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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    G. David Felt - Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.cheersandgears.com Taxi EV standard for London! Autoblog has pictures of the cameo covered TX5, the next version of taxi to get you around London. London has choosen to move their taxi fleet to the EV world. Story Here True to the concept pictured above, the production versions have kept the Suicide doors and seem to be on track for production by the end of this year. According to the story, they pulled heavily from parent company Geely in using the extended Volvo XC90 underpinnings.
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    And they are not done yet. With the MIT study showing increase in health issues and death world wide, I expect countries to go after VW in court. I expect additional payouts and they just might need to tie up with FCA to find a way to spread the cost around.
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    G. David Felt - Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.cheersandgears.com Study Suggests VW Emissions will lead to 1200 premature deaths in Europe alone! This study covers the effects around the Globe that VW diesel emissions scandal will cause. The US is equally affected but on a lower number of 60 expected deaths. This is based on the number of autos old sold, 482,000 TDI in the US versusus 2.6 millions. Plenty of interesting information but end result is an increase in the emissions from VW TDi directly affects health and the length of life world wide. Pretty amazing read at MIT News. Study Here
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    The following states have no sales tax: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon The following states have sales tax but you do not pay when you buy an EV. Washington, California, New York, Florida, Arizona, Oklahoma, New Jersey, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia Amazing how many states allow you to buy an EV and not pay sales tax plus have plenty of other incentives. Full list of incentives here: http://www.ncsl.org/research/energy/state-electric-vehicle-incentives-state-chart.aspx
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    I question how relaxed they would be, I actually expect them to stay the same but have the time to meet the higher numbers pushed out. NY is doing free 220V home charger, no sales tax and $2K rebate for buying an EV. The push is on as I expect more states to push to get people out of ICE and into EV.
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    Nice write up, since I never watch tv, I do not get the Seinfeld quote. Truck is butt ugly Side and back are OK, but the front end of this is just It seems like a good truck for the weekend flowerbed green thumb person. I would expect it to sell just slightly better than the first generation.
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    Yes looks like a truck but the nose is so BLAH! They need a true artist with some style, this wins the bland award!
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    What idiot thinks up these marketing terms for a truck. Earth Dreams Technology - WTF! That tells me NOTHING about what makes this engine so special.
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    This is good news, cut profit losing departments, scale down and consolidate the cars. Improve the CUV and SUV / Trucks are fine for GM. Build and grow a Wrangler competitor and bring back a few hot SUV/CUV's like the Trailblazer SS, Syclone and Typhoon.
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    History is how you view all companies and all companies have had dark episodes in their history. For Fiat / Alfa, they have always been dark on reliability no matter the process in their plants, or the technology they try to use. The bigger issue is their unionized work force and the lack of desire to build quality products and put in an honest hard days work. The US auto Unions were getting just as bad till bankruptcy hit and it forced them to change which the Union members did by kicking out the old way of thinking leadership and make many other changes including taking actual ownership in GM as one example and they had to bring in better educated people to manage the money and lead the union and one of the changes was to work with GM rather than against it. In Italy, the Unions are known to fight the companies and the history points to the bad attitude of the workers towards Fiat and Alfa. They demand jobs, benefits and plenty of time off and yet do not change even on new models to put in an honest days work with a focus on quality. The reviews of the Guiliana have already proven to be very buggy auto's and at this time the history leads one to expect this new product line to not be any better than other existing products. Sadly there is nothing one can do to change history, you can only change the way you do the job and build up a reputation for quality over Time, something the American auto companies for the most part are doing versus Fiat / Alfa that has not done that. Business as usual is what will lead to the Death of Fiat / Alfa in a global market. Yes they will sell to the uninformed, but to those that know their history, they will be shunned.
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    That is very cool and amazing how technology has changed the size of things.
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    Interesting history lesson here to go along with wondering if the change over to EV's could just repeat this.
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    Bringing the full family of trucks, CUVs, SUVs and cars to Aussie as rebadge Holdens should help GM move up on this list and sell more I think.
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    G. David Felt - Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.cheersandgears.com Leaf 1.0 Leases to be extended till 2.0 is released!! If you have followed Nissan at all they have decided to starting with the month of April, allow anyone that is in a Nissan Leaf 1.0 that has a lease up to extend their lease till the end of the year when Leaf 2.0 becomes available world wide. Thus hoping to keep a good number of their existing customers from defecting to the BOLT. If you choose this, they are offering 3 months of courtesy payments and you are put on the list to get the next leaf before the general public. For more details, lessees should contact Nissan's EV call center at 855-467-3214. https://twitter.com/NissanEVnewsUS
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    Fine, you want proof, here is a nice list of stories about product quality problems with the Giulia. http://dailysunknoxville.com/2017-alfa-romeo-giulia-what-a-shame/92007937 http://jalopnik.com/the-alfa-romeo-giulia-is-off-to-a-rough-start-1776852795 http://www.giuliaforums.com/forum/329-2017-alfa-romeo-giulia-reviews/2482-issues.html http://fcauthority.com/2016/03/alfa-romeo-admits-quality-issues-delayed-launch-of-giulia-sedan/ https://lockerdome.com/7470052068821057/8741690316072980 http://fcauthority.com/2016/05/the-sunday-times-blasts-alfa-romeo-giulia-over-quality-flaws/ End result is that they take a few of these auto's on the road to show it off and end up having to remove one because the Nav / Info system dies and takes out the whole car. Another is allowed to be driven by journalist and it has a engine warning light on the whole time with Alfa saying to ignore it. Third Auto had electrical issues that were only fixed when you came to a stop and turned off and turned on the car again. Alfa is trying to compare this auto to the Germans, Asians and Americans and yet they allow the press to drive garbage auto's. Yes I also find it interesting how some of these press people talk about the tuning of the chassis and driving ability, yet how far does that really go when the rest of the auto has nothing but problems. History is how you gauge a company that has not been in the local market and worked to rebuild their reputation like FORD or GM has done. You come into the market and better damn well have a solid end to end home run auto to sell otherwise you set yourself up for judging based on past history and when the new models are nothing but problems, you have already failed long term. Style look alone does not make an auto a winner!
