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OEM, nowhere. But turbo a Camaro or Mustang and you can get there for well under 65k. I know once you get into the aftermarket it's a weird game to play but that's the only way to get 700hp for cheaper. Obviously you will not have a nice factory warranty.
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Like the long line of $h! cars that he's been upside down in for 15 years?
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SHHIIIITTTTTT I want an RS7(Performance or not) so freakin' bad... Which engine is in the SE? Is that the 1.0T? If so, My buddy has one and he's let me drive it before... great freakin car. So much fun for a small package. The gearing was on the tall side but it is an economy car not the ST. I would easily consider one if I was in the market for this kind of car.
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I feel like this is only car-people. Most friends and family that I hear looking at cars just look whenever they feel like buying and none of them know about auto show season. They probably know that there is an auto show in STL but that's it. -
I'm not the one making a "premium" car that passed on stitching and went forward with molded plastic. Yeah it's a better overall car. But it didn't take any strides towards "premium" with fake stitching. You literally want me to go to my GM dealer and take a picture to prove this to you(because you only trust what magazines say if they're playing the GM fiddle)? Hell no. I made the statement(which was from a reputable source), you disputed it. You're the one who's in denial here, not I. It sucks that there are people out there like you and Wings because it turns people off of brands and companies for no good reason other than not wanting anything to do with a fanboy.
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ZL1 is a MONSTER!
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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.
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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
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It's fake if it is anything like the LaX. MT just pointed that out in their review of it.
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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.
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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.
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Aaaaaaaaaand that's how you lose credibility.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
