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Hyundai and Kia have in the US and Korea plants to build their own engines especially for the Hyundai luxury line. but in the past and covering these years, doing a search seems to bring up a wide range of suppliers. Not sure if it is all accurate, but Mitsubishi is showing as a supplier as is Chrysler. Weird, hopefully someone knows more on this and can clarify for us.

Agreed, Amazing that this type of manufacturing error happened today. Hopefully they can recoup the cost from the supplier of the motors.

G. David Felt - Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.cheersandgears.com Hyundai and Kia possibly replacing 1.2 Million engines! According to a breaking story on King 5 News, Hyundai and Kia are recalling 1.2 million auto's for possible engine failure. 2013 - 2014 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport & Sonata 2011 - 2014 Kia Sportage & Sorento Company has stated that debri from manufacturing was possibly left in the engine that will restrict oil flow to connecting rod bearings that will increase temperatures and cause premature wear and failure on the bearings. Dealerships will inspect engines and if wear is detected, will replace the block if needed at no cost. The Detroit Free Press also has this story but states that the recall is 1.4 million as they are also including Canada and South Korea models affected in this recall.

Interesting is that Green car is stating that Daimler is pretty much woken up to the fact that Hydrogen will not happen due to excessive costs of the infrastructure and production of Hydrogen. Plus the fact that you can go double the range on diesel and with battery tech farther on battery than you can with Fuel cell. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1104842_early-mercedes-fuel-cell-drivers-sobering-assessment-to-industry http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1109713_did-mercedes-turn-its-back-on-hydrogen-fuel-cell-vehicles Clearly Daimler sees EV's as the full future right now.

Cruze Diesel Review by Green Car http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1109762_2017-chevrolet-cruze-diesel-first-drive Came across this review of the cruze diesel and have to say I was impressed by the writeup, pictures and found the following two quotes to be very telling of just how well Cheverolet nailed the new Diesel Cruze. Quote 1 Driving the Prius for mileage was an annoying affair, requiring me to putter away from stoplights and hang out in the slow lane on the freeway as other cars passed, just so I could come up short on the EPA-estimated freeway figure. It was tiring and tedious. Quote While the diesel engine deserves a lot of praise, the reality is that I'd be ignoring the sublime 9-speed automatic. GM has just nailed this transmission. Over all this guy says this auto was snappy, responsive and quieter than a cruze gas ICO version. GM needs to apply these same traits to all their product lines.

LOL, PSA, FCA, both the same mess different messed up leaders. Still question PSA game plan.

No not that I read.

I still question Sergio's plan of action for economic self sustaining auto production.

Sadly GM did away with the home page to their Monte Carlo SS Performance upgraded auto project but someone at montecarloss.com did capture all the pictures and info. http://www.montecarloss.com/community/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1003486&page=all Like the Impala, I would love a ride like this one. Freakin HOT!

@loki So NRE let you go? I checked out their web site: http://www.nre.com/about yet they do not say what NRE stands for? Wishing you the best in your search for new employment.

@ccap41 Totally agree with you. Honda is weak and still not following. Their sheeple will still buy it, but it will be seeing plenty of tail lights from everyone else.

Cmicasa might want these dice

This was sold recently at Barrett-Jackson http://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1966-CHEVROLET-IMPALA-SS-CUSTOM-2-DOOR-HARDTOP-137955 The rims are 18" front and 20" rear.

@Cmicasa the Great is this not what yours would look like?

There are a number of Escalades around Seattle driven by the seahawks players where the cadillac dealership I go to has put on the Supercharger performance package so in essence building a V-Edition Escalade ESV. These rock with 600+ HP and Torque. True, It should have been an SS. I am thinking of the 6.2L with supercharger for the Yukon and Escalade. This way we have an Escalade V and a Yukon Typhoon edition?

Sweet Hopefully they are going to do the V edition on the Escalade and maybe some performance edition for the Yukon would be awesome too.

If the STS rims are metric, then just use a metric to standard rim plate converter. Might make the tires stick out a bit farther now that I think about it. The rims on there are nice, but it seems everyone has those. I do like the Torque II best.

Awesome Ride!

