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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    Do you want to end up in a tree? Because that's how you end up in a tree....
  2. Drew Dowdell
    Welcome to C&G. Hope you'll settle in nicely here. We have a few US Jeep drivers and at least two who once had Liberty CRDs.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    What is likely going on is that the torque limitation applies only in certain gears, so the ECU will torque manage the output in those gears to prevent damage. So while you might be getting full torque in 1st gear, you won't get it in 5th or 6th gear where things get more delicate. This is just a hypothesis. I don't see any evidence of Jeep using an Aisin BG6 in the Liberty, and furthermore, the BG6 appears to be a front-wheel drive transmission as it is used in the Patriot and Compass CRD overseas. It's also possible that Daimler underrated the transmission as the German companies tend to do with a lot of their capability specs.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    I never got anything close to that with my Nexus 6P when even when it was new. I don't know why I keep ending up with these borked phones. Even my work iPhone 6s has issues. Physically, my phones are museum pieces in lack of dings or cracks. They just run frustratingly bad. The only phone I've had that ran great was my old blackberry, but that's because there weren't any apps to use.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    im going to have to replace my Nexus 6P really soon. I'm hoping it can hold out till the Moto z3 (not the Z3 play) comes out next month.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    Good. I want there to be some competition in this segment. right now, I think the Porsche is the best
  7. Drew Dowdell
    Didn't we have a blizzard there that year? I think that's the year @William Maley had a Miata with snow tires as his press car for the show.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    Volvo sales are on a general uptrend.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    Steam trains "rolling coal" are done for show these days. Back in the day, steam engine crews took pride in running extremely clean fires with very little soot.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    that's what she said....
  11. Drew Dowdell
    But in this case, are they wrong about what they're complaining about?
  12. Drew Dowdell
    I disagree that the greenhouse has to be smaller than the sedan, I disagree that the rear seat has to be small. Even the roofline bit, while not wrong, is not a rule.... but I agree with most other things. A Coupe Deville was anything but sporty... but it was, somehow, marginally sportier than the Sedan Deville.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    yeah, that's what I'd do.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    Plymouth was because there was no point in marketing low cost sedans and minivans that were identical in content and price to Dodge. Olds was a mistake, it was the most technologically advanced division at the time outside of Cadillac. If nothing else, Olds should have been merged into Saturn in order to shed the name baggage. By the time Saturn died, they no longer did anything special. Everything they built with the exception of the Astra could be bought at the same price at another GM dealership Saab was just excess capacity that only a few fanbois wanted to keep around. Pontiac had some special models, but largely survived on the $199 down / $199 a month G6 leases, and it simply wasn't sustainable in that capacity. At the time, GM was forced to flood the market with cars simply to keep up with their union and capital obligations. Ford was doing the same with Mercury and the lower end of their car lineup. Ford and Pontiac both were dumping their small and mid-size sedans onto the Federal Government. To that end, there is still excess capacity out there. Lordstown is only about 50% capacity even when Cruze production is maxed out, I don't even know what it is down to now. Lansing is about to get a whole lot more room. VW Chattanooga apparently has room for more. The list goes on.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    You can express your viewpoint in more appropriate ways. It's the language, not the sentiment, that I object to. And in reply to your pre-edited comment.... Let's not get hyperbolic about if it's dangerous to ask the community if that type of comment is appropriate here. You couldn't get such language past the moderators at Edmunds for example.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    The Honda Civic can go over $30k now. In May I was driving a Cruze with a $27k sticker and zero powertrain upgrades. There was over supply of vehicles when we lost those nameplates. I don't know the supply level of nails, but if that company goes under, you better believe there is going to be a shortage if 50% of the supply goes away. The whole point of tariffs is to give the protected industries some breathing room on price. No they are not required to raise their prices, but now that their competition's price is raising they would not be fulfilling their fiduciary duty to stock holders. Will the results be immediate? I can't answer that... but without a change in course, prices will be higher.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    Honestly don't know. I'm willing to leave it up until and unless I get a notification from Google AdSense.
  18. Drew Dowdell
    In this case, this company was buying steel from itself in Mexico. The automotive equivalent would be if GM owned a steel plant in Mexico, rolled it into sheet metal, and then shipped it to Michigan for stamping in Lansing. The tariffs allow the US steel companies to raise their prices, so even if they did switch to US steel in order to avoid the tariff, they aren't avoiding the cost increase. Any shortage in the supply chain will cause the other 14 manufacturers to raise prices as well. In the end, anyone who buys nails will pay more.... and that's why sudden moves like this are bad.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    Just a heads up. Sometimes I get dinged by adsense for bikini clad women on here. I can't risk the revenue stream, so if I get a ding, I have to take that down. Nothing personal.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    You can downvote me all you like @ocnblu. It doesn't change the fact that you don't understand the economics of what is happening and what was happening before trump. The most "American" sedan out there today is the Avalon and it is likely to increase in cost by about $1700. Buick could potentially be closed as most of its lineup is imported. Retaliatory tariffs mean that all those GLEs and X5s built in the US can no longer be sold in the EU costing Americans jobs. The ham fisted tariffs are already costing hundreds of jobs and potentially wiping out 50% of the nail making capacity in North America.... so the cost of building a house will become higher. Housing prices being higher, plus mortgage interest rates going higher means fewer people buy homes, means fewer people shop at home improvement stores and furniture stores. Everything is tied to everything else. Toying with the economy is something done with delicacy.... not the way it is being done now. Seems like Ocn's post above is a good way to test the community moderation. If it gets enough reports for abusive behavior, it automatically gets moderated away. Democracy in action.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    This statement shows an utter ignorance of what is going on both before and after Trump. Hope you like paying a lot more for everything... even your "American made" stuff. It will wipe out any tax break you may have received and then some.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    Something's wrong. I get 13 mpg in my Toronado. No way the xt5 did that badly.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    He's speaking of build quality.... and the Corvette was not considered a luxury car in the mid-80s. The SL in the 80s had exposed screws in the trim, the lights... giant rubber grommets behind the door handles. . It had those huge battering ram bumpers (the corvette was much more svelt on that count). Even my Oldsmobile has better build quality... I cannot see any exposed screws from the drivers seat except for one small silver one holding the power window/door/seat control in place. The SL has really fantastic leather seats and a dream of an engine that is a nightmare on your checkbook to repair. Like the CLA and G-Wagon (until 2018), just because it sold at a luxury car price does not make it a luxury car.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    Ferrari has already been legally separated from FCA. Maserati is as well.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    It's a hatchback
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