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Yeah...that is why Cadillac sedans sales are through the roof... What little sales gains they have...are of the SUV variety....and in China... So yeah...do both...for China.... In the USA....well...a tad more FOCUSED strategy is in order.... Its fine if we both dont agree on this.... But....take a look at US sales...on this path...Cadillac will just be a crossover seller... PS: Please dont tell me with a straight face that what Cadillac is doing is anything but confusing... If it wasnt confusing...then month by month sales of ALL its sedans would NOT be down in the USA... If it wasnt confusing....then the CT6 would have had SUBSTANTIAL sales gains...like the ΧT5... PSS: Cadillac is selling a ton of vehicles in...CHINA. For the first time in history....Cadillac sells more outside its home base. I think we are letting that bit of good news clout our judgement about what really is going on in the USA...

Quite honestly, the XTS should have died 3 years ago. So that is not a big loss. Its a NECESSITY actually to finally break free of a certain era that Cadillac itself is struggling with itself to shed. Yes. No. Either go full on performance luxury or go full on quiet luxury. DO NOT do both. Its confusing for the would be customer. The CT6 is in the middle of this mess. Clowns to the left of it (CTS), jokers to the right (XTS)...here it is stuck in the middle with you! The CTS should have been STS which should have been the CT6. Or should the XTS be reincarnated as the CT6? Is the CT6 a quiet luxury car like the ΧΤS or is the CT6 a performance luxury car like the CTS? Is the CTS the CT6? The so called name sounds the same... Is the CT8 Omega based? Is it still on? Is the CT5 Alpha based? Its not as if the CTS is setting world records for sales either!!! The ATS morphing into the CT3....and Cadillac wants to go smaller???!! Crossovers are selling....yeah....I see several Cadillac sedans getting the axe here not only the CT6 and the XTS.... But in all honesty, I think the CT5 will never make off the ground. I think the CT6 will get better marketing and therefore stay. After all, a TTV8 is scheduled for it . The Escala will be the CT8. The CT3 will never get off the ground either methinks. The CT3 and the CT5 will get axed in favour of CUVs. The XT5 is here already and doing well. The XTS V powertrain should have made it unto the Lacrosse to distance itself away from the Impala AND the Regal because in 2018, even the Regal is too close to the Lacrosse. The Impala never really took off like it should have. The 2nd generation Equinox should have been a bloody clue that big sedans were dead men walking as the Equinox exploded in sales year after year and its highest being 5 years AFTER its introduction almost doubling its first year sales while the Impala had a fraction of those sales... Ditto for the Lamba SUVs. Those just continued on selling and those were as old as the 1st generation Theta SUVs. The Malibu grew bigger on the inside to almost Impala levels of interior space, designed to look like the Impala all for a cheaper price than the Impala. All that is sealing the Impala's fate. Ditto for the Lacrosse because all that applies to the Lacrosse. The Lacrosse also has its own Malibu scenario in the Regal. Not too mention that the Impala and the Lacrosse are cannibalizing each other with the little sales that are left for each other. The Volt.... I dont think it will get the axe. At the very least, the Volt's tech will find its way into a SUV type body. The name Volt does not necessarily mean it has to go away either.... The Chevy Trax takes care of the Sonic. No big loss there! If cheap entry level car is needed. The Trax could be decontented to be sold on the cheap. It has the the Buick version selling like hot cakes to balance out the profit margins. Heck, give a version to Cadillac (obviously NOT as a badge engineered model!) to sell at a higher still price and voila!

Ill answer...The Accord Coupe crowd has nothing to do with the Camaro and Mustang crowd. Even the Challenger crowd. Even if 4 cylinder and 6 cylinder pony cars are marketed to these folk. These folk bought an Accord coupe when the Mustang and Camaro were on sale and they skipped on the chance to own an American pony car and if the allure of American pony car did not attract them then, then nothing will attract them to an American pony car even when the Accord coupe will no longer be available to them... After the Accord coupe will no longer be available for sale and the new generation of coupe buyersof any coupe wanna buy a coupe, well...if 50-55 years of American pony car history wont be enough to entice them to buy an American pony car, then no amount of fake marketing will entice these guys... So...that also applies to current Accord Coupe buyers... When they bought their Accord Coupe, they nixed at a chance to be part of that 50-55 years of American Pony car heritage...no amount of fake marketing will turn that around... Remember...The American Pony Car has 50-55 years behind it...all those Muscle car wars and myths and legends...these folk decided to buy an Accord Coupe instead... This coming from a guy that bought a 1999 Oldsmobile Alero Coupe... This coming from a guy that has a Trans Am Phoenix as his Avatar... Coming from a guy that in 1999, could have bought a 1999 Trans Am instaed of an Alero Coupe...or the very least, a Firebird... So...

