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G. David Felt

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  5. 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.
  6. G. David Felt
    That looks HOT! Very excited to see what they show.
  7. G. David Felt
    I think many people save them as they are uncommon. I have a whole stash of them. lol
  8. G. David Felt
    Seems Costco is now a Mac retailer. ?
  9. G. David Felt
    I totally agree especially when a company with rich heritage will not embrace it and build their awesome concepts like Cadillac. GM just seems to have not truly kicked off their 80's to early 2000's pre bankruptcy bad habits.
  10. G. David Felt
    Yawn, so in other worlds, their head in the sand approach will stay as is as they are too afraid to compete.
  11. G. David Felt
    I understand and get the exact detail response you are pointing out. I am just thinking that while GM can offer an EV version of their Silverado or Sierra, I am wondering if the R&D plus time to develop and actually get it to market, might not be offset by just buying Rivian and going into production. I really doubt that when GM does this that the under lying platform will have much in common other than the body and in cab space. Yet even that can be a big difference with just minor similarities to tie the two product lines together under the same family tent.
  12. G. David Felt
    I would have to disagree my friend, Your going to refresh the product line, why not offer an EV version with that product line as a cross over for those that would rather pay a bit more but have an EV over ICE. I believe there is a bigger market than many realize of people awaiting such a product.
  13. G. David Felt
    Yet Toyota has come out saying they need to take more risk and get more aggresive as we have seen in their newer body style's and offering TRD on car lines they never did before. So who says that after making an agreement with BMW for the bones to build the Super that they cannot go with bigger turbo's, etc. to dial it in. Ya never know, till they release detailed info, it is all speculation. There is always a bigger bat, bigger man, etc. that does knock the king of his thrown. Ya just never know when it will show up.
  14. G. David Felt
    Nothing saying that Toyota does not have a superior Tuned performance motor that gives more than what BMW is offering due to the nature of this performance car. It could be a $65K sports car with 450 or 500 HP in that I6. Remember very easy to take the base motor and change out the Turbo's as you know.
  15. G. David Felt
    Sure there is, you keep producing what you have that is selling and add EV's for those of us willing to pay for it. I think they would sell plenty. Two identical looking trucks where you still have the grill on it but just no open slots for air flow and make that a huge frunk would rock!
  16. G. David Felt
    Interesting, I remember when Saturn put in contaminated coolant into a large batch of new cars, some were delivered to customers and others were still on the lot. Saturn did not want anyone getting a car that would die early due to corrosive issues, recalled them all and gave new cars to the buyers with gas card for the inconvenience and then crushed them all. Seems this is the opposite, instead of having this cost during the startup of a product line, they still sold them to make money till it was uncovered. Seems VW has a nasty habit of trying to cut corners and lie about it. Sad. Hopefully the customers will get a decent deal. VW could build huge positive goodwill by just replacing them all with new.
  17. G. David Felt
    Have to say that RJ has a great approval rating for CEO of a company and the company ranks very high for job satisfaction. https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Rivian-EI_IE630579.11,17.htm GM would do well to buy them out, use the platform for the new generation of full size Pickups and SUV. Rate better than Tesla and surprised that Tesla is on par for employee and customer satisfaction with GM. Makes ya wanna go Hmmmmmmmm! ?
  18. G. David Felt
    In 1939 America built a $250,000 snow cruiser ($2.8 million today) to conquer the Antarctic and claim it as America. Due to numerous issues and WWII, this got left there and has since disappeared. It carried 2,500 gallons of diesel and 1,000 gallons of aviation fuel for the seaplane that sat on top. Full Story can be read here: https://www.autoclassics.com/posts/reviews/1939-antarctic-snow-cruiser
  19. G. David Felt
    Concept looks much wider than production. Did a nice job keeping it close to the concept, but the concept is what I want, not the production system.
  20. G. David Felt
    He is OUTTA HERE! Ghosn, enjoy Orange as your new black!
  21. G. David Felt
    Naw cheaper knock offs from Mongolia via China!
  22. G. David Felt
    Escalade you know your driving the best Cadillac SUV available!
  23. G. David Felt
    { the model will remain on the PQ46 platform that underpins the current model. Why is that? “This segment is shrinking, and we figured that we can give the customers all they need with the current platform instead of spending to switch to a new one,” said Kai Oltmanns, product manager for the Passat } This statement along with the pictures of VW's EV sedan which I think is super sexy makes me think this could be the last ICE version of this auto so why waste R&D dollars on moving to the MQB platform when you can make this stretch as you plan to introduce a superior EV.
  24. G. David Felt
    @Cmicasa the Great Cadillac of Korea is just killing it in marketing and advertising. The US arm needs to learn a lesson on how to bring in customers.
  25. G. David Felt
    Unless Putin is wanting to wash some more money.
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