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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Wonder how long this can last given the depression over Europe and Asia happening. I have to think next year will be a cool year for auto sales here. I have to think this is people finally replacing auto's from our own depression of 2007 to 2012 and this is just a big bump.
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    Would be interesting to know specifics of what the members did not like about the package to reject it. I hope this comes out soon as I would like to know.
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    I agree with what Drew has posted here and I believe most of us all agree this is about corporate greed. 11 million auto's with a $329.00 savings equals $3,619,000,000 savings 3.6 billion folks. This then ended up in the Fired CEO getting a 41% pay raise in 2013 at that time. http://www.autospies.com/news/VW-CEO-Receives-41-Pay-Raise-62299/ His pay was $12 million in 2011, doubled in 2012 to $23 million and then again 41% raise in 2013. http://www.bimmerboost.com/content.php?2241-VW-group-has-record-year-so-VW-CEO-doubles-his-salary-to-23-million So yea this is about Corporate Greed and the US as well as other countries should follow Germany in forcing them to have a plan or ban their Diesels from the road and from being able to be sold. Banning them from our roads will leave a seriously NASTY taste in nearly everybody who ones one of these. If they get banned from driving their VW do you think any of them will walk back into a VW dealer? I know I wouldn't. Screw that. Too many other companies making very high quality products to go back to a company who just left me stranded with a worthless pile in my driveway. We have seen how slow FCA is to take care of their own recalls, worst repair rate of any company. Examples need to be made and to keep companies transparent and to have them follow through, I think this threat needs to be there to make them move forward with plans. Giving a company 90 days to come up with a solution or their product has to be taken off the streets is more than enough time to figure out what they need to do. I suspect VW knew the solution all along but the billions it saved giving the CEO huge raises and bonuses made the greed of a few overcome the health of all. Thinking about this Bosch knew about this for years and never said anything, I have to think they also got paid off to not come clean with this and should be investigated to better understand what they knew of VW doing this.
  4. G. David Felt
    I agree with what Drew has posted here and I believe most of us all agree this is about corporate greed. 11 million auto's with a $329.00 savings equals $3,619,000,000 savings 3.6 billion folks. This then ended up in the Fired CEO getting a 41% pay raise in 2013 at that time. http://www.autospies.com/news/VW-CEO-Receives-41-Pay-Raise-62299/ His pay was $12 million in 2011, doubled in 2012 to $23 million and then again 41% raise in 2013. http://www.bimmerboost.com/content.php?2241-VW-group-has-record-year-so-VW-CEO-doubles-his-salary-to-23-million So yea this is about Corporate Greed and the US as well as other countries should follow Germany in forcing them to have a plan or ban their Diesels from the road and from being able to be sold.
  5. G. David Felt
    I am excited about the new Samsung Note 5 that is coming out soon. Should be awesome.
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    Back in the 70's when GM had Isuzu build their mini pickup, the Luv truck series, the Diesel sold like hotcakes and you still find them around running, rusty as heck but still running. I believe they will sell well. I agree with your thinking here, I would love them to do this. I think there is a solid market for it here.
  7. G. David Felt
    Interesting, so if you take out the Chrysler 300 that brand is pretty much dead. The avenger and Viper sales loss is what has the dodge group at only 3% gain, take those two out and you have a much larger sales gain. Viper should be in a category by itself as the sales decline affects over all sales percentages so much for such a small volume auto. Fiat is in emergency and bleeding heavily. If it was not for the 500X, it would be on the death bed. Once people see that the 500X is just as poorly built as the rest of the lineup, I expect this to go farther down. Fiat is a lost cause due to lack of product and poor quality just like the last time it was in the US. Alfa, should have stayed in the history books.
