Jump to content
News
Reviews
Discussons
Activity
Create New...
Close

ccap41

New Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    11,605

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    83

 Content Type 

Everything posted by ccap41

  1. ccap41
    Yeah, they show so much blind bias when they award GM products awards and even at the beginning of the review they said how much they liked the previous LaX. I love it when fanboys always claim X magazine is so biased when they award all sorts of manufacturers all sorts of awards. Ford wins, GM wins, MB wins, BMW wins, VW wins, Nissan wins, Toyota wins, Honda, FCA... the list goes on and on but they're biased.. you're right. Maybe the previous gen used real stitching. Even worse to know they downgraded to molded plastic. How classy of them.
  2. ccap41
    Good lord, man. You think they have any reason to make that stuff up??? " It also took a lot of heat for fake wood that wouldn’t fool a toddler and fake stitching on the dash top that isn’t even carried around the corners, much less actually joining anything." LaX Review
  3. ccap41
    It's fake if it is anything like the LaX. MT just pointed that out in their review of it.
  4. ccap41
    Any insight if it would make its way into the Mustang..?!?!? That'd be awesome to have the 2.3 as the base engine, 2.7 middle engine, and then 5.0 for the top engine(minus the GT350 and forthcoming GT500). Heck, I'm one of those... Once I got used to my Escape and not falling down into it, I love that about it. It isn't like I'm all out of shape and get winded getting in and out of a car but it's so nice to get in at about the same height as I'm standing. No step up, no step down... juuuuuust right.
  5. ccap41
    Being "pretty luxurious" and being a "luxury vehicle" are not the same thing. Maybe I should have just said, "Humping one company just for the sake of is why you lose credibility." But what I said was shorter.
  6. ccap41
    Aaaaaaaaaand that's how you lose credibility.
  7. ccap41
    See that sounds like how it should be and how the Caddy dealer I have gone to works as well. Random-ish, but my local Ford dealer will actually pick my car up from the "park and ride" bus stop I park at and drop it off before I get back and I just have to stop in and pay when I do get back to my car.
  8. ccap41
    Wow, I like the center console section of the Toyota much better than the Lexus. Neither center stack looks all that great in these pictures but neither looks bad either.
  9. ccap41
    If your beloved Implala is so "premium" then WTF is the LAX doing?!?! The Impala isn't premium. Buick is premium, Cadillac is Luxury. To not only skip over Buick for a loaner and jump down to the lowest totem pole for a loaner..sucks as a customer. Let me spend my 60k on a gorgeous Cadillac and when it has issues(because they will at the very least have some recall) lend me a damn Chevy.. when CADILLAC made a recallable part. Or they at least put it under their hoods. Or, as Stew has pointed out.. If I spend my 60k on an Audi... at least I get a damn Audi when AUDI is the one who made the broken part.
  10. ccap41
    First, I never said my FORD was premium. I said an Impala isn't premium. The Impala is a Chevy.. simple as that. If it was premium it would have a Caddy badge on it and be labeled XTS. Not that an Impala is a bad car, it just isn't premium. It isn't something a Caddy owner should get as a loaner. That's just my opinion and possibly thousands of other's opinions as well as Caddy's sales lag behind their competition or maybe nobody other than Stew agrees with me.
  11. ccap41
    GM also has two tiny utes that Ford doesn't have anything for quite yet in the Trax and Encore(the latter of which has sold like crazy). Cadillac is the only brand lacking SUVs but as a whole GM has the bases covered from Trax to Escalade ESV.
  12. ccap41
    You also think an Impala is premium though...and are obsessed with everything GM makes. The Impala isn't a bad car but if you're somebody who's a badge snob(a majority of people buying anything with a luxury emblem on it) then you don't want anything Chevy. The Caddy dealership I went to recently was stand alone and they had a Caddy fleet of loaners that they have a contract through GM to sell once they hit I think 3 years or X miles(maybe 2 years). That makes sense to me. Seems as if they will treat their customers better and still be able to make a dime when they go to sell them. I'm not talking about oil change loaners as much as warranty repair that may take a day or two or even a week, a length of time tat you should have a similarly high quality loaner.
  13. ccap41
    I think this is actually a huge issue. While it isn't such a huge deal.. it is at the same time. You don't loan somebody who's spent 40-100k on a Cadillac a Chevy Impala or Chevy anything.
  14. ccap41
