balthazar
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^ not necc the best association. ? That Ghia character line first appeared on the Chrysler concepts of the early ‘50s; the ‘53 d’Elegance for sure. Ghia liked to reguritate the same few design cues regardless of customer. Small bag of tricks. Bentley design is awful. Interiors are very nice (tho not up to the price tag), but the exteriors are a snoozefest.
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I've been by the now-closed business this is parked behind for years, never noticed it there until yesterday. Perhaps there was a section of masking fence, now gone. Car appears pretty solid, and I have a weakness for Step-Down Hudsons. The fact that it's a top-line 2-dr hardtop makes it that much more dreamy, and with the business out of there (about a year now), I worry the car will get scraped. Can I, in good conscious & stewardship, allow that?
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Lotta hours! :
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Hudson Hornet Hollywood w/ Twin-H Power. Fiddy-fo. Gonna see if I can find the owner...
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Hold old da kiddos, 442?
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‘90’s retro, Gen Y, spray-bomb look. ?
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Just reading it phrased that way not only makes me nauseous, it nearly defines the problem. Cadillac does not have the budget room to bring to market something that ultimately will be a degrader of image for Cadillac. It would be FAR better to put that development money into the other existing lines, upgrades & packages, not a too-small me-too mini-CUV. This is a circa 160K unit brand, not 300,000. Pick & choose your segments and hit them as hard as possible. Big picture.
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Most of toyoters ‘going places’ is to the Service Department for recall & TSB repairs.
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Also hasn’t changed its styling basically since day 1. Just tweaks.And a transmission. And a ground-up redesign. And a price cut.
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The one pictured above is a converted rail car, not a manufactured ‘diner’.Maybe, but at what cost to the other model lines? Cadillac does not manufacture in volumes that necessitate being in every vehicle segment. Not EVERY brand can or should be in every segment. Once hyundai is building cars that can be cross-shopped with mercedes, you know the Apocolypse is near. Or Mass Consolidation, whichever comes first. There's no business case for anything smaller than the XT4 @ Cadillac. IMO, there should be no CT4 (despite some wags believing it makes sense "to line up with the XT4, because '4s' ").- 79 replies
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Of course, and it was pointed out numerous times. But, as per SOP; ignored.- 79 replies
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^ Interesting, isn't it, that the vast vast majority of Cadillac nameplates thru their history were numeric-based.- 79 replies
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Except there’s zero business case for a teeny Cadillac SUV below the XT4. The 4 is in the sweet spot of the CUV segment, strong enough to pull from above & below it. Its nonsensical to propose duplicate SUVs separated by 4 inches in length- there’s no buyer who needs those less 4 inches, and the money is MUCH better spent making an existing entry better the 1,000 other CUVs out there.- 79 replies
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Cadillac has a popular, well-executed 181" XT4, why on Earth would they spend a billion dollars to bring out one that's 3-4 inches shorter?? Duplicity run amok. Lexus should've put all their development dollars into 1 CUV then maybe they could've given it a competitive powertrain. Or combine the 2 in the next re-do and call it the NUX. Unless you just can't get ENOUGH of 169 HP CVT FWD generic/ugly appliances...- 79 replies
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Un-identified B-O-P assembly plant, 1961 ~
Neither the UX or NX compete very well against the XT4 : UX : 177", $32.3K, 169 HP, CVT NX : 182", $36.8K, 194 HP, 6-spd XT4 : 181", $35.7K, 237 HP, 9-spd- 79 replies
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