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I'm pretty sure nearly the entire country has been covered, as far as road trips are concerned, for a little while now. Obviously, the more the better but, both of your road trips have been covered for awhile now with fast chargers.

Nope, I was wrong. It's a feature in their "Premium Connectivity" section. $99/yr. https://www.tesla.com/support/connectivity Probably because it weighs less than a Suburban but I haven't looked at the differences in towing capabilties.

I'm not Drew but, I don't believe you have to subscribe to that at Tesla. Drew will correct me if I'm wrong. ?

Obviously, I'll need to see it in person but it looks freakin sweet in pictures. I just hope a few people actually want it over black, white, or silver.

I LOVE that new green/blue.

I'd be on board with that. My next vehicle will either be a half ton truck or a wagon. I just wish there were more affordable but fun wagons. The TourX is high on my list but other than that, the price doubles or triples.

No, you included Cadillac, as well. Uhhhh.. we can just agree to disagree here. No need to announce you're leaving. We all come and go as we please.

I just think it's silly that GM HAD hybrids in their BOF vehicles but just let them go. If they would have stuck with those, they would have easily been the best on the market today. It's also pretty ridiculous to think they'd be able to convince everybody to skip over hybrids on their way to EVs. All of us car guys understand the advantage of EVs but 99% of the population will not do research and are scared of a few headlines they read as they scroll the internets. Ohhhh I thought this EXACT same thing last night when I read a few things on the Cybertruck. MSRP, Range, towing capacity... nothing is close to the claims. Those ranges are only slightly further than Ford's and the Lightning came out like 3 years ago now. Ford's small battery in RWD is rated for 240 miles. Big battery and 4WD is rated for 320 miles.

I also included Cadillac and Audi, FWIW. But it isn't blindly, it's for a RWD-based architecture/dynamics. I mean, I don't have a whole lot of interest in FWD luxury sedans so if it went away, there wouldn't be much loss, IMO. There is no way this has anywhere near the same driving dynamics that a CT5, C Class, 3 Series has.

...and Ford and Ram...

We don't always agree but I certainly do here. I have no interest in this when I can get a 3 Series, C Class, Audi 4, Model 3 or CT5 for similar coin. If you ignore the dash to axel ratio, you wouldn't know anything was FWD vs RWD. I think the TLX looks good here but it doesn't quite have RWD proportions. That Caddy looks so much sportier than the TLX.

If only they'd step out of the stone age with those engines and join Toyota with modern turbo and/or hybrid engines.

I find it a little funny that my local Ford dealership has a level 2 charger but my local GM dealer has a CCS fast charger that...you guessed it... out of order.

For that reason, I only use the desktop version when I'm at work. It's a bit of a bummer but, it is what it is.

Of course there will! Then Cadillac will have horrible sales numbers because they're trying to sell the same thing at a much higher cost. Ford/Lincoln will probably end up doing the same thing but I can only hope Lincoln differentiates enough to justify existing. One of my good friends that sells at a Chevy/Buick/GMC dealership hates everything that GM has come out with. Everything electric they've sold has been nothing but a nightmare that's always in the service bays. I certainly wouldn't say dealerships love electric cars quite yet.

You obviously cannot see that you're the one who put an emphasis on "NOT", that's the the part where you're injecting your opinion on the piece.

The Problem Cadillac/GM have is that they're rebadging vehicles and as EVs, they're even more similar to their Chevrolet counterparts. They're desperately doing something to differentiate themselves, That Optiq is nothing different than an Equinox EV,,,, but it charges faster!

The current Bolt could already utilize level 3. It was a slow level 3, but it was still level 3 capable. 55 kW.

They're not the absolute fastest, just the most reliable by a country mile.

And uhhhh... how many hybrid/plug-in electric SUVs does GM have? They're trying to completely skip over the hybrid/plug-in thing while rocking decades old 3.6L V6s in everything they can until everything is a full EV.

Which that sucks because I think A LOT of people like what the 4Runner is and if they could only update the dang thing! Is it still running the 4.0 V6 with a 5spd auto?!?

Oh yeah, isn't the Taco getting new boosted/hybrid engines, as well? Last I knew, Ford and GM do not have hybrid mid-size trucks.

Oh yeah, I just wasn't about to look that stuff up. I knew it's been 20+ years and that was good enough for me, Hahaha. Chevy's been running the old-@ss 5.3 for decades while Toyota has a brand new boosted 3.4 AND a boosted hybrid in their full-size truck. Obviously, it won't sell worth a sht, for whatever reasons, but it's about as technologically advanced of a truck powertrain as there gets right now.

Fair point, I completely forgot about all of those. But, in all fairness, those all could go away and both companies would still thrive off their half tons and HD/SDs. Also, wouldn't that make the reliance on trucks for BOTH companies look worse, not just Ford? Moreso Chevy, because the current Ranger is mostly crap compared to the Colorado/Canyon/Taco/Frontier? I sure hope GM can find a buyer for Chevy, because they don't have a European partner and rely way too heavily on their truck sales.... While their trucks are running the same pushrod engines from 2000. GM relies on old tech as much as Ford or anybody else.

Considering you're using the word "truck" here. Those 2022 totals and percentages are as follows; Total Ford sales: 1,780,978 Total F Series sales: 638,340 F Series percent of total sales: 35.8% Total Chevy sales: 1,518,048 Total Silverado sales: 523,249 F Series percent of total sales: 34.4% Yeah, FORD is the only one reliant on truck sales.. Also, I'm not sure why you're using 2021 data as opposed to the most recent 2022 data that is within your screen shots. It's such a silly argument because if you take away the best selling product from ANY company and they'll be struggling.