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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    So how goes that workout routine, toning up the body for a better life style? Shitting out the bad and in with the good or have we slacked off the slippery slope?
  2. G. David Felt
    What a lovely CUV! Honestly if you look at the over all shap, same as the old one generally speaking, but they went and gave it some sexy body lines which built character into the car, used a freakin kick ass color with two-tone interior. What is not to love about this car. I am happy they went with a torquey diesel option. It will be interesting to see how many people take the diesel based on the cost GM charges for it. If it is like 1500 to 2000 dollars, then it is a no brainer. But if they go over that, I think it will be a hard sell. Diesel with AWD would make this an awesome CUV. If they keep the same engine lineup in the Terrain which I am expecting to be more butch, then this will really rock!
  3. G. David Felt
    Forgot to mention, that I had bought her an Escalade ESV to drive and she then went to college and found it hard to park in the UW parking garages and asked me for a smaller awd SUV. I then bought the Trailblazer for her which she has loved for the performance, but is tired of the rumble of the exhaust and the gas smell from fueling.
  4. G. David Felt
    I love my SS and have no plans to get rid of it, but the wife is tired of filling it up and wants a car with no gas smell, clean and easy to just drive. She is very OCD and as such has containers of antiseptic wipes in each auto so you can clean your hands after filling up. This will be her auto to drive, not mine. As she says, all the current auto's I own are in my name, my choice and she really likes the BOLT and likes the idea of just driving home, plugging in the charging cord and going inside to do her thing. This is her choice to go fueless. Yes we could have gotten a different American CUV that would cost less on gas, but the SS is paid for, no other cost than insurance and gas. Based on the savings / monthly cost of the BOLT, she will have what she wants. An auto that does not smell when fueled, quiet, preferred parking in Seattle and it will be her quick lighting fast CUV! This car will be her car in all things chosen and in name. Me, I will enjoy all my SUV's I own and drive around like a bat out of hell.
  5. G. David Felt
    Interesting, I wonder just how many they will really sell? Must be a push by VW Corp to recover as fast as they can cost associated with the Diesel mess now that diesel is in the toilet. I also wonder if anyone will buy one of these and private import it into the US.
  6. G. David Felt
    Just an example of my wife using our Trailblazer SS @ 14MPG average, she is spending $400 a month on all her crazy driving. Now with a Bolt, that goes to $37.63 per month / $451.56 per year cost. A savings of $362.37 per month or savings of $4348.44 per year on fuel by switching to electric. Yes, I know that means using plenty of Level 3 Quick chargers, but the life of the battery and the savings over time is huge still and worth it to me.
  7. G. David Felt
    Per what I posted in the thread on the 238MPe EPA rating: Just as an example, Washington state has some of the cheapest if not the cheapest electrical rates in the country. We have level 1 to 3 chargers all over and the cities are pretty much letting you charge for free at this time to get people to convert over. BOLT, 238 miles on their 60 KWh battery, at 6 cents per KW equals $3.60 cents to fill up the battery. At 1000 miles per month, you have $15.12 per month energy cost to drive that 1000 miles. That compared to my trailblazer at $2.25 per gallon, getting an average of 14 miles per gallon, costs just over $400 per month to fuel. EDIT: Before anyone says anything, yes my wife drives much more than the 1000 miles, but I used that as an example of how much sense this BOLT makes as a commuter car, daily driver. I can take my paid for Trailblazer SS and just enjoy it on road trips, weekends but also buy the BOLT and still come out ahead in local driving. Gotta Love the Video's Chevy is doing on the BOLT! Love the fact that this little CUV is 128 MPe City and 110 MPe highway.
  8. G. David Felt
    As much as I love GM, I have to agree with ccap41 and others that in today's 21st century, companies should have the right to sell direct and not have to have a dealership. Tesla has Petboys work on their auto's so that does not conflict with the manufacturer working on their own auto's. Direct sales rock!