Very Cool, excited to hear how she fly's!

Nice Numbers, the Standard GLC63 is decent looking. Hate the GLC63 Coupe, no need for these ugly car wannabe cuv's. Wonder how many will really sell world wide? I expect the pricing to be high and as such limited sales. Be interesting to see what all gets cut from the portfolio down the road to make room for the onslaught of CUV versions.

Here are the latest updated maps for the west coast EV highway 2017. West Coast Green Highway web site: http://westcoastgreenhighway.com/electrichighway.htm Washington & Oregon ElectricHwyMapREV_4-15.pdf California ev_charging_stations_ca2017.pdf

G. David Felt - Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.cheersandgears.com Daimler Scales back Hydrogen, Focuses on EV! According to the story from Autoblog, Daimler has chosen to scale back R&D into Hydrogen auto's and focus on EV auto's. This will not stop them from rolling out a Hydrogen GLC in select markets around the world where Hydrogen fueling facilities are available according to Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche. According to Daimler, pushing out 10 EV models by 2022 will help with reducing the emission pressure on their ICE product line allowing them to minimize the pressure and costs of transitioning from an ICE product producer to one of alternative energy, be it EV or Hydrogen, only the future will tell. Yet, this is telling in more ways than one might expect. Yes GM and Honda have teamed up to bring in their next generation of Hydrogen auto to a global market, but you have Daimler, Toyota, VW, Ford and even Hyundai which sells their Tucson Fuel Cell move R&D dollars to the EV world as seen by the Ioniq Trio. Does this indicate vindication for Nissan Leaf and Tesla S / X? Daimler has decided to change the Smart label to a pure EV label. So just how far will the MB product road map change after 2022? Could by 2025-2030 ICE truly reduce to 50% or less of worldwide sales versus EV?

Do you not think that if GM did a marketing campaign that focused on an active life style in the TourX it would help it sell more. I remember Subaru did not do that well with their station wagon till commercials started showing the AWD going all over dirt roads and camping in unusual places. Buick needs a focused marketing pitch that shows the versatility of the TourX and the benefits of why you would want to buy this auto.

Start Stop, Affects the Starter? So I have also wondered this and another web site actually got an answer. More info available at Green Car Report but to quote their story, the end result of what happens with the starter system on new auto's is as follows: What follows is his explanation of those technologies. (1) The gear ratio from the starter-drive pinion to the flywheel ring gear is optimized to make the starter's motor turn more slowly. This can be done without materially changing the design of the transmission or flywheel at all on existing designs. Crucially, this reduces starter-motor speed (in RPM), since 90 percent of starter-motor brush wear occurs not during cranking, but during the coast-down after the start has finished. If a higher-torque motor can spin more slowly, its coast-down time is shorter, increasing its longevity. Pushbutton start (2) The composition of the carbon and copper brushes on a start-stop motor differs from its traditional counterparts to increase longevity without accelerating the wear on the commutator. (3) Rather than rely on oil-impregnated bushings for the rotating assemblies, start-stop starters mostly use needle bearings. (4) The solenoid on start-stop starters decouples the mechanical action of engaging the drive pinion into the flywheel from the electrical action of stopping and starting the motor. This allows for a dedicated design to turn power on and off to the motor, optimizing contact design and wear, against contacts that have to be integrated as part of a spring-loaded plunger. This also reduces the electrical load requires to turn the engine, so that there is enough current available for accessories/lighting to operate during the start event. (5) Finally, start-stop motors are integrated with other technologies that identify when each cylinder of the engine will reach top-dead center. That lets the fuel injectors pulse and fire during the middle of a complete rotation of the crank, against having to wait for a complete revolution that lets the first cylinder reach that position to start the fuel-spark timing sequence. So their story also has an explanation about the RAM start/stop system and a link to their story on the Cadillac using ultracapacitors in their auto start/stop system. Very cool tech.

BOLT has a Lovely 10" screen in the center and the 8" as the dash. Very nice. Opal Buick These look pretty much the same to me other than the steering wheel and a different programming of the dash screen. Center screen is the same. Seats also have similarities. So I wonder how much change other than color there really is.