balthazar
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Both look like crap.
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Point missed. - - - - - My buddy got a late '80s Monte Carlo SS, silver, very tired. Not sure what he's going to do with it yet.
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I wasn't; I specifically brought up the PAIRING of brand & model names. You're only talking about model names by themselves.
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Why not? They use 'hyundai' and that 'makes sense'. How does Volkswagen 'make sense' of using 'Arteon', a Latin-derived term?
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Its not a question of image or marketing attempt. Its the name pairing I was noting.
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17 miles per hour faster than a '55 mercedes 300SL. Interestingly, it's not wearing either a Tri-Power or Fuel Injection emblem. Must've been a Tempest 395 A 'NASCAR-certified' hi-po option.
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I thought Dylan was dead. - - - - -
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It always puzzles me when foreign brands, fully retaining an obvious 'other-land' brand name, then go and use a distinctly American or other country-based name. 'Mazda Navajo'. I guess the grass is always greener : 'Cadillac Seville'.
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venue, venza, versa.
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Mercedez Benz News G-Class to get Electric Model
balthazar replied to Drew Dowdell's topic in Mercedes-Benz
one (absolutely) would say the same ‘if you took out Tesla, virtually no one wants EVs’, yet ‘the segment is growing furiously’. -
How some EV fans talk about maintenance on IC vehicles :
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GM News: Lordstown Sold to Lordstown Motors Corp
balthazar replied to Drew Dowdell's topic in General Motors
Sure, if not written down already. But the bulk of the value has to be the property & buildings over any equity left in tooling (a lot of which is probably not applicable to Workhorse's needs). Lordstown is 6.2 million square feet on 905 acres. For some comparison, Baltimore Assembly was 182 acres with 3.1 million SF when it sold for $27M in 2005. Plant half the age, twice the SF, 4 times the property, 15 years later? I’m going to guess the price was $125M.- 21 replies
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GM News: Lordstown Sold to Lordstown Motors Corp
balthazar replied to Drew Dowdell's topic in General Motors
I would think GM paid off/depreciated Lordstown long ago; plant came online in 1965. Any monies exchanged would have to go on the income side, no? -
Mercedez Benz News G-Class to get Electric Model
balthazar replied to Drew Dowdell's topic in Mercedes-Benz
Of course, trucks & SUVs have hit like 71% of the U.S. market and are still climbing. And within that segment, diesels are expanding (half-tons, mid-size, a handful of SUVs). -
If 'luxury is not where it's at', then a few soon-to-launch luxury brands with no entry models are in real trouble.
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They've been stylistically pretty much the same since 1999, so it should seem like there's a lot of them out there.
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peugeot is dead before hitting the ports here, just as fiat was. Alfa can't be making a profit, no WAY it is in the U.S., so an alfa platform under a Dodge makes no sense either financially or from the standpoint of appealing to Dodge buyers. No; fiat will see a casket, Lancia is already decomposing, peugeot is a Euro brand and needs to stay there. These OEM heads need to learn & understand how local markets work; and how most are already oversaturated with brands.
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Chrysler News: FCA and PSA are in Merger Talks
balthazar replied to Drew Dowdell's topic in Chrysler
And it all goes back to marketing; “MORE, NEW, BETTERER!!!” More models, more trims, faster turnover. It’s spiraled to the edge of sustainability. The pendulum has to swing back at some point. -
candid snapshot of Andy Granatelli's '60 Chrysler 300-F GT Special. Supercharged, it hit 189 MPH at Daytona.
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How many $75K F-150s does Ford sell? I recently read a plethora of commentary slamming the Rivian front end design. Too ‘soft’. We’ll see what the take rate is after the ‘me first!s’ get their orders filled and things settle into more normal patterns. Frankly, with all the griping on Ford/Chevy/GMC/Dodge truck pricing, I don’t have high hopes that masses will swallow $75K without any backlash. How much has the now-online Model 3 siphoned off the Model S’s volumes??
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I never said they have no future. There are already like 40 EV / PHEVs out now... they just about all have really poor volume. Yes; the top 5 or so do OK in volume, but the rest sell at Ferrari volume (or worse). Share will likely continue to creep up, but there’s no ‘explosion’ of volume around the corner. We have an established track record showing that handily. I can respect individual’s enthusiasm for the EV, and I think some aspects of owning one are appealing. But people need to embrace the reality of the market and discard the wide-eyed wonder of concept unveilings and futurist media pieces.
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Low 30’s is fine; they need to be within $2500 to be price competitive (tho Im seeing $38.4K for the Kona). I’ll certainly give them a buffer for not having to buy fuel. So what’s holding the sales of these down so hard? Ioniq moved only 391 thru Sept, Soul moved 78 and Kona 97! E-golf: 3596, Leaf: 9111. Still pretty poor numbers, what’s a corolla at in the same period, or a Malibu?? Even if pricing is competitive, buyers just don’t want them. And don’t for a second think any of these in this price range are making a profit; they’re all subsidized by IC volume/profit. This is exactly why the EV stand-alones are either making no money, or closing down- Faraday just declared BK, and both Apple & Dyson pulled out.
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You think a $90K EV is 'driving interest' for when the price will come down to $30K?? 'Interest' doesn't keep the lights on. And the pricing will NEVER fall that far. Every article out there (I JUST read a blurb on the October UK market) says 'demand is booming', etc etc, and of course even a tiny uptick on a tiny niche results in huge percentage numbers.... this only feeds OEMs to hold/increase pricing, not reduce it. 'Number 1 selling EV is moving at around $50K? Why do WE have to be at $30K?' A price competitive EV seems permanently out of reach.
