Drew Dowdell
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The occational outtages today were my doing as I was trying to get a new modual installed into the server. It is a modual that works to decrease our page loading times. From this, I've managed to shave 6 seconds off of our total page load time for the front page. Hopefully things feel a bit snappier around here.
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GMC News: GMC Might Get Its Own Vehicle In The Future
Drew Dowdell replied to William Maley's topic in GMC Trucks
While the shape of the Canyon interior may be the same, the materials it is made from are higher level.- 23 replies
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not bad for the bucks!!
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Thank you guys for bringing this back to a more civil tone. I was fearing I was going to have to shut the thread down.
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No, the self driving cars won't be tiny. The closest thing to self-driving that I've driven recently is the Benz GL350 Bluetech
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I like Pullman also... I wish Cadillac had snagged the name before Mercedes did... it is such an American name.
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GMC News: GMC Might Get Its Own Vehicle In The Future
Drew Dowdell replied to William Maley's topic in GMC Trucks
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I almost never carry people in the back seat of either of my 4-door crossovers and I think maybe twice ever in the back seat of my Toronado.
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Don't feel bad, I didn't get it either.
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How about the Adenauer
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But the ATS is lighter than the 3-series also.
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GMC News: GMC Might Get Its Own Vehicle In The Future
Drew Dowdell replied to William Maley's topic in GMC Trucks
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If it is just a trim name like S-Class Maybach, that could work. If they try to replace the S-Class name, that will fail as hard as it did last time.
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This is a fantastic car... if my rear seat passengers are going to bitch about a lack of an armrest, they can walk. More importantly, it's a coupe that regular adults can ride in the back seat of.
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When your $1000 car dies for good, you sell it to the scrapper for $600. My "first" car was one year older than I was. Got the white guy part right. Old is debatable. Everything else you got wrong. I grew up on what was technically a farm. It was my parent's greenhouse business, which was failing. I worked unpaid for the family business. I got my car 7 days before leaving for college by cashing every bond I ever got. I would spend five tumultuous months at "back home" over the next 4 years and would not return until Dad died and I quasi-inherited an uninhabitable property. I started with a junk toolset bought from a flea market and worked on the car in the street, parking lots, friends' houses, etc. I barely afforded housing for the next ten years... lived IN the car during a few stretches. When I was in college for 4.5 years, C's would have killed my scholarship and my college aspirations, so I had to drop some classes I couldn't finish either due to working 3 jobs or the crushing depression I suffered from. During this time, I had to buy my next $200 car and add my mother to my insurance so she didn't have to walk to work... I've done all the work on that car gratis, as well, in the street. I left school three classes shy of graduating because financial aid would not take "Parents do not have tax forms" as an answer and would not return for a decade during which I worked 60 hours a week to build a nice internet business FOR SOMEONE ELSE. Sure, I finally got on top of things and got my degree... and have spent some time making good coin... but I don't take it for granted. The only good thing for years was that I had my physical health... but otherwise, I know crap situations more that most people will ever imagine. Every GenY'r show watch Richie Parker work on cars... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIAP04cc6qc But none of what you did is out of love for cars, it was about survival, which is an entirely different motivator. This thread is about a generation who has decided they can live without a car until which point they are not limited to $800 basket cases. It is true that the price of cars, even used ones, has gone up while wages have remained stagnant.
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You sorely lack the ability to see outside of your own situation. Car sharing is great for those who live even marginally close to a city. I've had a car sharing membership going on 6 years now. I use it for two reasons: 1st, If I need to run an errand from the office during the day, it is almost always cheaper to take the bus into my office downtown and then grab a Zipcar for my errand than it is to drive in to downtown myself and pay for parking. I can get a Zipcar for $4.00 an hour and I don't even have to pay for gas. The other reason I have zipcar is for when I need a truck or a mini-van to haul things. Those cost a little more per hour, but I can also get an overnight rate for $45. Again fuel and insurance are included. I pick up the truck or van downtown after I leave work (I bussed in) and then drop it off in the same spot the next morning. I have over 2 dozen different vehicles at my disposal all with-in walking distance of my office. I can get a Honda Insight or a Focus 5-door or a Chrysler Town & Country or a Nissan Frontier or a Mercedes C-Class or.. .if I really wanted another one... a Honda CR-V. And that's just in Pittsburgh. My Zipcar account works in cities all over this country, Canada, and in England as well. No hassling with regular rental car companies (though I am a frequent user of National's Emerald Service also), no having to pay to fill up the car before returning it. I can just reserve a car from my phone and go. In area where people live that have Zipcar right in their neighborhood, I can see Zipcar completely replacing at least one vehicle in a 2 car family. Car Sharing is not some hallmark card wishful thinking, it is a multi-billion dollar industry.
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Started at 184lbs a few days before xmas. Down to 172 today on diet alone.
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Of those, only the Caprice is worth it and I'm someone who has the money. The N-Bodies can be notoriously frustrating depending on which engine they have. The Cutlass Supreme isn't bad, but at 177k miles, the "just a sensor" is also probably "just the start of other problems" I'll also note that not one of the cars you listed is younger than a 16 year old getting their license for the first time in 2014
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Fixing your car builds character. Tools cost more money. You don't have to tell me... I bought my first Toronado for $2600 and my second one for $2300.
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I think there are minimum ages for the care sharing companies.
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I'm not sure you're missing anything with the Malibu not being available in a coupe. It's not all that spectacular as a sedan.
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I asked our 18 year old nephew about this specific question, what he and his fellow classmates thought about cars and if he felt people his age didn't care about cars anymore. He said that for the most part, everyone wants a car but that unless their parents buy them one, it feels like something impossible to get. He pointed out that there is no way for a kid, if he starts working part time at 16, will have enough money to buy a decent car and be able to insure it and fuel it at 18. And he's got a point. If you figure no more than 18 hours a week during the school year, and maybe 30 hours a week over the summer, a kid is going to be lucky to net $5,000 in a year. And they also seem to realize that $5,000 will only get you a vehicle with over 100k miles these days which means a greater potential for expensive repairs.
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New forum theme/skin I see today..
Drew Dowdell replied to Robert Hall's topic in Site News and Feedback
That's strange. VNC is working for me, and this is just a visual update, no change to the underlying program.
