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I present to you the BMW 1 Series Hatch, 2 Series Grand Coupé (4 doors) and 2 Series Coupe. Based on a certain MINI...dont know which one. Dont really care either. All these years...all those shytty American car magazines....all these asshat American car buyers swearing off GM, Ford forever because of downsizing and FWD architecture and them switching to the German brands.. All that commotion, bitching about wrong wheel drive and torque steer... ALL THOSE BMW CUVs...ALL THOSE BMW 3 SERIES and 5 SERIES WITH AWD SOLD SINCE THE 2000s... ( AWD...adding weight for nothing!!!) THE ULTIMATE DRIVING MACHINE ? I NOW HAVE THE LAST LAUGH!!! AND A BIG MIDDLE FINGER TO ALL THOSE BMW DOUCHE BAGS AND AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE JOURNALISTS IN THE 1980s AND 1990s THAT SHYTTED ON FWD PONTIACS AND CADILLACS ALL THESE YEARS!!!

Ya know that type of stupid thinking is what has hurt the rest of Cadillac. A german idiot trying to make Cadillac like the germans. Will never happen and cannot come fast enough to dump the ICE German bullshit names and back to real American Names on the EVs.

Citroen suspensions seem to be their hallmark. I rented a C3 last summer and couldn't believe how responsive, smooth, and compliant the ride and handling were. It felt like a much larger car. No wonder they're popular over there.

Random bit of info, since I like to read articles about pets and owners ... A study determined that, on average, a DOG loves its owner 5 X more so than a CAT. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

If daimler considers it healthy’, why dump 15,000 employees? And you forget dieselgate costs, which are still ongoing. Further, mercedes have higher annual maintenance & repair costs than any other brand, with translates to ever-higher warranty costs by the company.

They cleaned this up in TWELVE HOURS?? 25 derailed & tangled cars also spilling into the roadway below? What has happened to work crews in recent years?

Renault 4, Citroen Ami.

I like Citroen products, from afar, so that is based purely on surface design aesthetics . Personal experience with French cars is limited to my mom's '81 Renault Le Car (purchased from Nolt AMC/Jeep/Renault in Lancaster, PA brand new). She loved that thing and it was reliable for her over the 100k miles she put on it. Back then, there was not so much homogenization in mechanical engineering as there is today across brands, with more conglomerates and fewer individual car companies left. An old French car with long travel mechanical or air suspension is the best riding car you will ever know. Comical on corners, but level and so perfectly smooth on straights.

Nobody really cares about high speed FULLSIZED SUVs... However, TOP DOG trim levels that are the toppest of the biggest SUV do matter. Mercedes likes AMG to be big their top dog trim level. They slap that badge on anything...so even if some models are TRUE performance vehicles true to the AMG badge and true to performance...not all AMGs ARE true performance cars...and therefore not even worthy of the AMG badge... And in all honesty...BIG DEAL about performance oriented huge, heavy, high center of gravity SUVs!!! In this example...a GLS AMG is what counts... NO! Not the speed performance of the GLS, but the highest trim level of the GLS which happens to be AMG... The thing is. Cadillac may not have the Blackwing V8 anymore, but Cadillac is thinking about using the Blackwing NAME as a TOP trim level Cadillac and the Escalade would surely get a Blackwing trim to compete with an AMG, Maybach, Culinan and Bentayga... Whether THAT model gets THE Blackwing V8, or a supercharged version of the next LT2 V8 or is an EV of some sort remains to be seen... The outgoing Escalade? I HATE THESE DISCUSSIONS...but phoquing *SIGH* The OUTGOING Escalade is 5-6 model years old. I think its STILL the sales leader... and superior in what way? I really dont care....BUT the 2021 Escalade REALLY addresses the shortcomings of the OUTGOING model!!! BOF SUV? That would be YOUR way of dissing? GTFO with that!!! Why? Because this SUV below Is a BOF SUV... Its a skateboard platform...which essentially is BOF... Dont cut your nose to spite your face...

Ahhh; you were only talking about the SALES leader. Meh- who cares about that; no one who buys a given SUV in Septermber-March either knows or cares how the sales numbers may be ticking up.

Thank heavens it was never renamed. Cadillac needs more names, not fewer.

I am surprised that the Escalade wasn't renamed XT7 to better align with the current naming scheme and also position it better against the segment leader BMW X7. Because in GM thinking, an XT7 is greater than X7.

Hyundai’s best attribute is still features and bang for the buck. But as vehicles are now really about image and appliance like virtues, hell yes having a shortage of generic, me-too crossovers is bad.

I actually think the GLS may reign supreme. They have AMG and Maybach versions which BMW or anyone else doesn't have equivalents to. The X7 seems to be well reviewed and do well in comparison tests. GLS and X7 are both superior to Escalade, Navigator and QX80 in jus about every way except towing and they aren't beat there by all that much. These body on frame SUVs is like a Town Car going against an S-class.