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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Over all nice but plain CUV, fits the Honda customer profile and should serve them well. The wood trim looks real and not that plastic fake look but that could just be the pictures. Two things: This is going to make it harder for GM to do their package overprice as so much is now included in the base units. GM and FCA need to get their act together to have a Hybrid CUV or EV CUV ASAP as Ford has Hybrids that folks like and now Honda. This will help push more towards the Hybrid / EV world as these options come out hopefully reasonably priced.
  2. G. David Felt
    This one is a weird looking Canyon what is speculated to be Bronco test mule. https://www.motor1.com/news/360657/weird-colorado-test-mule-ford/ Seems Hertz has decided to start renting 480 and 720 hp Camaro's from Hendrick Motorsports. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a29103703/hertz-chevy-camaro-rentals-hendrick-motorsports/
  3. G. David Felt
    ? 6x6 USA builds these trucks and I guess they were never designed to go up a small hill. Seems pictures of it in camo and an oops uncovered shell hit the news. https://www.motor1.com/news/371560/ford-baby-bronco-spy-shots/ Seems Ford Bronco is testing in Australia https://www.motor1.com/news/368204/ford-bronco-test-mule-australia/
  4. G. David Felt
    Frozen Pizza Anyone, DiGorno and Tombstone truck hits overpass and send pizza flying everywhere for a 4hr clean up. https://twitter.com/myARDOT/status/895357793007534080 https://t.co/9hVsA3y897
  5. G. David Felt
    Charged EV is stating in their story covering all the EV's coming from VW that the company has hit the below magic $100 per kWh battery pack cost. https://chargedevs.com/newswire/as-vw-shows-2-new-evs-in-frankfurt-has-it-brought-battery-costs-under-100-kwh/ If this is true, then the ID4 Cross that is slated to hit the US dealerships next year could be the game changer that VW is touting and that industry analyst say will bring EVs below Legacy ICE auto costs. To quote the story posted above: Ralf Brandstätter, COO of the Volkswagen brand, wouldn’t be drawn – when the New York Times recently asked him whether the automaker had reached the magic number, he just grinned and said, “We are the company that will provide electromobility for all.” However, another exec, who declined to be identified, said that the company was paying “less than $100/kWh for batteries.” Good Follow up to the Charged EVs story as this one has VW execs on record that EVs will be an apple to apple price comparison. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1125078_vw-s-us-electric-car-pricing-apples-to-apples-vs-internal-combustion If this holds true, this will be a game changer that many will take home charging EVs at the same price of an ICE with less maintenance and fueling costs. Quoting this story: “Our goal is to make the comparison to a comparable internal combustion car—for example, versus a Tiguan,” said Volkswagen of America CEO Scott Keogh to Green Car Reports, last week at the Frankfurt auto show. “When I can put these two apples to apples. I think that is positioning it for the masses.”
  6. G. David Felt
    School districts are looking to retire Diesel buses fast and looking to states to help pay for the change over to EV buses. Michigan state has agreed to help cover 70% of the cost for multiple school districts that have moved forward with purchasing EV school buses. 17 Proterra EV buses to start. https://chargedevs.com/newswire/michigan-school-districts-to-buy-17-electric-buses/
  7. G. David Felt
    Agree that the Glossy wood accents in GM or for that matter any auto companies product looks fake and cheap to me too. Yes various members are nitpicking to attempt to justify MB doing the same thing as GM.
  8. G. David Felt
    While a small investment compared to Detroit investments, any is always good.
  9. G. David Felt
    Very cool that these will be around for those that want them. Interesting observation is the number of Fiat's based off the Miata that are on the used market around here. Seems people are dumping them.
  10. G. David Felt
    Today on the way home to the bus stop.from work, I saw this police car followed by a manufacture plate full size truck that had tubes all over Nd then I saw on the back a camera hanging with red light clearly recording. I look where the camera was pointed at and a standard size Yukon with no plate, but also a nose I had never seen before. Got my phone out in the rain to snap this pic, this refresh??? Yukon was followed by a current year yukon 2019 with manufacture plates and then a seattle motorcycle with lights on. Clearly recording something in the Emerald City.
  11. G. David Felt
    Interesting story as the wages come out and how they average across the 3 Detroit companies with entry at 15 to 17 an hour and skilled, legacy and production making up to 36, 33 and 29 an hour. Average worker on the assembly line this year has made between 75 to 100,000 salary plus bonus for assembly line work. I know nurses and engineers that do not make that. UAW is well paid and they are being greedy. Intersting how the stories are showing that the UAW has a $750 million war chest to handle strikes but felt it was important to increase this so took higher dues to bring it to $850 million for this GM strike which is to set the tone for strikes against Ford and FCA. Something stinks in the UAW Leadership.
