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The '80s in a nutshell: when a BMW 6-series doesn't look any more upscale or desirable than a Skylark : But give me this any day if we're talking about some passion in the styling :

Enjoying the evening out by the fire pit. Modest, but I have plans to extend the patio. Had a couple bloody Mary’s and a glass of Pinot noir. Not feeling the pain tonite...

This is a time to gain collateral with people / customers / future customers. You may have heard people a generation or two up when you were a teenager saying, 'I support (Company A,B and/or C) because they were good to me, my family, and/or whomever when (insert name of crisis) was going on. It makes for loyal customers. It's sad that it takes something like this for them to really reach out, and not all businesses are doing so, but it creates a bond when an entity seems to have your back.

Cadillac needs to first decide if they want to be a mass auto sales machine with everyone else or if they want to be a true luxury auto maker that people attain to want! I would rather they do the last one.

I always loved these specific fighter planes:

That narrative comes from automotive journalists who were ultimately frustrated race car drivers. THAT is why they fell in love with the BMW 2002 and then the 3 series: so many of them would have done anything to be an F1 driver for a living. Instead, they look at Lincoln and Cadillac and are bored to tears. That is where the "Cadillac is chasing the Germans" meme started. It has since been reflected in the sales charts the last 20 years or so. Sometimes life follows the imposed narrative.

Seen so many planes on these last few pages, I’ve ready for another trip to Disney World.... ? Hoping I can start waxing the rest of the cars this week....

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^ NIOCE! Now; lower it 2 inches IMMEDIATELY. I never understood anyone how restores a car including putting new springs in, then stands back and says 'Yep- that looks peachy'. Has more ground clearance than a Renegade.

Glad he is doing better...have to take our dog Bella to the vet as she is not feeling well either.....

But will Ford and GM actually spend the cash necessary to implement those plans? IDK

That's NOT the definition of a 'badge job', sorry. They share no body panels below the beltline, and the quarter windows / C-Pillar are unique too.

I believe that's a Type S turbo coupe. The one pictured is mildly customized. I think the Type S had a number of upgrades, including suspension. It a far more distinguished 2-dr than the generic BMW. You take the pig nostril grillettes out and just have the black plastic grille go straight across and I have a narcolepsy episode. It also has a near Pacer-esque fishbowl going on (glass height-wise).

Lincoln got it right with the Continental. On the INSIDE. NOT on the outside. To use an extended Ford Fusion/Ford Edge platform that also houses the badge engineered Lincoln versions of those vehicles on that platform (CD4 platform) was the error. The MKX and MKZ Lincolns are not 1980s bad for badge engineering from Detroit, but not worthy Lincolns either. Whatever I said about Cadillac goes for Lincoln word for word... The Continental should have been on a BESPOKE platform that would capture that presence that the concept had. From the long wheelbase to the little details that made the difference for a true luxury vehicle but when they squeezed it into a FWD appliance platform, the Continental lost it all in translation. And THAT bespoke platform could have spawned OTHER high end Lincoln products. Instead of just using that "ONE FORD" mentality of a decade ago. Notice that campaign slogan was ONE FORD. FORD Lincoln is part of the FORD MOTOR COMPANY but a Lincoln is NOT a Ford... Fixing Lincoln and Cadillac really shoudnt be difficult. But it takes MONEY to build them up and time. Proper time to properly engineer proper Cadillacs and proper Lincolns WITHOUT the CHEAPSKATE BEANCOUNTING. Again....look at what Ford can do with a Ford GT and a GT350 and GT500 Mustang and Lincoln Navigator and THAT is how Lincoln could be propped up again. Time and money well spent along with awesome marketing campaigns. Lincoln as a brand could benefit from that kind of love that was given to the Mustang, GT, Navigator and Mach E... Its up to FoMoCo and Lincoln leaders to do so...

