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You forgot: I never said that. What did you never say? What I said before.

This is what I have been using the last many years on mountain-bike. Never had to walk home. Was not made for mountain bike but sure does function well. Fill in when tyre is flat, use the inflator from the car and off you go a couple of kilometres, Refill air if a bit of air pressure has been lost (not likely) and home you go. When coming to get the tyre changed your repair man will not swear at you like he would if you had used latex filled sealant. The sealant can be washed completely away with lukewarm water. https://quadboss.com/1-gallon-tire-sealant

Good to have a pro among us. Are you seriously using the speaker wires to get a line out signal? After the signal has been amplified by a standard (and not by the user and owner very high regarded) audio system? Hope I am misunderstanding what you write.

In 1970 the system was not considered middle class. Not by me or any of my friends.

You want to increase or not part of the tonal range of the music due to your personal taste is of course fine. High resolution music is mostly recorded so it sounds natural. 24-bit lossless recording mostly sound very close to a live concert with no adjustment at all. Not as loud. The ML in our little car need no adjustment to sound natural and perfect to us. Do not know Curry's brand, but Quad audio with the old electrostatic speakers only lack a bit of the very low register if speakers are not placed correct in a corner to use the walls to increase the bass. If not trying to make the ML in the car as loud as in a disco, the sound in the car is close to that.

Not microfarad. Farad

First you need the line out and then have a filter that takes away all sound above the sound you want the sub to give you, then send that to the amplifier for the sub. One thing to remember. The Subwoofer is demanding in power and if you want highest sound quality for the audio a capacitor is not a bad thing to have connected to the amp powering the sub. Used to put a 1 farad capacitor (for very high sound levels a 2 F would be good, but overkill) as stabilizer to powering the amp so it could handle peak demand without problems. Brax is not the only but they are good.

3 years map update is not bad. Compare it to lifetime with a Garmin it is not really that good.

1. Do not plan when to arrive, only to arrive in my own time and comfortably. 2. Probably the interface in the 2021 is better than in our 2016. Was once being told to drive against a one way street by Lexus navigation (did not). Updating Lexus is for people with little care about money; it is stupidly expensive and both Android and Garmin have free updates. Blackberry is as good as the rest of the Android and IOS phones. Tapping you for as much info as you allow.

Some find Lexus navigation fine. Some do not: Negative: update cost a fortune and will only change some roads and not make navigation or input any better. Positive: it is in the car already. Navigation from phone: Positive: update cost nothing but informing Google where you are. Negative: when Google is in your phone you have little knowledge about what else Google find there. Garmin: Negative: not much better than Google finding your way Positive: Does not know who you are and care about where you are or anything else.

Used maps before. Becker was the first that actually did function better for me. Not user friendly to start up, but found the way from Denmark to a narrow street in Madrid in one go. Later Garmin have taken it all. Lexus navigation is not user friendly at all and even latest update does not find the best, easiest or fastest way. Garmin is easy to use and free update for as long as the unit is functioning (have one that is still great after 7 years.

Don't know.

Had a Saris Bones rack on the MR2 Spyder. Room for 3 bikes but used only for 2 (no room for 3 persons in the MR2). It was good. Also mounted it an a Golf so it should be OK on a CT200h and most other cars. Have no picture of it on the Golf but one on the Spyder. https://www.saris.com/product/bones3

Another French car I really like: Peugeot 205

Renault 5. Absolutely. the first not the second. Sorry. Could not help it.

I have never had it to function. My idea of Lexus and software: they need somebody who knows how to program. Most of them are pretty expensive.

I am sure there will rather soon come some hydrogen powered cars and infrastructure that will make BEV look like the mistake they are, except for driving around town for those having charging stations in their home.

Why we would never buy a SUV is because there are no parking places in the supermarkets, we use to buy things in. There are no parking places for big cars here at all because there are more cars than parking places. I do not want to sit upright in a car, my mother did not like to sit in the Nissan 280ZX, the seat made her lay down she said, she loved sitting in the old hippie-mobile from VW, 1960, I think. Oh, is the CT a SUV? It is not a sedan or coupé or limousine, so maybe it is a SUV. A tiny one. Low enough to let us see when a real SUV is approaching, as the light from these are high up and blinding a bit. We do not have the need to transport so many things when travelling. Have no pets and like to buy vegetables fresh from small markets, where the carrots, potatoes etc. are taken out of the earth in the morning, sold same day, and if we buy a lot of vegetables, they would get as old as those we could have bought in supermarket where we live before they would be eaten. In the good old days, (maybe because we were younger) we were driving round visiting family and friends all over Europe in 2-seaters, Opel GT (nur fliegen ist schöner), Matra Baghera, Honda CRX, Toyota MR2 both 1sts. gen. and later MR2 Spyder, after that a Smart Roadster. All of these with room for not much more than toothbrushes, and we could not understand why people came to hotels with much luggage. In the restaurants we did not look like most, we were in jeans and some looked like going to royal balls in their uncomfortable stiff outfits. A SUV is for people who like a SUV and a little car is for people that like a little car and we should all be accepting each other.

As long as the batteries are not the Li-ion type no problem with hybrids. With all the info now on the forum maybe fuel-cell cars will be looked at in a different light by some.

As it is now fuel cells are the most reasonable way to use hydrogen, but with a bit more time something will reduce the volume needed to use hydrogen in combustion engines. Though hydrogen has been known to be close to no pollution fuel for centuries it has not been evaluated very long. A combustion engine fuelled on hydrogen will emit less than 1 - 5% of the pollution conventional engines do (depending of the way you calculate) and a fuel cell in an electric engine powered car will emit 0%. Both are far better than all other ways to power machines. Unless you believe in the power plant in the DeLorean from "Back to the Future" that only needs a bit of waste material from a bin to power the car.

No Used to read books, but no longer have the time.

Battery power is OK as long as the batteries are kept really small such as for phones, laptops etc. For cars with power they are too costly to the environment and heavy and use so much power to drag along that the batteries needs being larger to get the power and the screw is never ending. To overcome the little problems with hydrogen is a microscopic thing compared to the damage battery material search is. Spend the funds to upgrade the national power grid on something useful instead: make ready for hydro fuel cells and for the motor-heads that wants combustion engines modify the cars so they can have the thunder of engines revving.

Somebody else have been mentioning this too often and been criticized for that. Where to get the electricity to take hydrogen out of sea water will probably be ridiculed as well:

It is definitely cheaper to use water power in countries like Norway and Sweden (and many other places where it is running down mountains) but not all countries have such energy available. That tidal energy is only starting to be evaluated and of interest now is strange as that is a power that has always been here and smaller power plants for a couple of hundreds households are not that difficult, gigantic and expensive. Many islands could have power without large cables.