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"available" and mild are the key words. Even if most people actually do choose that option, how many of them actually off road their MILD off roader GMC CUVs? In my book, either you are an offroading sports utility vehicle or you are a soccer mom, geezermobile appliance vehicle meant to get your old fart ass in and out of the vehicle more easily...

Not bad looking, more normal than the Bolt.

Hahaha youi're welcome! Full articles, if you're interested. Fusion Sport Edge ST

Yeah one of my best friends had an HHR SS. That was one quick little sh!t.

A proper Conti from Loncoln A Hummer lineup as a sub brand within GMC Coupes, convertibles, and wagons fro Cadillac, much like Benz offers Return of ST twins Focus and Fiesta for Ford, with the Newer Euro Focus...and the RS as well... Ranger Raptor Updated Charger and Challenger Cuda version of Challenger Trans Am version of Camaro Updated Chrysler Luxury car to replace the dated but still good 300 A larger power plant for the Malibu, and better marketing by GM Actual buyers for Buick's excellent passenger cars An S10 size truck once again from GM Fully electric Corvette Part of my domestic wish list Wish that was here!

Given the Torque, HP, and low center of gravity with a battery pack...wonder what it would take to make one of those into an autocross car? This should silence the gentleman from Pennsylvania who says these are going away soon. That is GTI territory, with lots of low end Torque. As an enthusiast, I see a LOT of upside to electrics.

...yeah...but I have to give props to GM for giving more options than Mazda and looking better in the front. and Micassa is right, a performance version of these would be sick. SS Sedan...Trailblazer... After Canadian winters, most Canadian women are lucky if they can fit in the charger, forget the shorts.

And now you are a dude in your forties who secretly wants to be Burt Reynolds. News for ya...Sally has aged a bit since the seventies.

Absolutely. there just isn't a sedan that makes me want it over a comparable SUV/CUV. I either want a sporty coupe or an SUV/CUV/truck. I just don't really care about sedans.

Don't forget the formidable 'S'.

The effects they used for the intro were amazing

I agree. They should be able to hire and fire whoever they want.

pfffffttt....... major down vote on that

The next ten years will bring such radical change to the auto industry.

Yup, I totally forgot about the Haldex system and Saab, that is such a history note in the books for me.

Stinger GT for the RWD biased goodness

Camaro, Corvette, maybe Malibu. The Buick cars are dead cars rolling.

Once again, we need to save the CT6. If Chrysler can keep the 300 around GM can damn sure keep the CT6 around.

Actually.. a great deal of their learning also came from Haldex and their time offering it in the Saab division. The current AWD system in the CT6, for example, is one of the most advanced in the car world.. while the system in the trucks/SUVs as certainly one of the best in the truck world

In all honesty, only the Cobalt SS and the Tralblazer SS were truly a good representation of what an "SS" Chevy should be. The others were just an attempt to sell nostalgia...and cheapened the "SS" moniker in doing so. Piss poor attempts at being "SS" cars is what Im getting at. (I do not remember what the Silverado SS was all about though, so I wont include that vehicle) The 2005 Impala SS should have been the Lumina SS when GM also did the Pontiac Grand Prix GTP back in 1997. Not in 2005. Almost a decade too late. The Malibu SS? I wont even talk about that one... Hummer SHOULD be used by GM. The only reason why it went away is because the greenies were attacking Hummer but not Lexus and Toyota or Mercedes and BMW for offering SUVs in their stables. The Hummer was the scape goat for the "gas guzzling SUV" fight they were doing. Irony now is that all manufacturers all selling "gas guzzling SUVs" today... I do not know how popular "SS" would be with people though. Laugh if you will, but maybe "SS" could be the electrified versions of said models...

I agree on the lunacy of staggered entry. The world moves too fast these days due to globalization and social media/internet. Introduce all at once.. as many choices as possible.. No way the CT5, for instance, should debut on stage without the CT5-V right next to it.

Its always been a ridiculous argument.. 98.9999% of the buyers of this segment can't stand to see dirt on their vehicles let alone go out off-roading a BRAND NEW FUKKING CAR THEY ARE MAKING PAYMENTS ON. Its as silly as people claiming that the reason why they would buy a Range Rover over an Escalade is because the RR is more known as a off-road vehicle in the jungles of Africa. Who are the real complainers???The ones waiting for the 10 year old used "hand me down" Only one I have a real issue with losing .. maybe two.. and they should be together on one platform curing any issues as far as sales of said platform. CT6 and IMPALA on Omega. Global. Done and Done

It is marketing blather.. but as I pointed out earlier.. It has pushed GM, a company that for 10 years prior to a legendary BK, was losing Billions, $39 Billion in 2007 and $30 Billion in 2008 alone.. to one of the most profitable automakers on the planet. Furthermore their ATPS are actually top dog.. without anything really over $130K MSRP for a mainstream brand. Appliances sell. Many, no most, out there praised Toyota and Honda for their "Frigidaires (ironically once a GM brand) on Wheels, but people want to crucify GM for now doing it. What saves them in my eyes is that their performance vehicles are fukking SICK!!! And I'm lucky enough to be able to afford them. Not a boast, but fact. Alfred Sloan philosophy is being utilized only slightly by GM, while being used 100% by Toyota for instance. Crazy turn of events. The Enclave, Traverse, Acadia, XT6 strategy is BRILLIANT! I don't care what anyone says.. and nor should GM, because the consumers.. the public who don't listen to this banter about platforms and are buying in droves. 345K sales last year of Cxx alone.. GM would be a fool to not continue that practice. The Blazer will add to that, as will the XT6. I'm betting minimal 450K sales 2019 for the Cxx platform in the U.S.

