Jump to content
News
Reviews
Discussons
Activity
Create New...
Close

G. David Felt

Premium Subscriber
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    35,993

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    320

 Content Type 

Everything posted by G. David Felt

  1. G. David Felt
    Nice write up. seems to be a solid little commuter car for 1 or 2 people.
  2. G. David Felt
    This makes perfect sense as Volvo tends to compete more with Buick, Lexus, Infiniti, Acura and such than MB and BMW. I do not see Volvo as a high end luxury car builder. Clearly not in line with their DNA.
  3. G. David Felt
    Yes, this does make it more exciting. Thanks for posting the pic.
  4. G. David Felt
    Thinking long term, take a Diesel cruze and convert it to CNG, this way cheap CNG with only 10% use of Diesel and you get awesome low cost fueling. Course you can take and normal car and convert it to CNG and then have cheap fueling. ROI on cost is about 1 1/2 to 3 years depending on how many miles you drive. Biggest savings around if you keep a auto long term.
  5. G. David Felt
    H'mmm I can see a balanced sales approach in having a fastback style and a traditional 4 door sedan. Not really a big deal for the bulk of the planets people who cannot afford such luxury. I thought China owned Jaguar? So I can see them changing to their tasts at the expense of the rest of the world.
  6. G. David Felt
    Have Track, Will Travel!
  7. G. David Felt
    Very cool, did you have to pay much out of pocket or all covered under warranty?
  8. G. David Felt
    So there is NO SPARE on this car? I see no problem with the DEF tank in the trunk, I would have thought they would have had a access fill spot in the trunk but one that does not keep you from holding packages, etc. Still not a deal breaker for me. Interesting if there is no spare.
  9. G. David Felt
    thedriver I have not seen any info about having to give up the spare tire for the def tank and that it is only in the trunk so it has to be empty to refill which really is not a big deal considering you only do this every 25K miles or so. Plus who drives around with a full trunk all the time eating up gas mileage? History NOTE! A fact Rudolf Diesel developed his engine to run on American produced peanut oil. Those farmers in Georgia will be extremely pleased if GM announced that this Cruze can run with their peanut oil. It will be American fueled! Any way, Car and Driver sure seems to be negative on the little oil burner. http://www.caranddriver.com/news/2014-chevrolet-cruze-diesel-photos-and-info-news Interesting to see that Chevy web site has it listed as starting from $24,995 and the first GM news announcements stated $25,995. http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2013/Apr/0418-cruze-turbo.html Interesting that other online folks have a price from $25K to 26K for base starting price but does seem to be positive for the Oil Burner. http://www.autotrader.com/research/article/car-news/206830/2014-chevrolet-cruze-diesel-rated-at-46-mpg-highway.jsp http://www.autoblog.com/2013/04/18/2014-chevrolet-cruze-diesel-gets-46-mpg/ http://gm-volt.com/2013/04/23/46-mpg-for-cruze-diesel/
  10. G. David Felt
    Did you not get the English pop up windows that translated the japan talk to English? Mine showed them and it was funny.
  11. G. David Felt
    They were a cool car for the time. In comparison to other chryslers at that time, it was a small car, now I think it is what they call a large car with 2 doors.
  12. G. David Felt
    If you go used hybrid then buy the 5yr bumper to bumper warranty and have them replace the battery pack considering a used Hybrid with 50K miles will have a good chunk of the battery life used up.
  13. G. David Felt
    I agree with ZL-1 that the lights will be more CTS Wagon than the ugly Trans Sport. Plus with the use of LED lights now, you can do some pretty cool things. Looking forward to it, but if the interior seating does not gain room, deal breaker for me.
  14. G. David Felt
    So on first glance it clearly is a jelly bean blob and weird paint job, but then that is probably what they want to hide it's true style till it comes out next year as a 2015 model. You can see when looking at the big pictures that they have given some attitude to the front end with the headlights and hood so I am thinking while it will be a jelly bean shape over all, it will have more defined lines than most people expect. What is weird is that little tail pipe sticking so far out and then flared. Weird.
  15. G. David Felt
    The second image could be a Eldorado Concept for Caddy. That would be freakin HOT HOT HOT!
  16. G. David Felt
    Exciting to see Cadillac filling out their portfolio of auto's.
  17. G. David Felt
    So revisiting this as a potential project. I found this web site and they had a Pickup Truck Project they did that is pretty freak-in cool. http://www.thedieselpage.com/features/project2-16.htm I purchased their conversion book: http://www.thedieselpage.com/duramaxconversions.htm It is pretty cool, even a pattern on how to build your new motor base mounts that the Duramax mounts would connect to. They do say for Suburbans, you have to do a 2" body lift for the Allison transmission to fit in properly. Your thoughts on this now?
  18. G. David Felt
    I am very excited for this to see if they have fixed the one major problem with the current Escalade, the lack of headroom for those of us that are tall. At 6'6" tall I love my current 2006 Escalade ESV Platinum and yet the current model I cannot fit in as the seat does not go low enough to allow me to sit upright. I do not buy auto's that require reclining. As such, I am very much interested in the seating of the new Escalade. The only thing I have a pass on is the damn high belt line. Do not like the smaller seats.
  19. G. David Felt
    Never understood the need for timing belts when timing chains proved themselves long ago.
  20. G. David Felt
    Latino rights promoter and famous over acter Ricardo Montalban playing along with Chrysler's not-from-Corinth Corinthian leather. If you think this is just some funny random old car ad, it had a serious, lasting effect on people. Baby Boomers loved the commercial and clearly bought the message. I feel we can learn much from the history of some amazing commercials and what might just be missing from getting people back into transportation. Quality is there, excitement is there, now we just need to find the right message to click for people driving again.
  21. G. David Felt
    Jean Reno, is currently working for Toyota to try and get Japanese kids to drive again, particularly sports cars. Noble effort. Also, he's Doraemon, the coolest man in the known universe. So with this effort, what do you think of Toyota's attempt to get youth to drive again and buy cars? Should the rest of the auto makers also spend more time on courting youth to drive again?
  22. G. David Felt
    Nice review, WOW is that the Road Salt on the auto? If so no wonder cars from back east rust out so fast. Crazy, like a salt lick.
  23. G. David Felt
    Check out the latest in Self Driving Homes. Travel the country without ever leaving your home. Home on Wheel Deals!
  24. G. David Felt
    It is a long way from the $25K I spent on my fully loaded LTE Suburban in 93. Amazing part is that Chevy is just as expensive as GMC and I would rather have an AWD compared to the Chevy 4x4.
  25. G. David Felt
    I can only assume that this outrageous figure is based on being a total pay to have it done by everyone else. I personally pay no where near this amount on any single car of mine.
×
×
  • Create New...

Hey there, we noticed you're using an ad-blocker. We're a small site that is supported by ads or subscriptions. We rely on these to pay for server costs and vehicle reviews.  Please consider whitelisting us in your ad-blocker, or if you really like what you see, you can pick up one of our subscriptions for just $1.75 a month or $15 a year. It may not seem like a lot, but it goes a long way to help support real, honest content, that isn't generated by an AI bot.

See you out there.

Drew
Editor-in-Chief

I've whitelisted
Continue without support

Write what you are looking for and press enter or click the search icon to begin your search