G. David Felt

Nice car, but remindes me of what Ford did with Mercury and when they brought out the Maurader. Close but no cigar.

Yea, stay away from their lackluster cars, it will bore you to death.

Nismo Juke IMHO is just UGLY!!!!!!

GM totally screwed this as they could have been the Segment changer and Leader by then taking a baby Duramax and also puttig it in the SUV's. They could still be a segment changer if they brought the 2.9L Baby Duramax to this market in mid to small size CUV's.

Nope no poison here, just reality that hybrids are here to stay. Pure Electric is poison at this time. No real use other than a luxury golf cart for inner city driving.

If the Torque and performance is there, I could go for a Electric auto, but oh wait the range. That is a deal breaker, the charging times and limited range on a charge takes me back to CNG/Petrol auto's. Course if I could get a volt platform that could handle pulling trailer, boat launch duties, etc I could find that appealing. Water Proof electric motors, with enough torque to pull trailers and a generator that runs on CNG or BioDiesel and can cover 500-600 miles at a run. That would do it for me.

i agree, I have no interest in a 8000rpm redline 4 banger producing 300hp at 7500 with 197lbs of torque with a tinny exhaust note. We have proven we can build efficient engines with plenty of torque and hp with low rpm and a deep bass growl for an exhaust note.

Altima has been running with a CVT for a generation now and Honda buyers will buy anything Honda spoon feeds them. I don't think there will be much anti-CVT sentiment out there much longer. I agree with Drew, the lemmings who buy Nissan and Honda will just node their head OK and buy what ever they have been given. They will never question the wisdom of those companies. They drank far too much coolaid.

G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - CheersandGears.com Wednesday, February 13, 2013 So January of 2013, the gov passed the Family and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 2012. There are many different benefits for various groups, but the nice focus on this is the tax credits for Alternative Fuels. Taxpayers may claim a 30-percent credit for the cost of installing qualified clean-fuel vehicle refueling property to be used in a trade or business of the taxpayer or installed at the principal residence of the taxpayer.209 The credit may not exceed $30,000 per taxable year per location, in the case of qualified refueling property used in a trade or business and $1,000 per taxable year per location, in the case of qualified refueling property installed on property which is used as a principal residence. You can get all the details starting on page 81 for alternative energy, course you can also find other nice tax breaks too. Check it out and sound off on your thoughts of these incentives. CRPT-112srpt208.pdf

Seems Ocnblu is a premium member again or at least his profile is saying it again. Maybe a time delay due to gremlins.

Good thing GM is self insured, can you imagine the premiums they would have had to pay!

I agree with Drew, time to start that letter and document, document, document!

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Thanks Drew, Greatly Appreciate what you have done. That GMC is one sweet looking ride. I so love it better than the Chevy look.

I don't think there is enough room under hood for that. Voltec takes up some space. This is why GM should have moved forward with the Skateboard design or sled that they felt could then having any type of body put on top of it. I think they need to reduce the size and have this fit into the Encore as it would sell really well.

Clearly this must be all those Tea Party Lemmings who like boring Toyota like auto's. The current product lineup of Lincoln is pathetic to say the least.

Well he did qualify it by saying "Should Be" So he can easily back out of this statement.

How about using the Volt Powertrain system for a Hybrid version!

Let's also through this fuel on the fire, Nissan Auto's are a SNOOZE!!!!!!!!!!! Nismo at least gives them some excitement.

Looks like blood on the right rear door window, right by the front seat in the 2nd pic.. I guess the Stingray driver exceeded his skills on a winding road and lost it... I was referring to the wrecked Grand Marquis in Drew's post--2 pics. As for the Stingray, there are 2 pics at one site (Jalopnik? not sure where I saw it)--but the 2nd is just an closeup of the first focused on the door and quarter panel...hard to tell in the pic if the door is open or the outer skin is loose.. Got it, Yes it does look like a bloody hand print on the Grand Marquis, I would have to think that someone was seriously injured unless they were drunk and just squished out of the way. To me it looks like the door is open due to what looks like the inside edge, but then it could be the panel popped. Either way, I cannot believe someone did this to a new car. Silly Engineers.

He probably lost his load when he fell through the floor!

That was freakin lovely. Wish they would do that more often with the slow idiots in the far left lane.

Looks like blood on the right rear door window, right by the front seat in the 2nd pic.. I guess the Stingray driver exceeded his skills on a winding road and lost it... Where did you find the additional photo's? The link posted only shows the one photo.

Waiting with EXCITEMENT!!!! Bring on the details!!!

Back in the early 80's there was a Ford Dealership in Kirkland Washington that was one of the highest warranty claim dealerships around and the stories of blown engines to smoking engines etc. They seems to fix your problem and break 2-3 other things to get you back in for more work. If memory serves me correct the state did an investigation and found many iregularities on how it conducted business and evetually shut down the dealership. Ford reopened it up after selling it to another person and the original owners left for Alaska which 2-3 years later they were shutdown there for the same bad service and bait n switch deals which in washington they also had a bad rep for doing. Sorry you have had this happen to you. I wonder if the mechanics thought they could get you back to spend more money without you thinking about them screwing you over. I hope I am wrong, but it seems some dealerships look for loop holes to abuse warranty programs and service.