Drew Dowdell

Pork Roll and spam are not quite the same thing

I'll have a #1, please. but seriously, there is only one place in town I have found that I can buy pork roll. I'm the only one in the house that will eat it though I don't know why. I think people just object to the name because the same people who turn their nose up at pork roll will go and eat salami or other deli hams.

Update: Albert really likes the idea of a crossover sedan like that.

I agree. I think something is up though. GM is in the process of re-doing ALL of their platforms.. they want to go the VW route of MLB and MQB, but with two additional variations. I'm wondering if we don't see something come from that. Or maybe even *gasp* a Bolt City Express! . An EV city delivery van with a 250 mile range could turn the segment on its ear.

How many Germans does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Just one. Germans are efficient and not very funny.

Back in 2014, Chevrolet introduced a small delivery van called the City Express. The new little can was the result of a marketing agreement between Nissan and General Motors for Chevy to rebadge Nissan's successful NV200 small delivery wagon. But where Nissan did well, Chevrolet faltered and the City Express languished on lots. Typical sales months for the CE were in the triple digits while by comparison, Ford moved as many as five times that amount with its direct competitor the Transit Connect. Automotive News reports that back in September, dealers were told to stop ordering them and as of February this year the last City Express rolled off the line and has already been scrubbed from the Chevy website. No word yet on if Chevrolet intends a replacement on its own platform. Source: Automotive News Photo: GM, with Editorial additions by Drew Dowdell View full article

Okay, so that looks really cool... a crossover sedan PHEV with AWD and 350 miles of range. If I wanted to fill up both the battery and gas tank along the Turnpike, I could. 400 horsepower is just under all three of my current vehicles, combined.

Right now a big issue in China is that manufacturer, particularly in tech and automotive, are required to turn over intellectual property to state-owned businesses. Trump is fighting that. I disagree with such turnovers in China and I disagree with it here.

They have multiple avenues. Since they are trying to be more economically democratic, but still with a directed economy, the way to most influence consumer spending is to charge additional tax at the pump and use that tax to build temporarily subsidized EV charging stations. That way "The People" can vote with their wallet the next time they buy a new car.

My fault, the way I said it came out wrong and unclear. Trump is arguing with China to get them to stop this requirement. That's what I agree with him on.... not the domestic requirements he is doing here.

A stopped clock is right twice a day thus this is one of the few areas I support Trump's actions on.

Unless everyone is pumping at 100%, which they aren't, oil producers can increase production faster than Chinese industry can increase car sales. Furthermore, as the price of oil goes up, indirect industry tends to slow. The oil prices going up rapidly is one of those Series of Unfortunate Events that helped to cause the last big economic meltdown. Socialism isn't the issue.. corruption is.

Under what requirement?!? I can see a voluntary survey, but facing fines and imprisonment??

Absent global strife, oil prices at $150 - $200 a barrel become a check valve because overproduction starts to kick in and there are now enough players for one to play the spoiler and overproduce at those prices to bring the prices per barrel down.

The one thing that surprised me about @William Maley's review is his statement that the car is super quiet inside. I haven't driven this version of Sonata, but prior versions had some road and engine noise issues. So assuming Will's observation is correct, then Hyundai has gone on a quiet tuning quest.

being a controlled economy, they can slowly increase the price of gasoline. take the profits and use them to subsidize electric charging station installations.

No, because it connects sometimes. It's not even really out of date. I'm on the newest version of Android. I just won't get any future updates to android.

Yes. It's more for the social media aspect. For the posting of reviews and reveals, I would still use my Sony Alpha A6000 that I love, but its connection to my phone is beyond terrible. It only connects about 25% of the time which makes it difficult to snap a picture and post to instagram or facebook. Plus, it would be good for situations where I think I might need a camera but I'm not going to pack the big camera, so I can just take that attachment.

I really like the look. I'd get it in the 2.0T of course.

I'm really waiting for the Z3, I want the camera attachment. If I don't get that, then I'm going with a new Pixel XL

I'm on an 810 I think. I have like 5 different sets of bluetooth headphones

Do you want to end up in a tree? Because that's how you end up in a tree....