A Horse With No Name

Given the direction of our economy, cats and dogs will literally be on the table in a few months. I ate breakfast Sunday at a restaurant that's usually packed with a wait list, three other folks ate in the whole place with me. 2008 esque $h! storm coming. The Salad at the little family owned restaurant I sometimes get lunch at ahs gone from $8.99 to $15.00 in three years. The inflation we are going to face is pretty epic. And we can't stop deficit spending. The world will move away from the dollar, and then the whole house of cards collapses. I hope to live in South America and watch from a distance as the whole thing burns to the ground. The decline of empire is inevitable.

All I want is an Airbus or an Embraer wheels up headed for somewhere calm and sane. I am studying Spanish. Explains how I am feeling.

Interesting, a train for carrying Nuclear Waste.

We chatted about Corvettes, here is a C3 that has a VERY wild ride in a drag race, driver saves it at the last second. Race is at the 35 minute mark, you see more of the car at the 40:45 mark. Extremely impressed with the fabrication and build quality of this thing. Clapped out C4 is sent over a cliff in Alaska, you see the car at 1:13, see it go over a cliff at 39:45.

Lot of folks also gambling locally, so I don't see Vegas coming back.

If I could dump American Citizenship for Canadian, I would do it this afternoon. No hesitation. AT 60K, my house is almost paid off, hell I could buy that in a few years comfortably. I want to travel, badly. More evidence the economy is going in the tank. Salad I eat sometimes at lunch was $8.50 in 2022, 12.50 last fall, now $15.00. A trade war and other things, we are going to have double digit inflation and double digit unemployment before this is over. I don't know that the car market as we know it will survive. Interesting video.

In response on Corvette...

Agree completely. The Mustang GTD is a hundred grand more than that, apparently. Interesting...

In all seriousness, I wonder how the plastics in this and the seat covers would hold up to heavy use, I do a lot of hiking and get out in the wilderness often.

Whatever he was smoking hadn't fully kicked in, give it until two PM. And I say this in playful jest, not to start a C and G esque 9 page flame war. Tell me weed is legal in Washington (state) without telling me weed is legal in Washington (state). If they made a Citroen 2CV Electric model it would be the cats ass compared to this Mazda. According to some. Or to be like our great leader..."They tell me the 2CV Electric is as good as the 2040 Mazda CX 5...."

That's like saying herpes is better than getting laid, actually. Depends on the CVT, if it is the E-CVT of Toyota, apparently its quite reliable. I thought this vehicle came with a CVT, very glad it has a traditional transmission. We will see what I do for the next vehicle, a small AWD SUV might be the berries. I like this better than a RAV 4, but resale is night and day better on the RAV 4. and I like Subaru's AWD system better. Ford is canceling, the Escape, which is a dated and unlikeable product. Nissan would be a no go for me for CVT reasons, as would Honda. Were I to go Subaru, I might buy a hybrid to get the E-CVT. That would be a huge plus for me. I would prefer the hybrid anyways.

What my next quest is, maybe. Unsure, but thinking.

Things not doing great for Stellantis... Plenty of the rest of the world seems to have lost its mind. Actually, the worst thing though is that people in America are clueless about how they are hurting themselves and everyone else.

I miss old land barges.

Right now the whole world seems intent on destroying itself. Badass Pontiac. Love the paint job on this.

Quick Mustang!

A gorgeous Bird!

This car is badass! Speaking of Fairlane...

Unusual and cool GM car, headed for the crusher.

Headed to Acadia in September myself. Agree completely. In terms of seeing a bunch of midsize GM suv's I regularly see them at recyclers with low mileage and auto repair shops.

Our dependence on cars is killing us. Cars like this would be fantastic for walkable cities. The other end of the spectrum.

Actually most of those people have plenty of discretionary income anyways.

We descend into stupidity.

Economy is not doing well Grooving on the idea of a small SUV that would get me to some interesting hiking and camping spots.