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All nonsense, useless tacky add-ons for boy-racer image that does NOTHING especially on CUVs. Electric CUVs. If the Chevy CUV SS had those vents be functional to let the air flow through for less drag for more efficiency of some sort, then I wouldnt be so critical and in agreement with you. But...its plastic boy-racer overkill. Like like you said, cleaner, simpler designs just means less is more!!! The Tesla Model 3 and Y are frumpy. Too frumpy. Simple and clean but way too frumpy. And that has dated the design quite fast since other OEMs have decided to join the EV club. But....the Model S looks good to this day. It has aged and its loooong in the tooth ONLY because its OVER a decade old now. But the Model S is a very clean design. Its sleek and it has looked great all this time BECAUSE its a clean no nonsense design.

100% in agreement!!!

Looks like a 'Like A Rock' photoshoot!!! Very nice! (LOVE the guitar solo BTW!!!) (One of my all time favorite solos...)

Thanx for the effort Drew! Whatever it may be, blame it on the rain.

none are. lol. nothing to do with your long day at work. You cant think of any 'cause there arent any!!! lol. We agree 100% there!!! ENJOY my friend!!! You deserve it. 1. long day at work 2. having to endure ME on the internet. LOL. Good Night see ya tomorrow!

no. stop reaching.

I never told you to buy those. But...that is STILL not a CUV... THAT is still a fun, joyfilled vehicle. And its probably got the LEAST horsepower and is slower than the slowest car I posted... And... THAT is eons away from what an Encore represents... In essence, you agree with me.

I NEVER once mentioned PERFORMANCE... NONE of the vehicles I posted are of the fast variety. ALL are of the econocar variety. ALL of those vehicles I posted, other than the Toyota GT-S, every single one of them...were the SLOWEST of ANY car during that time... You dont need a CUV to go hiking. You dont need a CUV to play sports. I rented a Daewoo Matiz in 2001 (google it) and it went EVERYWHERE I asked of it on the island of where my mom came from in Greece. All donkey trails going up mountian sides, parking it and hiking up to other parts where NO car can go. With a 1.4 liter 75 HP engine I think.... The thing was a blast. The Matiz was NOT a CUV... It was a hatchback, but it wasnt a CUV... And it was spacious. I bet even YOU could have fit inside it... The joy of living statement ha nothing to do about what one does to pass his time. The joy of living statement simply means, the North American has let corporations dictate to him what he needs to buy. Therefore he gave up his choices and let corporate execs decide what for him. His free will he gave up. And the joy of living is having free will... I actually made philosophical point. LOL Point very well made and taken!!!

@David Yet...of all your personal vehicles you just posted...NONE are CUVs!!! NOT the Trailblazer SS. NOT the Yukon. NOT the 'Slade. The ONE criteria you have, which is to fit, not ONE CUV past or present that you could fit in. Of ALL the econocars I posted....NONE are performance cars...

No argument there, that is for sure! Our roads are clogged up with traffic. Some parts of the US and in Canada, true for Montreal, the roads are disgustingly bad full of cracks and pot holes. Dangerous when driving spiritedly let alone quickly. You mention it later on: the driving IQ and skills is not just lacking, its NON-EXISTENT! But regarding this quote: I wasnt really talking about a high-powered coupe. But this was a also a Corolla once upon a time ago. Sure it was more peppy than a regular (4 door or regular coupe) Corolla, but it sure wasnt a Trans Am or Nissan 300ZX Twin Turbo of the era either. There was also this and another version and this And even this. My girlfriend at the time had one. Manual. She taught me to drive manual in that car. And its weird. We want the CUV to carry friends and stuff, but back in the day, with smaller cars and many many MORE friends, we found ways to fit in and go where we needed to go with these small econo cars. Today, the youth, nor the slightly more older folk, drive CUVs, but the CUVs are almost always EMPTY... Like I said, North Americans were bamboozled and were oversold on the need for a CUV. Its too bad. Because cars, although slower, a LOT slower, were much much more fun back in the day. And when I mean fun, I mean fun in many many ways. Different styles. A plethora of colours.... The modern CUV is just so...so...common. Not only common by the sheer numbers, but common as there is NO diversity in styling.

