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  1. This is not in the same league as an ATS. If you're going to drill down the "value" aspect the ATS-V Coupe is an absolute waste when they have a Camaro SS under the same roof for 40k, 50k fully loaded and ready to race. The Lexus is a grand tourer, not a race car. I think you're missing that part. It's similar to an SL Mercedes.
  2. Even if they did do it just to save a few bucks, so what? Nobody will miss it and nobody would have even known had one random person decided to write about it. There are so many variables in producing and selling cars that a couple bucks is actually a lot to save on one single thing like this. Granted, it's more like $0.30 but still.
  3. Yeah, it still seems a little odd to me but they're the profiting multi billion dollar company..not me.
  4. Ehhhh I don't think it HAS to be ICE powered and depending on how long of a break VW is taking from it will be more telling if it will come back as an ICE or not.
  5. It's kind of sad because it's probably one of the(if not THE) most iconic branded vehicles out there. Everybody and their brother knows what a VW Beetle is. I don't see if going away forever though. Maybe a little vacation to brew up some more demand then plop it down on the next Golf platform again, whenever that is.
  6. It's previous gen vs new gen, I think. I think it might have been pre-diesel exhaust fluid vs diesel exhaust fluid.
  7. It was never an issue for him because it is an EV but if it had a Mercedes logo on the front it would have immediately shrunk in size and he never would have fit a single leg in it.
  8. There's gotta be a lot of demand for a 2-seat EV right now.. Probably because there is more and more internet ordering instead of people going to stores. So while small mail is probably down(because what you said) larger packages is probably up a lot over the past 10-15 years. Probably way more than they were prepared for.
  9. Yeah it seems the more and more I see the new Equinox the less I like the looks of it.. Most new things I see I don't like initially and the look grows on me. Not so much with the Equinox.
  10. No I understood it. They're continuing to use the "old" engine instead of the one in the 2500/3500's and with that they don't have the stricter emissions requirements as it's pretty much commercial use only where there are less regulations.. why not use the more powerful and cleaner engine they have available? I know you're an advocate of cleaner vehicles and I'd think you'd want the cleaner option as well.
  11. Why would they use a detuned, less clean, version of an engine they already have? Wouldn't the extra power benefit these trucks way more than Average Dave hauling himself and his wife around in an empty-bed 3500HD?
  12. You literally cannot fit into a C Class Mercedes(your words paraphrased) but you can fit in a VW Bug. GTFO.. "I could get into and out of it compared to the MB and that is a shame considering I am 100% German and a German car company cannot seem to make a car to fit me."
  13. AMG GT is its own thing. It was never a tweaked version of anything else they make and I'm pretty sure this, much uglier, version is of the same.
  14. I'm not disputing them manufacturing their vehicles here at all. It's good for our economy for them to build here and export rather than import them everything. You just don't have any factual numbers on what percentage of leased vehicles are returned and shipped outside of the US.
  15. Those Ram, GMC, and Chevy numbers are very surprising to me.
  16. Yeah man... That has absolutely zero to do with returned leases being exported. Those are new vehicles being built here and exported.
  17. You can google any issue with any car and have a full page of results. All of those leases get returned eventually and..you guessed it..sell.
  18. Coming from the tallest person here(dfelt) who always complains about headroom.. you'd think that'd be a factor.. . I've driven an ATS and there's no way somebody 6'6" could fit in the rear. My head at 5'8" was only an inch or two from the ceiling(which had a cutout).

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