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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    the process is running but has still gotten stuck multiple times. I may have to keep restarting it. I'll post here when it is done.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    Can’t fix from my iPad. Basically a file move process is stuck. I’ll kick it unstuck when I get home in about 90 minutes. It will probably take overnight to finish. Also, I see your files in the queue, so you should not need to reupload them, they’ll just appear.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    On it
  4. Drew Dowdell
    The Colorado / Canyon just doesn't seem to fit me. I feel like I'm falling forward off the seat and there isn't enough horizontal support. It's a shame because I really want to like them. Edit: I doubt any Ranger intenders will be put off by the interior. It's just going to be us auto-journo types who complain about it.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    But it went down in status.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    Only when driven in an optimal way... which is to say... the opposite of the way most people drive. It is possible in a Maxima, because I've done it, to bring the engine up to about 1700 rpm and hold it there and the car will accelerate to 60 mph in a normal rate of speed. No one ever drives like that. I did it just to experiment.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    <-- musk to investors
  8. Drew Dowdell
    CVTs are cheap, that's why they're popular with manufacturers.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    dyslexia strikes again. I suppose if it was just on the cusp it could cause the rounding issue. Perhaps we are at peak gear ratios where adding more speeds over 8 isn't going to gain much in mpg.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    That's a bit disingenuous. The Eldorado was a very different car starting in '67.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    Yeah, the weight has to be coming from somewhere else.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    This will get me crucified around here, but I still think the Taco is the best truck of the bunch. The GM twins have outdated and compromised interiors, the Ranger has no V6 and an old interior. The Taco's interior is comfortable, the V6 has sufficient (if not neck snapping) punch, and it's off-road version is tried and true.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    100 lbs is certainly enough to tip the rounding up.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    Sadly, the Canyon Denali is an even worse deal
  15. Drew Dowdell
    Did weight go up?
  16. Drew Dowdell
    I just can't get into the Ranger because of its interior. It's a 2012 Fusion inside. The Colorado/Canyon feel just as outdated but they have it worse with some pretty terrible seats for taller folks like me.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    Looks like the faceplate for the boiler tubes for a steam engine. But you live in Amish country... there is good homemade furniture everywhere!
  18. Drew Dowdell
    There was a lot more competition, even when GM had 50% market share. Back then, even GM divisions were competing against each other. From the 20s to the 60s, there was extreme competition just in the domestic market You had GM with 6 or more divisions depending on which year you counted. You had Chrysler with 5 divisions. Ford with 5 divisions. Packard - Studebaker Nash - Hudson - Metropolitan / AMC Kaiser Frazier - Henry J - Willys International etc etc etc.... and that's before any of the imports. Today we have a GM that is down to 4 divisions with relatively little overlap, Ford with just 2, Fiat Chrysler which is a mess except for Jeep and Ram. Today the Ford Fusions has domestic competition from the Malibu, Impala, and Charger (if we're being generous). That's before all of the import competition in that segment. I'm not sure I could count the number of competing domestic products for the Ford Fairlane range. Ford had at least 4 competing products from Mercury and Edsel, GM probably had another 6 if we count everything from Chevy to Olds. Another 6 from Chrysler. That is 16 competing nameplates from just 3 companies. But once imports started gaining a foothold here, the domestic companies could no longer fund that inefficient style of operation.... did GM really need however many different V8 designs it had in 1958? I get that some variation is warranted, but a completely different block between a Chevy, Pontiac, Olds, Buick, and Cadillac is just horribly inefficient. Cut that down to 3 blocks that all divisions can use and change the tuning or cams to allow for brand specific needs.... tada! That's where we are today (5.3 liter, 6.2 liter, 4.2 liter) In order to reach that economy of scale, the manufacturers would have to reduce their portfolios to just two or three platforms and try to cram everything on just those platforms.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    I think that would have been the old Yaris... you're not wrong about it being a POS, but it's not the better Mazda built one available today.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    Yes, Toyota is selling the Yaris sedan, built by Mazda.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    It really depends on the car for me.... I would very much enjoy both of those vehicles. However, for the cars I normally go for (CT6, XC90, S90, Jeep GC), the vroom vroom noises aren't what they are made for.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    Because 'Merica. But you have a decent point... would this change Ford's idea of building Focus in China.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    You already said you'd like an XC90. You can get that as a plug-in hybrid. I'm sure it's just a pricing thing.... same as me.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    Tariffs on Japanese imports wouldn't make sense... not that making sense is a prerequisite for the latest round of tariffs.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    This is true... Honda intentionally under-produces to avoid a situation with excess inventory. They brag about having the lowest rental fleet sales in the industry partially for that reason. I don't think they care about winning the volume war, they aim for per-unit profitability, thus aim to keep margins high, not just the lights on.
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