Suaviloquent

I just want Buick to be unstoppable right now...I guess I am being totally sucked in by GM. Good on them. I've never wanted a car company to succeed to so much.

Yes, a very precise and slicing through crowds gesture. I'll take all the learnings from this as notes so when I am in the same position, I can be guided by virtue and an uncompromising approach to living life.

So I've realized I want my entire life to be everything Eminence Front represents minus the drugs. Exactly like GMC's precision, in control, passion and precision and professional grade. So basically I want my life to be a GMC commercial. That is called marketing. Damn folks, I have been seduced by the aspiration of a brand. Colour me impressed and deeply respectful of GMC. I can see why Casa, another well put together man, has a GMC. A tip of my hat to you, fine sir. Yes, GMC. Yes, Precision. Yes, Professional grade. Yes, Rembrandt. Yes, slice through crowds. Yes, victory. Yes!!! Yes!!! I beseech such personal, low-key grandeur. Such prominence. Such exuberance. Such wow. This is my deliverance, my resurgence, my precision, my DENALI. ....my New Year's Resolution!!! Anything less is unacceptable.

But is the engineering befitting of the price? That is the question. I don't really know an answer to it, because it is subjective to each person. But in my opinion, what you do miss out on, you make up for more than nicely in savings on price. My personal choice for $80k above (CDN Funds) - I'd get a Shelby GT350R.

If this thread in actuality is about how to bag an awesome female companion for holy matrimony.... I'm game!! Gimme all the quick-tip quickies! So yes, all I have to be is like a stealth wealth Phaeton of a truck....and to Old's point about heart of gold...4.2L V8, yes, yes.....great point there. So, 6.2 should cover nicely... Okay so I just have to get a VW Phaeton kind of lady while I'm transforminated into GMC Denali, emphasis on Precision and a life theme like Eminence Front from Jeep Comanche.... Yes. Anything more gents?

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It's not as though they're bad cars though. I would easily recommend someone to buy a Genesis 90 if they don't give a damn about driving enthusiasm and want all the goodies for a fair price. 10 year power-train warranty most likely... and finally a luxury badge. And the interior though. That's spectacular for the price IMO. And I love good looks. A lickable interior it definitely is.

Well they have sold about 50k of the old breed. I can imagine this product getting the same amount next year. Or even getting a solid 100k units next year. This truck is heavy, no doubt, but every test of this truck has its towing confidence compared to the big rigs. So it's performance of intended function, in one aspect is actually quite spectacular. Being devil's advocate as per usual, of course.

For the wealthy Chinese aristocrat, if it delivers an S-Class equivalent backseat, it's excellently engineered.

I see a lot of these as postal delivery vehicles. Reminds me of bread vans actually. A cost-effective hybrid system, even a mild hybrid system might be a boon for city use of these vans. But fuel prices gotta cooperate with anything like that.

Hmmmm. Sounds interesting. Pretty good actually. Tasty. OH!! and they're probably going to use the hi-po AWD that's used in the upcoming Focus RS. I think this will be a score for enthusiasts if it comes to fruition, maybe even a discount CTS wagon.

It's a more for you money product, where the truck industry is going toward less is more.

In a sense, buying a luxury car is sometimes for features that are possibly never used fully or at all. Unless straight-line thrust is important - which most economy cars have pretty much taken care of compared to lethargic wheezers of yore. Many, many of my friends call Cruzes and Focus, and even new Corollas fast cars. Point of reference, I guess. But yeah, Dieter Zietche was pretty spot on with that one. The difference between luxury cars and the normals ones are becoming muddied, as clever software and rather innovative, compact, yet nonetheless mundane hardware approaches or even overcomes specialized hardware and bespoke engineering. I'm not enamored at all with the spy shots revealed so far - but they are images of mules that are usually built hastily/shoddily, and they don't reveal anything other than the shape of the vehicle and a partial real-life image of the car that is just one iteration of the available interiors. I was struck a bit curious, and amused as on how on some websites/publications people were unleashing a salvo of digust over the interior especially, even though a competitor in a sense (the E-Class) has a par for the course looking interior in an image of a mundane E-Class in this discussion. But then there are things that are never really seen but understood. Recently, the MKX (another vehicle that I personally don't like) had its seats and audio system commented as being superlative for the price, equal to the best from Mercedes. Those are features people use quite a bit. The rest wasn't to an enthusiast publication's liking as much, but for the lay buyer... the difference (not necessarily difference, but ending outcomes) between automakers themselves are getting narrower as well. As much as I believe in superior engineering and RWD; lay customers just don't see the nasty rivets, bolts, and weld joints. Now I wanted this car to be 95% of the concept. It isn't, it's more like 80% or a little more. Not really promising for the demanding enthusiast, but the intended buyer in China is a person who wouldn't even drive it.

