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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    well, I still think this whole thing is an attempt to scare the German unions and government. Also... how sad is it that Mary may have found a buyer for Opel, but Serg couldn't find a buyer for all of FCA?
  2. Drew Dowdell
    you can even get CPO S-classes with low mileage for that money. I actually prefer the looks of the GLC over the XT5, but I wouldn't call it particularly better. It's just my subjective opinion on styling
  3. Drew Dowdell
    Heck, a CPO CLS for that money. Or a CTS V-sport. Or a heck of alot of Continental. Or a rather nice Genesis G80 V6 AWD.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    C&D's GLA45 tester had an as-tested price of $67k I can think of about 200 other vehicles I would choose over the GLA45 for that price.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    Most consumers can't even handle a Corolla at 7/10th, so even an Envision is well above their skill grade. RWD v FWD has nothing to do with vehicle ride. The Explorer and Durango ride equally well. You are correct that it is a crowded segment, but even if Cadillac put the XTS V-Sport engine in an XT3, it wouldn't make a difference to the buyers of the segment and would not increase sales in any measurable way. That isn't going to be the way the Cadillac wins sales. Furthermore, the XT5 is mostly not being sold at base prices. The mid-level trims are where the bulk of the sales are and the Platinums are doing fairly well.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    Because luxury crossovers aren't performance oriented in 95% of sales. The orientation of the engine doesn't matter. Last warning. Get back on topic. We're talking about compact entry-lux crossovers here. You're limited to the GLA if you want to discuss Benz.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    It's simple. Malibu tuning Vs. Regal tuning. Regal tuning is much better and, not counting the GS, there is nothing particularly more expensive about the Regal hardware.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    It's a coach built vehicle and the build quality is still junk. You don't get to complain about the frame of the Escalade anymore if you want to continue down that path. Also, get back on topic. We're talking entry lux crossovers here. Not X5s, not Cayennes. You want the alpha platform and the ATS-V engine for something that's going to be priced against the GLA? Try to be more realistic.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    A good 4-cylinder diesel. Good 4-cylinder turbo engines. Superior suspension and steering tuning (the Opel people seem to have it down better than the GMNA people, at least for typical consumer products outside of the high performance V-series and Camaro stuff). GMNA and GMDAT can obviously tune a family sedan's ride and drive.... but Opel does it better.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    Because there is no point. People who buy crossovers, even luxury crossovers, do not care if the AWD system is FWD based or RWD based. I would bet that 95% of the AWD buyers don't even know what it means. The top three luxury crossovers in terms of sales are the RX, the XT, and the MDX. You've still yet to learn your lesson about praising the Mercedes G-Class Quality.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    I've had to hide 90% of the posts in this thread. You people are getting ridiculous with your off topic tangents. Back to the PSA / Opel deal.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    There is still a possible brain drain for GM to be concerned about.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    Chevy Europe failed because they were peddling old Daewoos.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    Not quite. Toyota and Honda have struggled there for years. It wasn't until fairly recently that there was any model overlap between Ford US and Ford EU.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    SHELL GAME.... say it with me! It's all accounting tricks. Losses get booked to one division, profits to another. GM China would have nearly NO SALES without all of the R&D coming out of GM Europe. They sell 1 million Buicks a year in China, with most of those being Opel based, meaning none of the R&D for those Opel cars is coming from GM China. That makes China look extra profitable and GM Europe not so much. But now GM has ammunition against the German Unions and the German government.....
  16. Drew Dowdell
    Again, it's an accounting shell game. Opel is a major R&D center for GM and the products resulting from that R&D are sold globally.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    Pressure on the German unions, pressure on the German government. Trying to impress our own administration.
  18. Drew Dowdell
    I'm not saying they should, I'm just saying that it would make more sense that way around than this way around. Opel loses money only on paper. Much of the best R&D for small cars and small engines comes out of GM Europe, and that R&D is spread globally. If GMNA had to pay Opel a proper "licensing fee" for each 2.0T they sold, or each Encore.... if China had to pay a properly priced licensing fee for each Verano.... then Opel wouldn't be losing money. It's a financial shell game.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    This seems odd to me. Opel loses money because GM wants it to lose money. So much R&D is coming out of Europe, but the other divisions are booking the profits from that R&D. Swinging Opel from the red to the black is just a change in accounting practice. I would think that GM buying up PSA and then merging operations with Opel would make more sense in the grand scheme of things.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    The white one is the Work Truck model. You can get it loaded up also, they just didn't have one on the floor for me to take pictures of.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    Wow! Piech is out to play dirty! I thought the whole reason for the cheating was because Piech was so insistent on making these diesels work without AdBlue in the first place
  22. Drew Dowdell
    Some of you may have noticed the server struggling today. I think I may have just found and fixed the issue. One of the server log files had grown to 90 GB in size. I killed that log file and that seems to have eased the burden on the server. Search is still indexing due to a patch I applied earlier trying to fix the issue. Once that finishes up, we should be back to normal.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    Yes, though only the three models I mentioned got a redline package. There wasn't one for the Astra nor Aura for example... though the Aura with the 3.6 was probably just as fast as any G6 GXP
  24. Drew Dowdell
    Red-Line at Saturn meant a 2.0T instead of the 2.4 NA in the Sky. It meant a higher performance V6 in the Vue (at a time when most of it's competition only had 2.3 - 2.5 liter 4-cylinder engines). The Ion got the same 2.0T that the Cobalt SS got.... and the Cobalt was running with BMWs at the time on the Nurburgring. That Saturn Red-Line was a serious performance package... not just stickers.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    More information about "Chicago 2017: Mitsubishi adds a Limited Edition to the Outlander Sport"
    Today in Chicago, Mitsubishi showed a new Limited Edition version of their best selling Outlander Sport. The Limited Edition will only be available for the remainder of the 2017 model year. The Outlander Sport Limited Edition is positioned just above the base ES version. It adds blacked out door mirrors, blacked out 18" alloy wheels, custom seat fabric with a red stitched steering wheel, alluminum pedals, heated front seats, and an infotainment system with Android Auto and Apple Car Play. Starting at $21,995, the Outlander Sport Limited Edition goes on sale later this month.
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