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    They make winter gloves with touchscreen friendly fingertips.
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    Nooooooooo
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    Wait... did this replace the Colorado?!
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    Lmao, sure I'll segway into talking about my SS! Let me tell ya, interior quality is even better in person. Suede and leather abound with sexy red accent stitching. Very soft touch points for your elbows, a wonderfully meaty, perforated leather, flat bottom steering wheel, heated and cooled seats, color HUD, 9 speaker premium sound system. Definitely fits the $50k price point, and doesn't look like a car that has a $30k base V6 trim at all. Only thing I miss from my Malibu is the acoustic laminated glass for highway speeds. But that's like asking for a cherry on top of a deluxe banana split sundae with sprinkles, fudge, and caramel.
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    Ok, I just thought you were saying it was a drug OD. Nvm.
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    The very first report released stated he was found on the floor and had a band around his neck. Police are officially calling it a suicide by hanging.
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    Is it smart business for easy profit? Yes, BUT... It's not doing their reputation any favors. An equal number of people will rejoice as will roll their eyes. FCA needs compelling new products ASAP, and not under Jeep where there's a built-in consumer base already. The Pacifica is a great start, but the brand is begging for a flagship to establish momentum forward.
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    I have an HUD. I can confirm it's the greatest feature I never even knew I needed! They ought to be in every car. It genuinely feels strange to look down at the gauge cluster for speed now.
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    Progress would imply touch capacitive systems are better than analog controls. At best, they can only be equal, but more often than not, they're a distraction and a gimmick. I can tell you right now MyLink is easier than CUE based solely on the fact that I was using HVAC and radio controls without looking down by the time I finished driving my SS home. Knob for volume, knob for fan speed, knob for temp, all where you expect them. CUE is essentially a similar screen interface but with a touch panel using raised bars to guide your hand. That is objectively more difficult to use. Not subjectively like personal opinion, objectively provable. Your sales argument kinda evaporates when you realize the sedans are lagging significantly behind the germans, worse now than pre-CUE models. Again, CUE isn't the only cause, probably not even the primary cause, but it's a contributor nonetheless. And I am a HUGE fan of Cadillac, I'd probably own an ATS if they were priced about $5k lower. I just won't give them excuses because they don't need them anymore.
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    I don't have the sales figures, but I'm almost positive half of XTS sales are fleet. I wouldn't be surprised if the retail sales were cannibalizing the CT6 to some extent.
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    Touch interfaces are one of the top consumer complaints in the auto industry. It's a case of you seeing a problem through rose-colored glasses. Cadillac sales don't line up with the impressive quality, performance, and engineering behind them, and CUE almost certainly factors into that. For me personally, I really wanted to give the ATS a chance, but it was priced out of contention. I got my Chevy SS for the price Cadillac wants for a mid-level ATS 2.0T with less equipment. Having MyLink with buttons and knobs is certainly a bonus. I'd say that I, too, put my money where my mouth is.
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    Disagree with your premise. CUE in the CTS doesn't need a more responsive touch system, it needs more intuitive physical controls. The redesigned layout in the CT6 and XT5 is a step in the right direction, but I heard the mouse pad thing is terrible in execution. Firmware updates might be able to sort that out. What bothers me most is Cadillac saw the negative feedback Ford received for capacitive touch systems and doubled down anyway, introducing the original CUE center stack unchanged across the lineup over the course of 3 years. That's just flat out stupid.
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    BMW has so many variants on each body style that I have no idea how they've remained profitable. The 3-series GT and 4-series grand coupe are/were the peak of the insanity. Just go back to coupe and sedan, and if the 4-door coupe look is so popular, design the standard 3-series around that and drop the nonsense.
