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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Depends on what you want, some great tuning modules that allow you to tune for MPG or Power or somewhere inbetween. I can say a tune on my Trailblazer SS for power made it crazy but also drink gas like crazy. Tune for MPG was great but talk about a lack of performance. Instead I went with a fine tune in the middle, got a bit more power and solid Torque lockup with keeping a respectable MPG. MPG around town is 12mpg Highway cruising I can easily hit 28 and sometimes even 30.
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    I understand, I will take the wait and see, believe it when I see it on the lot. FCA has created that promise the sky and pull it last minute as they have done with auto updates, complete new models, etc. A little skeptical if FCA can deliver beyond marketing hype.
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    G. David Felt - Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.cheersandgears.com Europe NewMotion Charging Network Bought by Shell Corporation NewMotion, Europe's largest charging network announced that Shell, one of the world's largest energy providers have signed an agreement to buy NewMotion Charging network allowing them to accelerate their expansion Europe wide with the latest Xtreme Fast Charging network to support the rapid growth of EV auto's. NewMotion manages over 30,000 charging points in western Europe. NewMotion has estimated that Europe will need between 1-3 million charge points by 2030. Currently NewMotion has 50,000 partner locations on top of their 30,000 managed charge points. Shell believes that by adding charging at their European network of gas stations, they can add millions of established customers to their NewMotion Charge network. You can check out more about NewMotion at their web site. NEWMOTION NewMotion Press Release
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    400 fired for Performance at Tesla or so they say. Seems Tesla fired approximately 400 employees from lowly sales associates to upper level executives all for performance. Yet with the bottleneck of production holding back the ability to actually produce and ship Tesla 3, it seems Tesla is more about laying off costs to stem the flow of cash till they can get the Tesla 3 shipping. Seems to me they will miss their production targets this year big time. Tesla Story on web
  5. G. David Felt
    GM Exec calls Musk full of Crap! Seems Musk stating his auto's are level 5 capable of self driving is now being called full of crap by GM Exec that says without Lidar, there is no way Tesla system can be Level 5 full autonomous driving. It cannot see in the black of Night nor the difference of a snow covered road. Clearly many use cases that show Tesla to not be a Level 5 autonomous driving auto. Interesting read at Autoblog. https://www.autoblog.com/2017/10/16/gm-exec-calls-elon-musk-full-of-crap-autonomy-claims/
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    Boy they are setting up for either a big WOW or Big OUCH factor with that Promises to be Great Looking. I hope so as right now it is very bland and boring to me.
  7. G. David Felt
    Awesome looking coupe 2 door with 4 person seating. Have to say this is a good looking car both inside and out. Excited for the Polestar 3 CUV.
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    G. David Felt - Staff Writer Alternative Energy - www.cheersandgears.com Washington State starts proposal for Autonomous auto lanes on I-5 Freeway. The idea is to change all existing HOV lanes to Autonomous vehicle lanes in the next 8-10 years. A local think tank has with help from the High Tech Community researched and is going to lay out to the state how to incorporate autonomous auto lanes on I-5 first and then throughout the state on all Federal and State highways. The think tank believes this could be incorporated by 2040. King 5 Story
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    In washington state we have a distracted driving law so you get a $256, $512 and $1024 fine for first through 3rd offense and they notify your insurance each time. Yet with that they also put signs up asking people to report distracted driving as well as road rage and DUI. I am all for safety and yet how does a single occupant driver do that when they see it? Agree Dash Cams are about to become common to protect oneself. The GoPro 4K is awesome for clarity and that is how I think it should be done, when safe forward it to the local police.
  10. G. David Felt
    Yup, agree. I know some times people make mistakes and go through a red light, I have entered an intersection and had it go from green to red before I exit. Weird, but have experienced it. Yet then you can tell like this guy he truly did not want to wait, maybe playing with his phone and then just gunned it going through a clear red light. Glad you were not fast off the line as he could have hit you.
  11. G. David Felt
    Had a new Tesla X pull out in front of me and my wife asked what turd that was as it was black everything.
  12. G. David Felt
    Modern engines suck in many regards as well as have some cool tech, like my NA V6 and V8 Pushrod engines over the cam crap engines and especially the turbos. Would rather have a supercharger that goes with the flow of the engine helping out from low to high rpm than a turbo. EV will address all those shortcomings in the near future.
  13. G. David Felt
    Yes it is a semantic of words, Perform well in it's class is fine for this auto. Performance is another thing altogether.
  14. G. David Felt
    So max pay is $71,032 a year, plus overtime and bonus. At this point the ratification of the deal just put $6,000 into each workers pockets and $2,000 a year for 4 years. So this year, those at the top of the pay will make$79,032 for the first full year from today and then drop down to $73,032 for each year after the first. To me that is a fair wage for the type of work and benefits. Still hope they close the plant in 4 years.
  15. G. David Felt
    Agree on the Hybrid for mid size trucks, Hopefully GM will be first and continue to lead the way. Here is to positive thinking. True no one came out and said it was a performance version, but Riviera74 said good performance and even that I am not so sure as the engine has to rev like crazy to product torque to move it's ass. In that regards I do not consider it good performance or any performance but then I admit my view is skewed as I see things as one that has nothing but big and small block V8's.
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    True, we no longer have any reasonably priced performance SUV/CUV's that cost $40K. Trailblazer SS was the last reasonable performance SUV that was out on the market. Durango has them but far from the $40K price. Still I would not use performance to describe the Highlander AWD CUV.
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    Cool, Gotta love leaks by FCA
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    Kinda like observing the quality of your stools? Suggest they see the doctor, that is way off topic for an auto forum.
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    Highlander are boring to drive and on par with everything else. People who have never driven a performance auto thinks there great when in fact they are just boring lemming mobiles. This will sell to the same lemming crowd but is far from a performance fun CUV to drive.
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    Hope so, I hope 3-5 years at most before shutting it down.
  21. G. David Felt
    Agreed, neither EV or ICE made money as to why so many failed. But technology changes and old ideas become new and better. I agree that ICE is not over yet, but it's days are numbered as better ways to travel come about.
  22. G. David Felt
    Maybe they should call it FINIT - Fucking Idiot Narrow Ignoramus Thinking Had a few good bottles of Malbec tonight after a long 6 day week of 16hr days. Nice to unwind and not think about all the bloody morons in gov that should just die. Time for a new world order of sanity.
  23. G. David Felt
    Like all good business managers, you pick the battles you want to fight and both Ford and GM realize there is no money to be made in the Miata game. Leave it to a dying company that in the next 5-10 years might not even exist or for sure will be independant. Everyone here knows SMK that there is no reason or need to build a 2 seater, limited market and Mazda builds a good product for the limited market of users. Pull your head out and accept that not everyone needs to be in every market and MB day will come with the bloody company will struggle to survive due to being over extended in stupid models that make no money. They are in their hay day of Cadillac 80's when Cadillac was King. MB day is now but will fall eventually, they all do. Every company has their time as king of the market.
  24. G. David Felt
    Wasn't the ICE auto industry like this in the early 1900's?
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