G. David Felt

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I can tell you from personal experience that private rail car across the US is one of the most amazing experiences in a life time and very relaxing. My wife and I was taken on a trip from Seattle to Chicago and onto NY on the Scottish Thistle Private Rail Car. Just recently sold but still available for private excursions. http://www.railmerchants.net/thistle/ A review of the Thistle and lots of pictures. http://www.trainweb.com/travel/stevelog/1999h24a.html I had the pleasure of going on this by a friend named Jerome. Journey starting in Seattle. Glacier National Park North Dakota bad lands Shelby ND In Chicago waiting to leave for the next leg to the east coast. Jerome the gentleman in blue over the name.

Where is the Beaver to do his job when you want him?

Interesting, I happen to agree with the differences in who will spend what. My baby boomer parents want to spend minimal even when they do like a technology, they still do not want to pay for it compared to younger people who do not seem to mind to pay for it. I agree that I think all OEM's should offer both systems in an auto allowing for the owner to make a choice based on their preference for phone use. I for one cannot stand apple products as I feel their design and UI is confusing and not user friendly. Yet I love the Android system that Samsung has built into their phones as well as Windows phones. So for me who buys luxury auto's they need to support me as much as the iOS crowd.

G. David Felt Alternative Fuels & Propulsion writer www.CheersandGears.com Are These The Most Reliable Top 10 Brands? This morning Yahoo posted the following story, "The 10 Most Reliable Car Brands, From A Car Dealer's View". The author goes on to talk about the various tag lines the brands have used and whether they actually lived up to the marketing hype of being the best. The author goes on to state that being an owner of a car dealership, auctioneer and co-owner of an auto auction for the last 16 years has given him the insight to state what he sees as the most reliable top 10 brands. The author then goes on to state that this is based on the last two and half years of looking at 700,000 auto trade-ins an the inspection process on the state of the auto at trade-in and tracking the sever mechanical issues of each brand. This individual also goes on to state the most studies are 90 days and this is then used to give early recommendations that are used for 3 to 5 years and yet never shows that some auto's become a Money Pit. There is plenty of additional information and I have to say it is a good read that deserves for anyone who likes more than surface information to take a look at. Make sure to follow the various links also to see some surprising and not surprising information that proves you can sell junk with the right marketing message. Top 10 Most Reliable Brands from Lowest to #1 10th place - Mercedes-Benz 9th place - Scion 8th place - Mitsubishi 7th place - Acura 6th place - Chevrolet 5th place - Infinite 4th place - Honda 3rd place - GMC 2nd place - Lexus 1st Place - Toyota So I invite you all to take a look at the details and think about what is your top 10 most Reliable Brands? Do you agree with this or not, Do you feel the methodology is valid or should there be something better to measure quality in a product? Sound Off!

This is what one would have expected from Kia 10 years ago. MB should be ashamed to have this out there and the Badge Snobs need to wake up to the junky quality of this ride.

I like that idea of a mid size Escalade and small Escalade. The style would work for 3 models.

wow, Amazing what Mother Nature can do to a lovely Auto!

Much clearer image of the 4.0T

What to Think, What to Think?

I doubt it, with MPG being the issue it is, and the technology of Turbo, superchargers, and especially Hybrid power trains with amazing torque out of electric engines, I can see a HD having 400 to 450 HP and 600 lb-trq with an electric power train and generator.

Based on all your comments about what Cadillac should have, I have to disagree with you. At this point, Cadillac should focus on having the 4 door, 2 door, convertible regular and sport versions of their lines and keep the existing V series. Expand and have a full line of CUV's and SUV's in regular and sport plus Platinum editions. Then once the money spent and success of the product line is supporting Cadillac then build the super low volume V editions.

Applaud for the Minimalist dash as it is clean but have to ding them big time for a dated look from the 90's and that reflective aluminum on the dash. Does it glare on a sunny day in the windshield? This is a big pet peeve of mine where you end up seeing the dash reflect in the windshield as you drive and it ends up being a distracting experience. How is fit and finish?

Right on, Lincoln needs to dump the stupid German lettering system and go back to Heritage of their names.

A fully loaded Escalade ESV Platinum edition is an easy 100K. Yet they are worth every penny IMHO. Amazing rides and they last. One of the best Auto's GM makes.

Interesting assortment of auto's wonder how many police agencies are trying to figure out who they are and where they are.

That is good to know as of now I see funky white box's where avatar images used to be for each of us.

Naw a smarter bet for Lincoln would be a VOLT like Power train that would rock the Germans World with V12 power equivalence.

I see some auto magazines eating crow over who builds the best driving machine!

Separation

What cha talking about Willis? You be not having a 2nd who wants the chair moved around just right for themselves. Trust me, a multi-directional moving chair is much needed as a standard item.

Oh come now: Yup, Bland square and ugly.

Is it me of does this rear end of the Taurus SCREAM 1980's? Bland K cars, Bland just about everything!

I wish GM would get faster at rolling out the VOLT powertrain in various formats of auto's. They should have it in a FWD and AWD CUV, Sedan (VOLT), compact (BOLT) and full size plus a truck.

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