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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    EXCITEMENT!!! I am glad they are looking to have a coherent marketing message. Be interesting to see what comes out of this effort.
  2. G. David Felt
    Great Review for your first one. Nice pic's, Love your Dusty image of the car, that was well done. Question how do you feel it compares to the VW choices? What would be your top 3 must improve items? What would make it better for the around town short trip auto?
  3. G. David Felt
    We'll I guess it only took time for MB AMG to Ricerize their ugly mug car. Still bland to look at and the paint job is hideous. I thought those big arse wings of top fuel drag racing went out long ago.
  4. G. David Felt
    Dear
  5. G. David Felt
    Washington state is all about the rear sticker only allowed in the upper right hand corner of the plate.
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    G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - CheersandGears.com Racing Hybrid or Not? The question of the day would make one wonder if I was nuts. Can hybrids be the new Racing formula? We have plenty of new hybrids on the market to show that nothing is off limits, but does it really make sense and in AWD form to boot? Toyota is prepped, locked and loaded to show off at the Frankfurt motor show the Yaris Hybrid-R. This three door Yaris comes packed with a 1.6L turbo four-cylinder driving the front wheels and a 60hp electric motor on the rear wheels. Yet the engineers did not stop there as they added a third electric motor between the six-speed transmission and engine. This allows it to act as an advanced traction control that shifts power to the rear wheels when the front wheels cannot handle any more. The total system peaks at 414hp. One new aspect to hybrid is the lack of a traditional battery. In the place of the battery according to Toyota information it is using a SuperCapacitor. This allows for faster discharge of the power to the rear electric motors including a burst mode for five second boosts of full energy. While Toyota is a popular car company, they have not been known as a muscle car or performance car company and it would appear that this Yaris Hybrid-R is an attempt to change the youth and performance driven drivers. So with this concept car, the Question to be asked is, Hybrid Sports cars the future or not? Source - Toyota web site and multiple news outlets. Images from Bing search.
  7. G. David Felt
    The exterior is just plain ugly. Predators ugly baby. The interior is just plain blah. Did anyone actually try to have style or even to have some decent design language? I would fire the person who created this monstrosity.
  8. G. David Felt
    I have to say that I am very taken with this car. Clearly is a driving machine.
  9. G. David Felt
    Shocking that you can get an Abarth with Scissor doors. http://www.fiatofkirkland.com/2013-FIAT-500-Abarth-Kirkland-WA/vd/12634394 More shocking is this ugly little turd has a $31,600 loaded price. http://www.fiatofkirkland.com/2013-FIAT-500c-Abarth-Kirkland-WA/vd/14888766 There are such better cars out there for the money, why waste it on these little things.
  10. G. David Felt
    Local Fiat dealer Fiat of Kirkland http://www.fiatofkirkland.com/ has tons on the lot and are doing a end of summer blow out sale to try and get them moving. They just do not sell. 149 in stock according to the web site but across the street from them is their holding pen on a vacant lot and this morning I counted over 100 there alone. I suspect they have closer to 200+ in stock and a truck was waiting to unload more. Fiat 500 = failure in the Pacific Northwest.
  11. G. David Felt
    High schools need to bring back auto-shop so that kids can learn how to wrench on a auto. There are many excellent options for a fun first time auto, yet the current High School crowd is very much part of the Entitlement problem we have. They do not want to work very hard for something nice and they seem to be to out of shape to actually do hard work.
  12. G. David Felt
    Ford has destroyed Lincoln with their platinum line of auto's. There really is no luxury in Lincoln when you have the Ford units equal of better than what Lincoln can offer. At this point, better to be a Buick/Chrysler competitor and reboot the brand completely than to try and live in a fantasy world of so called luxury that does not exist.
  13. G. David Felt
    I would get an automotive stethoscope and craw under it and start probing to see if it is coming from the engine or tranny. It might be worth it to take it to a good tranny shop and have them review the tranny to see if the issue is there. I know the place by me does excellent assessments and have been honest with telling me when it is nothing in the tranny but an actual engine issue. This could help you deduce the point of noise faster if you can remove a major component from the problem. To me I am thinking tranny based on your videos. Something is slowly dying and the noise seems to come when you put the power of the engine against the tranny. One thought, crawl underneath and have someone move from drive to neutral and listen to the tranny and check the drive line and see if the noise shows up better.
  14. G. David Felt
    To you both for even thinking of killing off these awesome items.
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    Hunting
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    I challenge the need for the license plate and stickers. If states wanted to reduce costs, they could easily go to a standardized bar code plate on the rear of cars and all the officer has to do is have their window cam scan the plate and tell them if the license was paid for that year and if there is any other issues with the plate/car/owner. This would reduce the stickers and need for coming up with plates. Yes you could still have custom name plates, but most I think would care less about the plate and just pay their yearly fees. You could take this one step farther and get rid of the plate all together and just go with a GPS tracker that must be installed on all auto's but then the Privacy Freaks would scream bloody murder that the gov has their tracking info even though they already do with cell's, nav's, Onstar etc. Think of it as an RFID tag for each car that a police officer can scan for when pulling you over.
  17. G. David Felt
    You always said you loved to be a slave to the payment Mr. New Car!
  18. G. David Felt
    Totally disagree with you Soku47, the Tundra is one of the ugliest trucks out there with it's pug nose grill and total lack of style. Ford is not much better or Nissan, but GM and Dodge have awesome looking trucks. In regards to Diesel, I think all companies are going to have to come up with a high mileage diesel and hybrid for their light weight trucks.
  19. G. David Felt
    Hybrid would be wise to be one of the first out there with a killer application of high power and torque for a sports car. Be interesting to see what the concepts end up being. Pure electric to the rear wheels with a diesel or CNG powered generator?
  20. G. David Felt
    Bad News, we get stuck with expensive luxury golf carts. Good News, California gets stuck with being the R&D pigs. Hopefully more cars that are electric will end up with 200-300 mile range like Tesla.
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    Bow
  22. G. David Felt
    wow, I can say that these were interesting cars but have not seen one in 20 years.
  23. G. David Felt
    Be interesting to see what the compact CUV will be as well as the so called full size since the SRX is mid size.
  24. G. David Felt
    I am also amazed at the poor implementation on 2010 and older cars. Seems these are the early days of software based electronics and they suck. Worse yet is that GM seems to be fast to stop doing updates to fix the poor quality software features compared to current model lines. Wish I had an answer but I am just as frusterated by the slow response on nav, radios, etc of GM's auto's that have these features.
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