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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    VW might have to rethink their plans as 470,000 consumers in Germany alone are suing over Dieselgate. Makes one wonder if they even want to bother with Diesel anymore as we have only heard of the US where VW settled out over Dieselgate, I have to think billions more is going to have to get coughed up to settle this mess. https://www.autoblog.com/2019/09/30/vw-german-court-case-consumer-settlement/
  2. G. David Felt
    South Korean is pushing Hydrogen as an alternative to electric or petro, yet due to explosions, death and environmental concerns, Koreans are resisting to change over to hydrogen. To quote this story:Hydrogen stand operator Sung said while refueling itself takes about 5-7 minutes, the next driver must wait another 20 minutes before sufficient pressure builds in the storage tank to supply the hydrogen or the car's tank will not be full. This is the other problem is that the fueling sites are not allowed to hold much in storage, so there is a 20 min wait between fueling auto's to get a full tank. https://www.autoblog.com/2019/09/29/hydrogen-stations-south-korea/
  3. G. David Felt
    Bollinger B1 and B2 electric auto's. The original concept was a truck, now Bollinger has shown off their new B1 which is an SUV and the B2 which is a pickup. Big question is how will it pass safety tests as their does not appear to be any airbags in the auto's. Retro look much like the original Land Rover. https://www.autoblog.com/2019/09/26/bollinger-b1-b2-electric-truck-suv-unveiled/#slide-2172314
  4. G. David Felt
    They stayed pretty true to their sketches and yet I just do not care for the look of the front nose nor the fact that the top half of the auto looks like they squeezed the car to try and make it smaller but the wheel base kept it locked at that width. Reminds me of big lower body, with little head on top. Weird looking to me.
  5. G. David Felt
    Got it, that is very true, if they go Car2Go, that might work for people wanting to test out an EV. Yet a Lease for 1yr or 2yr where you can flip back n forth between the R1T and R1S would also be nice so that you can see what works best for you.
  6. G. David Felt
    Welcome to Cheers and Gears, glad to have you here. I would agree that I wonder if GM cares how you pronounce it as it is a dead auto now.
  7. G. David Felt
    Car2Go is now merged with BMW, heavily used here in Seattle. Wanted and tried to get into the private event for Rivian where they showed off their new Blue Rivian R1T. I got an email on Sunday after the Friday event saying they were sorry. Hopping to still get to one of these and test fit myself in them. I hope this works for them as I think this would be a great way for folks to test and try out a large size EV.
  8. G. David Felt
    Now ya got my curiosity perked, https://www.hotrod.com/articles/ultra-rare-1967-ford-fairlane-427-comes-out-of-hiding-after-25-years/ Had no idea only 57 of the 1966 Fairlane were built with the 427 and only 230 built for the 1967 year. Very cool read on this guys mission to find and finally buy 1 of 2 rare 1967 427 Fairlane with Tach and 4 sp manual. According to this, and I hate quoting wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Fairlane_(Americas) The 1967 convertible could be ordered up with the 427 which was only available with the XL package. This very well could be factory as the hood scoop came with the dual quad carburetor's. Very cool indeed and rare.
  9. G. David Felt
    What part since I have no knowledge of what these cars were originally like.
  10. G. David Felt
    Was at costco picking up a few things, came out and found this beauty parked by me.
  11. G. David Felt
    The first full conversion of a gas station has been done. Interesting it is on the east coast so close to some of you in Maryland. https://www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/09/26/first-gas-station-to-ditch-oil-for-electric-vehicle-charging-now-open.html
  12. G. David Felt
    These are perfect sleepers for putting in a Automatic Connect & Cruise crate system from GM Performance. https://www.gmperformancemotor.com/category/AUTOCC.html I love these packages.
  13. G. David Felt
    This would make total sense, buy up all the lame ducks, then fold them into the brands they want global and push out the Chinese products while killing off the Asian, European and American brands. Chinese domination of the world with some backlash.
  14. G. David Felt
    True, I was just thinking of the groups that seem to think everything is anti-trust and sue over every possible merger.
  15. G. David Felt
    OK, then they can sell one of them to this group if they can come up with the funds. ?
  16. G. David Felt
    Yes, that is James Earl Jones, he Rocks!
  17. G. David Felt
    One this makes sense as a common Hybrid / EV platform will allow a big reduction in costs compared to ICE platforms. Two Maeratis as well as all Italian auto's suck from a quality standpoint and yet that is my personal opinion based on real world experience with past autos from the brand. Reviews seem to also hold up to this. Three, FAILURE FAILURE FAILURE right out of the gate. WHY, Maeratis is saying the first EV will be a Car. HELLO McFly, anyone listening? Cars are pas say as the market has spoken and CUV/SUV/Trucks is where the focus needs to be. Honestly, does the FCA board not look at the market trends of where sales are at? Must be a bunch of baby boomer idiots on the board to allow the money waste on an EV car. ?
  18. G. David Felt
    Consolidation is what the auto company needs and this appears to me to be a first step in that direction. I wonder how it would be viewed here in America, I am sure there are those that would be yelling the Anti-trust crusade against this.
  19. G. David Felt
    Long ways to go but as multiple stories all over say, 67 days in 1970 from September 14th to November 23rd 1970. Be interesting to see what they do with the bonus program as GM paid every worker $1,000 per Billion dollars earned gross. That allowed GM to pay out a $10,750 bonus check last year. This year they were on target to break $11,000 on par with the last 2 years, but now with the strike, I am sure this will be much less as they also will figure in the signage bonus to accept the new contract. Anyone know if they have settled on a 3 or 5yr contract? I know GM was wanting a 5yr, but everything in the news seems to imply a 3yr is the focus.
  20. G. David Felt
    Hopefully GM is not giving into too many demands as they are already the best they have.
  21. G. David Felt
    I thought GM had a few other plants that were closing down also than just this one that got idled?
  22. G. David Felt
    This is going to get much worse and the working class that voted for this stupidity thinking it would make UK stronger are now realizing the narrow mindedness of the politicians who went after personal projects for the few over the good of the many. This is going to hurt the UK for a long long time.
  23. G. David Felt
    So an SS package. That would be cool.
  24. G. David Felt
    That is the best looking Chevrolet version of that ugly mug truck yet. Would have won over more people if they had offered these packages from the start rather than the ugly Chromed versions.
  25. G. David Felt
    We'll lately, no excuse for some of the crappy approach to GM's auto's and sucky packages of options.
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