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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Awesome Pics
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    Awesome, Beauty of a ride! Way to go with Oz. Look forward to hearing all about it as you drive it and test it in all the various weather to come. Way to Go GM Truck Guy on your new GMC (Gorgeous Metallic Truck)
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    Over all nice mental exercise to review all your needs and the best bang for the buck. It is a nice looking auto. I believe with kids and wife you will be very happy with the ride. Way to go on moving onto a nice new ride.
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    :)

    G. David Felt replied to GMTruckGuy74's topic in The Lounge

    Gorgeous Mechanical Car
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    I take mine in coupe V edition with the supercharge V8. A superior engine to what MB puts out.
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    Dude, where are more pictures?
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    So Mr. Musk is in the news with announcing yesterday land agreements to start building the Hyperloop in January 2016 with completion in 2018. http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/musks-hyperloop-moves-closer-to-reality/ar-BBhZvZV?ocid=ansCNBC11 My question is will it really change the way we travel? Will it truly get built from border to border or just a magic trick of distracting investors and the news from the poor performance of Tesla? Your Thoughts?
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    G. David Felt Alternative Fuels & Propulsion writer www.CheersandGears.com 2015 Vehicle Buyer's Guide Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy The U.S. Department of Energy has released their Clean Cities 2015 Vehicle Buyer's Guide. This covers the following types of auto's; Propane Natural Gas (CNG) Biodiesel Electric Hybrid Ethanol Flex-Fuel In this guide you will find the following information to help one make an informed buying choice. The guide starts off by covering Fuel Economy, Energy Impact, Smog Scores, Greenhouse gas Emissions just to start. Once you have gone over that information, you then have a section that covers Auto cost and Emissions before buying. the follow up section to this is about Converting auto's to run on alternative fuels. Once you have reviewed this information you start down the line of specific auto types to best understand their use and benefits. You will find after the Propane and CNG auto sections a section covering fueling infrastructure as an important factor.The report then goes into details about Biodiesel, electric auto's and how to read the EPA labels on all the auto's. An important section is how to compare fuel costs before you buy. A perfect example is how cheap electricity is in Seattle where they have plenty of Water generated electricity compared to the Midwest or east coast where you have coal generated electricity or nuclear and much higher costs. The section on finding charging stations, Hydrogen and ethanol fueling stations will come into benefit to those that have those type of auto's. The final section covers 2015 incentives. As an addendum starting on page 31 is a chart covering all the auto's and how efficient they are on each fuel type or what they call the Energy Impact Score. Pretty amazing to see E85. I have to really question why bother to make E85. Check it out and come to your own conclusions on what you think is a good Alternative Energy Auto. Clean Cities 2015 Vehicle Buyer's Guide
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    Sad that this is what it has come too. Chrysler had such potential and yet Fiat seems to continue their trend of building low quality auto's and are now pushing it out across their full line of auto divisions. Sad!
  10. G. David Felt
    While I like the style of this car, I find the engines lacking. 540 HP but only 398 lb-ft of torque is an embarrassment. GM has shown the world how to build a decent engine with Torque equal to or close to the HP numbers. Would they have done better to go to a twin turbo V6 then? Turbo charged or supercharged engines have clearly better torque than HP and you get amazing performance. When will the buying world realize they are being cheated out of the true performance by going with these high HP engines and minimal Torque.
  11. G. David Felt
    WOW, We have really entered the age of Angry looking auto's with the Big Mouth Bass Look for a front end. I have to say this station wagon has potential but the coupe back end is terrible. What a waste of valuable space.
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    Hey Balthazar, yes key words are important for the search engines to pick it up.
