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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    Now? No.... wait for the company valuation to come back closer to reality first. I don't think any company would buy them right now with a $28B stock market valuation.... that is a guarantee to lose money.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    I'm no Hyundai fan, but I'd have to agree.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    No... he'll sell to one of the big-guys first. I could see one of the Germans trying to pick up Tesla or possibly even GM. GM sees them as enough of a threat and has the "if you can't beat'em, buy'em" mentality that Google and Microsoft have.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    Well, it does have tiny 16 inch wheels, compared to 20 or more of '14 era SUVs. Michelins on the DTS were around $800 last year IIRC. 15s on the CR-V would have been $560 out the door I think for Michelins had I not had a good treadwear warranty.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    You can always wait a couple years and pick up a CPO one... Since modern trucks hold their value so well, new almost makes sense to buy new. QFT.... I regularly see Avalanches, 2010 and older, with 60k+ miles that are still commanding $35k The latest thing I've seen is the Jeep Grand Cherokees. A 2013 with 45k miles (how does someone even do that?!?) for basically the same price as a new one.... what's the point? Even our Encore is holding its value very nicely... we'll probably end up buying it out at the end of the lease because it will be worth more than we owe on it. I saw an Encore on the road the other day. I am not a crossover/fourdoor kind of a guy, but that thing tempted me. VERY nice vehicle. Same with the Grand Cherokee you are talking about. I cannot think of ANY european or asian SUV at ANY price that I would rather have. American car makers are really, really bringing their A game and it shows. It was out of place in our driveway over the weekend while I was working on the other car.... I was admiring it from another perspective as I was sitting on the ground. It really is a perky, spunky little bulldog of a car, yet with luxury appointments. I'm very happy with it. At the end of June we'll have had it 10 months... it has 8000 miles on it now... probably won't see 8500 before July 1 (at which point we go away for a few weeks). The buyout on the lease in 14 months is $21.8k and KBB values it at $29k now on a vehicle we leased for $32.5k. I think I won this bet.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    Well... they're not. The Dodge brand is converting to a sporting brand. The T&C will carry on. One less badge engineered vehicle at the Chrysler company now. I think it has more to do with the fact that the direct competition in that price class is predominantly 2-row crossovers. Except for the stupid niche vehicles, Cadillac wants to have an option, model for model, for everything you might buy at the BMW dealership up the street.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    Eh.. I think the new Sonata will do well... it is rather conservative and the new Camry turned into this weird looking Corolla/Avalon mongrel.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    You can always wait a couple years and pick up a CPO one... Since modern trucks hold their value so well, new almost makes sense to buy new. QFT.... I regularly see Avalanches, 2010 and older, with 60k+ miles that are still commanding $35k The latest thing I've seen is the Jeep Grand Cherokees. A 2013 with 45k miles (how does someone even do that?!?) for basically the same price as a new one.... what's the point? Even our Encore is holding its value very nicely... we'll probably end up buying it out at the end of the lease because it will be worth more than we owe on it.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    Like the Graham
  10. Drew Dowdell
    but the car isn't actually down?
  11. Drew Dowdell
    Interesting.... I wonder if the SRX will go down in exterior size while staying the same in interior size. (It's X3 sized inside while almost X5 sized outside) Then this new crossover could be an X5/M-Class direct competitor. My concern would be about body-mass. Unless the new platform sheds a lot of mass, building a 2-row crossover on a 3-row platform could lead to an overly heavy SUV.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    Never fear Z, his new computer is C&G certified..... I saw to that personally.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    Stock price has nothing to do with Tesla's cash situation. As long as they have cash... they can build cars. Elon Musk is worth $11.6 billion alone.... as long as he is willing to put cash into the company, Tesla will survive. Tesla is a personal source of pride for Elon, so I don't think he'll walk away that easily.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    They are good trucks, but not $45K good.. for that price I can get an extremely nice V8 Ram 1500
  15. Drew Dowdell
    Yay!
  16. Drew Dowdell
    the coupe needs a different model name..... name it Tiburon even
  17. Drew Dowdell
    but is this on D2XX or a refresh of the current car?
  18. Drew Dowdell
    The public's attention span can't go much longer than 4 years for most vehicles, though there seem to be some extreme exceptions to that rule....
  19. Drew Dowdell
    Who wants to put all that work into an engine just to get good power and reliability out of it? It should come from the factory that way.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    but that's just it.... the reason it was done that way was due to complaints about daytime closures.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    Eh... in my interactions with Hyundai reps... they specifically mention S-Class.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    The problem is that no one ever wants to pay for anything and they never want to be inconvenienced. There is one project going on near me where they are only allowed to do work after 10pm and before 6am, so they end up paying a bunch extra to have overnight workers.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    The strange fall-out from this is that now all car makers are going to be rushing out with big recalls. My bet is that we'll see a bunch of big recalls announce over the next few months and the GM recalls will kind of be drowned out in the noise.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    Why didn't they ask Akerson?
  25. Drew Dowdell
    Hyundai desperately wants this to compete with the S-Class... and it simply doesn't. Besides... if that's the case, then what is the Equus for?
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