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I cringe every time you say that. Mercedes does sell a lot of cars, yes. But not all their sedans that they sell have that luxury status. In Europe and in North America. What constitutes luxury for you? Badge? Like I said, not all 3 pointed star sales are of the luxury appointment inside and outside the car. Price? Chevrolet, let alone GMC, overall sales outsells Mercedes Benz in the price department just with their top of the line Silverados and Tahoes. Meaning, more high priced Silverados and Tahoes that are MORE expensive than the lower tiered Mercedes cars, including the mid-ranged C and E Class cars are sold in the US and Canada... If you mean only the 100 000 dollar priced cars, then maybe Ill be in agreement with you. But then again, livery service S Classes dont mean anything to me either. Do not forget about GM. Buick seems to be going the all CUV and no sedan route also.

Wow... I thought only electrics will be homoginized and "souless"... Because of National pride...so I think this has good chances of happening. Yes, if we were was still in 1980s or 1990s. If GM and Ford could build transmissions together and before that, go to congress and try to get help together so no Big 3 goes under then I think BMW and M-B could do a platform or two for FWD mass market appliances. Sure, but if they could get some money from another source (BMW) to lesson the financial burden, then its win win, non? And no, like in North America, it wont be a good thing for Germany if one of their Big 3 goes under. M-B and BMW are probably aware of this as this nearly happened in North America. Im sure M-B, BMW, VAG and other German economists studied the Detroit situation and learned from that.

Everybody was an anti-Semite then. Including us in North America. All of us including those in power that controlled the fate of everybody in Europe. The Brits and the French. The Brits and the French knew what Hitler was doing before Sept. 1 1939. In fact, Hitler annexed Austria and the Brits and the French did nothing. March 12th, 1938. Lets talk about the anti-semitism. On November the 9th, 1938 for 24 hours, Germans, yes lets call them Nazis so we Westerners feel better about ourselves and as to not insult Germans either because Nazis were only a subset of Germans because Hitler did not win an election unanimously in 1933, well, they burned down synagogues, vandalized anything relating to Jewish peoples such as Jewish homes, Jewish business, Jewish schools and killed close to 100 Jewish peoples. This night was called Kristallnacht. And what did the Brits and the French do? NOTHING! What did WE do? Well, Time Life Man of the year in 1938 was one Adolf Hitler. Let it be known that Stalin was also killing Jewish people in Soviet Russia before Sept 1, 1939. What did the Brits and French do? NOTHING! What did we do? In 1939, Time Life Man of the year was another fine gentleman named Joseph Stalin. If those asshats Brits wanna harp on Henry Ford for being an anti-semite, they should also harp on their political leaders KNOWING allowing Hitler to kill Jews and do nothing because they were "too afraid" to make war again. Yet they knew that war was coming regardless because they knew France and themselves started this whirlwind when the Treaty of Versaille was signed on the 28th of June 1919. But they only put their foot down when Hitler attacked Poland on Sept 1, 1939 and THAT was too close to home, yet all the warning signs were there just a year prior, KNOWING that Hitler had killed Jews and was already sending them to concentration camps well before Sept. 1st 1939... Its a little hypocritical to point the anti-semitic finger on Henry Ford when the European world was rot with anti-semitism. I could go on about how Jewish people wanted to flee Germany just about when Hitler was voted in but France and England REFUSED them... But Ill just let Kristallnacht set into our thoughts and then Ill let the annexation of Austria settle in as well and how Austrian Jews were rounded up and put into Jewish Ghettos, and Ill let you decide if Henry Ford deserved to be dragged into a faslehood of dumb ass Brits talking casually about cars yet wanted to make it political and yet, these asshats are Brits, Neville Chamberlain was the one who could have really prevented anti-semitism to spread... but wanted to make a point about an American businessman being anti-semitic yet its in the Brits and the French and the Russian world that anti-semitism was created and flourished and spread around the world, including Henry Ford's world...but its in Britain and France that this started in...

I had a random thought when I saw a Yukon Denali pass me on the opposite side of the street today... I was stunned to realize how phoquing huge that Yukon grill is. Then I started laughing hysterically all by myself thinking about it.

Me too. And like her, I also love rock-n-roll!

I think were are, or should be, just about done with the EV having to be different just to stand out to tell people you "care" for the environment. EVs are just about getting ready for the big time mainstream spotlight. No need for this weird styling. That was all crap marketing and the folk that bought into that just wanted to pat themselves on the back "for doing the right thing" Poseurs and posturing. All hypocritical.

