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That'll also get one engine choice and you guessed it, n/a 3.6. That'll be anther show stopper!

With the hope of pushing spring-esque weather, have started some more work on the B-59. My buddy has been doing some experimenting with zinc plating, the interior door latches (inside the doors) are bare steel, so doing those and the trunk latching hardware. I saw the trunk latch tonight (no pic) and it looked excellent. Trying to think of other things to plate. BTW, also working on a derusting bath (reverse electrolysis). Still have the parking brake system to engineer (just found the original B-59 cable wheels this past weekend) and the headers to get back on. Temps supposed to break over the weekend (mid 20s today).

F**K That!!! I mean the BS stupidity that says that this 2020 Cadillac XT6 Priced from $53,690 should be cheaper than the Aviator. Why? Why should it be? Cadillac is no longer needing to discount to prove itself. Lincoln does. Lets not forget that in the eyes of the public.. Lincoln may as well not even exist. Furthermore most of the public has a perception of Lincoln that is AT BEST.. on par with Buick. Actually lower in many minds. Even the Navigator doesn't elicit the same respect one would think it should be the pre-cursor of the might Cadillac Escalade. Cadillac shouldn't even be still offering a base or lux model of the CT6. It should be Premium Lux, Platinum, V. What makes RWD so great in these CUVs? Really.. what's the advantage in COST? TTV6 as a standard??? Who is your audience? I've gone on record saying that the Cadillac XT6 and 5 need to have a TTV6 OPTION.. but a base?? The 2.0L or 3.6L are the way to go in this category. Why? Because women are the effing buyers. And By and By the women in this segment could care less about what the so called ENTHUSIASTS want. They (women) just don't normally give a damn and ENTHUSIASTS don't normally buy new cars. I don't hear this BS when so many of U praise VOLVO.. and their X90 that starts off at $47K but gives U a blazing 250HP and FWD. In fact.. with that vehicle in order to even get to 300HP U spend $56K.. on a effing VOLVO. The more than likely slower Audi Q7 costs $55K with similar HP as the XT6. Why shouldn't Cadillac be priced like the legendary quality of Audi? Oooops.. I didn't mean to include quality in the same sentence as AUDI.

Like he already said, "Such a slow news day today. hardly anything to write about."

There are plenty of product people in Apple too. But they are subjugated to a logistics guy who should be running FedEx or something. WTF has come out of Apple that's new and disruptive since Jobs' demise eight years ago? More slippery rounded edge phones with slightly better screens and cameras? Everytime Jobs the magician gave a keynote the world stood still in anticipation; every Tim the boring gives a keynote the world falls asleep. The point is that a car company, like a smart device company, is a product driven business. It must be product driven. The "managers" and "administrators", while necessary to keep the organization in ship shape, should be the supporting cast to the product visionary, not the other way around.

At the very least 2018 but it should have been the same year or a model year earlier than a Ford.

For the first vehicle, I would have to go with the 1870 Hill car out of Pennsylvania - 4 wheels & a steering wheel vs. the Benz 3 wheels & tiller steering- much more modern and 15 years prior to. Most historical accounts don't know about it because there was no company coming forward into modern times to continue to publicize it. The Seldon car also handily pre-dates the Benz's debut (1877), and was very widely known about, tho there is some debate on when the first one was actually built (it's patent application is not in question tho). Also far more modern than the p-wagon.

I hope and wonder if this isn't a bit of a headfake. Maybe Chrysler is finally getting a Pacifica based crossover?

Such a slow news day today. hardly anything to write about

No, they are not. They are a joke. The joke of the entire luxury car segment. They're not on par with BMW or anyone else. They're not on par with the aforementioned and snubbed Volvo, either. The fact that you have to bring up a base model BMW to support your claim with regards to a Caddy SUV that will start @ 55K proves it. ?

