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If battery electrics have their batteries under the carriage and are in a skateboard platform and the weight of the battery is between front and back wheels, then THAT weight is distributed equally along the length of the vehicle. Forgetting for a moment about the dynamics of pushing versus pulling. Winter driving should technically be the same whether FWD or RWD. In a RWD only BEV, the motor driving the rear wheels is in the back and on TOP of the rear wheels so the the weight is... on the wheels that do the propulsion and therefore no different than a FWD ICE car regarding weight on the driving wheels...and since the weight of the battery is more or less equal across the length of the vehicle, a RWD only BEV may not be that much of a nuissance in snow as compared to a RWD ICE vehicle.

Since GMC went Hummer Since GMC is serious with AT4, GMC may NOW need to dip themselves into this realm. and then maybe revisit this

6. There is a reason why inline 6s went away m at the end of the 70s mostly in favour of transverse 4s and 6s. Because in MANY aspects, it was NOT the superior drivetrain. V8 with RWD for performance and transverse V6 for packaging. Sure inline 6s are smoother, but there are many negatives attached to the inlline config. VW had MAJOR success in combining V and Inline. Quite a good engine. Sporty cars too using that set-up WITH FWD and AWD. BMW does inline 6s good. THAT is their thing. Just like GM does pushrod V8s good. That is their thing. But an inline 6 is NOT the end all be all.

I like Mazda. (I thought Id start off by saying to let people know about how I feel about Mazda) But Mazda done inline 6 with a turbo on a RWD theme to go upmarket. Commendable Id say. If this was 1999. GMC started going upmarket about that time and coincidentally, offered an inline 6. Ironically, Mazda almost introduced a brand new luxo brand 10 years prior but the leaders that be didnt have enough confidence to pull it off like their crosstown rivals Honda, Toyota and Nissan done... But they did sell that one car they enginnered as their first luxo brand vehicle into a Mazda but it didnt quite hit the sales mark so the leaders were quite correct in the fear and assumptions of a new luxo Mazda brand not succeeding. Also, Lexus SUCCEEDED with a TON of transverse V6, FWD sedans and CUVs without the dumb moniker of ultimate driving machines and right wheel drive---RWD. What Im trying to say is that 1. inline 6 turbos in 2024 at the dawn of the EV era might just BE too little too late for an image boost and market shift for Mazda 2. GMC has succeeded going up...UP market WITHOUT the use of an inline 6. Their big models use V8s, but their smaller offerings use, since the last 40 years, the tried and true transverse V6 WITH FWD bias AWD. 3. I may bitch about CUVs quite often, but a transverse V6 and FWD is not necessarily an inferior drivetrain to a RWD set-up. It depends what the vehicle is set up for and what the driver needs of his sedan or CUV. Ill argue that an inline 6 ON TOP of the front wheel axles would ALSO be a shytty set-up REGARDLESS of the rears pushing the car forward. As much of a shytty set-up as having a shytty tuned transverse V6 with the fronts pulling the car. BMW CUVs with inline sixes are nothing to write home about. And I would bet the Mazda CUV would be the same shyttyness as the Bimmers. And what is also tricky is that inline 6es tend to be quite long making them NOT ideal in certain packaging criteria regarding...well, comfort for the passenger in the cabin. And being RWD also cuts into that said comfort. You know...for luxury purposes. I could be wrong though, with my assesment of things. But probably not since I have NEVER drank from the BMW fountain and their so called definition of luxury. With driving dynamics. Yeah...I never biught into that hot garbage either. At least not with their econobox offerings. 4. Mazda made and continue to make some pretty cool and sporty, small FWD cars with transverse 4 pots. 5. GMC need NOT learn ANYTHING from Mazda. Not even BMW. GMC done success their way. They need to inspire to Frank Sinatra and continue on doing what they do.

I get the appeal of CUVs as well. I really do. No! I absolutely do! Really. Sedans...our beloved American sedans have been downsized, shrunk, made smaller in EVERY metric that CUVs HAVE become the defacto quintessential American land yacht. Well...pick-up trucks have almost taken that role in some parts of both of our countries, but in most areas, 'tis the CUV. Ingrees, Egress, headroom and everything else you described... and our beloved American land yacht ALL had those qualities but were taken away. What I lament is the loss of the unique styling those old barges had between the brands of the time DESPITE them being ancient 3 box designs. What I also lament is the loss of what cars used to be to people and why cars like coupes and convertibles existed and what cars have become to people and whay expendable CUVs exist today. I think THAT is what is ailing me more than the CUV itself.

Post some pics again when you get the right rims.

What I wanted to say. Short and sweet. Im glad you said it rather than me. I would have added another paragragh or two.

Purrs like a kitten at idle. Bet she roars like a lion at full throttle despite it being in an RV.

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40-0 Impressive I wonder if the Giants complained today for Dallas running up the score. For trying to win in the last quarter despite them leading with the amount they led. I mean, they forced another fumble... common now... Oh...those are silly childish unwritten rules in...baseball. Hockey sometimes gets into those stupid childish things too... Im thankfull for at least that in football. I could do without the over-the top exuberant cellys after a play of some sorts in the 1st or 2nd quarter tho... That goes for all 3 sports that I watch actually. And why dont I feel bad for Aaron Rodgers injuring his ankle?

