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Yep, kids now days don't get it. Build quality and the plush seats in Cadillac's of yore were like hanging out on a comfy velour couch at great grandma's house.

100 pages of music discussions ... fine with me ... Have always liked these ... over the years, I finally came to know the name of the artist and the songs. I don't care how much you like "Stairway to Heaven" or "The Immigrant Song," the craftsmanship in these compositions is still way up there. Vince Guaraldi, the jazz musician who composed them, died at a fairly young age and is interred in the same cemetery as Joe DiMaggio. Colma, CA is the "cemetery suburb" used mostly by Catholics and Italians immediately south of San Francisco.

True, I was referring to the size of my bank account. I'm complaining already about my 21.8 MPG average with winter gas.

Ok, 20-21 mpg combined for 335hp 3.6L in the CTS, but still 17 combined is not bad for a 550hp 4.2TT V8.

You're killing me Smalls

Oh it's so turrible

I havent heard this song in like...4 ever!!! I had forgotten about it. THANK-YOU ENDLESSLY for posting it!!! And now, I am dancing with tears (of joy) in my eyes reminiscing about my youth. @trinacriabob If I wasnt Greek, and I didnt love being Greek so much, then my second choice of what Id wanna be, then Id wanna be Eye-Talian. Una facia, una razza! Ill double down on Send me an Angel

Figured something had to come to replace the Golf. This looks like a very good entry into the segment. The Golf was really good too the last few generations but did not catch on here.

GM definitely has something big in the pipeline with this recent cancellation of the CT6 and subsequent Blackwing V8 and readying the new BEV3 skateboard platform which is the BIG push right now at Cadillac which will be a legit Tesla competitor for GM. I actually called a Cadillac Customer Service 800 line and asked why they are cancelling the CT6 and new Blackwing V8 when they've just launched the awesome Blackwing. The representative said they have gotten A LOT of calls from people upset about it and said, "it's the current strategy for now" like the Blackwing and maybe even the CT6 will be back in the near future. GM knows there are still many customers who aren't ready to make the EV leap and options need to be available. After driving a CT6-V Blackwing I can tell you it is a solid, great handling, fast as all get out car that is selling pretty well already. And 14/25/17 combined on the sticker does not seem like a gas guzzler for a 550 hp TT V8 engine to me, EPA be damned. That's only 2 to 3 mpg less than many NA V6's now days. 17/24/19 is what my past Colorado Crew 4x4 308 hp V6 had on the sticker that weighed only about 200 lbs more than the CT6 AWD. I agree with others that they should and most likely will keep the Blackwing V8 for an Escalade V Blackwing on the new upcoming BOF chassis and have a new BEV CUV right next to it on the showroom. The fact of it is there are still more buyers for ICE vehicles in the U.S. as our gasoline is still fairly cheap in comparison to Europe or China or even Canada and it's much more convenient than having to find a public charging station and 30 min to an hour to burn while it charges, you really have to plan your day or trip around charging station locations if you don't have one at home. EV's still have pretty expensive up front costs like getting a charging station installed and setup in your home, which is a must have. Public charging station infrastructure is still slowly building up and has been for over a decade now which are still few and far between and aren't widely used. Half the time I see a Tesla or other EV parked in front of one and it's not even plugged in, just rudely squatting on the premium parking that's reserved up front for EV's at most businesses, which is a BIG faux pas in the EV world. There are two stations at my go to grocery store and 9 times out of 10 there is never an EV parked there, but the parking lot is pretty full of ICE SUV's and trucks. Should be interesting to see what the General has in store for us.

Impossible to tell. I think that birth order and gender order among a brood of kids, which are not pop psychology topics, have something to do with it. There are the classic expectations of the first born. There is the lengthened leash given to the last born. There is also how closely spaced apart kids are and whether or not there are jealousies as older kids are confronted with younger siblings they have to share with. Then, there is the parenting style and whether the parents were functional, dysfunctional, or a little of both. And it goes on and on and on. I think I'll stop now.

