G. David Felt

Washington Mutual Building, I love the design of this building. 55 stories tall, 1.09 million square feet of mixed use space. Was voted one of the 3 best Post-Modernist designs in North America.

Interesting that while it was used till 1988 when Amtrak stopped service to Detroit, the upper levels that were supposed to be business office space never really got used and sat empty as the train station was pushed into service due to the old station burning down in 1913. Interesting history.

Interesting, so it cost $4 million to replace the windows and they are just single pane, but was done to appease the City of Detroit due to all the broken glass and how it looked. According to this story / interview with the past owners, renovation would be a minimum of $100 million and could be up to $200 million to get it complete. http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20170714/news/633851/redevelopment-of-detroit-train-station-a-marathon Great set of pictures of the place here, 42 to be exact. https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/michigan/2015/08/13/train-detroit-moroun-depot-michigan-central-bridge/31633393/ Cool Info on the wiki page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Central_Station

Perfect Unique auto for @ocnblu 1974 Baldi Frog is for sale. It has a manual Trans too. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1974-baldi-frog/

I get and understand your point and as Balthazar pointed out, it was already validated to be still structurally sound. That is the biggest point and makes it worth saving the building. Yet as I did post, not all buildings are just glass anymore as some are putting stone back into the buildings like the first one I posted. Even then while all glass to allow maximum natural light into the building, that has not stopped them from developing unique buildings that are just plain boxes.

Triple pane argon gas filled windows can be more efficient than the thick cement and bricks. Plus already built for earthquakes, modern electrical, plumbing, etc. I get if a building is structurally sound to renovate it and move forward, but not everything that is tagged historical really is or needs to be saved. Everything wears out over time.

Who knew that SAAB built a 6 wheel station wagon back in the day. https://jalopnik.com/you-should-know-about-the-biggest-best-saab-ever-it-1826778621 Course leave it up to the crazy innovative folks that build the concepts for SAAB.

Awesome Chevy Tahoe Sleeper: 6.2 L V8 638 HP https://jalopnik.com/we-all-need-this-totally-normal-looking-1998-chevy-taho-1826773855 FYI, what you see in the video is Issaquah Washington. A lovely area and the Lake Sammamish. Yes everything here is named after indian tribes or leaders. Plenty of details on the engine, transmission, differential and more on the story link above. Here is the listing where the Tahoe is up for sale. Sweet details. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1998-chevrolet-tahoe-2/

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2018/06/12/feds-label-fiat-chrysler-uaw-co-conspirators/695076002/ FCA & UAW Co-Conspirators in Corruption Scandal From 2009 to 2015 the federal prosecutors have stated that nepotism was allowed to flourish at a FCA blue-collar training center. The law prohibits employers or those working for them from paying, lending or delivering money or other valuables to officers or employees of labor organizations and from labor leaders from accepting them. From 2009 to 2015 more than $1.5 million worth of illegal payments to UAW officials were made. Some of the illegal benefits are as follows: $365,000 Ferrari and two $35,700 each Montblanc Fountain pens for UAW leadership. $435,000 to a company controlled by late UAW VP General Holiefield. $262,000 to pay off Holiefield's mortgage, $30,000 in flight costs for UAW members, more than $30,000 for UAW party's, $3,000 tab for Wine and Cigars with custom labels that featured Jewell's name on them. The list is long in details on the lavish life of UAW leadership that was bankrolled by FCA for golf resort fees, lavish meals in Palm Springs, etc. FCA seemed to use their internal training center as a piggy bank to fund UAW leadership lifestyle. FCA says that this did not affect any collective bargaining for the UAW members, this was just a couple bad eggs who abused company funds to live a lifestyle with UAW Leadership. Yet many people who have been deposed in 2016 for this criminal investigation seem to call these so called Auto industry training centers "Centers for Hidden Relatives" due to the fact that so many relatives of UAW members have jobs in these centers and really do not do much.

Seems according to Volvo web site, that they will be passing on having a booth at the Geneva Auto Show in 2019. Seems that more and more automakers feel that their message on new autos launched at these big shows is getting lost and as such are wanting to go with a more focused intimate unvieling like at the Milan Fashion Week. https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressreleases/230295/volvo-cars-to-focus-on-new-ways-of-introducing-cars-and-services-to-consumers So while Volvo has not backed out of the Detroit show like so many german brands have done, they have decided to skip the 2019 auto show in Geneva and Focus new auto roll outs at other venues.

