G. David Felt

Posting as I cannot seem to remember if I posted this and did not find anything by Drew or anyone else, but Nissan has gone to production of selling a compact / mid size electric pickup in China. Nissan has released this pickup with a 250 mile range battery pack and a starting price of $18,000 dollars. This is the Dongfeng Rich 6 EV pickup. https://electrek.co/2019/07/16/nissan-electric-pickup-truck-dongfeng-rich-6-ev/

Agree, I think it was staged for Sunday and someone was confused between the hot and cold production systems.

Seems someone at Ford messed up with posting the early reservation system for the Mach-e. Prices start at $43k and go up. Check out the details here. Have to say I am liking the look of the Electric Mach-e

EXCITEMENT!

Cannot agree with this, IKEA BLOWS! They honestly need to be investigated for deceptive pricing, marketing and failure to support products they sell that upon return, sorry that is discontinued and not supported. Not returnable. They use tiny signage to say you have to be part of some plan to get the priced items. Hell help you if you buy a product missing parts and it has been discontinued by the company but still being sold. I get it that it is cheap, but not worth the hours you spend in line to check out, the Salty MSG heavy food they sell and the lack of quality help. If Cheap is your thing, then IKEA is your place. I will save up and buy quality over cheap. Horror stories about my kids buying stuff and then having to return it or try and get parts. I have told them knock the shit off and save to buy quality stuff. Not worth anyone's time. We really need a Love Emoji in the choices for post other than the 5 options we have. ?

Still Fuggy, looks like it got its ass cut off and makes the front awkward looking with that flat ass.

When Cadillac went to this design is when I went SUV. To me, that is what I see Kia has done with their trunk, killed the opening with a stupid look like this.

What do they see in this that makes them think BIG Americans are gonna wanna buy this tiny, ugly pos? ?

GM would probably make AWD on the Malibu a $7,500 option. ?

So True, in this regards it does fail that part and now that it has been brought to my attention, I have to agree with @oldshurst442 that small opening into a large trunk would make me go CUV/SUV if I was a car guy. Sadly once Cadillac stopped offering cars with large trunks, I went SUV and never looked back.

This is a while back, probably at least 10 years, but I remember the few cars that had AWD systems barely really put much to the rear wheels and if you wanted AWD you moved to a CUV/SUV implementation. I am just glad to know they were able to take what has been successful in the RAV4 and offer it in the sedans. This should make for a great option for those wanting or needing AWD.

You guys are talking this section of the black fake window right?

? I hope someone recovered this beauty and restored it.

@Drew Dowdell is Buick still using their quiet steel technology in their auto's or have they dropped that to just go with the noise canceling system?

Very cool, Appreciate the details about the AWD system as in the past I have not been impressed with weak AWD systems coming out on sedans, this seems to be very competitive. Should help in the winter states.

Be interesting to see the reservations numbers to compare the two once Tesla opens up reservations if they do it like they did for the 3.

Forgot who it was here that was all about the Pontiacs, but this story is very cool along with the pictures of all these Pontiac's. https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/classic-cars/barn-find-large-collection-of-pontiac-firebirds-uncovered/ar-BBWEPgv?li=BBnb4R5 Including WTF is this as I have never seen this Pontiac.

Very cool, will have to check this out when the auto's are on the lot.

I would disagree, Tesla had mojo with their initial S sales and the Model 3 announcement. Since Rivian has made their showing, the clear increase in reservations is showing that they have taken the mojo for now. Will be interesting to see Tesla Truck release.

The story says they believe it was arson, yet nothing to explain why that is.

Honda is a big seller in the PNW so probably as you guys stated the over all general shape makes me thing Honda. I totally agree with @balthazar that these cars look like crap.

To me lots of similarities from the Honda Family.

Another interesting read on a story just posted at Electrek, as we know, in 10 days we will get the reveal of the Tesla truck and the big question is can they steel any mojo back from Rivian? This seems to boiling down to a simple matter of how many motors, does it have torque vectoring and what is the approach and departure angles of the truck for real world off road use? As the story points out, we know Musk will point out the 0 to 60 time, Tesla Supercharging infrastructure, along with incredible straight line performance as they use their latest Plaid power train system. As Polestar has pointed out, Tesla Cannot achieve what Rivian has done with a brake based two motor torque vectoring system unlike the actual 3 motor system that Rivian is using as well as Polestar. They take nothing away from Tesla for the incredible leadership of pushing the EV auto industry, but they do wonder what Tesla will do to attempt to take back some Mojo from Rivian. https://electrek.co/2019/11/11/rivians-quad-motor-torque-vectoring-sets-high-bar-for-tesla-cybertruck/#more-110016 As a person who lives in a state that is very green energy production and heavy sales of electric auto's, it is amazing to hear from my fellow coworkers who are Tesla owners that they have put down deposits for the Rivian Truck. Tesla has a big delivery to do in a few days. Interesting Video on the comparison of the two.

Mercedes-Benz just released their environmental report on how the EQC impacts our planet and some very cool info. https://media.mercedes-benz.com/article/6fec9d20-cbde-4760-810e-6e0e885f36af You can read the full report at the above link, but the bulk of it can be digested here in these 6 slides.

Seems we have a new American Cruiser, Designed in California, 100% built in China and available for sale soon after a major roll out at the Milan Motorcycle Show. https://electrek.co/2019/11/12/hadin-american-style-cruiser-electric-motorcycle-eicma/ Also out is the latest G20 review for which counteries are leading in addressing climate change: Market share of EVs in new car sales, the report, which drew its data from the International Energy Agency, named the top 5 as: China: 4.48% US: 2.45% Canada: 2.32% South Korea: 2.21% France: 2.15% https://electrek.co/2019/11/12/green-transport-report-card-g20-countries/ Latest on Tesla charging is a new 28 stall V3 supercharger station between LA and Pheonix. Allowing a much shorter time for the 372 mile drive. https://electrek.co/2019/11/12/tesla-largest-28-stall-supercharger-v3-station-la-phoenix/#more-110165 Sadly it seems in Germany vandals are setting Tesla auto's on Fire. Go figure. ?\ Seems while he had sentry mode on, was too cheap to buy a USB thumb drive to record the actual video. https://electrek.co/2019/11/12/tesla-set-on-fire-targeted-vandal/#more-110083