LOL at thinking Cadillac makes any interior that even remotely approaches the German cars in their segment. That is hilarious. And then the whole FWD vs RWD thing......just comical. You're so drunk off the Kool-Aid it's sad. Also, Lincoln is embarrassing Cadillac with their recent offerings. Navi upshows Esclade. Aviator blows this thing out of the water. All Lincoln needs now is a few proper RWD sedans. Cadillac's time is up. They tried to be an American BMW and it failed. Now they're resorting back to their 'old GM' tricks of slapping the Caddy crest on everything. They're not even trying at this point.

Beat me to it. The Q7, even in 2.0T form, will embarrass this thing. Step up a few grand more to the blow V6, and forget about it. Another overpriced, poor value, badge-engineered GM product. What a shame.

I am going off of true impact on the automotive industry, and nothing more. In no particular order (most have been posted already)- -Benz patent-Motorwagen -Ford Model T -VW Beetle -Willys Jeep -1991 Ford Explorer -1934 Citreon Traction Avant -1984 Dodge Caravan And fwiw, that list is pretty indisputable, imo.

All opinion.. and to be honest I thinking your opinion isn't worth $h!. The interior of the XT6, if it is on XT5 Premium Lux or Platinum levels is better than many of the German ones. Sorry. The 3.6L corporate V6 is actually a damn fine engine. When Turbocharged it becomes even more so. f@#kk Germany. f@#kk German cars. f@#kk those who like them

China is getting a nice MCE for the LaCrosse that we won't see...

@Drew Dowdell Fiat showed off their new Centoventi Concept Electric CUV today. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1121930_fiat-concept-centoventi-electric-car-opens-mopar-toolbox-looks-beyond-500e#image=19 Ford has a patent for turning your F150 Pickup bed into Party Central. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/ford-patent-mounted-theater-system-truck-bed/ VW has confirmed today that they are still 100% investigating how to bring the Atlas Pickup to the US. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/volkswagen-pickup-truck-usa-ford-ranger/ First drive of the Mini Cooper EV mule. https://www.autoblog.com/2019/03/05/mini-cooper-se-battery-ev-review/ I will have to say that the DeVinci EV Concept Coupe is Sexy as hell for a Car. Love the Gull wing doors and the Interior. https://www.autoblog.com/2019/03/08/italdesign-davinci-concept-two-door-gt-ev/ BMW which had anounced they would export from China the BMW iX3 electric CUV has now informed the world today that this will be a Chinese only model for now. That is a shame as it was a normal looking EV. I wonder if the importing into the US was an issue with the current political climate here. https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2019/03/bmw-takes-its-evs-from-china-plan-off-the-burner/ Seems TESLA has gone full self driving update with their auto's again on their web site. All new feature info is here: https://www.tesla.com/autopilot Lots of cool news!

Get on your General boys to do this. Their CUV lineup is as bland as anybody else's. No CUV as a high performance street version and no CUV has a high performance off-road version.

This. There aren't many exciting looking crossovers out there. Plenty of nice ones, but not many exciting ones.

LOL, "coupe style blandness". We are in the middle of the sea of vanilla crossovers, they are ALL family appliances. Any coupe or sedan with some style will really stand out. Whatever your preference of course, just don't pretend that crossovers are exciting unless you get a 100k pumped up Grand Cherokee or X5 or Porsche.

Looking forward to see what they come up with..Love Acura and of course I’m a Honda fanatic

I give ya a new old beef ? you can have with me. Maybe Buick of China will bring the Skylark back as a Performance EV! ? Course I will say this is sexy as hell! 1954 Skylark

That is very cool, wish more would realize that Benz is not the center of the auto world and not the original creator.

This +1,000,000,000,000 to the power of 10. Totally agree, while not an Apple Fan, Jobs kept people on the edge of their seat with excitement and drove folks to spend money in the Apple Stores and Cell Phone Providers. That is clearly falling off as to why Apple no longer reports cell phone sales. Mary has done great for GM in turning a Ship around and is needed to keep it in the black and on course, but she needs to let Product Visionaries drive the rest of the auto business. In regards to Auto Visionaries, I am hoping Mary B is doing that and we will all judge it once we see Cadillac's first EV CUV. If it is spacious and luxurious to drive folks into buy, then she is balancing leadership with product driven sales. The next 18-24 months are going to be interesting.

