I spotted a NEW (insert make/model) today!

slorenzen

laurasdada said:

Boston, fordgirl. South Suburban, actually.

A southy?

Isn't that Whitey's old turf?

laurasdada

Not Southie, southern suburbs or south shore. My Dad did live just a couple of blocks away from Whitey in Santa Monica, though. Small world...

robr2

slorenzen said:

laurasdada said:

Boston, fordgirl. South Suburban, actually.

A southy?

Isn't that Whitey's old turf?

Not really. @laurasdada is in the south suburbs of Boston. Whitey's haunt was South Boston aka Southie. He and Catherine Greig lived in Quincy for a while but that's not really the south suburbs.

fintail

Another new style Lambo today, hard-earned I am sure. Had a Tesla parked beside me at work.

Mr_Shiftright

Tex be nice. The question was about why Teslas are so abundant in his area.

odie6l

How about a Gold Wrapped Lamborghini Gallardo going through a auto car wash?

Odie

fordgirl15

You don't see those in my side of the world!

slorenzen

odie6l said:

How about a Gold Wrapped Lamborghini Gallardo going through a auto car wash?

Odie

odie6l said:

How about a Gold Wrapped Lamborghini Gallardo going through a auto car wash?

Odie

I couldn't IMAGINE doing that to that car...

stever

Bet it's the plasti-dip or advertising shrink wrap stuff that'll peel off.

texases

stever said:

Bet it's the plasti-dip or advertising shrink wrap stuff that'll peel off.

Yep, all those 'sterling silver' or 'gold plated' cars that pop up on (non-car) web sites are wrapped in metallic film. Quite a disappointment for those folks that thought somebody went out and constructed a car with silver bodywork!

stever

And it's really a Ford Escort under the shrink wrap.

laurasdada

Mr_Shiftright said:

Tex be nice. The question was about why Teslas are so abundant in his area.

Guess I missed a post?

texases

I was less than nice to a new poster who liked abbreviations. I think we're all square now.

robr2

laurasdada said:

Hi, Rob: Still being spit and polished, but the building remains the same form. But, brighter, cleaner and more modern looking inside (so far). Looks like 8 charging stations are going up on the left side of the dealer. It's coming together pretty quickly. The "Automile" is at least an "Auto5k" now.

Amazing how common it is to see Teslas around here. There's at least one BMW i8 in my area, too. Still prefer that propulsion proposition over all battery, all the time.

Still haven't decided what to do: condo or i8! The fact that I'm cross shopping these two items shows my financial prowess and the reason I should really not be allowed to have any money... Oh, I forgot the third item: 8 years of college tuition. Yeah, there's the winner right there.

Drove by this new Tesla store today. They did spiff it up but it's not what I would expect a Tesla store to look like. Here it is in it's previous incarnation.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.236085,-71.178765,3a,75y,106.9h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZgaoVAOWM_0Fp2tRnCOeWQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Now imagine the brick painted grey and absolutely no cars in the lot.

fordgirl15

Your forgiven texases!!:-)

fintail

And the wrapped wonder is being used to promoteA little known energy drink...nice write off

Mr_Shiftright

That Lambo might need an energy drink, considering how a Mitsubishi Evo beat it up on TopGear a few years back.

fintail said:

And the wrapped wonder is being used to promoteA little known energy drink...nice write off

anythngbutgm

robr2 said:

laurasdada said:

Hi, Rob: Still being spit and polished, but the building remains the same form. But, brighter, cleaner and more modern looking inside (so far). Looks like 8 charging stations are going up on the left side of the dealer. It's coming together pretty quickly. The "Automile" is at least an "Auto5k" now.

Amazing how common it is to see Teslas around here. There's at least one BMW i8 in my area, too. Still prefer that propulsion proposition over all battery, all the time.

Still haven't decided what to do: condo or i8! The fact that I'm cross shopping these two items shows my financial prowess and the reason I should really not be allowed to have any money... Oh, I forgot the third item: 8 years of college tuition. Yeah, there's the winner right there.

