G. David Felt

Actually I have some coworkers at the CES and they said the loved the smaller screens in the 45-65 inch range that were curved. Reason being is you can kill two birds with one stone. Say you have a room that needs to function as an office but also a relaxing place to watch the ball game. Your curved screen can go in the corner and give the room a nice view for watching the ball game, but then when you need to sit in front of it as a large working monitor you have a great curved monitor to view and work on rather than having a multi-monitor setup that you end up angling two monitors to work on or more. Curved Monitors will be come standard in work places where you need to see more data than a single monitor or 2/4 monitors would serve. Example is stock brokers, technology workers, 911 operators, just about any position where you need real estate to show everything at a glance rather than having a couple of smaller monitors. http://4sims.net/curved-monitor-pc/ Take a look at these setups. I love this 43" monitor/TV. http://www.techhive.com/article/183208/43_Inch_Curved_Monitor_Can_Now_Be_Yours_For_Just_6500.html Plus allot of this technology is coming through very cool new products like GaN or Gallium Nitride. We can thank this for the super bright LED's we are seeing on auto's and the new Super HD, 4K and 8K HD TV/Monitors. http://www.ostendo.com/gan/

Correct as Drew stated, compression test will not void a warranty. Something else that my father taught me when he used to own a repair shop and I had forgotten about till now. Dyno Test, I know some places charge crazy prices, but most will do a basic hook up and computer run of the auto to give you the base line. The nice thing with this is that for the couple hundred dollars it would cost you, you get a real data of what your HP / torque is and a complete output of your computer showing how the whole engine, tranny and computer system behaved. A great report to see if the auto is solid and consistent. Surprising part here is that when I used to work in my dads garage helping mechanics run these base line numbers, it was amazing to see what auto's actually failed to give you the numbers marketed by the auto manufacture and which ones surpassed those numbers. Since HP/Torque stated is at the fly wheel, it is always pleasing to see a car produce those numbers at the actual wheel telling you it is putting out more than stated.

Sounds like a multilevel marketing scam where the early in people make money and every one else gets the shaft! O'h wait, the world governments are already doing that to us!

Yes Ford has this issue with their Ecoboost also collecting water in the intercooler plus deposit build up on the intake valves.

Z, one way you can do this is by pulling spark plugs one by one and doing a compression test on each cylinder to compare the readings. You can also pull your fuel injectors and see how clean they are. One additional item I have seen done is that some people will put a magnet on the oil plug to pull any metal particles onto the plug so when they drain the oil they can see if any particles are floating. Also as you already mentioned the OBDII, read for codes. If you have the mgmt software on a laptop, you can connect the laptop to the interface port and leave the laptop recording for the day to see if it catches any random issues and see how the over all performance of the engine is running.

2015 Canyon my Friend is calling you or a Colorado! Sorry to hear about this, surprised this did not show up in cold weather testing.

True better than MB or BMW generic designs that say STALE!

Nice Road Salt Work on that body!

OMG, You can actually see it's nose!

While working in the technology world, I guess I have totally missed this one. BITCOINS??????

WOW, first impression is Bland and Boring but probably very safe since that is what they have built their name on. Conservative style with safety for the occupants. Not impressed and would not win me over with that current design language.

Sure, Heading over for dinner tonight so will borrow it to copy it so I can post it here.

Interesting to hear about the engine details. Still not a fan of the Predator Grill. The external body language is just weird to me and the rear tail lights remind me of the hideous front head lights on the butt ugly 4 Runner. Inside, the dash just scream patchwork ugh! Seat are intersting but do not look comfy but supportive. Maybe the pictures are just stretched weird for me on my monitor as it looks just out of porpotion weird.

It's a joke about the Toyota Tacoma Frame Rot Issue. Toyota was buying back Tacoma trucks multiple times over their blue book value or doing full frame replacements. A tenant of mine had the frame replaced on his Tacoma, but he said it was never right after that and ended up trading it in on a real truck, a 2013 Sierra quad-cab. Maybe it's a secret recall.. So I looked at my dads letter and come to find out, select group of 2004 to 2006 Canyon and Colorado trucks have weak heads and so in this case they extended the warranty on these 4 and 5 cylinder engines to 100,000 miles. Also for my dads model year truck, a whole group of trucks had contaminated Dex-cool put into them causing internal corroding. As such, for these owners, they are to run the truck to 100,000 miles and then they can get a new engine installed at GM's expense to replace the old corroded engine. Seems GM is making good on taking care of the customers. I like this. Build faith in the new GM.

Good point, having my son and daughter out of college and on their own, I forget about growing families that could see their needs change in 1-3 years.

True, it will be interesting to see how the Chinese compete and who survives. I suspect we will see a rash of new car companies enter the US and then 5yrs from now only 1 or 2 will be left. It also makes me think of how we might see the future landscape of auto's and who will be gone in five years. GM Ford Chrysler/Fiat MB BMW VW & other owned brands Land Rover Jaguar Volvo Toyota Honda Nissan Subaru Hyundia Kia China Company #1 China Company #2 Dead or merged companies - non-independant Mitsubishi Mazda

I love this device for how to block or at least firewall your blackbox. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/04/autocyb-car-firewall/ Seems like a simple but proper idea to control who can plug into your auto for the black box data.

Shi* Love this comic book series, they have it in the early stages for production as a movie. I wonder who they will get to play her?

I had to laugh at the pad lock on the rear of the prius.

Sounds like gremlins! Time for that new 2015 Canyon!

This is a private device, so I suppose the police would need a court order to use the data... No? Unless people are stupid enough to post videos of them doing 200mph, and people aren't that supid....... Errrr..... I mean..... Maybe they are that stupid Considering the amount of street racing posted you tube videos, you bet they are that stupid.

Nice Review and update comparison to the 2013 model. Only question is for the 2014, if you had to choose your top 3 things to improve, one of them being the selectable steering feel, what would the other two things you feel they need to address for the 2015 model?

I agree, I wonder just how long this engine will really last before having to be replaced. Then most people will probably dump these before 100K sets in and the auto has all the usual buggy breaking down problems that MB's tend to have.

Leasing for me is a business option, otherwise I see no reason to pay money and not have anything to show for it at the end. I understand that many who like to drive new autos every couple years love to lease and just move to the next great thing, but for me I am a buyer.

Can we say YUGO all over again with China?