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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    Reliability is an issue for Alfa. I wouldn't put either of their primary vehicles' interiors at an equal quality level to the Germans or even the latest Lincolns. Styling is subjective, but I find them a bit stark.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    I have to admit I am also confused as to how this car fits in the Toyota lineup. It's not even attractive nor interesting.... maybe that's how.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    I've always wondered how driveable on a sunny day cars like that would be. I have to close the shade on my sunroof often.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    It's smooth, inexpensive, reliable, delivers good torque, and is reasonably fuel efficient for a V8. WTF is wrong with that? It's also the only way to get a V8 in a sedan at $33k or 370hp in a sedan at $33k. If you're looking for the most horsepower for dollar... Hemi is where its at.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    Just stop. You're wrong so many times in this post and I'm only at 83% battery left.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    I've never heard of the Rainier getting the 6.0. The TB-SS and the Saab 9-7x did.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    If you run Top Tier gasoline, there really is no need for additives. EXCEPT for Direct Injected vehicles... those engines do not ever get the detergents in their intake manifolds because it is completely bypassed by the direct injection system. That's where I'd use seafoam at the throttle body, but that is a once a year thing at most.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    You're correct that the ES will stick around. I mainly see Lexus doing some platform consolidateion. If the 5, 6, and 7 series can all share a platform, so can GS and LS. An IS could ride on a Supra platform and that would give it some real performance cred. The LX and GX are profit makers since they are just De Lux Toyotas... I'm sure they have among the highest profit margins in the entire Toyota portfolio. They'll find a way to make it work. The LS and LC are new... not sure why you think those have been rotting on the vine.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    I don't. I buy Costco gasoline almost exclusively which has most of those cleaners in it (much like Shell Premium). I do run a bottle of seafoam through the throttle body from time to time.... this is even more important on direct injected engines.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    Exactly zero of those 2-liters will make the torque of the Hemi... at full throttle... at part throttle... A 365hp 5.7 liter is far more drivable than a 356hp 2.0 liter because ZERO LAG. I don't know why it never will sink into your brain.. any motor will make 365 hp if you spin it fast enough. .. that doesn't mean you'd want to drive it. Spin your grandmother fast enough and she'll make 365hp too. Lets assume she can lift 5 pounds at 1 foot reach from her. Do that at about 383,000 rpm and she's cooking up 365hp. This is an extreme example, of course, but would you want to drive a 365hp car with a torque spec like that? That's barely a lawnmower engine. Before you bring up max torque at low RPM, you only get that at full boost which you also only get at full throttle. A 5.7 has more torque available at part throttle than a 2.0T.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    C-Class, Passat, S60, are all built here for US consumption. Where Trump is shooting himself in the foot is with exports. It could cause BMW to rethink future investment in their plant here because it does produce vehicles mostly for export.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    They still track these things in the technological equivalent of CSV files. I've done my own investigation into vehicle flaws and started running into walls because similar vehicles that share parts are often reported separately. I was tracking a dashboard flaw in the GM GMT800s but because the Silverado, Tahoe, Suburban, Yukon, Yukon XL, Sierra, Escalade, Escalade ESV, Escalade EXT, and Avalanche are all reported separately, it is difficult if not impossible to see the full extent of the problem.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    What a funky bunch....
  14. Drew Dowdell
    So, again... why?
  15. Drew Dowdell
    I'm fairly certain what they'll bring over is the Peugot line or DS line which is pretty conventional and could be mistaken for a luxury Kia
  16. Drew Dowdell
    Not what I said. But if they did, they'd have a lot of factories to give up. Toyota builds a higher percentage of its vehicles in the US than Buick does. Hyundai and Kia aren't far behind.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    LX, GX, LS, LC, plus a Supra.... and then maybe there is enough reason for the GS to stick around. My guess is they'll combine IS and GS into a single car like Cadillac is doing. So there is a 6th vehicle... and they could put it in the Tundra, Sequoia, and Land Cruiser as well for the fuel economy option. That's more than plenty volume for a single engine design.
  18. Drew Dowdell
    Those can't all be for the US. We're not getting the Grand Commander for example
  19. Drew Dowdell
    Why? Sweden is pretty socialist.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    Grand Wagoneer TrailHawk is what will get my attention..
  21. Drew Dowdell
    I wonder about that. What's to say that everyone else doesn't just ignore the US and enter into trade agreements leaving us out. Japan and the EU just signed one.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    They could make a straight 6 and put it in all the RWD Lexuses. Just like MB is doing.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    2018 Genesis G80 Sport AWD 6.jpg
    That's pretty fancy as far as engine covers go...
  24. Drew Dowdell
    That amount of torque makes me moist.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    It will be the DC to Boston corridor plus California/Oregon/Washington with a quick move into Nevada/Arizona
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