  9. G. David Felt
    Alpha being reborn to save the Italian union is a theft of dollars that were generated by the US divisions and should have been reinvested in those companies not to bring back a money bleeding label that most people care less about. Fiat is a joke, poor quality shit that just should be killed off and closed. Making poor quality auto's just to keep folks employed is stupid. FCA needs to Drop the Fiat / Alpha and focus on building great autos out of the Chrysler/Dodge/Ram/Jeep line and take them global.
  10. G. David Felt
    Don't need the Diesel torque when the Electric Torque can surpass it. Just think a smooth floored skateboard EV Microbus.
  11. G. David Felt
    XTS makes sense as they are still selling well.
  12. G. David Felt
    So found the following info on the web site Jalopnik, Bolt deliveries will start to dealers for December, pre-orders can be done starting in November. http://jalopnik.com/chevy-bolt-ordering-delayed-by-three-months-report-1785668778 Also found on the web site Clean Technica a story that states by a GM executive that like Tesla, the BOLT will be the first GM auto to have software updates over the air, no more bringing it back to the dealer for updates. Lots of interesting stuff on the BOLT at their site. http://cleantechnica.com/2016/09/09/chevy-bolt-feature-air-software-updates/
  13. G. David Felt
    Anyone who has access to the ordering web site for GM, can you look to see if the dealers can order yet? I know we have a few peeps here that can see if the BOLT is listed for ordering yet from the dealers. Would sure love to see what the full cost is for a BOLT Premium edition and what few other options will be that are not part of the Premium package.
  14. G. David Felt
    So this is the Bus some peeps are wanting?
  15. G. David Felt
    I agree that the truck would do well, probably the Microbus too, just hope that unlike all past VW buses, they have a proper propulsion system to move them along as they are slower than a slug.
  16. G. David Felt
    V8 Powered! And Supercharged! 500 ponies baby!
  17. G. David Felt
    Fiat, Alpha, all the italian garbage needs to be killed off, but they would rather destroy the american brands as they work to bring back their socialist garbage brands. Agree that Fiat needs to die!
  18. G. David Felt
    LOL, I do not consider my self Obese, but I know I could afford to loose 10-15 pounds. For me, at 6'6" tall and muscular since I love to work out, the hips, legs, shoulders are a killer in the Prius for me.
  19. G. David Felt
    I could see Chrysler being retired to the history books. Dodge picks up the 300 and new platforms for the rest plus a serious dose of plug-in hybrid and EVs.
  20. G. David Felt
    I have heard from a few coworkers who have new Priuses that they car is more engaging than past generations, but with that said, there is the low seating position of the car and the serious lack of headroom and over all body space for larger people. Be interesting to see what Drew thinks of it when he test drives a new Prius.
  21. G. David Felt
    Volt Great Car if your under 5'10" tall, otherwise the Volt is a No Go especially for tall people in the back seat. BOLT deals with tall people by having plenty of interior head space, leg room etc. Plus BOLT as a CUV addresses the current love affair many have with SUV/CUV type auto's over cars. I tried every which way to fit into a Volt when they came out and then with Generation 2, no way in hell you will get my 6'6" frame into that car. BOLT on the other hand should fit me and the wife loves it over the lower sitting Volt.
  22. G. David Felt
    +1
  23. G. David Felt
    Excellent point made Drew. Value of buying 4 256GB SDXC cards. Still from a storage standpoint, 1TB in the size of your thumbnail if freakin awesome.
  24. G. David Felt
    Fair enough point made, yet with that being said, the Go Pro 5 has WiFi and they are now offering a cloud based connection, so you record everything, delete nothing and when your back in a wifi area you upload the videos to your cloud for others viewing but still have it on the card. My gut as an engineer in the enterprise storage arena is that people will fill this card up faster than we think as they will not bother about ever deleting pictures / videos again. Everything will be stored forever. Unless your OCD like me and like to have the card empty. I still have backups elsewhere in triplicate.
  25. G. David Felt
    Interesting is that in the lawsuite it states they cannot get the car to hit the stated 0-60 time of 3.3 seconds, they only get 3.5 seconds proving insane mode is not insane.
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