherit the 'flagship' beanie in some (unknown) year. Escalade doesn't have a base trim with 2 iPads glued to a featureless dash; Cadillac puts it in every one.

Moving under it's own power, ladies! 😁

Seems interesting... and exciting...

You were in auto shop at age 10?

mercedes is not 'separate from Daimler' ; Daimler was renamed 'mercedes'.

Thusly... you didn't know about the car. You're going to need a note from Drew on this one. "I was born in 1967, so I missed out on this till much later." What on Earth does that have to do with it? Do the schools where you grew up commonly teach 'new vehicle engine specs' classes or something?

Naming "schemes" are there for the inane. So are ascending 'schemes' like X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, X6, X7. Nursery school stuff. So is naming vehicles after government-defined 'segments' like 'C'. Could it be any more clinical. I hate all of it. At least at one point, decades ago, mercedes' named vehicles after engine displacement. That had actual meaning to the product. Of course, that proved to be short-of-sight when displacements changed but the advertising investment was built into the earlier numeric, so they lazily kept it and dismissed earlier claims with a 'Oh, it doesn't mean that which we said it did, anymore'. BMW did this same sh!t with the 'i' suffix. Reminds me again of all the advertising hay Daimler tried to make over their ribbed taillight lenses 'keeping them clean from grime 'for safety!!'.... until (thankfully) the trend of heavily ribbed auto surfaces grew stale, mercedes dropped all ribbed taillights (and cladding) and forget all their 'scientific' claims there. Now we have still more wildly-inaccurate engine displacement monikers tied to vehicles with zero displacement from MB. Lame, squared.

^ Here's where it's going to get truly hilarious. The 'go to' SMK play, sales volume = bestest, is never going to be mentioned again WRT MB's electrics. They ceded a full decade to Tesla in the segment and they're never going to catch up. MB is a distant follower, and with underwhelming & polarizing product here.

Looked at 4 local Chevy dealers. 3 are only posting 'contact us for price' but the 4th had this :

Literally nobody cares.

H-h-h...h-how can you not know about the Toronado?!? It's a GM enthusiast site, the owner owns a vintage Toronado, I've posted them before.... and it's freakin' an icon!

^ That's the Turbo Hydramatic 425.

It’s the first year- ‘66. Engine is one-only: 425 CI. Will find a pic of the powertrain…

I'm already done with light-up emblems. Aftermarket is lousy with them, so they're not coming off as anything unique on OEM units.

Car & Driver rated the id4 an 8/10. Car & Driver rated the Mercedes EQS a 8.5/10. Guess both are "bad cars".

Consumers have no idea & don't care what 'platform' is under a vehicle (nor how many other vehicles that same platform may be under). It's an invisible intangible.

Without ANY sort of corroborating evidence, I shall henceforth deem all software writers to be 'scum of the earth' because of how 'many' complaints about credit card fraud, data breaches, identity theft and private/commercial mayhem that's been caused over 'many' years. Abolish all the software people!! Only let robots write code/programs!! Man the pitchforks & torches!!

^ I dunno; I screenshot it off an 'abandoned' thread on IG. If you're on IG, you know it's like impossible to find anything a 2nd time.

Aren't the hackers & 'anarchy activists' also in the software arena? Can I judge the entirety of people who work creating software by them alone?

It would be cool to visit other times, sure. And I enjoy seeing other approaches to everyday life- that recent pic of the railroad bridge I posted was from the 1880s. I don't trust software folk; they exist to perpetuate planned obsolescence / hold consumers prisoner in endless consumerism loops with barely-demonstrable benefit. Pure evil. 🤪