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I have 3 stand-alone Cadillac dealers near me, ranging from 15 min away to about 35 min. Just got a recall notice from GM the mail yesterday for the CT6, related to the transmission.

This reminds me, the closest Cadillac dealership to me has closed. It was a standalone Caddy dealer. It was a part of an automotive group and now the lot is just a buy-used-cars-and-put-them-at-dealerships lot. The closest Caddy dealer is now over an hour away.

It would take A LOT of gasoline to equal the price of an EV motors/batteries swap though.

Way less expensive and responsible than feeding a 455 c.i. V8 I might ascribe poorly socialized Pit Bulls and Rottweilers, complete with spikes on their collars, to lesbians ... at least the rougher ones. But, yes, the more introverted lesbians might be cat ladies, along with their straight eccentric and neurotic older female counterparts.

While having seen the Cadillac family of EVs on the lot, until today, I have not seen any in the wild other than Lyriq. Today I spotted my first Vistiq and EscaladeIQ in downtown Seattle. The Vistiq is clearly a baby EscaladeIQ, have to say if GM supported AA/AC I would be very interested in buying one.

Heh heh..watching this video now while I eat lunch..I follow the Pole Barn Garage, he always has fun low buck builds of worn out cars..

Interesting use for a clapped out Lincoln.

Given the number of gay men that used to post here we need a closeted lesbian, and no one other than a closeted lesbian would own 16 cats. So there is that... yes Yep, the change is happening. Given tariffs I think what we are going to see here is GM re introducing the 1983 Chevy S-10 at 90 grand a copy. Totaled by a small sedan, the Tesla Cyber truck is a joke.

Would love to have an EV version of this car!!!

Kia needs to bring this EV here now. Kia’s New Electric 7-Seater Costs Less Than You’d Expect And Offers More Than You Think

Damn, I need to get cracking: I'm 16 cats shy of having 16 cats.

Um, what? Price is likely 90% determining factor when buying a vehicle. If everybody had the funds to easily afford a Tahoe/Suburban/Silverado (and their corresponding GMC, Ford and Jeep/Ram counterparts) most people would buy them, because people just like big and tall vehicles. Yes, I know not EVERYBODY would do this, but I would wager good money that this size vehicle would have well over 50% market share. He will go to pretty absurd lengths to compare an EV to ICE vehicles. I'm just surprised it wasn't compared to a Hyundai/Kia.

As for the power seat, I almost look at it as one of their infotainment adds. They can do it. They just don't want to. Not only are they peddling appliances, they're also peddling spendy packages.

Very cool to see just how good EVs are for the planet even taking into account battery production. Electric cars are the cleanest—and getting cleaner faster than expected - International Council on Clean Transportation

Any update from Ford on fixing this right rather than taking away a feature you paid for? Seems Ford (Found on Road Dead) or (Fix and Repair Daily) is becoming the leading recall company. https://driving.ca/features/safety/ford-recalls-2025-issue-problem-fix

Thinking old school? No. Thinking simple math here when you’re talking about a foot of difference in length. Again, two completely different class and size vehicles. No one is cross shopping those two. BTW, the Mazda has almost DOUBLE the cargo space of the current Leaf. That’s what a whole extra foot of length gets you regardless of the powertrain. That’s my whole point. You lumped in two completely different vehicles for no real reason other than a made up scenario.

Learned something new, as the owners manual is huge and not all sections are current, got my hands on the latest version of the owners manual that covers smart driving assist. It does have lane changing ability, but I must configure my profile for it to work. Will do that this week and test it.

Actually a decent road trip video with a good narrative.

Interesting.

Happy Bastille Day!

Thinking old school, considering how much more space EVs are giving in smaller over all packages. Nissan has stated that the 3rd generation Leaf will start out FWD, but have an AWD option after launch. Length in growing an ICE auto is old school thinking in making room for other ice auto's and yet that is where looking at comparison of seating space, cargo space, etc. we see much more space in the EVs that are equal in many cases to an ICE one class bigger. I am only pointing out that price is an old comparison tool for like segments and that with EVs this will change as people look at the price but also the inside space and we will see a bigger mix of comparison of ICE to EV across categories.

And none of what you just said changes what I said in my original post. Two completely different vehicles, in powertrains and class of vehicles. For starers, the Mazda is a foot longer than the upcoming Leaf. Then there's the AWD part of the equation. See where this is going yet?

The old days of when Ala-cart was available for building seem to be over now, mostly set packages of expensive cost for a ton of stuff not everyone will use. Sad that building a custom auto is almost gone now. I really do not think we will see custom builds or they will be very rare for people to do. Sad for sure.

Road Trip update on self-driving. @A Horse With No Name In this picture, I have put a red box around the cruise control / self driving section of the dash. On the left you can see the grey auto image representing any auto that gets in front of me and the white triangle which is the space and the white auto represents my EV9. You can have 3, 2 or 1 car length on cruise control, I usually have 2 set, but changed it to 3 for this picture so you can see the full image. The set speed is to the right and to the right of that is the steering wheel indicating that the self drive is on. If the system cannot understand the road, it goes white and over the range section on the right hand side a orange box pops up saying to take control of the wheel and a chime is sounded. Here is a 38 second video of the self driving, I put my hand close to the wheel as being the first time on a road trip using it, a truck with trailer pulled in front of me and I was not sure how it would respond. All went well, so no problems. Kia is working on per their support lane changing but is not available yet. So that is a manual intervention, but after making a lane change the self driving takes over again. This video is just cruising along. 200 miles and have to say, was very nice. Makes it easy to eat or drink something or in the case of my glasses, I had to clean them so no problem. Loved it. 20250712_104825.mp4 The EV9 truly keeps you in the center of the lane, it freaked my wife out a couple times as normally a human would go away from semi-trucks that came close to the line, but the EV9 monitors it and will adjust if it feels it needs too, but mostly just keeps going. Did this with all autos and trailers. seems to stay far more stable in driving than humans are when they are distracted with their phone or other stuff.

I am bordering on being disgusted with GM. If you build something on their websites for various models, the fact that I may want a driver's side power seat, which is almost a basic need anymore, does not mean I want all the other shit that makes for a $2,800 package.