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  1. surreal1272
    Well, after all the hub but from Trump, it appears that Ford is going to do what it wants to do. Any insight on this @William Maley or @Drew Dowdell? https://www.yahoo.com/news/ford-not-scrapping-plans-build-mexico-factories-company-021839351.html
  2. surreal1272
    Exactly my point but he insisted on creating this imaginary number so it will be used against him at every opportunity. Based on his "logic", I should just pull up pick up sales comparing the U.S. (One country mind you) against all of Europe. Let's see how that stacks up shall we lol?
  3. surreal1272
    No you specifically said Buick and GMC. Don't backtrack on what you literally said. You will notice that I never said Buick was luxury either. You also don't get to compare the Denali to a commercial truck since it is NOT a commercial truck. It is a luxury SUV, end of story. Good grief. Where do you come up with the pointless comparisons? I also don't care if the CLA is more than the LaCrosse. Of course, it's only a $300 difference so to that I say "big whoop". Remember, Mercedes is luxury right? It should be more expensive. Luxury just doesn't include the CLA since it doesn't meet your imaginary $70K threshold. And no one, and I mean no one, has ever said that high end cars don't make money. That is just another make believe scenario by your to try and change the very narrative you set up.
  4. surreal1272
    What a joke. A huge part of MBs R&D is going towards the lower end of the EV market (remember, they do own Smart). The rest? Who knows but MB is playing against GM in that regard, not just Cadillac, and GM throws just as much cash towards R&D as Benz so you can just drop that silly comparison right now. Oh, and regarding your Buick/GMC and the $70K threshold for luxury, I have one for you. The Yukon Denali, which starts at $66K and easily crosses your magical and imaginary mark for luxury (which btw, eliminates half of Mercedes current lineup, making them not luxury either).
  5. surreal1272
    Exactly. He talks about the price of luxury being $70k while MBs best sellers are a FWD crossover that's no better than your average Buick and a pseudo luxury C Class and yet another FWD CLA that is damn sure not luxury when it starts at $32K. It's that bar moving that he likes to do that ends up trapping him in almost every conversation. So what it is when Benz fills their lineup with $30K bottom feeders like the CLA and $25K vans? You have plenty of excuses but no real rationale.
  6. surreal1272
    On the next edition of "Why Bother?"....
  7. surreal1272
    Jaguar frustrates me to no end. They make some of the most beautiful cars on the road today but that reliability (and maintenance issues in general like overpriced parts) makes me run for the hills, never to return.
  8. surreal1272
    Umm no. The difference in what you are saying and what I'm saying is quite simple actually. The ENTIRE Fiat/Alfa line was garbage than and is garbage today. That cannot be said about GM, Ford, or Chrysler for that matter. Sorry you have a blindness to them but I am not going to sugarcoat the many issues with Fiat or Alfa and there are many.
  9. surreal1272
    For the record I am only referring to Alfa and Fiat and regardless of what parts they are sharing, it is still being run by company with an entire line of unreliable cars with horrible resale. Sorry but the numbers and the reports don't lie (And no I am not talking about that rag known as consumer reports). And using one bad GM tranny vs. decades of Fiat garbage is not exactly an apples to apples comparison. GM had their issues but it is not even close to comparable to what Fiat and Alfa had going on. In short, it was crap then and it is crap now (again, speaking of Fiat and Alfa only here).
  10. surreal1272
    Well of course every make has had it garbage years and yes the 60s and 70s were unkind to quite a few of them. The problem with Fiat/Alfa (leaving their domestic side out of this) is that they never stopped being garbage. They ran out of this country the first time because their cars were bigger piles of dung than the other dung of the 60s and 70s. It's not even debatable. Sorry and again I'm not picking on them "just because". I'm picking on them because I understand their history and saw those piles up close (namely Alfa Spyders and Fiat XTs) and evidently it has taken on a new form called the 500. They have garbage resale value for a reason. No offense but no one will change my mind on Fiat ever.
  11. surreal1272
    I am talking about their current crop of cars. Overall, they are just as troublesome as they were in the 70s and 80s, even if the reasons are different. FCA overall spends a lot of time at the bottom of a lot of reliability charts. For the record, I'm not just taking smack to talk smack about FCA. I owned my Dodge for eight years and it was the best car I've ever owned overall but I'm not so delusional about it to think that all Dodges are trouble free just because mine wasn't. They have gotten better overall, but so has the competition and that's the problem here.
  12. surreal1272
    Or it could be based off of a solid history of unreliable products. Sorry, but Alfa and Fiat earned their reputations for very good reasons and it doesn't appear to have changed much. One look at its problems overseas tells me that.
  13. surreal1272
    Maybe it would be a better idea to scrap Alfa altogether.
  14. surreal1272
    Such a perfect day outside today. Even better than yesterday. Now, if only I didn't have to work today.
  15. surreal1272
    That's good but it does seem like Toyota is pulling the Ford treatment (the current Expy) and letting it languish by not giving a fresh re-design on the outside as well. BTW, where are these other pictures? I'm guessing that it probably matches what's in the Tundra now?
  16. surreal1272
    Many Canadians are unaware that Canada continues to carry an anti-blasphemy law in the criminal code. Criminal Code Section 296 is the law which has remained on Canadian books since 1892. Blasphemy laws are, by their very design, contrary to the idea of secularism – the separation of church and religion from the state and laws which govern people. Source: http://centreforinquiry.ca/canadas-blasphemous-libel-law/ So my question is, if this law has been in Canada for over a century, why is it only now that certain folks are concerned?
  17. surreal1272
    Still cannot get around the fact that they ripped of Ford so bad with those tail lights and that interior. Just pointless.
  18. surreal1272
    Welcome to the perfect version of winter in my view.
  19. surreal1272
    Go read your status, look at your past status claims of rigged elections by Soros, check all the negative votes you gave a few months back (right before your buddy was banned), your insults towards other posters here (I am not talking about just myself here) and try to convince me that you are not the biggest snowflake here. In fact, you remind me of this. Be careful. There may be a bad old Muslim knocking on your door. And you have the stupidity to call others "snowflakes". ------------- Back to a random thought, Saw this yesterday (only in black) and wished I hadn't.
  20. surreal1272
    Says the "man" calling others snowflakes when most conservatives are the biggest snowflakes around, including yourself. Again, you are not that slick or cunning so stop pretending to be.
  21. surreal1272
    Agreed. That was the first thing I noticed. Save for the wheel well (btw who cares what they're shaped like) that profile is Tahoe/Suburban all the way. Sorry but it is that obvious. It is still light years better looking than the current Expy though.
  22. surreal1272
    No one here has been unreasonable. We are all just speculating at this point.
  23. surreal1272
    True on the sunroof but we don't know that their weight claim includes that.
  24. surreal1272
    It is dimensionally bigger than the outgoing model too so that could be a small factor there.
  25. surreal1272
    Three features the GM twins don't have 10 speed auto 3.5L Ecoboost V6 aluminum. Thats all I could find (although there may be more that I'm missing) making it's extra weight even more of a mystery.
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