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    By the way my commercial idea is an inside joke that I made earlier way back at MT. Some may not actually even remember it, but the going is that if you absolutely atrociously hate my commercial idea, then what Cadillac is doing now with its naming scheme will be very stupid looking to people who are salient to the brand. People who are not though, they could on paper care not more that the CT6 is named what it is instead of Fleetwood or some other heritage name.
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    I would up-vote this a million times if I could. Ultimately, Cadillac trying to go all out would leave the rest of GM disheveling and left out to dry. Every new Cadillac model must have amazing ROI, or otherwise it just won't work.
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    Excellent commercial idea (I think) They should do the entire commercial for a Cadillac ST(6). And the right at the end they should say.... wait for it.... build up drama, the hype, its all good we need more... drum roll...wait for it.... "Introducing, the all-new from Green Hell Cadillac ST6." "The name just sticks" Excellent commercial idea, don't you say, if I do say so myself?
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    Cadillac ST6. Caad-deee-lakc Ss-tee-sicks Cadillac Stix Cadillac Sticks.
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    The XTS was really close to the concept too, but that wasn't the reason why it sold well. I had a checklist for the Conti from way back. Concept car looks? As close as it could be I guess. Check! Mercedes-Benz beating seats and audio? Check! An interior that is not only worthy of a flagship, but one that you actually want to sit in? Check! And the rest falls in place. The car doesn't have to be exceptionally lightweight. If it feels like a solid ingot of steel, the all the better it is for it. In my interpretation of it - quiet luxury is about the feeling of being dense, solid, just completely overbuilt. Basically a tank that is legal for the road.
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    What's really confuzzling is that the Mercedes Sprinter actually has the steering that an excellent sports sedan should have, according to the folks at CarandDriver.
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    Comfort better feel like the road is paved out of butter and the car is a hot knife surfing on top of it.
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    My favorite feature was actually one of those latent discoveries you make. At first: Wow!!! The doors look so clean, they're not interrupted by door handles! How'd they do that? And then it took about another day for me to figure out how people would actually open the doors. As an aside. I don't understand why people have it in for the headlights that the Conti uses. They say it looks like Acura Jewel headlights. Well the new Escalade's headlights are also discrete diodes that you can easily tell apart - but they're stacked vertically instead of laid out horizontally in placement of the headlight module. Big difference.... I don't think so. And before Audi got their matrix LEDs going the A8 also had diodes that you could make out too. Or the ELR's total internal reflection diodes that Cadillac themselves alluded to in their press materials as "fine jewelry." What I'm saying is, is that I agree with Olds when he said some people all over the internet were just picking at the car just trying to conjure up faults out of thin air.
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    Should start at 0....I always start at 0.... 0,1,2,3... (since that is how indexes work in most programming languages.. Maybe they should focus on $40k and up, since GM has Buick and GMC as the filler brands between Chevy and Cadillac, at least in the US. "brain fart" yes, I was going to add that they should continue to focus on their higher priced entries. Buick and GM would surely love to sell people who want superior entry level luxury $30,000 Veranos and $35 to $40K Regals more than in essence what is just an improved version of a $35,000 Cadillac ATS of today.
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    The Continental was one of the few surprises though. I think they did pretty well in terms of keeping the concept look. I also have to take back the inlaid hood and "luxury look" comment I made earlier. It was my only detractor to how the Conti looked - otherwise... Gazing closely at the S90 and the CT6, they don't have inlaid hoods either. So again, I mean... every automaker put out the best styling they are capable of doing in reality, not in concept. So that was the dulling factor. Some photos from Auto Evolution. FWIW - I think the Continental hits the nail on the head of what its trying to do. I think of quiet luxury - and I don't think of Lexus or Buick anymore. I think of Lincoln. And it looks pretty good to me, I must say.
