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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    I guess he's lucky he's rich and this can be a pet project for him.... just keep dumping money into it until it works.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    It's not just politics.... there is trolling in every thread even about cars. I'm either going to have to start coming down on people so hard for trolling that no one is going to want to post here, or shut down the forums section entirely, or most of you will need to put your big girl panties on.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    Don't stay away too long... if the clown car keeps it up there may not be a forum to post in when you get back.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    I can see why they threw in the towel on their forums....
  5. Drew Dowdell
    Back on topic! Wow! An '81 Diesel Seville is 300lbs heavier than your COE!
  6. Drew Dowdell
    The Corvette with an 8-speed is an absolute cuddle puppy when being driven tamely for long distance. It is really a Jekyl and Hyde car... it can be a comfort cruiser or a nearly track ready race car.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    While I can't give you numbers. The exterior of both engines minus the turbocharging is identical. Take a 3.6, add the turbocharging kit, and it will be identical in exterior dimensions to the 3.0TT. Agreed. The Regal GS gets the more advanced variable suspension, so they can dial that adjustment into the suspension.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    I wonder if my Toronado is slightly heavier than the Eldorado TC.... 5.0 cast iron block v. 4.1 aluminium block. Everything else is mechanically identical.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    A Miata automatic I've never driven, so I don't know it's capabilities. I'd most likely go with a manual since few out there get manual transmission feel as good as Mazda does. The Corvette with GM's 8-speed auto? Mmm... it's such a great transmission, considered one of the best of the true automatics, that I really wouldn't feel shame about selecting it. It really could go either way for me. The GTI, I would probably take a manual over a DSG just because I don't like the DSG's slow speed feel. I don't auto-cross, but feel and NVH is important to me. I say this never having driven a recent GTI with a manual.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    I expect the new Riggle to go up in price and not with the same level of options at the price the Malibu is at.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    Yes... Premier trim only.... but it's a lot of car for that price. Standard leather, Nav, Bose, 18" wheels... all the goodies you'd expect at that level of car. The only real options to consider are sunroof (yes/no) and active cruise control (yes/no) Edit: and I was wrong... not an 8-speed, a 9-speed.....this must have been an upgrade from the prior year because I swore it released with an 8.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    Wish granted. The 2.0T is available with an 8-speed auto and is quite good.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    I think in the GTI's case, part of that is the DSG that VW uses.... Aside from its performance in stop-go traffic, which isn't as smooth as a regular automatic, it is faster and better than a manual in nearly all cases. No one... not even the best race car driver can out-shift a DSG.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    I'd put the current GS as the only one that'd be in that category. The Verano T-Type is dead already.... but man that was a fun car to whip around in for not a lot of money. Most reviewers find the ATS to be a better drivers car than the equivalent BMW also. An ATS Turbo-4 is an incredibly well balance machine with excellent feel. The ATS-V is a brute when you push it... it doesn't have the balance of the lighter Turbo-4, but it makes up for it with raw power and no-lift manual shifting (which is an amazing thing to do even if you have to retrain your brain to do it properly).
  15. Drew Dowdell
    The only cars that need manuals are the true sports cars like Miata, Z4, BRZ, maybe a Mini-Cooper or two, and things like Mustang and Camaro. A 328ix is best left in automatic mode as everything has been so numbed up, that shifting yourself is the least of your concerns if you want "feel".
  16. Drew Dowdell
    My '81 Toronado is 3800lbs. Or a different perspective, your truck is only about 100lbs less than a Buick Regal GS AWD.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    I wouldn't mind a nicely loaded Passat TDI for those deals.
  18. Drew Dowdell
    Bogotá Columbia - Makes the Spark, Sonic, Sail, a Cobalt that is different than what we got here, an odd looking number called the Onix, and the Isuzu cab over trucks. Gravatai Brazil - Chevy Onix/Prisma Quito Ecuador - Astra, Aveo GT (our Sonic hatchback), Chevy/Suzuki Vitara Rosario Argentina - Agile, Classic (AKA Sail), Cruze (the same one as we get) São Caetano do Sul and São José dos Campos Brazil - A bunch of Gamma platform variants plus the Chevy S-10... the overseas version of our Colorado
  19. Drew Dowdell
    That's something that always bothered me about generators seeing how @HoLottaBuicks '57 Century discharges at idle.. ... if they didn't produce electric until they hit a certain RPM, why wouldn't a pulley size change help fix that? I realize there's gotta be more to it than just spinning the generator faster.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    You need some weight on them there back tires... a high(er) speed emergency stop could have you tip uncomfortably forward. I can't believe you haven't driven a manual in 20+ years.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    Both are true... but the second half of that should be handled by the lower courts and GM should not be able to hide behind the BK
  22. Drew Dowdell
    Back on topic NOW. Hell, even go back to socialism if you want....at least that is relevant to the article!
  23. Drew Dowdell
    Yeah, I don't get the torque comment either. It's not like we don't already have DSGs running behind engines with 250 lbft to 400 lbft. The physical size of the engine will change, but an X3i X-Drive-E Drive-Blue CrossCoupewagon will still be putting out about that same amount of power even if it's only from a 1.5 liter engine in 2045.
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  25. Drew Dowdell
    There is a new feature coming in the software, Clubs. They work much in the same way that Facebook groups do. That is, any standard member can create and run a club. Clubs can have their own topics, galleries, blogs, and calendar. You can literally run your own mini-forum inside of CheersandGears if you wanted. If you create a club, you can have control over its membership, appoint moderators, or have it be invisible to the general public (Admins can still see everything of course). Topics from Clubs can be moved to the general forum and vice versa. If a bunch of you are Game of Thrones fans and want to chat together in a "Club" here on C&G, you can set it up. Or Hockey... or fans of Oldsmobiles... whatever you want as long as it is not X-rated. What I'm looking for is feedback on how you guys might want this to be structured or any specific rules you think should be put into place. I expect the feature by mid-Summer.
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