Drew Dowdell
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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.
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Did he pull the motor or just cover it?
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I would probably rather one of these than the CR-V
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well the new 5.3 is the same in name only..
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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.
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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.
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Only 3,000 copies a year.... yet "The Avalanche is no longer a viable product" at over 10 times that???!?
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Corn ethanol is bad..... but not all ethanol is bad.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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They're offering 0% financing for 72 months right now around here.
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Probably because at the time they had a lot of V8s, and they probably sold more V12s in the 90s when gas was cheaper, so having all the engines in V formation was easier. But now that gas is $8-9 a gallon in Europe and they have CAFE and Euro emissions requirements and smaller engines can make more power, they are in downsize mode. Times change, Cadillac put a V8 in everything they made back in 1995, now 2 of their cars have 4-cylinders and the only V8 is the Escalade and CTS-V. By Jove! A reasonable comment from SMK!
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What Volts caught fire? The only one I know of is the one that went through crash testing and then was left on its roof for 3 days, unattended, and the battery juice ran out of a cracked battery....
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well I was close
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Full-size-model
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