I believe it was the CXS.
The one I like is the Colorado where they put a 5.3L V8 in it for a tad.
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Even crazier they put it in the single cab Colorados.
Which had to be hilarious to drive.
The only car they didn’t do something crazy to back then were the minivans. I’ll never understand why they didn’t cram the LS4 into them. People have done it since then and it’s absolutely glorious. And looks factory quality.
Hear! Hear! I drove 2 Buick LeSabre’s for over 200,000 miles each and am now driving a 2011 Buick Lucerne which i got at a real buy right before the price of used cars skyrocketed.
Some elderly fellow owned it and had only put 37,000 miles on it.
I plan to put over 200,000 miles on this one two. 
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…and the defense rests. Thank you my eco-friendly, wise green friend. 
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Leaked should not be used in any sentence describing a battry powered anything.
Good for Tesla. I am 100% in agreement that the market and demand should grow the EV.
There is no need to rush or force the market.
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I am not sure that is what Tesla is doing, but we agree on the fundamentals.
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Tesla is growing the market and the market and charging standard.
The other chargers are the Beta Max equivalent of the systems.
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That would imply that the other systems were technologically superior to Tesla’s. I have seen no evidence that they are.
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Beta was only superior in the sense that on its highest quality recording mode (Beta-1) it had a noticeably cleaner image than VHS standard record.
Downside was that you could only record on Beta-1 for about 1 hour. VHS standard record was 2 hours and the image was good enough. And it got way more lopsided from there; VHS Extended LP was about 7 hours. Yeah the image was trash quality but it meant that you could record a broadcast football game plus the after game interviews.
None of the Beta updated recording standards (Beta-2 and Beta-3) could get anywhere close to that. And Beta-2 only matched VHS Standard record in both time and quality. Beta 3 was longer record than Beta 2 (around 3 hours) but the image quality was inferior to VHS LP, which was about 4 hours.
Sony really screwed up with Beta. VHS had its issues but it was the better format overall for most people. Plus Sony rarely licensed it. Had they started licensing Beta out to other manufacturers in 1975 (a year before VHS came out) it probably would have done better.
Frankly when it came to image quality Laserdisc took a dump on both. Problem was you couldn’t record on Laserdisc. But I’ve watched Jurassic Park on Laserdisc (got the player and a movie out of a repoed trailer that I set up for moving) and I was pretty impressed with the quality. Basically DVD quality video. It was a fancy ass player too. Had double side play and a 3 disc changer. Could also play CDs. It was a neat thing to play around with in 2010 even if it was horribly outdated by that point.
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Getting this back on track so to speak.
Meanwhile, Tesla is really cooking on that semi-truck production!
12 a month. Wow.
Meanwhile, over in the UK…
Obviously fake news. Offshore wind could never fail this badly.
Or have we been sold a bill of goods yet again?
The only way wind power will ever be reliable is if we harvest the breeze from bloviating politicians and other public servethemselfants.
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is escalating his attack on President Joe Biden’s electric vehicle policy, speaking Tuesday at the groundbreaking for a company that received more than $100 million to refine graphite for electric batteries from the infrastructure law Biden signed
Anovion’s $800 million investment promises 400 new jobs in rural Bainbridge, in the state’s far southwest corner.
Georgia has been a top beneficiary of a nationwide electric vehicle investment boom, with more than 40 electric vehicle-related projects since 2020 pledging $22.7 billion of investment and 28,400 jobs in the state.
"Georgia’s electric mobility boom is taking place because our state is second to none for companies looking to invest, relocate, expand, and innovate – not because the federal government continues to put their thumb on the scale, favoring a few companies over the industry as a whole,” Kemp said, according to advance remarks of his speech at Anovion Technologies
I thought Republicans would chillout once domestic manufacturing got revitalized, and the ribbons got cut on good, American jobs.
The clown shoes are too tight to take off, I guess. It’s weird to hate the IRA this much while feasting on its benefits.
To manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for the copper. Accumulated, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for one battery.
Career politicians have never thought about where the energy comes from to charge those batteries. Apparently that is done by magic wands, they charge out of the blue.
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Harvest the Hot Air from bloviating pols.
Tried to improve it for you. 
