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Toronto Transit is starting to use BYD electric buses in 2025. There is a factory in Ontario building them. Thanx for the links. I am intrigued by BYD. I am not opposed to BYD EVs as much as I thought I would be and t has nothing to do with the political climate we are experiencing right now. I didnt think Chinese automanufacturing would be as advanced as it is. BYD is impressive. And I feel like I did a massive arrogant error in thinking that Chinese vehicles would be sooooo inferior to Western automobiles. Part of the mis-information that our Western media and thought processes go, I guess. My daughter is taking an Oriental history class in university this semester. The course is focused on Korea, China and Japan. I am helping her with several essays that she needs to write for the class. Yeah, I am reading her material in detail as if I was taking the course. LOL. I am fathoming a guess that this would be the primary reason as to why I have switched my focus to BYD automobiles lately.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/canada-dream-supersonic-bomber-avro-arrow/index.html

^^^ I havent really read any technical data about the BYD battery system. I was going off on the sensationalist headlines and youtube thumbnails to base my quick opinion of it. I said this and left it on the table because I had a suspicion that there was some sort of catch. Thanx @Drew Dowdell for the info. Ill look more into it. Intriguing BYD is at this moment. Im not trusting of BYD just yet. I will not make the mistake in praising BYD as quickly as I did with Tesla a decade ago. I regret being naive about Tesla. And although the Model S was a huge leap forward and was quite the impressive machine when it debuted, I feel like even though the Model S was thst good, I feel I was duped just the same.

A Canadian tariff story: https://www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/article/its-just-surreal-winnipeg-man-brings-dream-car-home-after-tariff-border-battle/#:~:text=A Winnipeg man's tariff nightmare may have all been caused,“I feel just great. It started out as a nightmare experience when the 77 year old man from Winnipeg tried to bring his recently bought 1968 dream car Charger from the US somewheres across the Canada/US border. He paid $98 000 US for it. Only for the Canadian border guards to tell him that his car will cost him an additional $46 000 CDN because of these new tariffs that the US and Canada are flinging at each other. (Lets NOT forget that it was Trump that declared war on Canada first. Canada is just responding to protect themselves from Trump's declaration of economic warfare) (I have to always repeat this as it seems US news outlets and media personalities like to down play it mis and dis informing Americans) (Many Americans ARE aware, but not enough of them in my honest opinion) Through a couple of days of looking at the laws and the tariffs of what those tariffs contain about what years of cars would it affect and when all those details would actually come into effect a happy ending actually did take place. He didnt have to pay the additional $46 000 CDN in tariffs. Details as to why are explained in the article. But it is a warning to ALL involved. Both Americans and Canadians alike. Like Drew has stated: Canadians and Americans have been brothers and sisters since the 1800s. Earlier than that actually. Press secretary Leavitt scolded France last week telling France that if it werent for the US during WW2, France would be talking German. Her ignoring the fact (mis information) that the US was Johnny come lately and in actual fact, it was Canada and Australia that loosened the grip of Germany in the West. (just plain ol' American arrogance as that was always the popular narrative) the D Day was a success LARGELY because of Canadian troops (but the truth is that). But even BEFORE that. The US BECAME a country BECAUSE of France... And the French settlers in what would be Quebec, Vermont and upstate New York after 1776 and 1812... (Just plain ol dis-information to keep Americans dumb. Americans do not realize that France bankrupted herself to stick it to England for America to become its own country away from England. And many King loyalists fled the new American colonies to join NOT the French colonies in Lower Canada, but for the Brits in Upper Canada. The French colonies fought alongside the Americans in 1776.... THAT is how close ties the US and Canada have. But mis information at its best. And plain ole uneducated talk from Trumps administration!

