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Highly recommend to watch "Formula 1" series on Netflix if you have it. I have never been a huge fan of Formula 1 but it is fascinating to see what is going on behind the curtain and the series is very well made.

The price being the same as the 6.2 is HUGE. i think that lone will help get sales moving on this. The premium Ford and Ram charge is outrageous. I priced the cheapest F150 with their 3.0 and it's 47k. The cheapest 4WD + Super Crew cab is 53k. Insane.

I6 is better than V6.... especially for longevity

Was it ever really alive to begin with? Those cars took “POS” to a whole other level.

"How do you know someone is vegan? Don't worry, they'll ***** tell you"

Is it me, or does it really sound like shyte???!!! I saw this article at Road and Track's web site and this is what was said: It sounds NOTHING like something out of a Maranello factory let alone a Ferrari. Its NOT even worthy to mention the Voodoo V8 in the same breath. And yes it sounds like no other LS based V8 engine before...LS engines soung good. This sounds like SHYTE! THAT is why this does NOT sound like any other LS... The Ferrari V8s and V12s are symphonies. The Voodoo V8 adds the cannons to that symphony like how the cannons are in the 1812 overture. American V8 muscle is just simply Rock-N-Roll! But what we have got here is...a Backstreet Boys reunion for 2018.

They should kill that brand . Daimler has better places to spend money.

7 people will be disappointed.

Quoted for Truth....

Remember when you said all of your experiences have been positive and then you tell us they put the wrong oil in and your vehicle sounded like crap after they put the wrong oil in it so then you had to go back and have them change it again..?

I remember starting out on the Vic 20 and then the Commodore 64 and Amiga before going to the MS Dos/Windows world.. Typing out the code they included in the back of Compute! magazine... https://www.commodore.ca/commodore-gallery/commodore-compute-magazines-issue-1-through-43/ Picked up a dirt cheap used Wii U and bunch of kid friendly games for my 5 year old a few weeks ago.

LOL at @dfelt

It's raise and bonus time at work... got a sweet one this year.

Having said the above... the claim by the illustrator that this has a similar effect to a twin scroll turbo is RUBBISH. A twin scroll turbo has nothing to do with accelerating exhaust flow or turbo spool up. It has everything to do with not contaminating the intake with exhaust back flow during the exhaust and intake valves' overlap period. At bottom dead center of the power stroke, the exhaust valves open sending high pressure exhaust pulse into the exhaust. At this same moment, the exhaust valves of the cylinder at top dead center of the exhaust stroke is still open while the intake valves are opening. This allows the exhaust gases to enter both the turbo and the cylinder at the beginning of the intake stroke. This is an INTAKE BREATHING problem. By keeping the exhaust paths of cylinders 1-4 separate from that of 2-3 the exhaust pulses cannot contaminate and interfere with the intake aspiration. That's the purpose of a twin-scroll turbo. Having two scrolls in parallel actually reduces the turbo's flow capacity and increases wall drag. The GM Double Volute design solves that and allow for exhaust segregation without flow restriction. The reward is 348 lb-ft from 2.7L at 1,500 rpms.

I had 3 paper routes to support my video game addiction. Yet with that, I still went to medical school first before going back to school after a personal tragedy happened and getting a degree in Sales and Marketing and then deciding to take my hacker fascination with computers as my career. Been in storage ever since from Digital Computer Corporation to Compaq, to Microsoft, to way too many startups to name, then Legato, bought out by EMC, left to go back to Startups, then got bought out by Brocade, back to startups, then to bought out by EMC, stayed, bought out by Dell and still here. LOL Love my Storage Job. Course I can say I am happy to have been a part of bringing you the Cloud. If you lose something, not my problem

I haven't driven one to be able to answer that... but take an Elise and lower the center of gravity, even with more weight, it's going to be pretty damn good. Car and Driver said: So 911 like... that's typically a good thing. That said... the Model 3 rides terribly and handles only average. So it's not like Tesla has knowledge advantage. They just did well with the roadster because it was Lotus based.

