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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Have to say I agree with Allen Greenspan about 2019. Pay off debt and save, we are looking at bad times ahead. http://fortune.com/2018/12/18/alan-greenspan-investors-run-for-cover-recession/ Ugly, Ugly Ugly!
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    Makes sense, I question how long they can last with their limited sales, They need to change faster than they are.
  3. G. David Felt
    WOW, No wonder you have to replace your car every year, that mass of prickly steel wears a hole in the seat. ?
  4. G. David Felt
    I just want to be part of the Spartan's!
  5. G. David Felt
    Lets be honest, Fiat would never see you and I in them my friend! I pass on the Dallas Cheer Squad and go for J Pop instead!
  6. G. David Felt
    WASTED ENGINEERING R&D, Should have been done on their Newest CUV! The bulk of the public will turn to the Concept and say why such a big fat Pillar, it should look like this.
  7. G. David Felt
    You are spot on with the engineering dollars being spent on the Continental. Yes Matrix fans will probably flock to buy one with suicide doors but the public want CUV / SUVs and this with Suicide doors would be superior in selling than the near death Continental.
  8. G. David Felt
    I wonder if it was Midwest quality? East coast tend to corrode and fail early.
  9. G. David Felt
    I find it best to just let it out when walking to work, I pass by the Amtrak train station every morning and night, just tunes in with the horns of the train!
  10. G. David Felt
    Does not mean we cannot use better ways to transport the supplies for building. The modern trains are all electric with very clean efficient diesel generators for now. I can honestly say that many parts of my house were delivered by clean Propane and Natural gas powered trucks. Garbage is all CNG powered trucks here, Diesel is dead in that industry here as is in the local delivery by Home depot, Lowes, UPS, FedEx. Non of them use diesel here, all CNG or CNG Hybrid trucks. For long haul, UPS and FedEx use LNG for their trucks here on the west coast. Clearly change for the better happens faster on the west coast than the east coast.
  11. G. David Felt
    Totally makes sense, Diesel is way more expensive than gas, the recovery of the cost of the Diesel Power Train just no longer makes any sense other than in full size Trucks / SUVs where towing and commercial work is needed. Days of consumer Rolling Coal will come to an end. Happy to see the smelly toxic fuel taken off the roads.
  12. G. David Felt
    True, but just think if it had a quality interior, these cars might still be around today.
  13. G. David Felt
    Agreed, while I am too big and have never been into small sports cars, there are many others out there that look better than this. Hell, I would rather take a Saturn Sky or pontiac Solstice over this Fiat. From Washington State sports car club overlooking the Columbia
  14. G. David Felt
    On PTO now till Jan 2nd and spending almost every day in the gym and skiing, loving it! Happy Holidays to everyone! ? ?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️
  15. G. David Felt
    Just cannot get into it, Ugliest trucks ever. Clearly some people should not be driving when they do not understand their own technology. Truly a Dumb blonde.
  16. G. David Felt
    German automakers BMW Group and Daimler Group, maker of Mercedes-Benz, are the most prolific exporters of American-made vehicles to Chinese dealerships. BMW shipped 106,971 vehicles from U.S. factories to China last year, while Mercedes sent 72,198, according to LMC. Ford Motor was the third-largest U.S.-to-China exporter with a total of 45,145 vehicles. Fiat Chrysler was fourth at 16,545 and Tesla was fifth at 14,779. Altogether, Chinese sales of U.S.-made vehicles totaled about 266,657, representing less than 1% of the world's largest automotive market. Here were the top 20 most exported models from U.S. plants to China in 2017: BMW X5: 52,407 Mercedes-Benz GLE: 40,304 BMW X3: 34,609 Lincoln MKC: 17,753 Mercedes-Benz GLS: 17,420 Mercedes-Benz R-Class: 13,402 Ford Explorer: 12,906 BMW X4: 10,928 BMW X6: 9,027 Tesla Model X: 8,848 Jeep Grand Cherokee: 8,832 Toyota Sienna: 7,460 Ford Mustang: 7,137 Tesla Model S: 5,931 Jeep Wrangler: 5,302 Lincoln Continental: 4,927 Lincoln Navigator: 1,764 Jeep Cherokee: 1,697 Mercedes-Benz GL-Class: 1,061 Chevrolet Camaro: 977 Source: LMC Automotive https://lmc-auto.com/ 14% auto sales drop in China this year according to LMC. https://lmc-auto.com/global-car-sales-2018/ LMS is a paid for service so very little is shown for free, info above from comes from the USA Today Story covering how tradewar is hurting auto sales. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2018/04/10/chinese-auto-tariffs-xi-jinping/503470002/ Statista is currently giving some info for free on the 1.2 million auto's imported into China each year. https://www.statista.com/statistics/244368/number-of-cars-imported-into-china/ Trade war has not been good over all for business, jobs and especially cost.
