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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    Truck overcompensation only comes into play when they are excessively and garishly modified. (Stacks, excessive lift kits, tacked on turbo whistles, etc etc)
  2. Drew Dowdell
    “Peak truck market” is probably right. The next recession is going to hit this country hard because one of the things a falling dollar will do is drive oil prices up. A lot of people fresh into their 4 or 5 year lease will suddenly have a truck that they can't afford to fuel and can’t get out of the lease because no one else wants it. Trucks may be more efficient than ever, but they’re still not going to beat a 45mpg Camry Hybrid on an endurance race between fuel pumps. The current model of purchasing vehicles (84 month financing, relatively fuel inefficient vehicles, buying way more than can be afforded) is simply not sustainable. Eventually the credit will run out, the recession will hit, and it will all come crashing down again. We didn’t learn our lesson from 10 years ago.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    Not quite yet.... this might be a setup for it... but it’s not hitting yet. When housing sales plummet, that’s when to take cover. I’m starting to think the Ford is heading towards bankruptcy in the next recession though.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    But the X-Class is none of that. It’s a rebadged Nissan Frontier. A new Frontier isn’t all that far away and the X-Class will likely be another rebadge of that. For Mercedes to do what you said, they’d have to copy Cadillac and make a G-Class EXT.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    I changed the max limits for the profile photos to something more reasonable so now you can update them if you like
  6. Drew Dowdell
    I was unclear. It's something like gaining 4 inches of cab room with only a 1 inch increase in length or something like that. I don't have the numbers handy either, but the jist of it is that the cab size increase does not have a corresponding truck length increase.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    The new 1500 is about an inch taller than the outgoing 1500. (from memory) They made the hood taller so they could shorten hood length to increase cab size without an impact to the overall length. Basically, they stretched the truck upwards in an effort to give more passenger and cargo room without making the truck longer.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    Selling High Country in the Old Country.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    These Subscription services are still too expensive. I imagine they're trying to turn a profit on reselling insurance and that is one thing that is driving up costs. The only good thing I see about this is the ability to "unsubscribe" almost any time you want after the first year... but I would be swapping out the car as many times as I was allowed just beacuse I'm allowed. These Subscription services are still too expensive. I imagine they're trying to turn a profit on reselling insurance and that is one thing that is driving up costs. The only good thing I see about this is the ability to "unsubscribe" almost any time you want after the first year... but I would be swapping out the car as many times as I was allowed just beacuse I'm allowed. What I don't get is why the manufacturers want to get into the insurance business. Getting out of their core comfort zones usually leads to poor results.
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  11. Drew Dowdell
    Pick your first and second runners-up. I'm going to do all of them, I just want to know which ones I should do first.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    Not by GM. I think some 3d party did.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    I wonder when we're going to start seeing things like carbon fiber valvetrains.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    So don't buy one if you don't want it. Personally, would have preferred they did the JGC first.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    Ford is already selling all the F-150s in the US they can build. Maybe GM, with their falling truck sales numbers, should give it a go in the UK.... oh, no wait... they mostly pulled out of Europe except for Corvette and Cadillac.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    I'm not surprised about the Cascada. It seemed like a one and done from the start and the only reason it was brought here was that it was on a Federalized platform and there was extra room on the boat coming over. The interior, while decent, was the very last of that generation of Buick/Opel interior to be released before they started doing the nicer ones we see today.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    I think GM is just trying to prove that a 4-cylinder pickup could sell. Still, I'd rather have a 6 even if it is a smaller turbo one like the Ford 2.7T.
  18. Drew Dowdell
    I've recently tried out a bunch of cars. Here is the list. I want to know if there are any, in particular, you think I should focus on. If you could pick your top 3. GMC Terrain Denali, Chevy Cruze RS Red-line, CT6 Platinum SuperCruise, Infiniti QX80, Chevy Camaro Convertible, '19 Jetta, '19 Subaru Ascent, 19 Infiniti QX50, '19 Altima AWD, '19 M-B CLS 450 Designo, Mazda Miata The following were off-road only - Wrangler, GMC Sierra AT4, Ram Rebel I have a new Avalon Limited that a client just bought who will let me test it also.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    I started a liquid diet too... for medicinal ppuporpposess... .
  20. Drew Dowdell
    Probably a press car.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    Time to put you in the retirement home.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    I love the new Lincoln names. I'm actually interested to see what they re-name the MKC into. I imagine the MKZ is probably dead as a doornail, but going back to Zephyr would be fine with me if it stuck around. I wonder if Lincoln could partner with someone who isn't giving up on sedans to make a replacement.... a heavily reworked Mazda 6 might not be bad and Mazda has no problem building cars for other brands.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    You're right, that was a typo on my part. I imagine it would be easier if models had names instead of scrabble letters.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    Around $32k and relatively similar interior sizes, they're all competition.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    Differences of a couple inches do not a whole new segment make. It's price first and then a GENERAL size class.
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