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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    At 6'6" tall near 200lbs, I am not a small person and I have tried to fit into that list of yours. The only two I could get into to drive was the Honda Fit and Chevy Spark. The others were DOA on trying to get in. Push the chair all the way back and I still could not get into them. Between the Fit and Spark, I would take the Spark, much better design language. But I would rather walk than own any of these auto's or like you state, buy an older bigger auto.
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    G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.CheersandGears.com GM and Navistar reach Commercial Agreement GM and Navistar have signed a long term agreement to co develop future medium duty Class 4/5 trucks for the Commercial Chevrolet truck line. GM is excited to expand and grow their commercial line of trucks as they add to the fleet lineup of crossovers, vans, trucks and medium duty trucks. Navistar will add 300 jobs and invest 12 million into their facility to produce these new vehicles that will be sold under GM's Chevrolet division and Navistar. http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/home.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2015/sep/0930-navistar.html So then does this mean Chevrolet will have competitors to Fords F450, F550, F650 and F750 models?
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    I used to think everything should go Diesel till I saw the benefits of CNG and now with Batteries getting where they need to be, I see over the next 10 years auto's going EV as we gain 200 to 500 mile range packs with quick chargers. I can see the US going away over the next 10-20 years from petrol, diesel, CNG, etc in a move to Electric. CNG replacing Coal in power plants, Ferries and Long haul trucks on LNG, even container ships on LNG, days of bunker fuel, diesel, petrol will come to an end down the road but not now. Chevy Bolt I have High Hopes for. And the winner in Looks is the CHEVY BOLT!
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    until you get 500 mile battery packs with level 3 quick charges and then Diesel is lost as the Electric motor proven by the trains in the yards is far more Torque and cleaner. Now before you go off and say but trains are using diesel generators to drive those electric motors, true, but also true is that as Perot and Buffett have bought up the train companies and merged them, they are also converting them over to CNG as a much cleaner fuel to then drive those electric motors, much the same way we are seeing Semi-Trucks go to CNG and LNG. Even Container shipping companies are moving over to LNG for a cleaner better fuel. It will take time to change over from Diesel, but long term diesel will fad away. But that does not stop us from enjoying the torquey little monsters today.
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    Nah, thinking it is something with the ABS. Had an ABS light on, went to stop and the pedal was stuck out and vibrating like ABS was activated, then the ABS light went out.. Did it to me twice, i honestly have no clue. If it has been sitting for a period of time, moisture in the brake system can play with the ABS sensors and how the whole brakes respond. I would flush the whole brake system, check for rusty lines, make sure all calipers are working properly and not seizing up and check the sensors.
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    I understand your point, yet there are plenty of medical facts that show emissions from a free running diesel engine is anything but good for the planet and especially people. Diesel is a far more dirty fuel than any other. With that said I do agree with you that they can be very fun to drive as the torque monsters they are. So you build it a bit bigger to off set what the cleaning technology would steal from the engine. On the flip side, VW, Porsche, Audi, MB, BMW all are saddled with Huge Union obligations that make it also harder to squeeze a profit out of a small auto. So you have to take into consideration that VW could have seen the software fix of $400 savings per car as a better way to go than to shutdown inefficient plants, lay off workers, etc. With this line of thought, one has to wonder how some will survive when they cannot grow their market share to a point that supports the burdens of Unionized labor with the pension funds, etc that are not sustainable long term. One wonders how long the socialist system of Europe can last before more countries go bankrupt and workers find themselves having to work for life as they have no retirement since they never saved, but relied on a pension. Eventually I hope the US wakes up to this double standard and demands the political system to do away with pension funds and have ALL Gov Workers from the President down to city workers on SS and Medicare. Equal for all. Now off the soap box and back to VW, I suspect VW is going to have to Reduce cost due to this scandal and what will amount to lost sales. Unions better get ready to have plants closed, shifts reduced as I expect VW to lose worldwide market share.
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    Hope they test the others to double check, but sucks to be VW. Seems they should take back the CEO Pay and Bonuses.
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    I believe a lot of this comes down to the contract leaving the two-tier wage system in. Not getting rid of it. Forgot about that two tier system, it will cause a big issue for GM and Ford too I think.
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    +1 On Drew's comment. At least it gets back to 0
  10. G. David Felt
    If I was a betting man, I would bet the EPA is going to want to re-certify ALL Diesel engines before they hit the market.
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    So back ON TOPIC, How long I wonder will this added testing delay the introduction of these awesome little beasts?
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    Just on lap times alone the CTS-V was 3rd and the Corvette was 4th. Sad that they did not make sure the Corvette was up and ready before sending it to such a grilling. I still think the CTS-V should be in the top 3, I disagree with their results myself. Yet Bias always makes it into reviews like this.
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    Honey and Greek Yogurt is always yummy in my book.
  14. G. David Felt
    Wonder how long this can last given the depression over Europe and Asia happening. I have to think next year will be a cool year for auto sales here. I have to think this is people finally replacing auto's from our own depression of 2007 to 2012 and this is just a big bump.
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    Would be interesting to know specifics of what the members did not like about the package to reject it. I hope this comes out soon as I would like to know.
