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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    That works out good for us. We'll probably trade the Encore into one of these as soon as a loaded one is available. I had originally hoped the Envision was going to be here at the end of this summer to time with the end of our lease, but buying out the lease and keeping it an extra year isn't the worse thing in the world.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    Ouch! 9.5 quarts!? I thought the Cadillac 7.5 quart Northstar oil changes were bad....
  3. Drew Dowdell
    Yes. I use it regularly with good results. We will be using it for the Detroit Auto show again this year.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    If you've never used AirBnB before, I highly recommend it
  5. Drew Dowdell
    That's interesting, because there is no way that you've even sat in the S90 yet. The XC90's sales are up a HUGE amount and over 60% of them are high end Inscription models. It's only been on sale since late September and they've already sold over 9,000 of them.
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    Hi

    Drew Dowdell replied to Scout's topic in New Member Check-In

    Welcome to CheersandGears.com... I'm the ring leader of this particular circus... and I'm not afraid to use the whip or the dart gun when the side show freaks start fighting.* *that is more directed towards other readers than yourself of course...
  7. Drew Dowdell
    Just the standard because that's all that costco sells. And yes. The 5-20 is harder to find for the Honda, and sometimes I can't get it at Costco... so when I see it there and it's on special, I buy a box whether I have a pending oil change or not. The Honda gets so little use these days I'm only changing the oil about once per year.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    I run Mobile 1 in all three cars in the factory spec weight. The Honda always gets a Purolator PureOne - I change when the maintenance interval light comes on, about 7,500 miles The Oldsmobile always gets an A/C Delco - I change every 5,000 miles and also add a bottle of ZDDP The Buick gets an A/C Delco cartridge - changed when the DIC tells me to.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    I think Volvo would be ecstatic to get 1/4 of E Class sales.
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  11. Drew Dowdell
    Why would raising MSRP be a bad thing? Really? So you like paying more? Or did you just meet your quota for jokes this week Clearly I am speaking of it in terms of Ford's financial health.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    Say bye to the Beetle
  13. Drew Dowdell
    Why would raising MSRP be a bad thing?
  14. Drew Dowdell
    A correction for the correction is needed. Lincoln sold 90,367 vehicles....so far, not for the year. Lincoln is also at around +9% for the year...so far. Thanks What happened to Buick. Wow. Big hit. No need to be pedantic. We all knew that he meant "so far this year". We will report full year percentages in January. Buick's sedans are all at the end of their cycles and are being replaced.
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    Typically when you see one of these large one-off 1 months drops is that the same month in the prior year had some unusually high sales activity. In this case, the Sierra seems to be returning to norm after some large sale going on in November 2014 (Think both GM and RAM pulled out all the stops on incentives at the end of the year last year to kick the F-150 while it was first being released) Nov 2012 - 11,726 Nov 2013 - 14,362 Nov 2014 - 22,554 Nov 2015 - 16,527 and sales are up over 4% for the year on Sierra. The long term growth trend is still positive.
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    Very handsome! I like it
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    I can't bring up the article, those are the routes being tested? It sounded like they were inside the city routes.
  18. Drew Dowdell
    That's actually pretty good! 23 miles is probably double the length of a inner-metro bus route, so put a charging station at each end of the route and it should be fine.
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    I don't mind at all Lincoln correcting the naming snafu. I just have to sit and wait till Johan retires before they'll fix the same thing at Cadillac
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    I guess I've just been curious for awhile now on what it costs to build one Silverado, one Sierra, and two F150's and two Rams. I ask because obviously there are pieces on the GM twins that are and are not shared(cosmetic). And seeing 1,000,000 sales of the GM twins split across two vehicles has to cost more for those extra pieces made but I have absolutely no clue how much it costs to reengineer and produce mostly just cosmetic pieces. The split for GM is more than just Silverado and Sierra though, there's the Suburban, Tahoe, Yukon, Yukon XL, and Escalade also. The trim pieces are largely superficial to the rest of the vehicle between Chevy and GMC, though GMC is using more upscale materials on the higher end models. But all of the mechanical bits that you don't see can get shared. master cylinders, power steering pumps, door switch actuators, drive shafts and rear differentials... by being on the same platforms, the GM can share a lot of that stuff that doesn't matter if it is the same. At the moment, Ford doesn't have that advantage due to not sharing as many parts with the SUVs, nor do they have the sales volumes in the SUV side of things.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    uh... you've said it yourself that product planning is years if not decades out. Mark has been at the helm since July 1, 2014... or almost 18 months. He's barely warmed his chair up much less made any substantial product changes that we'll see in the next 2 years. Everything you mentioned would have needed to be at least in the works before he got to the corner office.
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    The Mustang is the new 2.3 Ecoboost, not the 3.5 It's mostly about avoiding PI and knock. Compression ratio is a big factor too in how much retarding happens. A 2.3L is about 11:1 CR if I recall, whereas a 3.5L is only 9.7:1 CR, and minimum retarding is needed. I don't remember, is the Mustang 2.3 EB a flex fuel vehicle? If so, it should do really well on E85... enough to make a difference. Negative. No FF. Although there exists conversion kits for other engines, I imagine somebody thought to include the I4, amongst the many other upgrades. Or is FF considered a downgrade. That's a shame... had they built it to handle E85, they probably could have put an E85 tune into it and gotten over 350 hp. SAAB was working on engines like that before they died the first time. Engines that produced a lot more horsepower and better fuel economy running on E85 and then would dial it back to more conventional levels of HP when running on 87. I think it was a 310hp 2.0T on E85 back in 2006 or something.
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    Per unit costs are likely the lowest for GM at the moment because they have more vehicles to spread the costs over. Ram doesn't have any SUV to share the truck parts with and the Ford F-150 is quite different from the SUVs at the moment, so component cost sharing there would be lower. This could very well change in the future as the FoMoCo SUVs switch over because they have fewer brands to maintain, but I imagine the additional parts cost (not the marketing cost) of producing a GMC is very very low.
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    The Mustang is the new 2.3 Ecoboost, not the 3.5 It's mostly about avoiding PI and knock. Compression ratio is a big factor too in how much retarding happens. A 2.3L is about 11:1 CR if I recall, whereas a 3.5L is only 9.7:1 CR, and minimum retarding is needed. I don't remember, is the Mustang 2.3 EB a flex fuel vehicle? If so, it should do really well on E85... enough to make a difference.
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    Keep in mind that in some models, the TDi trim was 30% of sales. Jetta, Golf, and Passat were three of the top sellers that sold about that rate in the past and now 30% of that volume is essentially gone. Jetta and Passat are the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd best sellers in the VW lineup.... so that is a huge chunk of their biggest sellers.
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