G. David Felt

This will be good for everyone, I agree with Cubical, Lincoln cannot survive in present form. They also need to enforce luxury dealership showrooms. The current Ford/Lincoln dealership by me is from the 50's truly shows it's age and the showroom is so small they have just enough room for the sales folks and two auto's. One Ford and One Lincoln and that is it. Very pathetic.

That is precisely the defensive mindset I was talking about. Find excuses about why other manufacturers are successful and why GM cannot be. People here bitch about brand dilution of Cadillac by sharing its components with Chevies, yet they are okay for a Lamborghini sharing components with the lesser Audi. GM already has a capable platform in Corvette why not utilize it and create something better for Cadillac? In similar tone, "Hyundai was never a luxury car make and never will be. Toyota (in 80s) was never a luxury car maker and never will be. Lexus never produced a supercar and never will do so." Those manufacturers did not think it that way. Ciel invoked more positive response from import lovers than ATS has and yet one is not going into production. Again, given the resources and talent GM has, it should stop making excuses. I not only totally support what Z is saying, we need to FORCE one more important point! The DEALERSHIPS, What do I mean. China has these amazing Cadillac dealerships that make people want to visit. Our Current DEALERSHIPS SUCK!!! My Caddy Dealership that I have bought my CTS, SRX, Escalade and hummer from has done NOTHING except change their main sign which still reads Northwest Cadillac/Hummer Dealership. Yet their windows have the Olds, Saturn Logo's all over. The building was new back in the 40's and they expanded in the 60's to take on Olds when the Buick Line went to another place and then expanded for Hummer when it came out but never built any hummer like show floor, kept it the same old ugly 40's building and then they converted a couple bays to allow them to sell Suzuki's before GM forced them to unload that line. Yet those bays have Suzuki all over them as they use them for storing stuff now. Dealerships MUST Upgrade to be competitive. The Bellevue Caddy Dealership moved over into their dead Hummer building which does have the required H building and across the street the Bellevue Lexus Dealership built a feaking 3 story 175,000 square feet show room on the mid and top floor and the bottom floor is all repair and prep. Take their Virtual Tour http://www.lexusofbellevue.com/ This is how Cadillac stores should be. The Bellevue place will not even show images of their showroom. Cadillac MUST Step up their image at the stores to get new customers and keep existing ones! :rage:

The Dodge Dart is Sharp, very nice car. On the way into work with rain coming down, a late 50's or early 60's dodge pickup truck that you can tell is a restore in progress but had no doors on it. He was belted up and driving in the slow lane getting wet, but loving his drive. Wish I could have snapped a picture.

Awesome Review, the Verano is sounding like it will be another feather in the cap of GM to really kick ass while taking names and numbers. Looking forward to checking out the cars myself.

I picked that photo because it is so not Arizona...gives me something relaxing to look at when I get tired of looking at the dry hideous desert void outside... I also have a background picture of Aspen, Colorado's Maroon Bells on my laptop.. Very Cool, I love scenes like that to enjoy on any computer, always makes things relaxing.

Beaver

Show us the Lincoln Please! JK

Sounds Awesome, Did you take any pictures to show us?

LOL, that is freakin funny. Those Fiat 500's do look like a toy. I have to say the older car looks way better than the current ugly piece of junk.

Are you offering to personally help her?

Gotta love this sunset shot of our San Juan's here in Seattle Washington. This is taken up on a local road in Bellingham I have taken this shot many times at various times of the day due to storms, it is always lovely.

Your just shouting your love for Buick!

Sounds like our Great Depression of 2007 to 2012 is affecting shows period. All trade shows regardless of topic have gotten smaller.

How to go pear-shaped thanks to complacency, Acura edition. So they are all fruity at Honda and Acura then!

Could be a way to get that remodel on the house done!

Very True, the old bands seem to be making a comeback.

I agree Chevy/GM needs to stay away from the Animation Gapping Mouth as it is just freakin Ugly!

Maybe for you two, but this is the beauty queen I'd be voting for: I have to Vote +1 for this Beauty!

WOW, I have to say that this screams VOLT to me when I see it. I know they are saying it will be the Buick Equal hybrid, but I get a total VOLT feel from the car. Be interesting to see what really happens with it.

How does one count thy love of all things auto!!! Nice posting guys!

Sounds Like a Double Jeez Please! So yes as Ocnblu has stated my son has an awesome black Jeep Patriot that is in the shop after some moron side swiped it over the weekend in a parking lot and did not leave a note. Yes this car is cool on this thread, but currently for the Rich only, not the rest of humanity. The Electric cars that the rest of humanity can afford are sadly stuck to 40-80 miles on a charge and long recharge times. Will the Telsa technology get licensed to other Auto makers so they can add it to their version of electric cars? No one knows. In regards to CNG, I stand by my long range vision that Gas -> CNG -> Electric. If we are to reduce our carbon footprint, then we need to take logical steps for the mass of humanity while the few spend on the R&D to get us to electric. Cheers from Rainy Seattle, Another Liquid Sun Shine Day!!!

Sweet Read, but in today's car, I would say we now do have Trans Am racers in Show Room trim.

CowGirl in Chaps!

It was an Anglo-American venture, built by Ford in England, developed by Americans and Brits. The book 'Goes Like Hell' is a very good book on this subject... I also recomend this book. It is a very good book! Over all Still English, British and American, but still English, SO AMERICAN AS HELL!!!

Think of this truck with a Z71 off-road package with the Baby Duramax Engine 2.8L or 2.9L and they will have a successful hit. They just need to make sure they have the right marketing message on this. If they go with little to no marketing, then it very well could fail.