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Drew Dowdell

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  1. Drew Dowdell
    I'm starting to see more of them out there... from the back, they are very eye catching.
  2. Drew Dowdell
    Yet. Looking at take rates for diesel vehicles where the option isn't a huge price jump and diesels are very well accepted.
  3. Drew Dowdell
    My experiences with the SRX have been initial disappointment followed by a quick warm up and appriciation for it.
  4. Drew Dowdell
    I still say the 3.6 in the LaX and Cadillacs and Lambdas is just fine thanks. I don't find it unrefined at all. It is a lot less of a growler than the VQ. I've recently had a pathfinder and JX (both rentals) and while I was on the highway I really wanted to shout "OH ENOUGH ALREADY!" at the constant growl of their engines.
  5. Drew Dowdell
    Well there are two new rides coming.... we'll see what they end up being I guess.
  6. Drew Dowdell
    We'll sell it privately. I will be buying a new (to me) car in June/July time frame. Then we'll sell the CR-V and use the cash from that plus an additional down payment on a replacement... probably an Encore. $978 installed for the throttle body... best price I can find on an aftermarket part is about $450.
  7. Drew Dowdell
    They have a 1.3 liter diesel with 94 horsepower and 150 lb-ft of torque at 1500rpm that apparently would get 60mpg US.
  8. Drew Dowdell
    Where is the diesel 500?
  9. Drew Dowdell
    Cruze Eco Jetta TDI
  10. Drew Dowdell
    I'll tell ya what *would* sell like hotcakes... this engine in the Encore.
  11. Drew Dowdell
    With Diesels most of us here including myself do not have a full grasp of what is all involved and why the work in Europe and not here. It is more than numbers or the lack of American love. The more I learn on how it is treated there the better I understand how it works there and not here. There is a hell of a lot more to it than I ever imagined. Why they work in the EU and not in Europe is because of the way the fuel taxes are structured. It really isn't that complicated. Equalize the fuel tax (or even reverse the discordance) and you'd see a wholesale flocking of the public to diesels.
  12. Drew Dowdell
    Because diesel engines don't react as well to start-stop over the long term.
  13. Drew Dowdell
    Yay for DOHCs right? Well not if it is a Honda I-4 or V6. What modern cars can you think of that need valve adjustments as part of scheduled maintenance under 100k miles? Ever wonder why all Hondas have valve tap as their mileage increases? It is the superior engineering of manually adjustable engine valves.... We also need a whole new throttle body to fix one tiny piece of broken plastic. When Albert txted me the price for all of this, I just told him to pick out which color Encore he wants. This superior piece of Japanese engineering is getting cleaned up, scratches fixed, and if I can find some poor schmuck to give me the $10k that KBB says it is worth, I'm taking the money and running.
  14. Drew Dowdell
    ... well... it's good to have a goal....
  15. Drew Dowdell
    Well, I'm not sure about the other sub-compacts, but I wouldn't consider the ride of the Sonic to be uncomfortable, nor would it be unsafe (they are incredibly safe cars)
  16. Drew Dowdell
    Why spend all that money on a sub-compact when you can get a perfectly good compact like the Cruze or Verano for almost as much money
  17. Drew Dowdell
    Happy belated! Hope it was a good one!
  18. Drew Dowdell
    I'm sure they sell all 5 hybrid AMGs they'll build.
  19. Drew Dowdell
    I'll have to try National...what I like about Alamo are the self-checkin kiosks and pick your own car...(but those aren't usually at California locations where I'm usually going). I realize we're way off topic here.. but if you like that about Alamo, sign up for Emerald Club with National. There is no kiosk. Rent a mid-size.. Don't stop at the desk..just walk to the Emerald club aisle (where available), pick out whatever car you want, and drive to the check out stand. When you reach Executive or like me, Executive Elite, just rent a mid-size and you get your own special aisle with luxury cars for mid-size price. Work requires that I only reserve mid-size cars, but I regularly end up in 300C or Infiniti JX or Buick Enclave.
  20. Drew Dowdell
    I think the lack of movement on the EU dealership network is a bigger tell there....
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  22. Drew Dowdell
    I use national almost exclusively, but when no national is available, I use Enterprise. I can use my National number with Enterprise and get credits towards my free rentals. Alamo's loyalty program is nearly non-existent. No... it probably isn't coincidental... they probably keep those cars in stock for dealership courtesy rentals.
  23. Drew Dowdell
    also... this $5 billion needs to go to the sales channels... NOT manufacturing. GM could build the best vehicles in the world at the best prices available and it wouldn't matter because they are trying to sell them out of the back of an Exxon station.
  24. Drew Dowdell
    GM Europe should be Chevy - Opel (shared with Buick) - Cadillac but then they'd need to deal with that dealership network too...
  25. Drew Dowdell
    Good little egg.
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