Everything posted by Drew Dowdell
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Fortune Magazine article on GM
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.
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Dream Car Lineup?
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
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Toyota recalls 15,600 Tundras
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.
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My 4th Buick
Whattya say we all chip in and buy 68 some Westley's Bleach White for the white walls on both his Buicks....
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One Step Further From The Stone Age.
*buys stock in Vaseline*
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One Step Further From The Stone Age.
no you're not
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The World's Cheapest Car
It's the Model T of India.
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Chrysler working on emergency overhaul of Avenger & Sebring interiors
Styling even a Soviet would cringe at.....
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2009 Skoda Superb
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
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Chrysler working on emergency overhaul of Avenger & Sebring interiors
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best ever was 28 in the CTS... but it doesn't seem to matter if I'm doing 60 or 90- GM @ NAIAS '08: Saab 9-4x BioPower Concept
Drew Dowdell replied to bostonspider's topic in North American International Auto Show in Detroit (NAIAS)I hope not.... the laminate will start to peel off and the switches will stop working....- Hello.
You managed to pinball on an onramp with only one guard rail also?- Spotted something interesting this morning
Priorities man! Priorities!- GM @ NAIAS '08: Cadillac Provoq Concept
Drew Dowdell replied to bostonspider's topic in North American International Auto Show in Detroit (NAIAS)Possible, but she's still the target.- GM @ NAIAS '08: Cadillac Provoq Concept
Drew Dowdell replied to bostonspider's topic in North American International Auto Show in Detroit (NAIAS)your mom..... no really. my mom too.- Promising Switchgrass study
I'd rather use it to smoke some tires.- Promising Switchgrass study
there is no reason you can't use both. Plug in Volt running ethanol as it's fuel. Screw you Exxon.- GM @ NAIAS '08: Cadillac CTSv - Overview
Drew Dowdell replied to Chris_Doane's topic in North American International Auto Show in Detroit (NAIAS)jack those wheels off the G8 concept?- GM @ NAIAS '08: Cadillac Provoq Concept
Drew Dowdell replied to bostonspider's topic in North American International Auto Show in Detroit (NAIAS)So the fins are a go? if not, please convey a bitch slap.... from me... to whoever would be responsible for such a decision.- GM @ NAIAS '08: Saab 9-4x BioPower Concept
Drew Dowdell replied to bostonspider's topic in North American International Auto Show in Detroit (NAIAS)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.- GM @ NAIAS '08: Saab 9-4x BioPower Concept
Drew Dowdell replied to bostonspider's topic in North American International Auto Show in Detroit (NAIAS)!!!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.- Spotted something interesting this morning
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.- Spotted something interesting this morning
refreshed Sebrings?- Hello.
how'd you get out of that Daewoo Leganza trunk I stashed you in anyway? - Lumina MPG
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