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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    Get Mark.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    These aren't high reving engines. Look at the RPM the torque peak comes in at... 3,000 rpm for both. To put that in perspective, the new Ecotec 4.3 liter V6 in the Silverado makes its peak 305 lb-ft at 3,900 rpm while the 5.3 makes its peak torque at 4,100 rpm. The old 3.0 liter V6 in the Lacrosse actually had to be revved way more than either of these Ecoboost engines. It made 255hp @ 6900 RPM and 217 lb-ft @ 5100 RPM and nary a turbo in sight! Even our 1.4T in the Encore rarely crests 3,200 rpm in daily driving while the 2.4 liter CR-V regularly needs to tickle 4,000.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    They do need the S40 back. They are trying to make the S60 the base model, but the price is just too high for a base Volvo. They need a Verano sized car starting around $27k.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    With Lutz gone and Akerson on the way out... who will be left at GM to make the PR team squirm?!
  5. Drew Dowdell
    I bet SMK will expect Cadillac to chase Mercedes here on volume and then wag his finger when Cadillac's sales numbers aren't as high.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    If the mustang loses weight, that's probably a good base engine.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    Just spoke to someone in the know. We'll get information on the date/venue for Canyon after the official Colorado reveal.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    2 tone paint like that needs to make a comeback.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    Yeah. My guess is that, if the rumour has some truth in it, it'll be a variant of the 3.6L block but I guess with a smaller bore. I think the rationale is that a smaller displacement engine using the 3.6L block would have thicker cylinder walls and it would withstand higher boost pressures. Smaller bore would make sense too. I seem to remember that the HF engines were capable of taking cylinder sleeves to adjust bore size, so the block itself would actually be the same but then they could sleeve it down to the displacement they wanted it to be. With no sleeve, the displacement would be 4.0 liters, but it would have to be a relatively slow, all torque/no rev, engine.
  10. Drew Dowdell
    Did he pull the motor or just cover it?
  11. Drew Dowdell
    hmm... that's actually better than I expected.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    I would probably rather one of these than the CR-V
  13. Drew Dowdell
    well the new 5.3 is the same in name only..
  14. Drew Dowdell
    The Avalanche fell in sales because after the second generation, their pricing was way out of line. They are just a body style variant of the Suburban and Tahoe... it's additional cost to GM was minimal and then they would sell another 25k - 30k trucks. In contrast, there is a huge expense GM is incurring in selling just 3,000 Chevrolet SS here. I have nothing against the car and I look forward to driving it... but the idea that the SS is a viable business case in the US and the Avalanche is not doesn't pass the sniff test. I would like to see an Avalanche like variant of the Colorado as well..... having the mid-gate type of feature in both medium and large sizes would be a unique offering in the truck market.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    I've never experienced AFM issues.... I'm not saying they aren't there, but I've never noticed them to be sluggish. I have a Silverado 1500 coming as a review car next month, so I'll get another look.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    I doubt this would be a direct lift from the Alfa Romeo.... more likely, it is just the current 3.6TT with a slightly shorter stroke and the boost turned way up.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    Only 3,000 copies a year.... yet "The Avalanche is no longer a viable product" at over 10 times that???!?
  18. Drew Dowdell
    Corn ethanol is bad..... but not all ethanol is bad.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    Would be nice...and w/ a straight 6 they would probably need a longer front end, which is always a good thing.. I doubt it. The CTS front end is pretty long already.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    hatchbacks seem to have very regional popularity
  21. Drew Dowdell
    The SRX beats any two of the Germans combined in sales.... what do you mean it doesn't compete? And what X3 or GLK isn't driven by a Suburban soccer mom? It is marketed directly AT soccer moms! The Malibu is an abnormality, I wouldn't use that as an example for anything... though I believe in my review of the Malibu, I chastised its interior room for being close to the Jetta with the Jetta actually feeling roomier. The problem there is that the Jetta and Malibu compete at vastly different starting prices. The SRX, and the Germans are very very close in price and interior room... so much so that the fact the exterior of the SRX is larger doesn't matter too much.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    SMK, this might be news to you, but the size of the car is not determined by the exterior, but by the size of the interior. The X3, GLK, and SRX are all in the same size class regardless of exterior dimensions.... and only in the full size class of SUVs does exterior size even begin to matter. No one..no one... shopping in this interior size/price class is going around with a measuring tape to measure the exterior of the car. Why can't you get this?
  23. Drew Dowdell
    The RX350 is where the sales are, so it's right that Cadillac would chase that rather than the X5. Besides, on interior room the SRX is more like an X3... so Cadillac is getting people to pay RX350 prices for something that is X3 sized inside and is selling a bunch of them too... more than BMW has been selling X3s or MB selling GLKs. Now, if your argument is that Cadillac needs an X5 sized and priced crossover, I'll agree with you there.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    They're offering 0% financing for 72 months right now around here.
  25. Drew Dowdell
    The product is (mostly) no longer the problem. The distribution channel is.
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