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Corvette also sells for a price tag worthy of its powertrain...ONLY its powertrain...Corvette is NOT about fancy interiors. Porsche and the 911...was not about fancy interiors either. They decided to go that way... But you know what? The track focused 911s have dime store interiors too...but Porsche GOUGES its customers. They TAKE AWAY shyte and the price tag goes up and the 911 guys just lube up their butt and take it! You dont know why Corvette HAS to beat or at least equal its 2-3-4 times its price competition? Are you for real? STOP TROLLING!!!

Stop the condescending tone, dude... You aint as smart as you try to act like you are... Audi engines....ARE VW engines... Even Bugatti's W16 is based on VW's VR6 design.....which Volkswagen engineered anyway... And it ONLY makes sense since Volkswagen and Audi and a host of other brands is under the Volkswagen Group umbrella indirectly owned by the Porsche family who have the majority voting rights in the company... And it only makes sense since its expensive as hell to have every brand engineer its own engines. To have bespoke engines for every model in every brand. VAG...for the most part...puts corporate engines with different tunes in their models and brands....not much different to what GM does... Why is that a detriment? Only in YOUR mind it is. Corvette HAS to outperform its competition or come close to it...when price tags are concerned. Cadillac need not sell its Vs under that premise. There is no need to outperform the competition for Cadillac. But there is a need for AMG and M to do so... Vs could get by to equal their competiton...no need to win N-Ring times. AMG and M buyers will NEVER consider Cadillac either way...BUT...when Chevy kicks their ass, they get embarrassed.... Cadillac is also part of the GM umbrella...and like I said...Chevroler sells NO high performance SEDANS. Only 2 two door sports cars. Cadillac has NO two door coupes in their line-up anymore... SO you've moved the bar...now its high performance CUVs...but Chevy sells none of that either... As far as GM's CUV/SUV goes...Between Chevy and Buick and GMC and Cadillac...all their CUVs and SUVs are worlds apart from each other. Denali Yukon and Escalade are similar, but sooooooo different at the same time... GM has done an excellent job of distiguishing their CUVs and SUVs. There are some in here that bitch about that, but in reality, GM's CUVs and SUVs are well distinguished from one another.

Yeah...so...what is your beef? Chevrolet does not sell ANY high performance CUVs....Are you trying to change goal posts on me? Chevrolet CUVs are family haulers... The fullsized stuff are workhorse/towing/family hauling/FBI/CIA vehicles. Cadillac in the CUV/SUV department versus Chevrolet are world's apart... You just wanna bitch about Cadillac. Listen...Mercedes is ONE brand under ONE corporation. General Motors has several brands. VW was ALWAYS cheap shyte. Chevrolet...always had trucks, sports cars. The Impala/Caprice/Kingswood is what the Passat wants to pass of as. But Chevrolet did that 30-35 years BEFORE VW did. Chevy in 1958 with the Impala. Listen the Bel Air in 1957 actually... Audi...well...Audi did the A8 that took Lambo's engine and forced itself unto Porsche and Lambo territory... Lets us NOT forget that Porsche went down market SEVERAL times from the 1970s-1990s...not that the 911 was any luxury in the 1960s/1970s/1980s/1990s either...Actually, a handful of Porsches were DIRECT VW engineered vehicles...more than a handful... especially today...the Porsche 914 was a VW in reality while the Cayenne is really a Veedub underneath...Oh...but that only is a no no for the Escalade... The Bugatti...using Veedub engines glued together to power its cars? THIS is what you want to sell me as Veedub separating its brands versus what GM does? Listen...Im trolling here...but Im only using YOUR logic against YOU....because THAT is what YOU project unto GM yet you DONT do against the other foreign brands... So no! YOUR pattern of argument is NOT valid...because what YOU are arguing against GM, is what in fact...ALL manufacturers do.... YOUR argument is NULL and VOID.

THAT is what works for zee Germans... You see...Chevrolet does nicely in kicking German ass in THIS regard...(so does Cadillac with its former V cars...) But Chevrolet has ALWAYS been a sporty brand...well, from the mid 1950s on...) There is NO reason why Chevy HAS to relinquish that...and there is NO reason why Chevy and Caddy could NOT co-exist in THIS department. Actually, the former CTS V kicked the Chevy SS's ass... So...what is your point? The ATS-V versus the Camaro? Yeah...well, the ATS-V needed a V8, true...but hey...the Camaro needs the speed.

That...that right there...would be me. Got you beat by a mile! @smk4565 I wanted to respond to that Chevy is GM's performance rant of yours...but I got bored writing it all up...I guess @balthazar took care of it anyway...and I wrote it EXACTLY how he put it... Its awesome!!! And Im impressed with myself...you know....the whole Im average in many/outstanding in none thing... But since he did not mention the one thing that I wanted to...Ill do it now. All of a sudden, I got some excitement again in me. OK... Chevrolet has no high performance SEDANS anymore...and that is worldwide too. Chevrolet has got ONLY 2 two door coupe sports cars...1 that seats 4...more or less, and the other that only seats 2. Cadillac...yeah...Cadillac...I did say Cadillac, right? So as we dont confuse Chevrolet with Cadillac and sedans with coupes. Cadillac....has got 3 high performance SEDANS and NO high performance coupes for sale. So...although, like I wanted to say, but Balthy said it anyway...there is NO reason why even BUICK cannot sell high performance stuff under the GM umbrella...but as it stands NOW...Chevrolet and Cadillac dont even sell the same high performance shyte... And while the way the market has shifted lately, I dont think Chevy is hurting without the SS 4 door, and I dont think Cadillac is going to hurt without having a 2 seat sports car in their line-up. Cadillac is hurting not having a PERSONAL COUPE and CONVERTIBLE though. And the PERSONAL COUPE thing need NOT be a car. It could also be a 4 door fastback CUV type thingy... an IMPOSING... "get the phoque outta my way I have arrived" type personal CUV thing. One that even outdoes the Escalade in the "get the phoque outta my way I have arrived" category. It could be as big as the Escalade or it could be as big as the XT6...but it needs one. And to answer Balthy's respoonse above about how one perceives what Cadillac lacks. Ive been whining about Cadillac longer than all of of you... But there is always ONE thing that I always say... And yes...its to go back to what they are known for. And that is ARROGANT, IMPOSING, IN YOUR FACE LUXURY the ONLY way Cadillac and AMERICA knows how... Lincoln is kinda doing it...but the Continental was a bust, because it truly was NOT an imposing, in your face American luxury car.... But Cadillac could CERTAINLY do high performance. SHYTE...they've been doing it BETTER than the Germans...And I wouldnt worry too much about these new V cars...there is more to come...

