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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    Well, that's going to be a ways off I think. I'm stuck where I am for now due to job uncertainties. I still want an Avalanche or Escalade EXT though there may be business reasons to lease a truck for me......For him, probably move him to a Jeep GC or Durango once we have some stability... I just won't mention the Hemi under the hood when I pick one out.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    It's fine. I'm not sure I'd even know what I was looking at anyway.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    Is it just the floating roof? Because that goes back a lot longer. Or is it the pinching of the space between the floating roof and the fender?
  4. Drew Dowdell
    Cool to know. Like I said, the sport mode in that 5-speed was extra aggressive when pushed hard, sport mode in more recent transmissions don't have such a drastic difference in mode... Even the Cadillacs.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    Next thing you know, GMC will be putting fender vents on everything.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    Honest question: The 5-speed auto in my '04 CTS did seem to adjust to my driving pattern when it was in sport mode. If I put it in sport and drove normally, it would hold a gear a bit longer before shifting, but otherwise drove normally. If I was in sport mode and being very aggressive, it would hold a lower gear longer even after I let off the gas..... if I calmed down, then it would go back to normal sport mode.... but it always took a few minutes of driving before it did. I realize that it is not the memory that @Cmicasa the Great was talking about, but the transmission did seem to adjust to variations in driving more distinctly. I will say that I have yet to experience a transmission with that level of variation in attitude since then because just after that model, everyone went to paddle shifters and the sport-automatic modes don't seem to be as aggressive. Did I imagine it?
  7. Drew Dowdell
    ... and nearly dead.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    Torque comes at a lower rpm too
  9. Drew Dowdell
    That sounds like a defect.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    Jaguar was the first I thought.... With the current XJ.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    I highly doubt a $50k starting price. A work van version would be very popular with the post office I'm sure.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    Well it's spring time.... I guess people want to go out and have fun. I know I look at motorcycles more often now that it is getting warmer.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    Mazda isn't capped on the upper end by having a luxury brand above it. They seem to be trying to creep into upper territory with loads of features. They do seem to swap out some of the interior materials for better stuff as you climb the trim ladder.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    You could probably fit an Acura CDX into the bed of an Escalade EXT...... such opposites. It seems to be more difficult to make smaller cars quiet. I don't know why that seems to be.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    ... if the price is reasonable..... but yes, it does look like an interesting entry.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    It has terrible terrible range and barely qualifies as a car.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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?
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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