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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    I agree the Energy Drinks must Flow! My day is having a hard time getting started and here it is 11am already. Just cannot seem to get into my work today.
  2. G. David Felt
    Why? If they want to save 5 billion Euro's then why waste the money on trying to bring out the Phaeton again. I am sure VW corporation could find plenty of wasteful projects in VW, Audi and Porsche. So why waste money on a car that very few people would see as luxury and has not sold very well. Has it ever reclaimed the original R&D cost of the first failure here in the US? Just saying, I see plenty of Bugs around few golf and now rarely ever see the Phaeton so I just do not see why they need to spend the money now when they seem to be clearly hurting for cash.
  3. G. David Felt
    SMK and BlackViper bring up some interesting points about Cadillac especially the ATS. As such I thought I would go out to grab a comparison and of course Cadillac has a nice compare tool. So you can ding me if you think I am wrong but I do not see the engine issue, style issue, etc. of the points they bring up. I will give BV Kudo's for pointing out and defending his take on those issues. SMK, I love that you want to defend MB and push what you believe, but I would love to see you state your reasoning more rather than 60,000 mile high generalization. Here is what Cadillac has on their comparison. You tell me, how does ATS Fail against these two and this is truly 2015 models only.
  4. G. David Felt
    I understand many of the points made here but find most of them are still very subjective from a personal stand point. An example is how they knock the ATS front end. So as a Comparison, here is the 2014 front ends of the German 3 plus Cadillac ATS. All nice in their own way and yet I see nothing wrong with the chiseled look of the ATS compared to the Feminine curvy look of the BMW, partial curvy female look of MB. The closest in a pure chiseled look is the rather bland Audio to me.
  5. G. David Felt
    They should be killing the Volkswagen Phaeton.
  6. G. David Felt
    Looks like the made the Big Mouth Billy Bass mouth front end even bigger. Weird!
  7. G. David Felt
    Yet your beloved German 3 have less rear leg room than the ATS that we agree on. Stop just out what the mags have stated which is pure BS. State real facts as to why you think the germans are better as currently your like a butterfly flying all over with 60,000 foot statements. ATS rear Seat leg room versus German MB, BMW and Audi. Who wins? Subjective but who builds the better seat and what type of materials. Dash, plastic hard, plastic soft touch, etc. Be detailed and descriptive. To state you think it isn't as good is not sufficient, defend and describe specific points of why you believe this. Point out where Cadillac is falling down. Reality, based on my own review, Cadillac beats all 3 German brands in quality of auto segment to segment comparison. Cadillac Failure - Marketing. I see far more advertisements for the German 3 in comparison to Cadillac. Their marketing sucks and I believe this is why their sales are down on top of the lack of model choices. Cadillac biggest win could be a Marketing blitz that if 3 prong focused by age group 18 to 30 31 to 50 51 to retirement. Focus on showing why their auto's beat the competition and then challenge the public to come in and find out for themselves with some sort of incentive. The web site option to compare a ATS or CTS to any of the German 3 equivalent is just not going to cut it. Have on site at the dealership for a comparison the actual auto's. Cadillac needs to step up the luxury and experience. The US dealerships need to look like what they are requiring in Bejing.
  8. G. David Felt
    Yeah, I'm hoping it's just FUD. It'd be a pretty lousy practice and I'm certain both Apple and Google would put a stop to it, as it'd end up tainting their brands. Agreed, this would be a big negative for both companies if you had to pay the Auto OEM to reflash the system to support one or the other. I can see the QA testing now. how far back do the Auto units go in supporting which OS versions. This is going to be very interesting and MFST could end up being the big looser here.
  9. G. David Felt
    Believe it when I really see it and personally they are going to have to support both Apple and Android in every auto to satisfy customers. If they do not they will have a loosing sale. Example is I hate the Apple interface but love Android so an auto that only supports Apple starts with a loosing sales mark and yet for my son a graphic designer who is mac everything an android only stereo would be a negative. So the only way I see this winning is having support for both. Big looser here would be Msft if they do not get on board.
  10. G. David Felt
    Political pawn
  11. G. David Felt
    Be interesting to see what they bring to the table. Same old warmed over performance that everyone is doing or something truly new and innovative?
  12. G. David Felt
    Time to plan for Auto Virus that will block auto ad's and allow me to block the grid from knowing where I am. Or better yet just rebuild my exiting auto and keep driving it to stay off the grid.