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    I agree with what Drew has posted here and I believe most of us all agree this is about corporate greed. 11 million auto's with a $329.00 savings equals $3,619,000,000 savings 3.6 billion folks. This then ended up in the Fired CEO getting a 41% pay raise in 2013 at that time. http://www.autospies.com/news/VW-CEO-Receives-41-Pay-Raise-62299/ His pay was $12 million in 2011, doubled in 2012 to $23 million and then again 41% raise in 2013. http://www.bimmerboost.com/content.php?2241-VW-group-has-record-year-so-VW-CEO-doubles-his-salary-to-23-million So yea this is about Corporate Greed and the US as well as other countries should follow Germany in forcing them to have a plan or ban their Diesels from the road and from being able to be sold. Banning them from our roads will leave a seriously NASTY taste in nearly everybody who ones one of these. If they get banned from driving their VW do you think any of them will walk back into a VW dealer? I know I wouldn't. Screw that. Too many other companies making very high quality products to go back to a company who just left me stranded with a worthless pile in my driveway. We have seen how slow FCA is to take care of their own recalls, worst repair rate of any company. Examples need to be made and to keep companies transparent and to have them follow through, I think this threat needs to be there to make them move forward with plans. Giving a company 90 days to come up with a solution or their product has to be taken off the streets is more than enough time to figure out what they need to do. I suspect VW knew the solution all along but the billions it saved giving the CEO huge raises and bonuses made the greed of a few overcome the health of all. Thinking about this Bosch knew about this for years and never said anything, I have to think they also got paid off to not come clean with this and should be investigated to better understand what they knew of VW doing this.
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    I agree with what Drew has posted here and I believe most of us all agree this is about corporate greed. 11 million auto's with a $329.00 savings equals $3,619,000,000 savings 3.6 billion folks. This then ended up in the Fired CEO getting a 41% pay raise in 2013 at that time. http://www.autospies.com/news/VW-CEO-Receives-41-Pay-Raise-62299/ His pay was $12 million in 2011, doubled in 2012 to $23 million and then again 41% raise in 2013. http://www.bimmerboost.com/content.php?2241-VW-group-has-record-year-so-VW-CEO-doubles-his-salary-to-23-million So yea this is about Corporate Greed and the US as well as other countries should follow Germany in forcing them to have a plan or ban their Diesels from the road and from being able to be sold.
  18. G. David Felt
    I am excited about the new Samsung Note 5 that is coming out soon. Should be awesome.
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    Back in the 70's when GM had Isuzu build their mini pickup, the Luv truck series, the Diesel sold like hotcakes and you still find them around running, rusty as heck but still running. I believe they will sell well. I agree with your thinking here, I would love them to do this. I think there is a solid market for it here.
  20. G. David Felt
    Interesting, so if you take out the Chrysler 300 that brand is pretty much dead. The avenger and Viper sales loss is what has the dodge group at only 3% gain, take those two out and you have a much larger sales gain. Viper should be in a category by itself as the sales decline affects over all sales percentages so much for such a small volume auto. Fiat is in emergency and bleeding heavily. If it was not for the 500X, it would be on the death bed. Once people see that the 500X is just as poorly built as the rest of the lineup, I expect this to go farther down. Fiat is a lost cause due to lack of product and poor quality just like the last time it was in the US. Alfa, should have stayed in the history books.
  21. G. David Felt
    I agree with what is being stated here, there will be a loss of performance and fuel economy which is what I see the lawsuits focusing on in addition to the loss of value. I would hope that VW for those that have the DEF solution would get bigger tanks to hold more so they do not have to fill up so often. In regards to the others, hopefully they can add a def solution to make them legal, otherwise buy back the auto, crush it and give the customer a new one that is legal. Now while this would be a huge cost, they could build good customer karma by taking a page out of the Saturn Play book. Many years back, Saturn shipped about 15,000 cars that had parts manufactured that had metal shavings left on them and could cause failure down the road, not injury failure but mechanical failure that would cause the engine to be replaced or rebuilt. As such they swapped out for each customer a new Saturn for the old one. Then they took them and crushed them. I remember this as a coworker who had put almost 24K miles on his in the first year by the time Saturn did this swap was so happy he traded in his other auto and bought another Saturn. Yes this cost GM, but it also bought a very loyal customer. VW, needs to look at how to turn this around into saving customers long term.
  22. G. David Felt
    I get the point your making Fap, and would agree with you for the most part except in regards to the apple product, I find their products to be overpriced toys, not real tools. Excluding engineers who actually can use Apple, Linux or WIndows to do real work, most apple users seem to be more confused by technology than able to embrace it. Apple does not come across to me as future-looking as much as for the simpleton that does not want to have to think.
  23. G. David Felt
    Ouch that is one black eye.
  24. G. David Felt
    So the big question is with the price of fuel being low, how will this affect the sales of EV auto's? As a distributor of CNG fueling products for home and business use, I can say that sales have dropped off totally, been dead the last few months in fact. So one must wonder about electric, if the low fuel prices will hurt that more or not.
  25. G. David Felt
    I have NO PROBLEM with this bump in the road for GM. Prove everyone wrong that you have a Green awesome little Duramax and then shove it up their bum with stellar sales!
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