Drew Dowdell
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From the album: 2027 Nissan Z NISMO
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From the album: 2027 Nissan Z NISMO
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Sorta true sorta not. It implies that Tesla had some sort of magic but what it really was was funding from the legacies. For many of the early years of Tesla, the only way they made money was buy selling clean energy credits to the legacy makers. Big gas trucks literally funded Tesla's growth. The legacies didn't get tax dollars for EVs until later. The Bolt was developed with GM knowing it would lose money on it because GM would never be able to sell the clean energy credits like Tesla did. The big tax incentives same later after 2020 during the Biden administration and it was the only way the legacies didn't lose their shirt on EVs. But if you think about it. Ford, GM, Chrysler, Nissan, Volkswagen, and Subaru can't even make a profitable mid-size sedan right now, much less make money on EVs.
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Most of that is old stuff. M5 processor is out now and six of those devices are M3s, one is an M2 iPad. The iPhone 15 Pro an Pro Max were not some of Apple's best work and we're on 17 now. I just can't with 4-cylinder turbos on premium aiming products. No one has really fixed the NVH of these engines and they all sound terrible. I'd really rather a small displacement 6 cylinder, say 2.5 liters with a turbo for premium stuff. Buick to Benz, they all sound bad.
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Yeah, and if you’re a dumb dumb, like I expect that user was they left the key fob inside the car
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I think that was “user error” of the person who was driving that particular vehicle.
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RIP IS and LS
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I'm going to reserve judgement on this until I see it. I think the pictures may be not doing it justice. The recent BMWs look better in person than in photos. They got the GM curse. China may be coming to your rescue. If I can get some room to breathe this weekend, I've been meaning to write up an article about it.
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I mean, even the regular sport models can skedaddle faster than anyone should be skedaddling. The Magma versions are going to be insane. Boost mode in the existing models makes you feel like a cartoon character. Boost mode in the Magma will launch you into low earth orbit and you'll knock out some of Elon's Starlink satellites.
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This is where I need the meme from the movie Clue where Professor Plum yells out. "I've got news for you! We're already there!" I think I might make one.
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Yeah probably. It's one of those borderline ones because of its shape. Same how technically the Model-S and final Regal GS are hatchbacks too. The A7 less on that borderline.
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A7 is tecnically a hatch. but correct on the rest. We were only counting sedans.
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Altima and A8 are canceled or at the end of their production runs without being replaced. There is no more challenger, that was a coupe anyway You missed Ioniq 6N and coming BMW i3 Neue Klasse
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This is a new platform over the previous body, yes. It's Aurora based and between the two, I'd go with an Aurora of this generation.
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I would totally drive a red or black Bonneville with the tan leather interior... like '93 - '95. I'd want the SSEi for the supercharged 3800, but I wouldn't turn down the regular 3800.Tall overdrive gear and good torque at low RPM. Even the 3800 powered Bonnevilles and LeSabres could manage 30+ mpg highway fairly effortlessly.I'm saying that the retail store was removed from Pepboys. Old footprint: PepBoys: Service bays + Retail auto parts and accessories (typically the retail area alone was bigger than an AutoZone) AutoZone: Retail auto parts and accessories New Footprint: PepBoys: Service bays only AutoZone: Retail auto parts onlyI'm not sure what you're asking. The private equity firm owns both PepBoys and one of those other two. PepBoys does service, but they ALSO had basically an entire AutoZone and more inside. They had a much bigger and (IMHO) better selection than the other two. The private equity firm closed out the retail parts & accessories side of PepBoys and made them all service only. There were some PepBoys that were already like that, but most had a retail parts counter also.Once the VW dealers stop suing over Scout, I wonder if they'll get the maintenance contract. Private Equity. They got bought up by an equity firm that also owns either Advance or AutoZone (can't remember which, if you care enough you can google lol). The equity firm decided that there was no point having two brands competing on auto parts sales, so they closed down the PepBoys parts (which sucks because they typically had the best prices of the walk-in parts stores) and made PepBoys service only. In the process, a lot of PepBoys became unsustainable in their current locations because their building footprint was too large for the dollar volume coming through, so many of them closed. This was mid-late Covid era, so a lot of the service departments simply never got rebuilt. Sing it with me now... Private Equity Ruins America. They've been doing that sort of thing for years and maybe the Tesla/Rivian thing will be the one that finally saves them. They were suppose to take over Saturn and Saab service too. I think they had Suzuki for a bit. They were the official service center for Daewoo for like 5 minutes.This is going to be Rivian's killer app. A CR-V sized crossover with better than CR-V sized interior room. Enough range to combat range anxiety, decent towing capacity for its size, and fast acceleration. All for the roughly the same price as an X3 or GLC. It's what will save Rivian.
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We knew Albert's job travel would be changing in the next 6 months, but we thought it would go down not up. We heard on Friday that his company lost the client he works for and they're looking to re-deploy him to other clients. He'd be a mix of remote + travel. Now we have to wait till July to figure out what's going to happen. If he gets remote + travel, I think we'll need to go with a PHEV instead of full EV. The only way we could do full EV is if he got something crazy like a 500 mile range Lucid.yeah, for me that's an extra $26 a fill up. Good thing it's almost motorcycle weather... both take premium, but it's a lot less painful for 4 gallons than 26-ish.
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