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G. David Felt

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  1. Where is the link, I guess I missed that test. Also, I never here anyone in Seattle add a T to the end of Impala. The A flows.
  2. Agree with @Drew Dowdell, but if they do not take his passport, I can see him leaving the country. ?
  3. Very cool tech, thanks for posting.
  4. Nope not even gonna get close to the Hummer specs. The Hummer H3 had 4.56 on the rear axel with a 69:1 crawl ratio if you had the Manual Trans or 59:1 crawl if you had the automatic. The Hummer H2 had 4.10 on the rear axel with a 33:1 crawl ratio on the automatic.
  5. Yes Hummer has baggage, but the hummer package of off road capability is what GMC needs as an upgraded series of performance packages.
  6. Cool, so glad to see this at GMC, Wish they would put together a Hummer package that offered some of the AWESOME off road crawl capabilities. I think they need that as an add on package like this.
  7. 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!
  8. Makes sense, I question how long they can last with their limited sales, They need to change faster than they are.
  9. WOW, No wonder you have to replace your car every year, that mass of prickly steel wears a hole in the seat. ?
  10. I just want to be part of the Spartan's!
  11. 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!
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. I wonder if it was Midwest quality? East coast tend to corrode and fail early.
  15. 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!
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. True, but just think if it had a quality interior, these cars might still be around today.
  19. 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
  20. On PTO now till Jan 2nd and spending almost every day in the gym and skiing, loving it! Happy Holidays to everyone! ? ?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️?⛷️?️‍♂️
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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
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