    Best of luck with all of the family and household things you're busy with! Personally, I don't know how a site can absorb that much of ones time/concentration(minus drew as he's the owner). Do what ya gotta do and we will be here still, lol. Graphic design and advertising(and anything involving those two - hello car mags that we all tend to read so much into) are two pretty popular careers with art degrees.
  15. ccap41
    It's plain but not boring, imo. Perspective could also be said about Caddy's more aggressive hard lines built in. I like them but not everybody else does. It's a more polarizing style compared to the Conti. Conti is plain and simple but it has less polarizing style.
  16. ccap41
    Random but I saw a black Conti yesterday in a mall parking lot. Damn good looking vehicle. It isn't attention grabbing or anything crazy special but it just looks damn good. Nothing offensive, just clean and simple.
  17. ccap41
    In all fairness the R is in a league of its own.. well the RS populates that party as well but the GTI is more comparable and it's depreciated pretty hard as well(so my friend has said about his 2012 GTI).
  18. ccap41
    You took that line as them saying it is sporty???? Yes, I did read the whole article and nothing in it even insinuated that it was sporty.
  19. ccap41
    Exactly what Lincoln doesn't give a crap about and they made it loud and clear they aren't making a sports car. MT has never said that it is some kind of sports car either so I'm not sure why you're saying people will "take their word" to buy the Lincoln to try and line up against a CT6.
  20. ccap41
    One huge plus that I hope Lincoln will be engraining in all of their autos is this is the first Lincoln to not be covered with Ford switchgear. They finally have their own stuff!! I think something small like that will make a huge difference for those who say, "this is just a gussied up Ford". The guy is really corny but there were some small things I didn't know about the car that I learned.
  21. ccap41
    Oh yeah I forgot that my breakfasts consist of 2-3 hard boiled eggs and a protein bar.. The eggs are bland but they're simple and quick aaaaand cheap..lol I can eat chicken all of the time but I also prepare it differently each week switching between different spices or sauces so it isn't that bad.
  22. ccap41
    I don't think Lincoln cares it isn't matching or besting anybody in the performance categories as that isn't what it was designed to do. Image is for a comparison.
  23. ccap41
    Congrats @Suaviloquent! that's a great accomplishment! It definitely sounds like you're building a lot more muscle than you've ever had and that's great. I really messed up not taking a before picture/measurements back last April or May when I turned things up to 9(If I'm being honest I know damn well I could be eating even better). But at that point I found workouts to do instead of my own make-shift workouts and stuck to them as closely as I could with varying amounts of time and gym equipment. I weighed 188 and I was still working out 3-4 days a week, mostly 3.. But the day I weighed myself at 188, which was the most I've ever weighed myself, I knew it wasn't good weight.. So I made an immediate change. Like I said, I found a workout that was brutal and stuck to it as closely as I could and I made sure to bring my lunches to work. I was prepping about 4lbs of baked chicken(per week) and some form of vegetable that I'd like. I've been doing this ever since as well. I'm pretty picky so that wasn't the easiest but I found a few things to make. Well I finished the 12 week workout the third week of July(it was my float trip week is how I know that..perfect timing as well) and weighed 168. 20lbs lost in 12 weeks. I have since stayed within 2.5 lbs of 168(most I've weighed myself is 171.5 since then). That's a good weight for myself and I've slowly been gaining muscle so I've also been dropping fat still so that's good. I'm fine weighing around there for being 5'8". Buuuut the whole point of that is I wish I would have taken a picture of myself when I first started that at 188lbs to compare that to what I look like now at 168ish.
  24. ccap41
    I don't see the staggered updates as a bad thing because what @Stew said, he's right. Same as GM. The issue I do see is that yet another product was put on delay. If it was planned as a year or two stager that would be fine, but it wasn't. So, I'm not surprised.
  25. ccap41
    ..go on..
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.

Hey there, we noticed you're using an ad-blocker. We're a small site that is supported by ads or subscriptions. We rely on these to pay for server costs and vehicle reviews.  Please consider whitelisting us in your ad-blocker, or if you really like what you see, you can pick up one of our subscriptions for just $1.75 a month or $15 a year. It may not seem like a lot, but it goes a long way to help support real, honest content, that isn't generated by an AI bot.

See you out there.

Drew
Editor-in-Chief

I've whitelisted
Continue without support

Write what you are looking for and press enter or click the search icon to begin your search