Everything posted by G. David Felt
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Comfort Cruiser SUV?
Go for it, the GC right now is one of the best SUVs if not the best for the class. You can get such a great deal. My son loves his and got the rare Rhino color for his GC as it stands out and just looks great. You can see how sharp it looks as I added it to our family album of cars we own or have owned.
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What Are You Listening To?
OMG, this brings me back to the 80's and the one game I loved and could never play enough of Bubble Bobble. Loved the Game and the tune!
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Beautiful Cars Appreciation Thread
The one I always loved, 1987 Monte Carlo SS Aerocoupe in Maroon. Only 200 Built to meet Nascar rules for competition. Talk about a lovely rare bird, rarer than the Grand National GNX of which 547 were built.
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Beautiful Cars Appreciation Thread
@daves87rs Agree YUM Found this on the Auction site, shocked at the high price it sold for $117,700 but then only 1200 miles, pristine and still on the Original Goodyear VR50 tires it came with from the factory. https://www.barrett-jackson.com/Events/Event/Details/1987-BUICK-GRAND-NATIONAL-GNX-COUPE-194306
- December Car Spotter Thread
- Pepsi, Walmart, JB Hunt place orders for Tesla Semi
- GM News: Current Chevrolet Silverado/GMC Sierra To Stick Around Once Next-Generation Trucks Are Launched
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Mercedez Benz News Mercedes-AMG to Launch 53 Line Next Year
Superior Electric Superchargers are still better than electric turbos as they never have lag period. In regards to incorporating them all, it would seem MB seems to have not been able to figure out a sellable EV auto and as such to meet the European new emissions they are throwing everything into a pot to hope it actually makes the soup taste better not asking if too much is a bad thing. This also just sounds like slight of hand that MB is using marketing gimmick solutions to reinvent an old pig that is still the same solution just different lipstick. So flip flopping on Inline 6, drop it for V6, now drop it for Inline 6 and no real gains over their past engines. Nothing but a Shell Game of Marketing messages to imply it is better when it is not and they are late to the game from Voltage of the electric system to use of electrical engine components, to trying to say really old is better than old so we are now new with an old engine design and an old electrical system compared to the competition.
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Industry News: EV Tax Credit Survives Tax Bill Reconciliation
Interesting about the True Cost of Oil for Gas as I was just looking into this myself and the IAGS, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security states that right now just for the Persian Gulf Military escorts of Oil around the gulf and out of it, the yearly cost is about $50 Billion. While we might pay anywhere from $3 to $5 dollars a gallon, our real cost if all the costs were passed onto ICE owners would be in the $20 to $30 dollar a gallon range. http://www.iags.org/costofoil.html This alone is an amazing quote from them: Our dependency on oil from countries that are either politically unstable or at odds with the U.S. subjects the American economy to occasional supply disruptions, price hikes, and loss of wealth, which, according to a study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy, have cost us more than $7 trillion present value dollars over the last 30 years. That is more than the cumulative cost of all of the wars fought by the U.S. since the Revolutionary War. The transfer of wealth to oil-producing countries - $1.16 trillion over the past thirty years - significantly increased our trade deficit. The Department of Energy estimates that each $1 billion of trade deficit costs America 27,000 jobs. Oil imports account for almost one-third of the total U.S. deficit and, hence, are a major contributor to unemployment.
- Pepsi, Walmart, JB Hunt place orders for Tesla Semi
- Quick Drive: 2017 Jeep Cherokee Overland
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Comfort Cruiser SUV?
One thing about all the Full Size SUV, Body on Frame is how easy they are to drive. My wife loves driving our Escalade and Suburban as to her they drive as easy as a mid size car and have tight turning radius. She loves how easy they are to park even though they are as big as the pickup trucks at 22ft long. They at least do not have the terrible turning radius of the trucks. That is what I love about my Escalade, the self leveling suspension makes it the ultimate road trip auto. My wife and I have done so many 18hr drives as you just eat up the miles with no discomfort in sitting. I will never understand the stupid engineer that puts parts in hard to service spots. To me it was an afterthought and cheap ass short cut to put it there, not to mention the heat probably did not help it's life.
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Random Thoughts Thread
This totally Rocks I am so excited to see what gets revealed at the show. I really hope we see some EV concepts from everyone!
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Detroit Preview: 2019 Toyota Avalon: Comments
G. David Felt replied to Drew Dowdell's topic in North American International Auto Show in Detroit (NAIAS)So Toyota likes Thor's Hammer accents of Volvo?
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Leaked CAD Drawings of Mid Engine Corvette
- Volvo News: Polestar Announces Initial Markets for 1 Coupe
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Cheers or Jeers: 18,000 mile 1966 Oldsmobile Cutlass F-85 Deluxe
Awesome, since the listing is no longer current on ebay, I have no Idea how much they are asking, but a lovely old classic car so CHEERS! How much where they asking?
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Detroit Preview: 2019 Mercedes-Benz G-Class: Comments
G. David Felt replied to Drew Dowdell's topic in North American International Auto Show in Detroit (NAIAS)Ford GT style is the selling point. It is a look that is very desirable.
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Mercedez Benz News Mercedes-AMG to Launch 53 Line Next Year
Awesome and perfect point made and you're right I am biased being in a very tech centric world of Enterprise bleeding edge tech.
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- Jeep News: 2018 Jeep Wrangler JL is Slightly More Expensive
- 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show Wrap Up - Luxury Crossovers and SUVs: Comments
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Mercedez Benz News Mercedes-AMG to Launch 53 Line Next Year
I wish I could say you are right, but in talking to coworkers in the Hightech industry. More and more are questioning the Luxury side of BMW and MB due to the rampant excessive mid to low end models running all over. You really do find a ton of them all over the streets now. Seems the brands that are truly only high end luxury and performance have changed and some are questioning if the old guard is really true luxury or not. It is a very weird area we are in. Weirder yet is many say they would rather have the Luxury Tesla over MB or BMW as it is harder to get and even without the Tesla 3, more exclusive along with the performance part. A trend of different thinking is happening I think, at least on the west coast.
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2017 Los Angeles Auto Show Wrap Up - Mass-Market Crossovers and SUVs: Comments
Did not think about it till looking at the Yellow Rubicon again, but the design of the Roll cage and with the top down, it really does have a military style look to it that will I am sure appeal to the gun toting peeps of North America. I also saw a Mongolian film this week, subtitles with my mongolian friends called Single Ladies 3, third in the series but the first one to have english subtitles and be shown outside of the country. Very funny movie, but the star of the movie was here in Seattle to introduce the film and talk about it and the Purple Rubicon 4 door wrangler in the movie is actually hers. Come to find out Toyota is the brand to own in the country except if you want the best off road, then the citizens believe only Jeep gives you that and the Wrangler is the best one to have followed by Grand Cherokee. It is very interesting.
- 2017 Los Angeles Auto Show Wrap Up - Luxury Crossovers and SUVs: Comments
- Porsche News: Porsche CEO Says A 911 Plug-In is on the Way