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Now I just need to sell a 2015 200S. ? If anyone knows someone who is interested, let me know! I picked up a 2018 Cadillac CTS Luxury 2.0T a couple of days ago. Here are my initial impressions: The suspension is not as stiff as I have heard other people say. It absorbs the bumps pretty well with no real harsh impacts but it does squirm around quite a bit on the heavily potholed Michigan roads The 2.0T is a bit unrefined but has plenty of power for the application The stop/start occasionally causes the car to shudder on the stop and almost always causes a shudder on the start. It is pretty quite though. Kind of the opposite of the stop/start on our Pacifica. On the Pacifica it is smooth but loud. The 2018 version of CUE is vastly improved over the version I drove a few years ago. It oddly enough is still slow on the Radio station changes using the steering wheel buttons, though. I've only had it for a couple of days and I still haven't explored all the features yet. I'll post more comments as I get more familiar with the car. If you guys have any questions, let me know!

This same company got bailed out by taxpayers, is now rewarded with the Trump tax cuts. The Envision is pathetic and the competition is light years ahead. I know what you would say to that @dfelt Tax that thing out of existence I say, it’s a burden on our society and here’s the case where an import tax will ensure that the domestic make isn’t being incentivized to be mediocre cause it’s protected.

Thank you GM for thinking ahead and bringing in a supply while this stupidity of Tariffs gets sorted out.

You can't say that without knowing the vehicle it went on. Suppose Buick continued to move up market and did a CT6 sized car on Omega, overtop of Lacrosse, but made it PHEV or EV only. Wouldn't that make for a great Electra?

Not the first- maybe the 4th-ish... but at least one of those I recall was for the same suggestion. Just as the whole achingly kindergarden-esque dumbing down of auto names... this is yet another slam-dunk, whoo-hoo; lookie what I came up with, lowest common denominator, easy way out pillaging of other people's work with no regard for historical context. Call it the 'oHm' instead. Your welcome.

Lack of engineers, huh? Sounds like what GM's problem when Congress was discussing emissions standards back in the 1970s. GM said: hire more lobbyists; whereas Honda said: hire more engineers. Maybe VW needs to toss a few executives overboard and hire another 30 engineers to solve this problem.

We took this on a 2200 mile family vacation road trip in early July. Here are my comments: The seats are supremely comfortable! Way better than the old T&C and better than my 200S as well. I have neck and back issues and usually take ibuprofen before hitting the road but it was not necessary in this at all. No complaints from the kids in the back seats either! Turns out you can play a different movie on each screen off the same USB stick. The kids were quite pleased with this! The built-in WiFi worked like...... well, WiFi. As expected I guess you would say. The downside is that it is a 5G system so it was useless with my kids 2.4G Kindle Fire's The factory Nav worked well on the whole but checking it against Google maps there were a couple of instances where Google maps had a more time efficient route I did not try Android Auto on the trip but I did use it last weekend for a 2 hour road trip and it connected easily and worked flawlessly with Google maps navigation I have the gas receipts and did calculate each tank. Most the time the VIC was optimistic by 1 - 1.5 MPG over actual but I did have one tank that calculated out a little higher than VIC predicted. I did not calculate overall trip MPG but I would guess it was around 26 MPG including a lot of remote starts (it was smoking hot weather) and a fair amount of in town driving at each stop including in the mountains in Tennessee Rain-X is awesome! We hit rainstorms in the Kentucky and Tennessee that had people pulling over with their flashers on and we never even had to turn the wipers on! I'm a long time but occasional Rain-X user and what I applied came out of a 10-15 year old bottle and still worked flawlessly. Overall I rate this van very, very highly. If it doesn't have any reliability issues, it's going to be an awesome vehicle!

I disagree. I find the design language awkward

No, No, No. If there are 25% tariffs then it should punish GM just as much as it punishes Toyota or Honda. First off I believe there should be no tariffs on anything, but if there is a 25% tariff then everyone should get screwed.

Mahindra, welcome to the US legal system where you will find that Piracy is not allowed unlike in India and China. Good Luck with paying big time for your stealing ways. America.

So true, they say that the average company can hire 4-5 engineers for every executive they rid themselves of. Strengthening a company that becomes more innovative and creating jobs and new products. I love that Dell Technology has continued to reduce the bloated overhead of EMC Executives as they continue to streamline products, grow engineering and bring new and better products to market.

Rolling back the standards means that the US will fall further behind in tech

Everyone is pretty reliant on diesels in Europe still.

Fine, make it an extended length Enclave. The Enclave Avenir is the modern interpretation of a Park Ave Ultra or Roadmaster Estate Limited anyway.

