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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Did dodge ever have the logo at the end like I see today now with Dodge // or what ever you call those two lines?
  2. G. David Felt
    Yes we have totally lost the art of how to teach our kids to actually think outside the box in how to build / make things. Wood Shop, Pottery Shop, Auto Shop all taught troubleshooting and forced people to think about how to fix mistakes, natural issues, etc. Now with teaching to the test, we have given up how to think about how to actually do things differently. Troubleshooting skills are learned in these types of classes and now it seems to be lost to the easiest way to test out and minimal teaching by teachers. SAD!
  3. G. David Felt
    OK, Gotta get focused on work, but I am back to Dodge, thinking mid 60's Polara as that seems to fit this hood design. 1964 Dodge Polara which would cover the front holes with Polara. Would be awesome if Dodge brought back the Barracuda Name plate. This would be awesome as a wicked fast EV! Found these concepts which are cool! Both are listed as 2016 Barracuda SRT Concepts.
  4. G. David Felt
    Agree, I doubt any High school has an Auto Shop anymore. I loved mine growing up.
  5. G. David Felt
    Yup Mopar vibe from late 60's or early 70's maybe. For some weird reason it also gives me a truck vib. Finding some similarities in my search to the 1970's AMC AMX auto. More I look, this is looking like an aftermarket performance hood for the 1980's AMC AMX or Eagle maybe.
  6. G. David Felt
    For GM, I agree WTF is up with Sales, Main thing I can think of is that I have not seen any real marketing for GM auto's. I do not have TV in the traditional sense as I use HULU, VUDU and Netflix and so I see near ZERO commercials. Yet with that said, I also hardly seen any auto ads on my smartphone, computer or in the new streaming services. I believe GM is still stuck in the past of only advertising in regular TV and old style magazines and newspapers. GM needs to get with the times of Google and Bing and advertise through the new media's.
  7. G. David Felt
    We'll said, the days of full size station wagons like the Oldsmobile Delta 98 and Buick Roadmaster station wagon are gone. Growing up doing yearly trips in our station wagons and pulling a trailer or boat was fond memories for me, but as we met our relatives in Missouri and saw everyone in Suburbans and how much more space and use they were, my family converted over and I myself only ever owned one car in my first year out of college before I saved up and bought my 1994 Suburban and never looked back. I still have my first Suburban to this day and it drives awesome. Yes I have changed out the coils in front, lift kit and stiffened up the suspension so it really rides nice with a big 402 V8. Yea, not the best on gas mileage but then I could care less about that and more about the utility of my SUV and the fun performance factor that I built into it. I Do NOT miss the passing of cars as engineering has learned how to put the same fun factor into CUV/SUV's. I honestly see a limited market for sedans and coupes in the future as we move towards Hybrids and EV's and people enjoy the tuned driving of these said auto's. I think 90% of people are clueless about the platforms that the auto's are built on and as we move to autonomous auto's it will be moot for all but the handful of us enthusiasts. Enjoy your CUV/SUV and plan to buy your performance auto that will be the play toy for weekends and nights out for date night. I have all of these and have used them many times over my life. Sadly my son does not have the interest in auto's that I grew up with, I figure some day all my tools will get sold off in a garage sale when I am very old or dead. I hope that my son will find the passion some day, but only time will tell.
  8. G. David Felt
    Nothing wrong with respecting your grandparents auto's and how they took care of them. Lovely auto.
  9. G. David Felt
    I take my TB over your Taurus SHO. TB would win.
  10. G. David Felt
    Maybe Tesla might Buy MB and make them a division of Tesla once Tesla stock surpasses MB! NOT, Musk would never own an ICE company as he is all about the Solar / EV!
  11. G. David Felt
    Possibly depending on the person driving, their skills and your idea of what Handling means in regards to each auto. My Trailblazer SS AWD handles much better than the Taurus, Fusion and Focus. My skill as an experienced racer puts me even higher than most people driving my TB. All auto's are subjective to the type of auto it is and the driver and so many other things. So it is hard to say an Apple is better than an Orange. This is a moving goal post trying to compare CUV's to Cars and depending on the experience of the driver.
  12. G. David Felt
    Love that GM has scaled back selling to rental companies, helps to keep residual value up on used auto's.
