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Suaviloquent

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  1. The problem I see with the Giulia is that FCA, if they truly want Alfa Romeo to build on this.... will have to keep this car fresh every 5-6 years. They won't get away with letting cars get old like the LX's, or the long in tooth (but worth it) product cycle of the RAM's... I also think that Alfa Romeo with its new focus for luxury and sport, like most Italian brands of sports cars and exotics.... is incompatible with electric power-trains. Hybrids maybe, but full electric... There's no point. Imagine a world many years from now... where the electric version is the regular model and the high performance model still has an internal combustion engine, and you'll pay a gas guzzler tax on top of that...
  2. This vehicle shows how throwing money at the Alfa problem was not a very good solution.
  3. Thanks olds... Back to what Hyundai is doing right with Genesis. They are immediately doing the luxury bit of having seperate dealers, and the amenities of proper loaners and service being part of Genesis brand only. And they are doing what Hyundai does for mainstream cars - packing features at a lower price point. I'd almost say the Genesis is overpriced since it has no heritage but dammit, I expect a Hyundai using Hyundai tech with a mee-to badge will be more reliable than anything from Germany. Cadillac here did not have to do either. Almost all of us agree that the LWB ATS would have done better here. Even the young folk who deride Cadillac but secretly drive a CRV or Hyundai..or worse... don't drive...expect a Cadillac to be the old Cadillac while demanding a German car equivalent. And they want a Tesla only...heavens no never step into a Cadillac dealer... no comrade... no competition... we have commune... we hev tech, you hev car...car hev iPad - I give u money ... U give me Model 3. SILLY NONSENSE.
  4. I almost thought I was looking at couch or bedframe that someone took off the furnishing. Yup the Grand Prix garage Couch edition
  5. I think the issue is really the price premium. Cadillac can't seem to make any correct play because of short-terminism. Like look at Lexus. They had the great intro of the Lexus LS. And the new model has basically botched it by trying to be something the Lexus LS never was. You could say that large luxo sedans aren't Cadillacs thing but they sell plenty of XTS. Okay maybe the people buying them will die with them, but nothing kills consumer enthusiasm than a make announcing a new model and then saying they're gonna cancel it a couple months later. This gives value priced Genesis a chance to enter with zero expectations of living up to a brand ideal that used to exist. Cadillac and Lincoln used to dominate. Now they don't. 1 token 4 year lifecycle almost there sedan that we never really wanted to build anyways isn't gonna go anywhere but down once you go out in public and say I'm gonna kill it.
  6. It is built on the only new transverse platform that FCA has, everything else is still based off of an older Fiat one. It's so weird, you'd think that FCA would be clamoring to build more vehicles off of this, if it makes a very competitive minivan it can make for a very good 2/3 row midsize crossover.
  7. I always wanted to like the XE, but damn it's horrible electrical issues and horrific reliability.
  8. Get the outside of the XE, the engine out of the BMW, the interior of the C Class, the tech of the Audi, the sound of the Alfa, the driving dynamics and edge of the Cadillac, the reliability of the Lexus, the spaciousness of the Infiniti and the price of the Hyundai. I want that car.
  9. I appreciate the 'in terms of the segment it competes in'. That's the way to describe the segment in general...the EcoSport, C-HR are so fugly that even Hyundai makes a better entry than those! I just hope that GM will have CT6 parts available maybe 8 years down the line, I will be looking to get my dad into one for surprise. I wouldn't be able to afford running, clean vintage one like he remembers from reading about America decades ago. In Canada they have no RWD model, which to me is a bummer as I'd rather buy a set of winter tires and have him enjoy the RWD which even he grew up with.
  10. I always feel that when Bentley or Rolls talk about weight, it's usually about something that isn't heavy enough. Battery density...they just want to biggest and largest batteries to be as heavy as possible too. By having the largest density possible, pack on the lard!
  11. Well the whole issue is that GM isn’t saying what the implication of their recent 5 plant statement is. They appear as to be hiding the truth. And if they are going to produce any car still in America and do it because it’s profitable the market will call their bluff on the spot. E.i. their car sales have declined partially due to poor feature content, the market demands higher cost on features and less on labour. That’s why import brands sell well there. Sedans as whole are declining. It’s a segment people know now GM really has little interest in. A reversal would damage GM equally as much as leaving. GM is in a position where they cannot be provided any incentive to build these products any more. Why should the employees dictate their product plans? Well, if GM sees that their viability in the U.S is in any way at risk because a large group of stakeholders, their employees are disloyal to the company, again, why would they allocate product? Only an untenable situation like banning GM products wholesale and getting 100% American parts will keep production, but then the hammer has to hit every nail. You’d lose the next election cause the people want choice. And they’ve made their choice. Sedans are the ones to die.
