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    AND DUMBER!
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    Are we actually proud for self-parking cars? We are discussing which cars have park assist and which of these park themselves better? Ill be impressed when self-parking cars park like this! (And a feature that I will use ONLY if they actually park like that!) I bet you these kids will NEVER use park assist in their lives!!!
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    Well...I think Hyundai is copying Lexus more than BMW with the nomenclature.... And yes....I think it sucks!!!
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    Both Casa and Drew's responses are LOLs!!! Both Epic!!! This was me after reading them: The last one where Axle throws himself into the car was EXACTLY how I laughed at Drew's response!!!
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    He did say "better" engine.... An amusing little meme I found for your internet forum pleasure.
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    I complied with your wish. Actually, I just saw his post as you pointed it out! I was too busy looking for Bill Murray GIFs to post that I missed that post entirely!
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    And Jeep, therefore FCA in general..... Where would they be? Up shyte's creek... without a paddle!
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    @Drew Dowdell I was just kidding around with everything trying to get laugh at louds out of people. I wasnt serious. The part of how I drive is real, the part where it seems Im grilling you is just for shytes and giggles. Like I said....I dont like touch screen infotainment centers in cars. You are in your right to hate on whatever you need to hate on and you sure as hell dont need my permission to do so either!
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    Valid question! I have NEVER worn gloves while driving. 3 feet of snow on my car after a blizzard and 3 feet on the ground: I wear gloves and boots and hat armed with a shovel and broom and dig myself to freedom. Once inside the car...gloves and hat come off. -40 Fahrenheit plus the windchill factor and I wear gloves and boots(optional, depending if there is snow on the ground) and hat to get inside the car...Once inside the car...only the gloves come off. I keep the hat...Im bald, I need to keep the hat.....my hairless head needs to keep warm somehow. (When I had hair....no hat was worn, ever, in this situation) I start the car WITHOUT the gloves...pray she starts in the first place and as soon as she goes vroom, I turn the heat and fan on to max and the dials go to window defrost...I leave to get back into the house...I wait 15 minutes for her to get nice and toasty...I get into the car WITHOUT gloves and hat and I drive off!
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    PS: @cp-the-nerd BTW: this is where your Chevy SS comes in! Its a perfect mix of muscle car madness, pony car nimbleness as a 4 door sedan....(former Camaro platform after all) and luxury....yes luxury! Through pictures as you know, Canada does not get these, seems like the Chevy SS is very well built, fit and finish being outstanding and the leather appointments look like they could belong in an Oldsmobile or Buick as opposed to Chevrolet! And THAT is what makes the SS such a fantastic car!
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    Im in the camp that rejoices, but I agree that this will NOT help their rep one iota! And I would say that there will be FAR MORE people rolling their eyes than rejoicing...so yeah! You are SPOT ON!!!! If this is true, though....in order of preference for me: 1. Challenger Hellcat 2. 300 Hellcat and/or Demon 3. Challenger Demon (a 300 Demon fits above the Challenger Demon because Id option it less for a dragster and more for a freakin fast sedan for daily driven family usage and the 300 luxury stuff with the 4 doors helps a lot better than the 2 and the sportiness of the pony car persona with the sedan persona of the 300...) 4. Charger Hellcat
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    @dfelt I dont have a use for touch screens in my cars... Radio....it stays on 1 channel....AM sports talk radio. USB key for music...knobs and buttons to fiddle around with volume and to switch to the next song is good enough for me.... Speedometer....would you believe me that I dont use it? I know approx. what speed Im rolling at through sheer experience... Plus...again....through experience, I can feel what the car is doing when I actually drive it and toss it around a corner and stuff....pilots call that flying by the seat of your pants! So....an analog tach and speedometer (they could be digital on a screen or HUB) and a USB friendly radio with actual knobs is where its at for me. OK...all that could be on a modern infotainment system and I WONT complain...alls Im saying is I PREFER old school gauges because I get a pleasure from actual driving....(its ironic that I HATE manual transmissions) but I get visual pleasure of observing the landscape and EΧΤΕRNAL surroundings rather than infotainment centers! As far as flying by the seat of my pants goes....they ONLY stimulant I DONT like IS shifting my own gears! The rest of of it I LOVE....I LOVE FEELING WHAT THE CAR IS DOING AT ALL TIMES!!! And THAT does NOT require LCD screens OR gauges of ANY KIND (to a degree of course....) ESPECIALLY WHEN IM NOT SHIFTING MY OWN GEARS...but then again....a GOOD MANUAL DRIVER DOES NOT NEED THE TACH TO KNOW WHEN TO SHIFT HIS OWN MACHINE!!! HE SHOULD KNOW WHEN BY THE SOUND AND FEEL OF HIS MOTOR!!!
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    About the glove argument.... I was shopping for new gloves this past winter and I noticed that there are big, thick warm gloves good for -40 (Farhenheit or Celsius...same temperature actually) that are touch screen friendly....technology advances in gloves too! So...wearing gloves should not be a problem in 2017 for these touch screens... Let it be known though that I dont like screens of any kind in my cars! I think its gimmicky! But, since phones and computers and home improvement electronics are this way anywhere from thermostats to alarm system keypads to lighting, to all in one giant touch screen central basepad that uses the smartphone to connect your house and yourself anywhere on the planet to even control your audio equipment and your connected freakin' esspresso machine ....the auto industry just as well follow suit. HOME AUTOMATION IS INSANE!!! Like I said, cars just as well join in on the fun!
