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G. David Felt

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  1. 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.
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    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.
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    Very cool, working hard for a living!
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    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.
  5. 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.
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    Badge Whoring
  7. 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.
  8. G. David Felt
    Ugly auto and not worth wasting R&D money on. If it really was they would do it no matter what.
  9. G. David Felt
    Awesome news to read, way to go General!
  10. 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.
  11. G. David Felt
    Wonder how much Transformers helps sell this little subcompact?
  12. 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.
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    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.
  14. 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!
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    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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    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!
  17. G. David Felt
    Purest will scream about this, but I stand by my remarks in the Acura thread that who ever delivers a complete Hybrid lineup with performance of what Tesla has shown in their AWD top of the line S version but at more reasonable prices will truly corner the market. Porsche has a huge profit margin and I believe they could make the whole lineup Hybrid and come out ahead as profitable. Purest be damned, the electric motor is here to stay.
  18. G. David Felt
    DTS float barges are out of date with the buying public. Yes the boomers are still a major buying force, but the grow is not in them as a market. Cadillac did the right thing in moving on with the CTS, just messed up in not using names and in rolling out various versions faster of the new auto's.
  19. G. David Felt
    You could not have hit the Nail on the head any better! The Village IDIOT has arrived and sadly he is at Cadillac!
  20. G. David Felt
    That is way too funny and yes, my wife and I could not wait to get back into our Trailblazer SS AWD and fly away in a quality American Ride!
  21. G. David Felt
    That is some awesome work, nice job. Very cool. Appreciate the pictures and progress on your cool project.
  22. G. David Felt
    Yet you miss the point, take these basic cars and CUV's give them a decent mid luxury interior and the performance of the Tesla with Electronic AWD system and the Generator that VOLT has proven works so well and you have a Fast, Mid Luxury line with distance and selling at high 30's to low 50's and you have a special product line of Hybrid that no one else has. Why not do a mid luxury line that can beat Tesla at their own game and have the Green credentials and performance to boost at half the price.
  23. G. David Felt
    FAILURE from the Start. Everyone else has been there already, they need to come up with something new and exciting in style, features and packaging. Acura, Your HYBRID One Stop Shop. All auto's are Hybrid, Electric AWD Driven with Petrol Generator for long distance driving. This would put them ahead of everyone with a GREEN Footprint to boot!
  24. G. David Felt
    But not all like to fly and road trips are great, so electric does not cut it. It is still a half ass approach to a complete freedom machine.
  25. G. David Felt
    Way to Go, Sweet Ride, At least your mullet color will match your car color. Does the exhaust leak? Looks like it has rust spots all over the muffler. Might need to get a new Stainless steel free flowing unit. The inner lights, those are just fog lights or driving lights? Are the covers a different color or distorted? I like these cars, very nice ride.
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