Drew Dowdell

The Hyundai models I like best have a Kia logo on them.

GM's (non-Cadillac) pricing is crazy lately. It makes it nearly impossible to support them when the competition is coming with more content standard, or at lower prices, or at lower trim levels.

The Bro-Dozer starter pack.

Those weren't mid-size thought the Intrepid could sell as low as a mid-size in poverty spec. When those were out, the mid-size at Chrysler/Dodge would have been the Cirrus/Sebring and Stratus/Avenger respectively. That would have been the equivalent of the Malibu or Contour. The LH cars overlapped with a bit of Taurus/Sable and Crown Vic, and Lumina/Impala/Grand Prix/Bonneville/Regal/LeSabre/Park Ave/Cutlass Supreme/Intrigue/88/98

So no more "Same Sausage, different lengths" design? I guess we'll see.

yeah, those are the ones I'm talking about. Not the ones who go out and buy a Denali and just put fancy rims on it.

It's the CLS

S class loses an entire E class in value in 3 years or less.

The CLS is my favorite Benz. The S Class is my second.

I think we're still a few years from the true peak, but just as wagons and minivans had their peak and subsequent decline, I think it's only a matter of time for full-size trucks as the primary family hauler to reverse course.

Preview of my review. Here's one for @smk4565

You're missing your calling doing reviews.

Truck overcompensation only comes into play when they are excessively and garishly modified. (Stacks, excessive lift kits, tacked on turbo whistles, etc etc)

“Peak truck market” is probably right. The next recession is going to hit this country hard because one of the things a falling dollar will do is drive oil prices up. A lot of people fresh into their 4 or 5 year lease will suddenly have a truck that they can't afford to fuel and can’t get out of the lease because no one else wants it. Trucks may be more efficient than ever, but they’re still not going to beat a 45mpg Camry Hybrid on an endurance race between fuel pumps. The current model of purchasing vehicles (84 month financing, relatively fuel inefficient vehicles, buying way more than can be afforded) is simply not sustainable. Eventually the credit will run out, the recession will hit, and it will all come crashing down again. We didn’t learn our lesson from 10 years ago.

Not quite yet.... this might be a setup for it... but it’s not hitting yet. When housing sales plummet, that’s when to take cover. I’m starting to think the Ford is heading towards bankruptcy in the next recession though.

But the X-Class is none of that. It’s a rebadged Nissan Frontier. A new Frontier isn’t all that far away and the X-Class will likely be another rebadge of that. For Mercedes to do what you said, they’d have to copy Cadillac and make a G-Class EXT.

I changed the max limits for the profile photos to something more reasonable so now you can update them if you like

I was unclear. It's something like gaining 4 inches of cab room with only a 1 inch increase in length or something like that. I don't have the numbers handy either, but the jist of it is that the cab size increase does not have a corresponding truck length increase.

The new 1500 is about an inch taller than the outgoing 1500. (from memory) They made the hood taller so they could shorten hood length to increase cab size without an impact to the overall length. Basically, they stretched the truck upwards in an effort to give more passenger and cargo room without making the truck longer.

Selling High Country in the Old Country.

These Subscription services are still too expensive. I imagine they're trying to turn a profit on reselling insurance and that is one thing that is driving up costs. The only good thing I see about this is the ability to "unsubscribe" almost any time you want after the first year... but I would be swapping out the car as many times as I was allowed just beacuse I'm allowed. These Subscription services are still too expensive. I imagine they're trying to turn a profit on reselling insurance and that is one thing that is driving up costs. The only good thing I see about this is the ability to "unsubscribe" almost any time you want after the first year... but I would be swapping out the car as many times as I was allowed just beacuse I'm allowed. What I don't get is why the manufacturers want to get into the insurance business. Getting out of their core comfort zones usually leads to poor results.