G. David Felt

Uh, no. The inline six is more balanced and smoother than a V6 or V8 for that matter. I've driven the non turbo straight six in a BMW, it is fantastic. We are not saying that is not a true fact of the BMW inline 6, just like I thought Jeeps and GM inline 6 were amazing motors. But one has to realize like Balthazar stated, perception is that a V6 is more modern than the Log of an I6. Marketing has done their job. You would not believe the amount of people I have run into that wonder how BMW has survived with old I6 engines. Course their Marketing effort has focused on the driving machine, over all car peception, but there are still those that wonder about the engine.

Here in seattle there is a chain called the Brown Bag and it was good when it first started and now just greasy bland large amount of food place that has become a greasy spoon. I think after getting a good name for food and meals you split with another person, they expanded faster and lost all sense of quality. Yet people seem to still go there just due to large quantity of food and it seems most are very overweight. +1 on the who we would rather discuss other places than this pathetic lack of style image. Poor Waffle House, my 94 year old grandma has found memories of the place, but they seem to be the dirtiest dive around.

Not sure if I think this is a peach-keen idea, but working as a computer engineer and having friends that work on the Prius project, you would be surprised at how far some experiments have gone in regards to running the whole car from a tablet.

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Why do you think it would be 500lbs heavier? I doubt GM could make a compact RWD model under 3000lbs...I suspect the small Alphas will be more like 3400-3500lbs... So hedging your bets unless the new tie up culd help produce a sub 3K lb car.

Just another normal day in Seattle from my work office. Love this view especially on sunset summer days, it can be very distracting.

For cell phone camera's and your basic idiot proof pocket camera it is very hard but in some of the higher end pocket camera's and with all DSLR's you would want to use a tripod to stablize the camera and with DSLR use a remote switch, but this is the place to use a F8 to F15 stop and go for much longer exposure times so that you fill in the dark areas to gather the details. If you have the ability to use external light source or more than one flash you can do fill in to highlight the rest of the vehicle. One thing to keep in mind is at night, use reflective surfaces to bounce light onto the auto so that you get better detail. Your flash will always be the hotspot so you need additional light sources to fill in the rest of the overall image. Time Exposures are a great way to get details in the dark, but they require a tripod to help out with the time exposure. Have fun,

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Guess I missed something growing up. I could care less about watching sports. Love to play them for a limited time, but could care less about watching or having tax dollars spent on palaces for these over paid jock's. With that said, Give me a good old drag race any day, auto show, camping, skiing, out in the world playing with friends and family.

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SWEET, I am totally excited for you. Looking forward to hearing how it goes for you. If you do pull the trigger, please get some pics up ASAP of this new Project!

I can actually see BMW having to build a FWD Sub Zero Platform to meet emissions and gas mileage requirements.

Over all I love the interior, the rear end is much better, but the Nose, Why oh Why did they go with this nose????? Time WARP back to FootLoose of the 90's. I think they have lot the mojo they had going. Who signed off on this mess of a face???

Why do you think it would be 500lbs heavier? Over all dimensions which I should have looked at does show you would need to the Prob and the Code 130R to compete, but WOW, if you had a twin scroll Turbo 4 banger with a 7 Speed Tranny, you could have a very fun pocket rocket with awesome gas milage.

Why Do I get the feeling we could see a BRZ to compete with the best Mustang and Camero on the road today in the near future? Me think the Asians have their own Pony war ready to explode.

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Why would it need to be an option, if you do not have one, you can purchase one at the time of auto purchase. Just an expanded selling front for th tablets. Course I would expect a dealership to focus on just 1 or 2 models, but this would still in my mind allow a great amount of options/features/custimization for people. Especially for those that do not care much about the driving experiance in comparison to the experiance of getting from point A to B. I especially think this will be reality when we get to self driving cars.

Currently as far as CUVs, the Ford/GM alignment seems to be the Traverse matches up w/ the Flex and Equinox w/ the Edge. Nothing really lines up w/ the Escape or Explorer. WIll be interesting to see how things evolve... With BOF SUVs, the Tahoe and Suburban line up well w/ the Expedition and Expedition EL. I guess the Buick, GMC, and Cadillac entries sort of map to Lincoln. I do agree that alignment is needed as when you do research it is pretty interesting to see what some SUV's or CUV's tend to be considered competition with.

WOW, Guess they better find some people who are willing to pay to use the platform if that is really what they spent on it. That just seems way out of line.

I agree 100%. Sent an email to the seller yesterday but no reply yet. I have plans tonight that I cannot change, so I'm hoping this Yukon is still around tomorrow evening. I realized today looking at the picture of it on my monitor that it is two-tone dark blue and silver. Dark blue is my favorite color, and I've always loved how the GMT-400 trucks & SUVs looked with the deluxe two-tone paint option with the silver color. Is this a sign of fate? Rock On I have a 94 GMC suburban SLE that is Teal and it just still looks awesome. Not a fan of the current Yukon body style, but I have to say that the 90's era SUV's age very well and seem to just keep looking better. You can see it in my pictures under my profile. I think this is Fate and it will still be there for you tomorrow. Good Luck with the project.

I would have to doubt this in the immediate future, if you read all the posts on that story page and the additional links to other posted inside info from BMW, it seems the inline 6 has a long life yet. They might have some mules to explore this option just like Corvette has played with turbo v6 and other mid engine designs, but for purity, they always seem to come back to the history of the car and what people are expecting and they find a way to meet the latest rules on emissions, noise, etc. I do think it is time for GM to up the HP of the CTS-V to close to 600HP. Put AMG and M back in their place and ward off th Audi S series.

So the Tablet craze got me thinking, Ford has their whole Sync world with USB upgrades. GM has their version coming out MyLink, they have also their Android App to help you better interface with the VOLT. So with this in mind, what would it take to have an Auto maker decide to just have a 10" tablet holder in the center dash with a USB port. Just plug in your tablet and have say suction cups that hold it in place and boom. Up comes an interface allowing you to totally manage everything in your car. This way depending on how you interface to the world, via Apple, Windows, Linux, you have a nice to use interface and the abilityto customize it. I see this as reducing the cost of creating the whole dash around a nav, stereo, HVAC controlls, etc. instead we end up with a smooth flowing dash with a single spot in the center for one to use their tablet. Thoughts? Am I crazy or does this hold water and have merit to how we can streamline auto's and get updates out to people faster to address gliches in the electronics that control and assist with driving the auto? Would his be a faster way to improve the over all end user experiance? Example is the slush tranny on the recent review for the spark.If you could just download a diagnostic file to GM, they review it in support and return an updated code file to address the tranny issues, we could see a much faster customer satisfaction as long as the tablet had WiFi or even 3G/4G. Sound off on this,

EXCITEMENT!!!! No other way to put it.

The 93 Yukon is sure sweet and would be a great project to clean up and make very Cherry!

Very cool, I would not be surprised to see that this is the Barracuda in plain site. Allows them to get some feedback on it without admitting it is.

Cool history of some bad 4 bangers. Course growing up in the late 70's and early 80's gave us a view of many ugly american engineering ideas that were before their time. Remember the gas converted to Diesel engines or the loverly 4/6/8 V8 that just never seemed to work right. But back on the 4 Bangers, these did leave a lasting impression of how poorly America built small engines.