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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Have you actually driven one? To say Kia and Acura in the same sentence is a bit of a sacrilege. It may not be a 100k per year seller, but the engineering and performance of this car is impressive. Drive one, if you get a chance. Add 3 electric motors to it and a 7-speed DCT, and it should be even more so. I know you have to sell them CaddyCruiser, but this is an ugly duckling that will not become a swan. Hard to drive something that visually is so terrible. Fact that many humans are visual so this has got to be stunning and it is not IMHO.
  2. G. David Felt
    1990's exterior and interior, dated before even produced. This has got to be due to Toyota now owning them and their ultra conservative ways. At this point they will kill Subaru the way GM ignored and killed SAAB. Sad
  3. G. David Felt
    WOW, an overpriced ugly station wagon, but then Europe seems to still love their station wagons so I guess it should do OK there. Good Luck, wonder just how many of the current version they are selling? It cannot be much I would think.
  4. G. David Felt
    This will cannibalize their only faithful sales to the Cayenne. Here I have to say that while the engineering chops are impressive, I think Marketing forgot to keep this small er CUV in it's proper place. My gut tells me they will rush a refresh of the Cayenne to market next year after this kills off sales.
  5. G. David Felt
    Guess the ricer fan boys will love it but I do not really see anything to get excited about other than a quality built inexpensive competition for keeping GM on their feet. GM, time to refresh the Cruze and give some SS love to the Chevy Fans.
  6. G. David Felt
    Have to say that this did not impress me when I originally saw the photo's and now with a 2014 to 2013 comparison I can see the mild changes, but still it does not wow me to say yea, this is a great looking car. Top is the 2014 model, bottom is the 2013. Still not wowed!
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    G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.cheersandgears.com On Friday November 15th, the Obama administration and the EPA acknowledged that the Bio-Fuel law championed by both parties in 2007 is not meeting expectations and that the US has hit it's limit for now. Against strong lobbing by the Ethanol to resist cuts, the EPA has proposed cutting the amount of fuel in 2014 that must be blended by 14%. Will this drop corn prices? Increase or decrease refined petrol cost at the pump? Reduce maintenance on auto's? Cost jobs in certain sectors? Sounds off on how you feel about the Ethanol blends! Give your positive and negative feedback on how you feel about this. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/15/the-u-s-is-hitting-its-ethanol-limit-so-the-epa-will-weaken-its-biofuels-rules/ http://www.moneynews.com/Economy/EPA-Oil-Industry-Biofuel/2013/11/15/id/536937 http://breakingenergy.com/2012/09/30/biodiesel-producer-urges-epa-to-resist-calls-for-ethanol-mandate/
  8. G. David Felt
    60 days and counting till GMC Canyon Fest Love ya'll!!
  9. G. David Felt
    Wait for the Diesel, you will be kicking yourself if you do not. My gut tells me it will be only 3-6 months after production starts and they will have the diesel out. I know emotion is go grab it and trade in that bug for a Butch ride, but hold off and use logic, not emotion as you will be so mucho happier with the Diesel Version. You know I am right!
  10. G. David Felt
    WHAT????? Emotional Conjectures here on Cheers and Gears???? Never that would never happen here!
  11. G. David Felt
    Yes Tesla is the only one to actually have a real Electric car in my mind, but the bulk of the mass people cannot afford it and so that leave the pathetic luxury golf cart Nissan Leaf, Spark EV and Focus or Fiesta ? ev auto's. I might be missing one or two others but excluding the beloved Tesla for the rich, Electric is not ready for mass driving. You cannot just drive to work and then get in after work and go on a road trip without planning on where you will spend hours charging before you move your next little amount of time. Time is money and 80 miles, then a 8-12hr charge or level 2 4-6hr charge is NOT acceptable to the bulk of people today. People willing to accept this are a eccentric small group of the population.
  12. G. David Felt
    A gearhead's willy should move with this little hottie!
