Don't forget the Pierre Chardin Javelin. ... View more

By the way, a bunch of the photos were taken in Niagara Falls Ontario ... View more

Reminds me of my wife's first car a 1981 Dodge Colt (Mitsubishi) https://www.flickr.com/photos/keveh/8491564048 ... View more

If you want a good laugh watch The Grand Tour Season 2 Episode 10 "Oh Canada". They put 3 luxury SUVs: an Alfa Romeo Stelvio, Porsche Macan, and Range Rover Velarto to the the test in the Canadian wilderness. They did three tests first a race track, second a barrel race gaming course, and last towing a boat through the mountains. All three fail miserably. ... View more

And you could fit a 4' x 8' sheet of plywood in the back with the tailgate up! More than you can say for any SUV ... View more

Plus you still had a trunk on top of that! ... View more

Like a certain EV manufacturer head with the initials E.M.. You can tell when that company needs cash. Some new thing surfaces that the public can put a substantial deposit on to secure your spot in line, so that when it actually surfaces you can be the first to boast having that. LOL ... View more

You forgot to mention that it takes 50 times as much fossil fuel to run than an ICE vehicle ... View more

Too expensive. Way cheaper to slap a tablet on the dash and call it a day! ... View more

Love it!!! Real racing at it's finest. NASCAR needs to get back to its roots! ... View more

Didn't the VW autostick work on the same principle? ... View more

Now that's real racing!!! To heck with NASCAR! ... View more

Mr Toyoda is absolutely correct! The only reason for the EV push by American manufacturing is that there is a much higher profit margin in EVs than ICE as manufacturing an EV requires much less labor and materials. Being an electrical engineer I did the math behind EVs. Currently most electricity is made by burning natural gas and a lot more by coal to fill in the shortfall of alternative energy. So, if you do the calculations of burning fossil fuel to create steam, to spin a turbine, to run a generator, to deliver the electricity hundreds of miles, to convert the electricity to something the EVs batteries can accept, to store the energy in the EVs batteries, to convert the chemical energy in the EVs batteries to electricity, to regulate the electricity to be able to modulate the EVs motors. There needs to be 50 times more fossil fuel burned to move that EV one mile down the road than a comparable ICE vehicle. How does this make the EVs carbon free?? ... View more

The main reason your EV is so cheap to run is that the government has not figured out how to properly tax it.  That is coming with the new mileage tax.   My electric bill went up by 25% this past year.  That trend will continue as more "Green Electric Power" is being pushed down our throats.  By the way the amount of electricity being generated by coal has gone up over the past year. Enjoy your "Cheap" EV while it lasts.   ... View more

You know the answer to that! The only reason EV's are being pushed is that they are cheaper to manufacturer then sold at a higher markup because of being so called "green". Then they get scrapped when something goes wrong. Win Win for the manufacturers green all the way to the bank! ... View more

My father in law had three of those. A 1977, a 1979 and a 1981. Each one worse than the last. The first one would randomly leave you stranded because the pivoting arm of the points would randomly break. I finally figured out if you used points from an unmentioned american brand they would last a little longer. All of them smoked like a chimney after a little over 100K. All of them had electrical gremlins that would rear their ugly heads randomly too. The 1981 was a total piece of crap. One day my to be wife was driving down the road and the shifter dropped out through the floor. It had rubber mounts that flexed to allow shifting and they became unbonded from between the shifter and the body and it dropped through the floor. Granted they all sipped gas. Which was their only saving grace. ... View more

First that EV is a Mustang in name only!! Second the electric power plants will need to literally burn 50 times more fuel to keep the EVs moving the same distance down the road. ... View more

And the EV uses more fossil fuel than that!!! A Tesla Model 3 uses 50 times more natural gas per mile than a Honda Civic that runs on Compressed Natural Gas. The EV has no tailpipe instead it has a smoke stack in a remote location where the power is being generated. And don't give me the BS that solar will power the EVs. It takes a solar panel six years to regenerate the power needed to manufacture it, not to mention all of the hazardous chemicals and gasses used in manufacturing. There is no such animal as clean energy! ... View more