What is this fetish some of you folk continue to talk about people forgetting to plug in their cars???!!! We are plugging in so much shyte IN 2017...more than anytime in history...more than in 1987 and more than in 1997 for that matter... smart phones, lap tops, tablets, DRONES, Spheros and BB8s, Nintendo Wii and Wii U game controllers...(for people who bought aftermarket chargers because were fed up of feeding the controllers batteries every 2 days...) Hell...even grass trimmers and lawn mowers..., cordless drills, you name it... In 1987, the only thing we plugged in to charge was a cordless phoquing land line phone... Its part of today's everyday life things to do... NO! PEOPLE WONT FORGET TO PLUG IN THEIR CARS TO CHARGE!!!! Get off that mind set!!!

Id feel funny if I bought the hugely expensive AMG C Class version and some dorky middle management dude parked next to me at the mall with the 2.0T and the soccer mom and her daughter with her leased GLC walking back to her CUV with her Michael Korrs bag in hand would say to us "How cute! You both drive the same car!" As you know, and say....M-B sells "luxury" and not performance with the C Class so the soccer mom wont know the difference between the AMG and the 2.0T Even the middle management dude wont know the diff.... Ill gladly take the Buick Regal GS with the unrefined decade old V6 thank-you very much. With the difference in price left over, Id rather buy meself a real muscle car. A Dodge Challenger V8 of some sort with the decade old Mercedes chassis of all ironies... That way, I wont look like a poseur, nor would I think I was had by M-B! Sorry SMK, you fail to convince that a C Class is some sort of luxury vehicle. Those sales that the C Class gets just affirms the stance that a good lease makes it perfect for mainstream mediocrity for middle management types that want so much to be in the big leagues like. Ill give you this much....the 3 pointed star still has some punch to it. Only time will tell if it will continue to be that way....

Problem is....BMW and M-B chasing BMW in the 1990s is EΧΑCTLY how they defined luxury for the 1990s and beyond: PERFORMANCE I dont do well with others with double talk.... I like you SMK...but I dont like double talk and revisionist history. Please refrain from both.

True. But a C300 @ 40K also comes with a turbo 2.0 liter 4 cylinder...with 240 horses.....same as a Fusion 2.0 ecoboost or Malibu 2.0T at much much lower price points... So....by your logic and way of thinking, and how M-B sells its cars really...a C300 really is a mainstream offering....EXACTLY how its predecessor was in Europe... but with a head exploding price tag!!! So....what are we discussing here? Round and round we go but nowhere relevant we end up!!!

Old Regal did not sell because 1. rear room was tight. 2. Verano was introduced with more or less equal rear room space for less money. 3. lack of marketing What is different this time around? 1. rear room is abundant 2. Verano no longer available 3. Its clear as daylight that Buick wants to go upscale. 4. Buick has no problem selling premium priced vehicles. The Lacrosse, Enclave and Envision are successes. Verano and Encore sold quite well when compared to their Chevy counterparts and the Encore compared to its main competition and the Verano compared to the Acura ILX...its main competitor... 5. Speaking of Acura...the Regal GS is almost a clone of the Acura TL SH-AWD and probably its main competitor in 2017 the TLX SH-AWD.... If Acura is premium so is Buick. The only problem I see is the the Regal might do to the Lacrosse what the Verano did to the old Regal and what Acura did...was to eliminate 2 models and make one...hence TLX... Big sedans dont sell so the Lacrosse will definitely take a hit... So....can we at least stop the non-sense posting and start posting LOGICAL THOUGHTS, PLEASE?! P.S. The M-B CLA's interior really lacks premium grade quality let alone full on luxury. Buick's interiors may not be luxury, but they sure are straight up premium in ANY MODEL AT ANY PRICE POINT! Buick is spot on in the premium luxury status arena since the bankruptcy. Phoque off if you say otherwise!!!

