Drew Dowdell

Again! There is a THREE WEEK DELAY BETWEEN IMPACT AND WHEN THE BATTERIES CATCH FIRE. If you are still in your car three weeks after you crashed it into a tree, chances are, you're dead already and they just haven't found your body yet!

Well, that's the banner header for this site. I'm going to need banners for advertising on other sites.... I'm sitting in Chicago Union Station right now, I'll try and get you some graphics (or you could coordinate with DF) tomorrow morning.

It's next on the list, but unless I autocross it like some people, I'm not worried about handling issues. The key is that both left and right sides of one end are replaced at once.

I was meaning more in an emergency situation.

Too soon I think.... and they are already doing the ATS at Detroit. They need to save something for Chicago and/or New York.

mmmm the Tornado. I want to see if I can hop a ride on that if I'm ever in England.

For those who don't know. They built a brand new Peppercorn-Class steam engine in Britain in 2008 called the Tornado.

No one complains when VW shares with Seat, Audi and Porsche. Yet for GM it is blasphemy.

Don't forget the W engines that are shared with VW, Audi. Bugatti, and Bently.

Today a company needs to share with divisions or it will need to share with other companies. BMW has worked with GM and now is talking to Toyota to share cost on new technologies and parts.

Development cost are so high any more the cost need to be spread out as much as they can. This is why even cross town rivals GM and Ford shared funding in the transaxle they co developed.

No one complains when VW shares with Seat, Audi and Porsche. Yet for GM it is blasphemy.

you mean like the V6 that the E, C, SLK, R, ML, GLK, and CLS use that comes from the Sprinter?

Any one up for it? The only regular posters here that I know of from Ohio are Hyper and 67 IMP, but Moltar/Cubitar/Cubical is from here and visits, Z06 goes to Michigan often, and Olds often comes to Columbus.

Would be willing to go anywhere in state to meet some fellow C and G guys....anyone up for it?

I don't come to Columbus anymore. My last trip there was to close that office.

Yikes @ those front struts!

You may want to get the rears addressed sooner rather than later. Having a properly firm front setup with an old and saggy rear could cause handling abnormalities in stressful situations.

I do want a used Avalanche again, but that's so far down the road at this point.

Holy cow, how can you guys afford to just change your mind like that? Don't you lose like $5k in the process?

This will be the first Chrysler/Fiat car you'd be able to judge the build quality on..... so... you've seen and felt the car in person already? Can you give us your findings on it?

neither. Get the real thing from GM

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Samsung Galaxy S II Courtesy of Drew. Love the device, but hate the "phone." How complex and retrogressional operations in a smart-phone be?

lol! I almost never use that part!

So... what you're saying is that in the end it really was just a bad wire......job!

I think this could put some serious hurt on the competition. Focus what?

there is a THREE WEEK delay between a crash and a battery fire

So about 0.5%

Later that same day:

The old coot I saw working on this thing could teach the young whipper snapper driving the Nismo a thing or two about performance.

A Nissan Versa with the "Nismo" package.

yes, there was a douchebag behind the wheel.... how did you know?

Eventually we'll need to replace the CR-V... but we have other big priorities on our plate right now.... and also a serious illness in the family, so we don't need the distraction.

The argument of "they need this car to spread out the development cost of the Volt" I think is a bad one. The Volt should be able to support its own development cost, and even if it couldn't spread it onto another Chevy. It shouldn't be Cadillac's role to spread development costs of a slow selling Chevy.

Cadillac should be building cars that luxury buyers want, and cars that will improve their brand image. By saying we need the ELR to help cover Volt costs smells of "old GM" thinking and supporting legacy costs and sunk costs should not be the goal. The goal is to build profitable vehicles that people want.

Spreading the costs around are what the Volt MPV and the Ampera are for. The ELR is a way to give Cadillac the most advanced propulsion system in the world at the moment while wrapping it up in a very attractive, and very Cadillac shell.

The ELR, a "halo car"? What are you smoking? Please pass it.

Is the Pruis not a "halo car" to a certain type of person? It's not a halo car to you or I, but to a greenie-wannabie-mom trying to make the world a better place for her kids, it is far more halo than a Corvette ever could dream of being.

how many more lives can SAAB really have?

Yes, the Not-A-Dart should be there.

MKZ