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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    Another comparison on the progress the CT6 shows. The CT6 Turbo-4 has more horsepower and lots more torque than the first gen CTS 3.6. It has three more gears, and it is 14 inches longer. It weighs 180 lbs more.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    The GXP Torrant has the 3.6 DOHC rather than the 3.4 Pushrod.... it was made specifically to appease SMK. and there was briefly a matching Equinox sport, nay? I remember getting Pontiac mailers pushing the Torrent GXP, well it had the red dash lighting, that would have been the deciding factor! Yup.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    The best balanced V8s are of a 90 degree design. The best balanced V6es are of a 60 degree or 15 degree design. Depending on the bore of the engine, it is likely that only shared part might be the piston. The 3.6 has a displacement of 0.6 liters per cylinder and this 4.2 will have a displacement of 0.525 liters per cylinder. So at best, it could use the same piston in a shorter stroke. Nothing else internal is likely to be shared.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    Remember, think globally. Some of the CUVs/SUVs that will sell great here will sell terrible in Europe and China. Some of the CUVs/SUVs that sell great in China and Europe won't sell that great here. Cadillac needs a full portfolio to cover all of those bases. I thought that's what Buick was for. Cadillac is going there too. Cadillac sells at a much higher price point in other countries, particularly China. Buick actually has models priced below the Verano in China that we don't get.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    Does it make financial sense? Probably not... but what vehicle customization does? I still think it would be cool to have an Thoronado
  6. Drew Dowdell
    The GXP Torrant has the 3.6 DOHC rather than the 3.4 Pushrod.... it was made specifically to appease SMK. RWD as well? sure, if you disconnect the front CV joints.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    The GXP Torrant has the 3.6 DOHC rather than the 3.4 Pushrod.... it was made specifically to appease SMK.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    This sounds like it is a model turbo V8 and such an engine does have a place in the line-up in base trim. That doesn't mean it can't be tuned up higher from there. Based on the Hp/L Cadillac is getting out of the 3.6, the 4.2 should be in the 540 range when maxed out. I have a suspicion that the number will be 500... exactly. 500 has been a magical number for Cadillac before.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    Remember, think globally. Some of the CUVs/SUVs that will sell great here will sell terrible in Europe and China. Some of the CUVs/SUVs that sell great in China and Europe won't sell that great here. Cadillac needs a full portfolio to cover all of those bases.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    The Cruze diesel is just the foot in the door for GM doing a wider spread of diesels here. Johan has already said that Cadillac would be getting a number of diesels. The Whisper diesel is used in the Opel Mokka which means it could easily be used in the Buick Encore (It just needs the EPA certification, they're built in the same plant).
  11. Drew Dowdell
    I think the only perceptions that were damaged were VW's.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    Durango is within an inch of the Lambdas in length...
  13. Drew Dowdell
    Sales of the Cruze diesel were slow because it was only equipped as a nearly top line LTZ model. The Cruze diesel being dropped for 2016 and back for 2017 isn't news. We've reported both stories months ago, so the link you provided isn't exactly a breaking story. This isn't a slow sales thing, it is a model change-over thing. ... you appear to be trying to push a particular narrative. Chevy is actually planning on capitalizing on VW's woes in advertisements with the new Cruze diesel. It's the 1.6 liter unit from Europe that the European media has dubbed the "Whisper Diesel". It has 140hp and 250 lb ft of torque.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    How do you walk around at work without bumping into things? Your vision is so narrow. The CTS is built on the same production line as the ATS and Camaro. Look at the total volume for those cars and that is why they won't move it to China. The Envision doesn't share a platform with anything currently built in the US (I'm told it will be so different from the Terrain and 'Nox, that even sharing with them is still a question mark for GM). The Regal would make sense to move to Germany because 1) Volumes are low. 2) Opel could use the extra production volume. 3) The Oshwa plant already has trouble making enough Chevy Equinoxes so freeing up space from Regal would allow greater 'Nox production. 4) It would cut Regal production plants from 3 to 2.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    It was a purely hypothetical designation that I made up while waiting for a flight. But it's true... there is no reason the sedans have to be CT and the coupes do too...The coupes/convertibles can be anything.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    The Cruze diesel is coming back. It was dropped when the first gen Cruze turned into Cruze Limited. It will be a new smaller diesel with greater fuel efficiency than the existing model. Edit: The new gen diesel was always going to be a 2017 rather than 2016. Staggered diesel launch just like the GM mid-size trucks.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    There is nothing that says the coupe have to be CT anything. The could be ST6 for a coupe version of the CT6 for example. STx has just as much, if not more heritage than CTx. Not that heritage names mean anything at Cadillac anymore.
  18. Drew Dowdell
    As explained in this article and the Envision ones, it's based on where the car will sell the most copies. They're only planning on selling 60k Envisions here, they sold 174k in China in 2015. The CT6 PHEV will likely be very low volume in the US, larger in China, but still relatively small. Makes sense to only have one production line for such a low volume vehicle. I expect Regal will move out of north America too eventually, but I could see that going back to Germany where they need the volume to fill the factory capacity. The Chinese bought nearly 100k Regals last year.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    You would't buy a Cadillac build by Mercedes in the S-class factory, so I don't know what the big difference is to you....
  20. Drew Dowdell
    I'm 30,000 feet over Little Rock AR at the moment on my way to Dallas with connection to Tulsa.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    The first *GM vehicle to be imported from China will be the Buick Envision. The Volvo S60 Inscription is already here and is imported from China.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    Cadillac actually makes huge profits per unit. It's when you throw in the less profitable lower end models from other brand where average per car drops. The reason the Germans make so much money is because they have managed to convince n00bs like you that their taxi cabs are premium. It would be like if Ford shipped the Panther cars to Germany, only sold the top end packages with big motors and marked the price up $15k per unit... but the only way the Benz keeps the lights on is by fleeting the hell out of their bread-and-butter cars in Europe while inflating the prices here. Where GM loses money per unit is on cars like the Volt which is an experiment technologically, but also helps their CAFE, and on the small cars like Adam, Cruze, Sonic, Spark, which are necessary for doing business but have razer thin and sometimes negative margins. I wouldn't be surprised if GM also only made money on the mid-price and higher Malibu. The Regal probably loses them money because of the limited sales in the US while being produced in the US, moving the Regal production back to Europe or over to China would be a smart business move there. Opel/Buick/Holden is the "One GM" plan. They've already found out that the Europeans won't buy Chevys. Euros also demand more premium feels in even their family cars, so it fits in well that Opel and Buick are paired. With nearly 1 million Buick sales in China last year, that gives Opel and Holden a whole bunch of breathing room on design costs. Designers can switch out a badge and grille, and head to the bar for the rest of the afternoon. Don't expect Opel to be losing money much longer, another year or two depending on the Russian economy and no other changes.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    SMK, I wouldn't point out VW/Audi as a positive business case at the moment.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    Yeah, I think only the Ram Rebel has the funky new grille
  25. Drew Dowdell
    The move to NYC wasn't about image mostly, it was about getting them out of the RenCen and able to operate in a more independent fashion.
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