I aint feelin' it either, For me...its the lack of...da da da du dun. da da da du dun. The new song is just...depressing. But maybe that's the point? I will see it. Just because Ive invested 30 years of my life consuming this franchise, including wasting my quarters playing the T2 pinball machine. Oh yes...I was a pinball wizard. I figure, I might as well see how Ahnold gets to say "Ill be back" once again. There will be great disappoint if he doesnt say it. Yup...my expectations are soooooo high for this version that Ill be happy JUST to hear Ahnold say those 3 words.

Well...Skynet is happening... whether we want it or not.

so that ghostly figure on the right is a human then? I wondered about it in initially...looks like a female. It always looked like a female to me. I still cant make out the scenery. A dungeon? I said boat only because you said ropes...so I went with a boiler room in a boat... Its a blurry photograph.

I think I can make the ropes out. I think I can see the pulleys. Is this on a boat? I really cant make out the scenery. Maybe I need to upgrade my graphics video card in my brain....

^^^ I cant make out that first pic. What is it Im looking at?

And THIS is why its important for him to... ReLeAsE HiS TaxEs...as you sarcastically wrote it... So the voting public knows what they are up against...

I dont really care... Like I said... I dont judge you on your politics I only judge on your responses...

Its NOT an opinionated question... This has been addressed to you... Like I said...you cut your nose to spite your face...

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No you havent been satisfied... The only reason why you are happy is that the "left" is not in power... Like I said...its woefully apparent...

Because that is what we are doing...we are exchanging ideas... THIS is what humans have been doing since the dawn of time. It dont matter to me... I repeat. I dont judge you for your politics. I judge you on your responses...

Too bad that the response at the bottom, Surreal's response that I quoted...makes you look like an idiot... Your opinion is shyte...its wrong, its uninformed, its cutting your nose to spite your face...because I DO know you are not stupid. Its woefully apparent...

I know... Its apparent that you are, to put it lightly...NAIVE...

These are your answers to that idiotic post. Read them...

His taxes not only matter where his dealings, borrowings comes from...enemies of the USA... It matters because he may be a tax thief and fraud... Not paying taxes, enough taxes is an act of treason all on its own merit... Al Capone...the murderous, scandalous, bootlegging, corrupted organized crime figure...went to Alcatraz...because he did not pay taxes... WTF does that tell you? To take this lightly is incomprehensible to me... Here we are, trying to get rid of lying, cheats to be our elected leaders....we bitch and complain because we have no good choices around yet we enable them just the same... What message does this send to aspiring little future asshat politicians? That its OK to cheat, steal and lie as long as you deny deny deny? GTFO with that shyte...you guys defending Trump's very apparent corrupt ways... Because...we dont see his taxes...we dont know who he is dealing with... Are his friends both in the US and in China gonna benefit with these policies? To hell with the rest of America, as long as his swindling friends benefit? Well, this is why its important for a leader of state be open and transparent with ALL his aspects of life. Public and Private. A leader of state CHOOSES to REPRESENT ALL OF HIS CITIZENS... A leader of state is no longer in power for his own benefit. At least in theory. And well...releasing his taxes may prove to America that he truly is...clean...or dirty... And its a tool...a DEMOCRATIC tool to at least minimize the chances of corruption...

Yes it does matter to most people. As it should! Its funny to me that severe corrupt practices are being cloaked on you, yet you seem to dance lightly around this... All because you want to cut your nose to spite your face... Like I said to @dwightlooi I dont judge you on your politics. I DO judge you on how you respond...

Russian connections? Chinese connections? These accusations are always coming up. Speculation is all it is maybe to dirty his name by his detractors? But he seems to have lots and lots of detractors though... Id like to think of it as, where there is smoke, there is fire.

@ccap41 banks loaned him those monies in the freewilling 1980s...all the way to the loose standards of the mid 2000s... corrupt shyster lawyers and bankers with morally bankrupt businessmen go hand in hand...

Banks dont lend him anymore money Like I said...banks loaned him those monies in the freewilling 1980s...all the way to the loose standards of the mid 2000s... Nothing worth going googoo gaagaa over...

American laws and banks to front him money is easy as baking a pie....ESPECIALLY in the high rolling, anything goes, greed infested 1980s... Then there is this reality that he really does not own as much as he claims to own in his business endeavors... Monies lent...until paid back...is owed by the banks. There are partners, silent deals, that allow Trump to use his name on casinos and anything else he wants to slap his name on but does not have any real bearing on who really owns what and what percentage... Truth be told...NOBODY knows the shenanigans Trump does with his name and his wealth... He is a fantastic story telling magician. He hides the truth very well and he gives us a great illusion to believe in. I got to give him props for that.