  13. G. David Felt
    Morning all, Has anyone else upgraded to IE11 or Firefox 25? Are you running on windows 7 or Window 8 or 8.1? I have IE 11 and Firefox 25 on both Windows 7 and an upgraded 8.1 system. If you right mouse click on the quote button in a forum post and say open in a new tab, everything works fine and you can reply and post. Yet if you just click on the quote button it will take you to the field to type your reply but be blank. No quoted post will appear and the only way to make it work is to do the right mouse click and open in a new tab for quote replying. If you just click in the reply field to post a comment, it is a 50/50 chance that you will see your posting comment. It is easily fixed by clicking elsewhere in the browser window and then clicking back in the comment field and you can then type your comment and post it. Seems to be a loss of mouse focus but not sure if this is a browser issue for both browsers or maybe an incompatibility issue with the forum since both browsers are so new. Hope someone else has seen this issue, both my work laptop and my home desktop exhibit this behavior.
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    Actually, I have been reading and researching both the claims from the environmentalist and from the power companies and from people who have actually had fracking wells on their land. I admit there are those that have had bad problems with Fracked wells, but there are more successful and especially in the last 13 years fracked well's than the leaking destructive issues of before then. I still stand by NG and especially CNG. Safe and much cleaner alternative to go to from Petrol. Like electric cars perhaps. I find the irony hilarious. Not afraid of electric cars at all, just they are not ready for mass transit and cannot handle cross country driving. They are just a luxury golf cart for inner city commuting.
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    Over all a very nice truck, Love the interior and it's clear connection to the full size trucks. Clean logical and well laid out. Very nice job. Excited to see the GMC version, this is a nice Chevy Family Truck, I want the Professional Grade!
  17. G. David Felt
    I forgot just how ugly that car is.
  18. G. David Felt
    Nice, looks like a photoshop job to get people reaction to maybe having a Willy Edition.
  19. G. David Felt
    Most Fracking complaints come from data of the 80's and 90's and I covered this in the alternative energy forum. In fact the Hypocrisy is how many people including the idiot Beatle wife in NY spreads false information about Fracking and yet use Natural Gas to stay warm, power, cooking, etc. Many farms have been saved especially in NY and Pennsylvania due to having NG wells. People have been able to hold onto land that has been in the family for generations rather than pack it up due to the inability to make a living off farming. The few areas that have had problems are again from old wells in the early days before they solved the problems of protecting the under ground water and sealing off the water supplies from the natural gas supplies. But then some people just seem to be afraid of anything that moves society forward.
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    You can call me what ever makes you happy. CNG has it's faults, nothing is perfect, but it is a logical safe step away from petrol to a better energy source eventually for auto's. Everyone to use your statement blushes over how clean EV's / pure electric auto's are without touching on it's BLACK side. Yes in the early days Fracking had problems. Like any science, they figured out how to correct the issues and make it fairly safe for use as an energy source. Electrical also has these same issues such as the toxic settlement ponds from Battery production. Yet it is almost impossible to get anyone to accept and acknowledge the down side of the battery movement especially the destruction of the salt fields in Chile to extract the Lithium. So to you your quote DodgeFan:
  21. G. David Felt
    The Bar-b-que engines would be a pain to keep clean and nice looking.
  22. G. David Felt
    Bummer, having gone to Kobe University and the family I lived with spoiled their son so I was able to drive both his R35 Skyline and his Japan version Ninja and they were amazing. The R35 was so roomy inside even for a big guy, but I can see with the drive to tight fitting seats and the bigger center consoles, you loose the ability for big peeps to fit.
  23. G. David Felt
    WOW, What an Ugly Car and the interior is hideous. There is nothing I can actually say that I like about this Single Buck Tooth Grilled monstrosity.
  24. G. David Felt
    Lovely Ute!!!
  25. G. David Felt
    diesel could be an early 2015 release like late spring, early summer Here is the Diesel 2015 Colorado.
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