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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    More information about "Chevy Cancels the City Express"
    Back in 2014, Chevrolet introduced a small delivery van called the City Express. The new little can was the result of a marketing agreement between Nissan and General Motors for Chevy to rebadge Nissan's successful NV200 small delivery wagon. But where Nissan did well, Chevrolet faltered and the City Express languished on lots. Typical sales months for the CE were in the triple digits while by comparison, Ford moved as many as five times that amount with its direct competitor the Transit Connect. Automotive News reports that back in September, dealers were told to stop ordering them and as of February this year the last City Express rolled off the line and has already been scrubbed from the Chevy website. No word yet on if Chevrolet intends a replacement on its own platform. Source: Automotive News Photo: GM, with Editorial additions by Drew Dowdell
  2. Drew Dowdell
    Okay, so that looks really cool... a crossover sedan PHEV with AWD and 350 miles of range. If I wanted to fill up both the battery and gas tank along the Turnpike, I could. 400 horsepower is just under all three of my current vehicles, combined.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    Right now a big issue in China is that manufacturer, particularly in tech and automotive, are required to turn over intellectual property to state-owned businesses. Trump is fighting that. I disagree with such turnovers in China and I disagree with it here.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    They have multiple avenues. Since they are trying to be more economically democratic, but still with a directed economy, the way to most influence consumer spending is to charge additional tax at the pump and use that tax to build temporarily subsidized EV charging stations. That way "The People" can vote with their wallet the next time they buy a new car.
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    My fault, the way I said it came out wrong and unclear. Trump is arguing with China to get them to stop this requirement. That's what I agree with him on.... not the domestic requirements he is doing here.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    A stopped clock is right twice a day thus this is one of the few areas I support Trump's actions on.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    Unless everyone is pumping at 100%, which they aren't, oil producers can increase production faster than Chinese industry can increase car sales. Furthermore, as the price of oil goes up, indirect industry tends to slow. The oil prices going up rapidly is one of those Series of Unfortunate Events that helped to cause the last big economic meltdown. Socialism isn't the issue.. corruption is.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    Under what requirement?!? I can see a voluntary survey, but facing fines and imprisonment??
  9. Drew Dowdell
    Absent global strife, oil prices at $150 - $200 a barrel become a check valve because overproduction starts to kick in and there are now enough players for one to play the spoiler and overproduce at those prices to bring the prices per barrel down.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    The one thing that surprised me about @William Maley's review is his statement that the car is super quiet inside. I haven't driven this version of Sonata, but prior versions had some road and engine noise issues. So assuming Will's observation is correct, then Hyundai has gone on a quiet tuning quest.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    being a controlled economy, they can slowly increase the price of gasoline. take the profits and use them to subsidize electric charging station installations.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    No, because it connects sometimes. It's not even really out of date. I'm on the newest version of Android. I just won't get any future updates to android.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    Yes. It's more for the social media aspect. For the posting of reviews and reveals, I would still use my Sony Alpha A6000 that I love, but its connection to my phone is beyond terrible. It only connects about 25% of the time which makes it difficult to snap a picture and post to instagram or facebook. Plus, it would be good for situations where I think I might need a camera but I'm not going to pack the big camera, so I can just take that attachment.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    I really like the look. I'd get it in the 2.0T of course.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    I'm really waiting for the Z3, I want the camera attachment. If I don't get that, then I'm going with a new Pixel XL
  16. Drew Dowdell
    I'm on an 810 I think. I have like 5 different sets of bluetooth headphones
  17. Drew Dowdell
    Do you want to end up in a tree? Because that's how you end up in a tree....
  18. Drew Dowdell
    Welcome to C&G. Hope you'll settle in nicely here. We have a few US Jeep drivers and at least two who once had Liberty CRDs.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    What is likely going on is that the torque limitation applies only in certain gears, so the ECU will torque manage the output in those gears to prevent damage. So while you might be getting full torque in 1st gear, you won't get it in 5th or 6th gear where things get more delicate. This is just a hypothesis. I don't see any evidence of Jeep using an Aisin BG6 in the Liberty, and furthermore, the BG6 appears to be a front-wheel drive transmission as it is used in the Patriot and Compass CRD overseas. It's also possible that Daimler underrated the transmission as the German companies tend to do with a lot of their capability specs.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    I never got anything close to that with my Nexus 6P when even when it was new. I don't know why I keep ending up with these borked phones. Even my work iPhone 6s has issues. Physically, my phones are museum pieces in lack of dings or cracks. They just run frustratingly bad. The only phone I've had that ran great was my old blackberry, but that's because there weren't any apps to use.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    im going to have to replace my Nexus 6P really soon. I'm hoping it can hold out till the Moto z3 (not the Z3 play) comes out next month.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    Good. I want there to be some competition in this segment. right now, I think the Porsche is the best
  23. Drew Dowdell
    Didn't we have a blizzard there that year? I think that's the year @William Maley had a Miata with snow tires as his press car for the show.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    Volvo sales are on a general uptrend.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    Steam trains "rolling coal" are done for show these days. Back in the day, steam engine crews took pride in running extremely clean fires with very little soot.
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