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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - CheersandGears.com We all love GM and how Cadillac has been on a roll lately. Yet even then we know that GM will never give you everything you have wanted or fullfill the niche area of ultimate performance. Now with Hennessey stepping up, it looks like Cadillac will truly have a monster that will put everyone in it's place, even Bugatti. Review the story and sound off on what you think of this Hennessey Built Monster! John Hennessey's tuning shop in Texas operates on a simple principle that denies the existence of "too much horsepower." Here's his latest offering to the angry gods of speed -- a dozen Hennessey V1200 Cadillac CTS-V coupes, all of which offer more than double the power of their everyday lookalikes with a Bugatti-challenging 1,226 hp and a top speed of 242 mph. http://autos.yahoo.c...-190832135.html View full article
  2. G. David Felt Staff Writer Alternative Energy - CheersandGears.com We all love GM and how Cadillac has been on a roll lately. Yet even then we know that GM will never give you everything you have wanted or fullfill the niche area of ultimate performance. Now with Hennessey stepping up, it looks like Cadillac will truly have a monster that will put everyone in it's place, even Bugatti. Review the story and sound off on what you think of this Hennessey Built Monster! John Hennessey's tuning shop in Texas operates on a simple principle that denies the existence of "too much horsepower." Here's his latest offering to the angry gods of speed -- a dozen Hennessey V1200 Cadillac CTS-V coupes, all of which offer more than double the power of their everyday lookalikes with a Bugatti-challenging 1,226 hp and a top speed of 242 mph. http://autos.yahoo.c...-190832135.html
  3. This guy and all the rest of the morons in the boat got what they deserved. You do not go that fast and think you can just relax. They should all have been in seats with life vests and due diligence for the high speed run.
  4. Thumbalina
  5. Second paragraph. Need to correct to to two. According to Reuters, Alfa Romeo showed to new models to dealers.
  6. Much clearer to understand. Nice write up Mud.
  7. Petite
  8. Does the N/A represent v6 or diesel engines up to the supercharged V8?
  9. True, this is a company trying to play the stock market like any other stock manipulating company. But they do truly hit the nail on the head. The World has way to much capacity in production and with China and India coming online with auto manufactures, the money loosing dead wood needs to be trimmed. Does Opel really need to be around in 10 years from now with Global names like Chevy, Buick and Cadillac? GM needs to only look to their old past to see that it is time to trim this label and focus all their resources on building up their strongest options. Roll the opel product into the Chevy lineup and simplify and grow their strongest brands.
  10. Exciting, but I have to wonder how many people will step up to order with the current global economy. With credit charges down 17% and the clear facts that the rich are not spending money, one wonders how successful this launch will be. Now the reduction in charging is a good thing for the long term viability of this country as people get debt paid off and then will have more free disposable income.
  11. The production numbers will have to be based on a lower price then they might have been planning to sell it for. I cannot imagen in the current global down turn that they can sell a ton of 100K CUV's.
  12. I see a greatly reduced Opel. Best thing is to take a hybid approach to this. You need to keep a connection to your Euro Customers, but Opel would best be served by reducing down to minimal engineering to make sure product is inline with Euro requirements and taste. Manufacturing, reduce to minimal but otherwise close the over capacity plants and move to eastern Europe. GM should use their Opel distributors and build out a master dealership that can cover Cadillac, Chevy, Buick and Opel and call it good. No need to have stand alone dealers. I believe you can reduce Opel down to being profitable, but it will cause some bad press due to the massive closures to right the ship. They cannot continue with the bleeding they currently have. Time for front line dressing of the wounds and cut off the damaged/dead plants now.
  13. This gives me the impression that Honda realizes they have an image problem and are giving features away to lure people back to their bland design cars.
  14. Very cool, this is good for those of us that do not fit into smaller pony cars. Gotta keep something bigger for the large guys.
  15. WOW, Very Hot car, but so not worth the price at any of their package prices.
  16. Very Cool, Nice Job!
  17. Very Cool Jeep, This is the type of auto, Jeep should produce or better yet. GM HELLO GM, You should use your AWESOME Hummer 4x4 tech with a Unimog style of building the ultimate 4x4 and sell it as part of the GMC label. Professional Grade for Off Road Fun!
  18. Darts are taking off in Seattle. Larson Auto Group and the over all Dodge dealers are showing off in TV commercials the Manual Dart and clearly telling people if you are into performance and want maximum gas mileage, then come test drive the Dodge Dart. They also clearly say they are taking orders for the Dart with Automatic tranny available starting in Oct. Does not seem to be stopping them from aggressively selling the Dart.
  19. Yup they are pretty popular in Seattle Home of the asian love for so many tech transplants. Seem to do pretty good in all the water we get here.
  20. This comes across as a pissing match of turf wars and who cares what dynamic benefits and cost savings it can bring to the party, Clearly some people do not want others there. Sad that in this day and age, they cannot understand the importance of bringing higher quality products along with lower prices to beat out the competition. I do not see much gain from the GM-PSA alliance since it is so watered down.
  21. Crazy Crazy travel, but keep in mind at least you have a job and are able to keep your life style going, not everyone has been so lucky.
  22. WOW, better bland styling than the last generation, but still blah. The interior is freaking crazy and ugly to me. The cut up dash with layers and buttons all over just looks like an after thought. Not a fan of this car at all, the MPG are impressive if they hold up in real world, but I doubt it. After all we do not live in a perfect society. All Car makers should have to have real world EPA figures not these perfect world EPA figures.
  23. Do you get it back out for winter use? Nope, wround here my suburban has become a summer driver only as my Trailblazer SS awd and Escalade AWD get me around in the fall and winter rains and up the pass for skiing. It is nice having a deep bench of American Steel to choose from. I found that the blend or crushed gravel as we call it in seattle is best for the base and then sand on top before working the pavers and you end up with an amazing space that drains really well.
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