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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    If Jeep ever did a Grand Cherokee EXT, I'd be right there in line with you.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    Agree with you there.... I understand the point you both are making but for most, the baby boomer generation and the vent ports in this case being fake were just bling and I do not see the bulk of the public wanting that kind of fake bling. Plus if they are going to have vent ports, then since this is a 4 banger, have 2 on each side not the top of the hood and have them vent the real heat from underneath out and down the side of the auto. The number of ports had nothing to do with the number of cylinders..... pretty much ever. It was a denotation of the series of car. Buick Specials always had 3 ports on each side, but also always came with an 8 cylinder (edit: Till 1961)
  3. Drew Dowdell
    The dash is a last minute change to fix a serious visibility issue with the originally planned design. What you see today was supposed to appear as if it were floating behind a darker screen. You would have only seen the text and the needles with a bit of graphics to give it depth. From what I understand, it would have been a really neat effect. Last minute, this was changed because in certain outside light situations it was found that the dash would wash out completely and was pretty much invisible to the driver. The only change they could manage at the time was changing the cover glass from the tinted smokey look to a clear look. If you look very very closely at the gauges in person (not in pictures, you can't get the 3d effect), you'll be able to see what they were going for and how neat it might have looked. This info comes straight from a higher up at Cadillac.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    Oh, I wasn't even aware that they weren't rolling those yet. Yeah, no base engine will eat into sales.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    It's still waterfall, just blacked out
  6. Drew Dowdell
    The Hellcats are awesome to look at, awesome to listen to, but not so awesome to drive in anything but a straight line. Comparatively speaking, they are a real handful. Driven back to back, they have grip issues that other cars of similar power just don't have. You could take a CTS-V out on the track and it will perform to its own extremes without leaving you white knuckled.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    only 150 lbs increase for the convertible? That is fantastic! That's a platform built from scratch to be both coupe and convertible right there.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    Drew, did we not have a story about the Opel version of this and it had interior pictures? I was wanting to compare it with the current Encore to see how it looks. It's the first link William provided in the article.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    Keeping it in the class, a BMW Z4. This is one of the rare instances where I like the BMW interior over the Benz. Keeping it as a coupe - ATS 3.6 AWD Premium - black with red interior OR I can get a Stingray 2LT convertible for $64,800 - again black with red interior.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    An appropriate update.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    DOH! Stew is right!
  12. Drew Dowdell
    Sound like it
  13. Drew Dowdell
    That was what I thought as well. Once you break it down, starting right at 30k for the room and cargo space you get is great. An Explorer starts at 31k Traverse also 31k, Durango starts at 30.5k. Yes those are all larger and more powerful but as far as spacious and roomy go, there's still probably more in the Pacifica. The V6 in the Pacifica would be the same one in the Durango, and pretty much equal in output to the Ford and GM naturally aspirated V6es. Yes the Dodge and Ford have optional engines that are more powerful, but they're such a small percentage of sales that the optional engines don't really matter that much in the grand scheme of things. The primary difference is in the fashion the second row doors open and the greater spaciousness of the van.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    I have my own cars of course, and I'm also a heavy user of Uber too. My use of Uber has no bearing on my future car purchases.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    The Acadia was shown at the same show as the Pacifica, at Detroit in January, and will hit dealers by May. How much longer till the Giulia comes out? The truth is, they're all all-over the map on release timelines. The only company I can think of who is good at consistently releasing at a show to showing up at dealers 4 months later is Honda.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    Because Town and Country seemed too old sounding.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    My new cookie addiction: soooooo good!
  18. Drew Dowdell
    Ford had been using Mazda platforms since 1983.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    *Cough* the XTS V-Sport was not in this comparison *Cough* But in all seriousness... That is possibly the least attractive of all luxury branded, cars in my opinion(if extended to "vehicles" the X4/GLE would take the cake). I just am not a fan of the proportions more than anything else. Probably a fantastic cruiser and daily driver...just can't get on board with the looks compared to the rest of Cadillac's vehicles. I know it wasn't in the comparison. If I was limited to just these three, I'd still stick with the Cadillac. Size and comfort are just higher priorities to me than sports appearance or race deciding stats. I'd be perfectly fine with the XTS Vsport power train and suspension in a Lacrosse. Grace, pace, space.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    Oh, those days are gone now. Not entirely. I can see evidence of life after death, a haunting you might call it. I can see things on the server that you can't, including the IP addresses of visitors to the site and their respective source domain names....
  21. Drew Dowdell
    You guys are free to bring anything you like over from MT.... except the drama.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    Corporate culture is it exactly. Some corporations have terrible corporate culture and some have great corporate culture.. and what's on paper verse what's reality also matter. You may have the best corporate governance documents in all the land, but if they aren't implemented in the workplace, they mean squat. Does the corporation encourage the reporting of issues both on paper and in practice, or do they have a policy on paper and ignore it in practice? The latter is what got GM in hot water over the ignition switch scandal and what hurt Toyota with the driver's pedal sticking. At GM, Mary can issue all of the governance documents she wants, but unless all of the people in the ladder follow it (including middle management, the group of people who usually screw up the implementation), it doesn't matter. If Ford has won this award, they probably have both the good governance documents and the culture of following that governance, then they have a reason to be on this list.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    I'm going to go with another unpopular opinion here and say that I would go with the XTS V-Sport. I'm not the competitive type, I have no need to prove my manhood with stop-light drag races. I prefer the size and comfort of the XTS over any of these three, and living where I live, AWD is a requirement. I like the air suspension on the XTS also. Combined with magnetic ride control, it can make the ride soft or taut.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    Lancia is already toast. They're down to selling the Chrysler 300 as the Lancia Thema and only in Italy.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    Not really, I have little doubt that Ford, in general, runs ethically, honestly, and diverse. They wouldn't be the first manufacturer to come to mind if you asked me (I probably would think Subaru and Volvo first), but I have no reason to doubt their placement on the list.
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