G. David Felt

According to COO Jim Farley, blame it on the Pandemic but the redesigned F-150 will finally be unveiled July 25th 2020. and this new truck will have a new electrical architecture that is believed to use what the Mach-e has for over the air updates plus allow both ICE and EV trucks. With that said, Ford COO Jim Farley did say that the EV truck and Van will come to market mid 2022. So will Ford seize the day or will they be late to the party as Tesla, Rivian, Lordstown and GM have all stated they will have their EV Trucks out in 2021 and aimed at Fleet buyers. ? https://chargedevs.com/newswire/ford-coo-says-electric-f-150-pickup-and-transit-van-will-arrive-mid-2022/

Another Truck maker with value surpassing Legacy OEMs with nothing delivered yet and now what was once offered to Tesla as a superior truck to the abomination Tesla truck is now moving forward with reservations to open June 29th 2020 and deliveries to begin in 2022 with an as yet to be announced partner per the CEO interview on Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nikola-badger/nikola-in-talks-with-automakers-for-badger-pickup-truck-production-founder-idUSKBN23H39S CEO of Nikola says the Badger EV Truck will have a 600 mile range with option of fuel cell hybrid or pure EV compared to the Tesla truck with only a 500 mile range. Nikola has also started building their own Hydrogen fueling network which they say will be open to everyone with plans for 700 stations across the nation.

Tuck

Manipulation

Yes, I would totally agree with you. Sadly this is the failure of poor leadership that has forced our medical and health departments into a cover our ass and make something up during a time of investigation. John Hopkins web site was also very vague even in their Q&A area. sadly, too much politics being played rather than letting the science work and let the leaders of these health organizations state true facts of what they know now without making things up or at least give common sense guidance based on what is happening in the hospitals. Our country truly needs to come together and work with empathy more than ever to combat this. Thank you for being willing to discuss this in a civil manner with me. I truly look for the best in the future for all humanity.

Better to have some medical common sense guidance even vague than incompetent non medical folks making up stuff or trying stuff that is dangerous.

Deep Impact at Lunch, will finish watching it during dinner.

Atheist

I see the points your are making and will say that I agree in some way with it, that some states over others have stepped up to insure PPE is there for the medical, first line responders and the public is at a much larger time than would ever happen in the past due to the internet for communication to Amazon and others for ease of buying things online such as material to make washable face masks is allowing humanity to react. We are still in the first wave and seeing surges due to people getting out and about. History is on the side of this fall being worse and will be interesting to see what ends up happening. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html Good facts on the virus: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/faq.html#Coronavirus-Disease-2019-Basics Good info for cleaning and disinfecting: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/disinfecting-your-home.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Fprepare%2Fdisinfecting-your-home.html No matter what, I hope everyone here, is able to stay healthy and safe.

Xmas

I get what your saying, cold allows the virus to replicate and mutate, yet also moisture does the same thing, so too humid of a summer could set us up for a perfect storm of infection and death. This is following the same trends of the Influenza of 1918 where the first wave hit early spring and then the worse was fall of 1918 before a vaccine was created and it settled down. This time, I suspect it will be worse than 1918 as we have more population and with incompetence in government, even with states taking on a bigger role for PPE, I think the civil unrest and global stand up to the cast of 1% that think they are better than the rest is going to leave us with a much larger hit to the population. One does have to wonder since this is hitting smokers, seniors and out of shape folks harder than those that can afford to eat healthier and stay in shape how much the governments are hoping it kills off the population that relies now on certain government programs. From Social Services to our paid and due to all US citizens who have paid in the much earned Social Security check and Medicare. We do live in interesting times.

Sugar cane

Here the modeling by the University of Washington has September 15th as the rough date of the start of the second wave with 10's of thousands expected to die form the second wave of infection across the US. https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/washington-state-seattle-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-updates/281-f25ae809-6b2d-4577-8915-2c04f5655589

Reported by Bloomberg, Goldman cuts Tesla and makes GM a buy on better than expected sales. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-12/goldman-cuts-tesla-and-makes-gm-a-buy-on-better-sales-outlook

UK Unions have told the news that manufacturing is on the brink of Collapse due to inaction from the government. https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/tunedin/uk-manufacturing-industry-on-brink-of-historic-collapse/vi-BB15lU7K?ocid=msedgntp Seems they think every auto company in UK will be gone if the gov does not respond.

Tennessee Whiskey

These are the top 4 Premium II with 9sp transmission and trailering package plus moonroof.

Fireball

Tipsy

Breath mint

I cannot imagine any car person who would not love to own this. 1970 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser 442 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Laguna 454

Alto

Sleep

Hey, just saw this, did not realize Mazda is coming back to the truck market. It is an Isuzu based truck and will have a turbo diesel along with gas that @ocnblu should like. https://www.motor1.com/news/428154/2021-mazda-bt50-teaser/

Love at first site!!! 1965 Pontiac 2+2 One I will always think fondly of is the 1993 GMC Typhoon. 0 to 60 in 5.3 seconds, AWD and faster than a Ferrari 348 of the same time periof.