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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    According to MotorTrend, fords Mach e while pissing off the mustang faithful has already sold out all production for America and Europe for the first year. As such with GM having a flexible EV platform and considerable new EVs coming over the next 3 years, this begs the question of Could GM produce a Camaro EV CUV and call it the Z28? With the first nine auto's off the EV platform to be a Cadillac, one has to wonder how GM might fit the sporty performance into their product line and having a performance CUV Camaro could be the magic ticket. To quote the MotorTrend story: we'd expect a Chevy Camaro electric SUV to at least match the 255 horsepower Ford is targeting for the base Mustang Mach-E. For higher-trim variants, Chevy would likely have to adopt a dual-motor all-wheel-drive setup to stay competitive with the 332-hp, 417-lb-ft Mach-E 4 and 459-hp, 612-lb-ft Mach-E GT. https://www.motortrend.com/news/chevrolet-camaro-e-28-renderings/
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    If the Escalade comes out looking like this from the info at Motor Trend, will be a sad Panda day. Where is the luxury in that Escalade. GMC looks better than the Escalalde and is very different from all of them. Escalade looks like it borrowed way to much from Chevrolet.
  3. G. David Felt
    Thanks for the post. Building 25,000 vans a year for Amazon leaves space for 239,000 R1T and R1S EVs. RJ thinks trucks will start out high, but eventually equal SUV so that is 119,500 R1T and 119,500 R1S a year. If they hit it, time to expand. Course, that does not take into account the building of the Lincoln SUV that is to start in 2022. I could see them running out of space fast if Lincoln nails the style / design of their body to go on the skateboard platform by Rivian. I honestly can see myself with one of each in my own driveway.
  4. G. David Felt
    Price did drop as the basic version of the truck dropped from $70K to $61,500 and SUV from $72K to $65K. They never had posted prices on the mid spec version till now, but that seems to be filling in the past beginning prices as the mid price versions now.
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    OUCH, GM is asking for a Do Over on a Brake Recall that affects over half a million 2019 silverado's, sierras and CT6 auto's. To Quote: The original software fix helped address situations where the vehicles' anti-lock braking systems would become disabled, which in turn would prevent electronic stability control from activating. Unfortunately, the early version of this fix appears to have introduced yet another software glitch. This new gremlin skews things in the other direction, potentially activating the brakes when they aren't even needed. https://www.autoblog.com/2020/01/29/gm-brake-recall-do-over/ OUCH, GM ? Clearly the QA plan was NOT the best on this software release. Crazy seeing their internet ads everywhere now as they push selling the New Old Mustang builds. https://revologycars.com/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI67v_lsup5wIVCbF-Ch2WiQzIEAEYASAAEgJLSPD_BwE
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    Your correct that a little over a year ago base start price was at $70,000 for R1T and $72,000 for R1S, now base is $61,500 for R1T and $65,000 for R1S. As per this story, more and more outlets are believing this is due to the fact that built on the same assembly line will be the new Lincoln EV SUV that will have up to quad motors and as much as 800HP inline with what Rivian will also offer folks for their products. https://www.autoblog.com/2020/01/29/lincoln-ev-rivian-platform-announcement/ As expected, as a builder builds more models, prices are expected to drop just like this as a decent price drop and the mid range model is now $69,000 for R1T and $72,000 for R1S.
  7. G. David Felt
    Seems GM is finally delivering their new Nervous system by starting with the Cadillac 2021 Models of the CT4, CT5 and Escalade. Cannot wait for this to get spread throughout the whole GM portfolio with over air updates.
  8. G. David Felt
    Hello McFly, anyone home? The over the air updates is available on these new 2021 systems. GM new mega bandwidth system goes into all auto's starting with 2021 models and that will just like Tesla allow over the air updates. Current electrical / data systems are not able to handle over the air updates. Posted back in May 21st 2019 about their new Nervous system and how it would come out on the new generation of auto's. You need a big bandwidth to handle over the air updates. Tesla built this into their auto's from day one. GM has never had that kind of thinking till now with their new system. It has bigger bandwidth than Tesla and should work great on their ICE and EV auto's going forward.
  9. G. David Felt
    Thanks did not know these were renders, crazy busy day at work so popped in and out before my next meeting. Even then, when I posted those pics taken at the factory it is close enough to still be ugly and a failure IMHO. Thanks again for pointing out this is a rendering.
  10. G. David Felt
    Very cool tech of the Super Cruise system. Hating what I have seen of the new Escalade.
  11. G. David Felt
    As a Cadillac fan this is a FAILURE! Back end is a botched job of working to keep the much larger rear vertical tail lights of the current model while finding a way to go cheap on production to save money. Hate the cheap looking chrome accent strips across the back in the bumper and under the caddy badge. Sid is just Blah and nothing special. Hell the Arts and Science design on my 2006 is better looking than this. Pillars are far too identical to the Yukon and Tahoe. Front end, I do not even know where to begin with this ugly brick nose looking way to cheap like the current trailblazer. Could Cadillac do any more to DESTROY the Luxury Distinct look of the Escalade! FAILURE, FAILURE, FAILURE This is NO LUXURY looking SUV. ?
