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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Love the fact that I have not had a auto payment in years. Scaled down my auto stable so I have the following paid for awesome auto's. 1994 GMC Suburban SLE 402 V8 Custom powertrain / suspension 1999 Dodge Durango SLT 4x4 w/ 5.9L V8 2006 Escalade ESV Platinum 2008 Trailblazer SS AWD Since I hold onto my auto's, I see no value to me in subscription service of never ending payments. I also see no value in swapping auto's every 2-3 years like my brother in law does with 2 or 3 year leases. I will stay with buying and upgrading my auto's to meet my needs and holding onto them. Next purchase will be an EV when one comes out that the wife loves and wants to drive for her work. An Auto OEM worst nightmare are buyers like me.
  2. G. David Felt
    Personally, I think Camaro needs a new style. This one has run its course. If they wanted to improve it, change the entry / exit. Change the bunker look and open up the greenhouse and add a 4 door sedan along with CUV inspired auto's. GM made a Honda mistake like the ugly Civic mess that dies after one model year. Admit the changes were wrong and move forward.
  3. G. David Felt
    You can buy CRC or Gumout throttle body cleaner and then with the engine off, manually open full wide the butterfly, spray everything and you will see the carbon wash away and then start the auto and let it get blown out. It will run rough but then should smooth out. You can also as Drew stated run top tier gas or get one of the many cleaners you add to the tank and then fill up. On my daughters 1999 Durango with 5.9L V8 I used Gumout and sprayed heavily to clean the throttle body and intake. started it and let it run to smooth and then while running finished using the can into the throttle body and let it naturally just clean everything out. I then did an oil change as the carbon also gets trapped in the oil but it was time for one. Over all that plus the other normal 30,000 mile tune up stuff and the Durango pures like a kitten. Good Luck,
  4. G. David Felt
    If they have the Motors, why wait? Seems a silly move with everyone pushing their EV programs that they would wait till EV gets more established before doing an out of date V12 powered car. ?
  5. G. David Felt
    Trade wars do not help this. I expect massive price jumps due to ignorance in government about global business and proper negotiating skills rather than a brutt on the playground with a bat approach to trade..
  6. G. David Felt
    For cars no, but for all trucks / vans yes I think the customers should know what hit they will take to the MPG when loaded. I hear many times from people that have buyers remorse when they do not get the MPG empty let alone loaded. I think we can for both cars and trucks do a better job of explaining how life use cases will affect the MPG or MPe. Much of this can be extracted from taking the basic testing now and using software to compute the effects of driving, loaded versus unloaded.
  7. G. David Felt
    I know the testing, my point being is that what they test and what people actually do is the difference of when people want to know real world results. You can care less about stuff yourself, but some people actually do care and want to know how well an auto will handle from driver only to fully loaded in stop n go traffic as just one example. Efficiency of vehicle use comes in many different use cases and I think what the use cases were way back when this was put together has changed greatly from what it is today.
  8. G. David Felt
    Yup, I was not being sarcastic. When you think about real world driving, the jump rabbit starts by people. City stop n go driving with jump on a freeway on ramp to get off at the next exit rather than go through the neighborhood. I just think there is much more valid testing of how efficient an auto really is. Based on reading members driving here, many rarely go highway driving versus city driving or commute driving. It would be good to have the following driving tests: Traditional City Traditional Highway Stop n Go driving for 1, 5 & 10 miles @ some designated speed. Towing Driving MPG Fully loaded Driving MPG Fully empty driver only MPG etc. etc. etc. I just think that many people would get a better sense of fuel efficiency if they tested the more common driving use cases.
  9. G. David Felt
    This trend that I believe came from Mercedes-Benz is just hideous to the dash design and what I think is a major safety hazard of a big screen sticking up in the center of the dash. Especially if your short. Just NO NO, HELL NO to this!
  10. G. David Felt
    Just learned about this, Chevrolet Cheetah developed to fight the Ford Cobra. Talk about a sexy car! Love barn finds! :D
  11. G. David Felt
    I agree with Soul Sucking, but I have to totally DISAGREE with Forced on the Market. This is what the public is asking for and buying, not being forced. Forced is all the low selling convertibles, blah cars like the Camry, Malibu, etc that are just as soul sucking. Yet some still like to buy a car and drive it. Public is demanding the CUVs, not the cars and Forced is wrong as people would not buy them if they did not want them. Proof is how many cars sit around now on the dealer lots. Sounds like you went in biased against all things CUV. They are not cars so they suck no matter what. You seem to be missing the point of why the public likes the CUV's. High seating position. Perceived off road ruggedness even when only a FWD Perceived interior space like a van, even when not. Life style approach to how they live or how they want people to perceive they live. etc. etc. etc. It would have been great to go into this with a set of comparisons for the type of Use Case these auto's tend to be bought for. Appreciate your time in going to this and your personal feedback on them. It was enjoyable to read.
