G. David Felt

Amazing the badge snobs who think Land Rover is so awesome with their off road capability and yet they are just one notch above Fiat for the worst built auto's. Not sure how it can do well off road when it can barely stay running in the inner city.

I think there is still too many brands and we need to consolidate, not resurrect a dead brand. With that, I pose this counter idea. With the large amount of mega car companies, Which name plates would you retire and what would you do to the remaining brands to have the same wide appeal? To me a perfect example of this is Opel, Yes builds some great cars but has done nothing but cost money for GM. I would say make Chevy a truly global brand by converting Opel dealers to Chevy. Then you have world wide Chevy - Buick - Cadillac and Professional Grade is GMC and with that you bring back Medium duty trucks to the GMC name plate only.

I agree with this, after the last LG I had I vowed never to buy their phones again. I'm still open to some appliances from them (not a TV, but maybe a refrigerator), but definitely not a phone again, though I'd be interested to hear if the quality has improved (I would say no, because my wife recently got an LG she hates, but it's not near the top of the line for them, either, so I'll give them a little slack for that one). I have to say NO to LG products period. Daughter has gone through 2 LG phones before going to the note4 and had nothing but problems and repeat replacements of the LG phones. My sister and her husband own their own appliance repair business and say LG appliances are the worst to work on cheap internal parts and they do not last. Plus LG is terrible to work with even when it is a warranty repair. I have heard other horror stories from people about LG products also. So just say NO to LG. When I sold TVs and appliances we didn't carry LG, and I often had to correct people who thought that LG was the top-of-the-line brand in various departments. They aren't bad, they aren't Vizio or anything like that, but they're a decent middle-of-the-road company at best. On the other hand, they have a pretty good marketing department that has built their hype up very well, creating that top-line image that they can't quite live up to. I would agree with you that they are a mid level company that has a high end rep due to their marketing. I would still never recommend LG to anyone mainly due to the issues I have seen with their products.

I agree with this, after the last LG I had I vowed never to buy their phones again. I'm still open to some appliances from them (not a TV, but maybe a refrigerator), but definitely not a phone again, though I'd be interested to hear if the quality has improved (I would say no, because my wife recently got an LG she hates, but it's not near the top of the line for them, either, so I'll give them a little slack for that one). I have to say NO to LG products period. Daughter has gone through 2 LG phones before going to the note4 and had nothing but problems and repeat replacements of the LG phones. My sister and her husband own their own appliance repair business and say LG appliances are the worst to work on cheap internal parts and they do not last. Plus LG is terrible to work with even when it is a warranty repair. I have heard other horror stories from people about LG products also. So just say NO to LG.

Will be interesting to see if they actually have anyone really use it off road or if they mostly just end up in the inner city of badge snobs.

I am allfor GM buying Tesla, but while I loved the Mocha colored Version, this white one is rather plain ugly.

Way to go Buzz, should this not be posted in the Tesla forum?

There's one of those around here, and it always baffles me when I see it. Besides the fact that I feel like it should be too ridiculous to actually exist, I just can't believe that there is enough demand in this area to justify whatever the limo company would have paid to get the thing. Just realized that my wife when she was with me at a tradeshow a couple weeks back also saw stretch Escalades and took pics to show me. Here is what the TI has for pickup and drop off.

That rocks, best use of a Camry ever!

at the car guy comment!

Go with the Note 5, I have the Note 3 on Lollipop and it rocks as does the battery life, really lasts. Camera is good but also eligible for an upgrade so figure I would wait since the Note 5 is around the corner. I like what I have read about the phone. Been very pleased with my note 3, Wife and Daughter both have the note 4 and love it. I suggest you go for the note 5!

Saw my first Stretch Escalade. It was a bit weird seeing something that was an extra 10 feet long. It was huge even by my standards.

The Evergreen state, North of Seattle in a little place call Edmonds. But everyone knows Seattle.

Love your Ford all you want, there are those of us that love our GM. I just ask that you stick to the facts and debate the hell out of if the auto industry is going in the right direction with their auto's. Honesty, integrity and fact filed posts will go a long way here. Look forward to the discussions on who really does have the best truck model year to model year or cars. After all every OEM has their day. RIght now Ford seems to have bit the bullet with their huge 440,000 auto recall. http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/05/27/ford-recalls-power-steering-mustang/28008177/ Be interesting to see how the public responds to this.

I actually think this will backfire on Tesla. I do not think this will help them grow their sales. To me this cheapens their appeal and makes them look like a cheap her today gone tomorrow tonic potion salesman of the 1800's. Would you want to trust a company that shows up, takes your 100K dollars and is gone tomorrow with no physical location to go to? Just sounds bad to me.

I would love this to be added to my stable of performance machines. I could see a Hellcat AWD Grand Cherokee next to my AWD SS Trailblazer.

Welcome, glad to have another new member, look forward to you adding your input on the discussions.