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    Interesting, but as I love the Skyline of old with the Right side driving, why would Aussies not like a left hand Camaro that is different than all the right hand sided driving machines?
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    I am happy with my ASSumption. Yes It can make an ASS out of you. History of Italy and their heavy handed Socialist system and Unions is laziness. I have done much business with Italy and so far, every time I get into bed with an Italian business it is nothing short of a nightmare of garbage quality. I have finally decided nothing short of being paid millions will make me do business with Italy. I take asian, German and especially American built products over Italy any day. History of working on Italian auto's has proven to be garbage. Current 4C is garbage. There is no reason to expect anything better from the Giulia.
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    It's an Alfa, stop moving the goal post to justify the 4 door sedan that no one can really expect to be any better based on history and existing products including the European links I posted that clearly shows both Products from Alfa as being garbage.
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    Wonder if the judge will just accept every detail in the agreement or add onto it?
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    My coworker bought his 4C from the Kirkland Dealership, much like the one they have on their showroom floor. http://www.fiatofkirkland.com/new-Seattle-2017-Alfa+Romeo-4C+Coupe-Base-ZARBAAA45HM222427 Loved it when he test drove it and I think was crazy as he paid MSRP, but since then the last month it has sat in the shop waiting for a variety of parts as he was given a loaner from the lot and not even an Alfa, they gave him a challenger which he says is fun but to bloated of a car for him to drive. History has repeated itself with their cars just not holding up. The links just continue to show that from Europe to America, Alfa and Fiat have not changed from being garbage auto's.
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    First post the video of the C63 you want to compare to the V as sounding so sweet. The black edition is what comes up as their audio standard and so far not impressed. In regards to Fiat, unlike the US auto makers who worked to build better and better auto's and have proven themselves at least GM and Ford has at getting better, Fiat brought in garbage and still building garbage. They ignored their history and clearly felt that the current buyers would not be aware of their piss poor track record. Regardless of the model of 500, there is a ton of proof of all the motor, transmission, electrical problems even the 2017 models still have. http://www.carcomplaints.com/Fiat/500/ http://www.fiat500usaforum.com/forumdisplay.php?46-Fiat-500-Issues-and-concerns Forum is an amazing read of people who love the quirky little tin can but hate all the issues they have had with the auto. Examples of compliants on the auto for just 2014 alone: http://www.arfc.org/complaints/2014/fiat/500/engine/problem.aspx 2016 if you want something current http://www.arfc.org/complaints/2016/fiat/500/ Love the graph on True Delta that shows the areas of problems: http://www.truedelta.com/FIAT-500/problems-1014 Electrical / AC is first place Body / Trim is second place Engine third place Suspension fourth place Transmission fifth place In regards to Alfa, Build quality from end to end is still their number 1 problem not to mention just getting the new Alfa's to start and not stall out according to owners. http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/alfa-romeo/giulietta/reliability My coworker who bought it as he loved the design has had enough of it spending most time in the shop. He has started the paperwork with Washington state to have the auto declared a lemon and force the dealer to refund 100% the money back. https://www.startmycar.com/alfa-romeo/156/problems http://4c-forums.com/ Seems no matter what model you have Quality is still a big issue and I doubt Fiat / Alfa will still be here in the states by 2025 with a piss poor product line.
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    I hear from my German and UK friends how hard it is to learn to drive and pass the tests and yet this must only be a UK / German thing as the rest of Europe seems to have many stupid drivers. Course this is to not say the US also has their fair share! Amazing
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    Not sure why but there is just something coarse, rough just off about the sound of the C63. CTS-V Love the sound of this over the C63 Europe does seem to like American fast auto's.
  24. G. David Felt
    Very cool and interesting, but I wonder how well it will sell as the Wrangler crowd is pretty much good blue blood common folk. I wonder if this will sell well for them if at all. I would expect and they should do first the Cherokee, GS, etc. as those are more main line street auto's where a Hybrid would totally make sense.
  25. G. David Felt
    Love the car but 6 inches is not that big of a deal to me in length. Hopefully the interior is able to make better use of the leg room as the CT6 as much as I love the auto is tight in the back seat for leg room to me. But then pretty much everything car wise is tight for me even my beloved V series. XT4 I wonder about this and hope they truly size the actual CUV properly and do not end up having to do an XT4.5.
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