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    I have. And a dearth of them are ever used. The only EV/Plug-in I've ever seen plugged in or on a designated spot anywhere have been: - BMW i8 (once) - Mitsubishi Modern Golf-Cart Electric Warfare (3 times) If it's paid parking or not, either way: They should just make'em first come first served parking spaces. If no electric car is there, then by all means park there. Or to give a bone to plug-in vehicles or full electrics they should make it maximum "insert big data-derived#" hours parking for regular cars, while the parking for the others is up to the maximum time allowed for people to park.
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    I fully agree with Balthazar. That is all. Cadillac, I feel is copying the Germans even though JDN said they wouldn't. Why are they?!!! Look at their sales. They sell very few sedans or crossovers below $40,000. Trying to dilute themselves to have a product for every niche is nonsensical for a brand that doesn't need to serve those stupidly stupid entry level segments. I see this line of making every single product they can as a failure even before it gets here. I'd rather Cadillac NOT build an even smaller sedan and instead GM sell enough Regals so they're built in America again.
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    (continuing the hot compact drink analogy thread) The Focus ST Tangerine Scream is Tropicana Orange Juice The Focus RS is Pepsi Max And the green Civic Coupe is Lemon-Lime Gatorade. And the white/red Civic R is a lychee martini.
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    Yeah, man. I'd be in the numbers too, but I'm in Canada. Cars are practical still, but the cash flow to finance the investment isn't there when you're doing post-secondary education. But saving money is gud, na?
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    What about a Dodge Journey? You can get those fairly cheap.
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    If Cadillac wasn't going to use the CT# naming scheme for sedans they coulda just slapped the XTS badge on it and I'd be fooled.
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    GM did something like this in a very different vein but with a striking level of execution of core deliverables - the kind that could make this plan work. Look at how the new Camaro SS became almost as good in many areas as the old gen Camaro Z28. So what Cadillac has to do is just take the ATS RWD winning formula, and shrink the outside while keeping the interior space exactly the same, and just transplant the interior. The ATS interior quality is superior to the CLA, so they don't need to kill themselves over it. So...what the car really would be is the class leading compact sport sedan if BMW hadn't thrown its curveball of larger size and improved interior quality with the F30 generation. The C Class Benz built on that even more. And it appears that the A4 also has an interior that could have just as easily been in a current A6. And then if the car performs 100% as good as the ATS 2.5 in its base model, then it's all done and good, and its the right product. What I think Cadillac could do to make some room for this model is to use either the 1.5T or 1.6T (from the Cascada). They should make the VSport version of the car get a 2.0T.
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    Well, from the very beginning Tesla has been a vertically integrated company - more than other automakers. But then again, Musk isn't a novice when it comes to dealing with Giants. Like how SpaceX rocket launches to orbit are about 2/3 cheaper that the United Launch Alliance, and has more powerful launch vehicles for orbit. SpaceX is fully American too. The best quote ever from Lockheed and Boeing was that the DOD's satellite launches were a matter of national security - yet their launch vehicles use rocket engines from Russia... Tangent aside - But the real issue is that the dealership model has to change. Bolt EVs and Leafs don't need to be serviced for oil changes. No electric car does. And people really would like software patches that are TSBs or recalls for other automakers to just be done over the air. There's a cliche out there that people hate dealing with dealers. Get rid of them entirely - there's something there to be gained. But the dealer model does employ a ton of people. But it has to match the kind of vehicles people are buying. If I told everyone that tomorrow every car will get over 80 mpg, and will never need to have oil changes and that most recalls can be done at home, we'd all deduce that I'm crazy. But that is the present day of electric cars. The future of electric cars will result in a radical shift in the industry. When the product itself is so fundamentally different, the same distribution channels won't work either unless incentives are aligned. Right now they aren't - and that's a whole another post on its own.
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    It's the 2GR-FE... which is an awesome V6 btw. I can't believe how good of a V6 it is.. Toyota hasn't needed to update it in a long time, and it's a creamy smooth engine too... I can't believe that it's not butter. I guess they could add D4-S port/direct injection and add 5 more years to its shelf life. But no, it has not EcoBoost.
