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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    To put it in perspective, Ford sells 68k F-series, E-Series, and Transit Connect in a month, more Mustangs than the entire Lincoln brand in an entire year. WOW That tells me it is a pretty dead product line. I am surprised they have been able to recover the R&D cost for those cars.
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    PLEASE, We have seen this before from all automakers. Could they use better communication? Sure, it would have been better to make the anouncement that they would pull out one car and put another in it's place but then if they are up for negotiations with the unions, then it also makes sense that they would pull production till a contract is signed to make sure no interruptions happen with a new model.
  3. G. David Felt
    surprised they sold that many cars this year. I hardly ever see new Lincolns on the road here, plenty of 90's generation Town cars but rare to see anything new from them in the Seattle area.
  4. G. David Felt
    Missing the word Year in the "Ford announced an 18% rise in sales for next would constitute a "good year"." Any gain for a line of product that is lack luster and clearly looks badged engineered would be good.
  5. G. David Felt
    Totally Agree, comparing residual value of a eco box to a mid level hybrid.
  6. G. David Felt
    I wonder when they quit using that...the '80s-90s era W140 platform E class used it, my sister's '91 300CE has it, neat to watch. Speaking of wipers, I noticed the new Fusion has the old school meet-in-the-middle style wipers....IIRC, some GMs in the '80s-90s used that style also--some of the W-bodies and Corvettes IIRC. Anyway, back to the ELR...I'm looking forward to seeing this car, regardless of the drivetrain, if it looks a sharp as the show car it's going to be an interesting model for Cadillac. I agree that the body style will tend to drive people to look at and check out Caddilac regardless of the number of ELR's they sell. I PREDICT this will sell better than people think it will.
  7. G. David Felt
    What a BS Story, this is like Craps, roll the dice and hope your numbers come up. Total BS, they have no clue what they are doing/saying. Green car owners tend to also hold onto their auto's far longer than gas counterparts.
  8. G. David Felt
    Increasing numbers of US customers are turning to alternative fuel vehicles, according to the latest research from Mintel, which shows that sales are up 73%, with nearly 440,000 hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electrics sold thus far this year. The rapid sales growth in hybrid and electric vehicles makes the segment the fastest growing in the US for 2012, supplanting the still fast growing, compact car vehicle segment. http://www.itsinternational.com/sections/general/news/us-drivers-turning-to-alternative-fuel-vehicles-says-research/?goback=.gde_2195876_member_197951202 Read the full but short article and sound off, do you agree with what is stated or not and why?
  9. G. David Felt
    or Not sure which you deserve for the dirty bits idea, that is no way to treat the HHR, this auto is way to fugly for a GM model. GM could so build a better version than this thing.
  10. G. David Felt
    Exactly, GM missed the boat on properly marketing this to the construction industry as the Electrical prongs in the bed took nothing away from carrying rock, dirt, etc but gave a ton of usefulness to allowing construction on site where no power existed yet. Having this as a option package or building a dedicated work truck that gave more than the single electrical outlet. There are far better ways to market a hybrid truck with the generator feature that would appeal to buyers. GM Failed at marketing the Hybrid full size Trucks and SUV's. Executives are still looking for instant profits and instant gratification rather than long term of what these platforms bring in long term benefits. Try and find a hybrid truck or SUV in the used car lot, if you do your research, you will find these are some of the longest owned vehicles as buyers do not want to give up the gains they got with these 4x4 hybrids as 22mpg is far better than the 15mpg the gas only versions get.
  11. G. David Felt
    Very true, Obsession in controlled quantities is far better than excessive obsession. People seem to give MB and BMW these large wide paths of never doing anything wrong as they are the best luxury lines there when in reality they have done plenty wrong and sure do not seem to be in the top 10 quality list from JD powers for the last 10 years. Selling off their name and the 90's quality that was better than many american versions but today, people need to keep an open mind to new quality ideas otherwise you miss the bus on the next great big job creation and money making opportunities.
  12. G. David Felt
    Nissan Cube well it fits your criteria! OK you got me on that one, but sadly Cube does not seem to carry over onto all models. Now if that name was from Jeep I could see a whole line of products Jeep Cube aka Wrangler Jeep Rectangle aka Patriot h'mmmmm I could see a whole family of Geometry. Math teachers would love it! We should come up with a naming series for each brand on what we think they should be called, maybe make it a competition.
  13. G. David Felt
    I like White Fuel better than Sterno and CNG best of all!
  14. G. David Felt
    The first auto company that comes up with a solid naming series that actually has names / synonms that reflect the auto will gain big market share. Eventually they will learn that we the buyers have passion and want to own a Monte Carlo SS, 442, El Camino SS, etc. There are plenty of great naming series they could use that is better than an Alphabet soup.
  15. G. David Felt
    Depending on where you are, south end got a dusting of wet slippery stuff, I got 3 inches at my house and Northgate just north of Seattle had about 1 inch or so that this Telsa was just spinning in and the driver kept reving it thinking it would get traction as I passed him on the left in my durango.
  16. G. David Felt
    Thats OK, I sell you an awesome CNG auto.
  17. G. David Felt
    Loosing product line take backwards step to loosing name badge. Executives clueless in how to grow a company. Executive Board will be faced with cleaning house and rebooting or closing down non inspiring product line and names. When will they wake up and realize simple letters and numbers do not inspire quality must have driving machines.
  18. G. David Felt
    Saw telsa today in the snow just spinning it's wheels. Seattle got snow and so everyone is just paralyzed with fear.
  19. G. David Felt
    Slowly but surely GM will be all on it's own eventually.
  20. G. David Felt
    This replaced a 15mpg Pathfinder and he is now getting about 236mpg. Sweet! Rock on VOLT!
  21. G. David Felt
    Luxury is always Ala-Cart. Sounds like your comfy with the entry to mid level dictation of what you get via packages. Luxury line is all about Ala-Cart!
  22. G. David Felt
    Yes this is where they need to bring in the 2.8L V6 and the 4.8L V8 duramax engines.
  23. G. David Felt
    Examples please
  24. G. David Felt
    Now, see, if you had said "torque CURVE" we'd have been all right. OK, here you're introducing different issues. Besides, most DOHC V8 passenger cars today aren't even kept long enough by anyone that long, much less driven that far. Reason: the majority of such engines are in luxury cars, bought by people who these days fly transcontinentally instead of driving. Darn Symantec of the English language!
  25. G. David Felt
    Several foreign automakers, primarily in Europe and Japan, switched to DOHC in order to get around displacement taxes, and they decided to move all their engines to that configuration instead of building both DOHC and OHV. To your other point, about DOHC V8s not making any torque, I'd request that you look at the numbers from some current V8s. Ford, Nissan, Toyota, take your pick. They may not be V8s, but half-million and million-mile Hondas, VWs, and BMWs exist. Again, look around. Ford Nissan and Toyota all have engines that have to rev to 6000rpm or higher to create the HP and the torque is tapped out by the time you hit 4000+ or in toyota's case 4400. The torque to HP ratio and curve suck. I do not see a consistent pull with the HP and Torque together. Yes you find a bunch of DOHC 4 bangers and some V6 with half a million to a million miles but passenger cars do not haul the loads that work trucks, SUV's do and so far I have not seen even in passenger cars that have DOHC v8 engines them lasting as long as pushrod engines do.
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