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@ocnblu Define and show when the FOLLOWING began. By your statement Cadillac could only follow itself. It for all intents.. is the only member (along with Lincoln) of the luxury set invented in the 1900s that still exists. Remember Mercedes was not always a luxury maker.. not in the beginning. The STANDARD.. was Cadillac.. It fell off when buyers started going from luxury to sport luxury in the early 90s. Did they follow BMW or Benz.. or simply adopt certain ideas within an emerging segment? By that I mean... BMW followed Cadillac into luxury.. no different right now if the Camaro was a Brand.. and it decided to start luxurizing every model. Cause that's all BMW was.. a sports sedan.. the luxury part came in the mid-80s. Same for Audi Furthermore.. some who have this idea of RWD being the epitome of luxury really have it all wrong. AWD is the real hero of luxury.. and being able to augment that AWD is even more so.. Cadillac's Sport mode and U get a 20/80 front/rear split, Tour gets 40/60, and Snow mode splits it right down the middle. I love that. In fact I wouldn't be surprised one bit if the reason why AWD is standard in almost all iterations of the CT6 is because Cadillac decided to profitably package an upgrade in that cost them little, but offered a justifiable reason to charge more for the product. The silliness of people talking about a 204 inch, 122 WB large luxury car in the same terms as they would a RWD Camaro is ridiculous. The same goes for the HIGH UP vehicles..aka CUVs. Having a weee bit more power in the XT5 and XT4 as an option is 100.. but the chassis for at leats the XT5, as I haven't driven the XT4 yet, is perfect for 100% of the people buying them. AWD is a luxury. Offering AWD all the time is offering a luxury ALL THE TIME. For some reason I find, more often than not, on these forums, that many forum goers feel that limitation of choice is the desire of most Luxury buyers. As a luxury buyer I whole-heartedly would like to disagree with that notion. Marketing should certainly steer buyers in the direction of the AWD version for profit reasons, not to mention performance credibility. While the segment does not demand super performance, having a car this large, a large saloon, being capable of great handling is a plus. The CT6, still imo, is offering AWD for marketing purposes, not to mention built in profit. That is the absolute only reason the Audi A8 sells AWD-only here, yet offers a FWD version in Europe. With this car the absence of the weight penalty usually associated with AWD allows Cadillac to sell an AWD model at 95% of the line-up and still be lighter than many of the single drive competitors and @smk4565 Great engineering to the rescue.. want to talk lackluster engineering? Call me when BMW devises a way to have a start stop system that doesn't make you feel like you're shaking out of the car... their Start/stop system felt like I was having an epileptic seizure. Seriously. Stop Trolling. NOTHING.. and I mean NOTHING brings out Trolls more than Billy Goats, Mad Dog 20/20, and Cadillac

The Trump administration would be wise to drop the lawsuits against CARB for those emissions requirements and even smarter if that administration dropped the lawsuit against CA new net neutrality rules. I doubt they would do that but one can hope.

Quick Question: Is the XT5 as well-equipped as the new XT4 that just came out, or are there some missing features in the larger CUV?

Differences of a couple inches do not a whole new segment make. It's price first and then a GENERAL size class.

oh look... a barn find 1998 3-series... wat? That's the new one?

No... exactly wrong. There are price classes AND size classes... usually, a vehicle has to be close in both to get consideration. The GLA and XT4 are the competitors for each other. They compete in price and they're close enough in INTERIOR space that they compete there too..... it's just that the Cadillac wins there that gets you bent out of shape... because the Cadillac is the better car for the price.

it'll be a steal with how efficient it is. /s

But you shall.

And the other shoe drops! I cannot wait for EVs to get here fast enough in a large enough size.

This is a really great lil package with all that equipment. I remain unconvinced by these tiny displacement turbo engines.

It is funny and kind of ironic, considering the police have laptops in their cars..

Not surprised by the slow evolution of the design given the 5 series refresh that happened a year or so ago that was similar.

This looks a lot better than the Elantras sold here.

Nice car, I prefer it to the Veloster N for sure.

Yes it would be good for him to focus on growing the business by building quality EVs and selling them.

Good..hoping he will keep hos mouth shut so they can actually sell cars......

My buddy picked up a '72 Dart Swinger 2-dr hardtop, black vinyl top over blue, decent shape for it's age, but nothing shiny/impressive. Ooops- I said that already at "Dart".

WOW, This does not go well for the cops when they do not understand technology let alone new auto's. Way too funny, Clearly we need to educate them POPO on what 21st century auto's are all about. I still think the interior of the Tesla 3 sucks.

Subaru is a luxury brand now? ? Although I agree with you in that I think every Cadillac should just be AWD standard and I think every Cadillac should be turbocharged and electrified in some way. And as a side note, if FCA can drop these Hellcat engines into everything under the sun, why don't they put a Corvette ZR-1 engine into the Escalade and charge $175,000 for it. I am sure they can find 2,000 people a year to buy it and why not take their money.