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    What would GM do with an inline 6? Im assuming an inline 6 would be for a RWD vehicle for obvious length issues that a modern FWD car that GM currently produces would not fit. The offerings are slim at GM for RWD going forward. I sympathize with your opinion here as I share your sentiment. However, I do not see where GM would be able to use it properly. GM did produce one a decade ago in their GMT360 mid-sized SUVs and back then I thought they would use that Atlas engine in more models. But they did not. And back then, they had more RWD offerings. The ATS and CTS will merge to become the CT5. GM has got the corporate 3.6 liter for RWD purposes. Cadillac uses this along with their superb 3.0 liter V6. Probably the CT5 will use the 3.0liter V6. The CT6 is going away. Both could have benefitted from an I6 but the 3.0 liter V6 is such a good engine. Its a new engine but the CT6 is going away ...so... Then we got the Camaro and Corvette. The Camaro uses the 3.6liter V6 while the Corvette does not. An I6 as a base engine for a Corvette, especially in the rumoured mid-engined C8 does seem intriguing, but I do not think the masses are ready for an I6 base engined Corvette just yet. Let them get used to a small displacement (for a Corvette) DOHC V8 in mid-engine behind the driver configuration first, then Chevrolet could try to sell an I6 base engined Vette... Camaro...now that intrigues me...but... THE engine to have in a Camaro IS a V8. As a middle offering, that would be cool, but an I6 engine in a Camaro SHOULD be the center piece, not playing second fiddle to a V8. Unless Chevy drops the V8 for an I6 in a Camaro...but are the Chevy/Camaro faithful ready for that? Kinda like the Vette situation... GM could put an I6 in their midsized pick-up trucks, like they did with the Atlas I6 in the SUV GMT360 platform. There must be a reason why GM discontinued the Atlas in one short generation. Because they could have used it elsewhere. Millions of R&D money squandered... In their fullsized pick-up trucks? Well, they have gone the way of putting 4 cylinders in them...so...there goes that idea... At least FCA has the Alfa Romeo Guilia, Maserati sedan and coupe, possibly the Levante SUV and then there is the possibility that a Charger and Challenger survive. FCA did say that a 'Cuda version of a Challenger is in the works for the next generation... In my opinion, FCA has more options for an I6 than does GM. It would be nice, but GM has dropped the ball in their product planning and are cutting some cars from their stable. Cadillac, from 3 RWD cars, they are going down to 1. No coupes either. That leaves the Alpha platform Camaro. And no word what platform the next generation Camaro will be on...
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    Exactly...This new Hemi aint a pure Hemi. And, the article does say that this inline 6 will have Ferrari designed heads. That there is the new marketing tag. Inline 6 by Ferrari. Or Ferrari derived inline 6. Like how Car and Driver sums up the Guilia V6. So...no HEMI...
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    Imma liking the idea of an Alfa Romeo Guilia with an inline 6. As much as their current 2.9 liter sounds fantastic, I could get down with an inline Ferrari version 6 very easily... I just hope some sort of Hellcat/Demon/Red Eye version HEMI survives and is offered in a vehicle over at FCA somewhere. As nice of an idea having an inline 6 in a Jeep GC may be, I do prefer the idea of a Hellcat GC a tad better. Especially when Im thinking that neither Dodge or Chrysler looks like they will be surviving this new FCA direction. I honestly do not think there will be another Charger or Challenger or 300 when these platforms finally get retired.
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    You could really never replace the Hemi. I aint talking about the numbers aspect. I am talking about the marketing aspect of the Hemi. One reason why this modern 20 year old platformed Challenger is selling is because of the Hemi moniker attached to it. Listen to the whole commercial...and observe all that is in it...all MOPARS possibly powered by a HEMI. These commercials did a lot for the MOPAR V8... You beat me to that idea by milliseconds!!!
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    Yup...that is what I do. jag-wahr and Bon-uh-vil. And when Pontiac used to exist and I was talking to Frenchies, I would say it in French...Bonn-veel (close enough) Chevrolet Cavalier would actually not be 'Cavaleer' for me, it would be the French way, because it actually is a French word...I cannot even spell it out the way it sounds in French, but Ill try, 'Cavalieeh' I love speaking French. Its such a nice romantic language. Not the Québec "redneck" jargon, but the normal Québec French. A nice eductaed Québec French accent is not snooty like a Parisienne accent. I hate that accent... Marseille French I love also. When Marseillaise girls speak it, I buckle at the knees. Ive met a couple. Good times...😇 😉 As far as Impala goes... Its Imp-aa-la for me...
