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    Yeah I don't get
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    I think the Camaro SS 1LE will be very close to this car in performance. Let's all digest that for a moment. I think the appeal of a Corvette - to me is really reduced because you can get a coupe in the same showroom, with a lot of the same tech, better daily driving, for a whole lot less. So, how do they resolve this? Charge maybe $65-68K for this base. That's my estimate of the starting MSRP.
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    Yeah. Same impression. It drives awesome as per magazine reviews. But it just isn't a practical car, and me saying it is redundant, but I think because of styling and aero and safety, coupes have become even more impractical, especially for urban driving. But yeah, I think for the person trying to justify a coupe purchase as say a daily driver but second vehicle....it's a bigger detractor than most will think. I really like the new Malibu. But I cannot resolve how the front end looks. But to reconcile that issue I reminded myself that driving the car, I wouldn't be looking at its weird front end. So the rest of the car is tasty and lickable.
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    It looks like a Kia to me. Seriously. I think the whole Kia-Audi thing has come full circle. This looks like a Kia!!! Hmmmmm...
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    Nice. Is there any way to cheaply preserve the metal or just stop the corrosion that is causing perforations in the metal?
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    I think Mazda probably needs to shove the 2.5T into the 6. I'd be all over that. All over.
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    Hey I always wonder.... The site always has the sales figure posts at the start/end of a new month for sales...but the other brands outside of American and European ones rarely get the click hits or number of comments. ....
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    What's worst is that not only are they losing sales, but they're shifting a good chunk into their least expensive X1 model. If I were them I'd be wondering if the diluted brand image is actually going to cause them to lose business of their more upscale and more prestigious models.
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    Why is Mazda down? They have crossovers... I mean, I guess people aren't buying their fuel-efficient cars as much, but their cars are gorgeous as well.
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    I sat in the new Camaro at the autoshow, finally. I'm heartbroken. It looks great, but you sit in it, and it's a bunker. If you can live with, that's great. I said it before - I would not drive a Camaro in the city, but anywhere else, for sure. The interior is on par with its competition, looks a bit more interesting than say an M2 for sure.
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    I`m not sure if it`s been made clear, but this is just going to be a different trimmed version of the Insignia. Good on GM to do so, but the Malibu is a global car as well. And the two cars IMO will be closer in this generation than the one before. Because the low-end is reaching higher, and the top-end cars are going lower. At some point there will be a lot of overlap. The new Malibu is dynamic looking and feeling too. And yes, the Buicks of today, if based on Alpha platforms and Omega, would be perfect substitutes for Cadillacs as long as Cadillac was a ultra-luxury brand not really focused on the hard-core performance, but just absolute luxury and presence. The new Regal needs presence. Every midsize sedan has already gone the European design route for sedan shapes.
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    I'm pretty sure the entire I6 discussion is about the M3/4 and how that's what they're going to keep in the M3/4. the M brand should just care about the best performance. If they can get it from partial electrification, then by all means. I think they're strongly considering a TTI6 with electric motors to power the front wheels for their M5. I would. If it can even maintain the same level of performance, but seriously cut the fuel consumption, it would help BMW both with their "Ultimate" brand - which really means they are not stuck into any drive-train configuration, but rather pick the best they have techwise they have as of this day. Would you really care what the number of cylinders is? Like really? Car enthusiasts all over will eventually or already do pop their hoods to reveal a storage cubby because there's no engine and you can put any exhaust note like switching a ringtone on a phone. Yeah. It'll happen - heck it already does happen.
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    There is a limit to how flashy you can go. Buick is above all, still known for being very comfortable. I don't want Buick to chase after any brand. So many companies think they can be better if they emulate other company's success. Of course if this was the 60s, then I'd reverse my words and say hell yes make a RWD barge like they used to. Blindly chasing sales and segments is not good. However, there is a time and place for halo vehicles. If say, Cadillac was the level of Bentley in prestige, and Buick was the level of Cadillac as it is today... would you not expect to just see the Cadillac of today reskinned as Buicks. Then the Avista would be almost what we consider the El Miraj concept, expect the El Miraj would be in production, and an Alpha coupe like the Camaro would be nowhere near as prestigious, and therefore would never overlap the Omega coupe. Some kinds of overlap are perfectly reasonable. Buick based off platforms shared by Chevy is perfectly acceptable, because by large, the new Chevy cars drive pretty awesome as it is. What they needs is the meat. And that's what they're doing. They should only get the Avista if they know for sure that the product delivers different things from any comparable Cadillac. Which is hard for me to believe.