Make me wonder if they will finally offer the Performance version of the concept they showed off. It would be nice to have a Leaf e+ Nisimo.

Plus Burt was looking so Asian before he died last September 2018 due to all the face lifts to keep attempting to look young rather than accept aging gracefully. We all get old, not the years but the miles and working out keeps ya going Spartan Strong!

The power bump should be nice.

For me....it is the opposite. Obviously now, and for the last 2,3,4, 5 years now, sedans have gotten to be, not that interesting. That would be because CUVs have taken over... But...fir me at least, all these new CUV entries we have had in the last 5 years, not one interests me. Not one! I keep on going back to the only SUV that I ever loved. And that would be the original Jeep. CJ, YJ, TJ, JK, JL... I can tolerate the Ford Edge. Im really liking the Aviator. The Blazer looks to be alright, but I doubt that it excite me to the point where I could say yippee!!! The Jeep Grand Cherokee is also tolerable.

You guys are sissies!!! We keep talking about about how sedans are going away, we discuss how vehicles are becoming appliances... Back in the 1980s, middle aged men drove these around with nie a complain. Burt Reynolds was 41???!!! Im dissapoint...

You have no sense of whimsy. I don't think general consumers know, care OR can tell that an intangible "platform" is shared, and after decades of derision against GM for 'platform sharing'- low & behold- many of the major conglomerates have only been moving toward doing the exact same thing. Now... not only are rivals partnering up to build each other components and whole vehicles, business conservatism is forcing brands to be more & more & more alike in product. 2.0L AND 3.0L ENGINES FOR EVERYONE!!! :P

I understand; drop of $2000, but by the end of 2019 the tax credit will have halved twice, making a given Tesla $3625 'more expensive' than on 12.31.18 (in people's minds).

Invalid analogy; MB and BMW are different companies with different product.

90% of GCs over the last 5 years have been metallic black or white, or so it seems. I love the brown, want my next one brown.

I said "laugh" if you will... I NEVER said down vote. Not minor-ly and especially not major-ly.

I am really so tired of Chinese crap and people selling us out to China. And I wonder how many people will wreck these while they are watching porn on the big screen while driving.

Interesting article...about a homebuilt '79 Corvette w/ FWD (Eldorado chassis): https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2019/01/09/what-could-be-the-worlds-only-front-wheel-drive-corvette-donated-to-national-corvette-museum/?refer=hccweekly

I was trying not to be political. But yes the Trump reference was clear. Would save time waiting in drive through lines at Wendy's.

I totally agree. This run of Cougars was really nice and had a level of refinement both inside and out that the Mustang fell a little short on. I'm not denigrating the Mustang in any way, but this was a Mercury and that was a Ford. I remember the "burled walnut" dashboard, per the print ads. Love the hideaway front lamps and the sequential blinking horizontal tail lamps. This started out with a 289 c.i. V8, am I right? - - - - - Back to GM - So, going forward, what regular cars (coupes and sedans) will GM be building through Chevrolet and Buick? (Not interested in Cadillac.) Say about 4 or 5 years from now ... What do you think?

Luckily, 99.9% of driving doesn't involve the limits that a car has an advantage at.

Before Toyota Bought the Subaru shares from GM, GM with a healthy ownership in Subaru is what used their AWD technology to build a better system which is what you find in the Escalade and now pretty much any of their AWD offerings and like Subabru, you pay for what you get, lesser capable in the cheaper auto's and better in the more expensive versions. GM makes an excellent AWD system, never had a problem in theirs and I figure it is because of the knowledge gained from Subaru. Yes, offer a Hummer package on the GMC trucks, the crawl ratio and overall off road capabilities puts the Jeeps to shame.

STOP!!! Come on man... if Cadillac made the Cruze into a CT1 I'd be done with them I think.. and roast the feces outta of them. U cannot tell me that U are OK with this.. if U are.. U are truly the greatest shill since Wingnuts

MMmmm. Id say no to that. AT least with Quebec girls. The amount of fooling around we do in the winter JUST because we cannot go outside... Middle aged women on the other hand. Poutine is delicious you see. And very good winter comfort food... But still not lard asses up here.

Bottom line is that where GM truly bewilders me and actually fails.. is that for some reason they won't just install their higher hp Turbo V6s (they have three in the 400-470HP range) in vehicles that would be screamers with them. This Blazer RS as an SS with a, LF3, LF4, or LGW would be insane. The XT5, XT4, Acadia, Traverse or Enclave.. Who wouldn't be in line to run any of those with one of those three aforementioned engine choices? The Twin-Clutch AWD system is optimized to allow Rear Wheel bias on the Blazer Premiere and RS... and I'm sorry, but to me this is a far sexier vehicle than a Trailhawk Cherokee.. even in non-RS form

That's just marketing blather, though...are the CUVs really that different besides the styling? Same AWD/FWD/transverse engine appliances....

I could go for being myself on Don Johnson Boat in Miami Vice flying through the water.

Actually yes to some extent. Now that I am about to become an empty nester with my youngest heading off to college I will be driving less. Slight reduction in fuel economy would not hurt me that much. That being said....Jeep so much more wants my buisiness in this category than GM Ford Honda or Toyota Could see myself with a Jeep in the driveway.

There's the easiest prediction in the world.

Don't you have GPS?? OHH; you meant Atlis. See how F'd up that spelling is?

I think the Grand Cherokee can be well worth $45k and up if you equip it right. It is certainly the most capable vehicle in the segment off-road and probably on-road as well.