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Oh I LOVE to engage in politics and talk politics. It is difficult for me to follow my own rule here. But there are other places on the internet for that and I would rather we keep this a friendly place. Politics can, especially of late, ruin relationships and friendships. I've left car clubs over politics and the general bad behavior associated with older white straight men of a particular political party. For a time, I considered shutting down C&G because every thread devolved into an "I love EVs"/"You're a dumb liberal if you do" fight and it really killed my love for this hobby. It has been difficult for me to return to it.

In this latest war with Canada (we'd been bros since like 1813), this American is taking the Canadian's side. That's all I've got to say on it.

Talking, in general, about politics is not taboo. Talking politics where politics are not wanting to be talked about, is taboo. Nobody is going to specific group pages (Corvette, Mustang, Dallas Cowboys, Montreal Canadians, Dale Earnhardt Jr) groups and wanting to talk politics. Go to political pages that are dedicated to talking that stuff. There are sooooo many pages/sites available if you want to talk politics. Talk politics with people who want to talk politics. That seems fair, right? Personally, I don't want to be talking about the new Silverado EV's multiple trims and battery sizes and have somebody cram some political garbage into the comment section.

On mine, there is a box on the lower right marked 'PARTS CONTENT INFORMATION'.

Just not good enough at being a motor vehicle period...just hideous, shoddily built chod..

They should have made a "GTI" version of this a decade ago. It seemed like an easy cash cow for them. Charge an extra 5-10k for parts already paid for?!? I love the idea of this.

9 times out of 10, whenever someone has to say the above, it is because it is (in fact) ugly. No amount of "seeing it in person" changes the bad angles on the back of the EV4. There is no design cohesion back there when you look at the rest of the car. It is just a mess and I will stand by that, whether seen here or in person.

I wonder why they gave this model less range (and I'm guessing smaller battery) than the upcoming Solterra, even though it is clearly a larger model?

Had a relaxing weekend at the lake, albeit still a bit cold... highs only in the low 40s. But sunny in the afternoons, great sunsets. Saturday night about 8pm...last pic is the 'pink' moon at about 9pm Sat. Crazy spring weather..70 and sunny at home yesterday afternoon, 43 and rain today. Got to wash the Caddy, it got a lot of mud on it on one backroad near the lake where they were logging.

Yes, it was a deal ... booked almost a year ago. Ends at Civitavecchia (port for Rome) Will put up photos of stops along the way.

My Saturday evening ... ... sailing out under the Tampa Bay Bridge to sea ... Before After

Another piece I turned from scrap, wanted jsut the lid to have featured grain as to not overwhelm the piece... A bowl my friend Sean Hunter turned out of sycamore, similar spaulting and insect damage. Looks much better in person... Natural defects in the black locust vase on the left, I turned that one last week.... A beetle in Mexico city, I want to go back badly. Mexico City, when is the last time you saw a rust free Gladiator just out in traffic? Mexican Beer is the bomb... Nothing rusts in Mexico City, and vintage iron is everywhere.

Wait for retroactive tariffs, ICE will be by to reposes a large part of your car and send it back across the border/across the ocean. I can't navigate to that portion of the window sticker.

The BYD Han interior does look really good. Shame the outside looks like a 2-generations-ago Civic.

You’re thinking in purely North American terms. China and Middle East still have decent sedan sales. It costs Genesis next to nothing to put a couple of these on a boat to the US with some GV80s. The boat is already headed that direction anyway. As for coupes and convertibles, these are just concepts for now, but as platform flexibility increases with the move to EV, I think we will see he return of lower volume body styles like these.

