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Now, in a completely different direction in genre and in mood I LOVE the music part of this song. The guitar parts and the drums (although subtle) are just... incredible! The vocals are awesome. I just dont like the lyrics.

@balthazar Last 20 years? Im gonna stay with Cadillac the front end of the Ciel has not aged well IMO. But the rest is a Cadillac masterpiece. Even as far to say that its a modern masterpiece. Too bad Cadillac never produced these. CUV/SUV styling? Well...nothing earthshattering could ever be achieved with CUVs/SUVs. Nothing I said is controversial. Its JUST okay. It may be world's better looking than any CUV/SUV from Mercedes, Rolls, Bentley. But that aint saying much when the Lyriq is bordering on snoozey. It looks like it has a commanding height AND stance. But ultimately, Im not impressed. The stance might have that commanding announcement that "you have arrived", the overall look to it almost apologizes that you have arrived. The HUMMER, on the other hand...ALSO says you have arrived. It also says PHOQUE YOU when you have arrived. THAT is what is missing with the Lyriq. The "PHOQUE YOU" part. The Hummer is not elegant enough to pass off as a Cadillac. DUH! Its a HUMVEE... Both the Ciel and El Miraj have that GREAT balance of announcing that you have arrived, the "PHOQUE YOU, Im rich AND the elegance of saying Phoque You...

I hear ya loud and clear, Drew! Initially, I refrained from spewing my diatribe because I KNEW it be douchey... But I posted it anyway... I feel like I need to apologize. But I wont. Too many people think Canadians are nice and they apologize all the time. Well. I wont give in to the stereotype! LOL

^^^ I guess you are right. But I still think its counter productive. If you aint fit to bike ride (too long), than maybe e-assist may work out for you, but what better way to get INTO shape than to NOT use e-assist and use your sheer will power and determination and motivation to use your LEG muscles to POWER YOUR way through and BECOME fit. I dont know. Maybe the slogans: 'Just Do it!' and 'No pain, No gain' are just marketing BS...

Ummm..... The Lyriq the way it looks is just OK in my books. Nothing earth shattering. Which, by it being a Cadillac, kinda fails to impress me. But I guess for it being a model that Cadillac needs to produce many examples of and make money on them, for the masses, Im willing to turn a blind eye to its average looks. I hopes Cadillac has a REAL stunner somewheres down the pipe line that wows. Because THAT is what Cadillac is all about: %1er price tags %1er "phoque you Im rich!" exterior styling

^^^ I was gonna post exactly what @ykX is sayin'. I refrained because I didnt want to sound too douchey. I was gonna say its counter productive to power a bicycle other than h-powered. Unless of course an E-Bike is used as main transportation as they do in Asian countries and in some European ones too.

Did Jalopnik say that is a new Ford Evos? Cool! ? But...did Jalopnik say that FoMoCo called THAT a sedan? (or is that what Jalopnik is calling it?) So...are we NOW gonna be calling these types of vehicles sedans? NOT cool!!! ?

I really dont see a difference of the sedan FoMoCo is proposing for the future, and the one that FoMoCo just canceled... (other than the Audi-ish rear treatment)

@David says: No Lunar landings @ykX says What are you buzzin'? Its true... ALL of it! @Robert Hall says The NASA lunar landing is insignificant to the problems we got down here on earth NASA to Musk

That...could be a good thing. Imagine the lawsuits today with somebody getting impaled by those things...(or faking to be impaled) Ambulance chasin' and frivoulous lawsuits have come a looooong way since the good 'ole rock-n-roll, milk shake days when these things were all the rage.

That too. Coupes. Me too. I miss coupes. For me though, at my stage in life, coupes are not what I could use. But yeah, coupes are rarer than sedans are. However, if cars today were as big and as wide as midsizers of yore, then a coupe could have worked out for me. It did for my dad. He had a 1970 GTO, 1974 and a 1979 Impala coupe. Too bad (for me) that the trends and socio-political situations changed by the time I became a dad myself.