Actually... it is BMW's interior which is plastic intensive. Everything on the dash that's in beige is plastic. As is everything in charcoal below the arm rest. And this is on the top level trim. On the entry level trim it's vinyl everywhere and the entire upper dash is not even wrapped in anything. The interior is also cluttered and untidy from a design standpoint and the semi-tablet on dash infotainment display -- while not as silly as M-B's -- still looks like an afterthought. Exterior wise, I find the Caddy XT6's styling to be more distinct and "cleaner" than the X5's. The styling opinions are subjective; the qualitative ones are not. As I said, I have no problems with the interior. I do preferred the previous gen Caddy styling with the vertical headlights. The one thing I have a problem with is the 3.6 LGX engine -- which is refined enough but weak for the segment and Caddy's positioning. And, as I said, the XT5/6 should offer the excellent 2.7T four cylinder as the base engine with the 3.0TT V6 as the option. The LGX 3.6 can go in the RX350 fighting Buick and the Pilot fighting GMC/Chevys.

They've canceled the Airbus A380 you know... double-decker is already passé. Or maybe you're thinking Megabus

Acura was arguably one of the first. What we really need are more crossover sedans.

Random Ford Lincoln fact... Them doing crap like this is what has helped hold Lincoln back. Hopefully since the Navigator and Aviator they've turned a new page buuuuut Ford released an upgraded 2.0T for the Escape, Edge, MKX, MKC, and Fusion but in 2017 the Escape for the new engine and the MKC is just getting the update in 2019. relatively minute changes but a twin scroll replaced the single scroll for a 5hp/5tq bump but throttle response was supposed to have been improved. Isn't this the kind of thing that should start in the Lincolns THEN spread to Fords if Lincoln is supposed to be the premier company? ??‍♂️

Well, Mary Barra has put GM in a better financial place than it has been in at least the last 25 years. As for needing a product person to be CEO, that might be necessary IF there are no product people elsewhere in GM's C-suite. A visionary is more required for GM than even Apple, given that Tim Cook was always a supply chain specialist rather than a visionary.

This vs that.

nope they're working on EV's hahahahah

Look at the base trim on the X5... not impressive at all.

Actually, Cadillac interiors are just fine. Better than BMW's in many areas actually -- especially BMW's base trim examples. YOu have to be drunk off cool-aid to think that all German interiors are superlative. Again, this is particularly true of the plastic adorned BMW examples. MB does better, but MB also has dubious design elements like the silly iPad on dash infotainment displays.

The vertical head lights were the best design elements of Cadillac. Why abandon it for the Mazda look? Powertrain wise, the XT5 and XT6 as Cadillac SUVs deserve to have the 310hp/348 lb-ft (L3B) 2.7T Inline-4 as the base engine and the 404hp/400lb-ft (LGW) 3.0TT V6 as the upgrade. GM should leave the LGX V6 for the likes of the Traverse and Acadia. Product wise Mary Barra is a moron. This is another example of why administrators cannot lead, and must not lead, product driven businesses. Tim Cook is another example. You can have a pussy or be a homo, that's just fine. But you cannot have no product vision and forte. There aren't many ills in a car company that a good product line won't fix. And, there aren't many ills which can be fixed through good governance and logistics when the product sucks!

Totally tubular!

Crazy plumbing there!

