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About time to trade it in?

Mercedes owned the Euro van segment in the U.S.. Then the US brands entered product and now mercedes Commercial --still trying to push a price premium for a cargo box-- is hemorrhaging market share. Ford has killed the sprinter.

Nothing like snow in the south to make me miss the desert lol. They use both here but mostly Fords.

Seems Green Car Reports is stating that GM plans to reveal the first Cadillac Electric vehicle this April. We get to see the Hummer by GMC EV Truck in May. We will get more information in March about their new BEV3 platform. GM also just announced that their auto apps will report dynamic real time status from EVgo and ChargePoint charging along with if a station is available. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1127179_gm-adds-real-time-charging-station-smarts-via-app-to-chevy-bolt-ev

Basically would have been an earlier version of the G8. If Pontiac had kept real names instead of G* nonsense....woulda coulda shoulda...too little, too late.

Late 1980s and 1990s beer commercials always inspired me. But then again, I was of that certain age when partying and skirt chasin' was in my almost daily itinerary. However, every beer bottle I ever opened up, I never seemed to be transported immediately to a BBQ pool party with bikini clad girls partying around me. Methinks I got hosed...

'84 toyoter, 120K miles. "The more things change...." :

Understate, much?

The i3 and i8 haven't been large scale hits....seems like they are lagging behind in the EV game.

And I'm sure that's written in very large lettering on the walls in the BMW EV Planning Department.

As they say with investments, 'past performance is not indicative of future results'.

All BMW's past EV or electric-assisted / hybrids have bombed.

Who knew, the Prowler was originally built using a Wrangler body for testing the mule. Called the Prangler. https://www.thedrive.com/news/31826/that-should-fit-how-chryslers-legendary-jeep-wrangler-plymouth-prowler-test-car-came-to-be

Mercedes has been regurgitating the same stale design ‘language’ for 20 years now.

One Cannot go wrong with Cheese and protein grilled. Panini grill

I have a Mac n Cheese fast food restaurant nearby (Tom n Chee) and an all things Grilled Cheese bar (Melt Bar and Grilled). Never a shortage of cheesy goodness...

Bacon baked Mac n Cheese Now where did I put the Bacon? ?

The real people ad reminds me of a tv ad I saw for the Yugo 30+ years ago...showed a young couple driving a Yugo talking about how 'sporty' it was, etc...'real' people type style.

That's how I felt about my old Jeep...kept it almost 17 years and 170k miles. Never thought I'd go that long w/ one vehicle...

^ I’m not actively shopping at the moment, and it’s not costing me repair money. Powertrain seems to be made out of bedrock. Have new bumpers to install this spring, plus new rear pads. I’ll do those jobs. It’ll probably be with me thru most of ‘20 at least. I never imagined I’d be in the same truck for 14 years and 150K miles.

They're slammed because they're garbage. Show off the vehicle not fake-ass reactions.

More of those should have come here, if only to save Oldsmobile and especially Pontiac. Imagine a RWD 2000 Bonneville based on the Commodore. . . .

Well, over the last 25 years Holden was building V8 RWD sedans in the Commodore and Caprice/Statesman, with wagons and ute variations at a time when in the US Chevy, Pontiac etc were churning out forgettable, mediocre FWD appliances. They also had HSV making high performance variations of those models.

I'm jaded and cynical, world-weary and worn down from decades in the corporate IT game. I don't think *any* ad has 'inspired' me in maybe 25 years.. There are some I can appreciate occasionally, though. Like the Jeeps in the mountains on snowy trails ads...always like those.

GM is rapidly becoming a small regional automaker, period...

Who will buy anything if there are no jobs?

>>"GM... should have NEVER built Saturn, all those ideas of Auto's should have been done under the Chevrolet label."<< AGREED >>"Oldsmobile and Buick should have been merged back in the 70's to be one label."<< No way- this is the era when the Cutlass alone was outselling the Chevelle. Brand recognition & loyalty were at screaming highs - a merger there would've been catastrophic. >>"GMC and Pontiac should also have been merged as a mid level competition to Chevrolet."<< They were administratively paired... just not in brand name. Again; this was a period which was seeing GMC steadily rising in sales (thru today), and Pontiac returning to #3 in sales in the U.S.. Plus, we'd no longer have GMC if they had merged. >>"Hummer was correct in the packaging, but a mistake in that it should be like it is now, a package label under GMC."<< AGREED >>"Holden was an awesome engineering company that built some amazing auto's. GM FAILED to bring their version of the El Camino to the US along with other lines to help reduce costs. GM management failed to properly reinvest in markets around the world and failed to make Europe profitable when they could instead using it to off load costs and failures done in the US on Europe. Truly some piss poor mgmt. over the last 40 years at GM."<< I have never developed enough interest to look into Holden, but even tangentially I've never heard the company's products being called 'amazing/awesome' before. As much as some might wish to twist every facet of GM over the last 40 years to fit an assessment of 'idiotic', it's not supportable by the history.

I am rarely looking at a new car as in terms of "right now." But I am always looking at new cars in terms of "near to medium term" future. I, too, hate car payments. (I'd rather go to Europe more often.) My current sled turns 12 fairly soon. And, from when I came onto C&G when the redesign of my current car was a hot off the press topic, it took another 3 years for me to actually buy it. What's on the market that I like right now? NOTHING. I also want a sedan. I am waiting to see what the new Charger looks like. It's currently the only vehicle I like ... and in purist form, as opposed to pimped out form. Chrysler dealerships either know nothing or are hushed on any info on the next version, which they'll start producing in about a year at the Brampton, ON, Canada plant. And, if and when the Charger hits the ground, I will have my fingers crossed that it won't be yet another vehicle with the "laptop left open" info/audio center on its dashboard and I will probably wait 3 years to see that the powertrain, if new or just revised, is debugged. So, as the saying goes, "just because I'm on a diet doesn't mean I can't read the menu."