Drove by this new Tesla store today. They did spiff it up but it's not what I would expect a Tesla store to look like. Here it is in it's previous incarnation.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.236085,-71.178765,3a,75y,106.9h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZgaoVAOWM_0Fp2tRnCOeWQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Now imagine the brick painted grey and absolutely no cars in the lot.

I've been to Legacy place a hundred times (YardHouse is the best pub outside of Boston IMO) and I was wondering how that sad little Lincoln store faired. So that's where the new Tesla store is, cool I'll need to check it out next time...

laurasdada

I've been to Legacy place a hundred times (YardHouse is the best pub outside of Boston IMO) and I was wondering how that sad little Lincoln store faired. So that's where the new Tesla store is, cool I'll need to check it out next time...

Dined at the Yard House Tuesday night, good Margherita pizza app! And Sam Summer...

kyfdx

laurasdada said:

I've been to Legacy place a hundred times (YardHouse is the best pub outside of Boston IMO) and I was wondering how that sad little Lincoln store faired. So that's where the new Tesla store is, cool I'll need to check it out next time...

Dined at the Yard House Tuesday night, good Margherita pizza app! And Sam Summer...



Is that a local place? Or the chain restaurant? We have a Yard House in Cincinnati. Nice place, with 100 taps!!

Michaell

kyfdx said:

laurasdada said:

I've been to Legacy place a hundred times (YardHouse is the best pub outside of Boston IMO) and I was wondering how that sad little Lincoln store faired. So that's where the new Tesla store is, cool I'll need to check it out next time...

Dined at the Yard House Tuesday night, good Margherita pizza app! And Sam Summer...

Is that a local place? Or the chain restaurant? We have a Yard House in Cincinnati. Nice place, with 100 taps!!

It's a chain .. they are here in Colorado and I've been to one in my hometown in CA as well.

laurasdada

What Michaell said... Tonight I dine even more exclusively: Costco!

Michaell

laurasdada said:

What Michaell said... Tonight I dine even more exclusively: Costco!

There is a Costco in the town I'm moving to. Have had a Sam's Club membership for years but rarely get there, since it's so far away.

Enjoy the hot dog / pizza / burger....

berri

Hot dog price or not, I think you'll become a Costco person pretty quickly

robr2

kyfdx said:

laurasdada said:

I've been to Legacy place a hundred times (YardHouse is the best pub outside of Boston IMO) and I was wondering how that sad little Lincoln store faired. So that's where the new Tesla store is, cool I'll need to check it out next time...

Dined at the Yard House Tuesday night, good Margherita pizza app! And Sam Summer...

Is that a local place? Or the chain restaurant? We have a Yard House in Cincinnati. Nice place, with 100 taps!!

Yard House is a nationwide chain owned by Darden Restaurants, the purveyor of Olive Garden and LongHorn as well as The Capital Grille and Seasons 52.

Michaell

robr2 said:

kyfdx said:

laurasdada said:

I've been to Legacy place a hundred times (YardHouse is the best pub outside of Boston IMO) and I was wondering how that sad little Lincoln store faired. So that's where the new Tesla store is, cool I'll need to check it out next time...

Dined at the Yard House Tuesday night, good Margherita pizza app! And Sam Summer...

Is that a local place? Or the chain restaurant? We have a Yard House in Cincinnati. Nice place, with 100 taps!!

Yard House is a nationwide chain owned by Darden Restaurants, the purveyor of Olive Garden and LongHorn as well as The Capital Grille and Seasons 52.

I thought OG got spun off ... or, that there was a shareholder revolt that led to some changes in the board at Darden.

robr2

Michaell said:

robr2 said:

kyfdx said:

laurasdada said:

I've been to Legacy place a hundred times (YardHouse is the best pub outside of Boston IMO) and I was wondering how that sad little Lincoln store faired. So that's where the new Tesla store is, cool I'll need to check it out next time...