https://www.thewrap.com/the-view-ana-navarro-begs-canada-to-become-51st-state/ The hosts of “The View” may think Donald Trump’s endeavor to make Canada the 51st state is an absurd one, but realizing how Canada’s politics actually lean, Ana Navarro is begging them to just “take one for the team.” “It’s larger than the state of California. So if you imported 40 million Canadians, and made them the 51st state, it would be democratic rule for the next 20 years,” Farah Griffin added. Looking at those numbers, Navarro put out her request to Canadians. “Canada, take one for the team!” she begged. “Please, people, save us!” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is why I refuse to be muzzled on topics of politics. We want to run away from the political climate. We cant. Too many Americans view politics as a nuissance. At best. At worst, its taboo. Too many are uneducated. Too many make decisions that affect the whole damned country in a very negative way. Take the article I just linked above. Is it a phoquing joke to you that we are talking about the phoquing sovereignty of another nation? It is NOT a phoquing joke. And when a political leader threatens another country the way Trump has in regards to Greenland and Denmark and Canada, It is is a LITERAL declaration of war!!! It is a LITERAL act of war!!! It is NOT a joke. And in fact, the way Trump has acted in the face of Canada (and Greenland), it desensitizes the American people and it facilitates any aggression towards Canada or Greenland. And by too many Americans regarding politics as a nuissance or taboo, or basically garbage even in an automotive forum, it renders too many voting Americans stupid and uncapable of actually making the right and necessary decisions to protect themsleves from nefarious individuals. And THAT has made it a phoquing problem for ALL Canadians and Greenlanders... Let alone for the rest of the good natured Americans who are stuck living this nightmare. “Canada, take one for the team!” she begged. “Please, people, save us!” Save you own selves you lazy pieces of shyte!!! Learn to be political. Stay educated, informed and fix your own phoquing problems...and stop making it a problem for us Canadians. And Greenlanders. You think this is a joke? THIS is what Canadians think about the USA now. This was a speech yesterday BEFORE today's talks about it being a good call. It was right after the Signal app message text war/fight information scandal (for phoques sake...become political and get this President out of office!!!), right after Trump's tariffs on Canadian built cars to draw attentiion to tariffs rather than yet another phoquing illegal scandal... THIS is what Trump has has made out of Canada's relationship with the US. THIS is how we Canadians are feeling. And THIS is why I REFUSE to be muzzled. Maybe for you American phoques to wake the phoque up. Too lazy to be political. To stupid to be political. To mis and dis informed that Fox news, and all other media outlets are phoquing LYING to you. Are making a mockery out of you and your democracy. Wake the phoque up and trust me, Ill help you wake the phoque up!!! Too phqouing bad if you have to read this in an automotive forum. You have to read it somewhere. Ill force feed it to you. I did promise I wont be toxic. But how the phoque do you think I feel as an Canadian when an American journalistic personality is MINIMIZING MY phoquing identity as a CANADIAN to help you phoquing fix your shytty phoquing laziness and stupidity!!! Dont undermine MY sovereignty. WAKE THE PHOQUE UP AND FIGHT FOR YOUR OWN GOD DAMNED FREEDOMS BECAUSE YOUR OWN PHOQUING STUPIDITIES ARE THREATENING MY GOD DAMNED FREEDOMS!!!

Yup. If BYD's battery system tech is true with 100% charging in 5 minutes. Pretty much everybody is toast. And it does not matter if the US and Canada tariff the crap out of BYD and Chinese EVs from their respective markets. BYD is already in the process of flooding their EVs all OVER the planet. Including Mexico. And if Trump pisses off Canada even more with tariffs, forget about Canada banning Tesla from the Canadian market in retaliation, Canada might just erase the 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs and will let BYD flood our market too. If GM and FoMoCo Ontario plants close, BYD might be welcomed to use them. China last week or two punished us with 100% tariffs on our porc and other food products that we sell to them. Retaliatory. (where have I heard that word before?) Chinese importers will simply buy porc from other countries hurting our industry... If American tariffs on GM of Canada vehicles and FoMoCo Canada vehicles is still a go, our factories might close, but maybe if we let BYD flood our market, it will hurt GM and FoMoCo THAT much more. And it doesnt matter actually, Trump's economic war with ALL of its allies will doom GM and FoMoCo anyway.

Ive thought about it. And there are literally no luxury sedans (the big ones) in this modern era of the 2020s (and to be more precise to use 2025) that I currently lust for. Nothing from Bentley or Rolls Royce. Nothing from Mercedes or BMW. The Audi A8? I dont like it. I like the medium version of the A8. The A6. Precisely, the RS6 Avant. This. Americans dont do sedans anymore. OK...Cadillac has got the CT5. But it aint a big cruiser sedan. I do like the Black Wing V Series. I dont lust after it anymore. I got over it.