IMO, focusing on parts of a conversation apart from the point would be another term you used; deflection. Pontiac is the only brand that didn't drop performance-specific models when even Chevy dropped the Z-28/big block Camaro for 2 years. It was a wretched time, no question. But besides a number of A-Body packages, they had the Trans Am. There's a reason T/A sales went thru the roof going deeper into the '70s and it wasn't all influence from Smokey & the Bandit. Pontiac was the only performance game in new vehicles. Imagine a time when a relatively 'weak' T/A (vs. the earlier SD) was quicker than a brand new Ferrari. The Can Am was a cool machine in that series of A-Body specials, shame it was a 1-year only deal. Pontiac was still the king here. Mentioning the Turbo 231 Buicks was my answer to 'Buick wasn't marketing to younger buyers' - I think these vehicles were. So while the 455 was pulled out of the A-Body for '75 ( I was WRONG earlier- Chiltons does NOT list the 455 being available in the Regal/Century for '75- the '75 Indy Pace car apparently was a non-RPO powertrain. GS ended after '74), Buick was working hard on re-engineering the 231for the Turbo package, as hard as they hit it RE the Pace Car / the '78 turbo publicity, I don't think Buick ever lost sight of the performance Buick here, it just had to be readied for production. As far as I know, there is no other example where engine dies were sold off overseas, then bought back & put back into production. An incredible story, actually.

Yerr makin' me laugh, STOP

We love ours, but now this past winter, I do think AWD would be nice to have. I think i could live with losing the Stow N Go because of it. But at the same time, i had thought if Chrysler put out a new 3 row crossover SUV with AWD and same drivetrain I might prefer that and get away from the minivan. Main reason is kids are growing up and concern for flinging doors around not as much. Also, I would prefer to get vehicle with real center console and shifter. The twist knob for a shifter is ok to use and space efficient, but at the end of the day, I still like a shifter. Cadillac XT4 or a small knob like on the Regal with a is the way to go if you still want your man card. Minivan sales DO suffer in part due to lack of AWD in this neck of the woods.

You mean this Skyhawk Or this one? Or is it this one? (The only one that has somewhat different front and rear is the Pontiac version, but the silhouette is the same...) And this Skyhawk? Which one is the Buick and which one is the Pontiac and which one is the Oldsmobile? Oh...yeah...I forgot...Cadillac also tried to get younger the same way... Or is that the Chevy version? What is more younger? A T-Type or a Z24? Or are the Opel versions the youngest? The 1960s GS and GSX and the 1980s GN and GNX were only a couple of models that lasted a very short period of time that Buick themselves did not really promote. As soon as they came, they left... The 1960s GS last at least to model generations, but the GN and GNX were on the G-Body's last legs...only 1 generation for Dark Vader's automobile...and only 3 or 4 years offered on the GN. The GNX was a one shot deal... The GS is older than I am and by the time I was born it was gone, and Im 46 years old. If I did not know about cars, I wouldnt know it existed. The GN and GSX was a time before the world wide web went online to the world...almost a decade before...at a time when cell phones were bigger than bricks. CDs just came out....Cassettes were all the rage. Beta was still in competition with VHS... THAT Buick effort was such a loooong time ago, we might as well just group the GN and GNX with the GS and GSX...

Nice! Charging times keep getting better and better.

An Audi Q7 starts at $53,550, granted with a turbo 4, but it is a much nicer vehicle than the XT6. XT6 is $6k cheaper than an X5, but again, X5 is a much nicer vehicle. The Acura MDX starts at $45k, I feel like that should have been Cadillac's target with this.

It can. Tesla and GM alter their charging rate as the battery gets full. Over 90% capacity and the charging rate slows down in order to prevent damage. As noted above, the Tesla will also now pre-warm their battery when it detects via the navigation system that it is on its way to a supercharger. This will allow the battery to accept a charge more rapidly.

There is another angle I could go with. The title of this is the 7 WONDERS... Just like the buildings, arches, statues, temples that the original and new wonders represent...cars that have made us humans wonder in awe about them them... 1. 1955 Mercedes Benz Gullwing 2. Lamborghini Countach 5000 3. Ferrari GT California 4. 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible 5. Citroen DS 6. Tesla Model S P100D Ford Hot Rod. 1932, 1933. It dont matter. stripped Ford body shell, Flat Head V8 and flames is all that matters.

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

MoPar 413 Max Wedge factory exhaust system, 1963 ~