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^^^ I think the last pic is an AI generated picture. YUCK!!! I mean, if it is one, its a GREAT image, the technology is both awesome and scary. Very real. But fake...and that is the yuck part of it all. The fakeness. I like REALITY.

I became a hater when I realized Toyota is just another same ole same ole corporate greed company like any other and when I realized that they had sheeple followers that they had brainwashed thinking that Toyota can never do any harm. It wasnt a right away hatred either. It took time. I first noticed something was off about Toyota with the aforementioned engine sludge thing. And it took years after that when I started questioning folk that drove Toyotas and then incident after incident happened and yet nobody ever was pissed about Toyota's failures. It all came to a boiling point with me with the unintended acceleration debacle and had it NOT for Toyota settling out of court of billions of dollars, I myself would have chucked it to stupid drivers, but Toyota plead guilty quietly and paid that tremendous fine. And it peeved me more to see that AMERICAN media kept that quiet also, but also downplyed the WHOLE thing by them ALSO blaming the American driver coming up with excuse after excuse defending Toyota. And then I read (call it a consipracy theory if you want to) a report (not on the internet) that Japanese automakers convinced the American buyer to perform their regular maintenance at the dealerships and when their was a problem akin to catastrophic failure with the vehicle, the dealership would repair the problem without the owner knowing about the problem and all that was also subsidized by the Japanese government and the WORST offenders of this were Nissan, Toyota, Mitsubishi and Subaru in the 1980s. Another reason why I dont like this company is that they stopped producing cars for the enthusiast for a little while. Boring appliance after boring appliance made especially for dumb people that would be better off using public transportation. And in more recent times, better calling an Uber. I like some cars of theirs. I have pointed this out plenty of times. No need for me to justify what cars and trucks I like from them. But you did mention the Lexus LC500 and yeah! THAT would be one awesome creation. Id take mine in coupe form though. But if I was doing this car MY way, Id LS/LT swap it. Nothing crazy done to the engine, just with enough HP and torque to best Lexus' original efforts. 500HP and 500ft/lbs. In HP, its not much more than what Lexus done, but its the torque figures that make the difference in my make belief dream LC 500.

I am STILL waiting for everybody and his brother to pull a "Im NEVER gonna drive a piece of shyte Toyota ever again" like they did with GM, Ford and Chrysler. But then again, Americans DID vote for Trump a SECOND time.... And Canadians WILL vote for Polievre... Im asking too much.

I didnt click on @A Horse With No Name facebook link because: 1. Facebook. I try to avoid Facebook as much as possible. Not hard to do anymore. Hope it dies sson though. I digress. Ill save THAT rant for another day. I think Ill start another Toyota hatred rant in the coming days instead... 2. I sooooo much hate Toyota, that I cant even bring myself to celebrate over Toyota problem stories because of the hatred being soooooo strong that even I try to avoid ANYTHING Toyota related. (I do like some vehicles they produce as a disclaimer) But...I did listen to this one Alls I got to say is...Toyota NEVER even HAD that reliabilty thing EVEN in the 1990s as that video is saying as the engine sludge thing HAPPENED in the late 1990s. And even THEN, Toyota blamed the consumer... So blaming the consumer is NOTHING new to Toyota. But the video is bang on!!! And as I was youtubing googling Toyota to retrieve that video above...I ran into Scotty Kilmore. And he JUST released this video Not gonna watch these videos, so I do NOT know of he has a clickbait title, but even Scotty has just acknowledged Toyota boo boos. I have watched Scotty like 4 or 5 videos 5 years ago or something like that. But Ill repeat, Toyota NEVER had this mythical relkiabilty thing. Some cars were built like tanks from them. Some cars are STILL built like gtanks from them. But they have had they SAME amount, but probably MORE shytty cars failing then any OTHER OEM... But hey... The Toyota kool-aid was some delicious shyte back in the day. Glad I NEVER drank it though. But if Scotty is TRULY dissing Toyota's reliability, it MUST be a very REAL thing. But it ALWAYS HAD been a thing. Oh well...

