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Drew Dowdell

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  1. I thought that was Celine Dion
  2. lol! my only big question is visibility. i sat in the CTS and CTSv coupes at th autoshow this week and honestly you can't see out of the fking thing. how bad is the visibility in real world driving? I really don't have a problem and I honestly use the mirrors and turn my neck to back out of parking spaces more than the rear camera. The rear camera is only really needed for parallel parking maneuvers. I haven't had a single issue with visibility while driving so far. If someone is in your blind spot, tap the pedal on the right... that should clear up the situation. I get stopped to talk about this car CONSTANTLY. Everyone from 18 year old kids to 90 year old coots want to talk to me about the car. I'm hoping this means you took more than one photo? All 3 of us got photos and video.
  3. At least you didn't make a passenger sick!
  4. A decision 25 years too late. Its apparent that GM was thinking of returning to large car RWD for some time, otherwise the Sixteen concept wouldn't have been developed... and the Seville-STS line would not have switched back to RWD. However, its sad they can't pull the trigger. Cadillac wants to compete with Mercedes and BMW, yet can't compete with Chrysler's 300C. Blah blah blah... GM had no money, will be the same old retort. Right. No money to right the ship since 1985? Money to develop the XTS, a Cadillac rebadge of a LWB LaCrosse but not a Cadillac rebadge of the LWB Commodore. 15 years. GM has still been struggling with it's bread and butter in that time. The Malibu only became class competitive in 2008, the Cruze in 2010, the Equinox in 2009, and the Impala still isn't. GM is just now selling cars that sell on their merits rather than on their rebates. The STS was a two-fer special using the hardware of the SRX and CTS to make a slightly larger than CTS sedan. It's not like GM dumped a bunch of money into the STS program relative to building one from scratch... and to be honest, it shows in the end result.
  5. The SE option Sienna is supposed to have the best suspension out of all vans these days. The one I had clearly wasn't an SE then
  6. yes
  7. Make sure you add it to the C&G Garage too.
  8. Well, this is all fine and well known. And I'm in agreement with the STS and the lineup left. As someone else mentioned, I would have liked to see a reskinned STS/SLS, without the quality problems. Rebuilding a completely new car is time intensive and expensive. Building the XTS the sell, what? 80K over 5 years? GM didn't even want to put a Pontiac nose on the Commodore wagon or Ute and GM could have moved 40-60K a year. Sure, the XTS has better unit profit, but GM could have avoided dumping G8s on the market and kept its profit up, had they tried. GM is a company that STILL likes putting the big bets in the wrong places sometimes. The longer it takes, the longer the turn around. GM needs to get the foot back in this door before the window of opportunity slams shut. The RWD Caddy was championed by Whitaker less than 12 months ago..... come on now.
  9. I shoot almost all of my shots that way. In my case at least, it's not specific to the CTS. I'll get an overhead just for you ;-)
  10. What the f@#k is that $h!? Oops, the keyboard typed those obsessives on its own. GET ME A LAWYER I AM SUING LOGITECH. It's actually rather easy to post to the wrong account in Tweetdeck. I've done it a bunch of times.
  11. The Volt would have been better as a Buick also. First, the price. Second the content. Third the name Electra just screams out at you waving "I'M HERE! I'M HERE!" But it wasn't. From what I can see so far, this will make a very good Cadillac.
  12. There is no doubt that Lutz had a hand in this car. It has Pratt & Whitney like thrust.
  13. This Just In: 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe Cadillac sends me 556 horsepower of stress relief for our Interactive Review of the 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe
  14. Interactive Review: 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe It's been a stressful couple of weeks for me at work. Thoughtful Cadillac was kind enough to send me 556 horsepower of stress relief. Thus begins our interactive review of the 2011 Cadillac CTS-V coupe. We recently had the 300hp Cadillac CTS Coupe in for a review, You can check out the Interactive Review: CTS Coupe and the Full Review: CTS Coupe to get you started. Media Gallery: 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe
  15. Some of the basic components like steam towers and turbines are the same regardless of the nature of the heat source.
  16. that's funny.... I've been so stressed out at work, I've been having chest pain.
  17. Mayor Richard Daley acknowledged today passengers on a flight from Tokyo had set off radiation detectors at O’Hare International Airport, but he offered no details and said federal officials will be handling the situation.
  18. Which is why I think it could have been refreshed rather than canned.
  19. they haven't been in place for a long time. I think they are still in the chat room
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