balthazar
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mercedes has no hope of catching Tesla.
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Circa '68 Falcon 2-dr sedan, yello w black vinyl top, 16 or 17" Torque Thrust IIs, very clean.
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My local dealer has 1 Bolt; a white Premier. I get a kick out of the Bolt listings : "0.0L"
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1,953 in 2017 with 4 models (tho I believe 2 of those 4 have been canceled due to low sales). Flopping hard vs. the 300K ICE models they'll likely move. And MB wants to replace 10 ICEs with EVs...
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• But MB put its V12 into a car ('00 CL600) that weighed 4900 LBS. Even the '01 CL, which got liposuctioned down to a still-bloated 4300, was still slower and less quick than the NSX, and it was in a dumpy sedan body. • If MB has no interest in building a mid-engined car, why have they teased a baker's dozen for 50 years and is doing so yet again? Too little, too late, they "missed that opportunity".
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That's not what the tracking device I slipped onto your Toro tells me.
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Pffft- GM under rates their capacities. You are so close to the rating I wouldn't think twice about it. How far of a trip are you taking?
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• 300 SL was also available as a 4-cyl (the 190SL). • It's been rumored in more than one quarter that Mercedes bought up a storied Pontiac race car, one that displaced 6.9L, and took it apart in engineering. It's unlikely to have influenced anything, mainly because although it was a FI SOHC V8, Mercedes' version didn't appear until 1975 and it only had 250 HP- not much for a 4400 lb car (the Pontiac had over 450 HP). It "didn't sell" in the U.S.- only 1800 units were bought here. It also wasn't a luxury vehicle- as an S-class level car, it suffered from the same cheap, spartan, utilitarian interior all other MB cars did in this period. By 1982, it was cancelled.
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You slumming in New Brumpfuss, DD?
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• Then forgot how to do that in the '40s, '50s, '60s '70s, '80s and into the '90s? Have you never seen an '85 S-class or SL in person?? What happened? • Those models you name weren't luxury cars, they were cheaply built performance-aspiring cars. Performance by itself isn't luxury, unless you consider, for example, a Chevelle SS 396 a luxury car. • I'd take the '56 Chrysler 300 over any mercedes 300. That's a supercar: spawned an entire performance renaissance. 300SL: they only built 1400 gullwings in 3 years then pulled the plug. The roadster was cheaper to build, so they took the easy way out. You mean sell well in the Luxury SUV segments?
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Parked on residential street : white circa 1981 Olds Toronado, very clean & straight.
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Pffft - MB benchmarked Cadillac when they decided to move upmarket & build luxury vehicles. And while there was a period after that when the concern was minimal, cars like the CTS-V and ATS-V have unquestionably been closely examined by Mercedes since. And with their relentless focus on salessaleslsales, I wouldn't be surprised if they are also examining the XT5's success.
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To be fair --and this is only based on the U.S. sales chart; IDK what China audi sales are like-- 6 of Audi's 13 models "no one buys"; those 6 models are 350 units/mnth or less each, and only made up 7% of Audi U.S. sales last month. NONE of Cadillac's 6 models sell in such dismal numbers as the 'Audi Invisible Six'. Where you are right in sentiment is that adding these fringe/niche models at Cadillac is not going to move the sales needle much at all. Me; I don't care what Cadillac numbers are doing, as long as the product is sharp and the division is making a profit. Luxury brands in sales races are no longer building luxury products.
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Bolt : #1 EV in July, #2 in August. Sales up every month since February. #5 YTD EV/hybrid car, and closing in on #4.
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Cadillac Mercedes is on pace to be already an CUV/SUV brand, they would have more sales if they killed ATS, CTS, CT6 S-class, SLC, SL, GT, G-class and replaced them with XT3, XT4, XT7 3 front drive crossovers. [That isn't too bad compared to other luxury brands.] - Audi and BMW are still primarily car brands. Audi : 10,009 cars, 9802 trucks BMW : 14,706 cars, 8847 trucks Mercedes is a truck brand.
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I have never really paid attention to FCA / Chrysler numbers. I see all this talk about Dodge going bye-bye and here it is moving triple Mercedes' U.S. volume. 87K/mnth (Dodge + Ram) is considerable volume! 'Wha! The Charger is on an old platform!' - sells 10K units/mnth. Fiat on the other hand- 4 models barely cracking 2K/mnth?? Terrible.
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