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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    Yes, but LG rather than GM. And the issue with Elon is that he is dishonestly manipulating the market with his tweets. See the recent series of tweets regarding Tesla layoffs and the whole Twitter blowup
  2. Drew Dowdell
    @regfootball why are we shouting? There’s a big interior space difference. External dimensions are a red herring.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    I liked the Milan a lot.. it had just a little bit more flare than a Fusion and it had the hint of being more luxury than a Ford.... not much, but enough that Mercury might have been able to pull away from Ford had they been allowed. My Aunt had one of the last Mountineers and she would say she'd never get an Explorer. She has an Aviator now... so... true.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    1. HR Director took delivery of her brand new Tesla Model Y on Friday. 2. By Wednesday it was on a flatbed, stone dead, getting trucked back to Tesla for repairs.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    Yikes! That's a miracle! It manages to be slower than my Encore was.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    Yeah, for most of the length it is still 2 lanes each direction. There's room to expand it, but they just haven't.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    That suggests you haven't been on 95 in Georgia lately. It is, by far, the worse part of the trip for traffic. Regularly down to 55-60 in the left lane with no opportunity to pass. Jacksonville to Brunswick is fine, but from there through Savannah until the interchange with 26 is awful. North of Charlotte to the VA border is the second worst.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    yeah, there was a decent but not terrible upcharge for them.... but they only came in upper trims anyway. I don't think they built them as base models. The big negative is that the AWD versions were dropped only a year or so in... so if you wanted a diesel + AWD as I would have, you were out of luck.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    an EV SUV would be fine for you then. 10 minutes on a fast charger while you take a bathroom/food break and you'll keep it going After multiple round trips to Florida... I stopped trying to do those marathons of driving without stopping. I stop when I feel the need to stop. It's not a race and there's probably slow traffic in Georgia anyway.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    I used to be able to do that in my younger years... I'd do Pittsburgh to NJ in one shot. I just can't make it more than about 200 miles anymore.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    Blue badge says TD and yup, it’s the turbo diesel
  12. Drew Dowdell
    10 min every hour and a half and you’d never need a full recharge stop until your destination I don’t think the EUV has the new Ultium batteries.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    Here’s a rare one What’s her beef with the Grand Cherokee?
  14. Drew Dowdell
    Given the time span between when @Robert Hall trades vehicles, his next one will be in 2033 anyway, by that point $80k will be entry level. But I hear you on range. I physically can’t go more than 200 miles without stopping. My bladder doesn’t have that range. The new GM and Tesla batteries can add 100 miles in 10 minutes. That’s enough to keep me on the road at the same pace my bladder needs.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    As with everything, there's an App for that.... several in fact. This is from the Plugshare app. Any EV with a 350 mile range and fast charging ability should be sufficient
  16. Drew Dowdell
    It is highly dependent on the chemistry of the battery. Batteries can have extremely long lives though, so even when a battery is done in an EV, it can go on to serve as a household solar power storage unit for another decade or more. A gas engine can't really compete with that. Gas engines, and their transmissions, are incredibly complex even just from a metallurgy standpoint. The amount of time and energy that goes into creating and transporting all of those parts is mind blowing. That said, there have been some relatively recent battery breakthroughs that will, in future, reduce the amount of rare earth metals used in batteries. Telsa has already implemented them in some of their cars. The batteries are smaller and lighter for the same power output and range. There are two main points to EVs: 1. It makes the method of propulsion fuel agnostic. It doesn't matter if you have coal, natural gas, wind, hydro, solar, rooftop solar, nuclear, or a hamster running on a wheel generating electricity. The car doesn't care. If all of the sudden we can't use coal anymore, there's 5 or 6 more options to switch to and you don't even have to think about it, your power company does that. 2. Even if you charge your EV from a coal plant (which the vast majority don't, coal use has fallen below 20% in this country), it is still cleaner from a CO2 standpoint because EVs are just that much more efficient. Additionally, it is far easier to make sure that a few power plants are burning cleanly than it is to make sure 200 million cars are. You live in NY, so you have emissions checks. Ohio doesn't bother with that, so cars can pollute however much they want and I get to breathe it all.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    I'm curious as to why you think it wouldn't work for you?
  18. Drew Dowdell
    dropped last year or the year before... don't remember exactly when.
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    But she still bought a Rogue Sport.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    Yeah, but the pound of chicken breast doesn't have to go to the sales manager to see if he can do anything on your trade, and he doesn't add two basis points to your loan's interest rate, and he doesn't try and sell you undercoating, and the price doesn't magically go up if you decide to pay cash.... and so on. I would like to go to the store, select the options I want, check the box (or not) for CadillacCare Warranty, opt for financing (or not) with no dealership overhead, and get an upfront amount on my trade if I have one. The process should be as simple as buying a phone.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    It's a specific styling direction that BMW is taking.... oddly enough it was started by Volvo that started putting RWD proportions in FWD vehicles.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    The whole range of these segments is really weird.... like the RDX is CRV based so it should feel pretty roomy inside, but it doesn't because of the way the dash is packaged. There's a good bit of cargo space though so interior volume is fairly large... it just doesn't feel large. So as a driver, it feels no bigger than an X3 even though technically there is more room out back. The XT4 feels big for the class as it competes with the tiny GLA, but small at the same time. The low roof is a compromise for those who want "crossover coupes". The Corsair feels like a shortened version of a larger car, and it is FWD based so it gets those packaging efficiencies.... so even though it is roughly the same size as the GLC outside, it's got a lot more room inside.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    Woop... that was a mistake. I didn't make the list in exact order, I would remember something and go back an add it. Will fix.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    GLB is larger than X1... this is an area where there's not a lot of direct competition in size and because of the Germans' insane numbering system it gets confusing. In order of size, based on my opinion of interior roominess feel GLA / X2 (hatchbacks with lift kits... aka squished crossover coupes) X1 / Q3 (Similar legroom to Encore, but wider) XT4 Q4 e-Tron (This is about Encore GX in size) Q5 X3 / GLC / GV70 / RDX GLB Corsair (the Corsair is a good 3 inches wider, so it feels roomier. The GLB has the 3rd row, but slightly less cargo room.) ..... big gap XT5 ..... smaller gap X5 / GLE / XT6 / Aviator / GV80 / MDX Can't really go on exterior length. The GLB is FWD base and the GLC is RWD based... the GLC also has some legitimate off-road chops if you really wanted to. So while they may have similar exterior dimensions, the FWD packaging of the GLB gives more interior room.... enough so that you can get an optional 3rd row in it. The orientation of the engine really matters in packaging when talking about vehicles this small.
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