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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Here is more of the North Cascade Highway.
  2. G. David Felt
    Did the North Cascade loop drive last weekend and here are a few pictures. The water streams are very full but the warm weather is bringing out the flowers early. Weird that the images got turned from their last setting. Sorry.
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    Cruze
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    I question if Bentley can continue to build an auto with a V8 or even a W12 down the road in the era of strict emissions and no other options for offsetting the poor mpg. I still think we are in the final years of big turbo V8 and 12s if a car company does not have other EV or hybrids that off set the poor mpg and emissions. Plus Tesla has proven to the world you can have luxury in a pure EV package. Bentley should go pure EV or just become a page in the history books.
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    OK, cute commercial, but how can one really tell what is the gas, EV and turbo? I have looked over and over and see nothing that would indicate this to me other than rodents trying to be human driving a box on wheels?
  6. G. David Felt
    Very cool read on how they are bonding aluminum to steel in a special spot weld approach. This will save millions and if it works properly should also greatly help out flexibility in the plants.
  7. G. David Felt
    Interesting how you only focus on the 500+ HP rather than admit that MB will also produce some best effort at that cause their basic engine will start at 75kW or 101HP which is half of what the Chevy BOLT will be which is 150kW or 200HP.
  8. G. David Felt
    Chevy Bolt makes another review their EV strategy just like Ford did after their joke of a 100 mile ev update to the focus, then they changed the following week to we are going to do a 200 mile ev also. BOLT caught the world by surprise and forced Tesla's hand. The BOLT should really change the auto industry I think.
  9. G. David Felt
    Seems that since BMW came out with their iPerformance Line, MB now needs to copy them also. iPerformance story here: http://www.cheersandgears.com/topic/86922-bmw-iperformance-anything-new-or-just-addressing-cafe/ I just hope that Cadillac does not ignore this market. They need to have EV's in all levels.
  10. G. David Felt
    Agree, Lately it seems that all Detroit based auto companies have taken up the hated Used Ford Sales approach and really lack any common sense customer service focused sales approach. GM need to reboot the dealer and if the dealer is not willing to change, invest in updating to be a modern dealership, then they loose their dealership rights and become independent (non auto focused franchise, like a generic used car lot) or close down.
  11. G. David Felt
    Did you remember to flush?
  12. G. David Felt
    I honestly see people who have loved their HSV RWD Holden's being totally disappointed in FWD versions. I have no problem with driving a FWD auto, but have yet to find a FWD only performance sedan to satisfy my performance desire. Make it AWD and you have a much better solution. HSV - AWD Performance Sedans for Holden is a much better solution IMHO.
  13. G. David Felt
    The Start of playing Musical Chairs of executives to keep from people seeing the real fact that FCA is about dead and will probably end up in China Hands. RIP Jeep, Ram, Dodge and Chrysler. Welcome the Death of money wasting product lines Fiat, Lancia, Alfa, Maserati.
  14. G. David Felt
    Let Tesla sell direct, the one big issue for me is their using a crappy company, Pet Boys to service their expensive auto's and Pet Boys has terrible service. Let this force the existing auto companies to step up their game with quality world class service as I want to have my auto taken care of be it my trailblazer AWD SS or any of my Cadillacs in the same high quality manner. I like dealerships where I can go and view the options, talk to a person and then test drive and either buy or order up my new ride. I see no difference than Tesla having their own stores and needing to service them. I would have liked them to have their own service shop but instead they took the cheap way out of subcontracting it out to a joke of a auto company.
  15. G. David Felt
    Very cool update, you are getting so close to firing her up.