  12. G. David Felt
    @Cmicasa the Great Awesome Ride, Congratulations on getting what I BELIEVE to be the BEST Luxury Sedan on the road right now! I am sad the CT6 is out of production, but also excited for the EV replacement. GM has lots of cool stuff coming and excited for them to move on from traditional plastic ice blah auto's and back into standard of the world EVs.
  13. G. David Felt
    Thanks for Posting Ocnblu, sad that GM seems to be following Tesla with minimal colors now and everything premium up charge and requires a package to get. So Grey, white or Black is bacis no charge colors, everything else is an add on charge requiring up level packages. Sucks.
  14. G. David Felt
    Today multiple Ford Excursions mostly with V10 but one was Powerstroke powered. All in good shape. Those SUVs seem to last .
  15. G. David Felt
    America falls farther behind the world. China now has a detailed plan in place to reduce and ban all Single Use Plastics in China by 2025. Only 8 states ban single use plastics and we still do not have any leadership out of DC to get recycling going and be better stewards of our country. https://electrek.co/2020/01/28/china-us-single-use-plastics-ban/ If your curious as to how your state is dealing with Recycling especially since China stopped taking any recycling material starting in 2018. https://www.wastedive.com/news/what-chinese-import-policies-mean-for-all-50-states/510751/ Would be great if we could get people to recycle old auto's, steel, etc rather than just leave it on property rusting away.
  16. G. David Felt
    Loving that GM is being very clear that they cannot survive on Vaporware and must deliver competitive priced class leading quality EVs. https://electrek.co/2020/01/28/gm-president-on-its-electric-future-we-cant-get-away-with-vaporware/
  17. G. David Felt
    The AWD system can handle it as we have various 3rd party companies doing 800HP out of an Escalade. Hennessey is the one that comes to mind and when you look at the web page, it is all engine upgrades and brakes, nothing to the AWD system. http://hennesseyperformance.com/vehicles/cadillac/escalade/2015-cadillac-escalade/2015-2017-cadillac-escalade-hpe800-supercharged-upgrade/
  18. G. David Felt
    Love reading these history write ups and this one is pretty accurate on the history of the Escalade. https://www.automobilemag.com/news/cadillac-escalade-years/ Love that GM is making room in their heritage collection and as such selling off concepts! Check out this Escalade V edition concept they did in 2007 using the CTS-V V8. https://www.automobilemag.com/news/barrett-jackson-scottsdale-2020-auction-2007-cadillac-escalade/
  19. G. David Felt
    Yes, thanks for pointing that out as I had not had a chance to look yet.
  20. G. David Felt
    Seems GM has their new Logo ready for the growth of Hammtrack and the product line.
  21. G. David Felt
    The More I read and see of the Ram, the more I like it over the Ford or Chevrolet trucks. The Ram is really shinning brightly. Funny how often the writers at C&D compare the Ram to the S-Class being equal with more rear seat leg room. LOL https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a27634301/2019-ram-1500-reliability-maintenance/ Have to say it is a very sharp side profile. FCA has a NEW U-Connect 5 now with support for Apple and Android phones. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a30656688/fca-uconnect-5-infotainment-revealed/ Late to the party, but the new 12.3 inch screen and demo that is shown at the link makes it look nice. About time they got this portion of the auto on par to the rest of the tech industry.
  22. G. David Felt
    Be interesting to when I have time look at the past media reports from GM to compare 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016 to get some sort of track on what the sales really are. Then compare to what the news is reporting.
  23. G. David Felt
    Cool, please share the site for the material, always looking for options as I agree Dynomat while very effective, is expensive.
  24. G. David Felt
    Seems even with the challanges of a cooling market, China still is growing for GM. 2019 report is out. https://media.gm.com/media/cn/en/gm/home.detail.html/content/Pages/news/cn/en/2020/Jan/0107_sales.html GM delivered 3.09 million auto's in China for 2019 with Cadillac having an all time high of 213,717 auto's sold followed by 850,007 Buicks sold, 418,000 Chevrolets sold, 608,269 Baujun sold and 1,003,611 Wulings sold the two chinese brands GM owns. For those that are not familier the Baujun brand is youth focused line of sub compact auto's. Wuling is their medium commercial line of auto sold.
  25. G. David Felt
    Right now just up on the blocks, ski season is my focus, so will start taking it apart this spring. Agree with you on the Dynomat. Planning to do the whole auto, so from the roof to the doors, fire wall, floor, etc. dynomat to remove the road noise. Wife and I have gotten to the point where on road trips, we do not want the tire, wind noise, etc. want a quiet relaxing drive. As I start taking it apart, I am planning on doing a thread on the project so folks can see what all I end up doing to it.
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