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    I agree with what is being stated here, there will be a loss of performance and fuel economy which is what I see the lawsuits focusing on in addition to the loss of value. I would hope that VW for those that have the DEF solution would get bigger tanks to hold more so they do not have to fill up so often. In regards to the others, hopefully they can add a def solution to make them legal, otherwise buy back the auto, crush it and give the customer a new one that is legal. Now while this would be a huge cost, they could build good customer karma by taking a page out of the Saturn Play book. Many years back, Saturn shipped about 15,000 cars that had parts manufactured that had metal shavings left on them and could cause failure down the road, not injury failure but mechanical failure that would cause the engine to be replaced or rebuilt. As such they swapped out for each customer a new Saturn for the old one. Then they took them and crushed them. I remember this as a coworker who had put almost 24K miles on his in the first year by the time Saturn did this swap was so happy he traded in his other auto and bought another Saturn. Yes this cost GM, but it also bought a very loyal customer. VW, needs to look at how to turn this around into saving customers long term.
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    I get the point your making Fap, and would agree with you for the most part except in regards to the apple product, I find their products to be overpriced toys, not real tools. Excluding engineers who actually can use Apple, Linux or WIndows to do real work, most apple users seem to be more confused by technology than able to embrace it. Apple does not come across to me as future-looking as much as for the simpleton that does not want to have to think.
  10. G. David Felt
    Ouch that is one black eye.
  11. G. David Felt
    So the big question is with the price of fuel being low, how will this affect the sales of EV auto's? As a distributor of CNG fueling products for home and business use, I can say that sales have dropped off totally, been dead the last few months in fact. So one must wonder about electric, if the low fuel prices will hurt that more or not.
  12. G. David Felt
    I have NO PROBLEM with this bump in the road for GM. Prove everyone wrong that you have a Green awesome little Duramax and then shove it up their bum with stellar sales!
  13. G. David Felt
    I've already been seeing web ads for attorneys these past few days. Actually, so have I. Sleazy scum in most cases, I would hope a judge would require this to all be wrapped up into a class action lawsuit rather than multiple little ones that will draw things out.
  14. G. David Felt
    Sounds like the Lawyers are lining up to file lawsuits on the 11 million owners of Diesel VW/Audi/Porsche owners who just saw their car value plummet!
  15. G. David Felt
    Who ever said Motor Trend could build let alone sell anything of quality. After all it is a Magazine company.
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    Will not matter much as we have seen extreme greed and still after prison they get out and still have millions to live very comfy. They need to take the CEO's take EVERYTHING from them and return them to the public as a poor person who has to work to support themselves. I agree being fired and leaving with a 30 million bonus is not right.
  17. G. David Felt
    GM should use their skateboard concept for a battery pack and then put in a large ass electric and let the good times silently fly by. 200 to 250 miles with a electric engine that has 1000lbs of torque and 500 hp and can just spin away and boom, death to mustangs and challengers all over.
  18. G. David Felt
    Not sure why, I am usually always a fan of auto's even little sports cars but this just is ugly to me and not very inspiring.
  19. G. David Felt
    So still an ugly little POS.
  20. G. David Felt
    OUCH, Now it seems VW and Tesla are affected with the airbag issue also. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-28/u-s-regulator-considers-order-to-expand-takata-air-bag-recalls This is going to kill the Takata company I think.
  21. G. David Felt
    Yup, Bloomberg is reporting 2.1 million auto's affected by Audi! http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-28/audi-says-2-1-million-diesel-cars-affected-by-emissions-software
  22. G. David Felt
    According to this Bloomberg report, Mercedes-Benz is overstating the MPG on their auto's with MPG exceeding 50% on their new A, C & E class auto's. This report by Brussels-based Transport & Environment also seems to imply that Mercedes-Benz also has a NOx problem with their own diesel fleet. Mercedes-Benz is pushing for a universal world wide light vehicle test procedure that would measure tail pipe emissions and MPG / MPK so that a single standard is built for the world wide market that they would like to take place in 2017.
  23. G. David Felt
    Agreed, this could be the opening GM needs to grow Opel into a profitable auto group.
  24. G. David Felt
    About time, the EPA should be real world testing the auto's rather than using preset levels under preset conditions that do not relate to real life. If the EPA tested all auto's I doubt they would find more than a 1/3 of them that actually produce the stated MPG on the sticker.
  25. G. David Felt
    WOW, thanks for posting the links to the stories, if Banks are putting a stop on funding of sales / leases and buying up VW auto loans / leases, this could be very hard for VW. On top of Bosch telling them this software would be legal for testing on R&D but not for production. Someone inside made a HUGE mistake. OUCH!
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