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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    Well.. no... our NET imports/exports are more on the export side... but that just means there is more oil flowing out of country and into the country.... but we're still importing oil.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    I think that the only thing BMW regrets is that it is difficult, if not impossible, to expand the Mini brand into the mainstream family car market. I'm sure BMW would love to be able to compete with the Fusion, Mondeo, and Focus.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    uh, what? Thunderbird was a model of Ford.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    The C-Class looks way better than the E also
  5. Drew Dowdell
    2014 Sales Figure Archive created. All 2014 Sales Figure Topics have been moved there.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    Much like VW... the entire lineup sinks while a Golf (Brougham) frantically bails out the water with a bucket.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    XF's age is showing.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    I still fear for Volvo, but at least they're not VW.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    C-Class deserves it. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that it might be taking even E-Class sales. CLA and GLA don't deserve to be selling this well.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    The entire VW Titanic Ship brand sinking while Golf frantically tries to bail out the boat with a 5 gallon bucket.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    I point you to the line item label "Trax"
  12. Drew Dowdell
    The current Phaeton is a fairly unique beast in the VW lineup.... it shares a structure with the Audi A8 and more distantly, the Bentley. The next Phaeton will share a lot more with it's more plebeian brethren I suppose.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    Interior = yes Exterior... not so sure about from the front
  14. Drew Dowdell
    Why camo something that is in the tunnel anyway?
  15. Drew Dowdell
    One must have snuck on there in the last 24 hours.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    At the moment, there is only 1 in all the US on Autotrader.com
  17. Drew Dowdell
    The W12 engines were also lovely, but had very high repair costs, even compared to other 12s
  18. Drew Dowdell
    4-door-coupe = marketing-fluff
  19. Drew Dowdell
    No way it is completed in 2018. No way they even have all of the needed land agreements in place for coast to coast travel by then. He'll have a glorified airport transit running between two medium/small cities... maybe... by 2020.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    Isn't the 9-speed a ZF unit?
  21. Drew Dowdell
    I must have missed that they dropped AWD in the Vans.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    The Phaeton was a beast of a car and built to withstand extremely difficult climate conditions up to and including Piëch's ego. Very luxurious interiors for the day and based on content, could easily justify the price. The only thing it couldn't justify was the badge.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    If the 3.6 goes away, I much rather see the Colorado and Canyon go to the 4.3. I don't see an Impala getting a 3.0TT in any trim outside of an SS variant. Twin-turbo V6 engines, as fun as they are, are not going to be the standard mainstream family car engine any time soon. I doubt even the LaCrosse would see it. If we're going to accept the premise that a 4-door fastback is a 4-door coupe, then yes, Oldsmobile did beat Mercedes there by 10 years. The 4.3 is not going into the mid size trucks or they would have already done it. You will see a term with the 3.6 as it is and then the revamped one but in time I see them going smaller with a turbo and non turbo versions of a 3.0. I expect the power to be the same as we have now with more torque and a little more MPG. Turbo engines will be in or offered in just about ever model out there at some point as the market is going to smaller size and turbo engines to gain MPG. We are just about there now. Who would have ever expected the Malibu Regal and other models to be only 4 cylinder with turbo options. Unless GM can learn to sell a lot more mini cars the larger ones will have to find MPG somewhere as they are not even close to the future regulations. the fact is Turbo chargers will be very common going into the future and not just on performance models or up scale models. I don't doubt that turbo charged engines are going to be more and more prevalent. I'm just saying that a 3.0TT is not going to be the engine to replace the current 3.6. I think we'd see a Turbo-4 take up that role. Probably something like a 2.3T similar to what Ford is doing.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    Sorry the roof it too high. Unless you can hit your head on the door frame getting in the back and it touching the rear window it does not count. LOL! It's not my fault Oldsmobile did it better than Mercedes.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    Jet Black Leather. Really like the Jet Black/Ash (gray) interior of the Colorado, shame GMC only has black and cocoa/dune (not a fan of the brown & tan interior). I really like that exterior color, but I'd go for the cocoa interior
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