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    Really, I just think that having a halo car is not as effective as it used to be. Having that one pricy product that is RWD, low-slung, no space is just isomorphic. You need a real stunner. You need more than even COTY. You need something that makes every brand scramble to copy you. That is the halo car. A disruptor, a latent need deliverer...the kind of vehicle that makes people say, "why didn't they think of that sooner? It's brilliant!" It doesn't have to be a coupe or sedan. It just has to capture, captivate, and create the need for that kind of proposition made by that kind of product. Cadillac's halo is still the Escalade. And Buick, I'd rather some guy who wants a nicer Buick to exist, aka has the big bucks, to just go to the Cadillac showroom. and be happier that he/she didn't have to wait... Instead of GM really wasting money to get the same customer. Even Avista 4 door will have a lot of resistance inside GM. It's not about what the brand is about. It's about how well a product fits with that strategy. It is so much easier and more effective for Buick just to have modern, stylish products. I'm no armchair product planner - but I think Buick is already doing real well or as well as they can. In global markets like China - the Buick so well known already. Avista styling on an existing name plate makes perfect sense. Make the Regal look a lot like the Avista, except perhaps overhangs and dash to axle, you're already there. Buyers don't care which wheels are driven, heck they probably think all AWD systems are the same, because they all boast superior traction and performance. People gobble up Enclaves and Encores, and want even more. They don't need a halo car that meets the traditional definition of a low-slung, future defining product. In any case, the Enclave performed the same role when it came out 6-7 years ago. It wasn't a sporty car - but it previewed into the future, and at a the time was almost unrivaled anywhere. Halo cars are myth, because sometimes they fail, they flop and no value is created. And Buick to deliver a halo car that is special, will obviously have to be better than some Cadillacs. Other carmakers also don't need to chase for sporty and coupe-like, because once everyone does that - obviously the people who need headroom and space in a sedan will go elsewhere.
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    I6s are so good that even Mercedes is getting in on that action. I actually am a V10 person. I think the Lexus LFA engine is best sounding engine ever... They only way someone could replicate that same sound is probably by recording it and them piping it in through speakers...mounted right at the firewall with a sountube...and all of that kit better be made by Harman... However, I think the 5.2 Voodoo is the most appropriate soundtrack for a musclecar/trackrat. I think the inline 6 and the flat six are pretty cool. But automakers are examining the idea of opposed piston engines in cars. Check it out. It could be the next revolution in internal combustion because the main benefit is that you don't need cylinder heads - the pistons fire against each other. fewer parts, better thermal efficiency...
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    Ah whatever, every brand must have their fanboy. It is a tautology. It is because it is. Tesla Zealots exist. There's also the far bigger the ever present issue of General Morons...Foarders (like hoarders)...Mercrappies Benzers...Toyoturds...Hyundies...Piss-ans...VW Dung Beetles... Yeah.
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    Buick needs styling to bring customers in, not some halo car that tramples over Cadillac. And Buick has styling now in spades. Easily the Enclave is their halo vehicle already. Remember, the original branding strategy of GM was to have distinct brands for the life stage and wealth of the customer. I do not equate Buick as a brand that needs some sexy coupe that won't sell at this time. The brand needs more new crossovers and the 2-3 new sedans being marketed, they need the meat. And the styling of a RWD car can easily be duplicated onto a FWD vehicle, as shown by the new Volvo S90 and Mazda 6, and to a lesser extent, Lincoln Continental. The Regal GS is already pitted against faux sport sedans like the CLA and Volvo S60, and against the former it's no contest and against the latter there are a lot of similarities. The brand interest is there CP. and the brand interest these days is all about crossovers. The coupe days are kinda over for too many companies. Boomers with bad backs and increasing upward economic mobility of women and a renewed focus on practicality but without a dowdy minivan form equates to future crossovers continuing to outpace sedans. I do not want Buick to get a re-skinned Cadillac. The brand's most profitable models, the Enclave, Encore and Lacrosse are all based off of their non-premium company platforms, which allows for a lot of luxury features to be delivered in a stylish and competitive package.