Dined at the Yard House Tuesday night, good Margherita pizza app! And Sam Summer...

Is that a local place? Or the chain restaurant? We have a Yard House in Cincinnati. Nice place, with 100 taps!!

Yard House is a nationwide chain owned by Darden Restaurants, the purveyor of Olive Garden and LongHorn as well as The Capital Grille and Seasons 52.

I thought OG got spun off ... or, that there was a shareholder revolt that led to some changes in the board at Darden.

They sold Red Lobster in early 2014. There was a revolt by Darden's largest shareholder - an equity firm - in which they managed to change the entire board. The equity firm presented a 294 page report highlighting ways to make Olive Garden more profitable which included cutting down on the breadsticks, the salad, and the dressing. Oy - getting into the minutia...

Michaell

robr2 said:

Michaell said:

robr2 said:

kyfdx said:

laurasdada said:

I've been to Legacy place a hundred times (YardHouse is the best pub outside of Boston IMO) and I was wondering how that sad little Lincoln store faired. So that's where the new Tesla store is, cool I'll need to check it out next time...

Dined at the Yard House Tuesday night, good Margherita pizza app! And Sam Summer...

Is that a local place? Or the chain restaurant? We have a Yard House in Cincinnati. Nice place, with 100 taps!!

Yard House is a nationwide chain owned by Darden Restaurants, the purveyor of Olive Garden and LongHorn as well as The Capital Grille and Seasons 52.

I thought OG got spun off ... or, that there was a shareholder revolt that led to some changes in the board at Darden.

They sold Red Lobster in early 2014. There was a revolt by Darden's largest shareholder - an equity firm - in which they managed to change the entire board. The equity firm presented a 294 page report highlighting ways to make Olive Garden more profitable which included cutting down on the breadsticks, the salad, and the dressing. Oy - getting into the minutia...


OK, so I was close. I remember reading about that in the business media.

ab348

robr2 said:

They sold Red Lobster in early 2014. There was a revolt by Darden's largest shareholder - an equity firm - in which they managed to change the entire board. The equity firm presented a 294 page report highlighting ways to make Olive Garden more profitable which included cutting down on the breadsticks, the salad, and the dressing. Oy - getting into the minutia...

That's why you seldom see successful restaurants run by bankers. A recipe for failure is all they know about the business.

kyfdx

robr2 said:

kyfdx said:

laurasdada said:

I've been to Legacy place a hundred times (YardHouse is the best pub outside of Boston IMO) and I was wondering how that sad little Lincoln store faired. So that's where the new Tesla store is, cool I'll need to check it out next time...

Dined at the Yard House Tuesday night, good Margherita pizza app! And Sam Summer...

Is that a local place? Or the chain restaurant? We have a Yard House in Cincinnati. Nice place, with 100 taps!!

Yard House is a nationwide chain owned by Darden Restaurants, the purveyor of Olive Garden and LongHorn as well as The Capital Grille and Seasons 52.

Yes.. I knew my local Yard House was part of the chain. Just thought maybe there was an independent up that way with the same name.

berri

Never seen a Darden Yard House restaurant. What's there spin on the menu and theme? I find Darden chains to usually be decent moderate priced places.

kyfdx

berri said:

Never seen a Darden Yard House restaurant. What's there spin on the menu and theme? I find Darden chains to usually be decent moderate priced places.

It's a beer-centric restaurant... A big rectangular bar in the center (60 ft by 20 ft?) with taps all the way around.. The food seems to be consistent with TGIF, or maybe a step up. Typical prices. We've been there a couple of times and it's good.. but, always crowded, which is why we don't go more.

Obviously, a great craft beer selection on tap.

robr2

kyfdx said:

berri said:

Never seen a Darden Yard House restaurant. What's there spin on the menu and theme? I find Darden chains to usually be decent moderate priced places.

