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Have to go older to get some strength back in body construction. This car did a 360-degree roll at 90 MPH ~

Thanks my friend. C&G says I'm 42. I'll take it.

^ Of course, one might hope (with the relatively mild symptoms you had) that it was positive.

Rivian's Amazon contract is 100K units (over 3 years), not 500K. - - - - - Allow me to restate then: Maybe Rivian should 'intentionally throttle back' on building a 2nd assembly plant until product demand comes remotely close to capacity. 33K units of cargo vans + maybe 50K units of Rivian trucks is 83K annually. Rivian plant capacity : 200K.

Maybe Rivian should focus more on getting product successfully out from Normal, rather than jumping the gun on a 2nd plant already.

Visibility in just about ANYTHING modern is relatively poor. The thick, raked pillars and fat headrests across the rear, coupled with disproportionately high decks make seeing around you a calculated gamble.

Just in time for the next strain. Welcome to the new normal.

[prepare to be judged… ]

What a tremendous miss that in the 21st century there wasn't a universal BEV plug standard developed from the start, instead of the mess above.

Engineering blueprint for fuel injection body, Tucker Corporation, 1947 :

Neat for $10 bucks :

My wife has a '16, it has about 54K miles on it now. Turbo... I don't know the displacement offhand. 6-spd auto. Power is pretty good on this combo, I agree on the handling- nothing quirky or unsettled. Her's has a leather-wrapped wheel and cloth seats. I think GM nailed the styling on it vs. 'bubbled'/taller sedans. Side contours are nice. Also like the split grille on the '16 vs. this arrangement. Here it is when she got it in '18 :

Wild :

Wonder how often they freeze shut. Look pretty cheap, and there's no seal.

Can you imagine your automotive ego is wrapped around a miserable toyoter matrix??

That would depend on how one is defining 'elective'. Joint replacement surgery is considered elective, and those procedures are happening now. RE the numbers: NBC's Monday number is almost double what world meter's daily tracking shows. Who's closer to the actuality?

Saw a Ford Maverick (the new one) couple days ago, that light gray color, rolling. It's a little bigger apprearing that I thought it would be, but it's probably the squareness of the design doing that.

^ Different sources report significantly different numbers, which is to be expected. What I wonder is; are people admitted to hospitals for other medical/surgical reasons, are automatically tested for COVID and found to be positive... are those people counted towards 'COVID hospitalizations' when they weren't admitted for such?

Are the charge port doors heated?

There’s plenty of ‘cherry picking’ on both sides of the issue. A 100-kW Tesla in ‘Camping Mode’ is going to log a lot different results than a 62-kW Leaf.

If another variant makes major inroads, there will be another booster.

Jeep Liberty here is $71, my 2500HD was $98 last year.

Just read an article out of Kentucky, where they have what's called 'automotive property tax'. Article also calls it 'car tags', so perhaps it's akin to registration. However, in KY, they use a tax based on the rolling yearly value of your vehicle. The example used was that a 2014 F-150 cost $133 in 2021, but's going to cost $193 in 2022 due to that (year older now) truck being valued a lot higher (they use NADA values)- a 45% increase.

OK buddy- thanks.