Enjoying more Big 80s synth pop this afternoon, listening to the Best of Ultravox, incl. this track.. https://youtu.be/PSQWUZ8a2Ho

Reality is complex. There are many things unknowable to those of us outside of the byzantine management structures and infinite complexity of GM corporate reality.

seeing the article on the internet about finding an old unconfiscated EV1 and relearning what GM did to crush all the EV1's, and seeing how Tesla has cornered a good chunk of the EV market now for itself without GM getting serious about creating a real competition to the Tesla products (when they could easily have wiped Teslas ass off the floor had they invested some real product dollars into EV...) and seeing how politically EV's seem to be well received as saviors when really there are plenty of ill side effects for the idea of EV mass propulsion (not to mention no useful or convenient infrastructure) and seeing how GM's electric cars are always small or niche models (Volt, Bolt, ELR, pickup hybrids, CT6) this talk of Cadillac going deep into EV's is all just a smokescreen. A smokescreen to cover for why they didn't invest in new competitive products in the Johan era. Truth is Cadillac is caught with their pants down, and like the rest of GM wants to appear green, on top of technology, and want to somehow be in the EV mix, at least in terms of social media buzz. so back to the EV1....that was the 90's already. A quarter decade and GM has still not nor has plans to produce any significant game changing EV that will be adopted by the car buying public en masse, that is affordable for many, and in 50 years will serve as a bellweather in the sales of vehicles in this world and nation. A point that your kids, when they are grandkids can say, "My parents had the Model T electric" (you get what i mean when i say that). Really all the manufacturers, none have taken EV out of social media curiosity or low volume high price lux car sales and smashed the mainstream barrier to truly change and create a demand for what we drive in America and the world to push for real everyday EV's. Sure, we have Prius and Leaf etc. But the Mustang Mach E might be the only vehicle that really represents something that might impact the future. I mean, global oil still has pull, right? That's partly why we still drive oil mostly. And battery tech is still for the few for the cost it is. Mining is an issue. Power grid investment is an issue. Electric power tends to be controlled by government and utility cartels, electric power buying and selling really will never be much of a capitalistic ritual of a free market. That is a huge problem. I filled my car with 300 miles of range in about 120 seconds the other day at Costco. I still don't see matching that feat any time in the next 20 years where you literally can pick any station everywhere and do that. I don't see any of GM including Cadillac coming to market with a game changing EV or line of EV's within 5-10 years yet. It's all bullshit. GM could wipe the industry's ass if they wanted to but they won't. Cadillac's dealer base needs revenue and customers to keep their doors open. They won't risk it by changing their whole product line to EV nor should they. So please, apart from one or two models that may hit and sell a few each year to be cute, please do not believe the crap about GM or Cadillac being a huge EV company. So in the meantime, build those Blackwing v8's and turbo 6's and stuff them in as many Cadillacs as you can. That is where you can still make bank. Along with real passenger and cargo space. ANd flip your middle finger to the feds in the process and their regulations.

Dozens of unique vehicles sell less than 30K per year. Volume is immaterial, profit is the prime consideration. But even then: Luckily, Cadillac, and in turn; General Motors, produces dozen & dozens & dozens of other models. Tesla only builds like 11K Model S per year. Course; they don't make a profit... but they're still building the thing. We've read some wags claim that 'Chevy doesn't make any money; too many low margin models' and 'Buick sales are slowing every year; it can't be making a profit' and 'Cadillac doesn't sell 2 million units/year; therefore they can't be making a profit'. Solid, disconnected thinking there, that. Gee, I don't think GMC is making $11 billion in profit all by itself.

I always listen to Dean Martin's version or Annie Lennox's

This was the current CX9? Yes I know some are longer body, shorter legs or long legs, shorter body. I actually am in the middle with body length equal to leg length and I guess my 5" extra height makes a big difference to me as I could not fit in the front passenger seat as it did not go back or go down as much as the drivers seat. I had to have the drivers seat all the way down and back to fit into the CX9. The racked windshield also makes it much hard to get into the auto as you have to bend the head down and put your butt in before pulling legs and head into the auto. Fact is we all have different body types and those that know me as a large body building 6'6" tall man knows pretty much all Asian auto's fit smaller people. Here is a picture of me and my family. Wife, daughter and Son all 5'8" and then me at 6'6". Except for my daughter, everyone has broad shoulders.

One thing I like a lot about the older cars are the colorful interiors and horizontal dash designs...more interesting than the lumpy 50-shades-of-gray plastic interiors that became so common in the 90s...

Most likely a 100% polyester-nylon blend to make the velour go the long haul. The burgundy cloth bucket seats in my last car held up unscathed over a dozen years, including the driver's seat. Either way, you have a rolling bordello. What I like is the "craftsmanship" and detail in those "old schoolz," the cool street name for those sorts of sleds. If you've experienced them at some point in your life, you'll never forget them. If you're a millennial or born even later, this whole discussion might be meaningless.

Chrysler 300?

I find it fascinating how two people who grew up in the same household, with the same kinds of influences around them can develop to have such drastically different ways of doing things.How on earth did my siblings and I (one in particular) manage to take such vastly different lessons from the way we were raised? Or did the problems come from something after moving away from home?

I love when American car lovers root for an American car company that actually builds cars in America to fail, while still cheering on the "American" car companies that are shipping production to Mexico and China.