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    G. David Felt Alternative Fuels & Propulsion writer www.CheersandGears.com Top 10 Least Reliable Cars Consumers Report published their annual best and worst reliable cars. If your wanting to look at the best go here Reliable Cars. For this story, you could watch the videos and dive through the mountain of spreadsheets that consumers reports has for their data, but MSN Auto helped out by focusing on the top 10 least reliable cars and here is their list. The predicted reliability score was 125% below that of the average car. #1 - Scion xB 125% below the average auto #2 - Mercedes-Benz S-Class 127% below average #3 - Infiniti Q50 127% below average #4 - Jeep Grand Cherokee (Diesel) 134% below average #5 - Dodge Dart 140% below average #6 - Chevrolet Cruze 1.4T 143% below average #7 - Nissan Pathfinder 154% below average #8 - Ford Fiesta 162% below average #9 - Jeep Cherokee (4-cyl) 176% below average #10 - Fiat 500L 219% below average The issues seem to be focused on either the power train, suspension such as the active system in the S-Class from Mercedes-Benz or electrical. The one area that no car seemed to really have issues with is the body / paint jobs. So the question to be asked here is as follows: Are we building auto's to complex for our own good? Do we really need all these electronics in an auto? Do we really need all the sophisticated power train variables? Would it be better to focus on a more radical jump in autos by setting a dead line to move away from fossil fuel auto's to EV or Hydrogen? The questions can be endless and I hope this gets you to start thinking about what is important to you. One thing is for sure, some of these auto's will not be on my list for shopping, others would be such as the Cheverolet Cruze which got knocked for drive shaft / axel seals and GM has addressed this according to GM's web site. What are your thoughts on this list? Is it right or is Consumers reports to critical?
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    Interesting, hopefully with young blood will come passion for pushing the design of the auto's from their ultra conservative bland look to something that inspires.
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    At the rate the group is going, they will totally miss the window for 6 digit EV auto's. I doubt they can get a production site, up and running and have product out in mid 2016. At best we will see this in 2017 or later.
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    Agree, you want to see generic boring lighting just look at the blah Pullman line of over priced metal from MB.
  18. G. David Felt
    Agree, leave the FWD appliance to Acura and others. Stay AWD only.
  19. G. David Felt
    Interesting, Have to say the commercial hit the nail on the head as I am totally intrigued with seeing more of the car. What is the engine? What does the interior look like, want to see more of the body for details. Over all I want more!
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    Close to 10,000 lbs with armor, a V12 is needed. A V8 in this car would be like a 2.0T in an Escalade ESV Platinum. WRONG! It is a little small 6 liter V12, The GM 6.2L V8 would do a better job than this engine with better gas mileage. Again you are hung up on the badge and not the real facts. That V8 could not produce the NVH standards needed buy a car like this. They Maybach cars don't use Mercedes most powerful engine for a reason, they need smoothness and quietness. The Mercedes-AMG V12 makes 811 lb-ft of torque, but the computer limits it to 738 lb-ft to protect the transmission and reduce wheel spin. Totally and completely disagree with you. GM's 6.2 L V8 is silky smooth and you clearly have never driven one. Also when did we start talking about the AMG, stick to the facts of the story above, this is about their normal Twin Turbo V12 which is heavier than GM's V8's. The 6.2 L Vi puts out 420hp 450lb-ft of torque and I am sure can easily move this beast of a car. Yet if you feel it needs the power of the TT V12 then I know just as smooth and superior would be the Supercharged Z06 Engine with 650HP.
  21. G. David Felt
    Interesting, look far more boxy than the SRX and I do not see how they say it has stacked LED headlamps, you can barely see them.
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    Close to 10,000 lbs with armor, a V12 is needed. A V8 in this car would be like a 2.0T in an Escalade ESV Platinum. WRONG! It is a little small 6 liter V12, The GM 6.2L V8 would do a better job than this engine with better gas mileage. Again you are hung up on the badge and not the real facts.
  23. G. David Felt
    WOW, What an awesome man. I wish we had more with passion like his to push for mid level fun auto's at reasonable prices. He will be missed but not forgotten. Z was one of the early cars I liked growing up from Japan.
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    That works for an auto traditionalist like me. Think it'll fly with a company trying to target the "hip, young" crowd? Actually in the US, Yes I think it would fly with the Hip young crowd. Marketing by GM would have some hip young group using electric instruments with various amps projecting the music and show case the car. Ampera - Your 22nd Century Ride has arrived! Get it at your local Chevy! Make sure to allow interior customization packages so the young crowd can rock their ride.
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    Plus my reading tells me that China companies are trying to push their own connection standards for their own EV auto's so I am sure that is hurting with trying to have a single standard.
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