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    There was an Ancient Greek philosopher (I forget which one) who once said: "Greece is at the center of the world, Athens is at the center of Greece and the Parthenon is at the center of Athens" So yeah...you and other Athenians past and present at least agree on one thing... (Its said that Athenians are pompous egotistical show offs) I must admit though....I am immensely proud to be Greek. And although my ancestors are not Athenians nor from the Attica region or Central Greece, they did come from a Province that was loyal to Athens more so than the other city-states...so Ill casually flaunt Athenian (and Greek) pride from time to time! Yes....life is too short. A Tesla and Miata roadster shall be in your near future. The Oracle of Delphi, Indiana told me so. Percy Jackson led me to the temple.
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    HYBRID!!!! (said like Seinfeld's Newman's reaction) Damn...I forgot! OK...so Ill have to steal one of yours....and its not as if I dont have any Aston Martins in my collection.... Traded straight up red for red!
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    The first 5. The first 2 are Aston Martins....you cant have too many of these British cars....as with sex and money....all these go hand and hand. 1. Aston Martin V12 Vanquish Zagato 2. Aston Martin DB11 3. Speaking of sex. Any Ferrari and women just drop their panties for you....like almost immediately after meeting and greeting you. When I was looking to post my Ferrari pic...I came across this pic...I FOUND IT TO BE PERFECT!!! CAN YOU GUESS WHICH ONE IT IS? Before you go further, try and guess what it is! The vid down below features it! 4. 2017 M-B S600 Brabus 900 5. Rolls Royce Dawn The next 5 6. Jaguar ΧJS Convertible The next three cars are not what I usually choose...but hey...V12 yo! 7. Ferrari LaFerrari 8. Lamborghini Reventon. I could have with an Aventador which looks about the same and its on a newer platform, but the Reventon is way way way rare. 9. Im surprised Im actually choosing this one, but it is a handsome car that I always did like to be honest! BMW 850 CSI 10. Hey...I need another 1980s V12 icon in video format to show you folk Like the poster!!!
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    Sure. The ZR1 C6 touched $100K when it came out. It was a slow seller...but the market got used to $100K Vettes. If this rear mounted mid-engined Vette is to be the best of the best of the Vettes, then it seems plausible to assume it will be north of $100K. Please dont tell me that Vettes are affordable...Best of the best Vettes were NEVER affordable. Not the 1965 396 Vette, not the 427 1966-1969....certainly not the 1969 ZL1 nor the 1990-1995 ZR1s. Not the 1996 Grand Sport nor the C5 Z06s...Not the C6 ZR1 nor the C7 Z06 and the upcoming ZR1... Ive covered 52 years of best of the best Vettes that were not affordable by the average joes...so spare me that argument please. Vettes always had a plethora of engine choices in its history. I wont delve into the rockin' 50s and crazy '60s where the engine choices were mind exploding overwhelming...but dont tell me that in your era that is not the case as from 1990 forward...there was always at least 2 engine choices. It even grew to three as of late. The C6 had 3 engine choices. The C7 will soon have 3 options.... Plus...the good thing about that is that Chevy gets to use these in their Camaros and watered down versions in iron form in their million a year sales pick-up trucks....so...
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    This is how it starts. Gas stations were sparse when the horseless carriage was upon humanity. The highway system was all but a futuristic dream too during this time. By the time Route 66 came around, gas stations were springing up slowly slowly and along the way, motels and diners and all kinds of wonderful family owned businesses flourished along that route. Then the highway system got built, then roadside gasoline stations with McDonald were sprouting like mushroom and route 66 is just a ghost of a route that only in the last 15 years has regained popularity to due nostalgia. In the ancient times....it took millennia to establish the trade routes we have today. "All roads lead to Rome" but before that..."Rome was not built in a day" are two expressions that I think are relevant in my little speech just now.
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    He has got a lot of fantasy projects going on. Sinking money on fairy tales really. Unlike Jobs whose ideas were swift and effective...so yeah.I agree, he is no Steve Jobs. Just let me be douchey and allow me to counter with this pic All in good nature just for discussion's sake.