@G. David Felt is such a lazy ass bum, isnt he? He sleeps all day that &@#%*!@$ bum!!! We arent supposed to speak about Toyota problems. You'll be called an @$$hole, be questioned of your ancestry and citizenship...

Fortunately, you dont share his jerk attitude and his lack of self awareness of being said jerk.

I agree that the Bolt needs to look better than it did. Indeed it was ugly. However, that didnt stop the Bolt from being the #2 seller in EV sales fro several years before it got canned. Yeah...it was a top seller and its sales only got higher every year until it was stopped being produced. Hyundai/KIA are on a roll with their EVs. That will only continue with the EV3 here in North America. Chevrolet better get it right with the Bolt 2.0 as THIS time around the Bolt will have a competitor. The Tesla Model 3 and it were not really in the same niche for them to be considered competitors. RWD/AWD 'sport' sedan versus FWD compact car/ compact CUV. The Nissan Leaf DID have an edge in sales with the Bolt but Nissan never tended to it. Never gave it some love and affection to make it matter and make it to be wanted by the EV buying public. Somehow Chevrolet did that with the Bolt, ironically, DESPITE when they decided to can it. They brought it back because they saw a small backlash from that decision from the EV Chevrolet buying public.

I googled really quickly to find out about the EV3 release date. Keep in mind its a quick search. No real searching. And I read that the EV3 is due out for 2026. If memory serves me right, the Bolt is due for mid 2025. I may be wrong about that. Now, barring any setbacks and/or rollbacks. the Chevorlet is due out before the KIA. And the KIA also has to deal with setbacks and rollbacks. But yeah, Chevrolet has to get the Bolt out ASAP without any issues and quality problems. But it aint KIA that Im fearing. Its Trump and his impending ideologies regarding EVs that wikl be a setback to the Bolt, but not JUST the Bolt, but ANY EVs sold in the US but THAT will inlcude the KIA EV3 with the same Trump inflicted problems. I see a far bigger problem. Elon is attached to him like lamprey are attched to Great Lake fish. Will Trumpster apply the same limitations on Telsa EVs as he might with other EVs? And if he will, how will Musk react? And if not, how will KIA, Hyundai, GM, Stellantis, BMW, Mercedes, VW and others react when they ALL have changed their business model to change to EVs and the WORLD has adapted to BEING an EV future? Its just not going to be that everybody will JJUST have ICEVs for the American market and EVs for the other markets. And its incredibly bad for the Detroit automakers. The Detroit 2.5 WILL go bankrupt if Trump will favour anti-EV tactics...

I never knew this existed. Ive seen Cavalier drag cars from FWD to RWD. Ive seen Pontiac Grand Ams from 1992-1998 as such, but never the Beretta. Ill tell you right now, I havent been living under a rock. Cool idea regardless. True. Trump, Kamala, Trudeau or otherwise. And yeah, Ive seen and heard the flip flopping. But Id be voting for Harris regardless because the Devil I know inTrump is waaaaaay worse than the Devil I do not know in Harris. Contrary to what the actual saying goes. Because the Devil I know in Trump is truly destructive on soooooo many fronts. And we have seen his performance. On how he often double dips YOUR national security, sensitive information and documents and national monies with his personal finances and interests. It doesnt matter if you (in general talk the "you" part) think this is how Donald Trump talks and does not mean what he says the way he says it. In HIS case, actions DO speak LOUDER than words... But I guess that was a loooong time ago. 2016-2020. It was an eternity ago. And the shyte he pulled off in New York city while he was just a business man bankrupting and screwing his creditors. That was ancient history. He is not a crook. Nah... Grab 'em by the pu&&ie. Good ole boy talk talking with good ole boys. Nothing there. Its not as if he cheated on every single wife oif his. 3? Its not as if he doesnt have a rape case against him either and was found guilty... Good guy this Trump fellow. Good guy. Honest. A true patriot.