I get the reasons why some of these CUVs exist. Especially over their compact sedan equivalents. But sometimes, the CUV selling point doesnt match reality. What you state in the following quote: is a reality in plenty of scenarios for various reasons many times for many people. And CUVs arent necessarily more safer than their sedan equivalents either. Definetely not more fun from CUVs like the Encore or RAV4 or whatever appliance CUV you want to mention. I get that your average compact econocar sedan aint fun either, but econocar sedans also came in coupe form that added some kind of flavour. I also understand that those fell out of favour as well, and THAT is why I quipped about being an amoeba. CUVs just lack any kind of human emotion. I do see reasons why CUVs should exist in an automotive landscape, no matter what world market, but in the North American market, for whatever reason, North Americans have given up...on life. They gave up on choices. Gave up on the joy of living. Got sold on pathetic marketing of overselling needs.

Ill answer you both (@David and @Drew Dowdell) with a song and picture like I did previously. For humour. About cars being dead one or two decades ago and about choosing the right tool for the job. Same answer for both. Buying one of these: Tell me you are alive and kickin' without telling me you are alive and kickin'! I aint disagreeing with what both of you are sayin'. But its quite sad that we once had these vehicles at our disposal to only have lifeless, joyless pods to roam around in. Its just a render...BUT look at all the fun the FWD sedan could bring us.

Its a CUV.... Regardless if its a Buick or a Toyota. Buying a CUV pretty much tells ME that YOU are an amoeba rather than a hot blooded, full of life, energy and emotions human being. But that is just me. It could be just about any other CUV...but since this is about I feel numb! EXACTLY!!! Numb and dumb!

Possibly new Lambo to replace old Lambo And for this possible new Lambo to replace the old one, Im happy for the Corvette C8 because the way the Chevy designers stylized the C8, they ended up with a forward thinking design DESPITE what some haterz were saying that the C8 is ugly or overdone or whatever they were saying... Similar pointed nose. Similar front end air ducts. Similar kind of air entry in front of the rear wheels. One is CLEARLY Lambo DNA while the with the other, one could see faint Corvette DNA. Hey...the Corvette evolved greatly... Now...Im NOT saying Lambo copyed Corvette, and Im NOT saying that the C8 is NOT European mid-engine mainly Lambo inspired, because it is...with a touch of Corvette in that Euro/Lambo inspiration with a small dab of Ferrari as well. What I AM saying is that Lambo has ALWAYS been aggressive and arrogant with a smidgen of boyracer. Coincidentally, Corvette too, has ALWAYS been aggressive and arrogant with a smidgen of boyracer and when Corvette went mid-engined, the C8's styling has at least been on par with what is going on for Italo-exotics and not in a past tense kinda way...but in a future kinda way. And THAT is a good thing for Corvette going forward in the future. Pure modern, as in the last 15 years at least, Lambo rear styling. With a GREAT way to place the exhausts!!! Hopefully that styling exercise makes it to the real thing. Two very very different rear ends...but...the Vette gets some hate for having Camaro taillights. *SIGH* The Vette rear end IS busy, maybe TOO busy, but regarding the lights, what I see is taillights that emulate what Lambo has been doing with its tailights since a long time. And I actually PREFER those so called Camaro lights. I believe that the classical round Vette lights wouldnt be jivin' with the new mid-engine look... The one thing I do not like about the Ferrari rear...is the quad lights. For me...it doesnt work. For me...this works more And I see what the Corvette stylizers were aining for...and I approve. Let me remind my readers that Ferrari is the Italian exotic car brand that I prefer over Lamborghini. Just wanted to point that out.

I got a mixed bag of emotions regarding this one. The song and group are fitting for this...because the Stones are British and the styling of this EV sure seems to be of the British roadster type. I love the Stones and I love this EV. However...I dont like the front end styling of it. Dont like the grille and there is something about the headlights that I dont like. I cant put my finger on itIs it the black enclosure? Is it the plain jane circles? Is the oval enclosure awkward? I do LOVE the fenders and the way they bulge and the hood scultpured the way it is. Only If the grille was a different shape. I dont like the backlights. I dont like the fact that they are protruding circles, but I do like their placement and the angle of them in the back. Im not entirely enamoured by the styling of the back end, but its not too bad either. I LOVE the silhouette and I LOVE the interior. Those gauges are awesome. Very elegant. I love the supposed statistics but I dont really like the price tag. Definetely roadster for me!!!