I always found these ads sooooo funny!

I really never got much into video games as a kid and teenager in the 80s, but became fascinated by software and making it all work..programming languages, operating systems, compilers..first with a Commodore 64, then TRS-80s, then UNIX workstations in college and grad school. Though I did contemplate becoming a math major and becoming an academic before getting into web development in the mid 90s..

yeah, I only use Top tier... and that usually means Costco. I'm rolling in an Escalade rental this week.... making it tough not to want one.

The GMC Build and Price tool has let the details slip on the power ratings of the upcoming inline-6 diesel due to be released in the Sierra and Silverado in a few weeks. The 3.0 liter turbo diesel will produce 277 hp at 3,750 rpm and 460 lb-ft at a mere 1,500 rpm. The only transmission choice will be the 10-speed automatic. These numbers are SAE certified and verified by GM. The diesel motor will be available on LT and above trims on the Chevy and on all GMC trims except the base. These numbers make the GM six more powerful than Ford's V6 Powerstroke diesel which runs at 250 hp and 440 lb-ft of torque. The New Ram 1500 still hasn't gotten a diesel unit, but it will probably be the same rating as the 260 hp and 442 lb-ft of torque in the Jeep Gladiator. One area still unknown on the GM unit is fuel economy. The Ford F-150 Powerstroke is EPA estimated for 30 mpg highway/25 combined/22 city. The GM diesels 1500 trucks will be at dealerships this summer. Related: View full article

Sorry but all of their cars came with those very nails.It had jack to do with any EV plans and it is pure trolling and foolish to think that it was when their sales (and their cars) have been garbage since day one.

From this awesome track...to this: I loved Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now...but I had no idea who Glace Slick was back in the day. One spring day going to school on the city bus in 1985, a girl...that went to my highschool, her senior year, she looked like Rosie Odonnell...no joke...she had the same attitude too. Exactly like how Rosie's character is in a League Of Her Own...anyway, she had her Walkman, and she was rockin' to We Built This City....and I could hear every single musical note it was THAT loud and ever since then, I could NEVER get that song or image outta my head...well today, out of nowhere, her image dancin' and rockin' to that song popped into my head. So...I knew you had posted White Rabbit and therefore I decided I NEEDED to share this with you. For whatever reason. Grace Slick....she was hot back in 1969. Kim Cattrall was hot in Mannequin. Grace Slick had/still has? an awesome singing voice. We Built This City On Rock-N-Roll is typical 1980s cheese...I think I like it, but the image of that girl...I just wish she would go away....*SIGH* Anyway...back to your regularly scheduled programming. I think I bored you long enough...

