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G. David Felt

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. G. David Felt
    I see no sense in this, Yes some people love to have the top down, or smaller auto to drive, but the market show spoken that 2 door 2 person coupes are not what the bulk of people want. They have limited use and honestly the market is not supporting them. Why waste R&D money on 3 variations. I can see having 1 model and in this case make it the Supera with a stripped, mid and top end model.
  4. G. David Felt
    I expect rebadge of all GMC products as the new Holden with some rebadge Buick as Holden for cars.
  5. G. David Felt
    Pretty Dead Market, I would be surprised if the ultra conservative board would green light this. I honestly see no reason to bring back the MR2 or even the Celica. Supra, yes, I can see that if done right.
  6. G. David Felt
    I have to disagree, extreme tree huggers hurt it, but plenty of Hummers still around here in the PNW and people love them for their off road capability. Every bit as good and in many ways better than Jeep. Hummer as an offroad GMC package would do great. Take the HX above and give it a GMC grill and call it the Terracross. have various packages including the ultimate would be the hummer package.
  7. G. David Felt
    Yes there is certain power with the Jeep name, but honestly, GM just needs a Hummer Edition on the GMC product line and produce the the HX concept. This would address the Wrangler needs of the GM family. Imagine this with a GMC grill. It would sell big time!
  8. G. David Felt
    Yes Gas does play games with the Joints! Just pop and crack as you speed along under Turbo mode!
  9. G. David Felt
    Tuesday!
  10. G. David Felt
    Keep it and send me all the freezing snow producing weather. Ski season has been awesome!
  11. G. David Felt
    True name recognition in the US with those two is big. That is the only reason I could see VW buy those two items. Pass on the rest. If VW did want to do it all in house though I believe they could.
  12. G. David Felt
    VW has many other options before even needing to think about FCA. What a joke. Yes, one could make a case for VW and FCA so VW gets Jeep and Ram and sells off Dodge/Chrysler to some China Company. Fiat/Alfa would also either be sold off or closed. Sergio just does not seem to get it, he is clueless about what other companies would need to fulfill the final pieces. VW has just about everything they need and might only be interested in Jeep / Ram. Course they could also easily build their own versions of those two which is what I really think VW would do.
  13. G. David Felt
    Shedding the money bleeding division will help them focus on growing all markets including Europe for GM divisions. I see Chevy and Cadillac all over Europe and doing better once the money bleeding O/V division is gone.
  14. G. David Felt
    Agree, I think there are far better options out there for 40K large than this auto. Honda has lost sight of their value option.
  15. G. David Felt
    Makes ya wonder when the average Joe can see what seems like common sense ideas, why a company does not. Thinking about this, guess the cab would still be High Strength steel at least in the pillars for roll over protection while the skin is Aluminum.
  16. G. David Felt
    I actually could see the GM Full Size Pickups being 90% all aluminum except for the high strength Hydroform Frame and the inside of the bed being made of High Strength Steel. This way the outside of the truck is Aluminum and lightweight, but the bed being High Strength Steel can still withstand the punctures of commercial use.
  17. G. David Felt
    So True, probably brag about beating a V8 off the line and never state that they were still half a block from the next light when I am at the next light past that one.
  18. G. David Felt
    It is funny on the north end of Seattle up in my neighborhood you find lots of riced out Civic's and they try to race everyone. I enjoy letting them off the line at the green light first before flooring it and blowing them away in my SS.
  19. G. David Felt
    I agree with @Cmicasa the Great that this sale will work in GM's favor. Yes as @Drew Dowdell has stated, GM did play a financial shell game with Opel/Vauxhall and I think focused on the engineering gain. That has run it's course and with a focus on profits and a global platform global sales of select name brands. GM long term will grow and do ever better. We all agree that there are far too many nameplates and production capacity around the world. Europe is not the growth market that China is and GM can do much better by servicing China, North America and South America better as they then grow with a profitable plan Europe.
  20. G. David Felt
    I truly believe we can have high durability with more gears. A perfect example of this is the Mountain bikes that have 20-30 gears and smoothly shift from 1 gear to another or jump up or down between gears and yet are strong, smooth and yes durable in a very hostile grit destroying area. I believe we can have 10-15 gear transmissions that are strong and smoothly move from gear to gear or jump between gears and still give us strength, durability and better MPG.
  21. G. David Felt
    WOW, are all trucks from this generation like that in having a generator not an alternator? What do the grooves provide? I find this very interesting considering it is a generator and not an alternator.
  22. G. David Felt
    From an Engineering exercise, you are right about efficiency, sadly from real world use the design of the dual cones and slippage will always keep it from fulfilling its full potential. Outstanding explanation, thank you. An Engineer I am but an English writer I struggle to be.
  23. G. David Felt
    ^ Agree, why spend more if they are offering the XC90 in this package at a lower price? XC90 moving upstream?
  24. G. David Felt
    In talking to a number of Transmission Mechanics, I have yet to hear a single one say they preferred a CVT over a true Gear transmission other than the simplicity of rebuilding. Geared transmissions are superior as CCAP41 mentioned in regards to getting more power and holding strength over CVT to the wheels. Efficiency is questionable in regards to CVT compared to a Geared transmission.
  25. G. David Felt
    WOW, Just another like all the other ugly coupe focused 4 door sedans!
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