It's a beer-centric restaurant... A big rectangular bar in the center (60 ft by 20 ft?) with taps all the way around.. The food seems to be consistent with TGIF, or maybe a step up. Typical prices. We've been there a couple of times and it's good.. but, always crowded, which is why we don't go more.

Obviously, a great craft beer selection on tap.

It's so crowded, nobody goes there anymore....

kyfdx

@robr2 LOL

berri

Yard House - beer: Duh, makes too much sense. So are those 1970's pubs going to be the next big thing in restaurants again?

stickguy

spent last week at the beach on vacation. Jersey shore. Stone Harbor for those that are in the area, which happens to be one of the wealthiest beach towns (not that I qualify to be there of course!). Car watcher heaven. more Benzs than you know what to do with (a particularly nice e63 EMG caught my eye!). In the space of 1 hour, a convertible and coupe Jag F type. a few Bentleys and Ferraris. A garish RR convertible (the new one).

also the first XC90 I have seen in the wild too. Very sharp. and too many more to recall!

Mr_Shiftright

don't use the word "recall"

explorerx4

A new HRV at the grocery store. Fairly comparable in size to the original CR-V. The new one pulled into the parking space just vacated by the CR-V.

stever

There was a review in the local paper on the HR-V and supposedly it's already cannibalizing CR-V sales.

robr2

Now I've read that there has been minimal impact on CR-V sales with high end HR-V sales displacing low end CR-V sales. I'm guessing Honda makes more on a $23K HR-V EX than it does on a $25K CR-V LX.

fintail

Saw a new S63 coupe driven by a 20-ish year old looking girl/woman - I assume daddy's car. She was being very cautious and had impeccable turn signal use, which is unusual for the typical often above the law local driver of cars in that price range. Saw the new style facelifted Prius V too - I hadn't noticed how overwrought the front end is. Someone else posted this on another forum - this overstyling trend is kind of the malaise era for Japanese car styling.

explorerx4

CR-V starts out 4k+ higher than an HR-V, plus it's got a lot of volume, so does Honda make more on a CR-V with 2k upgrades or HR-V with 4k upgrades? I think CR-V still is more profitable.

stever

fintail said:

Saw the new style facelifted Prius V too.

Wait, the 2016 is out? They aren't on Toyota.com yet; must be trying to clear out the 2015s. Have to go check 'em out.

fintail

It had the front end like this:



Ghastly

stever said:

fintail said:

Saw the new style facelifted Prius V too.

Wait, the 2016 is out? They aren't on Toyota.com yet; must be trying to clear out the 2015s. Have to go check 'em out.

stever

Cool, will have to go bug the local dealer now. Didn't think they'd be on the streets for another month or three. Thanks!

(btw, it's supposed to handle "better", being based on the old Echo platform. )

fintail

I don't think it's an entire new model, just a facelift. I think the new one isn't out yet. Reminds me of that hydrogen (or whatever) Toyota that is upcoming, that is overstyled to the point of cringing hilarity.

stever said:

Cool, will have to go bug the local dealer now. Didn't think they'd be on the streets for another month or three. Thanks!

(btw, it's supposed to handle "better", being based on the old Echo platform. )

stever

Ah, k. Yeah, the design of the hydrogen one is supposed to bleed over to the V, but maybe not until 2018.

Oh well, I can wait.

berri

Is anyone neutral on the Prius? It seems to be one of those love or hate automobiles.

tlong

berri said:

Is anyone neutral on the Prius? It seems to be one of those love or hate automobiles.

I like the economy and reliability of the Prius and would consider it if a) they had a bit better driving dynamics; and b) had a bit more upscale interior. So I'm kind of neutral on it. I have driven one and it is an interesting ride and larger inside that you would think.

fordgirl15

Aren't you supposed to get really good fuel mileage with a prius? I'm not a fan of them cause I don't like the way they look!:-) any vehicle that gets good fuel mileage is nice! Then you don't have to pay for gas so much!:-)