Suaviloquent

That steering wheel is really phat. Phatty patty. Must need big hands. I assure you that's not a problem.

I like the car. I mean, it's differentiated very well. I like the four leaf clover, lucky cherms...

Awesome!

Very slick, possibly lickable. Much good, nah?

But you know what. I can also go balls out and get a Hellcat Charger for the same dough in the durango tango fango mango colour.

I would say it's NOT next-gen gamma, but regardless, it doesn't matter. I'd Kappa before any Nano, or a dumb IQ or lowly Smart or averse Versa.

Subaru makes the nicest free-range chicken burger you can buy at A&W. MOAR LE BERGEUR.

The car actually sounds kinda nice. I mean... it's got pedigree - atleast the Quadrillion* (can't spell anymore, broke my neck [figuratively]) I mean... why not? Just to be clear I'm also averse to the stupid strategy, but it's seems like they have a nice car here. But how will it be priced? Well crappy engineering certainly isn't cheap, and since this thing is engineering really well, I guess they're going for a premium price point relative to rivals. I hope they get quashed like Bombardier. Unlike them, Cadillac is already owning and now perhaps even Jaguar have cornered the segment space left by BMW. Can it take from all on top of getting more? And I'm not sure if this platform will be shared with Mopar U.S. LLC. For example - the GC's platform was supposed to underpin the Maserati Levante. But that didn't happen... I think Sergio is worried that a less expensive Alfa sold as an American Dodge would kill the Alfa. Certainly yes if they share dealers. So what gives? I mean, are they trying to turn Alfa into the affordable, pratical Ferrari?

Just did a terrible assignment. Someone else from a different team said they hated their team. I asked to be added to the list for glutton for punishment. I'm ready to get my neck broken...and much worse.

I'd get the Cadillac CTS. But I'd definitely do and after-market upgrade to get the original grilled the CTS came with. This....

The new Tango Mango Durango Fango paint job tho. You know what, screw it. Challenger Hellcat. I'm Indian so, Mangos are like our cousins. Yeah that's about right.

Looks less distinctive. I would now consider the Spark to be like 90% of this car for like 75% of the price. I'd get the Spark.

CLA is worse than Buick and even less than Ford Focus in some very important respects - Solidity. It's so terrible that even CR used its membership data to find that most members HATE the car, and want to replace it. What Mercedes has probably done is lose a lot of middle sales. What I mean is that before CLA and CLA, people would lease closer to base C and GLK models. Now, they lease optioned up CLAs and GLCs. Whatever these Germans makes have done is that they have diluted their brand image, and it's not their competitive strength nor what their brand identity is about. That's why a CLA is Mercedes-Pretendz and BMW 1 Series and X1 are first losers. The XTS is awesome. And for the same reason the Lincoln is going to be awesome too. For people who want space, pace and grace. Besides, those two cars are pariahs of style. And they have old-world style luxury. Spiffy interior, luxury looks and private jet space.

Ehh, survival of the fittest. More and more people just view cars as appliances. As such, even in commoditzed goods - you can still make a name for yourself. I would only buy GE or Whirlpool or Kenmore for example

Eh for sake of convenience I'm just going by new cars - Fusion Sport 2.7T - Lincoln MKX Black Label 2.7T (I'm just in love with the styling when it's in black and the brown leather. I would also try to get body colour painted cladding. It'll make the thing look kinda sexifull. For a crossover. Plus, I really want to re-enact Matthew Mcconaughey dream sequence on my own because technology and stuff). - Mazda CX-9 2.5T - Alfa Romeo Quadrifoglio (Why not?) - Volvo V90 T8 Honourable mentions to CT6, and Canyonado, but I'd like them fully loaded in my dreams, and otherwise would never settle for their smaller displacement engines. And in my dreams I'm not worried about paying for gas/diesel, so please f**** the eco and GIMME ALL THEM BOOST.

- Chevy Fusion - Ford Malibu - Golf 1.8T Sportwagen - Honda Civic 1.5T coupe - Chevy Volt

Winter is Trumping!!! His face at 2:33 is just priceless!

Sorry I was mesmerized by the tig ol' bitties in the gif. Thanks Olds. Keeping it real.

The front end reminds me of the last-gen RAV4. I think it's a pretty decent update. But I'm the kind who'd try to egg my better half to get the minivan just for nostalgia's sake and for being politically correct.

