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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    Keeping in mind that the tastes for what consituted luxury have changed in the past 40 years... it use to be about ultimate quiet and comfort compared to the hard seats and pumped in engine noises you get today.... this is the cushmobile that Cubi is referring to above.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    If you ever go to a car cruise, look for a mid-70s to mid-80s Oldsmobile Buick Cadillac Chrysler Lincoln, etc from the higher ends of the range (not a Cutlass, but a Toronado or Ninety Eight) You'll see the difference compared to the nylon denim they put in cars today.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    My car if that happened to me....
  4. Drew Dowdell
    Not everyone picks up random homeless drug addicts like you to Cubi...
  5. Drew Dowdell
    Garbage cloth is garbage. The old luxury cloth seats from up until about 1990 were great. The cloth I have in my Toronado is leagues better than any cloth you can get today.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    It doesn't seem like "The Best or Nothing" either... GLS and all below it come with Pleather seats standard.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    I love it! "It's so retro!"
  8. Drew Dowdell
    That's less than I paid for my Encore lease. I get the Honda back from the body shop today (had a bad hinge replaced) and then it's getting cleaned up and going on Craigslist and Auto Trader.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    Drugs are bad m'kay? I have no recollection of posting that. I was looking at the thread because the price interested me. I don't think I even used that phrase this morning to anyone.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    How are you?
  11. Drew Dowdell
    I can put that one to bed right now. We have multiple autonomous vehicle companies working here in Pittsburgh. Both Uber and Argo AI have R&D centers here, Google is up to something here with AD, and Carnegie Mellon University was one of the first to get a fully autonomous system functioning. I've ridden with one of the Argo engineers. This picture of an Argo AI Ford Fusion was not taken by me... but it could have been. It is the intersection where my office in downtown is. There is a reason they use exclusively Fusion Hybrids and Volvo XC90 Hybrids... it's not for fuel efficiency. Plug-In Hybrids are the only vehicles with enough electrical reserve to run all of the electronics required for fully autonomous driving. That's why GM went with a self-driving Bolt and not a self-driving Cruze. The autonomous developers want bigger capacity batteries just as much as everyone else.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    An absolutely Immaculate first generation Dodge Dynasty. Very likely with the original owner behind the wheel. Grandpa was making *ahem* excellent time! It did not have a V6 badge on it so that means it was the 2.5 liter 4 cylinder and a Chrysler 3-speed automatic praying the rosary at that speed over the mountains outside Altoona. I also found a mostly intact white '84/'85 Toronado in a scrapyard with the same color interior as mine but full leather... AND the leather is near perfect! I will be placing phone calls tomorrow. There are a bunch of parts I'd like to snatch. I'll have some pics from that scrap yard to post later, some shots that might interest @balthazar
  13. Drew Dowdell

    Pictures!

    Drew Dowdell replied to Enzora's topic in The Lounge

  14. Drew Dowdell
    It's not fast, but it's not Encore slow either. With the 9 speed auto it will be okay for the target audience.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    Size? weight? difference for difference sake? GM product planners don't talk to each other? Makes no sense to me either. The 2.5 is not a great choice for this vehicle or the Acadia.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    Na, they'd have to use TrailBlazer. Just like they need to use Electra for any electric Buick.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    What do you have against diesel style low end torque?
  18. Drew Dowdell
    No, the 2.5 is not the mild hybrid version. It's the basic 2.5 from the Acadia. I like that RS and Premier get the advanced AWD with Twin Clutch. That means they could, should they want to, build a TrailBlazer (Think Colorado TrailBoss) version credibly. After sleeping on it. I do think I really like it.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    All of the GMs and the RAM could move production to the US. The cheap ones will probably just get cancelled. The ct6 plug in could be built here, they just sell most of them in China.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    Well there you go @regfootball , the sporty GM crossover you were asking for. Me? I kinda like it, and I’m just glad there is the 3.6 liter instead of the 2.0T from the Traverse. Good tie in to Camaro too, I wonder if there is actually any parts sharing there or just in appearance.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    We don't pay tariffs to other countries for items exported from the US. The customers in those countries pay the tariff. We pay very few tariffs in this country and the ones we do pay are quite low unless you're trying to buy a truck from Germany...
  22. Drew Dowdell
    The C70 had a diesel in EU. But yes, I'm sure somewhere in history there was a Volvo without a diesel engine. Perhaps its the first Volvo without a diesel since Chinese ownership? Something I've had to learn at work recently. Don't assume malicious intent.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    Pricey
  24. Drew Dowdell
    Updated.... but again, the off-road options on the Overland are optional Top-O-The-Line is the Summit that has all of everything and can top out at $63k with a diesel. The Trackhawks and SRTs are above that, but they're not really offroaders like the Trailhawk, Summit, and Overland are.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    The 2.7T with electrification would be more than enough to move an Escalade around. A 3.0TT in an escalade would be too much in a country where gas is already over $4 a gallon. I got 27mpg out of it in a CT6, but an Escalade couldn't count on that.
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