My wife and I do not drive that much. My restaurant is close to my home and my wife is a housewife. She works hard enough keeping me in line, feeding me and cleaning me. Then after all that, she takes care of our 2 kids and keeps her house in order...yes, I said HER house. A man's house is his castle. But in reality, it and everything in it belongs to his wife. Whether he wants to admit to that or not. Anyway. We change the oils of both cars 2 times a year. Once just before winter hits and once in the early spring. Way before the oil needs to be changed. Why? Like I said, we both do not drive a lot, but by law, in Quebec, winter tires need to be installed, so when we install the winter tires in December, we change the oil at the same time. When we go back to all seasons in the early spring, we change the oils. Because Im not gonna make another pit stop to the garage just to change the oils when need be. Might as well just change the oil then. Therefore, both cars JUST visit the garage 2 times a year. Both cars are reliable that unexpected garage visits were not made just yet. Ive had countless of recalls on the Ford Fusion, and some of those recalls were done at the same time when changing the tires and oils. A couple of times, the recalls were made outside those times. A loaner was given so no phoques were given on my part for that... Coincidentally, the wife's Fusion has an appointment tomorrow for her tires to be changed, oil will be changed, AND a recall will be fixed... My appointment for the tires is next Tuesday. Oils and brakes need to be checked and possibly pads to be replaced. If the pads are good, but not great, and I cant go until next December, Ill change the pads next week so I dont make another garage visit in the summer just for brake pads, so ill change them a tad pre-maturely as well....and so forth and so forth. We go to the car's respective dealerships. I get my work done at the Acura dealership where I bought my car, and the Fusion gets its shyte done at the Ford dealership where we bought the car. Oils...whatever Acura and Ford recommend for the cars respectively, and for our cold Canadian winters. And quite honestly, I do NOT know what that is. I think both the Acura TL SH-AWD and the 1.6 liter Ecoboosted Fusion take 5W20. Since we dont drive often, and we change oils twice a year on low mileage, I dont check the oil levels or how dirty it may be. Yes, I trust the dealership. I have never ever had a bad experience at ANY dealership garage that I have bought my cars at. In fact, they even give me loaners when I dont ask for them and dont even need them. I tell them I dont need a loaner because I have a second car at my disposal, but most of the time they give me a loaner anyway. Granted, sometimes I dont get my cars the day of my rendez-vous because they might overbook, but they know I dont make an issue and to compensate they give me a loaner. Tomorrow, the recall is a biggie, something about the shifter cable degrading over time prompting the shifter to be difficult to move or not at all... and I think its a 8-10 hour job over the course of 2 days, plus everything else the Fusion needs...therefore, the dealership will give me a loaner. Because recall. I think the Fusion will be in the shop 3 days minimum. I guess they could charge me for an oil change that they did not make, I guess that would be 50 or 60 bucks or whatever it is, and I wouldnt know because I dont check to see if they actually changed my oils, but hey...if something happened to the engine, it would be on them since I do ALL my oil changes at THEIR dealership....so there is that...but both motors on both cars purr and run smooooth like the day they rolled of the showroom floor....

Very cool wind tunnel testing, they are making good progress on moving to production.

Not only dealers often do sloppy job ( I had few occasions) but also they significantly overcharge on everything. When my wife's car was under warranty and I took it to a service they said that it needs new rear brake pads. The quote to replace JUST rear pads was $300. I bought higher quality pads than OEM for $40 and it took me 40 minutes for the whole job. Now please, tell me again why I should go to a dealer.

I still think SMART should become the entry brand to Benz. Partner with someone to make SMART into a Chevy/Ford/Hyundai/Honda fighter.

A few kids under 3... he's clearly busy doing something else.

In @dfelt's defense, my own dealership experience has been over good as well when they do need to do repairs. The problem for me has been with them finding something wrong to begin with. I took it down for a burning smell and they sent it back saying nothing was wrong. A month later, I'm back down there, still with a burning smell, and they find a coolant leak. The repair was fast (thermostat housing replaced) and price was fair once they found the problem.

Jeez, Mr. ExcuseMcGee. Human error is 100% of the reason people have bad experiences at dealerships. Nobody gets angry at the part itself that fails but they get angry when the service is crap, work was done poorly, and they're charged out the @ss because they went to the dealership. Your BAD EXPERIENCE is exactly the reason people don't like going to dealerships, or any repair shops.

SMART Cars were a joke, premium fuel required for subpar fuel economy. Does not matter that they built a cage that could stay together when hitting a cement wall at 70mph, the human was still hamburger. Yea, time for Smart to Die and go to the history books in the Sky. Same place Fiat needs to go and Alfa should have remained.

He did not put any money down on one, has a few kids under 3 years old now so he hasn't really had much time to drive his fun car lately, let alone think about what is next.

Remember waaaay back when you said this about your dealership? @ykX

Our bonuses are in December and raises used to be April but they've moved it to start at the beginning of the year(Jan 1st) so now raises/evaluations are in November/December as well. It's nice to get it at that point but it would also be nice to get a stagger between the two.

Yup hoping for the same thing here at Dell. This week is the 1 on 1 with the management and you find out how you performed and what you get. Hoping for a good one too.

We would always be happy to have you in Seattle, one big multicultural melting pot of friendly liberal people.