  17. G. David Felt
    Talk about an ultimate Toyota Commercial for the Failure of a Range Rover. Seems the Range Rover got stuck in flood waters and the Toyota Hilux just enters in and move on through with no thought to the Range Rover. 11yr old Dunks a New Reporter. I love it.
  18. G. David Felt
    The research consortium made up of European and US auto companies presented their first prototype of a CCS or Combined Charging System standard 450 kW charging station Thursday Dec 13th 2018. This charging station is open to the public, it is in Jettingen-Scheppach, located near the A8 motorway between Ulm and Augsburg Germany. Porsche with it's 90 kWh battery pack was able to show off charging at 400 kW at the new station. This station allows a full battery recharge in 15 minutes or less. BMW also was there to test out and show off their system that can handle the full 450 kW charging. These new charging stations are 400V and 800V wired, so while current EVs could not use them, new EVs that can handle either voltage will be able to charge up from near empty in the same time an ICE vehicle would do at the pump. Both auto companies have acknowledged that their charging controllers are built to the same standard and can actually handle up to 920V charging. Recent additions to the 800V power club for recharging are GM and Toyota. More auto companies each month are signing onto this standard which brings recharging like ICE auto fill up of gas to reality. Porsche Press Release BMW Press Release
  19. G. David Felt
    I cannot find it but the your right the last two years had the 6.0, but the average sit on the lot the first two years compared to the last two dropped big time when it was offered with a proper powerful motor. This is no different than the GTO from Australia and how everyone agreed that the bigger motor they could have started with should have been there from the start for a better selling car. Point I am making is GM tends to shoot themselves in the foot when they do try to do something special but taking away what makes it special and what would justify the high price.
  20. G. David Felt
    Not true, China went from the 15% to 40% and that killed imports of CUVs from America and other auto's. All auto companies even you hated Tesla EVs saw a rise in price, drop in importing due to this. No win as they went back to what it was before the stupid Tariff war. How do say it is a win when costs have increased on numerous products hitting the consumer.
  21. G. David Felt
    If anyone calls this a win they are an Idiot. There is no win having a country go back to the original tariff on cars. It would have been a win if they had gone at least 5% below the original 15% tariff.
  22. G. David Felt
    Weird to build one and not have pricing. https://www.jeep.com/build.gladiator.2020#/models/zipcode/98043/vehicle/CUJ202011/ccode/CUJ202011JTJS98A/llp/2TR/options/ERC,DEM,TW2,WFJ,D5,UAG,DMF,SDD,X9,PUA,23R,APA
  23. G. David Felt
    My friend, I will now have to disagree with you about this truck. It should have been built, but not with the Cheap ass corner cutting they did. Everyone who has driven the First year and up to the second to last year says WTF, Why a wimpy V8 motor? Why hard plastics when the concept did not have it. Last year, GM finally gave it a decent interior material quality and put in the 6.0 V8 and they sold everyone they could. People who have driven the last year production with the 6.0 V8 said this is how it should have been from the start. GM builds amazing concepts with a ton of potential and the few they did take to production, they then went cheap ass inside and out and made the production a fraction of what the concept auto was. People will spend money as you and I have on quality products, but build something that was an awesome concept and dumb it down like they did with this truck and sales will not happen on top of piss poor marketing.
  24. G. David Felt
    That looks HOT! Very excited to see what they show.
  25. G. David Felt
    I think many people save them as they are uncommon. I have a whole stash of them. lol
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