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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    Assuming Cummins gets their small diesels right on the first try. There were some stumbles by them years ago with the Ram trucks.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    fixed
  3. Drew Dowdell
    I may have quite similar news this year on top of two other big news items!
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    GM needs to get over the 90 - 95% complete product is a good product mentality. Guess what it is that 5 - 10% that magazines pick on and harp on the biggest. I want the engineers, accountants, managers to give 100% just like they gave for the Corvette. That's why I don't want to see rear drum brakes on a Malibu... on a Cruze... maybe.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    ...I have no idea why I thought you were in Canada..... Wonder if you can negotiate a new Cruze diesel as part of a buy-back. My grandmother did that with her first 7-series, got out of a 4 year lease when only about 2 years in and walked into another 7-series for the same payment. .... you seem to enjoy the Cruze otherwise
  6. Drew Dowdell
    Do you subscribe to TrueDelta.com? It's free. It's like consumer reports. What are lemon laws like up there in Canada?
  7. Drew Dowdell
    The refresh of the LX cars should hold things together for now... yes, weight is an issue when compared to the Mustang (not so much the Camaro yet, but we'll see if and when that changes) but compared to segment sedans, the LX cars do really well.... enough so that I don't think weight is the biggest concern at the moment. The 300 in V6 form is only a little bit heavier than a V6 Lacrosse (120lbs), Impala (220lbs), or Taurus (100lbs), and about 500lbs heavier than the category lightweight, the Avalon, and yet I'd put a V6 300 up against the V6 versions of all of them in a MPG run and the only one I think it would be a competitor is the Avalon. That's not to say that weight isn't a concern... it's just that Chrysler has the hardware under the hood so good that it isn't much of a concern right now. If they could figure out a hybrid or diesel for the LX cars while keeping the 8-speed, they really could have a killer app for the segment. The concern right now is that Chrysler is supposed to be their mainstream family brand and they only have 3 models.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    I loved the old Mitsubishi Eclipse. It was also sold as the Eagle Talon in the US and I actually preferred that version a little more. It had a different spoiler, tail lights, and nose than the Eclipse.. Years ago I almost sold my first Toronado for one and as you get to know me, you'll understand how serious a decision that was for me. v. v.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    Hope you have a great 2015. My 2015 is looking to get very interesting and exciting.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    Lol!
  11. Drew Dowdell
    I still want an ATS wagon with a 2.0t and AWD. I could probably sell that at home
  12. Drew Dowdell
    The Accord inline-4 was SOHC for years... people have no idea what DOHC or SOHC means. True but they know what the Camry and Accord have is what they want. 10 years ago Chevy tried the we'll give you a pushrod V6 for the price of a CamCord 4-cylinder, no one cared, they bought the CamCords still.Your cause and effect meter is still out of wack. The pushrod v6 was the best part of a terrible car. It wasn't the engine that pushed people away from those cars.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    I don't doubt you are correct.... I wouldn't be surprised at GM screwing up it's own platform naming convention.The other thing I've read is that the second position in the code indicates the version of the car on the platform rather than the version of the platform.... which also would be incorrect for Malibu as the next one would be E4SC in that case..... any way you slice it, if the next malibu is on an all new version of the epsilon platform, it's either the 4 version on the Epsilon platform or it's the 3rd version on the Epsilon-II platform or it's the first version on an Epsilon 3 platform... so E2 doesn't make sense. But as I said above... Delta-II cars in NA are called D1 which can't possibly fit the 3 cars currently sold on it.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    Yes I would agree that for Tesla Roadster, the original .36 was pretty crappy. So be interesting to see what the new roadster looks like. Course that Trans Am was also fully enclosed compared to the open air Roadster from Tesla which is what this .36 is for. So I guess a .31 for the new Roadster 3.0 removable roof version is pretty good then. Most of the pics I see on Google show a lid/roof panel, assumedly the released number is with that in place. Guess the 'formal' rear glass is killing the flow, tho the windshield looks rather upright, also. Just surprised to hear it's where it is. Makes one wonder if that upright windshield will change with the retro kits for the Roadster 1.0 and 2.0 versions when they release the upgrade kits and start producing 3.0 version cars. Windshield angles are one of the few things you really can't change on a car as a factory thing. Most likely, they're changing the front and rear clip in some fashion.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    A pickup model!?
  16. Drew Dowdell
    People don't have a clue what DO The Accord inline-4 was SOHC for years... people have no idea what DOHC or SOHC means.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    Lots of great suggestions there
  18. Drew Dowdell
    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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    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.
  22. 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.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    What new platform will this be riding on then?
  24. Drew Dowdell
    something funny about those numbers...
  25. Drew Dowdell
    ground breaking for a midsize no-lux brand
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