  12. G. David Felt
    Seems Saudi Arabia says full production restored, Oil has dropped 6% in after market trading. WOW talk about fast repair on such a major attack. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/oil-plunges-as-saudi-arabia-says-production-fully-restored/ar-AAHq96u?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=wispr
  13. G. David Felt
    While the black and brown is much better than all black or all tan, it still looks like an attempt at building a ricer auto with the same cheap plastic circle vents you find in Fords. Pass, CT5 and 4 still look better to me.
  14. G. David Felt
    It is loads better than that all black C-Class I got off their web site. That is a plastic nightmare on par with that sterile black and grey mess for the A-Class.
  15. G. David Felt
    If I was a Rich Bitch with Money to Burn, I would sign up to see just what the costs are to Certify with the EPA here: https://www.epa.gov/ve-certification https://www.epa.gov/ve-certification/certification-and-compliance-onroad-vehicles-and-engines https://www.epa.gov/ve-certification/certification-heavy-duty-hd-commercial-trucks-and-buses-and-onroad-hd-engines Would be interesting to know what the actual costs are for engine certification.
  16. G. David Felt
    CT4 versus A-Class Dash versus C-Class Dash I will honestly say the C-Class looks dated to the Cadillac or A-Class and the A-Class leans more towards Tech than Luxury which is what I get out of the CT4. Different strokes for different folks. Older will like the CT4 over the A-Class younger will probably go with the A-Class. The A-Class and C-Class are far more sterile in my opinion than the CT4. A-Class Interior - Very Sterile and Blah to me. C-Class interior - All black leaves one with a very sterile look and those cheap plastic circle vents on both do not look good to me.
  17. G. David Felt
    Interesting report released on Healthcare average cost paid by US employees is 26%, so GM is offering a good deal and yet this same report only shows that 75% of Union Employees use the company healthcare plan. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ebs2.pdf After looking at this report, I say GM stick to your guns as this is a good deal.
  18. G. David Felt
    There same color and a true 2019 camaro against the 2019 Blazer. They clearly have family traits. From the front end nose with lights to the rear quarter panels and glass you can see the consistent traits.
  19. G. David Felt
    Sad, this was again GM Fault for putting the Hybrid in a weird trim requirement with limited options. They purposely killed this by the stupid mgmt. choices on how it was available and lack of marketing.
  20. G. David Felt
    Your Wish is our command!
  21. G. David Felt
    Very true on that and this just hit that tends to reinforce the recession I believe we are heading into: https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/business/overnight-lending-rate-spike-ny-fed/index.html
  22. G. David Felt
    Horse with Blinders on I see, you clearly have been in your out dated old E-Class too long and not in a new Plastic C or A class auto as the CT4 interior is every bit as good and I am betting better than the C or A class interiors. With that said we BOTH have made ASSumptions here since the car is not on the lots yet. So your "interior hasn't been improved any," is totall BS at this point.
  23. G. David Felt
    Why not use the Supercharged V8 they have in it, that would make sense to me.
  24. G. David Felt
    99.9% of people DO NOT CARE about engine size other than you. A-Class even in AMG form has NO V6, so why are you bitching about something that your precious A-Class DOES NOT HAVE? Per their own web site, the A-Class AMG versions have high performance turbo 4 engines. https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/vehicles/passenger-cars/a-class/the-new-mercedes-amg-a-45-4matic-and-cla-45-4matic/ https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/vehicles/passenger-cars/a-class/a-class/ https://www.mbusa.com/en/vehicles/class/a-class/sedan Clearly lets focus on the positives and potential negatives of the NON V CT4 car. Hopefully the CT4 will get both Coupe and 4 door standard and Hatch back versions. With this having a decent 4 Cylinder engine with performance of V and Blackwing versions should be good in a world going mostly CUV focused.
  25. G. David Felt
    Right my own opinion on that not being a troll, just pointing out MB has changed from what was viewed by most as a Luxury only automaker to what what it really is, a global automaker selling entry level FWD Blah appliances to ubber luxury level auto's as stupid crazy prices. IMHO. MB is no different than any other auto company out there with cheap ass version auto's to mid range to luxury to ubber luxury. End result, Mercedes-Benz is NOT a Ubber Luxury auto company any longer. After all those cheap ass plastic delivery vans are sold alongside an S-Class on the same lot. Done with this rant, back to the Non V CT4. Has potential, be interesting to see what all it does once it is on the lots for sale. Hope GM actually Markets them properly to drive sales.
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