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    Paypal Tesla
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    Yeah. That would be a logical idea. I did not know Johan was a marketing guy. But the product is great! Before he joined...what you see is the product that was in place before he joined... We really havent seen what HIS product will be like. Just one concept which is the Escala. Even the name changes to CT5, CT6, XT5 and so forth are not of his tenure. The marketing and HQ move to NYC is his and THAT was a good move. The Dare Greatly campaign was his and it....sucked (or continues to suck) only because he is failing to....dare greatly... Lets get this straight though. Marketing sucks before him and it continues to suck with him! The products that Cadillac has out now ARE great. The interiors could be improved further, but they HAVE come a long way to where they were at the start of THIS decade (2010s). In reality, lets give Johan some time. The bankruptcy, the GM bureaucracy, the half a million CEO changes and shuffles, the ignition switch scandal, all have conspired AGAINST Cadillac to remain focused... It seems that there is LASER focus ONLY on 1 model launch at a time at GM...for all divisions.
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    Or maybe tell Johan to take a hike...sales will increase by default as wherever Johan goes and leaves, the place he leaves improves the sales automatically...
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    Not to quote you per se, just that this tidbit of info picked my curiosity. Its more of a jab at Mercedes Benz CEOs trying to bullshyte their way selling that Nissan pick-up truck rebadge as the first real premium pick-up truck...that I wanted to highlight it!!!
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    Eh oh! Ill trow a coupl-a burgers down your troat! Thank-you! Thank-you very much!
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    @A Horse With No Name yes but....you did not say if you were gonna still love me tomorrow...
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    Hmmmm....New Jersey... I could see why a strong contingent of Maserati owners are in Jersey...
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    OK.... This was the intent of that post. Without the trolling and the controversial pics. Seriously? What is up with all the kissing of GM's ass? GM went bankrupt in 2008 because they had a negative cash flow WORSE than Tesla's. HELLO!!! THEY WENT BANKRUPT!!! (I dont necessarily agree with all that I just said...just playing Devil's advocate to stir up shyte) At least governments and countries as a whole are willing to give Tesla a chance...in 2008 and 2009, people were fed up of GM's bullshyte! Some Americans were willing to let "whats good for GM is good for the country" be flushed down the toilet like a giant turd that it was!!! (I dont necessarily agree with all that I just said...just playing Devil's advocate to stir up shyte and to defend SMK as he does make valid points....but just as he glances over some facts to promote his agenda, some pro-GM`mers glance over facts to cover up GM's huge flaws) Although I LOVE GM myself....it makes me sick to my stomach knowing how shyte GM can get and we have the cojones to defend that shyte! So stop the useless defending of GM (this one is real...I do stand by that statement!!!)
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    On Tesla and on the iPhone Apple was laughed at not having a physical keyboard...so much so that there was still defiance and some tried to offer a physical keyboard with their touch screen Apple was laughed at for even having a touch screen in the first place Apple was laughed at for controlling the touch screen with your fingers in funky ways reminiscent of a fantasy futuristic Tom Cruise movie Apple was laughed at for trying to push connectivity and calling it "smart phone" Apple was laughed at for iTunes and people paying for "apps" From selling ZERO phones...to becoming a MAJOR player displacing the inventor of the satellite phone Motorola and the darling leader of the 1990s Nokia and dismantling the early 2000s technology filled leader Blackberry Apple was also laughed at for creating a "bigger iPhone" and saying that tablets will replace laptops...laptops did not die yet but are not as healthy as before as tablets have pushed their way to be an actual viable computer platform alternative Tesla made it possible to sell the idea that EVs ARE the future that people actually want to own and COUNTRIES all over the world are waiting impatiently for the tech to be on par with oil driven vehicles... Some COUNTRIES of the world have set a time and date and HAVE BANNED internal combustion engines. In 15-20 years, only alternative energy cars will be able to be bought in these countries...will it be EVs? WHo knows??? Tesla started this wave!!! Not trendy...TREND SETTING BIG DIFFERENCE. I suggest you folk stop verbally beating up on Tesla or Apple... Apple was supposed to die sometime in the 1980s by haters and 'experts' alike. Tesla may not survive as building and selling cars is a very expensive and task requiring BILLIONS every year and automotive consumers are the most fickle, most demanding, most hardest to make them stay loyal as the competition is the FIERCEST in any domain...being as it may, Tesla already has changed the course of automobile history for the future even if Tesla ceases to exist 4:00 PM Eastern time today and it is currently 8:00 AM Eastern time as I type this...