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/rooting-super-bowl-lvii-says-194400008.html Whether you’ll be rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles or the Kansas City Chiefs this Super Bowl Sunday, how well you score with your financial habits might be tied to your preferred team. Indeed, a new survey found that, for example, Eagles fans are more positive about their finances — but Chiefs fans are better at having emergency savings. Really? Because I...as a Dallas Cowboys fan, its more like Im rooting for the Chiefs to win this Superbowl because well...PHOQUE the Eagles!!! But hey...with all the useless false information and disinformation today, why not schlub this shyte on top of all the other shyte we read on the interwebs. Oh...what an anticlimactic way to finish the last 8 seconds. A couple of nothing plays to only to Hail Mary it falling short by a country mile to an empty field with nobody around for miles... PS: Im suuuuuper happy that Mahomes gets his 2nd in 3 appearances and possibly on his way to maybe making a run to try to catch up tp Brady... Anyway...Troy was 3 on 3. Just sayin'.

@ccap41 I dont follow any racing leagues. I know of certain things that go on so Im not completely in the dark, so bare with me and my opinions. I may hit the head on the nail on some things and my opinion of it might sound reasonable, but othertimes I may be waaaay out on left field and my opinion on the matter will be quite wrong... I know that Indy car uses a 2.2 liter turbo V6. I just informed myself that with hybrid assist is coming for 2024. I know that IMSA in the former GT class with Corvette has a 5.5 liter limit with I think is a 560 horsepower limit. The class that Cadillac competes in also has a 5.5 liter limit and I think the RPMs are also limited but the horsepower levels are allowed to reach 700 horsepower? or something like that. In NASCAR...there is a 358 cubic inch limit, it MUST be a V8, up until recently it had to be carbureted...and I think on a few race tracks, the engine is also limited on horsepower. Anyway... Cadillac does NOT build its own racing engines. They are corporate engines. General Motors corporate engines. BUT...the truth of it all, its Chevrolet V8s... The V6 in Indycar is a Chevrolet. Buick and Oldsmobile actually built race engines for Indycar and Nascar but those days are long gone... Another point I want to say, and correct me if Im wrong, and to the other things I just said, is that even in IMSA, the 5.5 liter V8 is not a pure Cherolet design 100%. Corvette racing and Pratt and Miller have designed that engine and its not 100% based on the Chevrolet Small Block. The C8-R engine WITH the Z06 engine are as close to each other as ever... But in years past, when the 6.2 liter was in the Corvette, the C7-R used a 5.5 liter that was not necessarily the same as that 6.2 liter. The LS7 from the C6 Z06 shared many parts with the C6-R 7 liter, but IMSA changed the rules and had a cap on displacement. OK...with all that said and done, GM racing on the whole would NOT have a hard time designing a Formula One 6 cylinder with hybrid assist as GM racing on the whole has a lot of right now experience in developping and racing many TYPES of engines. 358 cubic inch V8s 5.5 liter V8s 2.2 liter V6s Indycar is as close to Formula One as they could get in many ways. Although different in many many ways, not so different that they couldnt engineer a V6 with hybrid assist ON THEIR OWN WITHOUT the help of Alpine. I understand their reasoning to go with Alpine for 2 years. Maybe its for the fuel effiency requirements of F1 that are different than Indycar's? I understand the concerns for the Formula One owners. (Now that you have pointed out important information to me) I also do NOT understand why they would want to use Alpine engines for 2 years as they have the expertise and know-how from Pratt-Miller, Corvette Racing, Andretti, Indycar WITH the help of Honda no less. I also do NOT understand that THEY do NOT understand the very MARKETING implications that YOU have pointed out BY going with Alpine for 2 years. That decision WILL affect Ultium in the marketplace by GOING with Alpine and by NOT being an Ulitum powered race car. Those last 2 statements seem similar but are 2 different things. Have a race car NOT being powered by your brand and being powered by a competitor is NOT a smart marketing move...even for 2 years... With that being said, imagine what the racing grid could be like when the Euro racers and fans and announcers and IN the paddocks where ALL the Euro-snob owners are realizing that Ford AND Cadillac are beside them ON that aforementioned racing grid... Now imagine us North Americans IF on racing day we KNOW that a Ford powered F1 car and a Cadillac powered F1 car is leaving Ferrari and Mercedes in the dust?