Hi Robert, I can honestly say that while I have never worked there, it is an amazing company that one needs to be single to work for. Single people who sign on usually get either a signing bonus or stock grants that mature over 4 years. Depending on the group you work in, it can either be the traditional 40 to 60 hrs a week or 80 plus. Decent pay and a big pay out at the end of 4 years, though Amazon is famous for adding stocks to keep you there longer. The reason I say single is that I have a better work life balance at Dell than I would at Amazon. Every person I know that is / was married either left and came back here to save their marriage or ended up divorced and focused on their career and the money they could make. All depends on what you want to achieve. Amazon makes life very easy with their food stores all over the city here where you have the app on your cell phone and walk in, browse, grab what you want and walk out, no checkouts, pretty cool weird shopping experience. They also have everything in house from dentist, doctors, dry cleaning, etc. Amazon very much like Google, want you to be at your desk working all the time, so make everything else very easy for their workers. Amazon is a BIG BIG BIG Dog loving company, they built dog parks for their employees to play with their dogs during breaks around the city here and you can have them at your desk. Dogs are 6,000 strong at the HQ here and have benefits on par to humans. Crazy. https://www.geekwire.com/2017/photos-amazon-opens-dog-park-next-spheres-employees-public/ https://www.thisdogslife.co/amazons-dog-friendly-headquarters-6000-pups-strong/ https://blog.aboutamazon.com/working-at-amazon/how-much-does-amazon-love-dogs-just-ask-one-of-the-6-000-pups-that-work-here Dog lover like you would love it there. My son's girlfriend works there and has a decent work life balance, but I know it is her group she is in. So take it with a grain of salt, Amazon could be the best company you ever worked for or it could be hell, heck even somewhere in between. Good luck if you decide to talk to them.

The 2.5T makes 310 lb-ft @ 2,000 rpm. Not exactly GM's 348 lb-ft @ 1,500 rpm from the double volute L3B (2.7T) but not bad. Also, the fact is that a 2.5L mill making 100hp/L (or less with 87 Octane) and 124 lb-ft/L is not exactly highly stressed. And, I am surprised that anyone thinks the lag is excessive when it is one of the least laggy turbocharged engines in production. The SkyActiv's 10.5:1 compression is about as high as you are going to get with a turbocharged engine. The turbo is technically very interesting although the results are somewhat inferior to GM's simper approach... Mazda has a flap in the manifold between the turbine and the exhaust ports. At below 1600 rpm, the flap close and forces the exhaust through a narrower passage. This increases exhaust velocity and helps spool the turbo quicker off idle. At higher engine speeds, the flap opens and allows the normal flow to the turbo. 310lb-ft @ 2,000 rpm, with possibly the best 800~1600 rpm spool characteristics, is more than you can expect from a 3.0~3.8L V6 and no slouch. High compression and excellent low speed spooling is great for cruise economy. I think the problem comes down to simple physics. 227~250 hp is not much to move around 4,300 lbs of stuff. The not too quick Acura MDX for example is "only" lugging 4,050 lbs with a 290 hp V6 engine. In the end, horsepower matters. Horsepower allows you to gear the transmission to solve a lot of problems. I don't see the CX-9 has "laggy". It is not. It is simply underpowered. It's power to weight ratio is similar to that of a 2.5L 4-cylinder, NA, Camry. And, hence, it performs like one.

I haven't watched it yet but a good buddy of mine said almost the same exact thing.It's definitely on the to-watch list.

