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Automotive News & Views Can GM make Cadillac the standard of the world Again?
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Replying to: bumpy (Feb 19, 2008 8:32 am) "Suspension & Handling Suspension 4-wheel independent design that utilizes a short/long arm, coil-over strut with anti-sway bar in front, and a modified multi-link with anti-sway bar and automatic rear level control system in the rear; both benefit from monotube performance shock absorbers "
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Replying to: rayainsw (Feb 19, 2008 8:45 am)
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Replying to: bumpy (Feb 19, 2008 9:13 am) It is a shock absorber that also contains the spring and is the action by which the wheel camber motion is controlled and is a structural component. A vehicle with an upper control arm and a lower control arm is not using a McPherson. Sure it is not the same as having the coil ride on the lower control arm but the camber action is driven by the control arms and therefore not a Mcpherson. |
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I did find this:  Looks like some sort of Macpherson derivative with a pseudo-wishbone upper setup.
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Replying to: lykourinou (Feb 19, 2008 4:09 am) Wow, you better stop using those DOHC engines right out of the 1920s then. At least the OHV engines are more modern 
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Replying to: sensai (Feb 19, 2008 10:59 am) |
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Replying to: lykourinou (Feb 19, 2008 5:08 pm) My 2002 Cadillac Seville STS had a DOHC Northstar V-8 and my current 2007 Cadillac DTS Performance has the same engine. To be brutally honest, I can't tell the difference between how well a OHC/DOHC engine performs versus a OHV design except that the pushrod engine has more of a punch with the torque. I miss that little "kick in the butt" with the OHC/DOHC designs. |
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Replying to: lykourinou (Feb 19, 2008 5:08 pm) |
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Replying to: lemko (Feb 20, 2008 6:08 am) |
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More reliable? I have 2 3800s in full-sized comfortable cars that get great gas mileage and don't cost me double for service in a foreign car store's service department for repair let alone piled on maintenance mandates from a dealer who sold me a totally reliable car but seems to think it needs constant over-servicing and replacements to keep it 100% perfect? I'm not sure where this world commission is that determines what is out-dated and what is world standard choices. I want a car that has lots of torque and doesn't have to wind to 5000 rpm before high torque appears and then it's time to shift again... As for Japanese cars don't break down--I have been collecting complaint posts asking for help with those Japanese brand cars failing their owners in my Watched Items page. I can link to some of them if lykourinou needs help finding them. Sometimes I realize that people live in the past and think they can still hang problems of the 80s and 90s where a higher problem rate occured for some owners of US brand cars rather than stepping into the current world where JDPowers ratings show US built cars on a par with the Japanese brands. Things have changed in the build of US brand cars; and things have changed in those Japanese cars. Does anyone have a link to the JDPowers ratings. I have to look through lots of bookmarks to find the last ones I saved and can't find it quickly.
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