  13. G. David Felt
    I would be interested in hearing how SMK justifies this lack of leg room on the CLA in comparison to the ATS. You just cannot keep moving the field goal posts to say MB is the best when they clearly are starting to cut corners. The CLA is terrible in comparison to what Cadillac makes.
  14. G. David Felt
    Hit that nail on the head didn't ya!
  15. G. David Felt
    Inflation
  16. G. David Felt
    Socializing
  17. G. David Felt
    Escalade = World Class Full Size SUV for the people. I do not hear that about any other luxury SUV even the Military ancient G that MB still makes.
  18. G. David Felt
    Here you are wrong, MB Sprinters were not on sale as MB badged vans, They started out as Dodge vans and were known to be garbage. Once the MB badge showed up a few years back as Dodge dropped them, it will only be time before people start to question MB. It took 20 years of idiot mgmt decisions at Cadillac for them to go down from the standard of the year. Lousy 80's and 90's models and yet in the early 80's people said the same thing about Cadillac and now they are fighting to rebuild. MB will sell now but another 3-5 years from now I would not be surprised to see them struggle. Both MB and BMW are making a HUGE MISTAKE by not learning from the mistakes of US auto companies from the 80's. History is to learn and in this case, they should be selling under a different badge than to sell all as one. Does not work. You yourself have stated that Toyota has not been able to crack it all and so they went with Lexus. Takes time to build an image up, but only a few years of stupid mgmt greed to tear it down. MB and BMW are in the greed mode and will fall. Mark my words. They are ignoring History.
  19. G. David Felt
    SMK, So I would like you to explain how you would respond to this line of talk. I went to the finance department of our division. Mostly Asian folks, that being Chinese, Korean, Indian, and the rest white. I ask them what they thought when they think of Mercedes-Benze? Answer for majority was High End Luxury, wealthy class of drivers. I asked them what they thought of and showed them the MB Sprinter. Answer was for the most part, why is MB doing commercial vans? I asked them what they thought of a 20K or 18K version of MB and then showed them pictures of MB CLA 250 and GLA 250. Universal response was why is a Luxury company trying to compete against Ford and Chevy? The end result was they started out thinking of MB as a Elite Luxury line and at the end they said they would look elsewhere for an elite auto that was not competing against Ford and Chevy or any other entry or mid tier car company. This is the self destruction that MB is doing to itself here in North America. Europe is obviously fine with MB selling from entry level FWD appliances to ubber luxury auto's. North America expects Luxury auto companies to stay luxury and not move down market. This is why everyone here feels what MB and BMW is doing is wrong and self destructive.
  20. G. David Felt
    which engine? I found this on a couple jeep forums and on a euro used car site so I think this is pretty accurate for the Europe Diesel version. 2.8L turbo diesel with 197-hp and 339 lb-ft of torque
  21. G. David Felt
    I have to disagree with you. This will prove to be Porsche Boon Doggle and an executives failure costing someone their job. This is a big waste of resources for them but since they are flush with cash I guess they can afford to waste money. Waste of resources? Yes, I pretty much think you are right, but tell me you don't want to see the 918 Spyder. I'm sure that a lot of people wanted to see this car without a rooftop and, as you said, Porsche can afford losing some money just to meke its clients/fans happy. You are new around here so I give you some thoughts. I am 6'6" tall, I do not fit into anything they make and honestly would rather have a Cadillac V edition of the Escalade more than a small tiny 2 door coffin of a car that Porsche makes. They have some interesting design language but I will never be a customer of their over priced over rated products. 6'6" tall? In this case I think a Marauder is definitely more suitable for you. How was I supposed to know that? Very True, It is why all I have is full size SUV's, Escalade ESV Platinum, Hummer H2, Suburban SLE, Durango, Trailblazer SS AWD which is my version of a Porsche. Course Durango and Trailblazer are mid size but very comfy.
  22. G. David Felt
    Last thing I would want out of a Van is to be car like! Van like SUV's are popular for their High Seating position and ability to haul stuff. As such they need to be more stout than cars. If you want a car ride with more capacity, go to the CUV product line as most CUV's can out haul a car and yet have the car position.
  23. G. David Felt
    Totally agree with everyone on that lovely lady!
  24. G. David Felt
    Play Time
  25. G. David Felt
    Very accurate Z!
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