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Drew Dowdell

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    ethanol

    Drew Dowdell posted a topic in The Lounge

    I may use comments from this thread as quotes in an article and by posting in this thread you grant your consent for me to do so. Thought/Reasons why E85/Ethanol hasn't taken off?
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    beetle has been around for longer than Eldorado... VW should kill it.
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    I understand that you would eliminate pumping losses, but there is still a large change in overall effort there. And why not just use Start-Stop at idle instead of using the electric motor to keep the diesel engine spinning?
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    Wouldn't that engine shut down technique be rather jerky... particularly in a diesel? I mean, if I can feel the A/C compressor kicking on and off through the gas pedal on lower powered cars, the drag of spinning a dead diesel is going to be felt too. Also, diesel engines don't really like being shut off and then back on again often. It's bad for their health, and they are noisy and jerky about it.
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    NYC 2014? NYC is mostly for production vehicles though. ATS was Detroit 2012 CTS was NYC Show 2013 Escalade is OCT 7 in NYC 2013
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    Two brand new and one completely rebuilt Toyota dealers have gone up near me. SCION is but a corner in the new dealerships. The dealership that was rebuilt booted Scion out of its building on the same lot and used it for the Toyota brand while the Toyota building was flattened and rebuilt. At the end of construction, the Scion building was flattened to make room for more lot space.
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    Happy Birthday old man!
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    The thing is their previous perception. For a previous Subaru owner, that would be a big step up in luxury and they would be thrilled with it. Coming from just about any luxury make, the more economical underpinnings of the car and the car's interior will show through.
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    Apparently, the Rover name was not sold to the Chinese as I had thought.... Tata owns it as part of the Range Rover marque/..... hmm
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    Maybe they need a sub-brand instead. It's a shame they couldn't get the Rover name back.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    ... so about that hot new Cadillac coupe concept.... (nudging back on topic)
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    I'm trying to imagine what Audi 's or Jaguar's grille would look like in that case...
  13. Drew Dowdell
    Well, that's what I've been told, but I also hold his passport in my safe, so...
  14. Drew Dowdell
    I have AAA also because I drive a 32 year old vehicle.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    I can change my own tire. I have AAA so I don't have to.
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    Specifying a size is not a shortcut. You're not going to fit in a Corvette either, but that is by design..it wasn't Chevy taking a shortcut
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    No. Longitudinal engines to NOT mean that Audi has a 55/45 weight split. The Audis have MORE engine in front of the front wheel center-line than any of the transverse mounted engined cars. Have you seen the schnoz on an A8 lately? The XTS AWD is 58/42.. not that different from the Audi in balance... but the overall balance doesn't tell the whole story. Audi can relocate the battery and a few cinder blocks to the trunk of the A8, but that doesn't negate the fact that you have 90% of the weight of the V8 hanging out in front of the front wheels. The XTS's overall balance may be further from the 50/50 ideal, but the engine's center of mass is closer to the middle of the car and not hanging cantilever out in front of the front wheels.
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    In the US, aren't they more like 99% AWD? It doesn't matter if the Cadillac SRX has a 100% AWD take rate nor does it matter that the Cadillac XTS can send something like 75% of its torque to the rear wheels when the computer tells the AWD system to... they are still FWD. Audi isn't FWD because they have longitudinal engines... even though they are driving the front wheels just as much as the FWD Cadillacs do. </smk mode>
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    Yea those. Memory failed me.
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    99% of Audi's 2014 lineup is fwd..shame they aren't world class. There is a valid argument that Cadillac is missing an X5 competitor, but the SRX is not intended to be that vehicle.
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    A fairly false impression Reg. Much of that was caused by the transmission they were mated to which, while smooth, didn't match the performance characteristics of the higher power pushrod V6es. The first gen Equinox has plenty wrong with it, but the pushrod V6 plus 5peed auto was plenty class competative. The reason the 3800 would feel breathless is because it was a low end torque engine and the transmission didn't have enough gears to keep the rpms low.
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    Purolator Pro 1
  23. Drew Dowdell
    I hope they aren't using real bees with all of the colony collapses happening around the world...
  24. Drew Dowdell
    The Q7 brutal? No, just a giant lump of car. In white they look rather whale like...
  25. Drew Dowdell

    Need these

    Drew Dowdell replied to ocnblu's topic in The Lounge

    Should get this for the little bugger that might be joining the fleet on Monday..
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