balthazar
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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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Missed the ‘SK’ descriptor in David’s post.
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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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Diesel has never has a significant presence in cars. It's industry penetration is in trucks- always has been, and there it's expanding.
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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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I guessed 1926, was only off by 1 year; '25 Willys Knight :
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‘glass domed hood, big n littles, tach up high:
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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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