@regfootball @riviera74 I like both of your posts, I think that now is the perfect time for the Auto Industry along with California to come together and propose a new standard that they agree on protecting state rights and leading the fed gov to simplify with a new standard that California and the Auto industry can live with. I truly believe that what is best for both clean air, people and business is a single standard to build to that can be done world wide. China and the EU have learned the hard way due to acid rain and the environmental damage caused by our love of ICE auto's. Time to retire the 100+ year auto and move into the next phase of Auto engineering that will bring new and innovative products. We all know it will take probably 50 years to remove ICE auto's from the roads but that should not stop us from moving forward. Having a ton of relatives in the greater LA area, I know only too well what it was like visiting them every summer and just shaking my head at the smog, and they wondered why my parents moved in the mid 60's to Washington state getting away from the concrete jungle of LA. Time for a better way to move around. Hybrids, EV's, and high speed electric trains, tubes, etc. We have got to do things better, smarter and move society forward.

While I would like to see CAFE replaced by appropriate taxes, California emissions should be left alone. For nearly 50 years, CA has had a massive smog problem that regulations have had some effect of reducing. (Just ask anyone from Los Angeles what it was like to breathe the local air in 1960 or 1970 compared to today.) CA standards may seem too high for some, but both China and the EU are also marching towards stricter emissions standards AND a push for more electric vehicles to replace the ICE vehicles currently on the road. Automakers will comply with global emissions standards whether the current administration likes it or not because it is good for business, not just good for the environment. This new proposal by the current EPA will probably get stuffed by federal courts and rendered inoperative within three years. Short of repealing CAFE outright, there will be no movement on emissions as of this time.

I am into state's rights, but California has shaped FE and emissions standards too much. It will be interesting to see what sticks here. Federal standards that are predictable and achievable are good. The 54mpg was totally virtue signalling and forcing something that was not going to happen. At the same time, this industry is global and standards for these things need to 'consider' the global arena.

..and Henry is back from the groomers...he doesn't like to show his face for the camera. Looks great w/ a short haircut. Nah, I couldn't eat Bambi...they stroll through my front and backyard, eat the bird seed in the bird feeders and the critter crunch I put out for the squirrels and chipmunks..

I think GM is just waiting for the first EV for Buick and then the Electra will live again.

Hey man bring back all those retro names, to relive the greatest of the past. To make Tripower great again. To make Blazer great again. To make Mach 1 great again. To make Lincoln great again. To make history great again. To make great again, great, again.

Thorough review ... I rented one on the heels of a Nissan Altima for a few days after an exchange and liked it much better than the Altima. I was able to get over 41 mpg (after converting kilometers and liters) on a jaunt from Quebec City back to Montreal in an Altima and thought they were great. Then, the Sonata told me how much more definition there is with a step-gear transmission. And, like you said, it shifted beautifully. I believe the highway mileage may have been about 35 or 36 mpg. I think they worked wonders with the mid-cycle refresh. The placement of "Sonata" in slanted letters across the rear has worked wonders for the car, albeit a small change. Usually, I don't like that. I also know that the current vernacular is to slope the rear back lite to the point of almost eliminating the trunk lid. I wish it wasn't as sloped, but it works with the car. I have test sat in the new model at both the auto show and in show rooms and, while Hyundai dashboards tend to be very practical, I can't say I like how horizontal the buttons are laid out in the center stack. I believe one salesperson referred to it as the "piano key" design/layout. That's a good way to put it. I prefer things a little more compact in the center stack. However, if I was buying in this segment and buying foreign, the Sonata and the Passat would be the only ones I'd consider. The price point of the Limited is too high. In lower grade trim, they are a good value. I would pass on the Camry and the Altima. Hopefully, GM can amp up its game in this segment.

The one thing that surprised me about @William Maley's review is his statement that the car is super quiet inside. I haven't driven this version of Sonata, but prior versions had some road and engine noise issues. So assuming Will's observation is correct, then Hyundai has gone on a quiet tuning quest.

I would get one over a Camry. And its an ok choice and not bad. But if I look at 2019 models, I would get a Malibu, Fusion, Accord, Mazda6, Altima, maybe even Passat before this. Hyundai's draw is easy credit and bigger warranties. If we look at Hyundai's development long term, its that they are fully accepted as a mainstream middle of the road vanilla device, so their cars don't look out of place and have no big flaws. If they continue to prove out as reliable as the mean average, which they likely are, then over time they wipe away any stigma of being cheaper end. All they want is to be mainstream and volume and each successive year they just perform to mainstream market factors is just the greater chance they survive and can over time leverage more and more their corporate advantages....cheaper to develop and build vehicles than some other more established makers. When the thinning of the auto herd happens again, Hyundai will likely be one of the 5-7 automakers / brands that survives. That's why volume and market share matter as much as profitability per unit.

My second choice might be good for you. Kawasaki built it to be adjustable for people of different heights. There are 3 seating positions, three pedal positions, and two different handle bar positions available. You can ride out of the dealer with a bike literally customized for your particular stature. I took one out for a spin that was already set up for me and I thought it was a super comfortable bike. It runs the Kawasaki Ninja 650 2-cylinder engine and has a very interesting feel. On the used market, they are very inexpensive... generally between $4,000 - $6,000. The BMW I posted above runs $9,000 to $11,000 used, so it is harder to pull the trigger on that. Kawasaki Vulcan S

For the longest time I thought that was done by the Beach Boys. Wasn't until I heard some DJ discussion I found out otherwise.