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    GM already has the CTS for midsize RWD luxury. The only thing wrong with that car is the poor execution of CUE. From an engineering standpoint, Cadillac crushes anything Hyundai has to offer. Buick has a very profitable niche of FWD-based luxury. If value and comfort top your priorities list, then you can get a fully loaded Lacrosse with a torque vectoring AWD system in the low $40k range. Lincoln... has a laundry list of issues and I'm not going to beat a dead horse. Everyone already agrees the brand needs to go RWD.
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    You can't compare Mexico and India to the American market. The poor in America have a higher living standard than the vast majority population in either of those countries.
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    So frontal airbags, curtain airbags, back-up cameras, blind spot censors, automatic braking, stability control, disk brakes, and ABS weren't developed by the freemarket, despite the very invention of them preceding government knowledge of any practical application for them?
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    Innovation happens as a result of the free market, not legislation. Forcing safety and fuel economy to advance beyond A) consumer demand and B) natural technological progression inflates cost rapidly. Those costs are passed on to average car buyers who had no say in the decision and may not want or need what they're forced to pay for. Like it or not, even if you bought a Tahoe, you're still paying for R&D for 40 mpg compact cars with 7, 8, 9 speed transmissions and 10 airbags. In some cases, "innovation" on paper actually under-delivers in real world conditions which seems to be the case with many sophisticated downsized and turbocharged engines. As far as improving driver safety education, it's as simple as pointing out the greatest dangers statistically and applying that knowledge to the driving test curriculum.
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    I've been talking about this for a while. Among a slew of unnecessary technology and general over-engineering, new compact cars have 8-10 airbags. Not only is this part of the price inflation problem (even a decent subcompact will approach $20,000), but in a moderate front impact directly off the dealer lot, the car is totaled. I personally think ever-increasing safety standards and crash tests are screwing the working class out of buying new cars more than it actually saves lives.
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    I always liked Reuss. Seems like a guy who can pound some beers with you and talk cars for hours.
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    Why is he getting rid of his ATS already?
  21. cp-the-nerd
    How has it been transitioning from the 2.0T and silky 6-speed slushbox to the N/A 2.0L and DCT?
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    I believe that's the case, but I haven't been able to find the parameters responsible for that in the tune. I'm sure it's there, but there are so many data points to sort through, it's like opening a 400 page novel and searching for one particular paragraph.
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    It really impressed me how GM never stopped tweaking and improving the SS, maybe we have Holden execs to thank. By '16-17 this car had added magnetic ride, dual mode exhaust, manual transmission, front and rear 4-piston brembos (rears were conventional brakes in '14-15), and that sound induction tube from the intake for extra V8 noise in the cabin. If there's anything still lacking whatsoever, I don't know what it is. Assuming it's reliable and I can make the payments till I own it, you'll have to pry the keys from my cold dead hands. Also, I'll be in the driver's seat with rigor mortis so have fun getting me out.
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    No. All three shift tables in the Malibu were garbage and I rewrote standard and cruise control from scratch. I attempted to assign the sport mode to something so I could have regular, cruise, and sport depending on my input, but I gave up after a half dozen failed attempts. After that failed, I created a compromised regular/sport mode, the car drove like a dream on that shift pattern so I had no complaints other than I wanted a stick shift. I tried finding a gen 1 CTS stock tune to show you screen shots, but apparently the 5-speed automatic isn't supported by HPTuners, so the TCM appears blank.
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    Cadillac automatics have additional responses to driver input. For example, many GM performance cars in sport mode automatically downshift when the computer senses steering input going through a sweeping turn. Like I said in my other post, aggressive driving can trigger different things as well. I don't know all the ins and outs of GM performance progamming, so I can't give a complete answer. I just know that the shift tables and responses to input are written in stone unless a tune is applied. To give a brief idea of what's in the TCM, all GM 6-speeds I've looked at had 3 separate automatic shift tables not counting the paddle shifters or limp mode. One of them is standard driving mode, one is for cruise control, and the third is sport mode (and possibly tow/haul mode for trucks). In my Malibu, sport mode was permanently dormant.
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