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    Yeah...but for now, 755 horsepower in a ZR1 is also keeping the Mopar Hellcat/Demon/Red-eye muscle guys at bay...like I said, the Vette is just as much a muscle car as it is a bonafide sportscar or GT car... And yes, a mid-engined Zora Vette will probably be a track monster. Rolls Royce and Bentley...yup, they got SUVs too now. The one beacon of light Cadillac has got is the Escalade. Aside from the 1950s and early 1960s when Cadillac had some models in the Rolls price range, the Eldorado was always Cadillac's image car. No Rolls Royce or Bentley ever took that away from Cadillac. The Bentayga and Cullinan could be pricier than the Escalade. I have a sneaky suspicion that the Escalade will always be the measuring stick...like how the Eldorado was back in the day. With the new 'Slade coming for 2020, let us see what Cadillac does with it. If it beats the Navigator in quality and looks, then the Escalade will continue to be the big daddy of SUVs. And while the 'Gator does indeed have a 3.5liter ecoboosted 6 under the hood and it sells on par with the 'Slade, and Cadillac retains all that what makes a 'Slade a 'Slade with a high displacement V8, then all the reason to believe the 'Slade is indeed the biggest and baddest. And yes, maybe Cadillac could go higher in price range with an SUV than the Escalade. But then again, the Cadillac that cost as much or more than a Rolls Royce in the 1950s was still named Eldorado...therefore if Cadillac wants to go 50 000 dollars more on a SUV, Escalade could/should be its name. We do agree with EVs!!!
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    HA! Those were not driver error... But yeah... whatever. Listen Blake Lively... I already got into trouble with you last year or so, my posts got deleted because you were trolliing, the same way you are now... You told me you were a journalist and I insulted you to the point where Drew erased my posts, gave me warnings... You are here to seek revenge because I made you look like an idiot the last time... Drew cares more to protect his posse than actually weed out the shyte that people like you spew... Im probably going to get another warning and this post is gonna get erased... But in short If you cant see some parallels with the lyrics of both songs from Twisted sister and Skid Row made in jest to you, then I cant help your that you just may have a stick up your ass! Then to boot, you insult me... You call me a druggie...lkike why? What the phoque is your problem? I was banned the last time I was here about 9 Months ago, for far less than what you just did....that is why I stopped posting... Now...its easy for me to stop coming in here, and you and your posse could rule this kingdom free from me... Ask your phoquing buddy...
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    Louisville... I sometimes pronounce it louie-vil or, because I speak French, I will sometimes read it in French. Something like louie-vil, but the louie part is louieee and the vil part is more pronounced, more Frenchie. Ville is city in French, so I will read ville as I would like Im speaking...French. And yes..."JAGWAHR" is the way I say it too. What do the Brits know about how to speak the English language anyhow...😁 I hear Lang-caster from time to time. I think I pronounce it as Lank-aster myself.
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    Funny!!! Here is another song for that... Maybe Mr Blake could actually see the humour in the previous songs I chose for his rant as well...seeing that he accuses me of the joke going over my head, but apparently he doesnt see the parallels in the lyrics of both hair metal songs that coincide with his ranting/joking to me...
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    Yes...chassis, suspension, lack of AWD...engine placement too... The Vette has the suspension. The current Vette has got all the down force tricks they could use. The current Vette lacks AWD. Vette engineers have also publicly concluded that they have just about tapped all the performance numbers they could out of a front engined/RWD chassis. Vette engineers know with this set-up with 755 is just overkill... This is why the C8 will be a mid-engined affair. Probably future high horsepower variants will be AWD. With probably electric motors. Or even all out electric. That is the beauty of a Vette though. It aint all about the numbers, Its also about brute force. The Vette is just as much as a true sports car as it is a muscle car... Why the Escalade does not have 500 horsepower? I really did not think it needed it. Its a big land yacht of a machine...meant to show the neighbors that you own the biggest, baddest SUV of them all. And speed is not one of those criteria that the Escalade owners want to show you when they drive it. Those owners probably have some sort of speed demon machine to show that for them. The Escalade is just that, A big arrogant, gas sucking machine that proves to the world you made it!!! That is Eldo is its predecessor...and every other Eldo before it and after that 1959 model year... No Eldorado was ever fast. In fact, you drove slow on purpose in an Eldorado so everybody could see you. Same with the Escalade. Yes @Robert Hall. When the EV Escalade?