You forgot to mention that EVs suck an immense amount of power compared to an ICE vehicle. Currently most electricity is generated using natural gas. By the time you burn the natural gas to make the electricity, send it to your home, run it through your charger to charge the batteries, discharge the batteries to run your motor. I did the math to figure the amount of fuel to move a Tesla model 3 one mile down the road. It ends up being FIFTY times as much as moving a Honda Civic CNG that same mile. I don't understand how that is enviromentally friendly??? ... View more

The giant tablet slapped on the dash looks HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!! Why ruin a perfectly good truck????? ... View more

True, but batteries, solar cells and windmills are not the answer!  Eventually something will come around that is actually feasible. ... View more

So you are charging your EV using fossil fuel! A good part of the expense of gas is the tax you pay that is not yet implemented on EVs.   Let's do a fair comparison of efficiency not this virtual MPG B.S.   We will compare a Tesla model 3 to a Honda Civic GX which is a CNG vehicle.   This way we are comparing apples to apples.   A Tesla model 3 gets about 263 miles on a full charge it takes 50 KwH to charge fully.  1 KwH takes about 1000 cubic feet of natural gas to generate.  To go 263 miles it takes 50000 cubic feet of NG which equates to 190 cubic feet of NG to go one mile!   Let's compare the Honda.  One tank of the Honda has a range of roughly 250 miles.  The tank size is 7.5 gallons of CNG.  One gallon of CNG is 126.67 cubic feet of NG.  That gives  you 950 Cubic feet of NG per tank full.  This comes up to 3.8 Cubic feet of NG per mile.   This makes the Honda 50 times more fuel efficient than the Tesla.   This does not account for power losses in the grid delivering the electricity to your house to charge the Tesla.   I know you are going to say, "I will only use green energy".   There is no such animal.   I used to work in a factory that made solar panels.  They are by no stretch of the imagination green.  First it takes a solar panel approximately 6 years to create the electricity it took to manufacture it.   Don't even get me started on all of the highly toxic chemicals and gasses that go in to them.  Then when they are used up they end up in a landfill causing more pollution.   If you believe that EVs are environmentally friendly and want to drive one. Have at it.  I just don't want to have to subsidize them. Which includes EVs paying their share of taxes that are imposed on ICE vehicles. ... View more

You hit the nail on the head.  EVs are more profitible!!!   They are not cleaner, or more efficient and as soon as the government puts a mileage tax in place cheaper to operate. ... View more

You forgot fire starter! ... View more

Did you ever try to get parts for a Tesla??? There aren't many available. EVs are meant to be disposable. ... View more

And how many days does it take to charge your EV from your solar panels?? You do realize it takes on the average 6 years to recoup the the electricity it took to make the solar panels? That is over 1/4 the lifespan of the panels. This whole Electrification is a massive money grab! ... View more

The first problem is there are error codes. Rule 1 water and electronics do not mix. No matter how hard you try to keep the water out of electronics eventually it gets trapped inside instead of outside. Real washing machines have mechanical timers and are repaired using wrenches and a multimeter. ... View more

Currently there is no clean energy period. It's just a trade off as to how you pollute. Even riding a bicycle gives off methane and CO ... View more

So your employer is supposed to subsidize your fuel?? Where is my free gas?? ... View more

If you look at the efficiency of a Tesla it is absolutely horrible. They overcome the efficiency shortcomings by brute force (larger batteries). ... View more

If you look back in prehistoric times to when the earth was a hot and tropical place you will find that the CO concentration was much higher than today. Were the dinosaurs burning too much fossil fuel? Global warming is a cyclical event that is driven by much greater elements than the consumption of fossil fuel. The best way to stop global warming is an ice age, but you really don't want that either. ... View more

