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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    any idea how freaking easy it will be for the aftermarket to come up with mods for a GM 5.3 V8 in the Corvette? The ability to cross-sell to the Silverado, Sierra, Suburban, Tahoe, and Yukon guys alone would be enough.. the extra sales from the Vette would be gravy.... plus whatever else the 5.3 ends up in (SS, Caprice, Holdens, Camaro)
  2. Drew Dowdell
    With the different modes and skip shift, it will be interesting to see how this drives. I find that even in some small displacement manual shift cars, the low end torque is enough to skip shift during normal driving. In the Sonic RS, if you were driving in normal suburban speeds I would go 1-2-4-6
  3. Drew Dowdell
    it will get blasted for using a truck engine...but I support the idea.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    Thanks... I was sick two weeks ago, but that's not really it. Just a bunch of different stressful situations all hitting me at the same time.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    Same way you switched to it, but pick IP.Board. If that doesn't work, I can force the skin back for you individually.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    Sorry guys, I've had a rough couple of weeks here. I'm ok but I'll be laying low as I recover. Good things on the way though.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    more unfounded statements....
  8. Drew Dowdell
    The states don't have anything to do with it... or at least they don't have to. It's going to be private enterprise that gets in on it.
  9. Drew Dowdell
    Is this some data driven insight or simply just because you wish it so? Even if the sales of EVs isn't where manufacturers want them to be, EVs are still a growing segment. The only direction they can go is up. The ELR proves that GM isn't about to pull the plug on Voltec any time soon. Leaf just got reconfigured to decrease price. Toyota is selling their plug-in Pruis. I work for a company that, as a side business, does the installations on these things. We're hiring BTW.... You are literally the old coot on his porch shaking his cane at Henry Ford trying to invent the Model-T and yelling "Well where are you gonna fuel the dang thing?! I can buy oats for my horse ANYWHERE!!"
  10. Drew Dowdell
    There will be a lot more failures for purely electric vehicles as the charging infrastructure is built which is why the Fisker, and Pruis Plug-In, and the Volt are offered as a stepping stone to the time where you can plug in your EV at any strip mall or Home Depot.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    With those specs, it will probably make a great panini too.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    and... I like this new design at least in concept form. I'm thinking some of the rough edges would have been smoothed over by production time.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    Disagree. Saab's issue was trying to basically start a car company during a time when credit was really tight. Their issues were entirely of a cash flow nature. Double the size of their credit line and they might have been able to make it.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    The Fisker setup is similar to Volt in results only..... the Volt is far more advanced.
  15. Drew Dowdell
    Um, you know the Fisker has a gas engine too right? There isn't a single thing stopping you from being able to drive one from your house to Portland Maine.
  16. Drew Dowdell
    If you believe that, then the same goes for you.
  17. Drew Dowdell
    The development dollars put into them has been a mere fraction of a fraction of what has been spent on ICE cars.
  18. Drew Dowdell
    Right... because there has been no technological progress on electric cars since the Detroit Electric. The battery technology alone is enough for the Chinese to pursue
  19. Drew Dowdell
    I get a Caprice feel from the back for some reason
  20. Drew Dowdell
    I'm driving one this week as a rental.
  21. Drew Dowdell
    Not anymore... they are assimilated. Any valuable assets and intellectual property are sold off to the highest bidder, in this case, that would be the Chinese.
  22. Drew Dowdell
    I'm out of the area for the moment. the seller did email me back. Will have to see this weekend.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    Honestly, it depends on how well this Holden does down under.
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  25. Drew Dowdell
    and now Ford?
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