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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Buick has clearly picked up notice as I see more folks in the Hi Tech crowd driving buicks here in Seattle. Mostly it is the CUV crowd and it appears to be woman who love the Encore. I can understand the Farm belt as they are much slower to change, but I suspect this will end up happening as people retire and the young come into their own. Sadly the conservative farm life is a dying career with large corporation farms.
  2. G. David Felt
    Agree with Drew, Synthetic does not have the issues like traditional oil. So no need to change it when you have not used the life of it yet. In regards to the Brembo Brakes, I know what you mean as my Trailblazer SS with the brembo's spit out tones of Brown goo dust to cover the rims till I changed out the pads on my first brake job. Went with a Hybrid pad from Napa and wow, quite, fast stopping and very little dust. I am so much happier. Find out what other pads are available as you can probably get one that does not dirty up the rims.
  3. G. David Felt
    Love the VOLT style and I believe the drive train needs to be moved into their mainstream auto's and SUV's and Trucks. My big issue with the VOLT is that interior room. Seems it was designed for the ultimate man of 5'8" tall. When I dropped off my Trailblazer for service, I checked out a VOLT as they had one for a loaner and I ended up taking a truck as I could not get comfy nor could I sit up straight as not enough head room. Not built for the larger men and woman of society. GM - Need this in the Tahoe, Yukon, Escalade as well as your family of CUV auto's NOW!
  4. G. David Felt
    Interesting, bland boring and looks like the 3 series family. One must wonder what moron at BMW felt they not only needed to dilute the brand but has the arrogance to actually think this was a smart marketing and growth expansion for the company. Some times less is more and BMW seems to be doing the same stupid move the American auto companies did in the 70-80 with more versions is a good thing. NOT!
  5. G. David Felt
    I agree with the interior note about hard plastics and shiny fake wood. Yet even with that, the interior is comfy and roomy for us big guys and it offers a full size bed utility for hauling sheetrock or plywood or just plenty of camping gear in a protection that no crewcab truck can do unless you buy the biggest beast with an 8' bed and a canopy. Avalanche you will be missed as you really were a great truck. Shame as it was an outstanding Cadillac model also. RIP Avalanche and EXT.
  6. G. David Felt
    While everything looks and sounds right and I was expecting a powerful turbo 4, I still think it sucks that we have gone down this road. Turbo and small engines do not make for long lasting power plants in my humble opinion. But then I grew up on big v8 engines.
  7. G. David Felt
    That is interesting and makes me wish reviews would post more comparison numbers on interior sizing as I would not have guessed that it is Near Tahoe or Yukon interior space.
  8. G. David Felt
    Dwight I agree with what you say, sadly Marketing has people believing in Fairy tales and the truth is going to be an ugly mess when the world wakes up and realizes that DOHC, small size, etc is not all it is cracked up to be.
  9. G. David Felt
    Top end luxury trucks if there really is a growth market for them should have plenty of power and Electronic gadgets.
  10. G. David Felt
    Weird as I do not think of the Enclave as a large CUV. This to me is a medium size CUV. The Encore is what I think of when I hear Compact CUV, so I would think Anthem would be the small size to a medium size Enclave.
  11. G. David Felt
    Sweet
  12. G. David Felt
    In short GM needs to focus on their strength and have a marketing company that can build the story of each divisions strengths. Chevy - Value, Built like a Rock trucks. Long lasting. GMC/Buick - Professional Grade, Luxury step up from Chevy, growth vehicles for your Growing Career. Cadillac - Luxury standard to show you have arrived. A marketing plan that would actually show how each division can help people meet their needs for their life style choices is sorely needed. I believe you can have great product and have an advertisement that covers a life style that can be addressed by the trucks, or SUV's or cars and invite people to stop by and test drive a ride that is right for them. Have the dealerships train and focus their sales people on better job of qualifying the customer and you will find more satisfied customers. Today's customers are looking for a certain life style and want to know what works for them. Perfect example is Subaru does a great job of advertising their whole company as a auto company for those living the great out doors. So even a person who might be grossly over weight and never would go out to the woods but wants this image style will go to look at the Subaru. I have plenty of coworkers who seem to fit this mold in owning a Subaru but have never been out of the city with it. GM can do a better family advertising than they are currently doing in my personal opinion.
  13. G. David Felt
    PS4 or Xbox One, this is a battle no different than Apple versus Windows. The interfaces will be loved by some hated by others. Where Apple's Interface I find confusing, non-intuitive and over all worthless to me, I can enjoy the windows or to a lesser degree Linux better. Right now nothing really has impressed me about what I have seen on the PS4. This could change once I actually can get hands on time. XBox One I can say that many people will be really surprised just how great it is when it hits the market. Perfect? no, but Microsoft has for the last few years been using the Kinect camera's and software to map everyone on their campus to help perfect the way you interact with it. Since going in and out of the buildings, accessing rooms, etc. The Kinect is a revolutionary jump forward when it came out and again will jump ahead big time. The ability to interact with the games without having to have a control in your hands is part of the future. Sony as does WII has a long way to go to catch up. I will say that the full story is not out yet on Xbox One, Microsoft does not always do the best marketing and sharing of the details. Stay tuned as Microsoft is not done with their focus groups and they are listening to people feedback. The Xbox online experience is far superior to anything Sony has had to offer to date including keeping your profile and personal information secure. This XMAS season should be exciting for fans of either PS4 or XBOX One.
