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Does a handkerchief come standard in the glovebox with these trucks? A roll of paper towels, at least? Because this truck is gonna drool more than a St. Bernard if it insists on angrily gritting its teeth like that.

Kinda surprised you're not a Dolphins fan

No... please don't. We've all heard it all before.

And everybody is entitled to their wrong opinions.

i still haven't tried the adaptive cruise in our van yet. maybe once weather gets warmer and roads reliably clean i may try it. I'm not even sure but i wonder if the van has park assist also. But i am not super trustworthy with that....... ultimately i think something like Cadillac Super Cruise is where its at. I can tell you that it would be a godsend for travel on rural interstates..... I have lane keep on both vehicles, and both are turned off 99% of the time. I could see a benefit to it for some drivers, who drift a lot........lane keep is another one of those things i wouldn't trust in inclement weather. I like things like blind spot and cross path, i don't really depend on them, but they help assure me sometimes if i feel i am being too aggressive on judging depth. a couple items i like, rainsense wipers, and auto high beams. super convenient, and you can shut them off it you want. but those two aren't really autonomous driving features per se. the surround view camera is a sweet option to check to see if you have parked well in a parking stall. a short look on the screen if you're out of whack and need to repark.

Small cars don't really sell anymore. Let GM stick with the Trax and Encore and XT4.

'58 Bonneville ~

Its a good thing Im Canadian,eh?! Im not included in this 40% count... If we went with Canadians on this site though... I do not know how many Canadians there actually are on this site... There is Fap, Frogger, Suave, myself... So with only those 4...Id say about 25% of Canadians are phoquing stupid...

*counts G&G members* Seems about right... ?

*Mazda

I'm going to temper what Dave is saying, because I agree with this portion of it. Automotive design as judged by 'forward progress' has unquestionably slowed to a crawl PLUS it's become greatly homogenized. Look above at the front door of the mercedes and the front door of the Taurus- no appreciable difference in execution or appearance. While I would not say the mercedes looks 25 years old, one could certainly make a case it fits perfectly well in the world of 15 years ago. Car design used to make a Major Step Forward every 10 years, whereas a --say-- 1975 car would never be confused in the dark with a car built in 1985. Those days are long gone, as we are deep in the 95th percentile of the design timeline. Some of the last 'steps' for a given component happened a LONG time ago. IE; molded headlights was 1984. - - - - - Give the Aurora above larger wheels/tires and bob/raise the tail, and it'd fit right in in 2020.

The question isn't how fast humans are... it's how distracted they are. That's what the nannies are there for because most humans are too busy texting or updating facebook to have their full attention on the road. Even the fastest human reactions won't rival computers if the human is distracted by their phone.

Exactly. And let Toyota build them. Ford, Chrysler, GM and others build more upscale and exciting vehicles. I will happily concede this portion of the market to Toyota.

Love the vintage Mustang fastback in signal flare red in the video...

Good, solid, basic truck. No nonsense. It's also a plus that they ride really well for a truck and have a comfortable if sparse interior. I can see the appeal. It's an older truck with older pricing. They just never raised prices when the new trucks came on the market. Means they can keep moving them. I'm sure they're still profitable at that price point since the tooling is long ago paid for.

I think cars as a subscription will be further off than EVs or Autonomous driving are. There will be a need to own a car for a long while still. Our lack of spending on infrastructure demands it.

LOTS of good GM content.

Car dealers are a huge problem...they are more worried about selling warranty's and stuff through the F and I guy than selling products. I think it is immoral to force manufacturers to be legally mandated to sell through dealer networks. I could see a Tesla esque future from a dealership standpoint.

1966 Jag S-Type

@ccap41 this LC comes with a 3rd row seat delete. So LC all the way ?

Sry needed to plug in, been driving 5 minutes and ran out of juice

Whoa whoa whoa... what? That Impala was packed with Chevy DNA. Chrome grille bar with bowtie, check. Fared in mirrors, like a Camaro, check. Rear quarter glass like a late model B-body Caprice/Impala, check. Speedlines off the wheelwells, like many 1960's Chevrolets, including 1969 Camaro, check. Veed rear cove panel, like the 1962 Impala, check. You cannot get much more CHEVROLET styling cues on one car as what appears on that Impala. CHECK YOURSELF!

