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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    Lots of great suggestions there
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    GM is putting a lot of money into battery research... it's just not ready yet for 2016..... Keep in mind that neither is Tesla's.... Elon has a habit of making promises for release dates and then they get pushed back by a year or 3. Until the first 3.0 battery back is installed in a paying customer's car and proven the claims true, Tesla has not actually delivered on its promise.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    Indeed.... some of the recalls from GM were things that would obviously just be a TSB in prior years but they issued a recall on it anyway just to cover their butts.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    The states can maintain their databases, but those databases must have a certain minimum amount of information collected for each licensee/registrant. Then all of that data can get uploaded to the master database at the NHTSA.
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    Because this is a Volt refresh (though I'm sure GM will call it all new) rather than an all new car. The innovative thing about the Volt is under the hood, not the battery pack.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    My reading of GM platform conventions was (Platform)(Version)(Bodystyle)(Brand)... which to me means that if the Malibu is going to be on a new platform, it would need to be E3XX rather than E2. E2SC would be the current car. ... and yes, I know Delta platform Fs it up... our current Delta cars are actually version 1.5 rather than 2... the Cruze is called a Delta-II car, but it's really a D1SC.
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    What new platform will this be riding on then?
  8. Drew Dowdell
    something funny about those numbers...
  9. Drew Dowdell
    ground breaking for a midsize no-lux brand
  10. Drew Dowdell
    if they can make it ride to American's desires..
  11. Drew Dowdell
    ,,, I think I accidentally edited your post instead of replying with my own... weird.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    Nope. I actually got tired of pre-bankrupt GM's build quality every time I made a gear change. My Hummer had a squeaky ass shifting from third to fourth. And second to third. And fourth to fifth. And first to second. Thanks. Aside from tinting the windows, I don't think I'll be doing much of anything to this car at all. This Dart has the 2.4 Tigershark. I hated it in the 2015 Chrysler 200 with the nine-speed automatic, but it's terrific in the Dart with the Fiat six-speed manual. Go figure. Less weight to lug around.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    Can you try another browser? I used Dolphin for a while on my Galaxy Tab 2, but I've gone over to Chrome now. I just encountered too many hiccups with Dolphin. Can you try another browser? I used Dolphin for a while on my Galaxy Tab 2, but I've gone over to Chrome now. I just encountered too many hiccups with Dolphin. I'll give it a try on Silk, but that browser is crashy. Try Chrome. It's what I use, so I know it works on stock Android.
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    The idiots are winning.
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    The '08 Malibu could have and should have been just refreshed rather than do the car we have today. Update the front/rear facias. Update the engines. Freshen the dash. It would have been far better than what they've got now if only for passenger room concerns. They may not have beaten the Camry, but they wouldn't be taking a negative 7% hit in sales growth. Buickman is in the comments of that article talking about how the car just isn't marketed properly... but that's bull. It is a severely compromised car when compared to the competition. I don't even like the Fusion, but I'll still pick one over the Malibu. Which is sad because I really liked the '08. Yes, I've driven them all.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    Well another reason for the XTS was that when the 9-5 died, there was a lot of dev work already done and paid for but a good chunk of the amortization evaporated with Saab. They had to push the XTS into production. Aside from not having the DTS and STS anymore, they still had to try and make some money on the platform that they already invested in.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    Okay... where I was going with this (but got distracted and didn't type) was that the old B-Bodies were speed limited to 143mph for the Roady/Caprice/Fleetwood and 153 for the Impala SS. The old Park Ave Ultra's top speed was 140mph without a speed limiter (I imagine the 3800 was near death at that point). Though I can't imagine doing 143mph in a Dynaride '94 Roadmaster....
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    1998 Oldsmobile Intrigue Why the Intrigue? Genuinely wondering here.. compared to it's rather stodgy contemporaries and predecessors it had a more revolutionary look. A 98 Impala looked like a Malibu with smoked headlights. The Century and Regal both looked really "old people". The Grand Prix looked like a rounder version of the prior model. GM's other midsizers were the Malibu/Cutlibu, the N-Body Alero and Grand Am were brand new, but even though the Alero shared the same theme with it's bigger brothers, it didn't wear it as well..... if you think about it, "the most dramatic midsize from GM" really isn't a very high bar to cross. Honda/Nissan/Toyota were still (are still?) suffering from G.A.S. Over at Ford, they still had the bug-eyed Taurus and Sable. Chrysler was fairing better with the attractive new LH cars, but those don't meet Mark's qualifier of "from GM". The Intrigue was the rather revolutionary 1994 Aurora look applied to a mid-size car that most people could afford. Nearly all of the commercials showed the car in black (it's best color IMHO) and made vague references to the idea of stealth and tied it in with X-files which was popular at the time. I'd say that the newest Impala would rank up there as better, but I believe that is considered a full size car now, nothing else since the Intrigue from GM would even qualify and meet the criteria that Mark set.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    yeah, but who ever really gets that fast in the US?
  20. Drew Dowdell
    Can you try another browser? I used Dolphin for a while on my Galaxy Tab 2, but I've gone over to Chrome now. I just encountered too many hiccups with Dolphin.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    Volt will get a 12% bump in range and stronger regenerative braking... that's about it on the electric side of things. Most of the improvements they can make at this point will be on the regenerator.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    Which engine?
  23. Drew Dowdell
    Well, the thing is that we have one more tab coming... so I needed to condense things down a bit.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    ^^^ Still can't read a CTS/CTS-V/ATS review without the Cimmaron or Catera or 8-6-4 being brought up. I imagine it will be the same if Cadillac ever offers a diesel... "OMG!!! THE 1977 DIESELS WERE TEH SUCK!!@!"
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    1998 Oldsmobile Intrigue
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