I saw one of these coincidentally today. Not the longwheel base obviously. Its not out yet as I understand this article. The regular one. I do not know what year it was, but it was this current gen. In person, its massive as a vehicle. Imposing. But it looks odd. Not very stately. Awkward and dare I say goofy. The front end looks good on it. But every other angle on it is just...dated. Side angle and especially the back end, looks like a luxury vehicle that would have come out from an Eastern communist block country...20 years ago. I was approaching it from the rear. It was in front of me in the right lane as I was in the left lane and I didnt notice it until I was approximately next to it from this angle. Then the traffic stopped in both lanes and I was next to it side by side. An older gentleman was driving it. In his 70s for sure. If not older. And I was in disgust for the car. The outgoing Town Car of 15 years ago or so was more elegant. Despite it being a car from 1998... Then I realized Lincoln makes no more bigely sedans... Cadillac too, has stopped with the cruiser sedans. At least for North America. I just googled to see what the Chinese CT6 looks like And I now realize that the Asian luxury market prefers their cruiser sedans to have these kinds of proprtions. Its weird to my American car style eyes. But the Caddy looks a LOT better than the Genesis G90. I prefer the previous American CT6. Our own @Robert Hall's gen CT6 is a pretty American styled sedan. But who am I to talk. I drive an American styled for the American market Honda Accord. It too, has these weird Asian style stylings.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64320707/2025-chevy-corvette-c8-lingefelter-v8-engine/

Trump did call our Prime Minister by his actual title. Prime Minister and not governor. He did say it was a good call. (But werent all calls from the US to Canada since all this tariff nonsense began were good calls?) PM Carney also said it was a good call. Trump did lie that other countries have apologized to him... As if all other countries have taken advantage of the US. Like he keeps on crying on about puffing his chest. (Elbows up Canada!!! Right to his unprotected head) Trump playing the victimhood card is a bad look in my opnion. Makes the US look really really weak. Like the US never had a backbone. And with Trump in charge a spineless backbone even worse... Al, that though still doesnt change the fact the Canadians will NOT be buying anything American for a very looooooong time. Damage is done. Elbows up!

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/our-staff-made-a-mistake-toronto-blue-jays-fan-tossed-from-rogers-centre-for-sporting-canada-is-not-for-sale-hat/ https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/never-take-that-hat-off-doug-ford-calls-blue-jays-fan-who-was-removed-for-wearing-canada-is-not-for-sale-hat/

I wont be pushing agendas... I will enforce on myself subject matter to ensure you continue to love the forums here. You know, car pictures, airplane pics. Commentary on how I HATE BMWs, Toyotas and SUVs. Ill add Teslas to that list. Ill praise Chinese BYDs and Corvettes. 442s and Trans Ams. But if I hear Trumpster say a lie, I will correct it on the Random Thoughts thread as a rant. Nothing toxic. I will be busy daily doing that of course...

I agree. Not pointing fingers at you. I TRULY understand that half your country is vile, disgusting, racist and very very uneducated and even more gullible. But...if you leave, again, not pointing the finger at you, I understand your wish to leave your country, but if everybody leaves, then nobody worth a damn will be able to defend her (the USA) from the vile pigs that are ruining a very awesone country. And I know the US' history quite well. I understand COMPLETELY understand the innuendo about the US. The US is both a racist, sexist cesspool, but it also is THE BEST place in the world. There is a reason why France gave the Statue of Liberty to the US as a gift. There is also a reason why France just asked for her back. But the US is worth fighting for...

Politics is everywhere. You simply cannot escape it. Politics is not garbage. What is garbage is the lies that keep on being said by a certain political party. There is absolutey NOTHING wrong in a CIVIL discussion about ANY kind of political debate. It only becomes toxic when the person involved is toxic him/herself. Them/They or ANY other pronoun they WISH to choose. See what I did there? Did you know that a certain political party has already censored that kind of topic and wording? Well, you might not want to see it on a Montreal Canadiens hockey game, but it sure DOES exist at a Montreal Canadiens hockey game... 4 nations hockey game at the MONTREAL arena... And yesterdays Blue Jays game... CCAP...you cant escape it. Trump has REALLY divided us. And THAT is why I care... And THAT is why I will NOT let lies win the day... Do you feel it could be you?

