G. David Felt
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I have to disagree with the story about Lincoln. This might be hitting it for select markets, but I have to question the Highest loyalty rating of the luxury segment. I do not see Lincoln in the luxury segment yet. Lincoln is like the first generation of CTS and is a step towards that but has a long way to go. Every other auto in the Lincoln family right now especially the Navigator is very dated, Heavily a poor badge job and the interiors leave much to be desired, mainly on par with MB of the 1990's. So what they did their market survey by just talking to Baby Boomers who remember Lincoln of the 70's and early 80's?
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Went to my Nephews birthday party on Saturday. Stopped at the local target to pick up some last minute items I was asked to get before getting to the park. I pulled in and as I always do, I park far away to keep door dings at bay. In a couple pictures you can see my Escalade in the background. Not sure of the Year @balthazar I leave that to our might good of age recognition. But this size truck is what is needed for the inner city folks. Talk about a lovely AWD Scout truck.
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Complacent could be said about Benze. Looking from the street level of my local MB dealership. https://www.bing.com/maps?&ty=18&q=Mercedes-Benz of Lynnwood Lynnwood WA&ss=ypid.YN925x15766918&ppois=47.8377494812012_-122.301597595215_Mercedes-Benz of Lynnwood_YN925x15766918~&cp=47.837749~-122.301598&v=2&sV=1 I see a ton of Commercial vans, a bunch of used auto's and very few actual new MB auto's. One could say they are just as complacent. My local Cadillac dealership. https://www.bing.com/maps?q=doug's+northwest+cadillac&mkt=en&FORM=HDRSC4 I see more Cadillacs than MB auto's on Display and nothing commercial unlike MB.
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Your MADE IN AMERICA MB auto's are not that Made in America as you think. https://kogodnow.com/autoindex/ https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/04/21/the-truth-about-american-made-vehicles.aspx Plenty more stories that cover American Made and the differences between Assembled in America and Made in America. Remember, Profits go home to Germany, engineering is pretty much all done in Germany for the MB product line up. End result is when you look at the bigger picture. MB does little for this country in comparison to companies headquartered here, Engineering here and building here.
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As some one who is always blowing the MB horn and saying it has to have the most powerful engines in every class at every model. Your comment makes no sense for the first two sentences. Now the 3rd sentence is what you should have started off with. It makes sense to keep it priced where they have it for their customer base of which many will not be looking at the competition nor at the Horsepower. Yet for those that do, this car is a failure in the competition of this class. I get the feeling that Honda Marketing really does not research their competition very well nor cares too. It is as if they are happy with just their loyal car fans who will follow what ever weak attempt they make.
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Yes very true as I was referring to how they SS'd all the 4 bangers and some 6 bangers that really did not show any performance creed. One Exception was the SS HHR Turbo that was a nice improvement over the rest of the HHR family. I also thought the cobalt had potential, just never realized to the ultimate of what an SS should have been. I would be happy to have this Impala SS to go with my TB SS.Awesome ride, loved it in the Maroon color they had. The last of a decent SS before the whored it out on all the crappy SS on every line stuff they did.Yes, Yes I can, as it is bland and bland to me is Ugly! The photo's on the other site is enough to tell to my eyes that it is bland and as such ugly. You can clearly see how they have covered the corners of rear and front lights and side trim but over all very conservative in the style and just a jelly bean shape. I really do not see much of an improvement when they pull off the white tape to reveal the auto. It will sell, but I doubt it will be a run away success.
Are you sure? Ford + Lincoln = 241,126 sold GM = Chevy+GMC+Buick+Cadillac = 237,364 Yup Ford beat GM by 3,762 auto's. Interesting when you look at the rebates: FORD F150 has a $5,150 rebate and Expedition has $7,000 http://www.realcartips.com/ford-incentives/ GM Trucks has $3,500 on Chevy full size truck and only $500 on GMC full size truck, full size SUVs are $1,500 on both Suburban and Yukon. http://www.realcartips.com/gm-incentives/ End result is that the ATP is much higher on GM than Ford auto's. Amazing to see that other than the Fiesta that has Zero rebate, every auto Ford has is at least $2,000 plus or bigger to move metal. GM on the other hand has many that are below $1,000, either 500 or 750. Yes they do have some in the 4K range too.OK, they just SUCK SUCK SUCK and the amount of viewing of these so called commercials are just pathetic. https://www.youtube.com/user/cadillac This is the Cadillac channel on YouTube and it is not impressive at all. The whole Willingness to Dare BLOWS! So far nothing is a dare from Cadillac.I have not even seen those ads you mentioned. I saw they were spending money on multiple page ads in magazines focused at the 1% crowd. Not something most people will see and their online social media ads suck big time. Agree, not sure what the hell is going on with Cadillac advertising but I question just who made the choice in agencies and how they are being managed and rated on performance as right now it SUCKS!Very true and I totally agree. The CTS is so understated in how good it is. Course it would help if they did a wee bit more marketing on their cars and showed some excitement of driving them to the world.
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