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    Grunge aint really my thing....but yeah, very sad day for music indeed. He did have a powerful voice. Its even sadder when we just learned that yet another human took his own life... Many of us it seems suffer mental illness.
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    Bring it on! I would prefer this over the Charger....but DEFINITELY NOT over the Challenger!
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    Your wish is my command
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    And still no hybrid!!!! A Saturn Vue was scheduled to have a hybrid! Then this car where it being a Cadillac could absorb the cost and sticker price better...(that is what the dude said, and what he did not say but I am saying....a car that could at least make some competition to Tesla and not be blown away by it!) At least offer hybrid tech on it now!!!! Even if only in China for Pete's sake!!!!
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    You always find a way to humour me!!!! Cheers to you PS: Yup...if the remake of Ghostbusters was a complete reversal of roles, then HELL YEAH that 'Slade should have been their ride! An overly expensive and blinged out brand new Escalade representing the last of the petty cash would have been funny! (AND NO! I HAVENT SEEN THE REBOOT!) (AND HELL TO THE NO WILL I EVER SEE IT!!!)
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    I fully understand this.... I agree to a point for its existence. You are preaching to the choir about these kinds of Cadillacs. I LOVE these kinds of Cadillacs myself (except this one) However 1. I understand that there are some of us that like the looks of it....like your parents and @Sal Collaziano (welcome back is in order although I did not know you then) but there are many that think its a whale.... That is not good going forward....especially when its usually the older folk that loves these things....yes yes...younger folk like them too, but most of the younger crowd buy the XΤ5 αnd the Slade which better aligns with Cadillac's vision of the Arts and Science crowd rather than the mid 1970s and 1980s crowd that bought these types of Cadillacs..... 2. Not a very good image to have if you ask me.... Hey....when Cadillac sold these Cadillac also sold these when these (and Cadillac) where on top of the world Remember.... That Cadillac was starting to become a laughing stock when this came out.... A livery service vehicle is not a bad thing....but ONLY when you are on top of the world Cadillac has not had a DESIRABLE halo car like the M-B on the bottom in 4 decades! 1. So....not only is a ΧΤS is ugly to me and it looks better in hearse mode (NOT a good thing) and Cadillac DESPERATELY NEEDS A PRETTY CAR 2. keeping it around for just the money is not a viable reason for me.... It sells! GREAT! So does a XT5 and any other SUV Cadillac is willing to sell.... Cadillac, if it WANTS THAT MONEY...maybe they should have invested in MORE CUVs and SUVs that align BETTER with their IMAGE THEY want to sell to make that money!!! I thought they wanted to do away from that crowd that wants the XTS...well, they sure got me on board to NOT want these types of vehicles....am I being duped by Cadillac marketing folk?
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    Who is the coolest guy on the internets today? His name is Dingo. Frisky Dingo and he likes his martinis.... That is it! He just likes his martinis! Any way you make 'em!
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    It was supposed to be a placeholder for when the CT6 arrived.... Regardless, it was ugly then when it first showed us its ugliness, and its uglier now. GM and Cadillac DO care as the XTS is printing money for them. Here and especially China. And I get that! I just wished Cadillac would start to cease on relying on this type of vehicle to make them money. I just wished Cadillac would cut FINALLY cut ties with their late 1970s-80s vision of selling Cadillac image... This is just a better version of this car and then this car selling to the same clientele that Cadillac vowed to leave behind even as far back when they introduced this car And to tell you the truth...both Devilles I posted look 1 000 times better then the ΧTS.... Yeah yeah....the XTS is miles ahead in chassis refinement and performance. The XTS is: 1. UGLY with a capital F as in F***king ugly 2. outdated in by at least 25 years in what actual vision Cadillac wanted to be in when they went RWD with the Catera and later the CTS and we could add another 5 years to that as the FWD STS did a BETTER job is keeping with that "modern" image they have been pushing for! I must admit though, many people from the foreign crowd who get themselves into a XTS LOVE their experience with one! Which perplexes the phoque out of me as the ΧΤS in essence is what drove them AWAY from GM/Cadillac and American cars in general in the first phoquing place! I STILL DONT LIKE THE XTS, though....ITS FUGLY!
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    I really like this car. There are many of these around in my neck of the woods. I havent noticed if they are Hyundai badged or Genesis badged because my level of enthusiasm for them does not go further than "nice car", but I too, feel Genesis is heading in the right direction both in looks, features, fit and finish and marketing.
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    So....take the f***ki*ng gloves off, eh?! Do it Canadian style while you are at it!
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    This news excites me just as much as the Lambo Urus news... And in case you have no clue what that may be....a cute GIF that explains my position on the matter I always wanted to like the ΧTS, but I was lying to myself. The first year the ΧΤS came out, I was head over heels over it....call that blind love for GM... But I hated myself....I felt dirty.... Then I realized I was not honest about this whole XTS thing. I finally saw the XTS for what it really was...one ugly whale! There is no excuse for that when Epsilon and Super Epsilon platform mates Lacrosse and Impala look damned good... This refresh might make it look more like the current front fascia of the recent Caddys, the poor XTS is uglier than ever. Just my not so over the top yet >ahem< humble opinion.
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    My reaction upon hearing the news about yet another SUV offering... My reaction when somebody might try to explain to me that SUVs are the future and Im just a dinosaur in denial clinging on to sedans or coupes and there is 650 horses offered by Lamborghini in the Urus... My reaction when I FINALLY come to the realization that there is literally nothing I could do to stop this insanity with the SUV craze no matter how many cute GIFs I post on the internets! I guess rejoice at yet another SUV, this time from Lamborghini with 650 horses...
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