General Motors has that...in Chevrolet. And if they want, Buick and GMC. Rolls Royce does not have that, nor Bentley. Maybe Cadillac should align themselves closer to Rolls and Bentley? Like how they used to be since day one of their existence up until the 1970s...

Giorgio platform (I guess the platform is a good one. The looks of the Guilia are sexy enough, but its the motor under the suit that get my vote...but that Ferrari V6 is NOT OR WILL EVER BE a MOPAR V8!!!) Giorgio Armani (Im not into his fashions) but there is one Giorgio that I dig... Giorgio Moroder I feel love for an electrified Muscle Car. I want my muscle car Challenger to remain beefy as it is. Maybe a tad less weight do to a newer platform that benefits from weight reduction materials, but I do want it to retain more or less the same exterior and interior dimensions. No substantially bigger and no substantially smaller therefore maybe a Giorgio platform is not the answer for a new Challenger. So... the old platform seems to be gettiing reworked again. The Challenger brings the goods with this version of a re-worked platform. I do not see this as a bad thing... Back to an electrified Muscle Car. I dig that too. I buy into that idea....BUT...it looks like the MOPAR folk dont think that a muscle car should be 100% electrified. That is a very good thing. It looks like the Challenger might be trading in supercharge assist for electric motor assist while retaining V8 goodness. That I applaud. Maybe the supercharger stays too? All the better if it does. More muscle car badassery to kick Teutonic and Japanese and Swedish and Chinese ass!!! MUSCLE CARS RULE. NO MATTER WHAT IS UNDER THE HOOD. Or...um...under the seats because skateboard platform with a battery pack residing there. (BUT IM DOWN WITH ELECTRIC MOTOR ASSIST IN THAT HELLCAT!!!)

as long as she aint singing. Moaning is of a different matter altogether...

There shouldnt be ANY Cadillac identity that is as low as the highest Chevy and mid Buick though... If they wanna do an ATS sized Caddy, that is fine. But that ATS sized Caddy better be of high luxury in workmanship, in quality and in price worthy of a Cadillac badge that is on it. Not of workmanship and quality and price of the best Chevy you can buy...but of the best workmanship, quality and HIGH price that is worthy of a Cadillac! That means that there shouldnt be an Impala LTZ on the lot with a Cadillac ATS and the Cadillac ATS is the SAME price of the Impala. I dont care if the Impala is the bigger car therefore the Impala gets to be equal to a Cadillac ATS. BULLSHYTE on THAT! For me and what I care for Cadillac, its that a Cadillac is supposed to be unattainable for the broken cigars. And therefore we fall back to the sales thing again... The Cadillac CUVs and SUVs are selling just fine. Therefore all this banter we are doing is maybe all for nothing!

Cadillac needs to be Cadillac. Cadillac needs to produce and sell products that are true to its brand's historical image. Cadillac needs to stop trying to sell to every Tom Dick and Harry. Yes, this is volume and volume is good for fast cash. But Cadillac shouldnt be fast cash. That is what Chevrolet and GMC are for. Cadillac also needs to start building those products that make everybody dream. And we know Cadillac still has the brand image to do that just with a handful of concepts they revealed over the last 15 years. And yeah, broken ass cigars shouldnt be buying Cadillacs. This should be Cadillac's internal battle cry plastered on every single Cadillac headquarters wall and their new slogan! For public media advertising, it should be the short version: THIS IS CADILLAC

She maybe fine, but no thanx...let the music be played by musicians worthy of the tune. This is how a REAL rocker chick does AC/DC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sky1tt8vLA

I always hated these. That and the BMW 318ti. I never understood the hate for the Cimarron still in the year 2000s when both BMW and Mercedes stooped to LOWER Cimarron standards and no fallout for BMW and Mercedes yet even in 2019, Cadillac detractors still laugh at Cadillac but those 2 shyteboxes are just brushed under the rug... I HATE that double standard! PS: There is nothing wrong with you liking that Benz. Its just how I feel about Eurosnobs giving Cadillac a hard time. PSS: Those two German cars were not even good on European roads BTW...yet Eurosnobs defended those shytboxes... I still shake my head with disbelief on that!

Yep. Im allowed. Thanx for the encouragement. I just need to put the kids through school and get myself a good little nest egg for the wife and I and then I will probably get one. Im working hard on accomplishing those things. Im almost there!

