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@oldshurst442 When I first saw this, I thought it was an Alfa Romeo like this. But with unfinished headlights as I just do not see the purpose in the wind drag those headlights will cause. While there is lots to like about it, the front end needs work IMHO. I love that it is a Roadster / Coupe EV car that delivers on the look and based on the press release feel of traditional ICE driving but without the ICE. I too was surprised by the price but seems there are plenty of fools and their money soon parted. That has been proven by the German and Italian brands with their limited release autos.

I got a mixed bag of emotions regarding this one. The song and group are fitting for this...because the Stones are British and the styling of this EV sure seems to be of the British roadster type. I love the Stones and I love this EV. However...I dont like the front end styling of it. Dont like the grille and there is something about the headlights that I dont like. I cant put my finger on itIs it the black enclosure? Is it the plain jane circles? Is the oval enclosure awkward? I do LOVE the fenders and the way they bulge and the hood scultpured the way it is. Only If the grille was a different shape. I dont like the backlights. I dont like the fact that they are protruding circles, but I do like their placement and the angle of them in the back. Im not entirely enamoured by the styling of the back end, but its not too bad either. I LOVE the silhouette and I LOVE the interior. Those gauges are awesome. Very elegant. I love the supposed statistics but I dont really like the price tag. Definetely roadster for me!!!

Been wintry so far this month, haven't seen much interesting so far...but the last few days have been unseasonably mild... yesterday saw a sharp silver C8 convertible w/ the top open blasting up I-90 (sunny and 40 or so out). On the way back to the CLE I got passed by a sinister black BMW X6M coupe going 100 or more... I went to the beach yesterday, sunny and 35 at Lake Erie...walked across the sand and down the to the water...didn't dip my toes in, but had to see and hear the surf...beautiful blue sky. No clouds. Even cold there is beauty on the lake. I had to get out of the house and get to the water, my sister keeps sending me ocean pics from her winter condo in SC... Here's a couple tranquil lake pics...the sky was that clear and blue...determined not to hibernate inside this winter.

@ccap41 I dont follow any racing leagues. I know of certain things that go on so Im not completely in the dark, so bare with me and my opinions. I may hit the head on the nail on some things and my opinion of it might sound reasonable, but othertimes I may be waaaay out on left field and my opinion on the matter will be quite wrong... I know that Indy car uses a 2.2 liter turbo V6. I just informed myself that with hybrid assist is coming for 2024. I know that IMSA in the former GT class with Corvette has a 5.5 liter limit with I think is a 560 horsepower limit. The class that Cadillac competes in also has a 5.5 liter limit and I think the RPMs are also limited but the horsepower levels are allowed to reach 700 horsepower? or something like that. In NASCAR...there is a 358 cubic inch limit, it MUST be a V8, up until recently it had to be carbureted...and I think on a few race tracks, the engine is also limited on horsepower. Anyway... Cadillac does NOT build its own racing engines. They are corporate engines. General Motors corporate engines. BUT...the truth of it all, its Chevrolet V8s... The V6 in Indycar is a Chevrolet. Buick and Oldsmobile actually built race engines for Indycar and Nascar but those days are long gone... Another point I want to say, and correct me if Im wrong, and to the other things I just said, is that even in IMSA, the 5.5 liter V8 is not a pure Cherolet design 100%. Corvette racing and Pratt and Miller have designed that engine and its not 100% based on the Chevrolet Small Block. The C8-R engine WITH the Z06 engine are as close to each other as ever... But in years past, when the 6.2 liter was in the Corvette, the C7-R used a 5.5 liter that was not necessarily the same as that 6.2 liter. The LS7 from the C6 Z06 shared many parts with the C6-R 7 liter, but IMSA changed the rules and had a cap on displacement. OK...with all that said and done, GM racing on the whole would NOT have a hard time designing a Formula One 6 cylinder with hybrid assist as GM racing on the whole has a lot of right now experience in developping and racing many TYPES of engines. 358 cubic inch V8s 5.5 liter V8s 2.2 liter V6s Indycar is as close to Formula One as they could get in many ways. Although different in many many ways, not so different that they couldnt engineer a V6 with hybrid assist ON THEIR OWN WITHOUT the help of Alpine. I understand their reasoning to go with Alpine for 2 years. Maybe its for the fuel effiency requirements of F1 that are different than Indycar's? I understand the concerns for the Formula One owners. (Now that you have pointed out important information to me) I also do NOT understand why they would want to use Alpine engines for 2 years as they have the expertise and know-how from Pratt-Miller, Corvette Racing, Andretti, Indycar WITH the help of Honda no less. I also do NOT understand that THEY do NOT understand the very MARKETING implications that YOU have pointed out BY going with Alpine for 2 years. That decision WILL affect Ultium in the marketplace by GOING with Alpine and by NOT being an Ulitum powered race car. Those last 2 statements seem similar but are 2 different things. Have a race car NOT being powered by your brand and being powered by a competitor is NOT a smart marketing move...even for 2 years... With that being said, imagine what the racing grid could be like when the Euro racers and fans and announcers and IN the paddocks where ALL the Euro-snob owners are realizing that Ford AND Cadillac are beside them ON that aforementioned racing grid... Now imagine us North Americans IF on racing day we KNOW that a Ford powered F1 car and a Cadillac powered F1 car is leaving Ferrari and Mercedes in the dust?

This is to run during Superbowl and I have to say while funny as shit, it is so sexual in nature, I wonder just how it will go over. I am actually surprised a company would create a commercial like this in todays sensativity, but then it is a European run company now and they are far more open than the close minded U.S. in commercial humor. Taking the family skiing so will not have time till later tonight to post a story on this reveal. Stellantis Media - Ram Truck Brand Reveals Highly Anticipated All-new, All-electric Ram 1500 REV in 60-Second 'Premature Electrification' Big Game Commercial, Opens Up Online Reservations (stellantisnorthamerica.com)