I understand It took me a whole month the marinate that idea of keeping politics put of discussion. Not only in here, but in general in real life. But seeing these forums are real life anyway, Ive merged the two worlds together. It took me a month to understand the whole mystique about 'politics'. This is why I came to the conclusion that politics is not taboo. And it shouldnt be. Ever. I also came to the realization that the folk that want to control us and/or divide us, who ever those folk may be, also flood the mass media of all kinds of media entities with trolls and podcasters and influencers and bots, and press secretaries with mis and dis information. I simply cannot just let mis and dis information run loose. Since when do we bow down? Since when do we let lies, threats and innuendo win the day? Its false to say that we, the people, cant do nothing. When we do nothing is the day we lose everything. We have a voice, and we shall use that voice. THAT is the very least thing we can do. And I simply refuse to let the lies be transmitted. I understand. It took me a month not posting to come to a conclusion. I was cyber bullied...again. Its OK for cyberbullying but its not OK to talk about what REALLY is going on with our leaders. The dude that cyberbullied me discussed that not a single thread goes by without 'politics' being discussed. Yet nothing in those threads were really any threat to anybody. Polititcs is not taboo. Discussing or pointing out that governing folk are taking liberties with our liberties is not in any way a threat to discussing automobiles on this site. I took a second read of those threads that this particular person was crying about and trying to make an issue of and there was nothing childish or unfriendly. The ONLY thing that was stated was the truth. IF said truth was NOT a truth to this person crying, then the issue really is with this person. I told him to leave. He told me to phoque off. Thing is, he cyberbullied me last year and I took the whole year off. NO! If he cannot handle a pissed off Canadian who is GREEK from QUEBEC (a nod to the other troll who only seems to want to pick fights) because TRUTH was said in those threads then HE must look himself in the mirror. He does not engage in politics he says. He asked me a question about caring... Well, when we do NOT engage in politics, when we do NOT share information, then you get what is the current political climate in the USA. Ill ask ANY of you: 1. Do ANY of you believe that Canada is a threat to the US? 2. Do ANY of you believe that Canada has screwed the US in any way economically? 3. Do ANY of you believe that Canada is the US' enemy? 4. Do ANY of you believe that the US does not need Canada? 5. Do ANY of you believe that the US subsidizes Canada to the tune of 200 billion dollars per year? 6. Do ANY of you believe that Canada is not a real country? 7. Do ANY of you believe that Canada should become the 51st State? and finally 8. Have you heard Trump say all those things? Questions 1-7: If any of those questions is an answer yes, then THIS is why ANYBODY has to engage in politics. Because there is a whole lot of malarkey being spewed by Trump. If question #8 is a no. Then THIS is why EVERYBODY needs to engage in politics. There is so much bullshyte from Trump just from this single scenario that if Americans do NOT talk about politics, Trump and the powers that enable Trump will be duping Americans for a loooooonnnng time.