Nothing to do with Cadillac and GM but... I just felt like quoting that quote. Its something my dad always said. I felt the need to be...my dad just now... And this is just the weirdest shyte ever. As Im here typing this nonsense to you, the TV is on the the movie Walking Tall is playing. Im not really watching it, but then a song comes on... My dad used to sing that all the time... I love you dad! I miss you!

I want to take one with the wife. Coast to coast also. I wanna see all the old Western towns. Where all those "legendary" cowboys roamed. I love that part of American history. I mentioned the Pacific Coast Highway couple of days ago. Route 66. Whatever is left of it nowadays. Then there is another road trip Id like to take. The one above was East to West. I wanna go from North to South. See the Atlantic coast and find myself in the Florida Keys. The Keys are also beautiful... Ive just been to Boston and New York. But the USA is so vast and big and beautiful, that several road trips are a must!

Especially the movies. Music: the 1950s and especially the 1960s, was incredible with the music. The 1980s were very comparable with the incredible sounds the musicians, song writers and singers were experimenting with. But the movies...best decade ever so far in the story telling department. Especially the ones geared for us, the teenagers. It seems that the 1980s was a decade that just catered to teenagers. It was a great time. Yeah! I know! An investigation to come as to why... But that aint a good thing...

I want one badly. Its a shame I was born in '73. If I was born 20-25 years prior, Id be of age to own one. *SIGH* But then again, Id be 20-25 years older now... good thing? bad thing? Retirement be knocking on my door....you know what? Im good that I was a teenager in the 80s. No really, MLB baseball was exciting in the 80s, so was hockey, Def Leppard. No 1970 442, but 1986 Chevrolet Celebrity 1994 4 door Pontiac Grand Am GT!!! YEAH!!!

This one is for you, @ocnblu I know you will LOVE this piece of news from my neck of the woods https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/teo-taxi-combusts-twice-due-to-faulty-electric-battery-1.4260676

Quoted for pure sheer AWESOMENESS!!!

The movie Money Ball, and this scene, eerily sums up this conversation...And this movie is truly based on real life events on how the Oakland A's did things with analytics. Grady being Blu and Billy being, well, the future of electric vehicle production... Adapt or die. And like @Cmicasa the Great said. If electrics dont work out, but they will, GM will just revert to be building ICE cars again. The memo is this though. GM will not stop producing ICE. GM will just stop producing cars that dont sell. GM's press conference just before the Detroit autoshow did say that GM has made itself the world's most successful CUV/SUV producer and seller!!! And if you hadnt noticed, those successful CUVs/SUVs ALL have ICE in them!!!

As with Balthy, I did not like the fact that these English asshats were critical, unnecessarily, on an American icon. Henry Ford had his issues. But his issues never concerned England, or Europe. Those English asshats want to revise history, I guess, but 'twas England and France that made Hitler into a monster...if those English asshats really want to suggest something about WW2 and Hitler... This is why I never like Jeremy Clarkson. Although some shticks of his were funny, I never liked the way his "humour" portrayed American cars and America in general, in his programs. One could say it was jokes for TV viewing pleasure, but I always sensed there was some sort of truth to his "jokes" on how he really felt about American cars and worse, for American people. He is one uncouth, smarmy, blowhard English limey... I wasnt surprised at all when the news broke out that he hit one of his TV's shows assistant and he got fired for it. And if you guys do not believe me he is an uncouth bastard, just listen to what he said and how he handled his firing. Not once did he take ownership of his actions. And he blamed the assistant and the BBC for killing a good thing that he had on TV... The ONLY thing that he ever did that I applaud him for, is that he also punched Piers Morgan on the nose. A worse uncouth, smarmy, blowhard English limey than himself!!!

@Drew Dowdell The downvote was for the video. Not for you posting it, but for the vid itself. This pic reminded me of Star Wars. -"Star Wars???!!! What are you, drunk? " -Nah man! Check this out! Dex's Diner from the Prequels, dudes and dudettes! You know, a 1950s vibe to it all... (tries to leave the room quietly without anybody noticing...)

Now, back to what I was listening to. I just love videos of girls enjoying life, being happy and living it up. Especially when a classic automobile is at their disposal. A Quebecoise singer. Very sexy girl back in the day. (She is quite a looker still today I might add) Good singer and her songs just...fun!