G. David Felt

Yes they are too and still I would take a NA V6 over them. Initial WOW this is cool, spool up and go, but after a while, when you have been driving a turbo 4 banger, it just wears on you and you want a nice quiet but constant pulling engine and the NA V6 gives you that.

Seems the head of Porsche PowerTrain has been arrested and the pictures in the story link below are amazing of the 80,000 plus cars at the Victorville storage lot in California. Crazy! https://www.autoblog.com/2018/04/20/porsche-powertrain-chief-arrested-vw-diesel-scandal/#slide-7292321

I would agree with you that they are not grand or perfect, but since both Ford and Chevrolet seem to feel they need an EV version for their pony lines and it needs to be a CUV, I can see why they are doing it to capture and retain their customers. Remember, some peeps here have said Corvette needs a CUV version too.

Take that over some of the Turbo 4 bangers the germans are putting in their auto's.

I have liked the Bridgestone tires I had on my SS that replaced the terrible Goodyears, but in researching the tires and comparing them. Bridgestone only sipes their tire to the 50% tread level and you end up loosing considerable traction. The Michelin defenders I have on the SS now are siped down to the 10% mark with a sipe inner lock to give maximum traction while giving what I have come to respect as superior snow / rain handling. Michelin to me is still a gold standard and the rebates that Costco, Discount Tires and La Schwab have had on them got them into price equal to the Bridgestone tires that Cadillac uses as OEM on the current SUV/CUV auto's. So this is why I went with Michelin and been very happy.

Have to disagree, I have had Goodyear on Chevrolets to Jeeps and especially my Escalade which it was OEM standard on. The tires especially on Concrete scream noise. Worse yet is get them in a parking garage with polished cement and they scream on top of groaning in pain with just gentle turns. I have never had this with Michelin, Bridgestone or BF Goodrich tires on my auto's. Have to pass on anything from Goodyear. Not impressed.

Yet MB does this with cheap plastic ass versions of their own cars. What is wrong with a company using a standard platform to build unique auto's for their product lines? Luxury, Mid and Entry level products. This is SMART Management.

Camaro or Mustang EV CUV? We have heard from Ford that an EV auto will be part of their auto lineup and that a Mustang AWD EV could be part of that lineup. Ford also stated that the mustang name could make it onto a CUV or at least something other than the traditional 2 door pony car. They have pretty much stated that this would be a Mach1 Mustang Based EV SUV. Fast forward a few month to the Chevrolet Dealership meeting where many things were shown off to them and slipping out to a forum from an attendee was that they were shown a performance EV crossover with similarity to a Camaro. Is GM following Ford and planning to have a Performance Camaro CUV? Pulling from Motor1 and thoughts from InsideEV we end up with the following potential CUV like versions of a Camaro & Mustang. Seems 2020 is going to be an exciting EV year with options that many never had before in their lifetime. What are your thoughts on these potential EV Concepts / Production versions? InsideEV Story Motor1 Camaro Story Motor1 Mustang Story

Interesting hood bump on this mule. Expect SMK to complain that this is another rebadge Chevy / GMC / Buick while he praises his MB as luxury first. Gonna be an interesting auto to see what they really put into it. Hopefully a first rate interior with the Family Style. Should do really good as a fit between the XT5 and Escalade. I do agree with Car & Driver that the TT V6 would and should show up in this XT6 or 7 whatever they call it. What I do not get is why do the car site both think it will be with an 8sp tranny and not have the 10sp that GM helped create? Right now, Cadillac should have the top end Tranny and motors in all their auto's. 10 sp everything with Turbo this and that and NA engines as base.

Agree Goodyear was good in the past, suck today, never have heard a new Goodyear that did not scream bloody murder on cement. Michelin are just awesome, quiet and long lasting tires. Plus they rock in snow and rain.

I would like a Supercharged 470 please!

They can then go from Land Rover, Discovery Rover and Range Rover to Land TaTa, Discovery TaTa and Range TaTa.