I understand @Drew Dowdell 's concern regarding politics in this forum. But, what gets me, is that too many Americans are afraid to engage in 'politics'. Its like some sort of taboo. Rule #1: Do not talk about Fight Club politics Rule #2: DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB POLITICS What is politics anyway? politics: derived from an ancient GREEK word politika which means "affairs of the cities". Polis is city in GREEK. Politikos in ancient and in modern Greek means of or relating to citizens which in turn there is another GREEK word politis which is citizen. Politics in English refers to the governance of an area. And "governance" includes all kinds of stuff and ideas. And those stuff and ideas are governed by and to the people of that area. Much like that original Greek word and idea where the English word and idea comes from. Politics is not taboo. Politics has been made taboo by those above us governing us to control us by simply telling us not to engage in politics. To not share ideas. To not talk about politics. I was asked to answer a question about caring. Caring about politics and about caring regarding our political landscape of our lands of where we reside and call home/home country. We also use an example to not talk about politics in these forums as an escape from the real world. Because politcs are real tough. Yeah well...Ive defined politics in another thread in these here forums to which I just copy/pasted again. I also said in that thread in these here forums that we simply cannot escape politics. We cannot. And we have to care about politics. Because caring about politics is caring for your community, for your well being for yourself in your community and for your fellow neighbours. And as a WHOLE to progress and evolve and not devolve. Too many entities in the U.S. right now only want to MUZZLE information regarding politics and are only interested in spreading mis and dis information for not the greater good of the majority of the people but for benefit of a very select few. Simply stated: I simply REFUSE to be muzzled to talk about politics. I will continue to post articles that refute mis and dis information. Since the last time I posted in here, the current President of the United (HA!) States of America has gone tariff wild. On and off and on and off only to put on more tariffs on foreign cars including those from Canada only to retreat that statement from cars coming from Canada that have at least a 50% American content in them and so forth and so forth. The problem lies that automotive treaties have been signed by Canada and the US regarding 60 years ago. This current deall at least. The excuse being that President in charge wants to build the American automotive industry again. *SIGH* Mis and dis information Trump also has imposed tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium. *SIGH* GM and Ford of AMERICA uses Canadian steel and aluminium because the US simply cannot produce enough. *SIGH* All those factories that NEED to be built, where will Ford and GM get their steel and aluminum from? Canada? Russia? Trump keeps on saying that the US does not need Canada. But Canada needs to be American state #51 There is so much bullshyte from Trump just from this single scenario that if Americans do NOT talk about politics, Trump and the powers that enable Trump will be duping Americans for a loooooonnnng time. This rant ends. But Ill be back for mor political informing as it is MY duty to keep you informed.

Another Maple Leaf victory on US soil in Boston. This one is a blue Maple Leaf. Last week was the national Red one. How fitting. In the city where the cry for US independance started...

Yes exactly. I thought so about Hyundai and KIA being in a better place to withstand US tariffs. I am niot so sure though, if they could compete with an onslaught of cheaply priced Chinese EVs. The US car market is one thing, but the Chinese OEMs will flood the WORLD with their cheaply priced EVs. And eventually, these EVs will make it to US shores, tariffs or not. But by that time, I fear a US civil war. 25% tariffs on aluminium alone is said to cost 100 000 US jobs https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/alcoa-warns-trumps-aluminum-tariff-could-cost-100000-us-jobs-2025-02-25/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-alcoa-warns-100000-us-jobs-at-risk-urging-tariff-exemption-for/#:~:text=American aluminum giant Alcoa Corp,tariffs on shipments from Canada. Dont forget that Canada will have retalitory tariffs. And those will be targetted to Red States. And dont forget that Europe will strike with some sort of economc stresses of its own ON the US if Trump targets MORE European targets. 25% tariffs on some raw materials ALSO target Europe. NOT only Canada... The MAGA voters, as MUCH as they follow the cult leader Trump, some of them WILL turn on him. And those mouth breathers own guns. LOTS of them. What will Trump do? Attempt to take those away from them/ Eithr way, I see lots of doom and gloom...

You forgot to mention the Japanese car makers. Toyota might be able to weather out the tariffs, but Honda is also finished. Mazda. Hyundai/KIA might be the only ones to come out OK. All others are toast.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/americas/canada-petition-musk-citizenship-intl-latam/index.html https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydeppzggno https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/more-than-170000-sign-petition-to-revoke-elon-musks-canadian-citizenship/ So far, 250 000 Canadians have signed a petition addressed to Prime Minister Trudeau to revoke Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship. And as a true mature sane adult he responds that Canada isnt a real country... https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/americas/canada-petition-musk-citizenship-intl-latam/index.html ooooooooooooh...what a burn!!!! His mommy was born in Canada... he got Canadian citizenship through her. I say he laces them up in an American hockey jersey on some sort of barn rink somewheres in rural make believe Canada and skate up to a few drunken beer league lifers and say that to them in their faces that Canada is not a real country. We, and most importantly, him, would find out how fake Canada is...

Stellantis in North America is done fer, tariffs or not. Ford and GM are almost done when those tariffs hit and are going to be done if those tariffs last a year long. All other OEMS that build their cars in Mexico to sell in the US are going to have a rotten year as well. At least Europeans will stick together and try to screw the US and thiose European OEMS will have a fightin' chance to survive. The real winner will be Chinese car makers and their EVs. They WILL flood the world market when the tariff war ends...