G. David Felt

Daffy

Amazing that some people can abuse an auto. Why have such a nice auto if you could not care less about taking care of it. Crazy.

The GM design division I think is trying to get customer feedback on a wide range of concept drawings. What are your thoughts? Have to say this is Sexy. One for those that loved the 70's Caprice.

Seems Canoo EV company out of LA California has gone into testing mode of their Skateboard concept which will have 4 auto body options on their lease only plan.

The Auto History does show some lovely options that I just do not get why GM cannot realize people would like options. Cadillac has done it recently in the Escalade. Even the XT5 did at the start have options and yet now back to black / grey it would seem for the most part. Had it in the past such as this 1976 Eldorado. CTS sedan of the past with their Red n Black interior with Carbon accents. Even the Buick Lacrosse was considered to have an outstanding interior of contrast for 2017. Buick Avista Concept was outstanding. Why can GM not realize that Black, Grey, Blah interiors we do not want. If they can show it in a concept, give it to us in production. Remember the crushed Velet 1976 Buick interiors? While not a White interior fan, I will say that the Buick Riviera Concept from 2016 was very tasteful in the blue/white with blue lighting accent.

I will say that right now the wife and I Love the lookes inside and out of the Rivian R1T and R1S. We are thinking of buying one of each, but the Hummer by GMC could also do that since there will be both the Truck and SUV for sale. I could enjoy having two auto's that give me 2,000 HP of Fun and Home charging as our next auto's if they are the Hummer package or 1,600 HP of fun if Rivian EVs.

Interesting read, Bill Gates says with a vaccine out in early 2021, summer of 2021 will return to a somewhat normal life but not totally as he says it will take till summer 2022 for the world to get inoculated and even then anti-vaccine folks will still have to deal with the virus. https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/bill-gates-has-a-predicted-date-for-the-end-of-the-pandemic?ltm=KB9FURKQLp5VtwA2ajtt%2BTsnx4WZ/UepWMorvSuxD1A%3D&subscriber_type=member&utm_term=dnl-9-23-20&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter&utm_source=member&utm_content=dnl-9-23-20&utm_medium=email

I have seen it on the Escalade and V edition of the cars at Cadillac.

Fudd

That makes no freakin sense. I would for sure shop around. I pay only a couple hundred dollars for the insurance on my 1994 GMC Suburban SLE that has been parked all year and I honestly doubt it will get driven this year due to the pandemic. Just not going anywhere. I do have to laugh at the pandemic refund checks the insurance companies are sending out to their policy holders. Ameriprise sent me an $88.00 check for the year to help me out. Wow. ?

Real Estate

I so can relate as what the wife wants and what is available are two different things. Best of luck finding that warm mocha brown interior in the auto he wants.

Totally expect it to as we are scheduled to get 7 feet of snow in the mountains by Saturday. https://snowbrains.com/mount-baker-7-feet-fresh-snow/ Early Ski season I hope! Theaters here are all closed and not expected to open till after the new year. I am hoping they will do premium streaming as a James Bond Fan, I am excited to see Daniel Craig's final movie. I do wonder about Tom Hardy as his replacement. Seems we keep getting shorter and shorter James Bond's. Also, while the fan in me loves all the songs, I do think that some of the older songs are way over rated compared to some of the newer songs. Maybe a boomer rated them.

Considering that Charging stations and outlets are far cheaper to install than gas stations and pumps, I think with committed dollars, we will see the infrastructure expand greatly in the near future. Interesting read on California's electrical grid. https://poweringcalifornia.com/californias-electricity-grid-explained/ Another Interesting read: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-28/what-the-world-gets-if-u-s-electricity-becomes-100-green

High Wind, Heavy rain, 2 inches in the last 24hrs and more to come through the weekend. Pacific storms are lined up much like the storms in the Atlantic. Gonna be a crazy week and weekend.

Yes EV's are very small compared to ICE auto's, but I think those that fear change are overblowing the battery thing in comparison to ICE. Even this report says it is very rare in comparison to ICE fuel fires. A Review of Battery Fires in Electric Vehicles https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10694-019-00944-3 Interesting read on ice versus ev and the history. https://www.automobilemag.com/news/electric-vs-gasoline-cars-history-repeats/

@ykX @ccap41 California has committed almost $500 million to expand their EV public charging infrastructure. https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2020/08/27/california-approves-largest-ever-utility-program-to-expand-ev-charging/ https://afdc.energy.gov/stations/#/analyze?country=US&fuel=ELEC&ev_levels=all&access=public&access=private&region=US-CA

Glad you like it, I honestly just cannot get into the Roman Soldier face mask front end styling. I do like the color. @ocnblu I would ask that they replace the door since they drilled it without talking to you first and getting your approval. What did you decide?

Some great CPO Luxury CUV's out there right now. Excited to see what ya get.

You can also find the latest break down of auto fires which show ICE are still and will be still far more burnable than electric. https://www.nfpa.org/-/media/Files/News-and-Research/Fire-statistics-and-reports/US-Fire-Problem/osvehiclefires.pdf To Quote the Report: Key findings An estimated 212,500 vehicle fires caused 560 civilian deathsi 1,500 civilian injuries; and $1.9 billion in direct property damage in the US during 2018. In 2018, only fires in one- and two-family homes claimed more lives than vehicle fires. Vehicle fires caused 4.5 times the number of deaths as nonresidential structure fires and 1.6 times the number of apartment fire deaths. Most of this report focuses on highway vehicle fires. ii The vast majority of vehicle fires and vehicle fire casualties involve highway vehicles (vehicles intended for use on roadways). The 2018 estimate of highway vehicle fires was 60 percent lower than in 1980, and the rates of fires per billion miles driven and fire deaths per 100 billion miles driven were 81 percent and 65 percent lower, respectively. Four of every five people killed or injured in highway vehicle fires in 2013–2017 were male. Almost half (44 percent) of the vehicle fire fatalities were between 15 and 34. Only 10 percent were at least 65 years of age. Highway vehicle fires were most common between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. The leading causes of vehicle fires were mechanical failures or malfunctions and electrical failures or malfunctions. Older vehicles accounted for three-quarters of the highway vehicle fires caused by mechanical or electrical failures or malfunctions. Maintenance is important throughout the vehicle’s years of use. Collisions were the leading cause of vehicle fires that resulted in death. Large trucks have a higher rate of deaths per 1,000 fires than highway vehicle fires overall. Tires play a larger role in large truck and bus fires than in car fires.

Battery fires are still far less than gas fires on auto's along with oil/grease fires on auto's. https://www.statista.com/statistics/377006/nmber-of-us-highway-vehicle-fires/

She wants a Crew Cab Pickup truck which I do owe her since I lost a bet to her about 007 Movie Trivia. As such, Hummer by GMC, Rivian, Ford F-150 or any other crewcab EV Pickup if Nikola or others actually deliver will become her next ride. But thank you for calling her Mrs. Statue, after all for Korean and being 5'8" tall she is very tall for a woman of Korean Heritage as well as taller than many American Men and Woman.

Boy George

No different than how people now are buying Hybrids over Gas and paying the premium for the Hybrid. People will look and if it has what they want they will buy.

The drilling is what just bogles me as even on YouTube, there are so many ways to take out a door dent without drilling. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Door+ding+removal