G. David Felt
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Depending on where you are, south end got a dusting of wet slippery stuff, I got 3 inches at my house and Northgate just north of Seattle had about 1 inch or so that this Telsa was just spinning in and the driver kept reving it thinking it would get traction as I passed him on the left in my durango.
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Thats OK, I sell you an awesome CNG auto.
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Loosing product line take backwards step to loosing name badge. Executives clueless in how to grow a company. Executive Board will be faced with cleaning house and rebooting or closing down non inspiring product line and names. When will they wake up and realize simple letters and numbers do not inspire quality must have driving machines. -
Saw telsa today in the snow just spinning it's wheels. Seattle got snow and so everyone is just paralyzed with fear.
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GM News: GM Buying 200 Million Shares From The Treasury
G. David Felt replied to William Maley's topic in General Motors
Slowly but surely GM will be all on it's own eventually.- 1 reply
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This replaced a 15mpg Pathfinder and he is now getting about 236mpg. Sweet! Rock on VOLT!
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Luxury is always Ala-Cart. Sounds like your comfy with the entry to mid level dictation of what you get via packages. Luxury line is all about Ala-Cart!
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Examples please
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Now, see, if you had said "torque CURVE" we'd have been all right. OK, here you're introducing different issues. Besides, most DOHC V8 passenger cars today aren't even kept long enough by anyone that long, much less driven that far. Reason: the majority of such engines are in luxury cars, bought by people who these days fly transcontinentally instead of driving. Darn Symantec of the English language!
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Several foreign automakers, primarily in Europe and Japan, switched to DOHC in order to get around displacement taxes, and they decided to move all their engines to that configuration instead of building both DOHC and OHV. To your other point, about DOHC V8s not making any torque, I'd request that you look at the numbers from some current V8s. Ford, Nissan, Toyota, take your pick. They may not be V8s, but half-million and million-mile Hondas, VWs, and BMWs exist. Again, look around. Ford Nissan and Toyota all have engines that have to rev to 6000rpm or higher to create the HP and the torque is tapped out by the time you hit 4000+ or in toyota's case 4400. The torque to HP ratio and curve suck. I do not see a consistent pull with the HP and Torque together. Yes you find a bunch of DOHC 4 bangers and some V6 with half a million to a million miles but passenger cars do not haul the loads that work trucks, SUV's do and so far I have not seen even in passenger cars that have DOHC v8 engines them lasting as long as pushrod engines do.
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This is a sad statement as GM failed to Market these hybrids. They are best in class fuel economy and the Hybrid SUV's were awesome. Costs were high due to the small amount made. If they had actually marketed them properly and built them in proper quantity, more would have bought them at a reasonable price. This makes me wonder how much they were paid by the Oil Companies to NOT make a Hybrid truck/suv. These are desired and wanted auto's they just need to be properly sold and marketed. I can see Toyota doing this and having a run away sales success. This tends to not forecast well for what GM might do to the VOLT if the VOLT and ELR do not sell well after 3-4 years. So damned focus on instant profits that they cannot seem to see long term on how they need to spread this technology across more auto's.
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Merry Making
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I agree that I think Chevy made a mistake in killing the Avalanche.
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For me I have the PlayStore and GooglePlace in addition to the Verizon store. I did not know that amazon had a store, but that might be the kindle thing that i have ignored since I have no interest in reading a book on my tiny phone. I see that Barns and Noble pushed out their reader software. I wish I could delete the installed crap that Verizon put on the phone as I could care less about rockstar or the golf game or some of the other crap. You should be able to remove what you do not want and yet I delete it and Verizon pushes the crap back out again for their base image.
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Naaaa, Americans are too lazy to care about a 6200CC engine. They would rather just say I got me the big one, 8.1L
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Considering how much time a person spends in their auto's going to and from work, out to explore the world and play. The interior of an auto is very important to allot of people.
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Very true in your statement Drew, but we continue to see that people in the city and in the suburbans rarely get the Automakers posted MPG. The Media needs to push the EPA to change and either force a new way to measure real world driving on the auto's or drop the whole MPG thing and focus on a different rating all together.
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Chevrolet Silverado/GMC Sierra Live Reveal
G. David Felt replied to Drew Dowdell's topic in Chevrolet
As an owner of a 2009 GMC Sierra, it's sad to know it took me a bit to see if I was looking at the outgoing model or the new model from this pic. To say the public won't be able to tell much of a difference is an understatement at best. Holding out hope that the interior is leaps and bounds ahead in terms of build quality and materials, that the powertrain is an 8 speed, and that the mileage is in the 22-23 range. If GM believes that there is no replacement for displacement than here's to hoping that they are able to outgun Ford and Dodge in HP and Torque numbers by a mile (like they did when Cadillac came out with guns blazing on the V-6 pumping 300+ horses). I guess with my 4 eye's I can clearly see the differences. I really like this Evolutionary look and the interior is awesome especially once the pictures were posted to compare everyone's inside. -
GM News: Next-Gen GM SUVs To Appear In 2014
G. David Felt replied to William Maley's topic in General Motors
I am very excited about this. I really hope they do an Evolutionary on the Chevy & Cadillac as they are beautiful design already and then Dump and do a revolutionary look for the GMC Yukon line. Get ride of the feminine BS design and give us the Professional Grade Manly look like the Terrain on these bad boy Full Size SUV's. I think a Full Size Terrain in your face SUV would go over very well just like the Terrain has been. The current design language of the Yukon line sucks and while selling could do much better. -
This seems so last minute to make sure everything is in place. I have to think the decision is already made and they are just trying to draw this out to stay in the news. They either need to regrab the Mojo of the first Mini Vans to keep everyone happy and take it to the next level over the asian stuff or let it go and just focus on CUV CrossOver only.
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Cadillac News: Cadillac to unveil the ELR in Detroit
G. David Felt replied to Drew Dowdell's topic in Cadillac
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Again, incorrect. We have documentation of the bad stuff happening. Olds, other than some bad practices in the early days of the 90's in Natural Gas drilling, I have not found any recent reports showing problems. In fact other than the lies spread by the Anti CNG movement / Anti Natural Gas crowd I have not found anything that says the last 12 years has or still has environmental issues in regards to destorying the property, ground water or pasture lands for animals.
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I have had multiple Engineers that had to complain because of dropped calls, poor battery time, etc and finally got moved to the latest Galaxy III. They had to fight as their II all had freaky issues and none were the same issue. It is as if the phones are just buggy from the world go. The III so far have been much better, but the battery life totally sucks on them.
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I like the interior, too bad they did not have the black with Brown accent. That I think would look really nice. For me it will always be a crewcab. Not sure on what else I would want at this time.
