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I had a rental in white like that with a sunroof for 3 weeks in 2017 when I closed on my previous house before moving back to Ohio from AZ..it was quite pleasant.

Scott Pelley delivered the 2025 commencement speech @ Wake University and it is an amazing listen. Just go to the 22 min mark to see his honorary award of doctorate or to 26 min mark for his speech. QUOTE: "Our sacred rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack, and insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes and into our private thoughts." "Power can rewrite history with grotesque false narratives," Pelley warned, according to the HuffPost. "They can make criminals heroes and heroes criminals. Power can change the definition of the words we use to describe reality. Diversity is now described as illegal. Equity is to be shunned. Inclusion is a dirty word." EDIT: I have been thinking on this since I watched it originally, I have rewatched it a second time with a focus on the audience. It is interesting to me the following observation. I have always believed education is the great equalizer that allows people on both sides of the political spectrum, religious spectrum, legal spectrum to have intelligent conversations and when they do not agree on a point, can at least agree to disagree and still have a meal together. My observation is that 1/3rd of the sitting students who are graduating have a I disagree with this guy 100%, another 1/3rd is I totally agree with this guy and the final 1/3rd is I agree with some, but not all. In this, I see critical thinking skills in about 2/3rds of the kids and about 1/3rd that seem to just be going along with situation as once they get their diploma they are out of there. It is interesting as I feel this speech is a call to action be you agree or not with him, it is a call to action to stand up for what one believes. I hope that more folks stand up for what our constitution stands for and help get us back on the right footing in this global multi-cultural world we live in so that we can get back to our jobs, making money and finding a long-term solution to how folks can immigrate to this great country and work contributing. It is time for folks to stand up and let us get back to the pleasures of our auto driven world imho.

What's more silly is Mercedes charges for those different wheels and leathers. It isn't like they're making a ton of no-cost options that make the margins tighter on those vehicles. They're making even MORE when people select the $2500 NAPPA leathers and $2900 wheels. Buuuuut, with that said, the GLC63 has 5 leather options and 3 are blacks, one brown and one grey. They basically have 3 leather colors to choose from. I do really like their trim colors/material choices though. I think that's a great idea.

Home run on the power and performance at that price point too, with the tax credit while it lasts this is a 3.5 second 0-60 car for like $61k. There is lot to like here. 300 miles would have bene nice, I don't know if they could make an eco mode to decouple a motor to increase range. Faster charging would be nice, but I think most people charge at home and won't care about that. Where this car misses, like David said is the interior choices. There are only black and that light gray leather and the dash is the same on all of them. This is a problem with a lot of Cadillacs. Every Cadillac should have 5 leather colors, 5 different dash trim options, 5 different wheel options. You have to give luxury buyers customization choices. The Lyric-V is black interior only, unless you get the Premium trim you have an option or tan. Can't have 2 choices only on an $85,000 car. The Mercedes GLC has 10 wheel options, 6 MB-tex seat options, 7 leather choices, 6 dash trim choices. And that is a bottom end Mercedes, on par with Optiq. Even if the Optiq offered 10 seat covering choices instead of 2 they still have less than the competition.

ChatGTP-Paid did a lot better with a modern 1994 Oldsmobile Aurora

Uhh... The prompt "Imagine a 1994 Oldsmobile Aurora as a 2025 EV" The prompt "modernize a 1995 Cadillac Eldorado as a 2025"

I do have an all-black interior in my Cadillac..but a black Cadillac w/ black interior does look so good, IMO...and I do have have chrome and copperish trim along w/ the woodgrain...but if I didn't have the pano roof it would be pretty dour in there. Genesis has been doing a great job w/ interior color options, IMO.. blues, reds, browns..

That sounds very smart on GM's part. That way they're only really making like 3 packs and adding them together for various uses. I'm sure other companies are doing things similarly, I just don't know about it. Thank you for the information. It's much appreciated! While I think a lot of auto enthusiasts would agree, I think the masses think the opposite. I know a lot of people who just want all black interiors. Well, I think everybody I know who's bought a vehicle recently has wanted an all black interior, for whatever reason. I'm more of a fan of dark brown leathers. I'm a sucker for that.

Having fun with https://deepimg.ai/ai-image-generator/ I told it the following: Modern EV using a 1971 Buick Riviera GT and 1986 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Areo GT It gave me this: 🤣 Modern EV pickup using the Kia EV9 and GMC Hummer EV

Done, found here: