Drew Dowdell

2013 Buick Encore - 2 months tomorrow, 2,000 miles

2004 Honda CR-V - 10 years 1 month, 102,000 miles (Albert bought it new, but I've only had him 6 years next week)

1981 Oldsmobile Toronado - 3 years 3 months, About 14,000 miles with me

Brighter is what I'm going for. I don't have a high-mount center stop light in the Toronado and I'm not going to retrofit one. On sunny days, I'm not convinced my brake lights are quite bright enough. I've gotten nearly rear ended a few times lately.

well, not the whole housing, just swapping out the bulb.

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instead of this:

What do you guys think about LED running lights/turn signals/brake lights retrofitted into an older car?

Looking at National's website, the only EV I can seem to find is up in a non-Airport location in Massachusetts, but their website doesn't really make it easy to find specific cars like that.

Looks great with those wheels!

The point of the article, in case you hadn't noticed is... people are returning electric rentals and exchanging them for something useful for the duration of the time they need a rental. Because they don't want to be stranded. Hello.

I'd rent an EV for certain trips, but I didn't even know it was an option and not at $500 a day.

The difference National really kicks in when you hit elite status.... that's when you rent a "Corolla or similar" and end up in a 300c.

If you have a National number, you can use it at Enterprise to earn National status. So if nothing else get the Emerald Club and then credit your Enterprise rentals to National.

I haven't talked you out of Enterprise yet?! Go with National starting in 2014, you'll love the Emerald Executive Elite status I'm sure you'll qualify for.

I've had a regular Prius through them before.

This was out in front of the top end hotel in downtown Pittsburgh. First one I've seen "in the wild", but it didn't have plates and had a box full of Mitsubishi i-miev brochures in the trunk, so I'm wondering if Mitsu is in town doing some presentation.

I didn't know it was even an option yet.

The Grand Cherokee has been Unibody since the get go....

Try Truedelta.com

There are a lot more sub-prime buyers who've had problems over the last 7 years who have stabilized over the more recent term. These weren't particularly risky people, but just got caught in the economic downturn and have some credit blemishes for it.

I think it is the Avalon, but that may have changed at the last model change over.

Happy birthday

I wonder what the issue is... I've driven two of them, one 4cylinder and one V6, and they seemed fine to me.

Very cool that your all ready, sadly I see no picture only a jpg marker

Is anyone else having this issue?

If Cadillac sells 1 for every 5 Volts, it would be like GM selling 7 vehicles instead of 6. This is a profit margin car for GM.

It is sexy, but not for the traditional reasons.

I think that the supercapacitor will end up being the next big step in hybrid technology. We already have gasoline engines that will do 45+ miles per gallon.... but what kills fuel economy is acceleration.

That's where the supercapacitor comes in. You only really need to add boost for short bursts and then recover it in equally short bursts. Don't need a big, expensive, heavy battery to do that.

Welcome over to my side of the pond James. :-)

Epsilon will probably need a complete do-over to get its weight in line.

As the Volt already drives and handles way better than an Elantra, I would imagine that an ELR with hyper-strut and a more aggressive sport-mode would be even further away from the Elantra.

You seem to think the entire world drives in 0-60 times. It must be amazing to you that I can get around and keep up with, or even exceed, prevailing traffic in this city in a car with a 0-60 in the 15 second range. And yet, I manage it without fuss all the time.

BTW, the ELR has 4 seats and the interior is worthy of a $75k Rolls.

e-Assist does well in the right application. 25 city and 36+mpg highway in something as big and heavy as an LaX is not bad for a base model.

The problems is those applications are limited. I might have worked ok in the Theta CUVs and in the Regal/Malibu if they used a smaller engine.

If the platform doesn't matter, why not build the Corvette of a Cruze platform and charge $75,000 for it. If they built a Corvette of a lower GM platform or put a combo 4-cylinder/electric motor in it there would be outrage in the streets. Even talk of a turbo V6 Corvette was sacrilege. Yet if Cadillac makes their most expensive car a 2-seat sports car based off a Chevy costing less than half as much, it is okay. Maybe Cadillac should charge $150,000 for the new Escalade while they are at it.

Why is it ok for Audi to build their sports car, the TT, off a VW platform?

And it is a FWD platform car with a transverse layout seeking Corvette pricing with power of a midsize sedan. So good!

And the ELR is FWD w/ a transverse 4cyl...pretty lowly for that price point...

Telsa Model S is transverse as well. Oopsie

Pretty soon, the ELR might even be a transverse 3 cylinder.... but that isn't the point. There really is no "value" to the orientation of the engine in a non-sporting model.