Ill do another set. If I was a rich dude in the 1970s, these would be my rides. (Designs that are purely from the 1970s and not styles that originated in the 1960s...) 5 from GM (This Cadillac is an exemption because it did debut in 1968 or 1969...) From MOPAR and FoMoCo 1970 300 Hurst 1971 'Cuda 440 6 PACK 1970 Lincoln Mark III 1970 Torino 429 SCJ Mercury Marauder X-100 429

I mentioned 2012 Acura TL SH-AWD And NOBODY even acknowledged that! Continue talking about Camrys and old Regals and Ford Fusion Sports ....but ya'll be missin' the fact that this here Regal GS is a near 100% clone of a 2009-2014 Acura TL SH-AWD. Minus the hatch opening, a 5-10 HP and torques more, 9 speed auto instead of a 6 speed auto, and quite possibly a tad longer...but its description is spot on for the TL SH-AWD....maybe even the TLX SH-AWD...

http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/a10328974/2018-buick-regal-gs/ Description reads very close to what I drive currently...2012 Acura TL SH-AWD. Id say the Regal GS is just an Acura TL SH-AWD... Not a bad thing...and maybe, just maybe, if a Tesla Model 3 does not pan out for a possible replacement for my 2012 Acura TL SH-AWD in the next 3-4-5 years, maybe this Buick will...

From 1950 Which was based off of this during the War. It was a German Wehrmacht staff car. Which similarly how Jeep went civilian after the War begat this and other variants like the commercial wagon above. Mercedes in Europe, has a loooong history of catering to the masses with all kinds of commercial and blue collar vehicles... What I find stupid with Mercedes is that all those wonderful tough and rugged blue collar stuff and all the war mongering vehicles...they were all engineered by GERMAN folk working for Mercedes and Benz and Daimler... This is an insult to the heritage of the 3 pointed star!!! OH....George Dubbya might have an issue with this shyte being called the 1st true premium pick-up truck And...it was engineered by Henry Ford's people sold by Henry's offspring... Yes....the same Henry Ford that designed this off roader If Henry slapped on some leather on this like how the Duesenbergs did with their cars and the Model T would have that title waaaaaay back when...but Henry wanted to sell to the masses...

Yes.

Ive yet to see one in the wild. Saw it in the autoshow last winter. I wasnt blown away with it looking at it indoors. Although I did not find it awe inspiring indoors, I did find it to be good looking. A million times better looking than the 7 Series Bimmer (and 5 Series for that matter) but not quite as imposing (in a good way) as the M-B S Class. Although the S Class is not that good looking either. But it is imposing in a positive way it gets a pass from me. The E Class is just as ugly as the 5 and 7 Series Bimmer. The E Class lacks the charisma big brother S Class has. (According to my eyes) The Lincoln Continental also failed to impress me...but it was indoors. I havent seen this one out in the wild either. But, I can say that had the Continental been a tad longer to accentuate long sleek Continentals of yore while keeping that same style, it be hella sexier. The way it is now, it just kinda looks a tad frumpy to me. Back to the CT6...I must say, it does appear to accentuate a long sleek design. The only thing Id change would be in the rear. Id accentuate those blade LED lights back there STATING ITS A CADILLAC GOD DAMMIT!!!

Not my style these things are. I HATE THEM!!! With such burning hatred you cant even begin to understand But...who am I to tell you otherwise that SUVs are gas guzzling pieces of ? If it works for you...more power to you.

392 Scat Pack or Hellcat 1973 Pontiac Trans An 455SD (this is a 1980 model...dont it look pretty?) Cadillac CTS-V (no CT6 TTV8 yet so this one steps up to the plate!) 1970 Olds 442 W-30 The next 5 2017 Mustang GT350 (without that ridiculous albeit functional rear spoiler...and because I dont track my cars...it aint needed anyway 2007 Mercedes Benz E63 AMG with the naturally aspirated 6.2 liter motor. 2017 BMW M6 GC 1969 Plymouth Road Runner or GTX (440 6 pack or Hemi) Im in the mood for another GM A-Body. This time a Buick. 1970 GSX or the less flashy Stage1...

I also question if there will be a next generation Charger or 300 or even Challenger. I question if Dodge or Chrysler will make it past 2021...never mind the trio of LX cars...

I only believe legit news sources on stuff like this. Internet chit chat stuff...not so much. Im sure our very own William or Drew will sniff it out and report it to us soon enough if this is an issue for FCA and their Pacifica. Like you said, without the drama, this is what I should have stated from the get-go: Im sure our very own William or Drew will sniff it out and report it to us soon enough if this is an issue for FCA and their Pacifica.