Easy peasy. Cease and desist with all base XT4s and CT4s. Dont even consider any vehicle below that threshold. XT4s and CT4s could exist, but high end ones. We all bemoan how cheap the materials are in these. Well...high end materials in them. Top of the line powertrains in them, whatever that may mean for luxury in 2020. No corporate shared engines in these Cadillacs. Even if they are XT4s and CT4s... YES...that means Cadillac and GM HAS to spend the money on Cadillac for R&D... No cheap bean counting... And hence the price tags will match the quality and technology and everything else that needs to align with what Cadillac as a true luxury brand needs to be. IE: HIGH PRICE TAGS MEANT FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY MAKE MONEY THAT PEOPLE IN THAT CLASS BRACKET COULD ACTUALLY AFFORD. The middle class folk should NOT be a clientele for Cadillac... THAT includes favorable lease deals. None of that. THAT is what BMW and Mercedes do to sell more cars in America. Cadillac needs to get away from that. Rolls Royce and Ferrari do not have favorable lease deals. Neither should Cadillac. Cadillac does NOT need to be boutique. But Cadillac does not need to be a car for everyone. CT5s and XT5s and CT6s and XT6s is where Cadillac NEEDS to play in. But THOSE NEED to be top of the line, high quality. XT4s and CT4s COULD exist for bread and butter purposes along with base CT5s and base XT5s and base XT6s. But in THIS case, what I just said, about favorable leases and cheap interiors to support mass production to support every Tom Dick and Harry to buy them NEED NOT APPLY. Cadillacs bread and butter definition just means selling enough $50 000 and above price tagged cars to make enough profit to sustain HALO BOUTIQUE car production like a SIXTEEN, or even a CIEN and MOST DEFINITELY an EL MIRAJ and CIEL where those could touch Rolls Royce price tags. Which means that ONLY top of the line availability of CT4s and XT4s, that go for 45 000-50 000 MINIMUM and BASE CT5s and XT5s and XT6s that START at $50 000-$55 000 will sell in only SMALL amounts. That means the other half of their line-up made up of high end CT5 Vs and XT5 Vs and CT6 Vs and XT6 Vs and Escalades will ALL be at the 80 000- 100 000 or above price levels. Which ALSO means Cadillac will NOT be selling a lot. But enough to make BILLIONS in profit. And then the boutique cars that WILL be at Rolls Royce price levels. Marketing takes care of the image and gotta have it levels in richer than God sheeple. Something that Cadillac lacks...is marketing and that gotta have it image. But...the product not only has to have that quality, luxury feels to them INSIDE...but the OUTSIDE has to SCREAM gotta have it too. I said its easy peasy. Its not. The easy peasy part is to actually build the quality, the technology and the luxury. Eliminate the beancounting and you get the Corvette C8. The HARD part is to convince the people to buy your product. But you gotta start somewhere. And where to start is what I said. ELIMINATE the cheap priced, cheap feeling XT4s and CT4s and base CT5s and XT5s and XT6s. START producing QUALITY HIGH END product THROUGH AND THROUGH WITH PRICE TAGS to match. Cadillac aint doing that. Not when they peddle XT4s...with Chevrolet price tags...and Chevrolet interiors to match that low price tag to sell to folk that would otherwise buy a Chevrolet or Honda but because they were enticed by a low lease price and now they could afford a "Cadillac". A Cadillac by badge, but NOT but legacy, quality, luxury or even price tag...

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<opinions> For the 80s, I'd take a BMW 6 series or Mercedes SEC for a big PLC.....the Skylark was just an X-body FWD shitbox; the Riviera was a decent coupe, but not as nice as the big RWD German coupes. </opinions>

Ill repeat. Stiffer springs equate to luxury? According to whom? (rhetorical question...but there are many reasons and people who accepted that characteristic to be the new definition of luxury and Cadillac and Lincoln was left out in the cold...) Ill give kudos to BMW that took that narrative and ran with it and made not only Cadillac chase them, and KIA, and Lexus, BUT Mercedes AND Audi as well. BMW had a good awesome strategy with the help of these American car magazines. But the narrative of what is luxury has changed again as times have changed...again. BMW had a hand in that too, unbeknownst to them. They muddied their offerings, made them more traditionally American with American style luxury of yore...with their bigly 7 Series and their opulent SUVs. And SUVs are more of an American thing than anything else... And BECAUSE the narrative of luxury being redefined again, THAT is why high priced, high content, more opulent versions of work horse AMERICAN pick-up trucks ARE luxury in TODAY's 2020 world... After all, their luxury branded SUV counterparts that are based on the workhorse SUVs which are based on the workhorse pick-up trucks ARE luxury, non? What is good for the goose is good for the gander, non? (regarding literally econobox BMW 3 Series and taxi cab M-B E Class...) Back to Cadillac. Cadillac does indeed need to STOP trying to sell to the lowest common denominator and trying to sell to the masses. THAT means that their vehicles...ALL OF THEM...ALL TRIMS AND MODELS....need to be TOP NOTCH which ALSO means that the price tags NEED to go up up up. Which also means that their sales WILL NOT be high... Price tags do NOT reflect quality and luxury. Quality and...the CURRENT definition of luxury define luxury. But prices NEED to reflect that. Therefore...price tags NEED to be high. But that means that regular folk...middle class folk and lower classes, even high end middle class folk NEED NOT APPLY...which means that sales are going to be limited...but that is OK. THAT is what is needed for Cadillac.

6-series above isn't ugly, it's just... there. Like a plastic fork.

As far as 1980s cars and 1980s styling goes, the BMW 6 Series is a good looking car. Just look what the 1980s Riviera ended being (and that also includes ya'lls favorite longtitude FWD V8 one as well as the traverse V6 one) and then you get a clearer picture of why the BMW 6 Series is a good looking car. But, thank goodness we humans dont all have the same taste and opinions. What a boring world it would be. But...those who say the 6 Series is not beautiful: Y'all are WRONG!

