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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    This is where I need the meme from the movie Clue where Professor Plum yells out. "I've got news for you! We're already there!" I think I might make one.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    Yeah probably. It's one of those borderline ones because of its shape. Same how technically the Model-S and final Regal GS are hatchbacks too. The A7 less on that borderline.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    A7 is tecnically a hatch. but correct on the rest. We were only counting sedans.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    Altima and A8 are canceled or at the end of their production runs without being replaced. There is no more challenger, that was a coupe anyway You missed Ioniq 6N and coming BMW i3 Neue Klasse
  5. Drew Dowdell
    This is a new platform over the previous body, yes. It's Aurora based and between the two, I'd go with an Aurora of this generation.
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    I would totally drive a red or black Bonneville with the tan leather interior... like '93 - '95. I'd want the SSEi for the supercharged 3800, but I wouldn't turn down the regular 3800.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    Tall overdrive gear and good torque at low RPM. Even the 3800 powered Bonnevilles and LeSabres could manage 30+ mpg highway fairly effortlessly.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    I went and looked at their wikipedia and their tangled web of finance and ownership would make the Volkswagen Automotive Group blush.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    I'm saying that the retail store was removed from Pepboys. Old footprint: PepBoys: Service bays + Retail auto parts and accessories (typically the retail area alone was bigger than an AutoZone) AutoZone: Retail auto parts and accessories New Footprint: PepBoys: Service bays only AutoZone: Retail auto parts only
  11. Drew Dowdell
    I'm not sure what you're asking. The private equity firm owns both PepBoys and one of those other two. PepBoys does service, but they ALSO had basically an entire AutoZone and more inside. They had a much bigger and (IMHO) better selection than the other two. The private equity firm closed out the retail parts & accessories side of PepBoys and made them all service only. There were some PepBoys that were already like that, but most had a retail parts counter also.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    Once the VW dealers stop suing over Scout, I wonder if they'll get the maintenance contract. Private Equity. They got bought up by an equity firm that also owns either Advance or AutoZone (can't remember which, if you care enough you can google lol). The equity firm decided that there was no point having two brands competing on auto parts sales, so they closed down the PepBoys parts (which sucks because they typically had the best prices of the walk-in parts stores) and made PepBoys service only. In the process, a lot of PepBoys became unsustainable in their current locations because their building footprint was too large for the dollar volume coming through, so many of them closed. This was mid-late Covid era, so a lot of the service departments simply never got rebuilt. Sing it with me now... Private Equity Ruins America. They've been doing that sort of thing for years and maybe the Tesla/Rivian thing will be the one that finally saves them. They were suppose to take over Saturn and Saab service too. I think they had Suzuki for a bit. They were the official service center for Daewoo for like 5 minutes.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    This is going to be Rivian's killer app. A CR-V sized crossover with better than CR-V sized interior room. Enough range to combat range anxiety, decent towing capacity for its size, and fast acceleration. All for the roughly the same price as an X3 or GLC. It's what will save Rivian.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    We knew Albert's job travel would be changing in the next 6 months, but we thought it would go down not up. We heard on Friday that his company lost the client he works for and they're looking to re-deploy him to other clients. He'd be a mix of remote + travel. Now we have to wait till July to figure out what's going to happen. If he gets remote + travel, I think we'll need to go with a PHEV instead of full EV. The only way we could do full EV is if he got something crazy like a 500 mile range Lucid.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    yeah, for me that's an extra $26 a fill up. Good thing it's almost motorcycle weather... both take premium, but it's a lot less painful for 4 gallons than 26-ish.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    The CrossClimates will be the next set on the Chrysler. Albert blew out the right rear on his set of Blizzaks on Thursday and it was unrepairable, so the whole set is getting covered by the road hazard warranty. BUT I also have summer tires, so I ran back home, got those, and had those put on. Albert is at 25k miles a year lately and though that will calm down eventually, it's going to pick up for the next 6 months, so I expect him to burn through the summers by the time October rolls around. I'll trade both sets in (they gave me back 3 of the Blizzaks) and get a credit towards the CrossClimates. They'll be the last set of tires I put on it because we'll trade out of it around 130k - 140k once Mopar will no longer warranty it. I don't feel like buying two more sets of tires for it. I hear great reviews about them. Sure, but in the end the EV comes out ahead. Also, random bombings in the middle east don't significantly shift the monthly family budget.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    What's the tire situation?
  18. Drew Dowdell
    32,000 miles at 20 mpg average (Kia Telluride AWD combined average) is 1,600 gallons. At $3.50 a gallon, that would be $5,600
  19. Drew Dowdell
    I got an Insta360 camera. It has a built in AI that removes the selfie stick from the image since it can see around it.
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    yes exactly. And if you think about it, because the highlander and grand highlander are now about the same size, this is effectively the only model that can be had in EV, Hybrid, or just gasoline.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    "For 2027, if customers would like battery electric, we have the Highlander, and if they prefer gas, hybrid or hybrid Max, we have the Grand Highlander," a Toyota spokesperson confirmed at an event in Ojai, California, on Tuesday.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    The Heated Rivalry series has buried deep into my brain. The music causes feelings because I associate it with scenes in the show. This playlist has been on repeat for basically 2 months.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    My understanding is the Grand will continue for a while as the gas powered option. That said, I kinda like this based on pics, but it depends on the interior quality which has been lacking in Toyotas lately. It's got the range required.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    www.NotGonnaHappen.com Maybe eventually but certainly not in 18 months. I’m seeing a lot of resistance to AI due to the costs involved. Plus, corporate data is so messy. Feeding messy data to AI is just asking for bad results. It will take years to clean up the data and maybe AI can help with that, but unless you’re starting a company today and building it with AI from the start and actually have AI super experts running things, it’s likely your data is too messy to use in AI right now. One of my clients is in a conversion away from paper and struggling with it. They’re not going to AI anytime soon. We won’t even be done the paper conversion until early 2028.
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