And some (me) just dont really need either (pick-up, CUV/SUV or little CUV truckey thingy) or simply REFUSE to buy one regardless if sedans are getting smaller, less useful with fastback like styling and simply disappearing from the marketplace all together. By golly, Ill make shyte fit in my Acura and/or Fusion through hell or high water. If not...I rent the right vehicle for the day or for the hour to get my shyte done. Its a good thing we live in North America where...we got...choices. (Except where sedans are concerned, these types of vehicles are getting scarcer and scarcer)

nope sure. Nothing that I cant rent a van of some sort from Home Depot when I do buy something from them. Kitchen gear? Or any other big item for the house.. How big do you think THOSE are? All my sedans, with the exception of the 2009 Mazda 3 that I had, could fit a surprising amount of big boxes. I fit 3 bicycles in the Ford Fusion. Sure....but how many times a year do I need to haul shyte like that around? Its more like how many times a decade... Like I said, nothing that a rental of a van from Home Depot or a carefully planned trip to a U-Haul center couldnt do... Im planning to buy black earth for my yard outside today or tomorrow. I usually get a truck load that they delivery and dump it on my driveway, but we noticed that they give us shyte. Our grass gets weeds. The last 2-3 years, we just buy bags of black earth. The Fusion and the Acura gets to haul this stuff in the trunk. We put plastic sheets in the trunk and we haul that stuff. Then we just vaccuum the trunks... Shyte...what kind of hobbies require a phoquing pick-up truck? Boating? Despite me being from a sea-faring peoples (Greek), I hate boats. Besides, it takes an enormous amount of money to indulge in a hobby like that. id rather travel by car, and by air for vacations. Oh....I would also prefer to be on SOMEBODY ELSE'S boat. Let THAT sucker pay for boat storage and boat upkeep and dock taxes and the like... Kids play baseball. A car is big enough. Even if they played hockey, the Fusion and the Acura are big enough. Golf? Well, if the Acura and the Fusion could fit hockey bags and equipment, then they could fit golf bags... Other than a FEW folk who actually DO use the FULL potential of pick-up trucks, an admission like mine stating that I do not need shouldnt be that hard to understand and accept.

I want to contribute to this thread. I want to say something positive about the Santa Cruz and all its brethren. But I dont see how in the world I could accomplish something like that. I dont see a future with me owning something like this. Ever. I dont have a use for such a vehicle. I guess it looks OK. Nothing really wrong with it. Im sure Hyundai will engineer it so as its useful for its owner and the vehicle's intended purpose. The earth toned colour one that @surreal1272 posted DOES look REALLY good. As much as I love Wranglers, the pic that @David posted makes me wanna look away and NOT see that again. Enough for me to "ignore" David's posts so I dont ever see it again if I click unto this thread again... I dont like the Gladiator...at all! If I was ever to own this thing, Id install a lift kit on it, try to fit larger offroad tires and make it look like an offroader. Im impressed with myself. I succeeded in contributing positive thoughts...

The black and orange plates in NY have long been retired. And yes...I do LOVE them. In fact

The term Quebecker as I have learned to use it IS by some Anglophones. And I sometimes think that Quebecois hate the term Quebecker when a certain type of Anglophone uses it to describe them. I dont hear it as often anymore. On the English media, they now use Quebecois. I think they dont like it because it seems like an English description of a person that hails from Quebec. Just stick an English 'E' and English 'R' at the end of a very French Province of Quebec and we have an English descriptor to describe a French people in a French Province. And coming from a colonial English person...its as close to an insult as it can get. Anyway, back to cars being spotted in April. Going to the bus stop to pick up my son an hour or so ago and I saw a black Pontiac G6 convertible. I wasnt going to mention it as I dont think its that interesting of a spotting. But I didnt want to derail the thread with socio-political terminology from a country that most of you arent a part of anyway...

