Stew
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Yes, with a luxury car the dealership experience is very important. Even the showroom itself is important. The Audi dealership was high class with wood floors and warm tones everywhere and at least one example of every model they offer in the interior showroom for you to browse (I am such a kid just sitting in a new R8 gave me a hue smile). he Chevy/Cadillac dealership is all white, white walls, white floors, flimsy seats, in other words nothing special. Cadillac needs their own showrooms period.
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I will say i become more convinced everyday that Cadillac needs to work on heir quality. My brother's ATS at less than 10k miles has already had to have the entire CUE head-unit replace and some features such as the lighted entry, only work sometimes. He has also had to have the PCM flashed for rough idling. Add to that the fact that for courtesy cars he always gets Impala Limiteds where as the Audi dealership had A3s and Q5s as their loaners. If Cadillac wants to be taken seriously they really need to work out the bugs and get WAY moe serious about their dealership experience.
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What? CUVs are the hot things right now and EVERY Jeep sales like hotcakes as does the Ram. The Ram vans even do decent for being commercial vans. the LX cars still sell more than enough to be extremely popular. Look at GM and Ford to a lesser extent having to close down factories for their cars (even new ones). You simply hate FCA. I wish ou would just stop and admit it. Nothing wrong with it, but coming in and starting a bash-fest on EVERY SINGLE FREAKING FACE THREAD GETS OLD!
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I can pretty well guarantee you will see cars come back to Dodge dealerships. I see no problem with them outsourcing for their midsize and compacts, as something GM did with Toyota and Ford with Mazda. The fact is that right now it is more important for them to fill their portfolios with what sells and that is SUV/CUVs. Let's be honest here. The importance o the Dart was not sales or even longevity in the marketplace. It was a tool that they used to get over the 40 MPG barrier that allowed Fiat to purchase more of Chrysler. The 200 was actually a nice car, it just needed tweaked which could have happened with a nice MCE, but the plant space right now is better used for more profitable trucks (much as GM did when they killed the B-bodies in 96 and replaced them with fullsize trucks in the factory). The problem here is like wins said, that is a lot of newer product on newer platforms to be stopping the factories on. We will see the LX replacements because their usage of the new Alfa platform has to happen to make it financially viable, as much as the Camaro is the price leader for the Alpha range. Honestly, with their more complete SUV/CUV ranges FCA, Ford, and Toota are in some of the best positions right now to give people what they want.
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I still find it funny that people bitch about the platform when 9% don't know or care how old the platform is, much the reason why Ford was able to use the Fox and Panther platforms for 30ish years (and they still use an old Volvo platform from the 90s for some of their highest volume vehicles). The full-size segment is unfortunately a dying one and i doubt Chrysler, the brand, has much life left anyway. In any case huge sales for one model are not a necessity since they have 3 models pumping out of the same plant. We know new models are coming and when so the continual bitching about the age of the platform is little more than spiteful whining.
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Today I am making a classic rock (70sish) playlist, woot lol.
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Hehe, comparisons sake and a backup. If i remember right the 13 didn't have the air suspension but rather just a ride height increase. I think weird a lot of times haha.
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New: 1. Challenger SRT 392 2 Grand Cherokee Trailhawk Used: 1. Less than 3 years: 2013 Grand Cherokee trailhawk 2. 5+ YO 2011 6/Z07 Used 10+ yrs Buick GNX
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They can be tough to deal with to say the least.
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OH YES! Some days or me it is rock, some days classical, somedays give me some Johnny cash and little Dolly haha.
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My anxiety is bad today and some good classical helps to calm me haha.
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Gas prices, they spike, then go down and level out higher than they were and repeat the cycle again and again.
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I am talking when prices started to soar talking anywhere from 2001 to around 2010. Believe me, I remember when gas went from just over a dollar a gallon to 2.50+ a gallon lol.
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going from my usual late 90s/early 2ks (and a couple newer artist) rock to emotional classical today.
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The future of fuel efficiency is small CUVs and that is what they are coming out with, as are many other manufacturers. remember, when gas prices spiked your average small car was lucky to et 30 on the highway and CUVs low/mid 20s. Now CUVs are in the 30s, right in that sweet spot. Small and midsize car sales are going to continue to shrink regardless of gas prices.....
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There is an interesting article on Allpar that makes total sense. http://www.allpar.com/news/2016/12/big-rams-held-back-a-bit-35534 Why risk production capacity of the much hotter and profitable LD to get the factory tuned for the new HD a little sooner? Like everyone else they had always had a 1 to 2 year stagger between the LD and HD trucks anyway.
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No big deal, there is almost always a couple year difference between the intro of a lD and HD versions of a fullsize truck (ie F-150 in 15, Super Duty in 17). Just more rhetoric to give the naysayers something to latch onto. the LD is FAR more important here.
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