I have really slowed down in being a car enthusiast as well. Im looking to learn and love new types of cars to feed my car craziness. And its not these modern ones. Its all older cars. And from continents other than this one as its become almost boring to always post pics and read stuff about American cars of the 50s, 60s and 70s. We've done that hundreds of times. If not thousands. I miss @balthazar to read about his endeavors of the (American) classics. About EVs for me. Unless the automakers make these EVs interesting stylistically, Im not sooooo amuzed by them. B But that has nothing to do with battery electric motorvation either. The ICE vehicles are just as boring to look at. CUVs and pick-up trucks are not fun things. Regardless what powers them. Ive talked about this before. Looking back at cars like a Honda CRX or Subaru SVX or even a Nissan Pulsar, I hated these things back then. Maybe not the SVX. I liked that one. But...there is absolutely NOTHING like that today. OK...Nissan and KIA tried to do something like that with CUV type cars. The Cube, the Juke and the Soul. Great and good for them.. They were still boxes on wheels. Ugly boxes on wheels. The Puslar was also a box on wheels. But it somehow was more special... And it has NOTHING to do with me being reminiscent of my youth. Because I also have fondeness for a Toyota Matrix and Pontiac Vibe. Those would be in the same vain as the Cube, Juke and Soul. All CUVs. And I wasnt a teen when the Matrix and Vibe came out. Its just that...today's vehicles SUCK. JUST like everything else that our world today has come too. From pop culture to our cars and our technologies. I LOVE what our computers, phones, internet and 5G could do for us. I HATE what we actually DO with it. Our world SUCKS today in more ways than one!

Me too actually. On both accounts. I prefer the Trans Am over the Camaro but in 2023, they are on equal footing. Same for the Mustang. I didnt like that '80s Mustang at all. But I loooong for one today. There are a few around in my neighborhood and I grin every single time I see one. I would sooooo own one right now and drive the heck out of it. Proudly I might add. Same with the Japanese sports cars of that era. Most of those I liked, maybe in a more hush hush manner. But today, I have a deep, as you said, fondness for them.

Canadians...ALL Canadians dont like the Maple Leafs either. Only Canadians from the GTA area tolerate the Leafs. Speaking of GTA. Not exactly a Camaro IROC. Diffrent but same; a picture of...until you find and buy your IROC-Z.

I understand all that. But...if we want to save money, compromises need to be made, in order to achieve a car market that is well...affordable. Yes, crank windows need to come back. What you just explained right there are just minor nuissances. Unless of course you personally has the money to spend on luxuries like that. Im discussing this as if we are still talking about having $25 000 midsized vehicles again. Plenty of Americans and Canadians are in a pretty bad financial situation. Inflation is just awefull and prices of goods and services that are of the necessary kind and not of the luxury kind are not going to go back down. And our salaries are not going to go up matching inflation. We are in a huge pickle. I understand the pleas for cheaper cars. Im a huge advocate for them. I know you do. And I fully comprehend where you are coming from. Please dont take our banter that Im schooling you and tsk tsk tsking you. Its just that. Banter. And rightfully so. You want what you want and worked hard in your life that you do NOT need to compromise. ? That is how one should do it. I always buy new. But more folk like you and less folk like me could also bring car prices down.

This is one of many reasons as to why new 25 000 dollar cars dont exist. Especially if said 25 000 dollar vehicle has no frills. A used car of a couple of years with extras might be more enticing. not might be more enticing, for many people it IS more enticing... And I get that 100%. Nothing wrong with that. There shoudnt be any judgement by ANYBODY! Nothing wrong with that either. While a cheapskate could be judged for being a cheapskate, ultimately its the cheapskate that is the smartest one of all. A penny saved is a penny earned and no reason to just part with your hard earned money on nonsense. But lets be honest, NOBODY needs power windows. Its nice to have them, but in icy cold Montreal and plenty of times the power windows dont power window in the winter, I sometimes bitch and wish for crank windows... So there is that considering the cheapskated-ness of stripper cars. I dont aspire to be cheap. But I certainly wished I was more of a miser than the make it rain type of guy i kinda was back in the day.

The good times have been loooong gone for us to STILL wanting to be spoiled. In some parts of the world, their standard of living has almost caught up to ours and in some cases, even suprassed us. Our standard of living has dipped as compared to the good 'ole days. We can buy more junk today, but we are indebted several life times over. And that would be one of many reasons of why we are in the situation we are in. Including the tantrum filled lives we lead... Maybe we shouldnt be looking to 25 000 dollar midsized sedans as the answer... And quite honestly, that kind of car you are looking for has been inexistant for a looong time. 20 years ago...midsized sedans were 25 000 dollars. 20 years ago!!! Geeze Louise!!! Regardless though. Would anyone consider buying a car, whatever the price. Obviously for 25 000 or less, with crank up windows and no A/C? No electric anything? No shytty apple car play and the like? Could we actually do that? Or are we soooo out of touch with what is TRULY important in life that we need all that garbage in our cars? Its NOT about two box SUV/crossovers. We had the cheap econoboxes that other markets have embraced for the longest of time, like since forever that we have NEVER embraced. Well, in the 1970s when gasoline prices shot up the roof. And then some of us started hating American cars... But THAT is not the point either. The point is that, like how it WAS in the '70s and the gas cruch, when shyte hits the fan, we buckle down, but as soon as the noose is loosened, we become avarice in overconsumption of everything. Can we buy ANY car, midsized, without ANY creature comforts so the price COULD be $25 000? If enough of us in Canada and in the US actually BOUGHT cars that way, they'd still exist in THIS market...