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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    I'm pretty tired of them myself.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    Dead! Dead as a doornail. .... though I don't know what is particularly dead about a door nail. I wouldn't think a door nail to be the deadest bit of iron muggary in the trade... Why not dead as a door knob? or a door knocker? Well, nail, knob, or knocker, the Phaeton is dead. </with appologies to Charles Dickens>
  3. Drew Dowdell
    Very true, but they are a cheap ride if you can get someone to buy it for you on a fleet purchase with said discounts. But is the $11K dollar price worth a car that goes about 60-65 miles per charge? Nisan Leaf range is 80 - 100 miles per charge. My partner could drive to and from work twice before needing a recharge. I could go four times and I have chargers in my work garage. For a daily commuter with a predictable route, the leaf would make a great second car. Yeah, my parents could rock one of these. They both work 3-3.25 miles from work. They could drive it all week just to and from work and never even need to charge it. And 100 miles of range really would work for myself 99% of the time. It's that 1% of time that is an issue that we're just so accustomed to not having to deal with it's pretty crazy. Most households are two car households these days. My household has more cars than people.... If I didn't have a need for an SUV for my rental properties, I could totally get by with a Leaf for my daily commuting, my '81 Toronado for personal road trips. When I drive a trip for work, I nearly always take a rental car anyway because I don't want to put miles on my own car even if they are reimbursed.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    Very true, but they are a cheap ride if you can get someone to buy it for you on a fleet purchase with said discounts. But is the $11K dollar price worth a car that goes about 60-65 miles per charge? Nisan Leaf range is 80 - 100 miles per charge. My partner could drive to and from work twice before needing a recharge. I could go four times and I have chargers in my work garage. For a daily commuter with a predictable route, the leaf would make a great second car.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    The first fatality of the cut of models.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    I kinda think we're comparing things wrong. Every year X number of new cars enters service and X number of old cars are taken out of service. The proper comparison isn't "Does a 2016 Model GS1234 have better fuel economy and emissions than a 2015 Model GS1234 and by how much?" what should be compared is "Does a 2016 Model GS1234 have better fuel economy and emissions than the car it replaced and by how much?" When someone finally junks their 1998 Durango with 290k miles and buys a new 2016 Durango, there is a huge increase in fuel economy and large decrease in emissions. That's what I think we should be looking at.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    I agree on basically all counts. It's not going to win any competitions against a FR-S (except straight line maybe), but once you learn to work with the Impala's inertia, you can actually use it to drive very spiritedly.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    It could be wheel size, but even then, a smaller wheel would have its trailing edge further ahead of the base of the windshield, not further behind. This is what indicates wheelbase shrinkage to me.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    He likes to ignore that the Cadillac V6TT is faster than the BMW V8..... and that his pet brand Mercedes has phased out or will be phasing out V8s in nearly all of their non-AMG models.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    Well I guess one of my main fears for this car has come true. The wheelbase has shrunk substantially, and it looks to all have come from the front wheels. Even with the larger wheels on the concept, they were almost entirely ahead of the base of the windshield. This is a substantial factor into why the concept's proportions look so good in spite of being front wheel drive based. On this prototype, the wheels appear to have shifted rearward by a good 3 to 4 inches. The rear wheels seem to have just about stayed put... maybe moved forward very slightly in relation to the roof-line. I like that they've kept the overall look, but the side profile view with the wheelbase shrinkage really tempers my enthusiasm.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    Thanks... took it out for a quick run to the store.. I had test drove it with her, but had not gotten behind the wheel myself. Nice lil Whip. 1.4LTurbo actually moves this baby quite nice.. and thus far.. since Saturday at least.. when I hit the Average FE button it read 25.6 in mixed That's about the same for us in mixed driving too. Road trips we can tickle 33mpg.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    Jesus Tapdancing Christ! They invented THAT history too! Balth has already posted cars that came before Benz's glorious "invention". If people wanted "bold" looking, they wouldn't buy S-Classes, instead they'd buy the predator mouth LS. You are so focused on the Turbo-4, yet it will most likely keep pace with any of the 6-cylinders offered by the competition and the 6-cylinders will keep pace with the base V8s from the competition.
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    So the G-Wagon isn't even built by Mercedes... just like the R-Class isn't built by Mercedes now either. I suppose it isn't a surprise about the G-Wagon... all of the parts can be ordered from JC Whitney. Mercedes "invents" their history... like how they claim they pioneered the airbag, ABS, and traction control.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    I'm typically 2 large mugs of Earl Gray tea each morning till about noon and then a follow up mug... right about now to get me through to 5pm when I stop all caffeine.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    Well, how can I apply this to me?!?! Be a recent college grad senior citizen in the military in rural Indiana with a competitor lease and same brand vehicle newer than 2009.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    The National lot in OHare can double as a Nissan storage lot.
  18. Drew Dowdell
    With regards to the Q50... I've driven it a few times, and it fails to elicit any passion at all. Like a white collar middle manager who has been in their job for 15 years, the Q50 is competent at everything it does but excels at nothing.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    Nope, we're only getting the Infiniti QX30 apparently.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    there are some pretty good deals on there if you find one that applies to you
  21. Drew Dowdell
    The Escalade is why there is a 1.5T Malibu, Malibu Hybrid, Volt, Sonic, and Spark.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    Voltec has battery packaging issues still. that was the deal killer for him with the regular Volt.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    Is that a good thing? 8 or 9 years is a long time considering Rolls and Bentley will offer a real fullsize, (yeah I know...not in the same league price wise, but for now, the uber rich still buy 'Slades, Cadillac may not have to lose to Rolls or Bentley regardless if they have the cash to buy a Rolls or Bentley, retaining the cool factor by being seen in the 'Slade a should continue to be a priority for Cadillac) considering that Lexus might actually offer a brand new one, and Lincoln too, and Lincoln's 'Gator will have aluminum panels and there is still name recognition in the Navigator...8-9 years away for a new 'Slade seems to me like a Lincoln maneuver that left the 'Gator rot on the vine... I"m sure it will get upgrades and refreshes in the meantime. I'm not sure many have noticed, but Cadillac is making rolling changes/upgrades to their cars every year for the past few years. They're not letting them sit around. Escalade started with the 6-speed auto, then moved to the 8-speed auto, it's getting the CUE upgrades this year, it will probably get the V8TT when that comes out. They're keeping their vehicles fresher.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    I'd guess that we're still 8 or 9 years out from an all-new Escalade. The current one still has a few years to go and probably an MCE for another 4 or 5 years.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    I wouldn't call this co-worker a hypermiler, but with a commute like his, I understand why MPG is a priority. I tried to talk him into a Volt as there is a garage connected to our building with chargers and he could just make it end to end without using gas, but he said it was too small for his family.
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