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It's funny, I don't use the power I have or had in a LaCrosse, but I definitely appreciate the smoothness and refined nature of a V6. I just don't like 4-cylinders honestly.

Dare I say... this looks just as good as the Arteon

Not hamstrung by electric propulsion and even if 15 to 20K higher priced, the savings on maintenance, oil, gas will easily off set and have bigger savings over a 3-5 year period than gas.

That would have to go to the 1998 Lincoln Navigator

This is daring design done right. Bravo, Hyundai. Almost makes up for the wretched new Elantra. Almost. As for comparisons to the Arteon, I don't think there will be a tremendous amount of cross-shopping the 2, but I could be wrong. I think the Arteon looks better. Hyundai could have usurped it in the interior department however. Refinement and performance is typically where Hyundais lose out big, and I would expect it to be no different here. I don't foresee a Sonata model that will approach the top spec Arteon performance wise. Plus the Arteon will offer AWD. Still, nice to see Hyundai doing this. If the popularity of CUV's means more sedans like this- ones willing to take some risks and really separate themselves, it might not be so bad.

I like Mazda red. Their blue is good too.

Noice...greenhouse reminds me of the LaCrosse. Interesting lighting details front and rear. Nice interior.

I think their red is one of the best red color in the industry. Personally love it and all their cars look great in that red. Sorry, but they will not look good in brown for example. Usually, the manufacturers put their new car in the color they look best. Most new Cadillacs are always in black for example.

You ASSUME there is no demand. Yet when people complain about noise in the inner city, open header motorcycles, diesel auto's, noise, smell, etc. People are wanting quieter options, cleaner air. So you are making an ASSUMPTION that people do not want this? How do you know what millions of people living in cities want? Seattle has a noise code that attempts to address this: http://www.seattle.gov/sdci/codes/codes-we-enforce-(a-z)/noise-code Clearly our neighborhoods are asking for a change to noise and air pollution such as Beacon hill: https://www.knkx.org/post/environmental-justice-seattle-s-beacon-hill-addressing-air-and-noise-pollution or https://iexaminer.org/environmental-injustice-the-air-and-noise-pollution-threatening-the-health-of-beacon-hill/ To quote from the iexaminer story above: Both air and noise pollution are associated with health risks. Long-term exposure to certain air pollutants is associated with heart disease and childhood asthma, according to Tim Larson, a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the UW. Here is a science research done from 2000 to 2008 that shows both air and noise pollution increase the risk of heart attack especially in densly populated cities. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181024112244.htm The SCIENCE supports that less noise and cleaner air is good for everyone both inside the city and outside of it. This on top of a vehicle that is quiet, less maintenance, less cost of fueling in a form factor such as this EV is desired even as you hate them, many love the option. This is a perfect representation of capitalism as another auto option that you can ignore and have a right to do and others will support. While use as an airport taxi or executive transport, I expect this electric van to also grab market share among service providers that will love the lower cost of operation and the stealth approach to delivering at all hours without bothering others. Electric Vans will be perfect for Amazon Prime 24/7 delivery in neighborhoods to inner cities.

expensive to buy, but cheap to run... especially in countries with high fuel costs. These would make great hotel shuttles that only depart every hour and then sit at the hotel for half an hour. they can charge while they're waiting for the next run.

Gray cladding = Off Road.

Right, think of an airport off site parking shuttle company that runs an Econoline or Transit van/bus 50,000 miles a year or more at 10-15 mpg. Then compare to what an electric van would cost to operate. There are loads of applications for an electric van. As far as muscle cars go that was brought up, this has 1,900 hp, and I don't think an V8s are going to touch this Pinanfirina: Electric is the future.