Well kids, today's lesson is: Just buy the effing tool you need. Last weekend I took the R1100RS out on the longest ride I've been on with it. A total of 5 hours of wandering. Even with 109k miles on it, this bike just loves to chew up highway. The engine runs superbly. I was really trying to burn off gas that's been in the tank a little long for comfort, but even with 5 hours of riding, I have more than half a tank left! No issues on the trip except I noticed that the right fork was leaking oil. These are telelever forks that don't actually have any suspension components in them. The shock and spring are mounted on a cantilever platform between the forks. Essentially, all the forks do is slide up and down and keep the wheel aligned. When I got back from the trip, I ordered a set of fork seals and picked up fork oil. Watched a few videos on the process and decided I was set. ALL of the videos suggested that I could get the oil seal out with a flat head screwdriver. Both my Haynes manual and the BMW service manual I have said to use an oil seal remover tool. You can see where this is going. I effed with that oil seal for a good hour with a flat head, some long needle nose pliers, even some plastic bodywork tools I have before I gave up and drove to Harbor Freight. Harbor Freight has an Oil Seal Removal tool for $7.99. I got that and a few other things that I decided I might need to try also. Got home and with the tool I had the oil seal out in 15 seconds. . I replaced the seals, topped it off with some fresh fork oil, and had it back together faster than the time I spent just trying to get the damn seal out. So, moral of the story is: Just buy the damn tool.

Old school...

Don't Ford and GM already have factories in those countries, partially, for that reason though? We both know Ford and GM have factories in China already. I'm sure almost all of those vehicles stay domestic to China, and they'd be avoiding and tariff situation. I can't imagine China is importing any Ford or GM vehicle that's built in the US. I think anybody with a REAL brain knew there would be a big spike up front followed by no real truck buyers wanting one of those things. Putting the hatred for Elon aside, they're just not good enough TRUCKS. No truck buyer wants something like that.

April 1st. The 1 day each year that we are reminded of what we are the other 364.

One of the best scenes in all of television. Everyone should watch it and remember the moral at the end.

Fair enough but certain folks need to actually listen in regards to things like politics instead of doing whatever the hell they want and then later, claim that they are somehow a victim or that they were "bullied". There is a place for political talk and it is not on a car forum (unless it is directly related to the industry, of course).

Thank you, much appreciated. Apparently, because I don't agree with somebody, I'm now a bully. I don't think he understands what the word "bully" means. If he does, he may not remember his own actions of "downvoting" others to get under their skin. …that sounds like the actions of a bully more so than disagreeing with an opinion...

But on the topic of politics. I have a tariff story I want to work on that is bound to get hyper political about how the tariffs are about to kill off one whole segment of cars. Do we think we can handle it without getting nasty with each other?

I really like this mission style table, I may try to build it later this year.

I must be in the minority, but Taco Bell never had this effect on me. I can just eat it.

We live in different worlds, brother. It does not take more than 5 minutes at a pump to fill my Navigator. If I decide to walk inside and grab something to eat or drink, sure the time goes up. Just filling a tank though, 5 minutes.

Well, it doesn't video very well, either. Wow, all the people on Kia's YouTube accounts want it?! YA DONT SAY?!

I really like that interior...

I know a lot of people who'd be all about this. That's one hell of an update.

Cruise to where?

Okay, but much nicer than the outgoing model. That one was more blah, as you say. Yes, all hard plastic given the price point. I think there's a lot of value in LE form for current times. Camrys last a long time and, with HEV, it came close to just sipping fuel.

For the most common places, I hate it and would go elsewhere. For places that I know will be very pricey and things are typically "market price", I expect it.

I hate that...

It has always been nicely laid out on GM product window stickers.

What an exacting craft with beautiful results.

They don't make anything worth buying anyway.

So do I. From 1 to 5 cups a day. I drink coffee a lot less often. Tea is good and good for you, with white tea over green tea over black tea if rank ordered. Even black tea has benefits. Earl Grey is my favorite type, and the bergamot in it makes it among the healthier black teas.

We'll I would say Tesla is falling farther and farther behind in technology for the EV industry. The Disappointing Truth About Tesla's 4680 Battery Cell.. | Watch This is a surprise that Honda has released an actual production solid-state battery plant. What Honda’s Solid-State Battery Breakthrough Tells About The Future Of EV Tech The fact that Honda like Hyundai has actual Prototype production assembly lines up and running ahead of Toyota, Mercedes, BMW, VW, etc. would tend to indicate they could deliver solid-state battery tech sooner to EVs than others.

Seems Hyundai had a record setting period of auto sales. Hyundai Motor America Reports Record-Breaking March 2025 and Q1 Sales - Hyundai Newsroom GM had a good quarter too. https://pressroom.gm.com/gmbx/us/en/pressroom/home/news.detail.html/Pages/news/us/en/2025/apr/0401-gmsales.html

Apparently victimhood cards are on sale again so I would not take such things very serious, given the source.

