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But it’s not a ‘big part’ of the markets GM & FoMoCo is in. Read a piece the other day how Honda is seeing severe profit constraint because they are in too many markets building too many market-specific trims/equipment, and are planning on engineering consolidation. Frankly, I never understood how ‘being global’ is always something to strive for. Some industries/products are just better suited to certain demographics. And I never saw any benefit to me OR the Corp if a truck I bought here was also sold across the globe.

I would agree, but I assume that as vehicles get smaller overall, the ‘EPA’ will continue to redefine interior cubic volume definitions to still be able to -one day- call an altima a ‘full-size car’, just to say there still are ‘full-size cars’ and avoid the charge they’ve basically banned such via a host of mandates.

I di think Cadillac is ahead of the curve on this one, esp since BE and IC will be sharing the markets for the next, oh; 50 years at least. You guys see that the Taycan’s EPA numbers came in like 80 under where Porsche stated they would be; a range of only 200?

Used to be 100% RWD SUVs, now the brand is 33% FWD-based (2 out of 6). I expect the GLC will soon switch to FWD-based, also.

Except for a couple I-6s, everything I've owned has been a V8.

Pretty straightforward; it wasn't 'duplication', it was 'competition'. They were largely autonomous Divisions. FoMoCo & ChryCo also had 400s- it was a 'tier' of displacements that customers were looking for. Another tier was 350-351-352 and 421-425-426-427-428-429-430 (some of these were set to comply with racing classes). Another: 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 307. Going to 'GM Powertrain' in the early '80s ("corporate engines") began the slide of GM's market share and devalued the Divisions to a notable degree. BK would have hit a decade or so SOONER. You recall the case brought against GM for sharing 350s without telling customers? It was not widely acceptable then because Divisional identities were so strong.

He said it put out 1,169 HP.

Prefer the Silverado's nose to the Tahoe, but it looks very fresh & crisp overall. Every engine getting the 10-spd is good, so is the 3.0TD being available - really intrigued by it.

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A 'spunky 3-cylinder'??? Might as well have an electric motor.

The top of the tailgate appears to be the same height as the ROOFs of sedans. FAIL.

Cars -as design- are no different than art, architecture, or music.

Isn’t ‘your era’ 70s-80s tho, and not the 60s? We’re the same age bracket; I’m not 75-85 and I can appreciate design from the 50s & 40s. Good design, commonly done by one artist rather than a committee. No one in my family or friends or neighbors had 40s-50s vehicles when I was ‘coming of automotive age’. Always good to look outside one’s own bubble. Art transcends time.

I'll give you the FWD aspect- tho the majority of cars on the road by volume today are FWD; most have this proportion. The 2-dr aspect is immaterial tho; the BMW and the lexus have identical greenhouses. In fact the B-Pillar barely moves:

Crap modern design : wonky front overhangs, poor greenhouse-to-body proportions, janky fascia profiles, poor cohesiveness front-to-back, arbitrary surface treatments, too many body seams.

Check the date :: No; it doesn't look better. The problem is; it doesn't look worse.

Stand alone option? What is this; 1995?? There's a dipshit at every corporation 'forcing' this. In order to get a 2.0T in a sonata, you jump -guess what- $10K to the top-tier Limited (over the base sedan). I would love for GM to do ala carte options, but that industry ship sailed 2 decades ago, so it makes no sense to me to get outraged about it.

• Cadillac had no big block until it had a small block, but even then it’s 350 (‘76) was forged at Olds... so still only 1 block at that point. • Yes; there were 3 co-existing 455s, tho Olds got theirs out in ‘68 and Pontiac & Buick in ‘70. Nothing interchanges. • Each Division had their own proprietary engine programs & foundries to produce them. This went back to the independent roots of each Division; Cadillac’s engine building began in 1890.

Note that those were slightly fudged numbers for marketing purposes; the Pontiac 350 was actually a 355. Other ‘350’s might also be a bit off (nothing like daimler calling a 4.0L engine a ‘560’ tho! ? ) I have no preferences here, as I’m a big block guy and not much interchanges. I can tell you that the Buick 350 -like it’s big brother- has a really great torque plot.

A 4% boost in range. Showrooms are going to be swamped.

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Another bland generic FWD/4-banger appliance CUV boredom pod.

King of a dying segment- whooppee. GM & Ford are largely leaving the ever-shrinking field of cars behind. Tesla should've brought the 'Y' out after the 'S'; he's not spelling it in order anyway, and with te theoretical profits it would've made, a decent pick-up, the sports job and the semi truck would've been here already.

It doesn’t even have to be $15K; it could legitimately be $25K and sales demand would probably quadruple immediately.

It always, eventually, boils down to money. Tesla only builds 3 vehicles currently, and the company has lost billions & billions & billions over it’s course. Even a dozen quarters of a slim profit still has the company underwater. Somehow, it chugs along. Look forward to watching it unfold. GM and every other OEM building hybrids and/or BEVs can subsidize them with profits from IC vehicles, and they all do. The big dogs are far more diversified and in a lot more segments; insulation from downturns and market shifts.