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    Not quite CT(#)= Audi A3 fighter ATS+CTS=CT5 CT6=CT6 but with a bigger role to fulfill as it probably will fulfill the void and represent what the XTS offered to folk that wants the ΧΤS and be Cadillac's flagship sedan at the highest trim level.
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    No...that was not it. It was a trolly remark that did not represent my opinion and it would probably do more damage than good. It was meant for cheap laughs while making a statement but a statement that I wont back up either so... Its best to just leave it as a blank!
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    Ive had a change of heart....so I decided to omit the original message.
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    I have my own stories about FCA... It starts like this In the year 2021...it is Judgement Day for FCA...blah blah blah...bankrupt....blah blah blah...Jeep sold to the highest bidder....blah blah blah...its a bloody shame...many storied names gone because of one carpet bagging, snake oil salesman buffoon...
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    We have shopping mall boutiques too. And yes, the Montreal flag ship store is nice. To be fair though, that dealership that Tesla took over housed Chrysler. This is that dealership under Sergio... During the 1 million dollar renovations The dealership under Elon... This was what Tesla had as their flagship store in the Montreal region before this one. In the suburb of Laval
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    Montreal's Tesla store is biggest in North America...but it will lose that title, or maybe it did already to San Francisco. They cater well to their customers knowing which customer base will flourish the most. If the acceptance of Tesla is so-so in certain markets...I am not surprised to learn that the Tesla stores in that area are so-so as well... I am surprised however that Seattle does not get a lavish store like San Francisco or Montreal...
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    If we are honest about it...and auto journalists rarely are... both generations of the tweener CTS did quite well in the market place regarding sales and acceptance of Cadillac joining the ranks of the sport sedan luxury crowd despite a lacking of a up to par interior vis-à-vis its peers. And that was probably its only weakness. Auto journalists and magazines usually review cars based on who pays their salary, if you know what I mean...Both tweener CTS' were great performance cars, especially in V trim. Much like today. Auto journalists, when not favorably comparing them to the Germans was really bullshyting us... It would be a tad different now as the 3 Series AND the M-B C Class grew in size to be somewhat where the tweener CTS' were...albeit the BMW 3 Series just a tad smaller than the tweener CTS'. But the C Class is just about the tweener CTS' size. Well...not quite like that. The ATS and CTS will be just one car...the CT5. A tweener probably like how the 1st and 2nd gen CTS was. An Audi A3 fighter (smaller in segment size to the ATS and Audi A4) will be the other sedan lower in price and smaller than the CT5 (and smaller than the ATS if you did not quite catch the hints) A bigger and costlier sedan than the CT5 called the CT6 remains the same and the 3rd sedan that is talked about... And no word on a CT8 so nobody knows what to expect for that...but a CT8 plan was mothballed by Johan and with him not saying a word about it now and ONLY saying that there will be 3 sedans in Cadillac's portfolio and all 3 sedans were explained what they were, one could safely ascertain that a CT8 is not in the cards for the immediate future...maybe in another 10-15 years...again...
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    Well...not quite like that. The ATS and CTS will be just one car...the CT5. A tweener probably like how the 1st and 2nd gen CTS was. An Audi A3 fighter (smaller in segment size to the ATS and Audi A4) will be the other sedan lower in price and smaller than the CT5 (and smaller than the ATS if you did not quite catch the hints) A bigger and costlier sedan than the CT5 called the CT6 remains the same and the 3rd sedan that is talked about... And no word on a CT8 so nobody knows what to expect for that...but a CT8 plan was mothballed by Johan and with him not saying a word about it now and ONLY saying that there will be 3 sedans in Cadillac's portfolio and all 3 sedans were explained what they were, one could safely ascertain that a CT8 is not in the cards for the immediate future...maybe in another 10-15 years...again...
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