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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Then doesn't that mean Ford was late to the large SUV market? GM had the Suburban in place and available before the SUV market craze started. Not everyone can be first. Chrysler was first with the Mini-vans. Ford was first with Jelly-bean styling. GM was first with automatic transmissions and successful FWD. GM was first with 2-mode Hybrid. GM had the first luxury SUV <the Bravada>... Range Rovers of the day were "luxury" in that they were expensive and imported, but not in actual appointments. Edit: I disagree with F-O-G's statements about the Corvair, it was never really intended to be a sports car, rather it was supposed to compete in the economy class with the Ford Falcon. It was GM's answer to VW and Ford at the same time. As far as failed technology.... every car maker has some. GM's is most widely known because it's been the biggest for so long.
  2. I don't need all that.... just 3 for me. Truck: 4-Mode Hybrid Avalanche Z71 with that new light duty diesel Everyday car: CTS-D Fun car: Saturn Sky with e-flex
  3. whenever someone starts rattling about how much better Toyotas are.... I just ask them how many old Chevy Caprices <"you know, the old cop car" - if they can't remember> they still see around... and how many old Camrys. 100% of the time, the next words out of their mouth are "Yes, but..." How many 80s Cadillacs? How many 80s Lexus? - I know it's not a fair comparison....but they don't know that.
  4. Whattya say we all chip in and buy 68 some Westley's Bleach White for the white walls on both his Buicks....
  5. *buys stock in Vaseline*
  6. It's the Model T of India.
  7. Styling even a Soviet would cringe at.....
  8. Remember back in august when I had been up for 36 hours straight, had just arrived in germany and was keeping myself awake with redbull and earl gray..... yeah... I see Skodas as Buicks
  9. best ever was 28 in the CTS... but it doesn't seem to matter if I'm doing 60 or 90
  10. I hope not.... the laminate will start to peel off and the switches will stop working....
  11. Drew Dowdell replied to Flybrian's topic in The Lounge
    You managed to pinball on an onramp with only one guard rail also?
  12. Priorities man! Priorities!
  13. I'd rather use it to smoke some tires.
  14. there is no reason you can't use both. Plug in Volt running ethanol as it's fuel. Screw you Exxon.
  15. So the fins are a go? if not, please convey a bitch slap.... from me... to whoever would be responsible for such a decision.
  16. Given what we've seen in other applications, the fuel consumption hit would be between 15% and 20%... putting the biopower at 19 mpg to 17.4 mpg respectively. Equal milage to the X3 with substantially more power.
  17. !!!300hp 295ft/lb torque? Out of a 2 litre?! edit: and To put that into perspective, the BMW X3 gets 18mpg combined out of a 3.0 liter with 260hp.
  18. If it's a totally different grill maybe...... but considering Chrysler usually designs it's grills with enough intake to drop a Cat5 hurricane down to a tropical storm, I doubt it'd be a problem. Pity you didn't grab pics to put it to the sleuths here at C&G to figure it out.
  19. Drew Dowdell replied to Flybrian's topic in The Lounge
    how'd you get out of that Daewoo Leganza trunk I stashed you in anyway?

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