  16. G. David Felt
    What you say is true if looking at the US market only. In Europe, FCA sells very few of the Ram, Jeep Hemi powered auto's. They do sell plenty of their junky Fiats. This proves out in their recent Monthly report for Europe. FCA sold 354,000 auto's in Europe from Jan to April a 15.6% increase over last year. Sales went as follows: Fiat label - 268,700 Lancia Label - 27,000 Alfa Romeo - 20,800 Maserati - 2,068 Jeep - 35,300 Since taxation is so high based on engine size, Jeep does not sell but a few Hemi's, so your assessment is totally wrong. http://www.fcagroup.com/en-US/media_center/fca_press_release/FiatDocuments/2016/may/APRIL_2016_FIAT_CHRYSLER_AUTOMOBILES_SALES_IN_EUROPE.pdf
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    Here you are trying to justify MB moving the goalposts again. ALL MB cars are listed as Coupes or sedans and yet even in the Coupe descriptions from the CLA to the CLS class they call them sporty coupes with frameless 4 doors. Last time I looked up the definition of a coupe it had not changed since it came about in the 1950's. Tin can is very much perceived as a noisy, no insulation hear everything world that is very common in your cheapest eco box auto's and even there it is becoming a thing of the past as more and more people demand a quiet interior. So the Tin Can is a failed example of the ATS or any other luxury level subcompact or compact auto. Noiser is a better term but even here, that is a failed term for the ATS. Weight saving is not a selling point? WRONG, weight savings is a selling point as it equates to higher MPG which is a very important thing to the buyers. Not all buyers look at MPG but more often than not in the subcompact and compact class MPG is a very important part of the total package which comes via weight savings. In regards to marketing, he is cloning what BMW and MB has done for years and finally worked for them. It takes time to change perceptions and in 2 years no one can turn a ship around 180 degrees. I personally am not a fan of the current Cadillac marketing but then MB I think also has terrible marketing. At least BMW has still stuck to their Driving Machine even though the auto's have become bloated pigs. Interesting side note is that if you bing or google MB marketing message you find a ton of studies that pretty much shows MB and BMW have always over the last 30 years mirrored each other and while BMW continues with their Ultimate Driving Machine, the introduction of commercial and low end models does have people wonder about the exclusivity of MB products that they have built up here in the US. There is clear concern that this message is being lost on their current marketing and the introduction of value based products here dilutes the MB Exclusivity message they have built up over the last 30 years.
  18. G. David Felt
    I Love the Black Cherry Metallic paint job on this hot little compact CUV!
  19. G. David Felt
    I have to say I am really impressed with the update they did to the Encore 2016 Encore 2017 Encore 2016 Encore Interior 2017 Encore Interior
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    ATS was designed to be the lightest car in the class, the whole "every gram matters" philosophy they talked about. But some other guys got lighter, or got roomier and bigger while not adding any weight, and most of the ATS weight advantage in 2013 was in comparing an NA 4 cylinder ATS to a turbo 4 BMW and a V6 Mercedes. Low weight is nice, it isn't the way to win buyers. If it drives like a tin can, or has no interior space, or a cheap interior, no one will care what it weighs. And yet you FAIL again with your viewpoint, as the ATS is light for the time of when it was developed, does NOT drive like a tin can and has far better interiors and driving dynamics than BMW and MB auto's.
  21. G. David Felt
    Anyone here long enough knows at 6'6" I am not going to be owning or riding in a ATS. Yet quality is there along with ride and space and if someone wants to complain about rear seat room on the ATS, first better look at their own favorite house first as throwing a stone in a glass house is not a good thing. German, Asian or American, they all suck for head and rear seat room in compact luxury cars.
  22. G. David Felt
    Chinese owned Volvo wants to be seen as the MB of the world. Their focus on not waisting money but also driving to profitability new models will have them replace their core first and then add performance and other niche products like a potential convertible. Will be interesting to watch and see what Volvo becomes over the next 5 years.
  23. G. David Felt
    Interesting but you can bing or google and find a ton of editorials and past customers of BMW and Mercedes Benz who feel these companies are overrated. Many feel Cadillac is one of the best values, yet because of being an american car company, people are passing and moving to asian brands for perceived value with quality.
  24. G. David Felt
    People complain about cadillac not moving fast enough. Infiniti is even slower and truly will be far into the future.
  25. G. David Felt
    very interesting Drew, Thank you
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