Ill be back for this. Id like to continue our chit chat. I got to to go to work. I agree 100% BTW. I like the fact that we are on the same page. I like to hear more of your opinion on this...especially considering Ford is going racing in F1 and all what the entails regarding Ford in F1, regarding Ford VS Ferrari and Ford VS GM (Cadillac) especially if Andretti/Cadillac will not be accepted but the possibilities of what happens in F1 if Andretti/Cadillac become a team. To bring American rivalry to a European entity while at the same time flaming an old rivalry with Ferrari must be a very exciting time for FoMoCo and its fans.

I did not know that. Many things I did not know of...or more honestly, didnt put the effort to inform myself proper and spewed off an opinion. For whatever reason, I ignored and thought that the new engine tech and rules would be applied after 2026. I...have modified my opinion vastly in this regard concerning the power unit issue. I now AGREE with the Formula One owners to question Cadillac and GM as to why they wouldnt want to engineer power unit of their own. Everybody, like you said, is on equal footing in 2026. The same learning curve for everybody. It looks like we are both on the same page though, regarding this whole thing with F1, the FIA, Cadillac and Andretti. Its a mess with the F1 owners and the opposite opinion that the FIA seems to hold, and admittedely, its a mess with Cadillac and Alpine with Cadillac wanting to use someone else's engine tech for 2 years.

I first heard this song in the movie The Full Monte. I had rented it on VHS one night. Like I had done with many movies back in the day, but I digress. I was instantly enomoured by the song. It was before google, but I managed to find out who sang the song...Hot Chocolate. At the same time, I found out that Hot Chocolate had another hit song. Disco. I knew this one...and I liked it then. It played often on Montreal radio way into the early '80s. And Im listening to it now, again, for the first time since.maybe the early 1990s? And I find that I STILL like it!!! Back to You Sexy Thing. It must have been in 1999 or in 2000...a Eurodance version was released. And I was proud to know that it was a remake... And it also jived as much as the original. I bought the single CD and was BLASTING it DAILY in my OLDSMOBILE ALERO. I MISS THAT CAR!!! Nothing special, but it also was!!!

I understand 100% on why you dont like an Alpine powered Cadillac F1 car, even for a couple of years. I share the same sentiments. But its a faster learning curve. F1 bosses ask what Cadillac has to offer, but Cadillac asks the same of F1. Cadillac and GM need a return of investment as well. F1 engines and the computer contolled suspension technologies are not the same with the other General Motors racing leagues that GM is involved in. To engineer a 1.6 liter V6 Formula One engine from the ground up and be succesful with it getting a couple of podiums will take a looong time, let alone to have it be reliable... Corvette Racing in IMSA , Cadillac Racing in IMSA , and Chevrolet in Indy and Nascar with the "Camaro" already have the tools and software to analyse what engine speeds and RPMs are necessary in the curves of the specific race circuits. What suspension tunings are needed at the various race tracks etc... So that learning curve WILL be done by the Cadillac race team WITH Andretti and his team's expertise. Its the knowledge of what kind of 1.6 liter V6 engine is needed to compete on the FIRST day of RACING DAY that Alpine's involvement will be needed for those first two years. Cadillac has the expertise to whip an engine just like that, but when Mercedes and Ferrari and all others are waaaaaay past engine development and are at the stage of trying to cheat the rules is where a new team, not only Cadillac, is at a disadvantage. I liken that situation as how the NHL does its expansion teams. Each existing team gets to protect a certain amount of forwards and defensemen and 1 goalie. And the expansion team picks the unprotected players from the league and gets to have a competing team from the moment the puck drops from the expansion team's first game. What is an expansion team to do? Suit up also-rans, has-beens and 18 year olds and years of finishing last to rely on draft picks? It wouldnt be fun for the expansion team's fan base to see their team lose and lose and lose and lose some more for 4-5-6...10 years before the expansion team could field a contender? IMSA, when Aston Martin and then with Ford, sandbagged the other racing teams so that the newcomers have a chance to win. Im sure Mercedes or Ferrari wont be thrilled by having restricter plates on their engines to restrict horsepower so Cadillac could have a chance to win if Cadillac were to engineer an engine on their own for the first year... To put it another way...I as a Bruins fan...was PISSED to have lost Jeremy Lauzon to the Seattle Kraken. Or Colin Miller to Las Vegas. But...as a hockey fan, it was fun seeing Las Vegas go to the Cup final in the first year or seeing the moves they made to be competitive 2 years later. Ditto for the Kraken. The Kraken are not too shabby. Sucks for teams like Anaheim, San Jose and Vancouver... But hey...Seattle and Las Vegas had to pay a shyte load of money to the other NHL owners. They have to fill the seats with fans. Wouldnt be in the interest of the rest of the NHL, the NHLPA, the Kraken and the Knights to have the Knights and Kraken lose and have the new stadiums empty if the NHL operated as how Formula One seems to want to operate... Not eloquent what I said. Possibly too long and wordy. I had a great way to explain myself yesterday...but the site was down... You guys get this post instead...