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    Death caused by Toyota/Lexus unintended acceleration sticky pedals/wrong floor mats... hmmmm.... I guess things went over your head too? Oh well, you cant win them all...
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    UAW workers? Part of their collective bargaining agreement? Perhaps Unifor union reps...
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    So...is it jag-YOU-ah or jagwar? If they could finally solve that mystery, maybe they could start selling some cars!
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    Whatever. Message still stays the same.
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    Funny!!! Your rant starts with this song Since I was born they couldn't hold me down Another misfit kid, another burned-out town I never played by the rules, I never really cared My nasty reputation takes me everywhere I look and see it's not only me So many others have stood where I stand We are the young, so raise your hands They call us problem child We spend our lives on trial We walk an endless mile We are the youth gone wild We stand and we won't fall We're one and one for all The writing's on the wall We are the youth gone wild Boss screamin' in my ear about who I'm supposed to be Getcha a 3-piece wall street smile and son you'll look just like me I said "hi man, there's something that you oughta know I'll tell ya Park Avenue leads to Skid Row Then it leads to this song!!! We're right, We're free, We'll fight, you'll see!!!
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    That is because its...DETUNED. In a Corvette, it makes 455. Naturally Aspirated and base engined... There are 2 that make 650 and 755 supercharged in the Vette. 755 horsepower. That is more than the 130 000 Mercedes 4 door GT that I just read about. That particular Vette costs more or less that much too. But 755... Im sure if Escalade needs more power, the LT based V8 in GM's stable could certainly answer the call. And...it "only" makes 455 in a Corvette because there is the thing that a Corvette needs to be driven daily, Mon-Fri doing 25 miles per day, reliably in traffic, on city streets, on the highway, while giving the owner superb fuel economy. Then on the weekend, be DRIVEN to the racetrack, whether on a roadtrack or drag street, make several high speed runs without breaking down, overheating and the like, then be DRIVEN back home to start the work week all over again. And all that just with regular maintenance and oil changes. All within warranty as well... With 455 hp and 455 ft.lbs of torque, one could do that to their Corvette 24/7 365 for 100 000 miles plus without major engine overhauling... And each year, the horsepower numbers go up, the records fall at the racetracks and Chevrolet keeps on selling these Corvettes at least 50 000 units per year for the last 50-60 years... Other Corvette owners, just go wild with their engines and well...exotic 500 000 dollar and more Porsches, McLarens, Lamborghinis, Ferraris have a hard time with keeping up with them...mind you though, those Corvettes are trailored to the track... PS: The Corvette Z06 and ZR1 with 650 and 755 HP respectively could be daily driven and racetracked 24/7 365 like the Stingray... I think the heatsoak problem in the Z06 is solved, if not...OK, you got me there, but there is no heatsoak problem in the ZR1... Like I said, you do not have to respect the Chevy small block. It OK...just make sure you get your facts straight.
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    Im not so sure the Mercedes will work either. The Porsche. Most likely. Maybe. The Panamera aint exactly a 911... Sure, the GrandTurismo is slow. But the sound it makes. Nothing short of a Hellcat/Demon V8 does that Ferrari engineered V8 make me drool more than any other modern V8. The Voodoo V8 from Ford is a close 3rd place. I just got another speeding ticket a week ago. And I was driving the wife's 1.6 liter ecoboosted Fusion...not even my Acura TL. The Maserati is fast enough I think. I do not think Ill ever invest in a 100 000 dollar vehicle. Maybe on a 1970 restomodded and protoured 1970 Olds 442 one day or a numbers matching one. Maybe...
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    @Robert Hall I misread the sales figures. I went back to re-check... Truth be told, the sales figures of the Escalade that I saw only go until March or April. And for those 3 or 4 months. The Navigator and the Escalade sell about the same. So...you are most definitely right to say that the 3.5 ecoboosted 'Gator just does fine. I still think the 'Slade needs a 6.2 liter V8 though.
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    Yet they buy crappy Hyundais and Toyotas and VWs... And Mercedes Benzes and Audis (part of VW) and Bimmers... And Nissans... To my knowledge, all these car companies all had there share of crappy, non-reliable products. Some of them even killed people with their greedy schemes. Yeah! Like GM! So... Try again!
