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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    I've always had a secret love for these.
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    For GM or for the customer?
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    The cost of the technology will continue to decline over time.
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    The Beetle will be more reliable than the Fiat and the Mini combined.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    Well... there's the long and short of it..
  6. Drew Dowdell
    A good name, used wisely, certainly can help sales of a good car..... and Lincoln needs all the help they can get.
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    2015 Regal Turbo

    Drew Dowdell replied to CSpec's topic in Buick

    I was mostly referring to tech features. I agree with you on the materials, but every Regal I've had seems to be built really well.
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    2015 Regal Turbo

    Drew Dowdell replied to CSpec's topic in Buick

    Yeah, they aren't doing well sales wise, but it isn't because they aren't a good car. You can get everything an A4 has but the badge for $10k - $12k less.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    Cadillac is getting the Voltec powertrain in the CT6. JDN has also said that it will be going in the CTS, ATS, and SRX follow-ups. IN fact the said that the entire line-up would be getting electrification. It is the way of the future, as much as Diesel preponderates love that stinky mess.. and the added torque, which does very little in terms of actual performance gains.. Its no way on Earth I'd buy a diesel luxury car over an electrical one. The deal is sweeter when one considers that the torque portion of the Diesel stronghold is moot.. when an, for example, CT6 Plug-in has 335HP /432lbs of torque. Bluetec doesn't match that and nor does BMW's diesel inline 6 I like the hint of a diesel-electric hybrid though... best of both worlds.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    There are a lot of people out there who can't justify a Wrangler or can afford a Grand Cherokee, yet really want a Jeep. Not exactly rocket science for Jeep to offer something to those people.
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    2015 Regal Turbo

    Drew Dowdell replied to CSpec's topic in Buick

    You're in the DC area right? You could probably get away with FWD + Snow Tires for the winter unless you have a driveway like mine.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    See, the way I use my phone (that is, mostly NOT as a phone) you'd think that I would go to a phablet like the Note... but I travel so much I'm afraid I would find it too bulky. My S4 seems to be big enough.. and yet... Oh, and the Lollipop update popped up on my phone last night... but so far is failing to install for me. I may have to unroot the phone first.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    I wonder how much of that Equinox growth is due to the Captiva being out of production now and 'Noxes ending up in rental fleets. When I left O'Hare airport yesterday and passed the Alamo lot as I dropped off my car, every. single. Midsize-SUV. was a Black Equinox. Every single one. Still, even if all the increase is from fleet selling, the 'Nox maintaining its sales at the very tail end of the current model is still pretty good.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    I wonder how much of that is people waiting on the sidelines for the new one. It goes into production later this year, so I can imagine if you are a huge camaro fan waiting another few months to make a purchase. It's probably just time on the market and public awareness. I still don't see too many of them out and about, but as more and more people see them, there will be an awareness of those models.
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    It should... it's the cheaper of the two by 2 - 3 grand.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    The entirety of Lincoln is outsold by...... the GMC Acadia.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    I have a Galaxy S4 and as of today, I'm 30 days away from being able to upgrade it. The trouble? There are no phones out there that appeal to me enough to get me to spring the $200 to upgrade. My S4 does everything I ask of it and the new OS should be out shortly. The Nexus 6 and Galaxy S6, the only two options I see for me, haven't done enough to convince me I need to change. Albert is on an iPhone 5 and he's the same with the fruit products. The only thing that interests me in wireless right now is Google Fi and mostly because I could roam anywhere in the EU, Canada, AU, or Mexico with my phone and not pay roaming charges. That would necessitate a change of phones and might be my eventual reason for switching out my S4.
  18. Drew Dowdell
    It's strange, the Passat TDI seems to do worse than the Jetta in the city but better on the highway. Not sure why that is the case.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    Thank you for putting these together and posting them this month! I don't always post in the threads but I very much enjoying looking through them. I appreciate you taking the time to do it! We will be going back and catching up on the March numbers as well, we just won't be making a front page story of it. We missed the March numbers because the releases came out on the exact same days as the NY Auto Show.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    I, for one, welcome our new Diesel-Electric Luxury Locomotives....
  21. Drew Dowdell
    I'm getting 22.9 mpg out of a Ram 1500 Hemi this week...
  22. Drew Dowdell
    Not to stir the pot in yet another Cadillac thread (this is getting old), but have you seen this? Or looked up depreciation through a cost-to-own site such as KBB's? Or perused Cars.com or Autotrader listings for that matter? I think you'll see interesting things that may be slightly out of sync with what you want to see. Just saying... ANYHOW, that pricing seems appropriate given the previous model's pricing and the lower rung models' pricing, new vs. old. Perfecto. As we've all been told multiple times, the S-Class is the standard of the world. Even in your article, a Mercedes S-Class loses 32.4% of its value in the first year... or roughly $32,400. Six months of depreciation is $16,200, so seeing as that was just a snarky guess on my part, it still seems to be pretty accurate. In absolute dollar terms, after 2 years of Benz ownership, you will have basically bought a CTS V-Sport with your depreciation. Using the percentages in that article An E63 will be worth about $68,750, a loss of $32,950. A CTS-V will be worth about $53,629, a loss of $31,361 After figuring for the opportunity costs and interest expense of spending an extra $16k on the Benz, the Cadillac is a much better deal.... and it will be at least an equally capable vehicle. Percentages are fun to look at, but in the end, it comes down to actual dollars and sense.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    I think I have XE pictures from this year's NY Auto Show around here somewhere. I'll see if I can find them.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    I hope they are just going to be XE and not XE20D and XE35T..... am I buying a car or an assembly part number?
  25. Drew Dowdell
    can you be more specific on the issue you're having?
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