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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Still think they should merge with Mazda and Subaru and have a nice complete company of auto's to sell.
  2. G. David Felt
    I do not see why they could not use a .5L generator running on diesel or CNG and use a step up transformer to get the amount of electricity into the battery pack.
  3. G. David Felt
    TBI had it's day. That shipped sailed and we need to continue to find better ways and improve on current versions.
  4. G. David Felt
    Wicked Cool! Me Likey Likey I like the tire, but I think it would be cool if we had an Engine option, Tranny option, etc. If you used the cut away view of those images with our logo I think that would be very cool indeed.
  5. G. David Felt
    Seattle has a november like winter storm for our first day of Spring. Raining cats and dogs with heavy wind in the city and dumping like crazy in the mountains. Skiing will be awesome this week. Since the storm started shortly after midnight, 6" has dumped already and they expect 2-3 feet today.
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    I have always said that what's needed isn't more gears per say but a wider ratio spread -- the lowest gear divided by the tallest. The 7-speed and 8-speed boxes tend to have a wider spread, and this is where the overwhelming majority (like 95%) of the fuel economy advantage comes from. However, more speeds doesn't automatically translate to wider spread. For example:- The current GM 6L80 6-spds auto = 6.05 ratio spread (This is about as good as 6-speed conventional automatics get) ZF's 8HP 8-speed auto (used by BMW) = 7.04 ratio spread Aisin's TL80SN (used by Lexus) = 6.71 ratio spread GM's latest 8-speed to be put into the CTS 3.6 Bi-turbo = 6.71 ratio spread (I suspect it's the same Aisin sourced box as Lexus') Mercedes' 7G-tronic 7-speed auto = 8.86 (best in the world at the moment) Hypothetically, if you are to create a 6-speed transmission with a ratio spread of 7.05:1 it'll accelerate just as fast as the 8-speed ZF in 1st and be just as economical on the freeway in top gear. Acceleration performance through the gears is arguable. An 8-speed allows for closer ratios in between gears and keeps the engine in a slightly more optimal powerband. Yet, having 8-speeds and closer ratios means that you shift more often and in the fraction of a second when the shift occurs, engine power is temporarily interrupted. So, it is hard to say which will be faster. In a V8 or bi-turbo V6 engine with meaty and flat power curves, less gears may actually be faster. In a small displacement engine making peak power high up and in a narrow rpm range (like a Honda S2000 engine for instance) more speeds is probably faster. Hi Dwight, If the auto companies then properly program the tranny, you should get great performance from an 8 or 9 speed tranny equal to what you would get out of a 4 or 5 speed. The logic would go that under normal driving to improve MPG they move through the gears as needed to optimize shift points to get every mile out of each squirt of fuel. Under hard acceleration, the tranny should then move into performance mode and do a 1,3,5,7 or 8 shift or in the case of the 9 speed, 1,3,5,7,9 as it holds each gear longer and then shifts to the next gear based on RPM and throttle. Is this what I gather from your great info?
  7. G. David Felt
    Seniors
  8. G. David Felt
    They will try and try again but in the end they will be another footnote in the History Books.
  9. G. David Felt
    For what they will charge for this car, I would pass as it is an AMG with an Over Boosted 4 banger that I expect will have a short life as an engine. With all the Nanny devices being rammed down our throats, there is no way this will be light enough to be a worthwhile driving machine. MB Lemmings will flock to it, but once they own it they will regret the crazy money they spent on it.
  10. G. David Felt
    Right and if you believe that I have a awesome Ski cabin in North Korea to sell you too. The government requirements and tie up will make most companies rethink the situation. Take a high risk china company, let them buy the technology and then they will say they cannot make this work and declare bankruptcy and disappear along with the technology and then it will reappear in the form of a new Chinese company. They are good at pirating / stealing products from America.
  11. G. David Felt
    Naw, most people do not care or really understand the tranny. Marketing has always pushed HP which is a bogus thing also unless you have the proper Torque. Torques moves everything.
  12. G. David Felt
    XTS has a place and there are still plenty of baby boomers and livery that will want the XTS. With the TT V6, stretch an XTS into a Limo and you have a solid power plant as long as it is reliable.
  13. G. David Felt
    Not bad for racing orange.
  14. G. David Felt
    I like the idea of day time running lights in the shape of the company logo or brand name. Just imagen a cool outlined GMC, Chevy bowtie shape daytime running light, tri-shield lights, etc. Would be pretty cool.
  15. G. David Felt
    This seems more of a regular rich person car...the uber rich will go for a Bentley and the mega rich will go for a Roller.. I like your thinking! Course they are all ubber rich compared to what I make.
  16. G. David Felt
    Looks like any other normal high end conservative car. Seems to have noticeable body role. Not a fan of the 3 weird circle tail lights. Will still be very successful for them. Excess that the ubber rich will be happy to flaunt.
  17. G. David Felt
    Camino, CTS will have Turbo 4 and DI 3.6 V6. Yet while the numbers are posted, they have not stated what the new MPG will be. Most who have driven a 3.6 V6 find it more than pleasant on power/performance. So why would they not have a boost here for MPG needs then a step up to the Twin Turbo for better performance and then for the limited crowd the V8 V. This seems to make perfect sense and I think people are hung up on the Twin Turbo V6. I just hope it is reliable. 2L I4 Turbo 3.6L DI V6 3.6L TT V6 6.2L Supercharged V8 Or what ever the new V V8 engine will be.
  18. G. David Felt
    This should be interesting. Wonder how long before someone slips out the new images online.
  19. G. David Felt
    No Cubical, this engine is a Caddy Engine. Camaro can have a twin scroll single turbo v6 of it's own marketing brand. We need to build the speciality of each brand and stop watering it down. The last thing we want to hear is people saying "There is the new XTS or CTS with that Chevy Engine.
  20. G. David Felt
    Questionable
  21. G. David Felt
    Interesting, but what a mess to clean up.
  22. G. David Felt
    At your rate of driving, I think you need to do a major road trip, the whole east coast, then from Alantic to Pacific on the southern route then up the Pacific Coast and back across I90 or Canada Highway 1. That should be a nice trip.
  23. G. David Felt
    On the way back down the mountain from Skiing in 25" of over night fresh powder and still dumping up there I saw a International pickup truck in a gold color being put up on a flatbed as it clearly had broke down. Not sure how old it was but it reminded me of all those 40-50's era pickup trucks.
  24. G. David Felt
    wow, Diesel here in Washington state is at $4.35 per gallon.
  25. G. David Felt
    I still love the Buick David!
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