  12. Coach doors on an Aviator would be amazing. It would be the making of Lincoln great again.
  13. Honestly, I myself don’t really think of GM as an entry level car brand anymore either. I don’t desire their products being cancelled, and if I had the means right now then hell yes I’ll get a CT6. Even a 2.0T RWD, I don’t need the fancy Platinum. Even still my dream has always been to gift my dad brand new a Cadillac sedan one day. But that dream will not be fufilled if a few American workers...or an army of robots in America did not build it. That’s why I hate the idea of an imported Cadillac, any, even the basest off stripper fleet special in the home market because... it’s not popular here... because it hasn’t earned the market’s respect for it... so they won’t build it here. GM was right to cancel the plug-in, but the entire line? Damn. As a millennial, living in the city, right now having my first real salaried and managerial entry for my career (before being 24 yrs old woot!) I see GM and just look the other way. But that’s the same way with all cars. I still drive... I irrationally desire a Tesla, only because they’re a small player and out of spite I want a different brand that starts with T to topple Toyota.... People still desire cars irrationally - Cadillac cause my dad ingrained his aspiration into me that became my aspiration. Tesla because they’re just making such a different proposition, that every other car will try to be just like ours eventually.... Then their wife and kids bring their objectivity and thirst for practically to you and you get a crossover instead. The end.
  14. Very well done. If GM workers can convince Americans and Canadians to boycott their product and forcing GM to hemmorage profits and recommit to local manufacturing...it would be one of the last hurrahs of labour conquering capital...damn if it’s Unionized they will want to burn GM down to the ground if nothing is done.
  15. they package the 6.2 like this on the AT4? It’s so absurd because you’re already getting a bigger more powerful V8!
  16. Leather is just wrapped over a conventional wheel, and AFAIK, to wrap a wheel, any, even an econobox wheel with cowhide - it’s still a manual labour process. That drives up the cost, in terms of an option, it’s not that profitable to have it a la carte on an economy car, and automakers are incentivized to bundle them up. Making standard on a trim really speaks to what priorities different automakers take. GM now wants to build desirable products that don’t use feature content as the sales proposition. You can’t beat the Asian brands that are collosal conglomerates in their home markets and are more vertically integrated by trying to replicate them without that monopololistic structure. Thus you get Camaro shaped lifted hatchbacks that someone will buy, but really none of us ever will. Lots of crossovers that emphasize technyess. A Bolt that uses up its tax credits, while enraging the President by doing sound business (get it?), likely killing any hope that GM would get covered with a potential tax subsidy extension, while a Hyundai product sneaks in and unsurps the Bolt by being priced like but offering more. The new Chevy trucks are kinda meh because GM went for cost savings- they said it themselves - we want to beat Ford when it comes to cost, while skimping on creature comfort features while expanding some decent productivity capability and introducing just an incremental update to their power trains. I think the Multi pro tailgate will be a reliability headache as it introduces so many more moving parts - better charge more for it and not saddle the economy truck buyer with it, just like Ford’s handy but kinda overcomplicated bed step with handle. I am not really interested in any GM product except Cadillac because it’s the styling which just isn’t my cup of tea. And the good looking vehicles are not going to be replaced when their product cycle ends.
  17. I never conceal, I own up and say that I produce natural gas because there’s constant chemical reactions occurring that result in gaseous products and the ability to perform work. Bad smells means the worst of it is exiting and not being retained internally. Good. Mans good fart smells means good gut bacteria and vitality. Also good. I’ve never had a bad fart ever.
  18. I think RAM and Jeep faithful will gobble up a new inline six, they could get away with calling it a HEMI as long as they get the power and the smoothness. RAM HDs have a history of using inline six, so RAM light duty already makes sense, and Jeep - everywhere really. Inline six can scale and having just bolt ons like replacing the head while having a common block is amazing, they don’t have to cost cut too much to meet the price point of a Jeep with V6 or Pacifica. This can be a very good engine. Especially if the Hellcat people, Alfa people, Maserati and Ferrari people are involved in making the block very stout as a starting point.
  19. Wonder if they’ll use Hemi combustion chamber design for the inline six. Then it’s a HEMI. But HEMI designs were phased out everywhere...pipe dream to make a Hemi out of a non-hemi.
  20. Now I’m having an image stuck in my head I can’t get rid of. Imagine you have both an Escalade and Navigator. Can’t decide which one to be seen in at your destination? why not drive one while towing the other? Such an American problem with an American solution.
  21. The Slade is like the M60 Patton while the Navigator is like the USS Fletcher. as in they are either a tank or a big boat, are capable of towing both, each other and at the same time and are at the heart spin offs of proven truck platforms. Tons and tons of Pattons were built to counter a Cold War threat that never came to and like more Fletchers were built in 3 years than the entire IJN navy fleet tonnage on WW2. Something like that.
  22. I think GM realized that their Dohc V8 was a legacy design for the times when competing against Germans tit for tat made sense. I think they'll offer only one engine. If they are finally making a VSeries then that would explain it.
  23. Jaguar can have 2 sporty models in the F Type and XE, but all the rest gotta be high tech and luxo first. And reliable. Jaguar has a loss in one quarter...worst auto company ever.... basically Tesla has a loss...oh they're still winning and continuing to make themselves great again, OMG model Y, Model Truck, Model Roadster, such billions in losses to develop those, such greatness. 😝
  24. What do you think of this? The arguments seem quite rational.
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