  13. G. David Felt
    Love web page time back machine, July has the same deals as august, so you have zero percent financing, or $200 a month lease or $3,000 dollars cash deals. Looking at local dealerships in washington state here, they must also have some additional dealer incentives as locally they are offering Finance or Lease with additional $3K off, so I figure they must have extra room to really move the Rav 4. Is there a refresh coming that I am not aware of?
  14. G. David Felt
    I figured back in the spring that we would see a change over to CUV / SUV's and that seems to have played out. Cars are the dying dinosaurs and CUV's are the new Mini van with SUV's for those that can still afford the large gas drinking monsters. Just think, once we get the VOLT powertrain into CUV's and the Camaro, you can have a fun filled road auto that sips fuel. I can see Jag's sales really take off once they have EV and Hybrid in their CUV lineup.
  15. G. David Felt
    Nissan, Mazda and Honda are all down. So I think everyone is hurting, just a few not as bad as the rest.
  16. G. David Felt
    I totally get that and understand that and if you take the names I have used and run them through translation software, they are all positive words that could and should be used to sell the auto's world wide. Alphanumerics are a Lemmings / Lazy Ass way to deal with global auto sales. People will buy named auto's as long as the book work is done to make sure the translation of the word does not insult or be negative in another's native tongue.
  17. G. David Felt
    Thank you for posting, this was an interesting read and confirms my feeling that half of the reservations are probably canceled and at best maybe 40-60,000 are left on the books. Only die hard fans or people who think they can flip for a profit will stick with buying one. And this just proves the BOLT that much better of a deal and versatile auto compared to the Tesla 3. 1873 BOLT's werre sold last month. August every state in the nation will have them, so be interesting to see how many get sold.
  18. G. David Felt
    WOW, 1 SRX and 2 ELR's were still sold. I would have thought they would have programmed them and sold them used rather than new.
  19. G. David Felt
    Too funny to bing Jersey and see all the funny stuff there!
  20. G. David Felt
    I see a few of the B Class EV's around here in Washington but they suck as an EV and are a pathetic plastic garbage auto. People who see them are shocked MB actually built it. I am not at all surprised by this as the bulk of these EV's were sold in California and as a compliance auto, they took ever cheap ass corner cutting way they could with it. They actually insulted their own product line. Now more of an interesting question is, are they building enough of them to hold over in California till their new EV's come to market? After all CARB has that requirement of selling so many zero emission auto's so you can continue to sell your Green House gas warming auto's in that state.
  21. G. David Felt
    I still laugh at Apple. They are not an Enterprise company but a Trendy Graphics design company that also sells products that people like that have limited options compared to Engineers who like to fiddle and tweak. Android versus Apple. Windows versus Linux versus Linux Apple. Different strokes for different folks. Tesla of today will still be here tomorrow and in 10 to 20 years, might not be the same company as of today, but will still be here. Same with Apple. Personally, I am excited to see where Cadillac goes over the next 10 years. I do hope it goes in the right direction but am not a fan nor have I ever been of the Idiot leading Cadillac or this BS naming CT / XT crap. America has awesome names and should stay with it, we do not need minimalist naming like moron Germany or the rest of the lemming companies. Consider the Following: NOUN escalade (plural noun) the scaling of fortified walls using ladders, as a form of military attack. Sooooooo, Why not have the following line of SUV / CUV's Escalade Top of the line SUV (7-9) passenger depending on configuration Ascend CUV 3 row (6-7) passengers depending on configuration Aspire CUV 2 row (5-6) passengers depending on configuration Arise CUV 2 row (4-5) passengers depending on configuration Escalate Cadillac's new 4 door truck! We have plenty of cool names for cars I am just focusing on the SUV/CUV/Truck line that Cadillac should have! Do not forget Drinks Guys, I can bring some nice Wine if I know what good food will be there to eat! I have no problem inviting myself to the trough of eating as I love to share wine!
  22. G. David Felt
    Do you think it would be better if they had an SS version using the TT V6?
  23. G. David Felt
    That is the question I have been asking since day one of the VOLT comin out, why is this power train not in all product lines as the actual Hybrid powertrain?
  24. G. David Felt
    Most Rodents do not know they stink and need to clean up their act much like FCA.
  25. G. David Felt
    Seattle Tesla in an old brick building Tesla Bellevue in Bellevue Mall. They clearly sell a ton of them as you see them everywhere, but the stores are nothing like what has been posted above.
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