I do not know what is happening in your neck of the woods, but Quebeckers, older Quebeckers were heavy heavy smokers. These folk still smoke today regardless of the health warnings and the general un-cool factor that it has today unlike the status it once had. But...older French Quebecker males DO smoke less than French women today . Also, at least in the Montreal area, YOUNGER females smoke (and vape) far far more than the males. I wanna know why that is?

I think he @ykX is equating a 'wallowy" suspension with crappy ride. To that he aint wrong about the cars having wallowy suspensions during the time he is referencing which is from the late 1960s to the early and mid-1980s. I aint gonna judge nobody for liking and not liking this type of ride. I dont care really what somebody's preference is for car suspensions, but there are some things that I will take exception to. But his or anybody else's preference aint one of them. The thing I WILL take exception to though is about calling it a crap ride as opposed to a tighter European "road hugging, stiffer suspension is that I will DEFEND the wallowy ride for these reasons: BECAUSE our NORTH AMERICAN roads and CAR CULTURE DICTATED that OUR cars RODE like we are in our living room on our sofas in COMFORT. Our highways, to THIS day, are STRAIGHT for THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of miles and when we USED to go on family trips from coast to coast practically, East to West or North to South and EVERYTHING in between, in European terms, many borders of many countries, 5-6 -7 countries, would be crossed. Europe is also very very mountainous, and hence their cars being smaller and because most of their roads were horse and donkey travelled, cars HAD to be tighter for turning. American roads flattened the mountains or go right through them, but NOT travelling around the perimeter of the mountain when on one side is the mountain, the other side is a plummet to your death and you have to share the very very narrow road with cars going the opposite side. Brakes and handling and turning radius had BETTER be tight... City driving is the same. HUGE phoquing boulevards. Street light to street light...racing. Is THAT a better ride over the other? Well, take a North American road trip in a small, tight suspension-ed Japanese or European car of that era and you would realize that those cars were NOT great for OUR roads AND car culture. Id say shytty if we were truly honest about this whole thing. By contrast, traditional big American cars SUCK for Europe...for many many reasons. As many as those 1970s European and Japanese cars were for us. High gasoline prices was probably the SOLE reason why these cars even got a foothold on our shores. Again, if we were truly honest about this whole thing... What I have said is not a secret. I aint teaching anybody anthing knew here. Its just sometimes, we let our biases get in the way...

I forgot...the Trailblazer. Spark and Malibu are gone for 2022. You sooooo want to make a case for BEVs being expensive. Get over it... Average transaction prices of new car sales in the US are just a tad below to what a Model 3 sells for... The mythical 35 000 dollar Model 3 never showed its face. But does it matter? The Model 3 flew off the shelf anyway. It still does. And if Elon could eek out MORE money from future consumers, then why not? Its still early in the 2020s. We got a whole decade ahead of us. A whole decade of battery tech improving and actually becoming cheaper to produce. It. Will. Happen. PS: It STILL doesnt change the fact that GM has, in effect, ALSO raised its prices by limiting the amount of cheaper models to sell. A move that you yourself have blasted Tesla for doing. Tesla has eliminated the mythical 35 000 model 3 option and you didnt like it. GM has done the same for 2022 by getting rid of the Spark AND a 23 000 dollar Malibu effectively only having one shytty 20 000 dollar Trailblazer to offer the poor folk to buy. What happened to a century plus of ICE tech to offer the poor folk some transportational ICE options for their transportational ICE needs?

Problem is...that GM has nixed their cheapest model that was 15 000 dollars in 2021. For 2022, GM's cheapest model is a whopping 25 000 dollars. 10 000 dollars MORE expensive... GM even killed off a sedan (Malibu) whose base price was 23 000. Like I said, the cheapest Chevy one could buy now is 25 000. Sorry Balthy. Your argument here is non-existent. The Model 3 is on price parity with SEVERAL GM ICE offerings...