@balthazar Thought you would find this interesting, EV conversion on a 1957 Ford Fairlane and how the company the paid for this made sure to keep the core of the auto intact. Conversion gave this classic 228 HP and 391 LB-FT of torque. A considerable improvement over the factory OEM Power train. http://www.thedrive.com/news/19540/if-electric-cars-are-the-future-what-about-our-classics At the end is an interesting EV conversion on a Jaguar E-Type

Very Cool info on this, I was wondering about it when I posted the pic above in the Buick Enspire thread. Thanks Bill,

OUCH, OUCH, OUCH With that said, I can see the VW family of auto products making a fast change to EV to build a new auto image. Gas, Hybrid and EV is VW product family portfolio clearly. Diesel is dead with this company.

You are so right, The Drive credits him with moving Cadillac to NY. http://www.thedrive.com/news/20247/cadillac-ceo-johan-de-nysschen-steps-down They also blame him for being late to the game with having enough CUVs and cracking heads with Cadillac Dealerships who have been asking for more product of what the public wants to buy when MB has 7 CUVs and BMW has 6 and here you have Cadillac only now getting to 2. Sounds like the Dealership network had a hand in him being pushed out.

XFC Reality - Xtreme Fast Charging Tesla is the current GOLD standard of EV auto charging. Their roughly 400 North American Charging stations handle 120-140 kWh charging that allows Tesla to brag about their 90 kWh battery packs recharging in 1hr compared to 10 hrs for a Nissan Leaf, 8hr for a Chevrolet Bolt if you home charge. Tesla's customers have had this perk and until now been able to brag about it. Tesla made sure they had this by using a proprietary plug that kept other EV auto's from using the Tesla Network. In comes IONITY, the European group consisting of Porsche, VW, BMW, Daimler and Ford. This is a 400 plus Xtreme Fast Charger network being built now in Europe. A 350 kWh network that covers from 200 to 920 volts at 350 Amps of charging that will allow EV Auto's to refill in 15 min or less. This allows EV auto's that need from 50 kWh to 350 kWh of capability to be handled by these new Liquid cooled Charging stations. The technological breakthrough is in the Charging cables that connect to your EV Auto. These are light, thin charge cables that remove the heat load by liquid cooling in high amperage use. These XFC system charge aproximately 20 miles of range per minute or 300 miles in 15 minutes. How Does This Benefit North America, Specifically the US? This is where the proprietary Nissans Charging (CHAdeMO) and Tesla interface are about to Lose the EV Charging race. The XFC interface uses the CCS (Combined Charging System) based on the J1772-2009 SAE standard. This has been adopted by pretty much every country in the world as the standard except China where they have this standard, Tesla and their own Chinese standard as the 3 plug types that have to be supported at this time. The US is expected to move forward with Nissan changing over in the near future. Porsche is installing 500 of their XFC chargers across the US at dealerships and various EVgo sites. There is also Electrify America, a subsidiary of VW and funded by the $2 Billion plus funding they have committed to for installing XFC charging across America in addition to all the EV charging infrastructure funding that was paid to each state in the settlements. From Level 2 to Level 4 (XFC) charging will get installed from inner city places to suburban and especially highway stops that can support long distance driving by EV auto's. The future is bright for the upcoming onslaught of EV auto's including the Electrify America's Chargers as shown below. The Drive Story SAE J1772 Org SAE J1772 Info

400,000 TDIs sitting on 37 lots. Cream will go back to VW dealers for resale, rest to be unloaded on the wholesale market. A company got the contract to drive each one every 30 days around a track, wash and keep them maintained till they are dealt with. Interesting full story here: https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1116309_300k-bought-back-vw-diesels-are-decaying-in-37-lots-as-it-waits-for-what

Diminishing Returns and NOT the Global Standard to be in! Yes after the 90's the excitement and fun of watching the race went in the toilet. So true, could have been the end of the 90's in reality.

Would agree with you!

Would if I had any! Dell has us on lockdown for travel, so now everything is a Skype session with customers.

It is? Where is their world best Full size and mid size Pickup Trucks? ? Right!

I think @Drew Dowdell needs to attend the Chinese auto show and report to us about all the cool auto's!

Looking at the Chinese Auto show picks from Bing, Amazing some of the Buicks they get to see that we never do. Anyone know what this Buick Concept was from China?

Your welcome to the Manbot play toy! I will happily relieve you of the fembot! Yes very cool city, Futuristic and yet available to visit now as that is Dubai.