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riviera74

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  1. riviera74
    Firing admin jobs in Germany while adding factory jobs there and elsewhere. Sounds like VW is following what GM is doing as we speak.
  2. riviera74
    Not sure about Rami Malek as a Bond villain. As for an EV Aston Martin, bring it on.
  3. riviera74
    Yup. Welcome to the trade wars. I do not see many winners, but consumers will always be the big losers.
  4. riviera74
    96 months already? I thought that car financing stopped at 72 months. How does a car buyer avoid going underwater with a 96 month finance plan? How many people keep their cars for eight years?
  5. riviera74
    Well, we do live in a country where badge snobbery clouds good judgement.
  6. riviera74
    The United States has, as a people, been largely rejecting the metric system going all the way back to its birth in 1792 in France. I highly doubt that even millennials will fully adopt the metric system, As for this new naming scheme, I am not sure why this is necessary.
  7. riviera74
    Sounds like she needs a suspended license and traffic school.
  8. riviera74
    I wonder when Hyundai will take this platform and apply it to its CUVs and minivan and other sedans. One platform to meet most needs is a very good idea.
  9. riviera74
    I wonder if she will be fired for this.
  10. riviera74
    Rivian already bought an FCA plant for their production in Normal IL, so it would make sense for GM to sell Lordstown to some other automaker. Which one, though?
  11. riviera74
    +1 for the torque. This will be awesome for AWD BEV applications. 160HP per axle?! and 2581 lb-ft of torque?! Sign me up.
  12. riviera74
    Then buy a CT6 Platinum AWD TT V6 and forget the Mercedes S560. MB is rarely a good value anywhere.
  13. riviera74
    I have never understood the case for the QX30. In the wagon/hatchback era, it would be Infiniti's best seller. Right now it is Infiniti's worst seller. Too bad about all those in the UK getting fired over this, but the product is not selling.
  14. riviera74
    This and other automotive moves brought to you by BREXIT: one of the craziest ideas the UK has ever pursued.
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    phones

    riviera74 replied to balthazar's topic in The Lounge

    Voice control when Siri, Alexa and Bixby underachieve? No thanks.
  16. riviera74
    Thanks for the update on the last Commander. I still think the name Commander belongs on this NEW Jeep 3-row CUV.
  17. riviera74
    What happened to the Jeep Commander? That seems like a perfect name for this 3-row CUV.
  18. riviera74
    There are a few things the French do well. Cars are NOT one of them. Peugeot should stay in Europe, thank you very much.
  19. riviera74
    Well, Mary Barra has put GM in a better financial place than it has been in at least the last 25 years. As for needing a product person to be CEO, that might be necessary IF there are no product people elsewhere in GM's C-suite. A visionary is more required for GM than even Apple, given that Tim Cook was always a supply chain specialist rather than a visionary.
  20. riviera74
    Is there any ONE thing that Cadillac should do that Audi, BMW, Benz, Lexus etc.?
  21. riviera74
    Sounds likely. Either way, an AWD minivan is a good idea given what a minivan is for.
  22. riviera74
    The '99 Escalade and the '98 Navigator are good choices, but both are preceded by the original Lexus RX300. The RX300 matters more for one reason: unibody vs BOF. Every SUV was BOF prior to the likes of the RAV4 and CR-V back in the 1990s and the original RX300 was the first luxury CUV.
  23. riviera74
    Phaeton especially. Since when can VW price a common car at Audi pricing?! I have never understood why the Phaeton was priced to be a bargain-basement Audi A8. The CC on the other hand needed a $5K price cut for those to sell.
  24. riviera74
    Presumably Tron: Legacy. This concept would fit right in.
  25. riviera74
    It is unsurprising that many multinational firms would rather be in the EU than not. The UK chose Brexit for sovereignty reasons and their citizens will pay a price for it. The UK kept pound sterling and that allowed them to avoid the worst economic problems that plagued the Euro bloc over the past decade. Unfortunately, the UK had arguably the best deal possible in the EU but wanted to go their own way on this. The UK will probably recover but it will be a very painful economic transition, with lost jobs and a nasty recession to boot. Oh well, at least they have their economic sovereignty back.
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