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@smk4565 @ccap41 Considering that Buick sold 828,000 plus in China in 2021 and sold 182,000 plus in 2021, China has an 8 to 1 advantage over the US as to why they still have a full car and mini-van portfolio there compared to here. Germany started the terrible trend of terrible auto names, examples: A-Class, B-Class, C-Class, E-Class, G-Class, S-Class CLA, CLS EQA, EQB, EQC, EQE, EQS, EQV GLA, GLB, GLC, GLE, GLS AMG-GT, AMG SL, AMG One 1-Series, 2-Series, 3-Series, 4-Series, 5-Series, 6-Series, 7-Series, 8-Series X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, X6, X7 Z3, Z4 i4, i7, iX1, iX3, iX and BMW has trademarked the whole ix1 to iX9 series. China started off and for the most part bought all the German so called luxury auto's even though Buick outsells them there and so it makes sense that the Buick Chinese design studio came up with Electra E1 to E9. Have to say this is a sharp Looking SUV.

Is it just me, or does that future Electra look more like a hatchback than a CUV/SUV?

I'm not in the "early adopter" segment among C&G folks. I will want to wait until the infrastructure is better set up for it. I am all for EV technology. Back to potential cars, the Malibu won't be refreshed/retained and the Charger will come back as electric and be exorbitantly priced. There's the entry level small RWD Cadillac, but that's still too much money. Looking at imports, I don't like the Nissan and Kia/Hyundai sedan products. I could live with a Camry - I think - if the overstyling went away, but I don't see that happening soon enough. I could definitely live with a VW Passat, which got nicer and nicer over the years. Then I find out it's gone. I guess I could live with a VW Jetta. I looked at the VW site and they went from a 1.8 L down to a 1.5 L. (I dislike engines with less than the equivalent of 100 c.i. and I'm not the biggest fan of odd numbers!) The above is from the VW site itself. I hated older Jettas. However, they are now looking like "pocket Passats." Not bad. I had one for a week in Houston about 2 years ago.

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But 40-50 years ago, there was a BMW 3-series, a Mercedes 450SEL now an S450, but they have always used that naming scheme. Buick never sold B1, B2, B3, or E1, E2, E3. The problem Buick, Lincoln, Cadillac all got into is they keep throwing away heritage (because of all the baggage they have) but when you keep reinventing yourself and reinventing naming schemes you keep throwing away any brand equity you had to begin with. Infiniti did the same thing. The Corolla is the #1 selling car in the world because it has been on sale for 60 years and has a reputation, you know what you get with it. The S-class, the 911, the Corvette, these are vehicles with 50+ years of reputation and you know what it is. Kia EV6, Buick Electra E5, that's just a hodgepodge of nothingness with no soul, no emotion, might as well be a refrigerator or washing machine at that point.