I tend to be slower than most here to welcome most design changes but this one looks good. - Front fascia is bold yet doesn't look like an "angry appliance" - Rear fascia is somewhat Volvo - Side view is LaCrosse and Malibu, but without a weird moulding kink in the C-pillar - Dashboard nicely melds a lot of items in the info zone without the "laptop left open" look - Hooray ... this one has a tan interior and not everything on the dash or the door panels is black, which is the cheapskate way out ... instead, they merged tan and black bits nicely Hyundai has really gotten some momentum and even the strong step up in its baseline Accent, from being sort of dowdy, is worthy of a look.

The difference though with the VW Phaeton was that the Phaeton was truly a top tier luxury car. It was engineered like one. The price was less expensive than the equivalent Audi A8 or Bentley GT (all 3 shared the same platform) was 1. VW was the "cheaper" brand. The people's car brand...(which marketing wise, the Phaeton failed not because it was a bad car...au contraire, it was a FANTASTIC car, but it was an oxymoron to sell a people's car to the 1%ers, even though the price tag was less expensive than the 1%er equivalent competition...but Pieche had visions of grandeur that just because VW had success with the Passat being on the Audi A4 platform and having success making VW enter a higher priced niche than ever before, he thought that a Phaeton priced less than a comparable Audi, Bimmer and Mercedes, VW could enter that realm...he did have the car, the Phaeton WAS the real deal, VW was and to this day is STILL not ready to sell 1%er vehicles...) ) 2. The VW had steel body shell construction while the Audi and Bentley had aluminium body shell construction.

GT350/R N/A American V8 with a flat plane crank, revs to 8250rpm, carbon fiber wheels brought to mass production/OEM use,

1. The 1st generally accepted working internal combustion engine vehicle. 1885 Benz Patent-Motorwagen 2. First production car with modern controls arrangement - Cadillac Type 53 3. The car that put not only America on wheels, but the world. Ford Model T 4. VW Beetle. The longest-running and most manufactured vehicle of a single platform ever made. 5. The world's most beautiful car ever made....generally accepted...which I think is the Jaguar E-Type that year after year, in these kinds of polls is always at the #1 spot or almost always is. 6. The first ever concept car The Buick Y Job 7. The first 4 wheel drive vehicle The Willys Jeep

Willys CJ-2A Volkswagen Beetle

First affordable mass-produced car - Ford Model T

First production car with modern controls arrangement - Cadillac Type 53

First working ICE car 1885 Benz Patent-Motorwagen Firs electric vehicle 1981 Gustave Trouvé's tricycle Saab GT750 - first car with standard seat belts

The LF3 -- the last of the LF-series motors -- is going out to be phased out of production with the sunset of the CTS. GM is not going to put it in anything new. The Regal GS could have used the 3.0L TT 404bhp / 400 lb-ft (LGW) engine instead of the 3.6L NA (LGX) though. Or, if they wanted to keep it "cheap" it could have had the 2.7L 4-cylinder Turbo from the Silverado which makes 310 bhp / 348 lb-ft.

Arteon also has the "hatchback" thing going for it. On VW Canada's site you can build and price the Arteon, as long as it is the Execline AWD model for 48 grand... Or about what a Stinger GT or base A5 Sportback go for.

CX-3.5 Actually they probably should have called CX-3 as CX-2 since it is based on Mazda 2 and this would be perfect to be called CX-3 since it is based on Mazda 3

Red is kinda Mazda's signature color. Like Jaguar with their green.

Wow remove or cut the cladding by 75% please... Other than that, it works. Not sure how much cheaper they can price this than the CX5..

Wow, Hyundai has been desperately trying to get me into a new vehicle and I kept saying there's nothing I really want and I wanted to lower my payments off the Genesis if I was going to stay in a lease... if this comes out in time, I'd lease a limited trim of this.

I disagree with you there, buddy. Cars, especially cars at car shows showcasing their specialness. While you may seem tired of red, the colour red signifies fire, and danger, maybe speed and therefore excitement. Red also signifies jewels...expensive rare jewels... You said it yourself, buddy! Red will always be sexy. It may be cliché, but red will always be...RACY...get it?