I agree 2000%! 1: I want it as well. 2: It really is almost impossible to narrow your vehicle search results down to ones with or without it. That's gear-grinding. I agree that seat belts should be optional even though I wear one 100% of the time, even moving vehicles around the driveway out of habit. I think it is ridiculous that it is a law(at least in IL) to wear a seat belt. Insurance companies probably love that. they get to charge people the same and there are less overall injuries.

@dwightlooi Would a hot-V twin-scroll setup for the turbo help a V6?

You know, I already anticipated that.... One of the slipperiest cars of its day, the 1988 Buick Regal Coupe. Another famously sleek car, the 1993 Dodge Intrepid. Then there is the 1994 Oldsmobile Aurora... a personal favorite. You might be thinking of the early 80s, but the 90s were almost comically into jellybean aero style.

These systems also have more "eyes" than we do. It is virtually impossible for us to be looking both fore and aft at the same time and for our brains to process each view separately. Computers can do that... even have a 360-degree view of the car's surroundings.

Fiat make the following claim about the efficiency: "MultiAir technology can increase power (up to 10%) and torque (up to 15%), as well as reduce consumption levels (up to 10%) and emissions of CO2 (up to 10%), particulates (up to 40%) and NOx (up to 60%) when compared to a traditional petrol engine."

Oh, there is plenty of restriction. Whether you are choking the engine with a throttle plate or by reducing the intake valve openings, you are choking the engine. If that is not the case, you'll have unintended acceleration ,which will be very bad! The only time there is no restriction is in a Diesel Engine. In a Diesel Engine, there is no throttle and the valves always open fully. The engine simply injects more or less fuel to make more or less power. This is half the reason why diesels are so efficient -- you are never choking the diesel engine. But, it runs very lean when you drive gently and running very lean makes a lot of Oxides of Nitrogen which -- unlike Carbon Dioxide -- is actually bad for the air. This is why you have nitrogen storing catalysts on modern diesels. Because these cats get poisoned by sulfur, that is also why low sulfur gasoline is a must for some of these diesels. Or, you can inject piss into the engine -- Mercedes Benz's Bluetec is simply a nicer name for Urea Injection. What Multiair and Valvetronic (not VANOS) do are that they eliminate the vacuumed space between the throttle and the intake ports. This makes throttle response technically superior as there is no plenum to bring up from vacuum to atmospheric pressure. I am not sure it makes the engine more efficient although the engine holistically might be for a host of other reasons.

Yes they did. The GM W-Body coupes that came out in 1987/88 were some of the most aerodynamic you could buy at the time.

You seemed perfectly rational and sane to me anyways,

Partial throttle is where turbos usually fall down verse larger displacement/greater cylinder count engines of similar peak power.

AC DC can do well in Amish country...they have their own heavy metal... We have never used sarcasm before here at C and G so no one recognized it.

Actually since GM has probably built more cars than anyone else more GM cars have been crushed than anyone else's. This is not unique to electrics. Tell us how you really feel.

Not a single thing about that says 1990's. The 90's didn't know what a wind tunnel was and it shows.

All I want is a dog that does not s#!t on my hardwood floor...looks like the good gentleman from New jersey advocates technology that could provide that. All references to the Cowboys are offensive. I am triggered and need a safe space. Better that pictures of his Ford....what a difference one letter can make. Don't like Fords any more than I like dogs s#!tting on my floor. And you all that 'blu was the only angry old man yelling at people to get off of his grass.

