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  1. balthazar
    I believe unemployment reached 25%. but I'll bet the real number was higher (pride). Some of these steam tractors were 6 or 7 grand in 1930 :
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    And sedans are just sedans... Talk about a non-sequitor.
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    Watching TV reporters brings home this question. If a remote reporter is covering -say- a train derailment or building fire, it makes sense to be 'on the scene'; there's something to see. But in a pandemic, if you are doing a story on -say- numbers of hospital patients checked in ... WTF are you doing going to stand on the hospital grounds? Their talking head fills 85% of the screen and the background has (almost ) zero to do with what they're commonly talking about.
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    No luxury here:
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    So they just call it a luxury car, and so it is. so EASY! - - - - -
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    Well, it's not the worst pick up you can buy; there's always nissan (if you can find one).
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    Tundra is a TRD that cannot be polished.
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    • By the same token; luxury doesn’t equal cost. • Why doesn’t daimler jack the price of the s-class to the lowest MSRP of a rolls royce and go up to $750K?? Nvrmnd; alrdy trd tht.
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    Question : Is this a luxury car interior?
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    Median household income of a luxury car buyer in the U.S. is $99K. Average household income of a Denali buyer is $153K. It's a bona fide luxury product, no question. The bread & butter of audi sales are cheap cars - the truely nice ones no one bothers with.
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    Worth repeating :
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    Are you considering the interiors at ALL in that statement? Mercedes had terrible interiors thru the '80s, awful, terrible interiors. S-class, SL, you name it. Been in them, looked them over- they're a joke.
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    OK- Not quite the same wheels. Or car. I always liked the Sunfire concepts. And those wheels are very cool.
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    I was actually being quite serious (despite the appearances otherwise). Products by the same OEM aren’t remotely in the same category as buying vehicles from your competition. An ‘80s Pontiac LeMans or a later Vibe are rebadges. The DTS-ish Cadillac above is not remotely that.
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    Was there a Pontiac Sunfire COUPE concept? Those are the Sunfire’s wheels. This looks like a photoshoppe, because everything from the front wheels back screams of that concept.
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    Oh no; that's ‘horizontal integration’, or ‘current industry trending’, or whatever you want to call what automakers are increasingly moving to — using basically the same platform under multiple models! It’s the fo-shizzal, the new whammy mammy! What it’s NOT is buying a vehicle built by another OEM and CHANGING THE BADGE ON IT. Can’t think of what that’s called, but there’s a term for it...
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    mercedes / BMW weren't competitive until the 1990s. RE : I-6 "smoothness" ; big deal - that's no selling point. Especially since more & more; the dead I-6 is going to the I-4. The problem is entrenched now - once upon a time a luxury car meant all the bells & whistles, now you can get the majority of amenities on everything down to the bottom of the barrel. The range has decreased significantly. And then there's the truck segment horning DEEP into the luxury brand territory- the same amenities, some new ones, and capabilities the cars can't even approach.
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    Who in the segment has a unique selling point??
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    I chenge m ern earl.
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    So; GM powertrain, GM platform, built in GM plant. Sounds like a regular ol’ rebadge. I fully expect to see Honda roasted for this lame effort, just like GM has been for the same thing numerous times in the past. WRT ‘both companies can make a profit’ - wow; where’s the body of evidence to suggest that?
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    ^ These are the same people who are probably demanding voice-activated power windows (but just as a stopgap until thought-activated power windows appear). - - - - - Just a 'plain Jane', cheap, Plymouth Belvedere :
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    Not sure what you mean by 'a lot of enforced checks'. Jersey used to be yearly on everything older than 4 years. It's probably been 8 years now that it's only emissions for gasoline vehicles (nothing for diesels). Takes less time to have you car inspected than it does to fully charge an EV. They do, I believe, still have the authority to test obvious smoke-emitters on the road (tho I've never seen or heard of this being done). It's really not onerous at all. But note that vehicles over time do commonly show a decline in emission quality, hence the testing. They probably could lengthen the new car interval tho.
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