Drew Dowdell

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.

Pick your first and second runners-up. I'm going to do all of them, I just want to know which ones I should do first.

Not by GM. I think some 3d party did.

I wonder when we're going to start seeing things like carbon fiber valvetrains.

So don't buy one if you don't want it. Personally, would have preferred they did the JGC first.

Ford is already selling all the F-150s in the US they can build. Maybe GM, with their falling truck sales numbers, should give it a go in the UK.... oh, no wait... they mostly pulled out of Europe except for Corvette and Cadillac.

I'm not surprised about the Cascada. It seemed like a one and done from the start and the only reason it was brought here was that it was on a Federalized platform and there was extra room on the boat coming over. The interior, while decent, was the very last of that generation of Buick/Opel interior to be released before they started doing the nicer ones we see today.

I think GM is just trying to prove that a 4-cylinder pickup could sell. Still, I'd rather have a 6 even if it is a smaller turbo one like the Ford 2.7T.

I've recently tried out a bunch of cars. Here is the list. I want to know if there are any, in particular, you think I should focus on. If you could pick your top 3. GMC Terrain Denali, Chevy Cruze RS Red-line, CT6 Platinum SuperCruise, Infiniti QX80, Chevy Camaro Convertible, '19 Jetta, '19 Subaru Ascent, 19 Infiniti QX50, '19 Altima AWD, '19 M-B CLS 450 Designo, Mazda Miata The following were off-road only - Wrangler, GMC Sierra AT4, Ram Rebel I have a new Avalon Limited that a client just bought who will let me test it also.

I started a liquid diet too... for medicinal ppuporpposess... .

Probably a press car.

Time to put you in the retirement home.

I love the new Lincoln names. I'm actually interested to see what they re-name the MKC into. I imagine the MKZ is probably dead as a doornail, but going back to Zephyr would be fine with me if it stuck around. I wonder if Lincoln could partner with someone who isn't giving up on sedans to make a replacement.... a heavily reworked Mazda 6 might not be bad and Mazda has no problem building cars for other brands.

You're right, that was a typo on my part. I imagine it would be easier if models had names instead of scrabble letters.

Around $32k and relatively similar interior sizes, they're all competition.

Differences of a couple inches do not a whole new segment make. It's price first and then a GENERAL size class.

oh look... a barn find 1998 3-series... wat? That's the new one?

No... exactly wrong. There are price classes AND size classes... usually, a vehicle has to be close in both to get consideration. The GLA and XT4 are the competitors for each other. They compete in price and they're close enough in INTERIOR space that they compete there too..... it's just that the Cadillac wins there that gets you bent out of shape... because the Cadillac is the better car for the price.