I was talking about a certain electrical engineer in one thread about human brains and computers and a certain other poster in another thread trying to insult a Lincoln product with one of Earth's most elegant and graceful animals. .. Im disappoint a tad. If we actually view the human being as a machine, we would see that the human being is quite remarkable. https://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/nervous-system/human-body-make-electricity.htm How our hands are the perfect tool. How hands and fingers bend and grip to hold and throw and touch. Skin having little grooves in them for friction so we could grip. Sensors so we could feel. Sensors so we could know how hard or soft to grab. Our eyes. Two high definition cameras that focus instantly. That process information. Speed, angles, distance, depth, colour. And is directly connected to the brain that uses that information to make us act and react to our environment using our own electric superhighway through our very own wiring that is neatly tucked in our spinal cord and extends to our limbs... When something happens soooo fast that our eyes and brain do not catch, through our 20 000 years of evolution, through our learning experiences, our brain automatically fills in the mis-information, the voids, with past images and memories and compensates and reacts quickly to feed us that information so we dont get this When humans have neurological disorders, this is what happens, though, but on the most part, we good!!! Computers...all they do is just calculate formulas. Formulas that WE program into them. Formulas that WE have deciphered. We let the computers do the math as computers process that math faster than we do. But...all a computer does when it gathers input, it just converts that input into mathematical equations that WE have programmed it for and it does the calculations. Our brains do much much more than that. 1. Our brains do NOT convert the input into mathematical equations of ones and zeros 11010001000011110010010 Our brains just uses the info it gathers and makes decisions on the fly...it makes us act and react. The brain, through instinct, experience, evolution calculates our very own PERSONAL weight, speed athletic ability and makes us perform those athletic abilities. Like a computer does. But the computer just uses the codes WE programmed for it to do. WE, our brains, do that NATURALLY. And our brains calculate for errors on that that very moment. If the computer is NOT programmed to anticipate errors...it crashes... Our brain, our experiences, our instinct, our reflexes, our INTELLIGENCE compensates and self corrects... Computers, if not programmed to do so, will NOT do so... We do not need to be programmed, We do this AUTOMATICALLY and NATURALLY. This may happen...and we crash. Too much info overload But we can self correct quickly... most of the time He stumbled, hit his head in the dirt but was graceful enough to let the slide continue, pulled his hands in a defensive position to an offensive one to be safe at 3rd...and gets up like nothing happened...all in a blink of an eye...

Just make it an ev...that would make it better... No, seriously...I think having a 4 wheel drive vehicle can jibe nicely with concern for nature.

Cool we have elevator parking garages, I only used to see those in Japan when I went to college.

Confusing names or not, a lot those consumers should be operating heavy machinery as it is. Autonomous driving is any oxymoron that is destined to fail in so many ways unless the basic transportation infrastructure itself is completely overhauled to accommodate it (dedicated lanes and roads for example). We can’t even have an infrastructure week much less the capability of accommodating what needs to happen to actually make this viable without utter calamity and catastrophe.

@oldshurst442 Your example with autonomous Audi has nothing to do with active safety systems and more to do with auto pilot systems like we see on Tesla and Cadillac. That is AI systems, and they are still not at the right level of development. Also, your examples with sports are irrelevant too. Fastest human reaction ever recorded is 120 milliseconds, which is extremely fast for a human but extremely slow for a computer. Computers can react 100 to 1000 times faster. As was mentioned before, yes, there can be a mistake in a code, and those mistakes will have to be worked out.

I personally am not a fan of silver but when you are getting a good lease deal on a courtesy car, you have to go with the color they have. I generally am not a fan of grey either but I did like the grey that was on my Saab 9-5. Otherwise, give me a nice metallic blue, dark red (like our minivan) or black (the XT4 Sport for example) and I am happy. Pearlescent white looks great as well such as the white diamond tricoat. I do think the silver looks good on the CTS for some reason, though. Also, while not normally a fan of green, I really love the Carageen Green on the Buick Regal. I also really liked the pearlescent orange on a VW Jetta they had a NAIAS.

Any situation where the speed of the traffic in front of you may be variable and below the speed you are traveling at. When I have a car with ACC, I just set the speed to 5 or 10 over the limit and let the predominant traffic speed govern my progress. yes... that's the problem. Adaptive Cruise, Active Cruise, Distronic, Intelligent Cruise Control, Sense*.... all the same thing. *Sense is the name of a bigger group of options at Honda also, but the Adaptive is called Honda Sense.

Different niche. The Seqouia is their competitor for the Expedition and Tahoe/Yukon. The LC is an international product competing w/ the Nissan Patrol.

Why anyone would choose a Frontier over a Tacoma or the GM twins is beyond me.

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Mercedes has evolutionary styling, nothing wrong with that. Nothing is the same between the 90s and current model, but certain styling cues are still present. I like evolutionary styling...Audi, BMW, MB and Porsche usually do it quite well..