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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    Of course not. That will be Nissan's job.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    I agree that Chevy needs to offer the Turbo-4, but the GM 3.6 doesn't get some phenomenal fuel economy (DI-Turbo models not withstanding) because to get any decent performance out of it you have to really wind the thing up.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    I think if the Kia Soul can do well here, that car would do phenomenal.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    If you could choose the 3.6 or the 5.3 for the same price, which would you choose? The 5.3 is cheaper, lighter, and more powerful with much much more torque than the 3.6. With AFM, the 5.3 would likely post similar highway MPG.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    Actually, you can probably mostly blame the "gotta have DOHC" crowd.... because somehow a DOHC V6 is moar better than a pushrod V8 There's an element of that, no doubt. But there's an exonomics of scale thing going on as well, particularly with the 3.6. There isn't enough economics of scale with the 5.3 Ecotec? It's in all of the full size trucks and SUVs. Don't get LSD. Drugs are bad m'kay....
  6. Drew Dowdell
    That's really cool!
  7. Drew Dowdell
    Probably waiting to see what the new Nissan Frontier turns out to be before they rebadge it.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    ....sombody with a God Complex, perhaps?
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  12. Drew Dowdell
    Actually, you can probably mostly blame the "gotta have DOHC" crowd.... because somehow a DOHC V6 is moar better than a pushrod V8
  13. Drew Dowdell
    Is no copy!
  14. Drew Dowdell
    Please tell me you are going to take a break in December at this rate.. I just realized I missed a couple in the "since July 1" list, but oh well, you get the point. Yes, December is typically slow for me, however, I do know I have to fit two additional trips to California and one trip to Boston in there somewhere.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    Im mostly referring to the lament about "kids these days" not being interested in pony cars like we were when we were that age. A good chunk of us on this forum grew up from the late 70s to the early 90s.... compared to the pony cars of those years, a Turbo-4 Camaro *is* a hi-po pony car.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    There is a level of exhaustion one hits that not even weeks of downtime can really fix..... *posted from somewhere over Missouri* My cities since July 1 : Columbia MD Boston, MA Philly, PA Boulder CO Calgary AB Columbus OH Syracuse NY Cumberland MD Charlotte NC Dallas TX (flying home from now) Starting Sunday: San Antonio TX Austin TX Chicago IL Upstate NY Boston MA, Providence RI, New Haven CT (in one day) Miami FL Edison NJ Los Angeles CA Edison NJ Washington DC and that gets me to December 1. Between most cities, I fly home to Pittsburgh for a night or two.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    Drew there are adults that should not have this much power. Anyone seen the Prince in Beverly Hills in the Ferrari this week? Also the videos we have seen on YouTube of the crashing Z06 are proof that many people are over their limits. Absolutely. Most drivers shouldn't be trusted with anything more powerful than a base Corolla and even then they can't handle it at 7/10ths.
  18. Drew Dowdell
    Either they're expecting volumes of the Grand Wagoner to mimic that of the Ram (doubtful, even with Sergio's rose tinted glasses) or something else is also going in there.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    Also keep in mind that the performance of these new cars far exceeds what kids should be at the helm of anyway. Even a v6 Camaro has a lot more power than what the V8 cars of 20 years ago had. The turbo 4 has more power than anything from the 80s.
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    No, but the Citroens seem better put together than the Fiats do. They're probably on par with initial build quality to VW (I don't know enough about long term reliability).
  22. Drew Dowdell
    I know a do a lot of face palming...
  23. Drew Dowdell
    I posted this elsehwere: What I'm curious about: In what way does the engine perform differently when it is in "Fool-EPA" mode that would change the performance to the end user? Does the fuel economy go down? Is there less power? Does NVH increase? Can this potentially change the performance of the engine enough to spark lawsuits after drivers get their vehicle reflashed? VW didn't do this just to spite the EPA, therefore what negative attribute is this tuning hiding?
  24. Drew Dowdell
    I prefer the entire Citroën line to the Fiat and Alfa line.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    Wow! I wonder what the car does differently to pass the test that it can't do while driving normally.
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