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    There were a lot of strong entries at the Show. But this time I feel it had the effect of dulling the show down. It wasn't one of those whimsical Detroit shows which has tons and tons of concepts from all makes. It was a more of a nitty-gritty calculated move chess game autoshow. Anyways...what I thought. Can't wait to see the Conti, Lacrosse and S90 in Toronto.
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    I dunno guys. I love the CT6. I feel that luxury cars are one of the few cars even that we should expect to represent domestic manufacturing consistently all the time. I'm okay with them building the CT6 for local consumption in other markets. Hell, that makes for an intelligent business case. But if I had the coin, I'd vote powerfully and not get a plug-in CT6. And I thought there were competitive synergies with building Voltec based vehicles together in the same facility. Clearly, it isn't so. In fact, I want the plug-in to fail in North America, because I simply do not believe consumers of $90,000 plus flagship vehicles should pay for a Chinese made car from an American brand. I also don't like Audi for building their next North American facility in Mexico for its most profitable models. I just find all this off-shoring appalling. And once you lose production, it's gone forever. Part of the blame has to be the noncompetitive organized labour. It's troubling to see them trade away much needed production of vehicles at home in exchange for some meager increases in job security and the production of vehicles that can only succeed in good times with low fuel prices combined. Basically, I think it was so short-sighted to allow production to be off-shored. Worst case scenario is to see just like the drug discovery industry is see the entire design, development and manufacturing of the cars themselves go along with them out of North America.
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    Well the term he's trying to get at is contribution margin. I would like to see Cadillac sell Escalades in Gulf regions way more than they do now. That would kill it. Ford had the unfortunate position of being in dire straits in 2006. Credit was still accessible for capital intensive firms like automakers, before there was a liquidity crisis, which led to the financial crisis and then companies had a very difficult time getting anything on commercial paper. Cadillac does have immense profit potential. I would also like to see the General weigh its priorities. If a customer that is into Buicks can be guided into a more expensive Cadillac - then I would be all for it.
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    Well it's an interesting truck, because Hyundai has confirmed it will build a Santa Cruz truck, which will be a competitor to this, and it will also be FWD based. There is segment that is looking for a compelling small(er) truck. It's evident as this is hoe the Tacoma has remained in production and how the GM twins has lit it up. This kind of vehicle is refreshing in its honesty. It's a lifestyle truck. Most truck buyers need nothing more than this. The interior is a carbon copy of the Pilot, so it should be the best in the midsize class. Putting the spare under in a bunker under the bed is just a headscratcher at best and stupid at worst though.
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    It's not going to be a sales experiment, Lincoln nor Cadillac for that matter can take this segment as a laughing matter. Lincoln is not going to get any easy sales. Many Continental sedan sales will have to be a conquest from XTS or like competition or trying to retain a customer in the fold (which I'm also going to treat as a conquest). There's simply a lot of hustle and bustle in a segment that used to only have 2 to 3 staid products that were de facto leaders. Also what is interesting to see is what will happen if the vehicle is made available to livery services. I think if they do it, they should restrict it to the very best airport taxi fleets or high security government outfitters. The best case scenario for a fleet-like constant exposure to public appearances w/out the stigma of a recorded fleet sale is to have someone finance/lease (whatever, just acquire the car) and use it for a high-end UBER rideshare income.
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    Well I actually liked the ELR for what it was, I feel it was a discount i8 from Cadillac... (no, really I think that way, the car certainly had way more cred for being environmentally friendly)... And I also don't want Cadillac to go down the rabbit hole... I want them to make every vehicle though that is stunning. The thing about the stupid slow selling coupes that are almost or are full super-cars is that they get people talking about your brand. Suckered folks then start tracing the absurdity of those cars back down to the rest of the product line. When people saw the stunning ELR, then started to talk about it, and then realized where the substantive differences were from the Volt and what the price was, it kinda blew up on itself. Cadillac was expecting a few times more sales than it gets now - or maybe those were sales milestones imposed by upper GM management. In that case it was the fault of the corporate parent. Since (I hope, I dream, I relish for) Cadillac now has the same autonomy we hope JD has enabled for the brand, then nothing can stop them from shooting for the moon itself.
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