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This popped up after I watched your Tahoe video above. Love this new escalade and the new 6.2 L V8. They address that this engine has a new DI design that eliminates the ticking noise people hear on Direct Injection engines. Should be very cool to drive.
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Thanks for posting. A year ago I had suggested to the GMC that they do a black edition Yukon. Metallic black paint job with Black Chrome rims and black chrome accents. While nice, there is still something missing from this Tahoe that says shortcut to me. Sad.
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2013 Ford Fusion 2.5 SE 1.6 Ecoboost 6MT
G. David Felt replied to regfootball's topic in Reader Reviews
Caddycruiser your comment I find interesting as has others about the Impala and Malibu. It makes me wonder if Chevy would not be better served by killing off one or both of these auto's and building one much better quality car to serve the mid size market. -
Very true, unless they are heavily profitable which Mitsu is not they will have to cut out the flare of a low volume fun model like the Evolution and go after mass market models. It is understandable.
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Quick Drive: 2014 Chevrolet Cruze Turbodiesel
G. David Felt replied to William Maley's topic in Reviews
They are at least keeping around 500 per month in sales so it is not entirely dead.- 24 replies
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Sad to see current new executives that had no control and no ability to affect the decisions get thrown around like this. They should be pulling the idiots from that time period back in front of congress and confiscating the money they took as pay during those periods. Clearly cared more about how much money they could steal from GM than the products and what would happen to others.
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moving multi-sockets to PCIE cards?
G. David Felt replied to loki's topic in Electronics and Technology
PCIE 16X CPU CARD This is a industry standard current card much like Blade Servers but for use in the telco industry and other industry specific vertical markets. Not cheap and while allows a very dense system as the box usually has 10 to 20 PCIE 16x card slots they also have a specialty slot to support and allow coworking of multiple cards. Over all not price reasonable in todays current disposable market with price leaders going so cheap. -
Europe is going to be the next big pain point. They have not had to deal with Major readjustment yet in their way to much capacity of assembly lines. The Unions think they can hold the country gov's to keeping everythin open and status quo yet they have not grasped that in todays global economy, adjustment have to be made now. I suspect we will see in the next 24 months massive plant closings as companies realign production to meet actual needs. Some of this will also come via moving production to other counteries with lower labor costs.
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2013 Ford Fusion 2.5 SE 1.6 Ecoboost 6MT
G. David Felt replied to regfootball's topic in Reader Reviews
Interesting write up, so clearly FORD still has a ways to go to get more competative with a solid product is what I get out of this. Thanks for taking the time to drive and write this up. -
Saw a Tesla this morning being flatbedded by Mac towing services. Not sure if it broke down or just ran out of charge. Thinking about this, I guess for the absent minded, if they forget to charge and drive off, they for now will have to be towed till AAA or some other company figures out how to deliver a 220V charge to power these auto's.
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Chevrolet News:Spying: Hello Next-Generation Chevrolet Cruze
G. David Felt replied to William Maley's topic in Chevrolet
Can anyone explain the trend of going to the Large Mouth Billy Bass grill? Is this due to the amount of air needed for these overworked little turbo motors?- 17 replies
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Consolidation is the oxygen to the auto industry surviving. I see more than just 5 or 6 companies but I do see many folding into others to survive.
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Chevrolet News:Spying: Hello Next-Generation Chevrolet Cruze
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H'mmm NOT a fan of the Big Mouth Billy Bass Look. FAILURE in my Book!- 17 replies
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Jaguar News: Rumorpile: XK Coupe To Transition Into The XJ Coupe
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Quick Drive: 2014 Chevrolet Cruze Turbodiesel
G. David Felt replied to William Maley's topic in Reviews
I would take the Diesel over the Eco any day. The Diesel will far out last the eco model.- 24 replies
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Holden VF Commodore Reaches 50,000 Milestone
G. David Felt replied to douglask's topic in Heritage Marques
Cool to see, sorry to have it come at the last minute, to little to late and as we all know, the high cost of manufacturing is not helping them down under. -
I know in various threads some have pounded on GM for still being the old GM. Yet with this said, once needs to aknowledge just how far they have come in a short time period and how fast they are responding to issues that show up in their auto's. While everyone would love an auto to be perfect from day one, at least it would seem that GM is having the engineers do long term testing and as issues show up they are responding to fixing them. The old GM never responded as fast to issues as the new GM is doing. As an engineer we do everything we can to test and make sure an product is 100% out the door and yet you cannot build an auto in 2-3 yeras and know the long term outcome of using new metals, new liquids, etc. In the early stages you do end up with having some tweaking to be done and at least while this seems to be done for the new GM auto's at least GM is also responding by taking care of issues pre-bankruptcy and correcting what past mgmt was passing the buck on. Happy to see the responses of GM to new Auto issues.
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Happy Belated B-Day DF!
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Ever Wonder How Paint Protection Kit Templates Are Made?
G. David Felt replied to Rvinyl.com's topic in The Lounge
Very cool, never thought about it before but I can see how you would need to take the time to map this out and then have it in a database to bring up for later. The amount of labor up front I can see being the focus of bigger profits down the road. -
Nice write up, VW lack of quality and how they seem to always have tons in the shop being repaired makes me leary of considering them as an option. I see more free loaners from the local VW dealership on the road which also makes me wonder about delivery of quality auto's. I know they are not as bad as Mini with the amount of warranty defects right off the assembly line.
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Volvo News: Rumorpile: Volvo Concept Estate To Give Way To The V90
G. David Felt replied to William Maley's topic in Volvo
Wonder if mathematics comes into play with the naming scheme?- 4 replies
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Input on new tires for my '08 Pontiac G6
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DRIODS ROCK! I just traded in my Samsung Charge for a Samsung note. Love the bigger size as it actually fits my fingers now. -
Have a 2008 trailblazer which based on my research uses the same unit. Have not had this problem and I do not find a listing of known problems but I do find others that have had the unit wear out with some getting swipes in one direction only and other not at all. Being that they use multiple suppliers for the same part, I wonder if one built it cheaper than another and as such you have units that all passed initial inspection and testing but over the long haul one last longer than another. I bet you can find a reasonable priced unit on one of the GM parts web sites and replace it yourself back to like new.
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Not only that but it is amazing how many people want to blame the current folks in charge for this on another persons watch. Instead, pull in the forced out old executives and hold their feet to the fire for their greed and poor accountability. Do not burn the current people who are working hard to go in the right direction.
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