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G. David Felt

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  1. 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!
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    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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    This is a sad statement as GM failed to Market these hybrids. They are best in class fuel economy and the Hybrid SUV's were awesome. Costs were high due to the small amount made. If they had actually marketed them properly and built them in proper quantity, more would have bought them at a reasonable price. This makes me wonder how much they were paid by the Oil Companies to NOT make a Hybrid truck/suv. These are desired and wanted auto's they just need to be properly sold and marketed. I can see Toyota doing this and having a run away sales success. This tends to not forecast well for what GM might do to the VOLT if the VOLT and ELR do not sell well after 3-4 years. So damned focus on instant profits that they cannot seem to see long term on how they need to spread this technology across more auto's.
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    Merry Making
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    I agree that I think Chevy made a mistake in killing the Avalanche.
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    For me I have the PlayStore and GooglePlace in addition to the Verizon store. I did not know that amazon had a store, but that might be the kindle thing that i have ignored since I have no interest in reading a book on my tiny phone. I see that Barns and Noble pushed out their reader software. I wish I could delete the installed crap that Verizon put on the phone as I could care less about rockstar or the golf game or some of the other crap. You should be able to remove what you do not want and yet I delete it and Verizon pushes the crap back out again for their base image.
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    Naaaa, Americans are too lazy to care about a 6200CC engine. They would rather just say I got me the big one, 8.1L
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    Considering how much time a person spends in their auto's going to and from work, out to explore the world and play. The interior of an auto is very important to allot of people.
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    Very true in your statement Drew, but we continue to see that people in the city and in the suburbans rarely get the Automakers posted MPG. The Media needs to push the EPA to change and either force a new way to measure real world driving on the auto's or drop the whole MPG thing and focus on a different rating all together.
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    As an owner of a 2009 GMC Sierra, it's sad to know it took me a bit to see if I was looking at the outgoing model or the new model from this pic. To say the public won't be able to tell much of a difference is an understatement at best. Holding out hope that the interior is leaps and bounds ahead in terms of build quality and materials, that the powertrain is an 8 speed, and that the mileage is in the 22-23 range. If GM believes that there is no replacement for displacement than here's to hoping that they are able to outgun Ford and Dodge in HP and Torque numbers by a mile (like they did when Cadillac came out with guns blazing on the V-6 pumping 300+ horses). I guess with my 4 eye's I can clearly see the differences. I really like this Evolutionary look and the interior is awesome especially once the pictures were posted to compare everyone's inside.
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    I am very excited about this. I really hope they do an Evolutionary on the Chevy & Cadillac as they are beautiful design already and then Dump and do a revolutionary look for the GMC Yukon line. Get ride of the feminine BS design and give us the Professional Grade Manly look like the Terrain on these bad boy Full Size SUV's. I think a Full Size Terrain in your face SUV would go over very well just like the Terrain has been. The current design language of the Yukon line sucks and while selling could do much better.
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    This seems so last minute to make sure everything is in place. I have to think the decision is already made and they are just trying to draw this out to stay in the news. They either need to regrab the Mojo of the first Mini Vans to keep everyone happy and take it to the next level over the asian stuff or let it go and just focus on CUV CrossOver only.
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    I am very excited about this!
  14. G. David Felt
    Again, incorrect. We have documentation of the bad stuff happening. Olds, other than some bad practices in the early days of the 90's in Natural Gas drilling, I have not found any recent reports showing problems. In fact other than the lies spread by the Anti CNG movement / Anti Natural Gas crowd I have not found anything that says the last 12 years has or still has environmental issues in regards to destorying the property, ground water or pasture lands for animals.
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    I have had multiple Engineers that had to complain because of dropped calls, poor battery time, etc and finally got moved to the latest Galaxy III. They had to fight as their II all had freaky issues and none were the same issue. It is as if the phones are just buggy from the world go. The III so far have been much better, but the battery life totally sucks on them.
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    I like the interior, too bad they did not have the black with Brown accent. That I think would look really nice. For me it will always be a crewcab. Not sure on what else I would want at this time.
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    WHO CARES!!! Real Question is will the EPA actually change to reflect REAL WORLD driving MPG. Better to push towards a volt style system than to worry about MPG. Use CNG generators for cleaner exhaust and look to have superior performance from Electric motors.
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    WOW, Love the comparison of all the dashes. Best are GMC/Chevy and then RAM. Worst is a tie with Toyota / Ford. The others are just ugly and pathetic. Clearly no one really spends any time reviewing their dashes for a quality interaction experiance.
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    Johan de Nysschen, President of Infiniti Motor Company Limited, said: “Over the past few months, we have talked at length with our retailers, our customers, and our business partners about our brand. The need for a new identity and direction to promote consumer familiarity with our model range as we expand the portfolio became evident. To achieve this, we clearly needed a simple and consistent nomenclature framework. After exhaustive research and evaluation, we concluded that ‘Q’ captured the inspiration within the next generation of Infiniti models, as well as emphasizing our performance credentials while harking back to our heritage with the Q45 – Infiniti’s first iconic flagship product in 1989.” Interesting that so many tweets and Facebook ask the same question of what does Q and QX stand for. There are many who point to the original start of the Q cars standing for Quality and the X for cross over,but then that fails for the QX 80 which is a real SUV. Interesting that in the presidents comments he never mentions quality only familiarity and performance. Weird way to do this. I suspect Infinity has lost their way and some marketing idiot could only think up bringing back the old Q naming convention rather than actually think up a new and striking product line and names.
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    Annoyance
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    What to do is use an Android phone that is capable of running Chrome browser. Chrome will render most IE-only website correctly. LOL except Cheers and gears, I have my Samsung with Andriod and Chrome and I find it so hard to find things and pictures on it. Then I tried to go to Hollywood.com and show the wife the new superman trailer and it would not play. Then off to snocon.com to register to make sure I start getting the emails about sales on ski gear and it would not allow me to finish the registration process. So far, I am less than impressed with Smart phones for web browsing or checking out web sites. So far, phone, IM, email and email that brings up news stories especially formated for the smartphones is about all I can seem to get that succeed. As a computer engineer, I become more and more disillusioned with how technology does NOT speed things up or make life any easier.
  22. G. David Felt
    Interesting that the 800 and 900's series reversed the release of the SUV's and trucks.
  23. G. David Felt
    Well... if it does not have the merits discussed -- frictional minimalization, power density, mass efficiency and cost effectiveness -- why does it have the aftermarket clout to begin with? LOL, Those are all the great Marketing Lies of why people push the crappy DOHC v8's. They have high horsepower with sucky Torque and are average at best. Also I have yet to see DOHC engines last 500,000 miles or a million miles or more. Sorry still not sold on DOHC garbage.
  24. G. David Felt
    Sweet Ride!!!
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    Guess I missed that one as I never knew Jag to have AWD.
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