Drew Dowdell

It's also an old money / new money thing. New money goes for bling. Old money is fine with an older Benz e-class wagon, or a Toyota Land Cruiser. But even celebrities often have blend-in cars, basic old Prius or something to go out in under cover.

It looks like they're scraper bots. They don't seem to be doing anything except crawling the whole site.

This is really annoying. I noticed yesterday that traffic on the site was exponentially high. Turns out we were getting crawled by apparently all of China. I had to use Cloudfare to block the entire country because there was no pattern of repeats in the IP addresses. You can see where I installed the rule. That's 80k hits in about 18 hours. Before discovering this, we were getting 500k hits per day, super high for this site. There are still some getting through from Hong Kong, but not nearly the same volume. Def something going on as the other countries surrounding China are also hitting.

It's probably a bit late, but there is a $0.99 plug-in on the Windows Store from Microsoft that lets your computer read HEIC files and do any conversions locally on your computer. I bought it a few years back to avoid that kind of hassle. Once you have that, I have used Irfanview for 25 years to do batch photo conversions and with the Windows plug-in, should be able to convert HEIC files to jpeg for you.

Sure has been a while. We're about to head into our 25th year!

They may be functional, but they still look silly. The ones on the one @G. David Felt posted look better.

I almost posted that first, but we only got the cross country here unless you special ordered one

yeah, but I could totally get into one of those as a wagon. (minus the silly wing and hood scoops)

Call me old fashioned, but as much as I like two-tone exteriors, I don't like all those colors and stripes. Looks like a basketball shoe.

OMG this! Everyone is doing it now. Tesla too. It's like 1986 Mercury Sable all over again.

By far, the sexiest wagon since the CTS-V Wagon.

Purely on appearances... it's the nicest Kia Soul you can buy.

Trying an AI Genesis G60 again with the link @G. David Felt provided. I like this interior a lot more, I'm not sure about the look from the front. Here's the ones from the other thread

Exterior was Gemini Nano Banana 2, but then it hallucinated on the third picture and used up my free tokens. ChatGPT did the interior.

I think that interior is a little too close to the original HI6, but it's a step in the right direction