Ford, GM, Toyota.... Honda too.... VW? Sure....they also got their fair share of recalls... Subaru about 15-20 years ago got caught fixing defects without the owners knowing that there were defects! Moot point... Although I hate Toyota BECAUSE of the myth of "Toyota flawless reliability". However, certain Toyota motors are indestructible. But certain others, not so much. This whole thing sounds like COMPLETE BULLSHYTE!!! And Chrysler not doing anything about it??? In THIS day and age when Toyota paid a hefty price for unintended acceleration, GM a hefty price for the ignition switch fiasco and VW for polluting from their diesels...WITH AN UPSIDE!!!! NO SIGNIFICANT LOSS OF SALES DUE TO CONSUMERS DISTRUST IN THOSE BRANDS!!! So Chrysler will try to hide this???!!! BULLSHYTE!!! Same derivative answer that I personallynget from a technician that does not know what the problem is... "If it happens again, bring it in right away so we see the codes!!!" Laprincess sounds like an agenda driven poster....kinda like our banned friend Wings...

My sincere reply to this is as follows. Using the paragraph above the pics of the different brand specific motors that GM brands engineered for themselves plus those pics along with the LT4 pics... GM learned a long time ago that nixing the different brands engineering regarding motors saved a lot of money. Sure it alienated many folk that wanted an Olds motor rather than a Chevy one within GM's brand loyalty fanbase...in hindsight all these decades later, I deem it to be a success. I sincerely do think why it took VAG all this time to finally go full throttle with this. Especially when VAG knows better than GM how to manage multiple brands and keep their identity intact! Maybe that is the secret? Keep brand bespoke engines to that brand only???!!! Maybe this was the misstep that GM took that started the tumble? Now it seems Im overthinking things...LOL The last paragraph where I bitchin' about Eurosnobs is where I tread the trolling path...all in the name of fun!

Im just bitchin just for bitchin's sake! A little light trolling if you will! I agree 100% with what you quoted me on!

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Yeah....that is where it starts, dont it? What Im saying is that Ive seen this happen before! Im surprised it took this long actually! From this: We went to this: I wonder if any Euro snobs will have anything bad to say about this blatant badge engineering concept where Audi's engines are not bespoke to Audi... Because Ive witnessed the Chevy engine in a Cadillac negativity shyte many times over. Sure....these people will try to say its a Porsche V8...but these people also tend to ignore the fact that the Chevy engine is in reality a Corvette engine and these people also ignore the fact that the SBC is in fact the best thing since sliced bread. Mopar and FoMoCo fans are really the ONLY people that I will accept them dissing the SBC as FoMoCo has the flathead V8 as a starting point to squash Chevrolet dreams and Mopar has the 440 6 pack and HEMI to SMASH and OBLITERATE any ideas Chevy has for dominance...except that the latest SBC is the GOAT!!!

All cars of EVERY make have teething problems... What you read about in all internet forums are all the whining bullshyte that people bitch about and the internet gives them a voice to be heard. Some of that whining is real, some of it fake and some of it imagined just to stir an emotion or a hidden agenda. My wife's 2013 1.6liter ecoboost Ford Fusion has had 5 or 6 recalls on it to date. Her car was built in June of 2013 and we took deliver of it that December and supposedly the engine fire problems for the 1.6 liter ecoboost were solved by April 2013....but you guessed it...2 months ago I got a letter from Ford telling me that there are still fire hazards with it....something about the coolant may get too low or the pressure circulating the coolant not being sufficient to properly flow not cooling the engine fast enough or something like that and that well last month, I took it in for the recall... OK...like I said...there is like 5-6 or even 7 recalls on her car....all fixed.... If I was a whiny little shyte, like most people in today's society...guess what???!!! Id be bitchin' on a Ford Fusion forum that Fords suck and the Fusion sucks and ALL THAT!!! Reality is that my wife and I are really really satisfied with the Fusion...albeit annoyed with all the phoquing recalls. But the car does perform flawlessly though! And yes, Id buy another Found On Road Dead or Fix Or Repair Daily Ford product again. Take all the internet bitchin' with a grain of salt is what Im sayin!!!! Another anecdote.... Ive read some Google reviews about my very own restaurant... I do have like a 4 or 4.5 star rating with as many as 150 responses and Id say 90% of the responses are of the hell yeah positive side of things.... The little complaints that I do get...well....some people's perceptions are phoqued and we are such a coddled and whiny phoquing society...we can be very whiny bitches!!!! I remember some of those complaints...and um...I aint about to give you a free phoquing meal for life just because we forgot to add ketchup in your burger or we forgot to omit the pickles in it... Its good enough I gave you another burger and let you keep the old one and no I aint gonna apologize and kiss your ass for an honest HUMAN mistake! You could add phoquing ketchup yourself and take the phoquing pickles out with your own phoquing food!!!! Honestly. folk! Stop being so phoquing prissy with your food! Its food! EAT IT!