  12. G. David Felt
    Morning CCAP41, I think you missed my point, you are right and I agree that there are many Badge Snobs out there of people making 50K a year. Yet I have met many people that make $250,000 year and up especially in the high tech industry that are frugal and drive Subaru, Chevrolet, Jeeps, etc. Yet they choose to save their money, travel and do other things than spend it on a luxury auto. I could do that, but I love Road trips and want to get there as comfortable as possible. For that reason, I have my Escalade ESV. The ultimate comfy road trip auto we have today since there are no real full size large sedans. THANK YOU, that is a great comparison. Though I would add volvo since they have their own version of Thors hammer lights.
  13. G. David Felt
    Sadly to many IDIOTS cannot seem to get to 60 when merging onto the freeway and as such become a hazard as they merge in at 40 thinking they are being safe by going slower. So wish they would not just license everyone. Driving school and testing needs to be harder not easier. Driving is a Privilege earned not a right. Sorry Cubical, I am off my soapbox now. I say test every car set on a Gallon of gas for repeat 0-60 sprints to see how efficient it is with the fuel. Then we can see real world driving efficiency as I am also saying that the MPG is not really accurate in regards to real world driving. I think we need a total change in how we rate ICE / PHEV / EV auto's for efficiency as well as speed.
  14. G. David Felt
    Totally sex on Wheels! That is an awesome looking car!
  15. G. David Felt
    Ignoring the upper 1/10th of 1% that does not care about anything other than a badge, many rich people are very frugal and will see the value in this Mercedes knock off coupe 4 door sedan. The rest below are rich wanna bees that worry about the badge for how they are looked at by others. Over all, I think Genesis could make a very competitive product to the high cost high repair of MB and BMW products!
  16. G. David Felt
    Very Cool, Thanks for posting!
  17. G. David Felt
    Yoda please tell us what this is? Totally confused by the design? ?
  18. G. David Felt
    Other New Brand? ?
  19. G. David Felt
    @ocnblu A Woody for you I found today!
  20. G. David Felt
    OK, so just truly show your bias that German is superior luxury to American or Asian. Yet I will continue to disagree with you. MB has some great stuff and I take nothing away from them, yet they build a ton of crapy plastic overpriced garbage. Cadillac is every bit their competitor. Badge snobs especially in the asian rim is Huge. MB out Marketed Cadillac no if's, and's or Butt's about it. Cadillac marketing SUCKS! Engineering, they are on par and in some places better than MB.
  21. G. David Felt
    My response was that when I first read this and I am very excited by the cost per features of this car, but the first thing it reminded me of was an MB CLA when I looked at it. I do think that the Korean brands tend to take heavily from the Germans in their style. The coupe sedan look is just so blah as MB especially seems to make all their cars look the same.
  22. G. David Felt
    Longer life before having to replace maintenance items is great. $80 synthetic oil changes every 10K miles is fine. Even when you break down a $2,000 100,000 mile maintenance for the Escalade is cheap over the life of those miles. I think some people are shocked to see a price tag that way if they are used to cost being every 25-30K miles. but it really is cheaper. The maintenance cost was $200 a year for the 10 years before having to do that 100,000 miles service.
  23. G. David Felt
    Also dump the wasteful unprofitable Alfa that has stolen the billions from the US name plates. Alfa back to the history books along with adding Fiat!
  24. G. David Felt
    Totally agree, take the Pacifica Hybrid system and a pure EV system and build Chrysler as your Minivan / CUV Hybrid / EV product line and Dodge as the ICE Performance Line. Jeep and Ram stay with their awesome current lineup.
  25. G. David Felt
    So true from the fit n finish to just the awkward angles that @Cubical-aka-Moltar has mentioned, really disappointed in the car. Many at work have bought them and they do not boast about it like they used to before or like the S versions owners. I think there is some buyers remorse and I would not be surprised to see many traded in once other OEMs EV's hit the market.
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