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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    I am surprised that GM has signed onto this as they could really change things up down the road by endorsing direct sells.
  2. G. David Felt
    I have to say this stinks of unions and status quot. We are in the 21st century and people should be able to buy how ever they want not be forced to have to deal with a dealer who may or may not really care about customer service. I feel this is a mistake and will come back to eventually bite the state once it goes through the normal legal challenges and ends up in the supreme court who I can easily see throwing out this law.
  3. G. David Felt
    Interesting, their web site http://scatenterprises.com/ seems to have just recently been setup. Most links go nowhere or to a blank page. My gut tells me this is a move by the son's of the founding father to get a pay day and get out of the crank business.
  4. G. David Felt
    Have scratch my head at the big front air damn on the Z28
  5. G. David Felt
    Was at the Seattle Auto show this past weekend and saw the following: 1956 Ford Pickup 1939 custom coupe 2015 Chevy Trax Lincolns New Station wagon 2015 Chevy SS part of the local news story on the Auto Show 2015 Focus Electric - Had to laugh as once I set the seat, no one could sit behind me. They also had the Z28 on display for people to check out.
  6. G. David Felt
    Forgetful
  7. G. David Felt
    I remember most of them were in a plate you put under the carburetor and it misted or sprayed water very finely with the fuel so it got sucked down the engine to make the fuel more efficient. Yet it seemed to have issues around specific RPM if memory serves me correct.
  8. G. David Felt
    If you want to drastically increase green house gas. The pure electric thing is a lie. Untill we move off coal as a way to generate electricity, Electric auto's produce a ton of Green house gas. They create it as they generate the battery packs and then except for Washington state with a ton of Hydro producing dams, they generate even more green house gas with coal burning. CNG is the logical next step from oil to Natural gas and eventually some day electric maybe. Washington state is now capturing all the methane from the land fills and dairy farms. BIO-METHANE. Renewable and very clean green. Get of that smoke pipe. Coal consumption in USA is currently at the level seen in the 80s. Your favorite NG is taking over most of the coal plants as utilities are retooling coal fired plans into co-gen gas plants. And that methane from landfills is nothing but smoke and mirrors given its inconsistent outputs. It is not renewable as once the landfill has reached its design height, how is more methane going to be produced? If you want cheap, extremely renewable energy then nothing beats nuclear breeder reactors. With current amount of known U235 deposits, US can sustain its electricity for the next 100,000 years. But then people's perception of being besides an atom bomb possibly scares into more regulations for that energy source. Good Idea and I did overlook about the Nuclear thing. If we can only figure out a proper way to deal with waste water and material that is useless but radioactive, then you are right we will have plenty of electricity and then they just need to get the auto's to recharge in 15min and go 4-5 hundred miles on a charge.
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    If this Scat company has trade marked Scat Pack, then I can agree with them that they have this covered, but if all they have is Scat trademarked, then they need to wake up and move on as they had more than enough time to trademark all versions of Scat. Be interesting to see what happens, but my gut tells me Chrysler will win this round.
  10. G. David Felt
    I wonder how much water a system like that would consume? I guess in theory one could make a closed loop system where boiled water was then condensed and boiled again. Heck, if a system like that was not used you could probably do away with the entire cooling system since you could just boil water directly from the engine heat as well as from the exhaust. You would take all of that waste heat that gets dumped into the atmosphere and doing work with it. I wonder if a water injection system, maybe with an extra couple of strokes could suck enough heat out of the engine to reduce or eliminate the cooling system. Shame its so expensive to develop new car tech. Lots of interesting ideas out there. Water injections was a big deal in the late 70's I remember my dad and I trying a number of systems that came to market. But they never really panned out. Course we did not have the computers and the technology then to probably make it a reality. Something very well could work today.
  11. G. David Felt
    Out Standing plus this drives home quality and will end up with long term reliability. I see nothing wrong with the OEM's jumping to repair issues sooner rather than later and it should help the engineering and testing efforts for newer auto's. All good stuff for consumers.
  12. G. David Felt
    If you want to drastically increase green house gas. The pure electric thing is a lie. Untill we move off coal as a way to generate electricity, Electric auto's produce a ton of Green house gas. They create it as they generate the battery packs and then except for Washington state with a ton of Hydro producing dams, they generate even more green house gas with coal burning. CNG is the logical next step from oil to Natural gas and eventually some day electric maybe. Washington state is now capturing all the methane from the land fills and dairy farms. BIO-METHANE. Renewable and very clean green.
  13. G. David Felt
    Very cool, working hard for a living!
