G. David Felt

I watched the whole reveal while working till 2am this morning. I will say that the 7 people they had come out of the auto were all around 5'4" or so. They all clearly were shorter than Musk. What little you could see in the videos, I honestly think the 3rd row is for kids or for comfort adults that are little people, under 5' tall. At best maybe 4 people my size can fit in it but in reality, only 2 people my size as in the Model X no one can sit behind me. When it was teased under that black cover from the rear 3/4 shot, first thing in my mind was, Great another ugly Prius type hatchback. Guess I was not far off on it. Yes fits the family, I hope it is successful, but I honestly think Rivian has some better cool stuff in their auto's.

Have not seen it yet, on the movie watch list. I see what you posted so far on the movie. Does sound interesting. Do you feel it was period accurate on all the messaging?

Still interesting that someone has not thought of cherry picking auto's from the numerous lots that are unguarded and doing what those crooks tried to do just smarter in shipping them out of the country. Course, I see no reason for VW to not just dump them all on Pick n Pull lots and let the public pull and pay for the parts they want from those auto's. Money is there to be made.

WOW Pictures from a 100 auto crash on Highway 25 due to the Bomb Cyclone winter storm. http://www.thedrive.com/news/26957/bomb-cyclone-blizzard-causes-disastrous-100-car-pileup-in-colorado Amazed no one is dead, just a few serious injuries. Oops, VW Leadership makes an error in using a slogan that was heavily used by the 3rd Reich in addressing company management. Work will set you free. OUCH ? http://www.thedrive.com/news/26956/volkswagen-ceo-sorry-for-invoking-nazi-slogan-during-company-meeting

Seems all those bought back VW diesel's are prime picking for stealing and shipping out of the country. Guess they just need a smarter crook to do it. https://www.autoblog.com/2019/03/13/dieselgate-vw-audi-thefts-pontiac-silverdome/

You talking about the movie "Green Book" with Viggo? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6966692/?ref_=nv_sr_2

So then the Cadillac "Dare Greatly" is really DARE GREATLY IN DEPENDS!

What, this does not scream VILLIAN to you? Maybe more Creeper?

EV motors can be built to have a wide range of power based on the software programming. As such, going to kW and nM makes total sense as the software profile will allow you to offer a 300, 400 and 500 or more nM of torque with complimentary kW or HP. One electric motor to rule them all based on the profile loaded to it's controller board.

So then 7 to 10 of them will be sold to the Bond Movie set. After all gotta protect Bond! I can totally see this for the bond series, be interesting to see how they incorporate the ultra quiet Rapid E into what used to be noisy ICE versions. ?

With it in the next bond movie, ya know they will have more than just 2 auto's on the movie set.

This GM Fanboi can respect what you say!

Trade war is causing auto makers to decide what markets to build in. I expect a few more announcements like this due to the current climate of DC.

Thank you for checking this, I wonder why my loaner would not hold any other setting via the buttons. I thought the stop first was weird too. Thank you, appreciate what you did. That complexity keep dementia and alzheimer's away!

I understand your point but then once the internet came around and the ease of moving data across the globe, standards that everyone can understand makes infinitely more sense. Just like daylight saving time where many places outside of the U.S. have stopped using it, now many states are wanting to do the same thing which I support. Just like Metric, it makes products equal on the same footing for global consumption. My only beef here is the Rounding BS. Leave it as it really is. Let the actual numbers speak for themselves. @Drew Dowdell Love the idea of a write-up about the need to remove excessive badging on an auto. Add the IDIOT dealerships that think they can add their own big sticker or stick on badge to the back of your auto. The dealerships are NOT paying me for free advertising.

Fig Pi

While baby boomers and those that hate change will fight this, the global world is changing, EVs will happen and moving to kilowatts rather than Horsepower and Newton Meters rather than lb-ft of torque makes sense. Sadly some will get left behind in the 21st century workplace. As you know Robert working in tech like me, the only thing that is constant is inevitable change and obsolescence.

Newton meters

I like this, makes better sense to move to Newton Meters and have a global understood standard. I wish the US would get on with modernizing and drop the stupid standard system and move to metric overall. The US would find it so much simpler to do math on everything if we went metric. I wonder how long before we drop Horsepower and go with kW as a global standard for rating of auto's.

The 2019 XT5 I had had the 3 buttons by the shifter but then you had to confirm what you wanted on the digital dash and you truly had to be in park to change anything which does make sense. The only issue is that being the confirmation is on the right smaller midsection of the digital dash, there will be folks that will think they are in sports mode but defaulted back due to not seeing the small confirmation screen. I know it threw me the first time and my wife was not paying attention when she wanted to try it. Cadillacs system might seem simple initially but I think people will be thrown until they realize the confirmation they need to do via the front dash display and steering wheel buttons. Still like the XT5 / 6, but I do feel that GM can still do better.

Pony's

The Best or Nothing at all?????? ?

Found this story, very cool on GM Concepts. https://www.autotrader.com/car-news/general-motors-king-concept-car-281474979898775

3rd party after market upgrades for the fun factor

Nuggets