G. David Felt

Very cool improvement that Cadillac will get first with their EV Lyriq. https://electrek.co/2020/10/19/gm-cadillac-lyriq-electric-suv-crazy-head-up-display/

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Amazing how much aftermarket has done to tune these trucks to over 600+ hp and some truly single digit quarter miles.

I can see GMC doing a 21st century GMC Syclone EV versions of this AWESOME Truck!

Commercial Remember the singing cats? "Meow Meow Meow Meow"

Cool cars, did not know that Alfa did these concepts.

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Did my weekly Costco run and found this Cherry of a Chevrolet El Camino!

Nice Looking STS! Robert, so she is going from a 2 car owner to just her AWD CUV? Or is there another auto in the works? ?

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Magna International has purchased a stake of up to 6% or $3 Billion in Fisker and will be the official builder of the Fisker EV SUV. Magna of Canada is the first known contract manufacturing of an EV and will build the Ocean SUV for the European market in their Graz Austria plant. The Ocean Fiskar SUV will start at $37,499 and have a 3rd row seating option. Production will begin in November 2022 for a 2023 availability. Video showing the running concept suv in the story link below. https://www.autoblog.com/2020/10/15/fisker-magna-financial-stake-will-build-ocean-suv/#slide-2213067

EV News of the day: Foxconn, the maker of iPhone has released their EV chassis system for those wanting to build their own EV's. Foxconn says they plan to have 10% of the global market by 2025. Foxconn also announced they will move from traditional battery packs available now to solid state in 2024. Foxconn is currently a battery supplier to Tesla in China. https://www.autoblog.com/2020/10/16/foxconn-ev-plans/ BMW/Mini is recalling ALL 2020 PHEV models. To quote the story the following is the recall list, a voluntary recall which is weird when it is a fire risk. BMW is not clarifying what in the assembly by BMW of the battery pack is causing the fires, but they expect to begin repairs on the 26,700 PHEV's they manufactured between January 20th and September 28th 2020 https://www.autoblog.com/2020/10/16/bmi-mini-phev-recall-fire-risk/ QUOTE: The list of cars affected by this voluntary recall includes 2020 and 2021 examples of the 530e, the X3 xDrive30e, and the Mini Countryman SE, coupe and convertible variants of the 2020 i8, as well as the 330e (pictured), the 745Le xDrive, and the X5 xDrive45e from the 2021 model year. All are equipped with a lithium-ion battery pack whose cells might have been contaminated by debris during the manufacturing process, according to a recall notice issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

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Good info on GM's future of an All-Electric Reality. https://www.gm.com/masthead-story/ultium-battery-electric-future.html

GM Announced today their Electric Vehicle-only 'Factory Zero' to produce the GMC Hummer EV pickup. Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center will be converted to a EV only production facility. GM will invest $2.2 Billion into Factory Zero for retooling and upgrades of the assembly line allowing GM to build at scale luxury Trucks and SUV EVs. Upon full operational, the plant will produce 2,200 jobs and more as demand grows. Factory Zero is being rebuilt with sustainability in mind as everything will be repurposed, recycled and with the change to the plant for EV production, 16.5 acre wildlife habitat will become a home for monarchs, foxes, turkeys and more. Two videos in the story that cover todays announcement and relabeling of the plant. https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/home.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2020/oct/1016-event.html

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SS and Escalade need a wash and wax for the fall/winter season. Rain has come back into the daily weather.

Bacon Lovers Rejoice, Time for the Ultimate Face Mask and Smell. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2020/10/14/hormel-black-label-bacon-face-masks-giveaway/3653043001/

Find this video to be a very balanced review of the F-150 EV truck versus the Tesla Cyber Truck. Thought this was also a good video about the up coming top 5 EV trucks.

Want a good laugh, watch this Cyber Truck review as this guy is a hard core Tesla lover. At 10:03 you can see a bit of the side to see how TERRIBLE the design is as the back seats are a good 6 inches below the front seats. As such, the people in the back will never see out the front as they will be sitting in a hole. Terrible truck design. The guy does nail one thing right, stop thinking of this as a truck and think of it as a new category of auto. What that is I have no Idea, but after seeing and listening to this guy, I AM NOT SOLD on the Cyber Truck.

Tesla Owners

For the Car or the Mini Skirt Woman?