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SEOUL/DETROIT/CHONGQING, China (Reuters) - At a near-empty Hyundai Motor showroom in the Chinese mega city of Chongqing, the store manager is grumbling about his shortage of customers and a lack of bigger, cheaper SUV models popular in the world's largest auto market. Even with discounting of as much as 25 percent, his dealership was selling barely a hundred vehicles a month, said the manager surnamed Li. A nearby Nissan dealership was selling about 400 vehicles a month, a store manager there said. "The sales are simply poor," Li told Reuters. "Look at the Nissan store next door, they have tens of customers while we just have two." An hour's drive away is Hyundai's massive $1 billion manufacturing plant, which opened last year with a target to produce 300,000 vehicles per year. But with sales weak and the Chinese auto market slowing sharply, the factory is running at roughly 30 percent of capacity, two people with knowledge of the matter said. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/insight-hyundai-motor-once-rising-star-lost-shine-042534355--finance.html

The thing about the American SUVs is that their BOF construction makes towing/hauling far more comfortable and enjoyable. Escalade sales are padded by livery services. The Navigator is Lincoln’s flagship. It was profitable in the previous gen and is a serious contender now.

Shocker, SMK doesn't think a vehicle will do well that isn't German or Mercedes.

The GLS is not in the same league as the 'Slade or 'Gator. I'd argue they are all doing "fine". They might not be leading sales in their respective segments but none of them are towards the bottom, as far as I know.

LIke the Bolt (and Volt) this has remote start to probably get the car warm inside etc.. the retractable roof button like the Vette.. the hatch button and what might be a power hood or additional storage button. This could be EXACTLY what GM should be doing with a car like this to spread and amortize costs faster.. like VW Group does with the R8, Gallardo/Huracan and Italdesign Zerouno. Only having the C8 as the sole vehicle, especially considering the FE C7 is supposed to live on will be a profit disaster. Not to mention Cadillac needs this more than Chevy does

They've had the same transmission with issues since 2012. They should have made a more drastic fix to it. I definitely get the shutter but the warranty has been extended on the transmission to 100k because they know they built a POS.

<speculation> The particular functions seem to imply a retractable top mid engined convertible. It could be Cadillac's Ferrari 488 competitor based on the C8. Seems like it would be a nice home for the V8 TT from the CT6 V-sport. Who knows... </speculation>

I didn't realize you lived in "the ATL." I liked my brick ranch in ATL. A lot. Coming from the West, it was a treat to have an all brick home. And, having a carport at one edge made it all very Southern. It kept hanging on despite tear downs all around it. Around this past Easter, I drove down my old street and my brick ranch had met with the bulldozer and a McMansion was taking its place. When that neighborhood was all single story ranches and splits with brick/siding, it had much more character, nothing looked out of proportion, there were way more trees, and the people were normal ... even with me living there!

Hell, I would settle for a good dinner......

I just do not get paying millions to tear it down and rebuild. Some just have way too much money.

...and that is one reason their corporate identity is dilluted and I rant on endlessly so.

IRS comes to the Escalade next gen.. to answer a question that no buyer of a $100K+ SUV ever asked as they were picking up their latte from Starbucks or the delicate flower of a woman they chose to f@#k around on.. The most off-road these vehicles see is when the blacktop covered roads of this great country get blanketed with snow.. My Yukon, along with its sisters and cross town cousin from Ford have no problem with that. If GM wanted to beat all of the other SUVs at OFF-ROAD.. they really wouldn't have to go far to do it. Hell.. the ZR2 Colorado is a beast.. and from what I'm hearing.. who knows.. they may create an SUV off this

If you look at the additional pictures on the story, you see the actual Cadillac logo on the back side and some sort of sticker label on the side that shows it could be a prototype, but still it is an actual fob based on the additional pictures on the Story from Jalopnik. So I would have to say no photoshop. Here is the BOLT Fob. I can see a fancy version of this above for what ever auto they have it on next.

The Aviator and Navigator are exactly what Ford needs to build to survive and keep the Brand fresh. Look...I am a harsh critic of Ford....and even I think they got those two just dead right. Their larger SUV's seem to be doing fine.

My friends Focus has like 60K on it...shifts a bit awkward, but not terrible. He likes the car and drives it everywhere....he had a Saturn before the Focus. If you blame Ford for all of the crappy transmissions they put in Focus and Fiesta, you have to give them credit for the decent transmissions they put in everything else IMHO. And while we are bitching about transmissions, how about many of the older Nissan CVT transmissions? Those made the Ford Focus and Fiesta seem as smooth as 20 year old Scotch by comparison....and yet few people ever pan them.

Been Following Acorn to Arabella on you tube...kind of cool. Building a reproduction of a 1934 Sailing yacht to sail the world....entirely from scratch.

Obviously you are a man who enjoys a walk on the wild side and taking chances... Just kidding. My beef with Ford is not that they build bad transmissions, it is that they need to be building more class leading product.

Cadillac EV halo? It looks more like a mid-engined sports car by having a retractable top. I guess you wouldn't have a button on the fob to open the engine bay though.

Yep, that is quite true..... And then they finally have a fun compact to drive in the latest Focus, and you can’t get a tranny to last more than 30k.....

That's just about as wrong as interbreeding a cat and a dog and calling it a cog... When one needs to look 70 years back in the past to dislike something...hmmm...why not just say they are not your thing? no car is for everyone. The current generation, yes...but for Decades they built wickedly cool stuff. It's almost as after the late 1970's they took a Canadian snowstorm as inspiration for their products. Bland.

Maybe Ford could get a badge-engineered Taurus from the new Arteon.

The Aviator isn't on sale yet, and the Navigator is selling about 1,000 units per month. Where as other vehicles in that segment such as the GLS or Escalade that are much older can easily sell at double that rate. The Navigator starts at $73,000, it maxes at $100k, and there are plenty of SUV's that cost way more than that.