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As awesome of an overall package the Silverado EV is, I just can't get on board with the aesthetics. It just does nothing for me. I love what it is and the performance it achieves, both in sportiness and efficiency, but it looks so... sucky... It's all in the front end for me. The Sierra looks quite a bit better though, to me, so there is that.

I understand that but take a tape measure and pull it out 58", there is no way your shoulders are 58" across. You're probably thinking of your overarm measurement, which is a circumference measurement around your shoulders, not a left to right measurement. Which, at 58 inches, at least that's a real size. It could also be your chest size, but that's also a circumference measurement. Either way, you are not 5 feet wide. Just think about how wide that is for a second and it'll make more sense. Just for some perspective, if you and a twin sat next to each other in a vehicle, the vehicle would need to be TEN feet wide. Your EV9 is 78 inches across on the outside, and 62 inches of shoulder room in the front seats. I'm sure your wife has more than 4 inches of space with you in the driver's seat.

Your shoulders are not 58" wide. you're trying to say you're nearly FIVE FEET WIDE?!? There is no way you're that wide based simply off of the numbers, but also because of the picture you posted, you're nowhere close to 5 feet wide. If I had to put a guess to it, ~16" per shoulder and maybe 8" for your neck and that's still "only" 40 inches, which still seems like a little bit of a stretch.

For somebody who claims all his 6ft+ people fit into an EV9 comfortably, I don't see how this much larger is necessary when an EV9 is plenty of room already.

I thought the whole point of this post was EV sales, right? If Ford EV sales were up 15%, why were they listed somewhere else after stating "Everyone else has negative sales compared to the same period a year ago." Or was that whole paragraph about overall sales, but it was started with "February saw EV sales in the U.S. of all new auto sales make up 10% of new auto purchases coast to coast. "

I'm confused as to what's true and not true here. First you say only a few companies had positive EV sales gains and the rest were negative. Then you say Ford's EV sales had increased by 15%, which would have been the second largest gain to Genesis at 20%.

No, but you can make plans and claim a plan to move things to the US. We all know it's just a bargaining tool. I don't know for what as I don't pay that much attention, but it's just trying to force somebody's hand.

That's weird, because aren't most on similar "platforms" these days? Shouldn't those alone make it much more flexible in that regard? Or is Mercedes not making one flexible platform for like 8 vehicles?

Makes sense then. They also won't sell enough of them to justify building them here either.

The car is built in Germany.

The interiors are the exact same... and they all kind of suck now. For somebody who used to really like Merc products, I pretty much hate their screen-centric interiors now. FWIW, I loved driving the EQE we had as a loaner for a couple weeks. It isn't what I'd choose simply because it's hideous, but it did everything perfectly fine.

Isn't there a Merc that's in this category now, too? There has to be some EQE or EQS that weights 6000lbs. Oh yeah, there sure is! https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2024-mercedes-benz-amg-eqe-suv-first-test-review/ Also, the EQE SUV AMG is only rated for 235 miles of range?

It's an SUV still. It's just here to do performance SUV things, which is straight line acceleration along with "okay" handling characteristics.

YES! An RS6 Avant is definitely dream car status. As much as I love the RS7, I'd take an RS6 Avant over it pretty easily.

I agree with the first part, people using speaker phone in public. I think most everybody sees/hears that and it drives the other 90% of us nuts. I don't know why it's so annoying, because it really is just like two peole talking and we wouldn't complain about two people in a waiting room talking, but it drives me nuts. I guess it's mostly because these people talk so loud as is they're trying to shout to each other and the microphone isn't picking up anything. The second part about people listening to loud music that you occasionally hear, just sounds like a grumpy old man. There's no way you hear their music for more than a minute or two at a stop light and then it's gone. There's nothing wrong with them listening to their music loud. That's not bad parenting, unless it's clearly done on purpose TO disturb people, but I highly doubt that. How often are you hearing music that's so loud that it's disturbing to you? I can't remember the last time I heard somebody's car system that loud. Come to the Midwest, we're quite the chill people!

It's been that way for like, what, 10 years..? That didn't happen overnight. Like what? I think @oldshurst442 has something to say about not caring...

I'll take lower gasoline prices... 🤷‍♂️

I've driven an SQ7 at a measly 500hp and that thing hauled. I can't imagine being a whole lot quicker, but a horsepower rating starting with a '6' sure does sound good.

Same *Olds* same *Olds* 🤣🤣

That's insane that they would cancel the auto transmission for the V6. I guess that was their way to force people into something more economical.

I didn't announce anything. You told me to leave and I said I likely would. You need to chill the fck out. The problem is, people aren't coming. They're just leaving. How many new regulars have showed up in the last year? Two years? Three years? How many have left or rarely post anything anymore? We know of a few.

I likely will be, if politics are continually brought up in every single post. I don't come to automotive sites to talk politics. If I wanted to do that, I'd be on political pages.

Whine, like everybody has been here about politics? No wonder there are only like 5 people routinely around here.

Nah, I find it really easy to not talk politics.

It's just lovely that politics are brought up in every single thread...