Ya, that ginormous tablet slapped on the dash is really appealing. ... View more

Wait till the government figures out how to tax your electricity like they do gas. ... View more

EVs are not new technology they have been around since at least 1907 ... View more

But, you still can't get your Tesla serviced or buy parts in a timely fashion! ... View more

NASCAR has turned inro IROC, but worse. They have taken the innovation and creativity out of it. They lost me when they started with the next gen cars. LET THE TEAMS DESIGN THE CARS!! Then they came up with this whole halftime crap and the leader does not necessarily win?? They turned the whole thing into crap! ... View more

Of course it would have a four speed and dual exhaust and be called the 442! ... View more

Don't forget about a larger negative environmental impact! ... View more

Oh no, you don't own anything anymore!! You just pay to have the right to use it, or transfer it to someone else for whatever fee you see fit. See the business models of Tesla, Apple, Microsoft, Etc. ... View more

But, If your washing machine had no boards to replace there would be no need for diagnostic codes! I have a 20 year old electro-mechanical washing machine that is fairly easy to repair with a multimeter and the schematics printed on it. It does what it needs to do. Wash clothes and will continue to do so till some major mechanical component fails. Most new things are over engineered to the point of ridiculousness. Why do I need a washing machine that I can control via my smart phone???? It doesn't load/unload itself nor does it fill it self with detergent and fabric softener. So, what is the point?? Just more to fail and make you go out and buy a new one. Error codes are a moot point as either the replacement board is not available or it is too cost prohibitive to replace, so the washing machine gets prematurely junked. What happened to the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principle? ... View more

No such animal as a ZEV! Emissions are just not in my back yard! ... View more

Everyone must stop breathing at once! ... View more

Zero emissions does not exist nor will it ever unless the laws of physics change. ... View more

To create a new way to effect the environment negatively. Energy can not be created. It is released. The only green transportation is walking and biking, and even that is not green because you exhale CO2 and emit methane! ... View more

Texas is living that bad dream as we speak!! ... View more

So, have you done your due diligence and how and why these greenhouse gasses are causing global warming??? If you had. You would have discovered that the only mention is that CO2 levels are going up as temperatures go up. Not very conclusive! If you do some more research you will discover that during prehistoric times when the earth was hot and lush CO2 levels were also elevated. This points more so that CO2 levels are effected by global warming not the other way around! The hard fact is there are too many people on this planet and it is ever increasing! ... View more

Love it!! What is the cool looking yellow convertible sitting in front of the museum? I always liked the Austin Mini Moke ... View more

You do realize that the sun radiates the earth each hour 430 quintillion joules of energy. That energy is mostly in the form of heat. The warming of the earth is unavoidable unless something blocks the energy from getting to the earth. Greenhouse gases, dust, smoke etc. If you were to look back in prehistoric times the earth was a hot lush place where polar ice caps did not exist and the earth's water levels were considerably higher than today. So much so that the great lakes were one massive lake. By the way during this time CO2 levels in the atmosphere were very high during this period. Then some sort of event occurred most likely a meteor strike which blocked the sun's energy from the sun and the earth became very cold. The polar ice caps were formed. Eventually this disturbance subsided and the earth started to warm again. This is the portion of the earth's cycle that we are in now. Face it. You could stop all artificial CO2 emissions and the earth will continue to warm. In fact CO2 is not a cause of global warming it is an EFFECT OF GLOBAL WARMING. Did you ever try to search as to how the CO2 causes global warming? You won't find any proof. The only statements that you will find is that as the earth warms CO2 is rising in the atmosphere. ... View more

But, you can make biodiesel!! ... View more

When you say greenhouse gasses you mean water vapor?? Cuz this whole CO2 pollution is a bunch of b.s.. Water vapor is way more of a greenhouse gas than CO2. We should eliminate all water!!! ... View more