Drew Dowdell

Write up an ad here or in the C&G garage. I'll post it out to our twitter page and facebook page.

yeah, but you shouldn't skip gears if you're trying to accelerate fast. so... what it's called is "goofy"

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I don't feel any lag in the Eco.... power delivery is very linear.

I think its cause you're an admin. it was doing the same thing to me, but when I logged out it worked fine. Try that or just paypal it manually.

1/3 of X5 buyers are opting for the diesel?! That is an astonishing take rate for the US!

2015 is the supposed refresh date on the Verano, so just a 4 year run.

I've been reading that for some reason the Bosch O2 sensors don't get along with GM computers. Just find an AC Delco compare it to the feedback rating of the Bosch

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Encore was the rumor I've heard as well and yes it is a Sonic platform CUV. Don't be alarmed... it's been sized up appropriately.

Well I did Reg's test. I notice no performance difference with the A/C on full blast. It appears that the Cruze (like many other cars) uncouples the A/C clutch under heavy acceleration. Holding your hand over the vents the blast of ice loses its edge a little but remains cold. All in all, no noticable change in pull.

What is your car music guilty pleasure? We all have our car music, the stuff that really gets us into the drive. But what is the car music that you love that you... really wouldn't admit to? The stuff that doesn't fit your personality or your car's personality..... This idea came to me as I was driving to work this morning in the 2012 Chevrolet Cruze Eco wearing french cuffs, cufflinks, and a pink "Cancer Sucks" bracelet in support of a family member while enjoying.... Marylin Manson - Lest We Forget. Great music for an urban morning commute and for those of you who know me well enough... completely outside of my personality. So what is your car music guilty pleasure?

By doing this, you will not increase your credit score one iota. If you pay the balance of the very same day, the balance never has a chance to hit your credit report. Simply having an open, empty, line of credit on your credit report does very little. They want to see history there. After the first statement, pay enough on the balance to ensure that your outstanding balance is 1/3rd or less of your total credit line, then pay the minimum payment required to keep the free financing and leave the balance on the card for as long as possible without paying off the card until the free financing period ends. 1/3rd is the key. Always keep your balances below 1/3 of your credit line. Don't accept any card that has a fee unless it is a points card that you will use heavily (like me and my U.S. Airways card).

From what I understand, the new 2.5 series based Ecotecs might be just up to the task of proving you wrong. Supposed to be very smooth with a good combo of power and fuel economy.

and even more quiet.

Coming Soon: CheersandGears - The Next Generation Well it's time for us to upgrade to the next platform of the software CheersandGears.com runs on. It is a pretty big jump, so it won't all happen at once. A couple of features won't work right out of the box and all of our skin templates will need to be re-written. Improvements coming with the upgrade: Vastly improved search function. A new area for articles separate from the regular forums, the forums will still be used for comments on the articles. View New Content is now more customizable, you'll be able to select the forums you want to monitor. View New Content will FINALLY work correctly and not forget to show you forums you haven't read just because you've logged on in the interim. We will be far more visible to the search engines (we're already pretty good in this area given our size) We will have an entirely new front page portal. Drastically improved page loading speed. Along with a whole host of other improvements. During this time: Advertising will be suspended. Any members that have purchased Premium Memberships will have their memberships extended by an equal amount of time. The current front page portal will go away until the new portal is in place. The skin template will look choppy until I get it's replacement installed. I will post again here when the upgrades will actually start.

As I've been told by someone, the Malibu Coupe was a car without a code... meaning it wasn't even a planned car to be canceled in the first place. Don't be upset at GM for "canceling" something that was a figment of someone else's imagination.

it goes both ways.

Good, now I can play farmville and drive again....

What kind of fuel economy would we see from such an engine?

You mean the Equinox? It is a modified Epsilon.

To be fair, I think a modern V6 is a lot more dependable than the old V6es of yore. Ditto the 4-cylinders. The 2.4 Ecotec is easily a 250k mile engine if you take care of it properly.

I think the Maxx would be a great middle-road option for the Malibu.

I'd hit it!

Will try it, but haven't noticed anything like that yet. The major bane seems to be steep hills on the highway which required a shift to 3rd in order to maintain speed. However, if you're not in a hurry, you can do 1 - 2 - 4 - 6 shifts without difficulty and still accelerate at normal traffic speeds. In the hard urban cycle I'm driving now, the DIC is displaying an average 32mpg. but I've also unloaded the trunk too.