Red is better than silver, white, or black though....silver, white and black are way overused in the auto industry and soooo dulll....

I am not crazy about exterior design, seems all over the place. But LED looks cool and the interior looks very nice. At least they are still going to make a sedan.

Yeah, it's Mazda red. They're known for the red. They're always going to be showing things in their red but they have other colors for consumers.

EXACTLY! I still cannot fathom why the mainstream brands haven't made a plug-in SUV but instead choose the slower selling cars.. The Volt powertrain should have been in an Equinox-sized vehicle years ago..or Trax. Ford shouldn't have let the Escape hybrid die with the last/first gen.

I'm still amazed these haven't exploded onto the market 5 years ago. Plug-in hybrid small SUV/CUVs.

Still partially in the wrapper (protective paper on some of the bumper) ~

I could see this being used for airport shuttles...the 'minibus' passenger version of the Sprinter is used for that in various countries in Europe (ridden in them), those would probably rack up a lot of miles.

Factory paint job ~

Tech also, I know my company is rethinking the tech services group we have in Cork Ireland. That could be almost 3000 jobs that could leave. The Irish and Scottish think England was STUPID to leave as it affects them big time more than people realize.

People bought last year FIVE times more CX-5s than Mazda 6. Companies just adjust to the market

BMW's wishfully-so-called "crossover coupes" [read: diminished headroom & cargo volume SUV] sell at less than 10% of their standard SUVs (X4 & X6 vs. X3 & X5). They're not the 'next big thing', sorry.

Very True, GM just did it better.

The '99 Escalade and the '98 Navigator are good choices, but both are preceded by the original Lexus RX300. The RX300 matters more for one reason: unibody vs BOF. Every SUV was BOF prior to the likes of the RAV4 and CR-V back in the 1990s and the original RX300 was the first luxury CUV.

1996 Taurus ?

Arteon is a bit smaller than the US Passat but a bit larger than the Euro Passat.

So work re-org'd groups and moved people around. Due to my seniority, I ended up getting a windows cube. Nice now, but I think summer is going to be hot. I also got a 2nd 30 inch monitor and as such went from 4 screens to 3. Here is my new setup, one 30 inch in portrait mode the other in landscape and then using my laptop screen for email.

Ford at Seoul Chevrolet at Seoul

A Compass PHEV might be fine as a second vehicle for us, but still need to get something larger for hauling around the in-laws.

My sister's '06 STS has about 135k miles. It's back in the shop again w/ more electrical gremlins. The engine has been fine, she's put about 5000 miles on it since getting it last August.

Exactly, bad news when the banks flee London for Germany.

Seeing as this is a political topic regarding the car industry, there needs to be at least some political talk in this topic.. however, I ask that we keep it on Brexit and the auto industry and not wander into other political territories.

I feel you! CUVs need to be exciting too!!! They cant all be tall and have a high center of gravity with bland and boring and me too same ole same ole styling... With grey Pontiac style cladding to signify off roading or whatever this metoo CUV movement is taking us! I do NOT know what manufactureres need to do to spice these things up externally, but they got to do something... Im bored with all CUVs and SUVs from every single manufacturer. Always was. And I mean every manufacturer. With the exception of an 80 year old General Purpose vehicle known as Jeep...I CANT STAND these! There are a couple that move me...Suzuki SideKicks and Toyota 4 Runners of the 1980s and the occasional Grand Cherokee and Ford Edge...and dare I say BMW X6M...I want this movement to die off...unless a CUV or SUV becomes enthusiast type material with an exterior to match my car craziness...

Here is my Home system. Dell XPS 8900 with 32GB Ram, 4TB storage and 512GB SSD Boot drive. Dual NEC 27" Screens, one in landscape mode and one in Portrait mode. Work Desktop system. Lenovo W540 with i7 Quad Core, 32GB ram, 512GB SSD Boot drive, 2TB data drive, running in quad screen mode.