G. David Felt

So what did you think of the homes in Seattle? Very nice from what I've seen...I was talking w/ a buddy on Linkedin last night that lives in Redmond...sounds nice around his area. Redmond is Microsoft Home Turf and about as modern and electrically connected to the world as you can come, but then with all the start ups, you can pretty much be anywhere in Seattle and have technology connected homes, even if you wanted to live on property up on the mountain passes, about an hr commute into work, you can still be wired into the computer world.

So what did you think of the homes in Seattle? One thing I love is that since Verizon built their Fiber ring here during the R&D days, just about every home, condo, apartment has fiber internet connectivity. Pretty standard to have 50mb download, 25mb upload speeds for $50 a month or so.

Good thing this seems to be a bad trend that the baby boomers liked. It will eventually fad and go away as a foot note in Auto History.

Dodge of Tacoma here has been advertising them like crazy for the last couple months and still I see none on the road. Their web site shows a healthy inventory, but unless they are being only driven down in the Tacoma area, they do not seem to have made any dent here in the Seattle area.

Depends on which type of Track your going to run your XTS. Wish I'd had the time to shoot a pic..saw an XTS 'senior style' today--pearl white, cream padded top, gold trim, wide whitewall tires, chrome wheels... I will never understand that fake padded top. Why destroy the looks of a great car that way. What a shame.

You can buy that beauty for me please!

Very cool indeed. What an era of growing up care free, running around and not having to worry about pedo monsters or any of the modern day crap going on.

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Wow, old place that would need to be gutted and then remodeled. Seems really disjointed. Truly an east coast or southern style of home compared to the Northwest. Now this is what I call a House. Love living on the water here. http://www.johnlscott.com/propertydetail.aspx?IS=1&ListingID=301221020 Or this modern home http://www.johnlscott.com/propertydetail.aspx?IS=1&ListingID=301464879 Or more down to earth http://www.johnlscott.com/propertydetail.aspx?IS=1&ListingID=301439004

Sad about dealerships that end up dying due to not investing in the long term. You bringing up the Yugo sign reminds me that my caddy dealership that was a Caddy, Volvo, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn, Hummer, Isuzu and Suzuki dealership all in one mega large place is sadly just a Caddy dealership now, but still has all the other signs up on windows, their big sign on the road, etc. The original owner retired and left the dealership to his two kids. One took Volvo and moved out to be on his own and left the other kid with the old mega dealership. Course, they gave up Suzuki a year ago as it did not look good having them on the lot next to Caddy, but I do wonder if GM did not push them out. Just wish he would remodel and remove all the old stuff and sprouce up the caddy dealership. Great folks working there, just needs a boost of Modernization as the place is clearly dated from the 60-70's area.

Depends on which type of Track your going to run your XTS.

Congrates on the New Truck, it really is a beauty. I am a big fan of chrome only on the wheels as I like the body for the most part to be monochromatic. So to me this truck is drop dead beautiful. Very hot ride. What is the actual color? Gun metal Grey, Steel Grey, Steel blue? Kinda hard to make out on my monitor. Way to rock it!

Or just Old.

A shame the pride of the japanease keeps them from realizing that a bunch of little companies no longer works in todays global economy. Mistubishi will be next followed by Mazda I believe. In retrospect, they should have realized over the great 2nd Depression of the US from 2007 till now that the best way to survive was to merge. Mistubishi, Suzuki, and Mazda. Great portfoloio of product that would of been a more complete selling option. Think of the Name MistSuDa or MSM Could have been the Joint new name. How about buying a MistSuDa 5 or a MistSuDa Kizashi. RIP to these guys whos ego was as big as the world but in reality smaller than a tick.

Actually, the CTS-V V8 is quite suitable for a flagship -- if it is fitted with the appropriate exhaust system that does not make a lot of noise. The LSA is a smooth and tractable engine with a 6100 rpm redline. The M3 V8 on the otherhand is not suitable because it is an edgy, high strung engine that needs to be wound out to 8300 rpm to deliver its goods. You can quiet both engines down with an exhaust system appropriate for a luxury saloon, you cannot make an edgy 8300 rpm engine appropriate for an S-class. Correct, there are many noise canceling exhaust systems that would allow the CTS-V V8 to be in a world class ultra luxury sedan that would not only compete but beat the MB S class and BMW 7 or 8 class.

Jet makes some great performance upgrade chips. Just have to supply what upgrades you have done to the engine. If not, they have a superior no limit chip you can buy and install.

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I hope no one is surprised by this. I really do not expect this company to survive more than another year or two before being gobbled up or bankrupt and sold off.

But at the same time, what have they done? And it is hard to sell a pricey car on just interior without any performance. Unless they are doing a Rolls Phantom level interior and selling that for $60k, I just can't see this car selling. Cadillac is wasting money and resources that could go to a RWD flagship sedan or a true sports car, or a RWD mid size SUV. I totally disagree, here in Seattle as in Portland, the Hybrid and electric luxury auto's seem to sell well as I see a ton of them every day and I cannot wait for Caddy to get into this segment. The new Money being in High Tech seems to also go with the green movement.

Saw a GTO Orange Goat at the old car show this weekend. It was really purtty! Saw a super clean 96 Suburban on stupid 30 inch rims. Over all loved the Suburban, just hated the rims/tires the person had on it. Was California license plated.

Probably tired of paying for the premium fuel. I always find it interesting how people complain about premium fuel when they bought a performance auto for that reason.

I doubt we will ever see any radical changes. Toyota has talked about radical changes in the past and what they see as radical is just a liberal ultra conservative design. Course their current ugly Predator style for Lexus might to some be considered radical when it is just down right ugly. Course if they go radical, would they not possibly end up loosing some MPG which is what the Prius is all about?

Hate the front end design, the Wings and slant headlights if freakin ugly. Love the color though. I agree with the I Spy a small CUV. Sadly the shape seems to imply a small mini van not a true CUV, but then more small CUV's seem to be going the 7 passenger micro mini van route. If it has the same ugly nose on it then it will not be that great.

How out of Touch is this guy with Reality of the Buying Public. Dude, step back away from the Company CoolAid and get a reality check of the buyers out there. Your image is of old dying people in floating 80's era auto's. Your message is not right for todays fluent buyers of luxury auto's.

Wow, I think that is a fantastic idea! 'Wanna go fast? Here's how/where you do it correctly.' I think any performance auto especially once you go above the subcompact or compact market needs to have a 1 or 2 day training class on how to best handle your performance auto. I think this will build more responsibility into the users. Start off with a video on crashes and the ugly truth of how speed can kill in inexperienced hands and then move on to how fun it can be with the right training. There is no reason the US cannot have our own unlimited Autobahn here. I90, I5, I10, I25, I70, I30, I45, I95, I75, I79, I80 and I81 to name a few. If we required a true $3000 driving school that includes the basics of high speed driving and how to handle spinnouts, recovery, skids, etc. We would have far better drivers on the roads. Also, Driving is a privilege you earn, not a right. As such, if you cannot handle the stress of driving at posted speed limits, then off the road you go and enjoy the side roads or mass transit. The freeways are from getting from Point A to Point B as fast as possible. No one should be allowed on a major freeway doing 45 in the far left lane or even the carpool lanes.