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    The Navigator had to re-invent itself somewhat. and a quick google search I saw that the Escalade sells to the ratio of 2:1 versus the Navigator. The 'Gator is a new model. Ill keep my opinion that the Escalade needs big displacement. Its true that we are no longer in a muscle car race for big displacements, but I believe with Cadillac and its Escalade, that there is no replacement for displacement.
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    This Mercedes is not that much better. Not as ugly, but not far from Panamera ugliness. Between the two? Ill think Ill pass... The Porsche Taycan however, would be something Id consider. If you wanted me to choose an ICE vehicle from Europe. Id go for a Maserati GrandTurismo. About the same price, slower, not as roomy...oh but that sound that V8 makes...and you got to admit, the GrandTurismo is sexier that all of them, Taycan included!
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    I dont think IRS was needed in the Escalade. For many reasons, but for one big one. It was kinda the only game in town, and it sold (and continues to sell) like hot potatoes. Dont fix if it aint broke. Their sedans and coupes and in their car based CUVs desperately need DOHC. In the Escalade, I dont think it matters much. But I do believe that displacement is a must in the Escalade. @smk4565 thinks that 0-60 times, and all that, is important to the Escalade buyer. It is not! The Escalade buyer just wants his big ass Cadillac. And big ass Cadillacs are big in every way. In bling, in grilles, in length, in width, in arrogance, in engine size. Rolls Royce Phantom...seems like their 6.75 liter V8 was under the hood since forever. And their V12 that they put in their cars and SUVs today? Seems like BMW did not want to fool around with that formula and for the last 15 years or so, the BMW V12 that Rolls Royce uses is exactly the same displacement as that V8: 6.75liters!!! The Escalade needs a big displacement V8. The 6.2 liter LT Series all aluminium V8 is a perfect fit. And it seems that many buyers and leasers want it that way.
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    Well...Im mad!!! Im mad about all those things I mentioned in my post to you!!! Im mad at Justin Trudeau for not actually talking to Mary Barra or any GM CEO about this. Im mad at Justin Trudeau AND Doug Ford for just kissing each other on the cheek and agreeing with each other that nothing can be done instead making a BIG stink about it to General Motors AND Donald Trump. ESPECIALLY not making a BIG stink to Donald Trump. If his tyrades were only targeted at the right subjects... Because you just know, that GM closing 5 plants, 4 in the US, is just GM giving the middle finger to Donald Trump for Donald Trump giving several middle fingers to GM since he became POTUS... But who pays the price for all these middle fingers? 18 000 North American workers is who!!! Im mad at North American consumers for neglecting what made North America the envy of the world. Im mad at ourselves for allowing our politicians selling us off to corporate greed way back in the 1980s when we started this trend of overconsumption... But...with Hyundai...I can see that corporate greed on their end is the same as anywhere else that puts money in front of anything else... And we got ourselves to blame for that... We North Americans, we do overconsume. And corporations feed on our voracious appetite. Despite all these plant closures, and possibly more to come, we havent learned our lesson from the last economic crisis in 2008-2009... We continue to overconsume... What does this have to do with Hyundai? Well...everything!!! If we just keep what we got and we demand as consumers better products...and we vote with our pockets, not with our voracious appetite for junk and overconsumption, but with truly well built stuff when we buy, with cash, not credit, and we dont replace every little thing we own every other month...then and only then corporate greed might come to an end... Also, if we go in the streets and riot once in a while, like the French in Paris just did...maybe just maybe, corporate greedy CEOs, lobbyists and crooked politicians might actually listen to us... Did we riot in the streets when GM released the news of these plant closures? Did we riot in the streets when we heard that Hyundai or GM or VW or whatever corporate thief did something bad to our society whether it be ignition switches or the diesel scandal or whatnot? The French had enough with their governments tax hikes...Makron had no choice to retract...
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    She kinda looks like she could be a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader though... Tall, buxom blonde...
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    Im not surprised. GM has brought this upon themselves too... Starting with, what is good for GM is good for the country. GM became too big to fail. GM then became complacent and arrogant, much like some Canadian provincial and federal Premiers and certain American Presidents...and well, you get cutting corners on ignition switches and bailout fallouts and closing factories that really piss off people.
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