  14. G. David Felt
    Very Cool Engine, overhaul it, turbo or supercharge it and you would have a sweet Engine
  15. G. David Felt
    My daughter would love to have this if it came with a Volt Hybrid AWD drive-train. I actually hear from more and more people that want a CUV AWD Hybrid. I think there is great potential for this who ever brings it to market first.
  16. G. David Felt
    Drew, While I have to agree with you that this was probably Intentional, this is to me common sense when you want to spend millions and buy up a distressed asset from a large company like GM. They should have had a better assessment of this before going in and being surprised by GM saying NO. I still believe that we will see another consolidation of the world wide Auto Industry in the next 2-5 years.
  17. G. David Felt
    Non Issue and Spyker is grasping at straws to try and figure out how to survive in their own stupidity.
  18. G. David Felt
    Having seen this auto at the Seattle Auto show last Nov. I thought in person the fake wood trim looked fine. My big issue is the bloody metal rings on the dash. They reflect on a sunny day into the glass and provide bad glare that will fatigue people who go on long road trips. Also I have to take issue with these MID SIZE CUV's being called Large.. They are anything but and clearly compete against the Dodge Durango mid size. SUV/CUV. Having since driven one at the dealership, I totally agree that this engine while it gets the job done is underpowered for the weight of this ride. They either need a Torquey Diesel or at least bump up the HP and Torque by 50 each. With all the safety gear being required, they are going to have to accept lower gas mileage with more power to move these beasts.
  19. G. David Felt
    Black Knight I have to totally disagree with you in this regards as the XBOX is a very efficient system for what it does and allows and easily out does the the Phillip CD-i, Playstation or Wii. You can suck on the Linux turd of life all you want but their open source crap has still not made it the standard of the world and folks can piss all they want about Microsoft, but they built a MultiBillion dollar industry that employees millions of people generating millions of paychecks and by the way brought Standardization to an electronic device that billions now have in their home. Fact is that UNIX had it's chance in the Early 90's, I was with Digital Computer who led the way to build a standardized UI and a standardized OS based on the best of everyones version. Sadly everyone was so pig headed about who had a better UNIX that the whole project exploded and everyone built their own terrible UI that never really made a difference. Then you have the LINUX Turd. This came out with much potential, but everyone swore it had to be 100% open source and as such you now have a fragmented LINUX Turd World that will never replace Windows. Apple has come closest after multiple restarts and almost deaths of the company over the last 20+ years and still what seems intuitive to some is a mess to others. Some folks can easily work on both windows or mac systems, then you have those that are confused by Windows and finds Mac easier. Then you have the majority of people who find Windows easier and Mac a confusing mess. There is plenty of room for all to survive and operate but at this time you still only have one industry leading Giant. Microsoft's glory days are really behind them, Apple is in the midst of them now and the next big thing will be on the horizon. You can hate the company all you want, but is it really the company or the fact that you lost out on building a career and making money on the growth of what the majority find to be the best game console out there?
  20. G. David Felt
    I agree, I think if GM was to move to a $29,995 MSRP for a base VOLT we would see far more VOLT's move out the door. $29,995 plus the gov $7500 gives one sweet ride for for $22,495. I could then see thousands of these move every month and this would drive the technology into other versions. I still believe that GM is missing a HUGE opportunity to have a Tahoe/Yukon/Escalade on this system.
  21. G. David Felt
    Forbidden
  22. G. David Felt
    Yet Europe just as here in the states have realized they have maxed out the potential to tax to hell the size of the engine and with more hybrids and pure electric auto's coming, moving to a system based on taxing on miles driven is a more logical way to support the highway system.
  23. G. David Felt
    Building brand equity is a concern with GM, I agree. The Cobalt name only lasted a year before they went with Cruze (but to be fair, Cavalier did last several generations). I'm hoping that when the new Caddy flagship comes, they revive STS. People who are at least somewhat familiar with Cadillac know that STS is the car slotted above CTS. A new name would likely leave them wondering (see Lincoln). Valid points but then we need to ask is this a bigger issue of GM marketing over all as in SMK's comment, I never see advertising for the S series just the 3 series and corolla. In fact, the whole BMW line and MB line really pales in comparison as they built up the marketing as the name plate equals Luxury and as such your entry is the 3 series to BMW and C series to MB. I do not see television or print advertising for any other market segment auto except these companies SUV's. The only time I see a print / some other form of advertising for the other segment auto's is either in the luxury magazines or at specific places that only cater to the upper 1%. I would say GM needs to have a balanced Marketing approach for all models in Chevy/Buick/GMC and then with Cadillac, they market the hell out of ATS and entry CTS/Escalade and then focus the high end products to the proper 1%. This does not mean you do not occasional mix in a V edition in the background of the CTS or ATS marketing images, but I do agree that GM has run through a number of name plates recently rather than realizing how much loyalty they build up by building up a name plate that inspires confidence, quality and Reliability.
  24. G. David Felt
    Yea, I can go for a 1 or 2 year old lease or demo unit and not take the hit in the wallet. I think I have bought my last new auto since the hit is not worth the single or two digit mileage and new fresh smell.
  25. G. David Felt
    Nice ride, Interesting to see the Double Pedal break.
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