Drew Dowdell

Cheers and Gears at Get your questions in here. Hybrid Lincoln MKZ Debut 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Wagon 2011 Saab 9-5 Post Show Event

Cheers and Gears goes to the 2010 New York Auto Show I'll be arriving at the New York Auto Show in about an hour. If you want pics of anything specific or any questions asked of GM, Ford, or Chrysler reps, post them here.

I'm doing great!

The Meditation Podcast episodes 2 and 6 really helped to get me through my bad patch

Here in NYC during the week, then flying down to Miami. Albert is flying down and meeting me at the airport. Then we're going to spend a long weekend at my parents place and tell them we're getting married. Nothing really to do with religion, though we'll probably have an easterish dinner on sunday.

Autobird Podcast #21: "Luxury Like" Our own JamesBond (Justin Loyear) joined Colin Bird of AutoBirdBlog and Joel Feder of Accelerate MPLS for this weeks AutoBird Podcast #21.

Incorrect. Much closer is Oldsmobile. [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/1997-1999_Oldsmobile_Cutlass.jpg[/img]

The 80-85 Seville.

Has there been a change since the 2.5 I just had in the 2010 Fusion Hybrid? Cause that one got rough at higher RPMS... the 2.4DI Terrain was much smoother all over the RPM band when the transmission wasn't lugging the engine <i.e. not in ECO mode>

If you prefer the size and heft of your W-bodies, you'll prefer the Malibu.

In just terms of engines, the GM Ecotech is a lot more refined than the Ford 4-cylinders.

I don't get it....

I think that you're right.... and I think that it's happening a lot faster at Toyota than it did at GM.

G80 FTW!

OCN, we also live in the salt belt. The Japanese couldn't make a car that wouldn't return to the earth in 3 years till the 1992 Camry

After seeing the new Sonata on the roads instead of just on the auto show floor, I hate it even more. It's styling an overwrought wreck.

an article I'm working on is how the auto manufacturers.... all of them, not just GM and Ford, need to change the narrative away from the peek horsepower number. VW actually made a minuscule effort to do that years ago (I think it was around 2001 or 2002) with the TDIs. "Horsepower sells cars, Torque moves them", but stopped when they realized they sold every TDI they were allowed to sell in the US, so why bother to advertise them.

Because peak horsepower numbers only tell the story at one point in time. For example, the 2.4 in the Lacrosse has it's peak horsepower right at redline, but the torque curve is almost flat. This is what direct injection gets you, very even low end torque. The Hyundai gets its best MPG from the cars very light weight and the same torque advantages that direct injection gets.....the number that makes the Hyundai more compelling is the 186ft/lbs at 4200rpm such a light package. 200hp at 6300rpm isn't all that impressive.

stop looking at peak HP numbers anymore, they are going to become irrelevant here real soon.

would have been more effective if there was actually a remarkable difference in the Pontiacs..... as it was, the Intrigue actually had a wider track.

.... like playing Bridge..... if you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.

Mileage is relative to price. Age.... well.. no carburetors...

Cash is king, but I think you're going to have a hard time finding a GMT800 for that money and those miles and that vintage. The reason I am looking at the Oldsmobile is because they took the biggest depreciation hit of anything in the GM stable.