I saw one of these coincidentally today. Not the longwheel base obviously. Its not out yet as I understand this article. The regular one. I do not know what year it was, but it was this current gen. In person, its massive as a vehicle. Imposing. But it looks odd. Not very stately. Awkward and dare I say goofy. The front end looks good on it. But every other angle on it is just...dated. Side angle and especially the back end, looks like a luxury vehicle that would have come out from an Eastern communist block country...20 years ago. I was approaching it from the rear. It was in front of me in the right lane as I was in the left lane and I didnt notice it until I was approximately next to it from this angle. Then the traffic stopped in both lanes and I was next to it side by side. An older gentleman was driving it. In his 70s for sure. If not older. And I was in disgust for the car. The outgoing Town Car of 15 years ago or so was more elegant. Despite it being a car from 1998... Then I realized Lincoln makes no more bigely sedans... Cadillac too, has stopped with the cruiser sedans. At least for North America. I just googled to see what the Chinese CT6 looks like And I now realize that the Asian luxury market prefers their cruiser sedans to have these kinds of proprtions. Its weird to my American car style eyes. But the Caddy looks a LOT better than the Genesis G90. I prefer the previous American CT6. Our own @Robert Hall's gen CT6 is a pretty American styled sedan. But who am I to talk. I drive an American styled for the American market Honda Accord. It too, has these weird Asian style stylings.

One can hope At this point it is a done deal, I want to retire elsewhere and never see this country ever again. Politics is a waste of time because Trump and current policies are what and who a large percentage of America really is. So I vote keep the politics out. I love Maya, and agree I plan on keeping my paid off truck. Maybe I can make it to retirement, and retire somewhere that I don't need a car. That is sort of my hope at the moment.

Interesting...I like the look of the G90 exterior and interior... don't really care for the monochromatic treatment, though. I like this G90 interior color scheme more..

Narcissist never think they are wrong, nor do they ever think what they do should affect them. I also think he is looking to mess up the government more so that his companies can take over key areas to run increasing his perceived power, control and money. To Musk, he probably thinks the drop is a short-term thing as anyone that goes against Tesla is now considered a Terrorist. The conversion from Democracy to Fascist communism with what he sees as everyone should only be driving a Tesla is his narcissistic view imho. This is why I hope Tesla now fails as an auto company and everyone else succeeds as he clearly is out of his Ketamine fueled brain.

Philadelphia City Hall. It is mostly French Second Empire style, if I remember correctly. A statue of William Penn stands on top of the clock tower. It has a big plaza in front of it. I like it.

I can't believe I'm writing this. I'm purging random paper stuff I find in my luggage and I found a Subaru Legacy brochure from when I walked into a dealership right before Christmas. This was in another area where I was visiting a childhood friend, but I didn't say I was from out of town. Of course, the salesman wants to get my information and all that, and I declined, saying I'm just looking. The Chevy Malibu is now gone. The Legacy is supposed to wind things down I don't like Kia, Hyundai, Nissan and Mazda ICE products much. I think they could have done a nicer job with the new Camry, but, the plus is that Camrys will now only be hybrids. As much as I dislike and make fun of Subaru wagons, a Legacy (Limited) sedan in dark metallic blue with a tan cloth interior would be a nice little sedan to putt around in that doesn't make any sociopolitical statements. Yes, it is the ONLY one of their products I like and it is ending production fairly soon. This is sort of what, in marketing parlance, would be called "market push" instead of "market pull," even though I don't think this fits those definitions neatly. They want to "push" what they offer onto consumers instead of having consumers "pulled" in by what attracts them to vehicles. My 2 cents. I'm scratching my head.

I remember Allegiant used to fly in and out of Mesa Gateway Airport instead of Sky Harbor in the Phoenix area. Never flown them. I flew Frontier a lot when I lived in Colorado (they were Denver based 20 years ago), flew Southwest a lot then and when I lived in Arizona. I've flown very little since moving back to Ohio in 2017, doing more road trips than flying. I like Delta and American.