Drew Dowdell

Porsche is basically an SUV brand now with a couple of sports cars thrown in just for history sake.

Those sedan/hatchback numbers are just murderous.... no wonder they are cutting back on production. Pruis down nearly 20%? I guess it doesn't help that its ugly instead of just dull.

Nice to see Mazda up overall for the year. I hope the 2020 Mazda 3 they showed at the LA Auto Show gains some traction for them.

Accord down 10% for the year, Civic down 13%, Fit down 28%. These are widely considered to be the best in their class. Tells you why Ford, GM, and FCA have started phasing out their car lineups.

RAM, Jeep, and Dodge the only ones up. People still buying lots of Chargers and Journeys... Nearly 100k Journeys moved last year.... I wonder why there isn't a replacement for that one yet?

Some pretty major red marks for Ford brand. Car sales down 27%! At least Lincoln is trending upwards. I'm really surprised the Navigator is being so slow to pick up. It's still selling half of what the Escalade sells even though it is now the better vehicle.

It's an Op Ed. Argue why the opinion is wrong instead of just dismissing it because it is an opinion. She makes some good points in the article.

I was bringing that up here a decade ago.

The RDX is a fine car on paper, but I do not like the way it drives...the brakes on it are scary.

GM will be showcasing a bunch of crossovers. If one of those crossovers is an EV, that is completely incidental.

Envision is overpriced and small compared to the Terrain sitting in the same showroom. Feature for feature, even though the Terrain itself is pricey, it is a better value than the Envision. The Acadia is such a snoozer of a vehicle. If you're looking for a 5-passenger crossover, the Terrain is probably sufficient and looks better. If you need 7 passenger, there is the lovely looking Enclave sitting next to it. Plus, the base engine in the Acadia sucks, so anyone wanting to get the good V6 has to cough up the money to get to at least a mid-level vehicle.... and then they get hit with GM's assinine pricing. If you're buying something the Acadia's size, you go to the Jeep or Honda dealership and don't look back. I think the issue with the XT5 is that it is time for a visual refresh. I never really cared for the looks of it from the start, but refreshing it to the new Cadillac face would help significantly. I still prefer the previous SRX over the XT5.

Woah!

Maybe part of the reason the Volt is getting dropped.

you haven't found something that you'd rather have.

That isn't what is causing the fall. It is that China's economy is pumping the brakes right now, but it is rapidly falling iPhone sales that are one of the canaries in the coal mine. Auto sales have been falling there for months. The reaction of the stock market has less to do with Apple profits and more to do with fears on the global economy. We're not even into a global recession yet, so expect stocks to fall a lot further... We could be back to the 19,827 that Obama left us within a few months.

SA has been lying about the amount of discovered reserves they have left for years.

SA is doing everything possible to diversify their economy away from relying solely on oil. It's almost as if they know something we don't.

A guy from Argo told me the reason they use PHEVs for self driving vehicles is because they're the only ones that have the battery and voltage capacity to run all of the electronics.

Refusal to accept automation as coming will result in the same thing happening.

That's actually a phenomenal performance for Tesla. 145,846 Model 3 is just about equal to what Mercedes Benz will sell of CLA, C-Class, E-Class, and CLS combined this year. (They were at 135k YTD for those 4 models back in November)

Starting at 4:30 you can see the differences in power management.

There was also the 7.0

I think 2 is the minimum and everything else depends on how you count. That is, a cycle could fire 3 times, but it might skip 1 or 2 or 3 cylinders before that third cylinder fires. There was a youtube video that showed it. I'll try and find it. That said, I've driven the Sierra Denali with it and the system is absolutely seamless. Even less noticeable than the V8/4 of Active Displacement.

Supposedly, they figured it out and yes they can indeed do exactly that.

My point is that any cylinder can be shut off... not just half the cylinders. From GM's press release: