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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Honestly Hyundai can EAT GMs market share as GM is being Marketing Stupid in regards to proper prices and the 19 by me prove this. The funny part of the 19 in stock Blazers by me is they are all Premier or RS models. 2019 models get $7,400 off MSRP 2020 Models get $2,725 off MSRP Clearly GM has this product priced way too high
  2. G. David Felt
    My local dealer has 19 from mid 30's to mid 40's. https://www.leejohnsonchevrolet.com/search/new-camaro-kirkland-wa/?cy=98033&tp=new&md=541 Not selling though.
  3. G. David Felt
    Seems GM was planning to show off their first Cadillac EV with Supercruise at CES, but due to the lengthy strike, they are unable to get it done by the CES deadline for submission. As such GM will be a no show this year at CES 2020. GM has stated no to Plug-in Hybrids and yes to self driving fully automated EVs. https://ww.electrek.co/2019/12/17/gm-ceo-yes-to-self-driving-evs-no-to-plug-in-hybrids/
  4. G. David Felt
    I would agree with you as everything was tight and very impressive, the only thing was what I thought was an after thought way of how they installed the rear seat entertainment systems. The V surround mounting was plastic that was an attempt to blend it into the seat but the flimsy nature of the mount left me thinking old GM days of the bean counters.
  5. G. David Felt
    Yea, still not seen a Blazer in the wild, see plenty of XT6 out and about, selling well here, but not impressed.
  6. G. David Felt
    I honestly have only seen a few blazers on the dealer lots here and not a single one in the wild. So I have to say that for $50K people are buying other autos over it.
  7. G. David Felt
    Storm grey or what ever you call that dark silvery color.
  8. G. David Felt
    Sadly no, did not have the time, though they offered. I will say I did find one thing that blew my mind in a negative way about the CT6 V at $100,000 and that is the gaps and give of the plastic mounting as this white CT6 V had the back seat entertainment systems on the chairs and I was surprised how flimsy they appeared to be attached and the give and gaps around it. Not what I would expect for the price of this auto. Course I would not have them in it either.
  9. G. David Felt
    I would gird your loins for the anouncement that the EQA and EQB will end up being Europe or China only as MB delays to 2023 global EV production at the Earliest. Plenty of news story's but MB is having Battery production problems that started in Feb 2019 and continue still now. https://www.carscoops.com/2019/02/mercedes-benz-eqc-delayed-three-months-due-battery-production-issues/ On top of this MB has anounced that their US Production plant will now supply their North America EV's with batteries further delaying their release due to the added weight of the auto's in shipment. Also for Asia, they just started a battery production plant as China cannot come online fast enough. https://insideevs.com/news/386148/mercedes-benz-battery-production-phev/ Clearly MB can build the auto, getting the battery packs to power said EVs is going to take another year and the focus is Europe and China over the rest of the world. MB will not be done with the US plant expansion till next summer then training, bringing everything online, your looking at 2021 selling models at 2022 at the earliest with reality that they will have EV options in 2023 sitting on the lots for consideration. about the same time that Cadillac, Lincoln, and many other OEMs have stated they will have choices too. End result is MB is Following everyone else, NOT Leading them. F1 EV racing also is nothing special for MB as they will use the same set platform as everyone else, so it comes down to the drivers skill. Again NOT MB Technology.
  10. G. David Felt
    At the gym for my core workout day. Saw a brand new Toyota CHR. Wow, talk about a turd. Pinched off front and back. Looks like it was forced out hard. Pass on ever owning a toy turd Toyota is producing. ?
  11. G. David Felt
    Again, your wrong on Cadillac. I consider it a top status brand and much better than the plastic crap the brand you think is best MB. Plenty of People do not think much of the Lease 99% of the time German brands.I find so much dumped CPO that is at low prices that they ship them out of state because there is so much. I question just how much profit your love fest of MB really has when you see the amount of CHURN that brand has. Small volume high profit can provide much in changing a brand to the next future way of doing business. Mary clearly is seeing a different world view than you see.
  12. G. David Felt
    At my Cadillac dealership, got the CT6 V on display and I have to say, that is one tight engine bay.
  13. G. David Felt
    Yes MB has also acknowledged that they are having a hard time getting batteries, so this makes sense to delay the US access to a model that they cannot yet produce in volume to supply Europe. As much as I like the Jaguar and Audi, both companies failed in using the benefits of an electric EV to give the internal space they should have. They actually made an EV that is too close to ICE in wasting internal space. That is where they need to correct a big mistake.
  14. G. David Felt
    Probably a pile of Rust flakes based on the picture.
  15. G. David Felt
    I am fine with natural human population control for the Electric sounding auto's of natural ev emission.
  16. G. David Felt
    Happy they are going back to names.
  17. G. David Felt
    I would agree with you on some of what you say, I think the problem is being too market specific where you build one type of auto just for say India versus the Asian market that they are part of. I think you can be a global company that uses 3 to 4 global platforms to build a couple dozen or more auto's from a standardized set of parts and still have regional focused auto's such as Europe, Asia, Africa, Arabia, North America, Central America and South America. I think this is the problem some Global companies end up running into when they really should be thinking regional and get country specific. JMHO
  18. G. David Felt
    This sounds like the death toll for Fiat in the US as I think people would rather buy a ultra sub compact from Jeep than Fiat.
  19. G. David Felt
    Good to hear VW is staying diversified. Course they are a true global auto company unlike Ford, GM, and some parts of FCA.
  20. G. David Felt
    Yawn, the UAW has the Detroit auto companies bent over the table.
  21. G. David Felt
    Plus with everyone else giving it for Free, BMW has no market ability to have their customers pay when MB, Audi, Cadillac, etc. gives it for free.
  22. G. David Felt
    Yes this is to be expected, I have never understood the European scale as real life owners never get the crazy rating of the battery pack. Solid state batteries should help change this.
  23. G. David Felt
    Not bad, happy it is not some jingle but more of a natural electric type sound.
  24. G. David Felt
    Will be interesting to see if they deliver on all they are promising on this auto. Will be interesting to see how the spec evolves and changes for charging. CEC is at 350kW of charging where Nissan CHAdeMO V2.0 is at 400kW (400A x 1kV) though on their web site (https://www.chademo.com/activities/protocol-development/) is that CHAdeMO is working with CEC on the new 900kW charging standard that could become the new global XFC or Extreme Fast Charging that would allows solid state batteries to charge in minutes much as some folks have stated Gas is better cause of the minutes it takes to fill a tank.
  25. G. David Felt
    Will be interesting to see how we reference electric motors down the road. Will it be size like ICE cubic inches or Liters or will it be Horsepower / Kilowatts of power? ?
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