But the hybrid has the exclusive paint tho. And it looks like a bullet train, and for a people mover, I think that's an excellent styling idea.

You're gonna need to shore up an extra $177,995. I'd get neither really. I don't really like either of them.

My issue here is that all some folks have managed to prove is that styling is subjective. And on those merits, that person who nitpicks the designs of cars certainly isn't a designer anymore. And what qualifies him? I've read more of his pieces. Some designers loathe his analysis. So what would you say to that? Ian and Moray Callum - the designers at the helm of the designing of the beloved Jagaurs, the recent Ford GT, and others don't like him. I don't even like the Continental - I just like domestic vehicles, finally, and that designer did also say was that the interior was pretty damn good - and was thoroughly American. Especially if his highest praise of a vehicle is that it is "interesting." Ultimately, the Continental will be successful for Lincoln in China. It's here in America just because. And ultimately, they've figured out that their buyers aren't looking for brash marketing about daring to be great aka - becoming a driver's machine when everyone is starting to loath driving for the majority of situations. Lincoln cannot possibly at this time or ever be the BMW competitor. That's not even in the formula for their identity. And honestly, all this talk of Cadillac, and we yet to see their definitive halo car. This is coming from me - who you all know would never hesitate to plunk money down on the CT6 first above all. I can bring up an anecdote of an auto journalist you all know of, who's probably cheered at MT more than anyone else for Cadillac, but he went on to say that Cadillac should fire its interior designers for the ultimately subjective conclusion that he made that the interior leather was clearly lacking. But of course, he won't get the same attribution to expertise. And Cadillac better respect that power of branding, because the Germans continue to throw curve-balls. Cadillac needs a big win at the top of their range that sets the entire brand together. I'm not talking about their excellent top-end performance. I'm talking about a halo car. The ones that they're going to build, but perhaps too late. Subjective opinion is not fact nor is it truth. Especially for styling. And I saw the Continental in person, and I immediately stuck how the only game in town for that kind of look is one of two hyper-luxury English tanks. Everyone else is leaving a vast market in styling. I don't care how the Continental looks - atleast the folks at Lincoln figured out that chasing after Cadillac or BMW isn't their forte nor should it be.

I can also go after the CT6 for having a throughly ugly mug in platinum trim with a grille that has the EXACT same outline of a Mercedes Grille, just upsized for American chromy tastes, and mention how it also has S-Class controls, and how the interior is burdened with overbearing instances of the fat crest all over the place, and the steering wheel is perhaps the ugliest one yet in the GM stable, yet it's in a Cadillac. I wish they'd swap it for the Impala steering wheel...except it's the exact design of the last gen S-class. Anyways, Cadillac has yet to deliver a true styling victory that one would expect from the El Miraj or Ciel concepts. And the CT6 is only vastly superior if you're the one driving it with the intent of driving vigorously. Otherwise, It falls short on luxury against other rivals, has less space, and the value proposition erodes on the top trim. Yet the entire segment of buyers has been going away from that for the large part. It's proven by even how the XTS continues to outsell the CTS. And if they'd continued it, it'll outsell the CT6 as well. And going after the conservative roofline is just hysterically nonsensical. How else do you maintain that traditional sedan stance? But yeah, do continue. Some people just reach and reach and reach. I don't even particularly like the car for obvious reasons, but it's a hell of a lot better targeted at the buyers of these kinds of sedans.

Actually the Conti is very spacious, they stretched the wheelbase of the CD4 platform by 4 inches. They made it with China in mind, so that point in rendered moot. And it is based on the same platform as the Taurus, except the new for 2017 China-only Ford Taurus as well. The twin-clutch AWD system will address any performance need of the intended buyer. The Conti was supposed to be a fail, I was expecting that but it's turned out far better than I thought. The CT6 is not as spacious as its length would suggest. It is narrower than the bigger cars it goes against. That's not much of an issue. As for interior quality - yeah, remember I said I was unimpressed with the interiors of many cars at the show? Well the CT6 fits in there, and that was the Platinum model. But I also have many Mercedes and BMWs there as well. But again, I would still get the CT6 before anything else. But I would also consider the Conti. If I was in the mood of style and function, then the Conti. If I wanted performance and state-of-the-art feeling then the CT6. But I like stealth wealth too, so the Conti comes pretty close. I just have to see one in the red in person, because I think the red one is excellence in styling from Lincoln. Otherwise, the XC90 and Volvo S90 were luxury kings, especially for the price.