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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    Passat treading water (Big Enterprise/National purchase I wonder?) and everything else down in an otherwise strong market.... not good VW.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    Lots of big down numbers on important models, but the main bread-and-butter of Corolla/Camry/Highlander continue to chug along...
  3. Drew Dowdell
    To everyone who poopooed on the new Cherokee when it was unveiled.... Jeep is laughing all the way to the bank. At 15,007 units for April, the Cherokee outsold the Sportage and Sorento combined, the Forrester (April Sales - 11,547), and the Santa Fe (April Sales - 8,997). It is within spitting distance of the new Rogue (April - 15,066). Next stop, Rav-4 (April Sales - 18,834) Shame Dodge can't catch a similar break with the Dart.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    What a terrible month for Ford. Down across the board except for the Trucks and the Explorer in a month where the entire industry is moving up in sales.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    3, 6, and CX-5 are doing well... and that's where the money is. Keep it up Mazda, you're on the right track.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    Interesting.... with CTS+XTS Cadillac outsold BMW in the midsize lux sedan segment.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    Wow! Look at those Lambdas! 19,911 Lambda vehicles in a single month! Traverse has a base price of over $30k and goes up quickly on the other too..... that is a LOT of revenue there. Cadillac still moving 1,000 more SRXes a month than BMW moves X3s. 241 ELRs have sold to date, SS which is half the price, twice the power, and pushes rather than pulls, only managed 283. Avalanche and Escalade EXT inventories are obviously extinguished. Verano, oldest vehicle in the Buick lineup, leveling off a bit. Impala doing very well, but I'd want GM to start breaking out Impala Limited numbers from the main retail number. No fair burying that in there.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    No surprises here really. New Rogue off to a great start.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    Every month Subaru continues to embarrass VW and pull further ahead. and one of those Foresters was my doing. I talked a friend into one instead of a new CR-V.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    well... at least it is the right direction for Mitsu.... if they are making a profit on these Mirages, maybe they can put that money into building a better car.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    You know what would help mini? more model lines of the same basic car.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    lol at pointing out the Equus 9.2% gain... they sold 24 more cars....
  13. Drew Dowdell
    it's a yawner.... picture a Q50 with a ricer body kit and good paint.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    One wonders if GM wasn't allowed to sell their Opel Combo here (at Buick dealerships?!) because it is Fiat Doblò based and that is due to be the basis for the coming Ram Promaster City.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    The Volt Uber driver that picked me up a few weeks ago is a retired U of Pitt professor. There are free charging stations on Pitt campus that he sits in until an Uber fare pops up. He drives university students around town, with no fuel cost to him, while making side money. He made $50 driving me out to the airport and will have only used gasoline on the return part of the trip... we were still in EV mode when he dropped me off. As Uber service continues to grow in Pittsburgh, he could be making $75 an hour just driving around town with almost zero fuel costs. He sits in his car and reads while waiting for a fare. He also has a Ram Crewcab. Sounds like he's thinking okay to me....
  16. Drew Dowdell
    There has been a culture, particularly at GM and Toyota it seems, for lower employees to be incentive to not blow the whistle. This is backwards.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    The fine is "up to"... not a minimum. From the article: Toyota got wacked 3 times for their delays at a time when the maximum fine was $17.5 million, so that was still only $66 million for something that I've already shown was shear negligence.
  18. Drew Dowdell
    Out of curiosity, when did you see this? I read an article just yesterday about a journalist in his first distance run in a Telsa who, I'm sure, was doing things on purpose to make the tesla look bad. For example, leaving on a 250 mile journey with only a 250 mile charge... of course he ran out of juice on a rural highway at 1am, 3 miles from the charging station and then no one from AAA wanted to flat-bed him because they don't know the procedure. (hint: jumpstarting a tesla is exactly the same as jump starting any other car, except you access the terminals through the nose). And yes, you must jump start a Telsa to wake it up enough to pull it on a flatbed. Reading the entire article its as if he was trying to get stuck. OCN, most of the Telsa owners I've met are well-to-do types who have "thinking" related jobs.... 3 of the Telsa owners I know of here in Pittsburgh work for Carnegie Mellon University (2 in the advanced computing department, one in the advanced propulsion department). Clearly their heads aren't empty. In fact, it's usually the people incapable of open-mindedness and critical thought who tend to be the most empty headed by sheer virtue of refusing to fill up their brains with other ideas and new facts.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    Not impossible, but I'm not sure Lordstown has the capacity.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    One wonders how much extra safety tech Clinton's Fleetwood Brougham even had. I'm sure it was bulletproof and semi-blast resistant, but not much more. I know when GWB got his first DTS, it was one of the first to get the more serious hardware we see today. His second DTS is still in service as a backup car for POTUS.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    What is another recall deterrent that you would suggest? Ideally, if the manufacturers do their jobs, the DoT wouldn't see a penny from these fines.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    I don't see these things as mutually exclusive
  23. Drew Dowdell
    I think it needs to be made painful without making it too painful to develop cars in the first place. If they design something, find a flaw later, and immediately recall, they won't face the fine. But if they wait years and years, or publicly stall like Toyota did, then the fine should be very very painful for the company.... so painful that they have an incentive to not stall.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    it is just enough different in the nose to matter .... and look more attractive.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    I've never been a fan of the looks.
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