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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    6.6 liters and only making 600 hp? That's fairy lame these days. Cadillac makes 640 hp from 6.2 liters, 4 fewer cylinders, and 32 fewer valves..... oh and the sounds it makes...
  2. Drew Dowdell
    That's not the interior you get for $50k.... particularly since the new E-class will start around $54k..... that isn't even the $54k interior.... and then to even get real leather instead of vinyl seats in your $54k car you'll need to spend at minimum $1,600 more.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    The CTS moved from 3-series price to 5-series price and lost two thirds of its bodystyles, yet you can't see a reason for volume decreases. Average transaction prices for the entire brand are up $7k per unit and higher than BMW on a model for model comparison. Maybe you need flashcards?
  4. Drew Dowdell
    You should have taken it out. It wiuldt nt hurt. They're bigger on the inside.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    The GLS they just released is a marginal refresh plus a name change. And oh please, Cadillac could have rebadged an S Class and you still would have bitched about it.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    Can't I like both?
  7. Drew Dowdell
    I really like that interior!
  8. Drew Dowdell
    It's funny how 0.3 seconds is "similar performance" when the Mercedes is behind, ....I'll remember that every time you post about a Cadillac 0-60. I've driven the diesel GL and it has a scary amount of turbo lag.... and I do mean it actually scared me when I tried to make a left turn in traffic and got no response from the engine room.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    The 1.4 in the Encore is tamed somewhat by the active noise cancellation that comes standard in all Encores. There is a big difference in noise compared to the Trax. Yes, the AWD in the Encore is pretty efficient, but on the other side of the coin is how well the Encore's AWD system performs in the bad stuff. In that regard, it has one of the best AWD systems outside of a Subaru as it always starts in 50/50 front/rear 4-Wheel Drive and then dials back to FWD once the car decides the coast is clear. I can get up my steep driveway in unshoveled snow. But you don't need to take just my word for it. Over at Cars.com, the Encore got out of snow better than a Jeep Cherokee.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    The new 1.4T is expected to beat the current 1.4T in EPA ratings. Adding Direct Injection and Start/Stop will do that.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    This seems like a page out of the Cherokee launch.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    Indeed, but in this case, the discussion over the really cheap prices on the Leaf. If you could really grab one for $11k - $12k, it would make an excellent low cost EV as a second car for most folks who fit this type of commuting profile. The Bolt will cost 3 times that.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    The AWD is rated for 23/30/26. I've never seen it drop below 25 in our combined driving. The FWD is rated for 25/33/28. As I get 33 highway in my AWD sometimes, I'd probably get at least 35 in a FWD. https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=35644&id=35642
  14. Drew Dowdell
    about the same.. Drew do U have AWD or FWD? AWD. We got the top trim and every option except chrome wheels.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    And like the Catera, no one wants to work on them, impossible to get parts, and woe to those owning one out of warranty.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    Anyone know if the 7-speed is a MB or Infiniti unit?
  17. Drew Dowdell
    I'm pretty tired of them myself.
  18. 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>
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    The first fatality of the cut of models.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
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