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Alternative Fuels & Propulsion RANDOM
balthazar replied to G. David Felt's topic in Electric Vehicles and Alternative Fuels
Rolls’ are nicely trimmed but otherwise junk, so I’m not sure ‘classic’ applies, but OK. Another great example of ‘more dollars than smarts’ tho. -
Being that those 3 mentioned above never go off-road, that's far from 'all there are'.
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You applauded it too. 'Build more CUV/SUVs!' you demanded. The 'applause' is supplying the market with the SUVs they demand. Cadillac had 7 models in '16, and they have 6 in '20. Except that would be stupid. But there you go again applauding Cadillac building more SUVs. You must luvluvluv the Lyriq; gonna turn the segment on it's ear if that variant/trim is offered.
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^ it’s bizarre that one of those descriptors is tires, the other is rims, yet we’re all communicating here.
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It's a lovely design, IMO. Chrysler built an extremely limited run of a few variants of these in the early '50s, most of which survive. But the article makes a typical mistake in it's story: It wasn't designed by Ghia at all, it was designed in Detroit by Exner. Like all the Chrysler-Ghia collaborations, Ghia only constructed it. This is the sort of sloppy journalism typical of today, coupled hand-in-hand with self-bias against American industry. 'It's good looking, Ghia was involved, therefore Ghia certainly must've designed it..... NOT Chrysler.'
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Alternative Fuels & Propulsion RANDOM
balthazar replied to G. David Felt's topic in Electric Vehicles and Alternative Fuels
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That's highly questionable- mercedes just announced they are cancelling SEVEN models. I knew the cost-cutting was going to hit quick & hard.
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I would basically agree with that, except Tesla threw all that convention out the window, having thousands waiting a year to 2 years, with deposits made, for a car.
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Yes; it's not 100% production-spec. But it's also not "only CGI", is it? They showed most of it tho- doors, dash, center console, panoramic overhead shots. A lot more than 'bits & pieces' and just as much as any OEM-issued interior video. As for 'reserving judgement', you've already made up you mind and that -I dare to say- was before you saw a single image.
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But the base model doesn't go 0-60 in 2.6 secs. How many models do you want to compare 1 competitor to? Correction: Tesla WAS on fire. the catalog is stale now- Model s is NINE years old, and Musk has combined S & X sales numbers to hide the dwindling numbers there. The Model 3 cannibalized off most of the S buyers.
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19:25 in the video. I don't see anything in that segment that proves it's all CGI. - - - - - Legally, a 2023 model can go on sale Jan 1, 2022. Cadillac did that sort of thing with the first CTS.
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Alternative Fuels & Propulsion RANDOM
balthazar replied to G. David Felt's topic in Electric Vehicles and Alternative Fuels
Diesel has never has a significant presence in cars. It's industry penetration is in trucks- always has been, and there it's expanding. -
Tesla Model X performance, which you specifically mentioned before, has a range of 305 miles. Besides the already-illustrated time span explaination, I think the reason to wait for the Lyriq is obvious. You know people were waiting for the Model X (initially; not any longer), and look at how bland & uninteresting that is. Plenty of folk are going to find the Lyriq a stunner worthy of waiting for.
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I agree that true luxury brands should not be downmarket... but the small margin / bigger volume is too ahrd for single-marque brands to resist. SMK seems to think that a $75K Lyriq is some sort of indicator of a problem. I believe we're too far out from a finalized vehicle to take that figure as law right now.
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^ Lyriq is “80% production”. That leaves 20% up for possible change. Logically thinking, that likewise gives room for 20% change in MSRP, and not necessarily downward, either.
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Hot August (2020) days or nights of car spotting
balthazar replied to trinacriabob's topic in The Lounge
I guessed 1926, was only off by 1 year; '25 Willys Knight :
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Hot August (2020) days or nights of car spotting
balthazar replied to trinacriabob's topic in The Lounge
‘glass domed hood, big n littles, tach up high:
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They don’t have shit until its certified. Remember that other German co that said their EV would get 390 miles on range, but testing barely returned 300?
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A-aaaaand they said the original Seville would start at $8K, and when it came out it was $12K. The Lyriq is too far from the showroom floor to pin it down now. Yet no one buys it. Seeing as how the base Corvette already is doing 2.8 secs, there’s plenty of room. Doesn’t really matter obviously; no one buys the 2.6 sec SUV as it is. Perhaps you don’t understand the consumer demographic like you think you do.
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If 80% of that vehicle comes to market starting at $75K, that's incredible bargain... but that interior (or 80% of that interior) is $100K plus. The Model X is certainly no class leader here - Tesla is hiding it's sales by combining them with another falling -and completely unrelated- model, the Model S. The field is ripe for a new model to rise to the top. You know it's not coming from mercedes.
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That's was a Ward's Auto/other rag's guess, not Cadillac-sourced.
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It was the '80s; close your eyes & throw a paint-filled balloon. All right - just wanted to make sure you were still (able to) separate the two. Carry on.
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^ C'mon Willem, you're not going to conflate styling & motive power, are you? Wait... I ask this, then think about you gushing over some horrible shitbox of an '80s car just because it has a stick. I withdraw the question.
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