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Chevrolet News:2014 Chevrolet Volt Sees A $5,000 Price Cut
G. David Felt replied to William Maley's topic in Chevrolet
Sweet, that is what I am talking about.- 42 replies
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True, yet I keep seeing more and more Captiva's on the roads around here. I thought it was a canada version at first since we are on the boarder with Vancouver and then I saw my local Chevy Dealer Lee Johnson have about 20 of them in various configurations on the lot and as I looked around found more and more chevy dealers having them on the lot for sale to the public. Thought it was a fleet only ride, but guess there is always ways to get around it.
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I have gone through this with my 94 GMC Suburban. I recommend you go to Car Toys. They do an awesome job and once you tell the sales person what vehicle you have, they can show you what will fit from a head unit and still tend to look stock without cutting up the dash and let you listen to a series of speakers to find out what is good to your ear. It is hard today to find any truly bad speakers, but each of us hear things differently and as such I recommend you listen to the speakers to make sure your type of music sounds like you expect. I also suggest you look at Bi or Tri speakers as you can get some awesome range in these speakers without having to put in sub-woofers.
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Sadly Pontiac cut it's own wrists and died before the ambulance could arrive to try and save it.
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Is that just stupid weak marketing or what? I swear that we seem to have gone to a pathetic entitlement crowd of marketing dweebs. No originality, nothing to spark passion, Anyone could have counted off these stupid numbers.
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GM News: Don Butler Resigns From Cadillac
G. David Felt replied to William Maley's topic in General Motors
Yea, Right now I am having thoughts that it might be time to look around for another job. Leadership at my current place of employment has had a major turn over and things right now are not looking that great. Too many new faces that have been promoted from other divisions that have no clue about the products we build and that unlike the rest of the company that is all hardware based, we are a software based solution of products and the whole Widget approach does not work with software. The writting on the wall is when a new manager comes in, never takes time to talk to the staff and starts telling the team we are going to step up our game and people will be held accountable for fixing X amount of bugs a day, closing X amount of bugs a day, diagnostics on X amount of bugs a day and code X amount of lines a day. Clearly clueless about how Software works in comparison to hardware. Again, not a widget company.- 15 replies
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Very Cool, it will be exciting when you do get time to get some more pictures.
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Yes I would agree with GM that their current CUV's are doing well, but they have ignored a important segment of hardcore users/buyers. Us Body on Frame folks like a true 4x4. I see a decent profitable size market for the Trailblazer especially if they bring it here with the powerful baby Duramax engines.
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GM News: Don Butler Resigns From Cadillac
G. David Felt replied to William Maley's topic in General Motors
If he is not balancing personal and professional than one can burn out. I suspect that this is personal for now but by early next year he will be at another auto company.- 15 replies
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WOW, that is a nice Cougar. It amazes me how people will spend money to buy something nice like this and then trash it.
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Here the 1 series sit on the lots due to all the high tech workers go right into the 3 series if BMW is what they want or the 5 series, like most places the 7 series is seen but rare.
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Scion News: Rumorpile: FR-S Convertible and Turbo Canned
G. David Felt replied to William Maley's topic in Toyota
I have yet to see either of the twins here on the roads in seattle. They sit on the lots. People want more than a two seater and I think this is a valid concern and I doubt they will really be able to recover the investment once they have to many versions of a limited use auto like this. Society has gotten away from the driving machines and the extra income to spend on a 3rd auto like this. If they can do the turbo with minimal cost that can truly be recovered, great otherwise this is what I see as a limited run car of 3-5 years before it goes away.- 3 replies
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VW News: Rumorpile: Volkswagen Ponders An Outback Competitor
G. David Felt replied to William Maley's topic in Volkswagen
I know to some it might seem like there is no competition to the outback, but with all the various CUV AWD. Do they really think another station wagon is the right answer? I know Europe still like Station Wagons, but that is not in favor here in the US. -
That is freakin Beautifull. Saw a 68 GTO Convertible and a beat up Sunfire Convertible on the way in today.
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No, I think pure greed of if we can get away with spending less on emission hardware, we can make more profit. My gut tells me this. Any place a company can get away with a bribe to not have to have a higher cost of building they will do it. Like Drew, I do wonder what Ford would say as to why it is harder in India than anywhere else.
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Seattle you see the dealerships for ford\Lincoln and yet you see very little Lincoln product on the lots or on the roads around here. Most friends I have had chats with feel that Lincoln will be gone in a few years as it is pretty much ignored by Ford and you can get a ford at a luxury level so why bother with Lincoln. If they are selling any Lincoln, then it must be around Detroit, midwest and east coast as they are vaporware on the west coast.
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BMW News: BMW i3: The Ultimate Electric Machine?
G. David Felt replied to William Maley's topic in BMW
Why even bother commenting POW if you are not even going to put up any points of thoughts. The amount of destructive corrosive chemicals used and their dangerous by product in production of the Electric auto's greatly out weights the instant gratification of people that say I am green without looking at the bigger picture. Post your reports and quote who your experts are that shows the production of the batteries, electric motors etc do not produce the large quantities of green house gas. Yes electric auto's do have a major reduction in driving these glorified golf carts for inner city use compared to petrol cars, but there is a big up front production of green house gas to achieve this. How it plays out will be interesting to see. For the US to meet the crazy 2050 fuel efficiency targets we will need auto's that get 180MPG by then and current technology of electric auto's, petrol and diesel do not have what it takes to get there. While a big fan of CNG, even that will not make the 2050 standards work to reduce green house gas and improve efficiency without some hybrid alternatives. I am not against the electric auto's, but we do need to acknowledge the additional costs to mother earth in production of these products that is not done with a petrol, cng or diesel auto. -
I will say that I see much more prius on the roads plus like you at the airports it is almost all Toyota on the rental lots. Hard to actually find american cars in some cities.
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This is so awesome to see for GM after the pre-bankruptcy sales. Nice to finally have a stable of quality products that people can love.
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That is such a sexy beast, awesome color and I can only imagen how nice the interior is and engine bay an based on your teasing comments, did we get OEM rims back on it?
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VW News: Guess Who's Coming Back To U.S.? The Volkswagen Phaeton
G. David Felt replied to William Maley's topic in Volkswagen
Hope they make it roomy inside as while I like the car, my knees hit the dashboard and my head touched the ceiling. For sure was not my fathers Cadillac.- 2 replies
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Server Move Today August 1, 2013
G. David Felt replied to Drew Dowdell's topic in Site News and Feedback
My Compliments, the site is really Snappy!