Thanx for all that info. I knew Red Bull was a team. And I knew they had other engine builders in their young ownership group. What I knew was the partnership between them and Honda ended. What I just learned from your post a day ago was that Ford was their new partner. What I didnt know was Ford not needing approval. But since Red Bull was already an F1 ownership group, the slice of the pie wouldnt change no matter who Red Bull chose to partner itself with. I understood the slice of the pie getting smaller for the F1 owners, and I get and sympathize with the F1 owner's plight regarding that, but Toto Wolff, the Mercedes F1 boss' reasoning AND questioning what Andretti and Cadillac could bring to the table is asinine. Why? 1. Andretti (and Cadillac) would be the ONLY real LEGIT American Formula One team (there is 1 so called American team...but it aint so American...) and Formula One WANTS to EXPAND the US racing circuit. They want MORE races run in the US and they want MORE American fans watching these races... Andretti AND Cadillac WOULD expand their wishes EASILY. Andretti is an AMERICAN RACING FAMILY LEGEND not only in Europe, BUT ESPECIALLY in the USA. CADILLAC racing against Mercedes and Ferrari in Formula one? Are you kidding me???!!! Doesnt THAT excite American racing fanatics????!!!! If THAT doesnt excite American racing fans...NOTHING does... NASCAR has been invaded by Honda and Toyota lets not forget... American racing pride to go alongside IMSA's Corvette and...Cadillac no less would be GREAT for F1... 2. Cadillac has General phoquing Motors backing them up. General phoquing Motors... Of ALL the racing teams in Formula One now, General phoquing Motors has the MOST money to SPEND on racing engineering... And I guess THAT is another reason as to why they dont want. In no time Cadillac would dominate. 3. They question GM and Cadillac on how GM's (Cadillac's) tech could benefit...anybody. But I KNOW Mercedes knows that GM has Corvette Racing in IMSA along with Cadillac and GM has Chevrolet doing NASCAR and Indycar... And I know Wolff and Mercedes KNOWS that GM racing tech is LEAGUE leaging in ANY racing circuit. So to repeat...Mercedes has been winning in F1...Cadillac would in no time disrupt that winning. 4. Wolff questions Cadillac's engine building and questions why Alpine would supply Cadilla\c engines... Well...Alpine would only supply Cadillac 2 years. The time for Cadillac to enter Formula One and the time for Cadillac to get the feelz for Formula One racing... 5. I think Ferrari and Mercedes are both peeved and Andretti for reasons that I dont know... and are using those shytty reasons to block Andretti and not necessarily Cadillac.

I actually like the silhouette on this. Like I have stated plenty times already, it seems like OEMs are designing their CUVs to be more sedan-like. We maybe finally going away from the sport utility styling and back to sedan styling again. And I applaud ANY effort that does away with the crapastic classical CUV stylings. Change the type of headlights in the front for an LED cluster package system that we have today and the Eagle hasnt aged one bit... However...cant Toyota figure out how to do decent front ends? Honestly!!!