Sexy as hell car Pickup Love

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^ Obviously. So... then... how have the Germans justified 'building carbon copies of Cadillacs'? OR! "lines converge". < -------------- I'm going with this one. But that means the [erroneous] narrative that 'Cadillac is chasing the Germans' must be thrown out the window. Forever.

I am not suggesting that the 6 Series resembles the Riviera like I did with the other style of pics I did earlier in this thread with other cars. I just wanted to appreciate THE personal coupe of the 1960s and then show how BMW did their version 20 years later. Although you could see how BMW took some visual styling cues from the Riviera and made it their own. And yes. I think the 6 Series is beautiful.

Maybe..but the Bentley Continental GT, Mercedes S-class coupe, BMW 8-series are modern PLCs, esp. the first two.... Cadillac could use a flagship luxury GT coupe ala the Elmiraj...and a convertible version.

Maybe social distancing will change everything... SUV/CUV will have too many seats... the four seater personal luxury coupe is ripe for a comeback!

They have done a very good job of that IMO...would like to see some new sedans or coupes from them, but alas, I don't see that happening.

For the last several years, Lincoln has been producing American style luxury. And for that, they should be respected. Cadillac has continued to try to chase some elusive German "ideal" that is indeed false.

@ocnblu ON THIS SACRED DAY THAT IS GREEK ORTHODOX EASTER IM SICK AND TIRED OF YOUR CONSTANT DOWNVOTING REGARDING ANYTHING RELATED TO THAT ASSH0LE YOU CALL YOUR CURRENT PRESIDENT! PHOQUE YOU AND HIM! YOU HAVE THE AUDACITY TO RIDICULE ANYTHING POLITICAL THAT DOES NOT FAVOUR YOUR P.O.V. BUT THE MOMENT SOMEBODY HAS ANYTHING TO SAY CONTRARY TO YOUR VIEW....YOU DOWNVOTE. DONALD J. TRUMP IS A FRAUD AND A CON. WAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE!

Being in Boeing Country, I can say that the 757 was good for it's time, a senior that needs to stay retired. Very poor in efficiency and noise control. I agree with you that I hate Idiot45 since the 80's as he used Bankruptcy to steal others money and make himself rich. I have no respect as he has not built anything only stolen. Enough said about Idiot45. Boeing and Airbus make nice planes and their current planes are far superior excluding the software problems of the Max line than the plans of old. Once you are on a Dreamliner, you will wonder why all planes are not built that way with such big windows and so quiet. Boeing Dreamliners are what all planes really should be built to as a standard. First Class Business class Coach class

Sink hole or did the water main break? Plane in the background makes me want to

Kalo Pas-ha Kaló Pás-ha I looked at all the spellings that English speaking Greeks all over the world do when they use the Latin alphabet to spell Greek words but none of them actually make sense. Including google translate. The second spelling with the accents on the o and a are from google and its meant to accentuate the syllable. But google translate amongst other sources have Easter spelled Pascha. But an English person will never pronounce it the way it should. Pas-ha. Yes...like ha ha ha like laughing ha ha ha. . Not cha cha cha the dance. There is another way that its spelled commonly spelled. Paska. But the ending is not ka like how a Bostonian would pahk his cah at Hahvahd yahd...and if he had a 2020 Hyundai, he'd be using smaht pahk. Thank-you for your wishes. And yes...the Greek Orthodox Church still uses the Julian Calendar for some of our religious dates. Well...mainly Easter. And yes, every once in a while, our Easters fall on the same day while mopst of the time it ranges from a week to 5 weeks difference and always after. Sadly...like for so many others for so many other religious or other events for billions across our planet, social distancing measures will take precedence for my family and hence, no midnight church for the First Light and no feast right after tonight. No roasting of the lamb tomorrow as a family and friends affair... Its a new reality that has me in tears as I write this. I was just joking about the dredging up memories part. It was not "dredging up". It was happily reminiscing. Although some of those guys are still idiots, LOL, they were and still are great friends! I dont do Facebook, but I do the old fashioned telephone call. We email each other from time to time though... They stop and visit the restaurant too. XMAS and Easter we always communicate one way or other!!!

I am amazed that the Camry still has a V6 option. Just about everyone else went 4cyl exclusive a few years back, and that was before Ford and GM largely abandoned this segment (Chrysler too). Then again, Avalons and Highlanders would make a better home for the V6 anyway. Same with the Lexus vehicles. Because Accords are not selling like they were six years ago, Camrys probably are not selling that well either.

I liked looking at those Oldsmobile signs. I remember them so well. I know the Oldsmobile signs got updated when GM changed.

Waiting On my neighbor’s mom for her insurance info for smacking my car with her truck. I have the estimates ready to go, but I am getting the feeling they are getting cold feet and going to blow me off.....would rather not have to spend my own money to fix something not my fault. Part that bothers me most if she couldn’t find her husband’s insurance info....

Sadly this is a Meh Mobile.