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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    I'm not that big a fan of the Miata. It's okay, inoffensive, but doesn't really light my fire (few cars without "faces" do). The 124: 1. Has a face. The Mazda only recently gained a face, but it's not one that I care for much. 2. They extended the nose up and out about 3 to 4 inches over the Miata giving it a longer looking hood. As you can see in my signature, I like the long hood look. 3. It somewhat reminds me of the older british roadsters like the MG and Triumph, which I like. I know it's supposed to remind me of the old Fiat 124, but I never really had any experience with them growing up like I did with the MG and Triumph. 4. It's built by Mazda rather than Fiat, so I don't have to worry too much about reliability. 5. I'm not hung up on masculinity in my vehicles. I drive a white Grandma's car and a little black egg of a Buick.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    Well, that's the racer... it's supposed to win on speed, not beauty... I find the civilian version to actually be rather fetching.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    No. This is a formal roofline:
  4. Drew Dowdell
    I look forward to driving the convertible next month.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    Don't mind @smk4565 this is just him moving the goal posts. When Cadillac beats his beloved Benz at something, his pivot is now to "oh yea?! well Cadillac isn't as good as Tesla". It's really borderline trolling.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    I look forward to trying the convertible next month.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    It looks cartoonish from the back.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    No, everyone could see it @dfelt, I was just demonstrating the new mention system.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    I want my formal roofline back pls. ktnxbye
  10. Drew Dowdell
    Torque moves cars, horsepower sell them. Tesla's horsepower ratings are nearly irrelevant. It's their torque ratings that matter.... and that is only going to become more true as more cars get electrified.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    Less horsepower and more weight than a CTS 2.0t.... #winning
  12. Drew Dowdell
    No, cause you just know that Elon would have to have something silly like a center split lift blade tail gate or fold up front wheels or something else ridiculous.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    You always find a way to get your Mercedes plug in somehow. Benz's only pure electric is the pathetic little SMART and the B-Class only sold in California, they can't compete with a Tesla either. With 432 lb-ft of torque, the CT6-PHEV will feel plenty fast. HP is nearly irrelevant with electric cars, so I don't know why we still look for that number. Tesla's max torque is at ZERO RPM which also means ZERO HORSEPOWER, but it's that fact that make people scream when the car takes off in ludacris mode.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    Interestingly, the Norfolk Southern Railroad did an experiment with a battery powered locomotive with no regenerator. Performance hasn't been very good and it is mostly just a showpiece right now. GE was working on a Hybrid Locomotive about 10 years ago, but nothing really came of it. Right now, locos just exhaust their regenerative braking out as heat. I wonder, as battery tech has improved over the last 10 years if someone will give it another go.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    I think this was going to be a Euro-centric power train.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    @smk4565 The electric is already basically here. The CT6-PEV goes on sale in China first (for obvious reasons), but that was clearly where Cadillac's priority was.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    Now that you "mention" it @dfelt, check out what everyone can do now. I do like the new logo that @Intrepidation made for us.
  18. Drew Dowdell
    Moving the goal posts ahead of time I see....
  19. Drew Dowdell
    I was going to bring that up as well, but it's been less consistently used over the years than the tails.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    The blades are simply a signature of Cadillac. Just like the angel eyes were on BMWs.... so when people put them on Camaros, they were putting "BMW headlights on a Camaro" And how Audi has it's lower "eyeliner" emo look The difference is, Cadillac's rear blades have far more heritage than either Audi or BMW. The rear blades go back to 1960 and have continued basically uninterrupted in some form or another ever since. The front blade showed up in 2008 with the CTS, but it immediately took to being Cadillac.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    Buick sold more Encores last year (67K) than the entire Mini brand, and the Encore's base price is about $4k higher than the base Mini.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    BMW has to sell bottom feeder X1s to survive. Cadillac doesn't... GM can sell plenty of Traxes and Encores outside of the Cadillac brand. What BMW is trying to do is be General Motors without multiple brands (Mini is niche of a niche and has been struggling big time, Saturn sold more cars in 2009 (79K) the year they were canceled than Mini sold in all of 2015 (58k)
  23. Drew Dowdell
    That's actually a pretty good lease deal for a car of that price. Whether or not leasing makes sense for your personal situation is subjective.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    Yes, you will see things listed as a timeline. You can actually customize your activity stream if you want, so if you don't want to see certain types of activity, you can edit it.
  25. Drew Dowdell
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