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Robert Hall

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  1. Robert Hall
    It's a very sharp and clean design. I like the interior design, and that two tone w/ burgundy looks great.
  2. Robert Hall
    I think that was about 37k for the 3rd quarter...remember, GM switched from monthly reporting to quarterly to hide the monthly results.
  3. Robert Hall
    According to the chart that shows the R1T and R1S specs side by side, it looks like the truck has the 135 inchwheelbase and the SUV is about 120 inches...which would make sense that the truck has a longer wheelbase. And it also says above 'Compared to the truck, the R1S is about 15-inches shorter in overall length and wheelbase'. (Interestingly, the chart is in the first post of this thread, but only shows up for me on mobile. I can't see it on my Mac--the article is truncated. Form factor rendering issue?)
  4. Robert Hall
    I am surprised we haven't seen a solid EV push from Toyota yet. Even Nissan is further along in the market.
  5. Robert Hall
    You always have to drop in and piss on any forward-looking topic w/ your black cloud of negativity, don't you?
  6. Robert Hall
    I think I saw the truck's wheelbase was 123 or 125, and the SUV's being shorter..I'm guessing 115-118. I don't like the vertical elements in the front lighting---maybe without those and smaller lights below the light strip, and perhaps a faux grille would look better. The blank grille-less face of some EVs (Teslas) is unappealing, IMO. Going to be interesting to see how the production versions of both look.
  7. Robert Hall
    It's weird, the Cruze was built here in NE Ohio, but the 2nd gen is completely unseen on the roads. I've seen maybe a 1/2 dozen of them around NE Ohio in the last 18 months. Yet I see Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, and, Kia compact sedans daily....I rarely ever see Sonics or Sparks either. The Sonic and Spark are leftovers from 10 years ago or so when subcompact cars still sold--Ford brought in the Fiesta, the Fiat 500 came, the Fit, etc but that niche seems to have dried up.
  8. Robert Hall
    1. Ford will have no entry level sedan either. Neither does FCA. They've given up, leaving the entry level market to the Japanese and Korean car makers, who know how to build them profitably. 2. Sales #s of those models are down and the full size segment continues to decline. 3. For the LaX, same as the Impala...dying models in a dying segment. For the Volt, maybe they have an EV CUV in the works to replace it. Like Ford and FCA, they are hoping sales of trucks, CUVs, and SUVs can sustain them until they get their EV and AV plans fully realized...
  9. Robert Hall
    Yes, going from building prototypes or one-offs to consistent, quality volume production is no small feat, as Tesla has found out this year. I wish them good luck. It's a great looking product, and sounds sound technically.
  10. Robert Hall
    Hmm...3450mm wheelbase..I wonder if that is a typo..that would be 135 inches...rather long.
  11. Robert Hall
    Like that shade of green...
  12. Robert Hall
    It is fascinating when you think of a typical ICE SUV or truck, the huge volume of space used by the old school dirty bits--the whole front end forward of the windshield, the center tunnel, etc. So the Rivian video mentioned 4 electric motors--each wheel has a dedicated motor, I presume.
  13. Robert Hall
    I do like a few knobs, I certainly like having volume/station/etc controls on the steering wheel. I use those more than the touchscreen controls in my Jeep. My preference for knobs or other physical controls are that I should be able to do basic things without glancing down from the road. Can't do that with touchscreen-only controls.
  14. Robert Hall
    Yes, I thought the bridge looked familiar...I've driven over it before. I saw the map briefly early in the video and thought it was the Portland area. Beautiful place, so much more interesting than the fecal desert void I wasted a decade in. I really need to take a vacation to the PNW..
  15. Robert Hall
    Neat video. Love the music and cinematography. Interesting how all the streets and roads were empty. Pacific Northwest setting, looks like.
  16. Robert Hall
    Interesting...I assumed those were Photoshop or other CGI renderings. So maybe running prototypes were used.
  17. Robert Hall
    Interesting..will be interesting to see how things go for them. I always assume the worst in people and companies.
  18. Robert Hall
    Given how many flash-in-the-pan electric car companies there have been in recent years, is there any sense that this is as real as say Tesla and not just smoke-and-mirrors fakery like Faraday Future was? This is the first I've heard of Rivan.
  19. Robert Hall
    My sister is in Detroit this week for an offsite meeting at her client (a major automotive industry supplier) and said everyone was talking and speculating about this news yesterday.
  20. Robert Hall
    I love the interior...the exterior is much improved over the previous generation, IMO. When I was first looking at the pictures, I saw some familiarity to the rear quarter contour. I saw a very slight unintentional resemblance to a VWAG product from long ago...
  21. Robert Hall
    Maybe he will be 'Gone, Carlos, Gone'....
  22. Robert Hall
    There was also a Cobalt SS...forgot about that..was trying to think of cheap GM performance cars from the last 15 years or so...
  23. Robert Hall
    GM used to have cheap Average Joe performance cars like the Cavalier Z24, but with the Cruze there were no performance models or coupes...just boring sedans.
  24. Robert Hall
    And cars that used be 'Average Joe' performance cars like the Camaro SS and Mustang GT are easily $40k and up w/ options. Average Joe today is driving a FWD 4cyl transverse automatic trans appliance.
  25. Robert Hall
    It's weird they would have a plant making only one model.. seems like an inefficient use of resources.
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