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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    Fantastic car! They are so smooth and stable on the road. They track really well. Comparing their driving dynamics to a BMW is not unfounded. The best part is the big American V8 under the hood. It's unfortunate that the Hellcats get all the attention for their huge horsepower numbers, but the SS is so much better of a car dynamically that it more than makes up for the large horsepower deficiency. It's also unfortunate that this is the end of the SS.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    At least on the older ones... I dislike how much outside noise gets into the Mini Cooper that I wouldn't want to take a long trip with just myself.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    Aside from the development costs... there's no reason they couldn't go down that route with something modern. The i-MiEV is ancient technology in EV terms... it was launched in 2009 in Japan which means it was developed in the 2006 - 2008 timeframe. That actually makes it older than the Nissan Leaf. Nissan has a new Leaf coming, there would be potential for some development cost sharing there, but I don't see Nissan getting the oddball looking car while Mitsu gets a conventional looking EV Sedan. Nissan gets first dibs.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    It has terrible terrible range and barely qualifies as a car.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    Sure... someone gets out of the reservation line and someone else will get back in.... but they're still not going to sell all of those orders in the first year. It is going to take them 3 years to churn through the list.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    I just want to point out that Tesla is not going to fill all of the reservations for the Model-3 in the first year....it will take about three years for them to churn through the backlog... in the meantime, more of those waiting on reserve could wander off and buy something else instead.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    So... the delta between the two is more than double the total Mustang sales per month in China (average = 310). Are Chinese sales of Mustang still something to tapdance about? I couldn't resist either.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    That's odd. I thought they swapped you into another of the same model you were turning in for service. It might not be the exact same level 60/70/80/90/100, but a Model-S gets a Model-S and a Model-X gets a Model-X. Maybe @FAPTurbo can answer?
  9. Drew Dowdell
    Indeed... I feel very comfortable in the car when it's just the two of us. It's when we try to put 4 adults in there for a long trip that it becomes an issue. We can do it... but it's tight.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    I moved the excellent Tesla discussion into it's own thread: Measuring Tesla's Success or Failure. Some small bits of Mitsubishi discussion got swept into there because they were in the same post as a Tesla post. I've tried to divide it up as cleanly as possible. Feel free to repost in the appropriate thread any point you made that seems to have gone into the wrong bucket.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    I agree with you on the brand equity thing.... but Nissan did spend the money to buy Mitsu... so they should give Mitsu a purpose in life, which it doesn't have right now.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    Back to Mitsubishi specifically - If they get a version of the Frontier also... that would make 3 versions of the same truck running around? Frontier, X-Class, and I guess we'll call it Raider(?) for now. If Nissan were smart.... they would bring back something that Mitsubishi was known for... offering AWD in many of their models. They need an AWD Galant, an AWD Eclipse, an AWD Diamante, plus all of the crossovers currently required to compete in today's market. They need to be Nissan's direct answer to Subaru, car for car.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    Tesla has higher market cap only because of speculators betting on its future value.... not what the company is generating in revenue or even it's total assets minus total debts. I like Tesla, I like their cars, and I like electric cars... but market cap is not an accurate measure of a company's worth when so much of it involves speculation. For example... if we went by your standards of using market cap, United Airlines lost $750 million in worth just for having security beat up an old Doctor.... but Assets minus Debts did not change, sales don't appear to have been affected, and the stock has now bounced back and heading close to a 52 week high. Market Cap as a measure of a company's worth is as useless as tenths of a second in 0-60 times determining which car is better.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    The Trax/Encore specifically have an unusually good amount of front driver room for such small vehicles.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    Me. I bought an Encore when it was first released and it has served us well.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    If one is available to drive on May 18th at the next event I'm going to.... I'll make sure to take note and/or video it.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    I've driven the RWD 8-speed in just about every vehicle it is available in except the mid-size trucks of which I expect to experience in 2 weeks. Some of them on the track (non-competition) and some of them just in normal street driving. It does have different modes, one of which is granny mode, but I've never experienced what you've made claim to when setting up the car appropriately and driving it hard.
  18. Drew Dowdell
    Of course they'll bring it here.... it's the fastest growing segment
  19. Drew Dowdell
    You and I know that.... but Serg thinks he can rebuild the Italian auto industry and he is raiding the American one to do it.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    No, he wasn't marketing. He was the guy responsible for handling us media types in the mid-west. Being based in Pittsburgh, I'm right on the dividing line, so I deal with both mid-west and east coast PR reps. He is a good guy though and really put his heart into trying to do his best for Ford. I know from personal discussions (as I said, we're at a friendship level as well) that he was very frustrated with the Ford corporate bureaucracy.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    I could totally go for a grannymobile Town Car. They have drop in head units with full NAV, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto available... that's all I'd need.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    LOL
  23. Drew Dowdell
    you ain't getting any of those for under 15k total unless they're already totaled.....
  24. Drew Dowdell
    Why would Dodge be needed for Alfa? Alfa can share platforms with Maserati and a growing Fiat and possibly a rebirthed Lancia. Fiat can replace Dodge in the "family car" segment Lancia can replace Chrysler in the "premium family car (aka Buick) segment". Lancia Pacifica anyone? Alfa is to be the BMW/Benz/Cadillac fighter. Jeep and Ram are spun off to pay for all of this. Serg has no love for the American brands.... his vision is to restore the greatness(??) of the Italian Automotive industry.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    He was making a joke since they are no longer visible.
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