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Drew Dowdell

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  1. The W12 engines were also lovely, but had very high repair costs, even compared to other 12s
  2. 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.
  3. I must have missed that they dropped AWD in the Vans.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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
  8. In the late 70s, Mercedes was selling the 450SEL 6.9 for over $50,000, when a top end Cadillac or Lincoln was $20,000. I think they were selling a luxury car. No, it was just expensive and costly to repair. Just like the old BMW 3-Series wasn't a luxury car beyond the luxury price... It was no more luxury than a Jetta at the time.
  9. I dont get how two cars with essentially the same silhouette can be two different things, but I guess that's those wandering goal posts..
  10. Ebb and flow.... did a lot of driving last week.
  11. AWD? That looks like a fairly loaded model
  12. 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.
  13. Well, Cadillac does need to up their game in Europe. The dealership network there is pathetic. At this point, I don't think it is the cars that are holding them back that much. The lack of suitible dealers and the lack of diesels has more to do with it. Add a 4-cylinder diesel, V6 diesel, to the ATS and sell it out of a real dealership rather than out the back of an Opel store, and I'm sure the ATS would do substantially better there.
  14. That dealer must specialize in large sedans, because I see that dealer logo on a lot of Town Cars, XTSes, and MKTs.
  15. There is no such thing as a 4-door coupe, thus neither the A7 nor the CLS have it either. The A7 is a 4-door A6 hatchback and the CLS is just a 4-door E-Class Sedan fastback or a 2-Door E-class hardtop coupe. If there is such a thing as a 4-door coupe, then Oldsmobile beat Mercedes to the idea by a decade. Pardon? There is a new advanced version of it right around the corner.
  16. Drew Dowdell replied to balthazar's topic in The Lounge
    As far as the webmasters accounts with Google and Bing... that's how you manage how the search engines see you... and the quickest way to get in there. If you don't have it set up already, you'll need to make sure you have the site generate a sitemap.xml.
  17. No. You can add them to your garage stall for your 2015 Colorado Or we have our own picture sharing app on C&G. You can create your own album in the gallery and upload them there. The pictures just have to be less than 3mb each. If you need help resizing them, let me know.
  18. That would probably start a trademark dispute.

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