G. David Felt

Very cool, would like to see pictures of this one as to what was loose and how it looked. Poor assembly is just wrong at this time in our economy of jobs. Dodge needs to jump all over this crap and fire the morons who do not care about doing their job right. I mean was it a poor design by the engineer or assembly. Someone was lazy.

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Like the push button tranny, reminds me of old Chyrsler cars. Feature rich, but design language ugly. Not a fan and I think it is over priced for the type of engine you get. Pass on wanting to buy one.

OK, you guys have got to check out the flicker site for Caddy Pickups, they have a very interesting 2006 DTS Pickup. Was built after the rear end had been hit. Pretty cool! Very cool a company that actually converted caddy's into trucks and did about 100 of them according to what I could dig up. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7081/7082056559_2539c1863a_b.jpg

1976 Eldorado that the driver had cut the back seat out and truck and turned that section into a pickup bed. Actually done really nice as it had the same curve you found on El Camino's but just a much shorter bed. The car/truck caddy Eldo was Tan with weird strips. If I was not driving, I would have taken a picture as it was actually pretty freakin cool! How weird is this, maybe it was a 1969 as it looks just like this one I found on the net. This is freakin weird as I found the actual one I think on this Flicker page of Caddilac pickups. http://www.flickr.com/groups/1339241@N20/pool/page3/ According to this site it is a 1970 eldorado pickup.

They should have started with a Mercury Cougar rather than a VW Bug, I think.... True, aMercury Cougar would have been perfect for this concept! Ask yourself this, could you drive around all day in a pussy cat?

In taking a look at BMW sales for 2012, while across the board with all divisions sales are up 15.2%, Manual tranny makes up only 1.5%. I wonder if the lack of manual is due to upper mgmt looking at it and asking does it make sense to offer it at the cost to build and test it? MB has about the same percentage and Audi is just under 1%. Now this was just looking at the US market. Compare to world sales and of course manual tranny jumps up big time. This then begs the question, if Cadillac is wanting to get back into Europe / Global sales, then why would they not realize the large percentage of Manual drivers and build the Tranny to support these engines as a Global Tranny.

I would totally agree with you that Honda and Toyota have fallen far behind. Be interesting to see what the next few years do for the auto industry.

What rust? That's just dust as far as dirt is concerned. It's way cleaner than my '81's engine bay and my car is stored in winter too. Looking at the firewall, hood hings, Brake system, I just see lots of rusts for a car that supposedly been always garaged. I agree it is very very clean overall, but then again, I am OCD about how I degrease and detail my own auto's. You're spoiled living in the North West. That is cleaner than they normally come around here. True, I do love not having to deal with the Humidity or winter road salt.

Would be interesting to see what the DB level is of this engine inside an ATS and compare it to BMW, MB, Audi with their equal engine and then post the results. Put up and shut up to the car magazines.

This car would be awesome with a nice set of BF Goodrich All Terrain tires! I could enjoy driving this and sitting up nice and high!

What rust? That's just dust as far as dirt is concerned. It's way cleaner than my '81's engine bay and my car is stored in winter too. Looking at the firewall, hood hings, Brake system, I just see lots of rusts for a car that supposedly been always garaged. I agree it is very very clean overall, but then again, I am OCD about how I degrease and detail my own auto's.

You crack me up with hitting the nail on the head! Nice statement!

For an east coast car it is amazingly clean, i do questions about it not being driven in winter due to the dirt and rust in the engine bay, but clearly it was kept cleaner than most cars.

IF this is true, it is very exciting indeed!

I agree, we ARE a GLOBAL Economy and as such it becomes a balancing act to decide what we build and export from here and what is built out of the country. In this case with Spring Hill coming back online and the increase in models that are built here, it is only logical that some continuation of building in Mexico and Canada happens. See the movie Bordertown with Jennifer Lopez. This is about the Nafta and large manufacturing just over the boarder and the death of thousands of woman. It is amazing to see the whole working to build a better life and yet the corrupt police / politicians both in the USA and Mexico to central america with the expansion of Nafta has allowed some crazy stuff to go on. I hope some day they can stop the brutal murders of woman in mexico who work at these plants. FYI - Border town is a well done movie but not for the faint of heart.

Bing me was awesome!!!!

I agree that for the most part the reviews have been great when you consider these writers love affair with the German and Asian auto builders. To have them list this as a consideration is Great and a start of better things to come. The CORE piece for GM is to stay focused and continue to improve rather than sit on their butts and just take in instant gratification. I think with a Global Economy, more companies are realizing the need to be quality all the time. In regards to the LTS, if they have a twin turbo V6 with Electric motor assist so that it gets out standing gas mileage along with performance, it will make many people happy. GM needs to do the following: 1) Keep ALL V cars supercharged or turbo charged engines for their class of car. Could be 4, 6, or 8 bangers, but should be best in class. 2) Use smaller turbo engines along with electric motor assist to be best in class in performance along with Fit and Finish of the car and quality materials. 3) Stay the course with long term building and we will have Cadillac back as the standard of the world.

But will they us balancers and other forms to make this engine silky smooth and luxury quality for the ATS?

That was FREAKIN AWESOME!!!!! Love Holland Drink and Repair Song!

I hope so, not really sure myself, but I can say that both the Kirkland and Bellevue Chevy dealerships have multiple ZR1 Corvettes on hand. Course with an average income of $89,000 a year for those cities, I am sure there are more than one or two high tech workers who can afford one. Just like the BMW & MB dealerships there they both have special departments for the M and AMG series of auto's.

WHY WHY WHY, THat is a freakin shame! There is a shop here in columbuis that continually has 10-15 older GM cars outside, they build tons of Donked vehicles. Saw a Olds cutty, 1969, with W-31 decals on the front fenders...IIRC W31 was a rare package...it had been donked....and it looked like they started with a high dollar nut and bolt restored car... Second W31 I've seen donked. I agree...but love the BRZ. That may well be my next ride, if I don't go for a Verano or a focus ST. Donking rare cares should be a crime. I never understood why you would do this as it just looks silly. Do you really get any better road handling? I think not.