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The 5 dr hatch is what this car needed. My wife and I would have most appreciated this. The trunk is huge on the Fusion but the roofline is too coupe-like. The opening is also huge but the problem is that roof-line cuts in too much into the top of the trunk and one cant access the back of the trunk too well. Huge trunk opening.... And huge trunk is But its a deep trunk and the back of the trunk is a bitch to get to.

Yes and no, about Cadillac doing minimal effort on the V version Escalade. While Cadillac could have put more engineering effort in the AWD system to work better with the suspension set-ups, especially when the Escalade has the magnetic shocks, to make the Escalade a faster quarter-mile warrior. The question to ask though, is: Does Cadillac really need for the Escalade V to be a faster vehicle? Its composure during the quarter mile run is not confidence inspiring, true, but at the same time, the Escalade V doesnt really need to compete head-to-head with a HELLCAT Durango. In the video, which I saw last week, Thomas says (the Briish dude, not the bearded Canadian dude) that if you never sat in the Escalade, you would never know how DOWNMARKET the Durango is. THAT is one POWERFUL statement that means only one thing, one vehicle is a Dodge, and the other is a CADILLAC. While its true that its a V Cadillac, its strength as a vehicle lies not with it being a V Cadillac, but it being a Cadillac. At the end of the day, the Durango is a Hellcat after all. Losing to a Hellcat in a drag race is not that big of a deal. The Escalade V is still the second fastest SUV in the world. Not including the EV SUVs. The Hellcat Durango gives fits to EV SUVs... Like I said, not that big of a deal if the Escalade V is not tuned to be a drag racer. What WOULD have been a problem is if Chevrolet made a Tahoe SS version and THAT SS version would have behaved in the same manner the Escalade V behaves. Then Id be inclined to agree with you. At the end of the day, the Escalade V is crafted beautifully inside and out, worthy of THE Cadillac badge. The V Escalade sounds mean. Its loud like a Hellcat engine. Its actually louder and meaner...and its hella fast. And THAT is good enough for a V designated Escalade.

I had a couple Fusions as rentals in 16/17 and thought they were quite nice, compared favorably to the other rentals I had then (2 generations of Malibu, Impala, Passat and Altima). Good looking car..too bad the US never got the 5dr hatchback or the estate like Europe did w/ the Mondeo twin.

I think it is handsome and understated... bit of an Audi without the SCREAM mask grille up front. I prefer the cleaner look of the interior that doesn't look like it is out of an A380 with loads of buttons. At this point, there are only going to be three maybe four large sedans left (Accord, Altima, Camry, and Charger). I guess the Crown as well but it looks so weird. So Honda is hoping to catch a larger slice of a smaller pie. And an Accord owner, if they switch to a crossover, is more likely to go back to the Honda dealer to trade than go to Toyota or Chevy. Ford had some other issue with the Fusion... I said so when they canceled it. They were pushing 250,000 Fusions a year in the US, plus also had China and EU sales. If they can't make money on that, there was something very wrong in their accounting department.

If the Slade was able to actually keep its nose down at launch, it might be a much closer race. Launch control for the Durango aside, that front end lift was the biggest reason for the loss by the Escalade.

This is such a cool VIDEO.