Well, exams are done, and all is well. Merry Christmas to you all, and Hanukkah, Festivus... Happy Holidays!!!

It was a Bentley in VW clothing. Essentially, it was better than the A8 at one point. It's like the Chevy Camaro in that respect. But it was also to a nonsensical degree, to uplift a brand by giving it the means to produce a sedan that underneath is an ultra-luxury behemoth.

I have never seen a Star Wars movie, and nothing really compels me to do so. Therefore I am a filthy rebel scum. I refuse to give the Lucas Films empire my money!!

In the real-life photo the E-Class interior doesn't look that pretty, and the bezels of the base info screen are cartoonish. In fact, provided that Command system is still convoluted like hell, Lincoln Sync 3 will probably be far better.

Well, the ELR was a concept car brought into real life while being as, if not more stunning than the concept. It's what I think of GM's 2-mode hybrids. Brilliant in their own right, but just unfortunately timed. It's unfortunate that this car wasn't compared to the BMW i8...as a discount i8. And it was actually better as a green halo car, but still that niche is limited. Kinda like how there is discount John Travolta in Doctor Who; Captain Harkness or the Face of Boe.

And Escalade without a V8 sounds like a frightening nightmare. I think the better strategy would be to make the Escalade even more exclusive, as almost a concept caricature of a vehicle like an American ultra-luxury paradigm of the past. So there would be the El Miraj as the range topping model of the CT8/9... Yes, names for the ulta-expensive $150K plus vehicles, and the rest of the range with the CT and XT names. Would it be okay to limit the next unit-body platform to the XT7... and then make the Escalade like how the Bentley Bentayga is the ultra-luxury version of the Audi Q7. Or how MB Maybach will use the GLS as the basis of their future SUV.

Whenever I see fighter jets, I'm always having the same gut reaction. "Holy $h! that's so advanced and technology and stuff dude!!!" "Now if only the rest of everything wasn't so dull and mundane" Good stuff fer (a word mannerism a bode to picking up stuff when it just makes good ol' sense) sure, but looks like everyone is in on pricy jet fighters. Expect China, India as well as the usuals - Russia and Japan to be having kick-ass jets soon too. Olds for me, it's gotta be either the SR-71 Blackbird or the X-15 scramjet. I like stealth. And the old notions of stealth...er wealth. Therefore insert Buick here. Though I am partial to F-4 Phantom because Fortune Son.

Well, BMW also lacks a giant 3-row SUV. I'm sure that a lot of people who want a 3-Row BMW SUV are satisficing with something else, either the X5 or another brand's 3-Row SUV. But back to Cadillac. Roll with the conundrum Cadillac. A lot of things about luxury don't make sense. Such as customers ascribing prestige to bottom-feeders to CLAs and one Series sedans.

The car that many of my family would buy first if they wanted a new sedan and a large but sensible budget. That's as much heaping praise I can give for a car. My pick for a vehicle remains a different Chevy, but you all already know which one.

I actually find the transition from the displays to passenger airbag cover appalling in the picture of the E-Class. It juts out where everywhere else looks executed to the same level as the S-Class. SMK, wouldn't it be fairer to compare that interior to the S90 as well... and in addition that is an image for a press release. The Continental interior is one of an good spy shot, but it doesn't reveal seats and door trim. Before making conclusions in haste, atleast wait for the debut to solidify your view.

Well $h!, I didn't go back to work as promised, instead am percolating and intensifying interaction. I'd get Blue, 1SS and be merry. But I'd have not live in the city to buy it. You can't buy a car like this and cage it like an animal. It beckons to be driven and slogged.

uhh... Big money no whammy' Holy $h!t they used to sell 60K of those per year?