@Robert Hall You are a computer geek, huh? Nothing wrong wit dat! Full respect! I regret that I did not become a computer geek myself. I begged my parents to buy this for me and one XMAS morning in 1982 or 1983, that was under our tree. I would end up having at least 60 games for it over the course of 7 years. Including this game And so I went the video game route, rather than the programming one. A friend of mine had the Commodore VIC 20 But truth be told, I found the Vic 20 pretty boring. What amazes me is, though, is that, as a young kid, becoming a teenager and coming of age in the 1980s, I had the time to: learn to play the guitar, learn to build plastic model airplane kits, play sports big time and coming home late because of it, play video games, listen to music, indulge in movies by going to the movie theater or renting VHS movies and going to school AND doing my homework. And I had time to do all that more or less at the same time. My friends too. And other kids that were not my friends. We stayed active and I do not see that kind of motivation with most kids today. And...to say, that, we had the same 24 hours in a day that kids have got today... What went sooooo horribly wrong the last 30 years or so?

Tesla already did that a decade ago. The Tesla Roadster was Lotus Elise based (fantastic handling) and crazy fast (they could walk away from an Audi R8 like it was standing still). The question was the price, not the handling, weight, or speed.

You probably have more storage on your Macbook than in those computers combined.

It's not a dud... it's just not enough engine for that vehicle. Even when suckling on premium.

They would not benefit form the additional hundreds of pounds of weight in batteries and motor(s).

Yep, my Nox has yet to see anything but top tier gas so far......

It sounds labored because it is 237 bhp trying to lug 4,000 lbs around. It short shifts because it is smart! The new 2.0T (LSY) engine hits its torque peak of 258 lb-ft at 1,500 rpm. It hits its 237 hp power peak at 5,000 rpm and spend every bit of the last 2000 rpm running out of breathe. By 6000 rpm it is making less than 200 lb-ft. By 7000 rpm it is making closer to 150 lb-ft. You really don't want to rev that thing. The LSY is very quiet, refined and responsive from 1000 rpm through about 5000 rpm where it does its best work. In many ways it feels like the old Supercharged 3800 which -- despite popular slander -- is actually a very refined engine when not hustled. Most of the fuel economy gains come from shutting off the two middle cylinders in cruise and from the low lift economy cams also having a long intake duration which can then be phased to eat into the compression stroke and reduce the effective displacement as well has create an asymmetrically long power stroke. It's a part time "mild Atkinson" cam if you will.

Detuning the 4 cylinder for fuel economy, in a luxury car that is $60k doesn't make any sense. Maybe it would make sense if there was some great NVH improvement, but 7.5 seconds is slow. Granted the old folks in Florida taking it to Cracker Barrel won't care, and there is a more powerful engine for people that do care. It just seems like more bizarre GM decision making, that isn't based on customer demand, but rather supplier issues, manufacturing costs, parts bin inventory, bean counters, etc.

https://www.motortrend.com/cars/cadillac/ct6/2019/2019-cadillac-ct6-20-first-test-review/ “At the track, the 2019 CT6 sprinted to 60 mph in 7.5 seconds and finished the quarter mile in 15.7 seconds at 89.2 mph. That's 1.1 seconds slower than a 2017 model we tested to 60 mph and a second slower in the quarter mile. The culprit is GM's new 2.0-liter turbo I-4, which is down 28 hp and 37 lb-ft of torque versus the outgoing unit. Power delivery is smooth, and turbo lag is minimal; however, the new engine is barely adequate for a 3,930-pound car like the CT6. The 10-speed automatic is also poorly calibrated; in typical GM fashion, it shifts quickly but immediately goes to the highest gear, preventing you from taking advantage of the engine's midrange torque. Road test editor Chris Walton noted that the engine likes to short shift well below the engine's 7,000-rpm redline and sounds labored when pushed hard. There is a fuel economy payoff, though; our friends at EQUA Real MPG achieved 23.5/38.5 mpg city/highway during their tests. That's a smidge lower in the city but significantly higher on the highway versus the EPA's official 24/34 mpg rating.” translation: this is not an improvement for anything besides fuel economy reasons. Since the 10 speed is used here then they should retune the engine for lots more power. The premise of this thread was the tranny was limiting the output of the new motor. But that is not the case here. The 2.7 would be a good candidate for the CT6 actually.

Yeah...and the Chevrolet motors are still far cheaper to modify. Buick Muscle cars are seriously under rated as cars...IMHO.