Drew Dowdell

It's an Op Ed. Argue why the opinion is wrong instead of just dismissing it because it is an opinion. She makes some good points in the article.

I was bringing that up here a decade ago.

The RDX is a fine car on paper, but I do not like the way it drives...the brakes on it are scary.

GM will be showcasing a bunch of crossovers. If one of those crossovers is an EV, that is completely incidental.

Envision is overpriced and small compared to the Terrain sitting in the same showroom. Feature for feature, even though the Terrain itself is pricey, it is a better value than the Envision. The Acadia is such a snoozer of a vehicle. If you're looking for a 5-passenger crossover, the Terrain is probably sufficient and looks better. If you need 7 passenger, there is the lovely looking Enclave sitting next to it. Plus, the base engine in the Acadia sucks, so anyone wanting to get the good V6 has to cough up the money to get to at least a mid-level vehicle.... and then they get hit with GM's assinine pricing. If you're buying something the Acadia's size, you go to the Jeep or Honda dealership and don't look back. I think the issue with the XT5 is that it is time for a visual refresh. I never really cared for the looks of it from the start, but refreshing it to the new Cadillac face would help significantly. I still prefer the previous SRX over the XT5.

Woah!

Maybe part of the reason the Volt is getting dropped.

you haven't found something that you'd rather have.

That isn't what is causing the fall. It is that China's economy is pumping the brakes right now, but it is rapidly falling iPhone sales that are one of the canaries in the coal mine. Auto sales have been falling there for months. The reaction of the stock market has less to do with Apple profits and more to do with fears on the global economy. We're not even into a global recession yet, so expect stocks to fall a lot further... We could be back to the 19,827 that Obama left us within a few months.

SA has been lying about the amount of discovered reserves they have left for years.

SA is doing everything possible to diversify their economy away from relying solely on oil. It's almost as if they know something we don't.

A guy from Argo told me the reason they use PHEVs for self driving vehicles is because they're the only ones that have the battery and voltage capacity to run all of the electronics.

Refusal to accept automation as coming will result in the same thing happening.

That's actually a phenomenal performance for Tesla. 145,846 Model 3 is just about equal to what Mercedes Benz will sell of CLA, C-Class, E-Class, and CLS combined this year. (They were at 135k YTD for those 4 models back in November)

Starting at 4:30 you can see the differences in power management.

There was also the 7.0

I think 2 is the minimum and everything else depends on how you count. That is, a cycle could fire 3 times, but it might skip 1 or 2 or 3 cylinders before that third cylinder fires. There was a youtube video that showed it. I'll try and find it. That said, I've driven the Sierra Denali with it and the system is absolutely seamless. Even less noticeable than the V8/4 of Active Displacement.

Supposedly, they figured it out and yes they can indeed do exactly that.

My point is that any cylinder can be shut off... not just half the cylinders. From GM's press release:

No, DFM definitely operates on all 16 valves.

GVWR is 6300. He's referring to a specific part of the tax code that lets businesses depreciate a business vehicle faster if they are over the 6,000 lbs requirement.

#1 Your costs are out of date. Solar costs about $3,100 per KW (before tax credits) these days and it continues to fall at a rapid pace. I'd also want to see a link to your natural gas assertion... NG is cheap, but not that cheap, and you're not figuring in the cost of the equipment and the maintenance to keep it running. #2 I'm fine with a nuclear future, however, a wind future is not outside the realm of possibilities. For what we've spent on the Iraq and Afganistan wars, we could have blanketed the mid-west (the Saudi Arabia of wind power) with enough wind turbines to power the entire US with quintuple redundancy. (Not saying that we would build to 5-times required capacity, just that for that amount of money, we could have). There is more to the cost of fossil fuels than just the number on the pump. While autos have become remarkably cleaner, ships, trains, and factories have lagged behind. There are external costs that never get priced into that gallon you pump into your car. Dynamic fuel management is just a more advanced Active fuel management that can shut down a greater number of cylinders.

I think all of the deallocations are being used as leverage against the union, but nothing is final yet.

^^ This. As long as there are still base models for people to buy, a $60k version is fine also. Nothing wrong with selection. Still, they may need to put some cash on the hood to get the lower models to move.

That motor is "just enough" for the Ascent, so it should be plenty spiffy for the Outback.