Investing in Zero Emission Auto's by the Auto Alliance To Quote the Auto Alliance website: "The Auto Alliance, the leading advocacy group for the auto industry, represents 70% of all car and light truck sales in the United States, including the BMW Group, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Company, Jaguar Land Rover, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz USA, Mitsubishi Motors, Porsche, Toyota, Volkswagen Group of America and Volvo Car USA.Headquartered in Washington, DC, the Alliance also has offices in Sacramento, California and Detroit, Michigan." This dedicated group of businesses sent a letter to the governors of the following nine states, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont. This group of states have not only embraced making CARB their states mandate for emissions but also have implemented the California's Zero Emission Vehicle mandate (ZEV). Yet with this done at the government level, holding their own agencies accountable to buying ZEV auto's and using them as well as having incentives to get people to buy ZEV auto's has stalled with electric vehicles sitting on dealership lots. The Auto Alliance states that as of June 11th there are 58 ZEV models on sale, including 34 plug-in hybrids, 21 battery electric and 3 hydrogen fuel cells according to the Department of Energy's www.fueleconomy.gov website. As stated by the Alliance, by 2021 there is expected to be 80 models of ZEVs on sale and action now by ZEV states are important to increasing sales and helping to reach the ZEV targets that these states have mandated. Quoting the Auto Alliance website: "In 2017, ZEVs represented 1.15% of total sales nationwide, or about 190,000 vehicles out of 17.1 million new vehicles sold. By 2025, under the CA mandate, sales of ZEVs are required to be 15.4% of total sales." Full details of the ZEV Mandate can be found here. Want to see how your state is impacted by the Auto industry, check out this map and click your state for a large amount of details on this. https://autoalliance.org/in-your-state/ Here is how Washington State is impacted by the auto industry:

All good as long as the profits come home to the USA and not stored in some other place like Apple does with their trillions stored in Ireland.

Excited to see this bad boy and see how the look is of this tuning feature pack. I wonder what the cost will be to have the superior Brembo brakes, suspension, etc. ?

Kinda like the stupid requirement to have a single tail light extra bright as a fog light in Europe. Those auto's then look wrong on the US roads with a very bright tail light on one side. Such crazy regulations. Some day one set of rules to follow for all.

Disagree, GM and Ford can have their diesel motors work to the Spec of clean exhaust. Germany needs to step up, spend the money and stop using cheat software. Cleaner air for all with less medical issues.

Very True as to why NAFTA made sense and it shows the lack of business sense by Potus. Emotional idiot child,

Musk has his key supporters that are some of the largest investors and right now they still believe in him. Yet with that said, enough small investors have now raised the when are you going to break even and better yet make a profit? If they are still losing money this time next year, I would expect some Executive changes. This is going to be a disruptive year at Tesla.

I believe auto makers who are on top of a segment will if they have to absorb some of the cost to maintain their market share, but I fully expect the bulk to be passed onto the consumer and this is going to hurt everyone. This blanket 25% drop across the board is just stupid. Would have been better to say that if a country like China is putting a 25% tariff on US auto's imported into China and we are only putting a 2.5% tariff on Chinese auto's imported into the US we match each country tariff for tariff. Honor the open treaty's we have but be a surgeon with a scalpel rather than a bully with a baseball bat. Approach industry to industry not just blanket country apply a tariff on the whole thing.

Yup I would totally agree with you that color would look good of a true Deep Forest Green Metallic like this:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/12/tesla-to-cut-about-9-percent-of-jobs-across-company-report.html Tesla planning to cut 4,100 jobs worldwide announced today via email from Musk. EMAIL MESSAGE

Pictures show they have lots of brick / cement work to be done to get it back to its former glory.

If they can revitalize the building as it is sound and keep the character as updating it to modern code and allowing folks to live above while shopping below and commute into their job. Great, sadly there are just as many old building that are in too poor of shape and do not justify spending the money to save. Modern buildings tend to go two ways, one is the glass boring lazy way and others are incorporating style and architecture into the building. Here is an example of a modern new building in Seattle that is apartments, commercial office space and retail on the bottom 3 floors. I think it is a nice looking building. Here is our Seattle City Library Building. Mostly glass but very unique in its style. Then you have the New F5 Building that is done externally but they are building it out internally. F5 network company will have it as their new Headquarters when they move in next year in spring 2019. It is just ok looking to me. Course then you have the new Amazon Headquarters building that is going up and very different next to the Bank of America Pedestal building. While interesting in it's design, it is another glass building I think. I do like the Amazon park building they just finished here. I believe Glass is such a popular option to allow maximum natural light in and to give people even in a small space the feeling that it is much bigger than it really is. Found a current image of the train station with the new windows. I can totally see this being a large apartment complex with retail on the ground floor and then the land around it as a park like area for the residents. I hope Ford lets us know soon what they are doing. Should be cool.

So you want it like this! Nothing like a Hellcat!

That is my feeling too that while the building has some great classic lines, I question just how much it will cost to clean the site up, then bring it up to code and is it in an area that can actually drive business? Will it be apartments, retail, what? What is in the surrounding area that could benefit from this becoming an updated building? The area seems to be a dead area and sometimes you have to make the tough choices to put it in the history books and clean up the land for new uses, parks, modern business building, etc.

My family has the following colors: Escalade ESV Platinum is White Diamond. Was the only one available when I went to buy. So no choice. Trailblazer SS AWD is Garnet Red, CPO so was limited on choices, other two on the lot was a silver one and black one. Took the Red one. GMC Suburban SLE - Teal color, bought new, picked that color and love it. 99 Durango Silver, was CPO so no other choices at the time I bought it. Grand Cherokee, Rhino color, bought new. I take the Ford mantra in the opposite, I want my auto in any color other than Black or White!