I actually knew that you loved your Beretta. It was the weird wild stuff that I wanted to say. Because of your LS swap and FWD to RWD of said Beretta. Nobody has ever thought of doing that to that car and it be quite unique...and weird and wild. And I like it!!!

I dont know whether the Biden admin nixed them or not. Lets say that he didnt nix them as Trump actually did say during his campaigning. He said that the Biden admin just looooooves the money coming in that he (Trump) has put into place with those tariffs. Regardless though whether those tariffs are there or not... Trump says that he will introduced more tariffs... Trump and many others blame the Biden admin for the inflation that hit us but actual real economists put the blame on Trump's economic policies along with Covid and the way Trump handled it... True or not....who is to blame and the saviour all depends on what side of the tracks you lean on. But in reality, Trump is a snake oil salesman con guy to the Nth degree and tariffs almost ALWAYS lead to inflation. So...there really is only ONE conclusion. But like I have mentioned before...lets all hope to God that Trump is the second coming of Christ and not the Anti-Christ. But if I was a bettin' man, Id be putting ALL my money on the latter.

I googled Elon Musk and Wiki says Musk grew up wealthy. I always thought he grew up poor because I thought his dad left his mom and she raised him and his other siblings alone. ANYway... Elon is the same thing as Kennedy and Don Jr. They come from privilege. There is NO McDonald's in their lives. Never was and never will be. Phoquing embarrassing that that picture is just for show.

Nobody in that picture has EVER had the nerve to eat at McDonald's other than Donald McDonald Trump. Even his kid, Don Jr., probaby was a silver spoon kid eating rich people food. Kennedy, its in the name... His family member whose was president had personal chefs in the Whitehouse. Look at him and Musk, they seem sooooooo uncomfortable and stiff. Yeah guys, you eat that food with your hands. No gold plated cutlery. Not even plastic cutlery. Your fingers is what you use. Elon is a South African. Born there...so probably no Mickey Dees there. And if so, probably too expensive for him to eat it back then. He did do a tour in Montreal, but I doubt he visited a Ronald MacDonald house... Look at Don Jr. Who the phoque picks up a Mickey Dees fry container like that??? `With that smirk... But this is a photo to look like ordinary American folk. To look as if they are OF the people...the ordinary stupid slobs that voted for them. Harris said she worked at McDonalds so that is where this is coming from. But all I see is these 5 clowns MOCKING the AMerican people. And back to Don Jr's smirk, that smirk says it all... Its ALL mock. The ONLY one that truly LOVES this is Donald himself. Havent seen him pubicly smile like that is a LOOOOOONG time. Bill Clinton and him have yet another thing in common. Love for young girls. Raping them. Cheating on their wives and McDonalds. God BLESS America!!!

I knew you would eventually respond to this and in that way. LOL Well... NO!!! I can understand your feelings as we in Canada are going to go through those very same things next year upon our own elections. Albeit our situation is not as dire as yours but...we are going down that very same path though. As I was listening to music and looking at your travels and pictures, I was almost shedding a tear. Why? Because of your words of renouncing your US citizenship and all the reasons of why you would want to do that because of the state of politics and idiocy in the US. But also because the US is such a beautiful country and why would you want to throw all that away? You have to FIGHT for your country. Not just let it die away. TOO much progress was made by the very few people that made your country THE best country in the world. It may not seem that way now, but it still is. I was inspired to write this to you instead of continuing to cry but a surge of anger but determination hit me. Youtube suggested this long forgotten song and ironically, it popped up as I was listening to Pink Floyd. You cannot let Trump defeat you. You cannot let the idiots that voted for him torment you. You have to claim back the best country in the world from the sickness that is Trumpism. Your pictures and travels also inspired me to listen to this song. Your travels reminded me of the movie franchise. And this song. Im almost an American myself. Not quite. Almost. If I choose to become an American citizen I would be granted. Proud to be Canadian. Proud to be of Greek decent. But ALSO proud to be an almost American!!!