  14. G. David Felt
    So I am spending the week at the International Seattle Auto Show. With over 500 auto's on display which includes many concepts I have been able to spend some quiet time before the show opens to the public to actually look at and sit in many new cars that have been talked about here. I started off Wednesday morning focused to look at the following entry level auto's from Mercedes Benze since SMK swears they are the best auto's out there. So my initial impression of just looking at these auto's from the outside was Bland, looks like another appliance. This continues to the inside where I do not understand MB design language. The cut up dash, the so called floating NAV system and the feel of this butchered dash is cheap hard plastic. I found many fit and finish flaws on these cars, the biggest was misaligned trim. I was going to take pictures of these areas and the interior but got shooed out by a woman rep who said no one should be in the auto's before the show opens. If this the the superior style / design of MB, they can keep it. Cadillac wins hands down. MB should have used their smart car division and had these appliances under that brand name rather than tarnish MB luxury status. The funny part was the guys who came as they announced the auto show was open looked at these and commented for a car listing at $29K that they thought the Camry was a nicer auto.
  15. G. David Felt
    What a sad waste of time for the courts, these lawyers are not about protecting and representing owners / leasors, but about taking money and wasting a companies resources.
  16. G. David Felt
    Badge Whoring
  17. G. David Felt
    Would have been cool to keep the Suicide doors but looks like a superior car compared to the FRS or GT86. This has an interesting design, I suspect people will love it or hate it.
  18. G. David Felt
    Ugly auto and not worth wasting R&D money on. If it really was they would do it no matter what.
  19. G. David Felt
    Awesome news to read, way to go General!
  20. G. David Felt
    Awesome cool pictures, I agree every time I have had to work under the dash in my 94 Suburban, it was always a pain. There is truly no extra space. Question, why not paint your rotors so they are clean and not rusty? This is one thing I wish GM would do which is have the rotors sealed with a good paint job so they are not rusty.
  21. G. David Felt
    Wonder how much Transformers helps sell this little subcompact?
  22. G. David Felt
    I totally agree with you Balthazar, It makes me mad that the new leader of Cadillac thinks I am too stupid to know the difference between an Escalade and an Eldorado! Why shouldn't he? The Competition believes it more so and they have the sales to back it up. In this case, most buyers of luxury auto's have a much higher education, so lets not put them into the same demographic of idiots that cannot read past 7th grade newspaper level and want to be a lemming. Let Chevy sale to the Lemmings to compete against Camry. Let the educate people that want to stand out, buy the Escalade, Eldorado, Brougham, etc. We want to be talked to, not talked at! No offense cause we agree on a lotta things, but this one.. the names.. I think U and a lot of people are not seeing the big, as in global, picture. I see the big global picture, but disagree that his lemming naming approach is the right way to do this. Do we need small, medium and large cars with coupes, sedans and convertibles? YES Do we need Small, Medium and Large CUV's? YES Do we need Body on Frame Full Size SUV's, Escalade? YES Do we need these in RWD, AWD Standard, Sport and V models? YES Should they have Names or Lemming type letters / numbers? That is the debate and I find myself on the Name side. But you are right we agree on far more than we disagree about GM and the Global market.
  23. G. David Felt
    G. David Felt Alternative Fuels & Propulsion writer www.CheersandGears.com Spark Sales Surpass 1 Million Globally http://www.gm.com/article.content_pages_news_us_en_2014_oct_1009-spark.html GM announced that starting with the spark labeled the Beat in India, they have surpassed 1 million auto sales of this sporty subcompact car. Sales started in 2009 in India and now the Spark is sold in 71 countries around the globe. GM went on to state that sales are up 10% year over year for the spark and 60% of buyers have never owned a Chevy before. The Spark is attracting the youngest buyers to Chevy with 9% of the spark sales to people under the age of 35. IIHS top safety pick was granted to the spark beating all other competition. This Spark connects everyone to features such as 4G LTE, MyLink, Navigation, WiFi hot spot, Siri and the whole iPhone universe as well as Android phones.
  24. G. David Felt
    I totally agree with you Balthazar, It makes me mad that the new leader of Cadillac thinks I am too stupid to know the difference between an Escalade and an Eldorado! Why shouldn't he? The Competition believes it more so and they have the sales to back it up. In this case, most buyers of luxury auto's have a much higher education, so lets not put them into the same demographic of idiots that cannot read past 7th grade newspaper level and want to be a lemming. Let Chevy sale to the Lemmings to compete against Camry. Let the educate people that want to stand out, buy the Escalade, Eldorado, Brougham, etc. We want to be talked to, not talked at!
  25. G. David Felt
    They don't have much of a choice. Have U tried to speak to a typical car buyer these days? Many are blatant idiots and completely go with what the popular decision by the many. That pretty much explains this: sales of the Toyota Camry 2014 YTD 334,978. In this case you truly have shown the Village Idiots. Camry speaks volumes. Most of these drivers should never be on the road as they cannot drive.
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