No Anti-Tesla here but I signed up last year for their mailing list so I could stay abreast of what they do and getting this email and seeing how many are for sale, I was surprised to find out that many were waiting for resale and some are priced still over 100K with only a couple thousand miles on the car. So I do wonder about this. In regards to the Volt, I find 2803 for sale on Autotrader alone, average price being in the low $20K range with low mileage and in refining the search you drop to just under 800 when you remove new so many used are for sale which is also interesting. But at least the price is more tolerable than Tesla's.

I think Lambo see's Porsche success and wants a piece of the profit pie.

This is welcome news and I am glad GM is starting to move their product lines to the phones. I think you will have superior satisfaction from customers.

G. David Felt Alternative Fuels & Propulsion writer www.CheersandGears.com TESLA PREOWNED SALE http://www.teslamotors.com/models/preowned Received this email today from Tesla for their first PreOwned sale. I was curious to see just how many and what types were available. 256 on their own preowned site and Florida leads the way with 43 listed. More surprising was that while the list was well divided between 2012, 2013 and 2014, the average for mileage was just a little over 10K miles. Then I continued to look and found 94 more tesla's for sale on the tesla motor club web site. 87 listed for sale on CarFax web site. LotPro had 7 listed. Ebay has 40 listed and AutoTrader has 322 listed and all are pretty low miles. Yes I would believe there is some duplicate listings between these sites, but the bigger shock is just how low the miles are for a car that is supposed to be the ultimate Green machine. How does one buy a 100K dollar car, only drive it less than 10K miles and 2 years later sell it. It would seem the market is not that big for pure electric auto's. Plus this many Tesla's for sale in the private side makes me think that many have over bought and then are tring to unload this luxury golf cart that cannot handle real life long distance road trips. Is it possible that Tesla's run is coming to an end as more people realize just how limited this auto is? What are your thoughts on the glut of Tesla Pre Owned EV's?

I would agree with you Sean but I have to think that these companies either need to change to a more profitable model and get more diverse or they will end up loosing out and having to either go into the history books or become a niche division of some larger company. But then it already is a niche player for VW.

As I said in the ATS-V Review thread.. I am seriously doubting this will happen for several reasons. 1) The LS7 will be a crate motor, but I doubt that GM wants to hand-build it for any more than special buyers who want to pony up that cash. 2) Cadillac wants its own engines.. hence the development and seemingly dive deeper into Twin Turbos 3) To the point above.. because Cadillac is trying to build numbers in other markets, particularly China, Europe and S.Amer... displacement will matter in pricing/penalties. I expect the 6.2L LT4 to also be a short lived product of at most, an engine to only be for this generation of CTS.. which is only 3 years away from a new model altogether 4) Only 500HP and 481 lbs-ft of bump. In truth.. they could simply turn up the boost on the LF4 and get 500HP and certainly more torque. Think about it... the TTV6 is only.. and I said ONLY 36 HP away for that LS7's numbers. Boost, and a less restrictive exhaust and U are there with minimal investment 5) Cadillac needs a more fleshed out line for the ATS to move product to the mainstream.. a VSport with a detuned LF3 making 360-380HP would make more sense As I said in the ATS-V Review thread.. I am seriously doubting this will happen for several reasons. 1) The LS7 will be a crate motor, but I doubt that GM wants to hand-build it for any more than special buyers who want to pony up that cash. 2) Cadillac wants its own engines.. hence the development and seemingly dive deeper into Twin Turbos 3) To the point above.. because Cadillac is trying to build numbers in other markets, particularly China, Europe and S.Amer... displacement will matter in pricing/penalties. I expect the 6.2L LT4 to also be a short lived product of at most, an engine to only be for this generation of CTS.. which is only 3 years away from a new model altogether 4) Only 500HP and 481 lbs-ft of bump. In truth.. they could simply turn up the boost on the LF4 and get 500HP and certainly more torque. Think about it... the TTV6 is only.. and I said ONLY 36 HP away for that LS7's numbers. Boost, and a less restrictive exhaust and U are there with minimal investment 5) Cadillac needs a more fleshed out line for the ATS to move product to the mainstream.. a VSport with a detuned LF3 making 360-380HP would make more sense the unique thing about the 7.0L LS7 is that it has a flat-torque curve; rare for a small-block and all to common in big-blocks. It would ensure a special feeling when you tap the throttle. The 5.3L LS4 had a flat torque-curve as well but we won't talk about FWD V8s here. But to some the coveted Audi FWD appliances are superior to anything us lowly americans can build.

Why oh Why do morons who are so afraid to drive get licenses. Driving 35 on a freeway stated as 65 is dangerous to everyone. Turning your hazard lights on does not help and you being bunched up against the steering wheel is not helping either. Get off the Fricking Highway.

1) 1908 OR 1909 was the last year I think. 2) Sport GTO 3) a - Standardization of voltage b - Radios were becoming standard and had moved to 12 volt and c - engine starters needed 12 volt to turn over bigger engines. 4) 1965? 5) 15,000 ?