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    Because it ranks among the least $h!tiest comments in this thread -- and about Tesla in general on C&G. LOL!!!
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    Well, I guess being super-low volume leads to a sense of occasion. My idea of a real Elmiraj: No one says you have to be cheap in this segment. Being more expensive is probably better, if you can go all out. I would expect a low-volume, exact production replica of the Elmiraj concept, perhaps for 200 units for global consumption/year, go for over 3 large six figures a pop, easily... But it really has to be all out. The best dead cow skins, exploded dead stars aka precious metals.... laser headlights...made in america of course, perhaps a Shinola timepiece - have a cross-branding debut so Shinola can also move upmarket... and a V8 engine. I don't care if it's a rebadged LS7. Do it. Or perhaps the supposed 4.2 bore'd and stroked to 4.4L perfection or a 4.2TT performance hybrid, with a voltec battery sandwich and motors to get over 600 hp.... Also the Cadillac Emblem better be CNC milled or even better milled by hand from a solid billet of Titanium, you know, for more inherent value...also, a 4K backup screen, a 4K central CUE display. and 4K digital guage cluster, and a 4K performance data recorder. Rich people need excellent built in dash cams too...
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    Its too intelligent for us to comprehend, Suave. All I know is that I read as a kid once that us humans, all of us, whether we admit it or not, produce 10-15 expulsions of natural emissions per day. Naturally, we end up inhaling these molecules of hydrongen sulfide and methane whether we like it or not, and if our noses are not so sensitive, well I guess you win. If you can't smell, you didn't dealt it. Anyways... the logical question remains. To stinky the car from your backside.... Or to sit it out for a pleasing half hour to expel every last....to clean every surface, and then to allocate for ventilation, and then to finally enter your car, knowing that such molecules do not end up in your car. Also, Febreeze commercial. You've seen it, it's about what other people smell because you've gone nose-blind. Anyways... in summary, caveat emptor. Buyer beware, your sh!t smells, and it smells like sh!t.
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    Why does no one haha at my joke?!!
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    I don't want to read any of these NASCAR comments. Someone do a TL:DR!!!
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    I hate the Trax. It's like an automotive abomination. I love the Encore, but the Trax, well, maybe not the new one as much, but it reeked of 2013 Malibu. That's what it reeks of to me. It's just a transmogrification of so many legacy Chevy styling cues, all cheapened in order to extract larger margins on a jacked up Sonic. Alright, the Sonic is really nice. But the Trax is really not. I'll steer every person to just buy the Buick every time. GMC needs something uber fuel-efficient. I think a Duramax diesel in a Jeep competitor, is in the cards.
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    This is how the sausage is made, and a fully reborn Cadillac will do exactly the same. They already do. VSport is the middleman between V Series and the 3.6L or perhaps the 3.0TT. There will be a middle child CT4 that is the ATS replacement. This is what they do. This is what every luxury brand practices. It is nothing new, nothing innovative, so in one sense you are correct DFelt. But because you can cast the same reflection against future Cadillacs - despite however much their executives say they don't follow their competitors - it's there for everyone to see. If the ATS-V gets an even more hardcore version - welp, it's been done before in that same segment space. Hell, the C63 already has an "S" version which is just a spectacular money grab by Mercedes, but it is technically offering more performance. And seriously, I wouldn't have brought up the Mercedes, but apparently the guys at Motortrend actually like the way it drives quite a lot, and they like the Cadillac too.
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    You mean GMC would have 2, and Buick would be 3? Yeah. Downsizing is for realz. Like once this last bastion of boomers buys their last vehicles... Man, will the auto companies miss the glory days. Like my generation - all of them are leveraged. Okay not all, but not me either, thank god.
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