Drew Dowdell

I wouldn't say decades.. .plural. They're already getting ready to start building a second plant.

@trinacriabobdo I even want to know why you posted her? also, I did a thing. I’ll make it its own thread once I get it home 1999 BMW R1100RS this was from @Robert Hall’s brother’s estate

I mean, yes and no. The GV60 might be smaller outside but its roomier inside

Same as the GV60

yeah, I can see that

I kinda like it. It's both futuristic and retro. I see touches of retro Citroen, retro and modern Porsche, and some others I can't quite put my finger on. At least it's not another freaking SUV.

You log into the account you want it attached to. If you get it through a warehouse club, they’ll email you a signup link.

Windows or Apple matters. Also what you’re storing. I use OneDrive. $99 for 18 months at Costco or Sam’s and it includes the entire MS Office Suite plus 1TB of storage. Works great on Windows, only so-so on a Mac. It’s great for backing up phone photos regardless of OS. You can share your subscription with 4 additional people and they each get their own 1TB of storage. If you’re on Apple, I’d just go with iCloud+. Comes with Apple Music plus a bunch of other services. Let’s you sync laptop to phone super easily. Take a picture on your phone and it’s on your Mac laptop photo album in a few seconds. An alternative is Box, it integrates into MacOS a bit better than OneDrive, but on iOS it isn’t as good as OneDrive.

Tesla only moves 999,000 vehicles globally each year. The people who want a Tesla crossover are getting them. It’s the people who don’t like Teslas (like me) that Cadillac needs to target. Cadillac needs to be the anti-Tesla EV builder. The EV for people who think Teslas are ugly and not very luxurious. Admittedly, Genesis is getting there first with the GV60, but if the Lyriq base price holds, it is a much larger and more luxurious car for just a few thousand more than the GV60. ($62k v. $58k base price) The Lyriq is also an entire Hyundai Ioniq 5 cheaper than a Model X, so it’s sorta like @smk4565 comparing the XTS to the S-Class. And comparing the Lyriq to the Model Y is like comparing an X5 to a Rogue in terms of luxury feel.

Saw these in Alexandria Virginia on Saturday

@oldshurst442 I wasn’t being defensive, I was simply offering an explanation for the lack of frunk. I just don’t think frunks matter to most people in this class. People just aren’t filling luxury crossovers with sand. As with my other analogy, if you’re coming from and XT6/X5/GLE, you’re not going to run away from the Lyriq to a Model X for lack of a frunk. If you’re already in the Cadillac dealership, you’re there for the superior looks anyway.

Hyundai/Kia and soon Genesis are the fastest growing in EV sales right now... so the market is shrugging too. I think people are so used to buying a car of a certain size with no frunk, that it's not a big deal. It's a novelty more than anything else below something like the Lighting or EValanche which actually have useful spaces. If you currently own a gas Kia Niro, you're not going to be put off that the Kia EV6 doesn't have a frunk and go running to a Tesla instead. The trucks I could actually put my electric lawnmower in the front, so that's pretty useful.

*shrug* There must be a tradeoff somewhere. Hyundai/Kia/Genesis, Mercedes EQ, and VW MEB platforms all seem to forgo frunks too.

This is why. And that front unit is just the power module. There's still all of the parts for HVAC, steering, accessories, washers, etc to account for. In a vehicle as large as the Hummer EV or EValanche, there is probably enough space up there for the frunk, but in smaller vehicles it's probably not enough to bother.

Happy Birthday Robert! ?

Mind PMing me details?

I got mine a bit over 2 weeks ago. Only very mild side effects, but it was Pfizer instead of my previous 3 being Moderna. There will be a new Moderna Omicron version out in the fall right in time for my next booster. From the data they submitted to the FDA, not only does this new version provide better protection against Omicron, it got updates for Alpha and Delta versions as well.

Yes, it is the same as the Lincoln LS, and there was an extremely minor change in stroke to make it a 4.0 for the Jaguar S-Type. It was a fine engine, but Ford has all but abandoned support for it seeing as it only went into two low-volume cars. Eventually parts will be made of unobtainium.

June 21st and she still has her Model 3 loaner. She’s had the loaner for longer than her new car.

It's like a water spot magnet

I was talking about gloss black on the exterior.

I don't mind the gloss black stylistically, but it is a major pain to keep clean.

Red Line is and always has been merely a sticker and blackout package

Oh it absolutely is because he hires egos rather than talent. Any VP of Production at any other manufacturer would have been sacked ages ago. Sure he steals top talent, but he steals it from Apple, Microsoft, and sometimes Uber… but no one who actually has experience…you know… building cars. If he hired people who knew how to build cars, then he could delegate that to those people and he could go off building rockets to Mars or whatever. He’s arguably better at delegating over at Tesla solar and SpaceX. At Tesla Solar he just bought out another company and kept most of the management. At SpaceX he hired a rocket engineer and stole a bunch of people from Boeing.

Every manufacturer has some issue where they fall short. Tesla's problem is that they can't seem to build a car with consistent quality anywhere close to what GM is doing. And it is a matter of percentages also. In 2021, Tesla produced 936,222 vehicle for their entire lineup globally. But they can't get their door panels to line up correctly each time or for a new vehicle not to brick itself 5 days after delivery. In 2021, GM sold 835,269 Silverado/Sierras just in North America. Add in the 97k from the Colorado/Canyon and GM produces as many trucks as Tesla's entire lineup. GM built 6.3 million vehicles globally in 2021 and that's down from a peak of 10.01 million in 2016. So while GM has experienced some design quality issues... generally the build quality is pretty good and consistent. Telsa also complicates matters by making running upgrades to their vehicles.... so that two cars coming off the same production line within days of each other can end up with different parts. So just having a 2022 Tesla doesn't mean anything... you need to know which version 2022 you got. If that were being done by say, Honda, I'd have a lot more confidence in the process.