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And a transmission. And a ground-up redesign. And a price cut.

FICTION Chevrolet Speed The Chevrolet Speed is built on the AMR (Affordable Mid-engine Rear-drive) Platform to be an affordable sibling to the Corvette that appeals to buyers in their 20s and 30s. It is designed around the 3-3-3 paradigm calling for a 300 hp car, weighing 3,000 lbs and costing 30,000 dollars. The modestly sized car features an architecture that avoids using expensive materials such as aluminum, magnesium or carbon composites, while utilizing an all-strut suspension design. Power is provided by a 2.7L turbocharged Inline-4 from the Silverado Pickup and the high torque rating dual-clutch transaxle is sourced from Getrag. The entire powertrain and its cooling system are contained in the engine compartment behind the occupants with the radiator positioned horizontally above and behind the engine, while side scoops feed air into the compartment. There is a 6.6 cu-ft trunk under the engine compartment cover but no front storage compartment with electric HVAC and steering taking up the space under the hood. The cabin is an exercise in spartan simplicity with no instrument cluster, buttons or knobs; just a Heads-Up-Display and a 12” LCD multi-function touch screen in the center console. Seat adjustments are manual and a simple 5-speaker BOSE stereo system rounds out the amenities. A Premium Performance Package adds a 360° camera system, leather upholstery, 18” wheels, Magnetic Ride Control and a helical limited slip differential for $6,000. A 420 hp Chevrolet Speed SS is expected to follow featuring a 420 hp version of the 2.7L engine, air-to-water intercooling, bigger brakes and Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires. FICTION

Jeep has entered the e-Bike market to compete with GM and others as they have released their Fat Tire all terrain bike. https://jeepe-bike.com/ 40 miles on a Charge for $5,899 per bike. Alternative web sites say that the motor and suspension system based on a Chinese company can have the bike sustain 37 miles per hour. Talk about a fast way to travel if you have dedicated safe bike lanes. In normal road traffice, you might not want to be going so fast.

You must be driving one of those camo craptastic Prius with 52 mpg to get 400 miles in 5 min. @ocnblu forgets he is no different than an EV needing about 8hrs to recharge every day himself.

The one pictured above is a converted rail car, not a manufactured ‘diner’.

Yeah, guess it s good thing that gas powered cars forever on a single tank of guess. Wouldn’t want to run out of gas now would we?

Here's an idea for Corvette's baby brother...

I saw a spy shot somewhere of a partially uncovered prototype of the upcoming Cadillac EV CUV. "Crap DuJour" was spelled out in a beautiful script on the quarter panel.

We don't know that, and we'll NEVER know that. Even if it is true the ChiComs will never admit it because everyone in the world and their own population will be lining up to pound them in the arse. Sure, the Chicom will survive such a scandal, but Xi Jinping is not invulnerable -- not to other aspiring power blocks within the Chicom at least. So, you'll never know because there is no way they'll let you.

Open your mind.

Except there’s zero business case for a teeny Cadillac SUV below the XT4. The 4 is in the sweet spot of the CUV segment, strong enough to pull from above & below it. Its nonsensical to propose duplicate SUVs separated by 4 inches in length- there’s no buyer who needs those less 4 inches, and the money is MUCH better spent making an existing entry better the 1,000 other CUVs out there.

Well, they could do it on the cheap since they already have the hardware, and it gives them one more CUV in a CUV market.... I can't see them doing a RWD unibody CUV since GM is cheap and likes to reuse their generic FWD/transverse platforms...

Does Cadillac REALLY need a UX competitor when the XT4 does nicely? NOW, a GLS competitor (based on Omega or its successor) would do very nicely. Besides, a RWD crossover (not a BOF Escalade) would be a good complement to the Cadillac family of SUVs.

Just like right up to the point you have to refill the empty tank!

8 grand for cladding??

While I very much miss my first 2 cars - both rear wheel drive Cutlass Supreme coupes (and the head of thick dark brown curly hair I had at that time) - front wheel drive does a better job of getting you home .... even if you have to go slow!

China is the biggest market for many many brands. in 2019; Mercedes sold 315K units in the U.S., and 600K in China. A couple of years ago 50% of MB S-class's built were sold in China. Everybody is building for China. There are numerous automotive taxes in the CDM... but the volume of luxury & premium cars keeps growing anyway.

You talking about the various Series models from ancient times? Series 70, Series 62, Series 61, etc? The only ones used the last 50+ years were Fleetwood Sixty Special and Fleetwood 75 and those haven't been used in decades.. I don't see the correlation between old, forgotten naming schemes and the modern acronyms... I really doubt if marketing resource units in the late 90s/early 00s that started the acronyms had any awareness of long gone naming schemes, they were trying to fit in w/ the Germans.

Nah, I haven't taken it in. Weird that it does not do it each and every first cold 2-3 shift, just a high percentage of the time. I have the 3.6 8A.

It won't cost a lot of money for GM to make a Cadillac XT3 out of existing parts. Cadillac could easily do an XT2 at 170" long and $29,990, and XT3 at 175" and $33,990 or something along those lines. Just like they could do an XT7 easily as well as either an Omega platform SUV, or a fastback roof, coupe style XT6. All this stuff is in the parts bin somewhere.