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I don't think that U realize that U actually agreed with me when U responded to Smk 's post a few clicks up. The XLR sold decent for the pricing and place it was, but GM didn't flesh it out the way they did with the Vette. In reality it should still be in sale just with the same attention to the market as Chevy puts on the Vette. The ELR should have never been an exact Volt close. It should have been a coupe version of the ATS with voltec going into all Cadillac vehicles as an alternative powertrain.. As we see with the CT6 phev and over at BMW with the 5 and 7series e

A return of the XLR should be similar in all ways to what the other luxo makers do with their sports cars. Simple and plain. An XLR starting exactly where the Vette starts and ending exactly where the Vette ends in terms of HP would be perfect. Where the Caddy should be different is in the area luxurious accommodations

Well that's high praise up against the CTS or E-Class. In terms of performance the top S90 T6 only boasts one thing over a comparable CTS Vsport.. and that's AWD, but in truth one could easily get a 2.0L AWD or even 3.6L AWD CTS and come nice and close to the Volvo T6 performance, Furthermore I still don't think that the Volvo interior is that great visually. Its cool.. but that's it.. not to mention I won't lie.. I am not to cool with directly supporting a Chinese company. If U think its about me having a certain hate for the Chinese.. that's only partial.. I'm always domestic first

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Then BRING THEM... in a different post. This thing can be a million posts as far as I'm concerned, just TWO to a post to keep it organized Hell yeah it would. A true stripper model if U like.. same thing I believe as to if I'm willing to pay for it.. I think I should be able to get a, for instance, CTS with an LT1 in it. If the engine fits.. I should be able to get it. In that situation it obviously does. CTS and CT6 as well

Its no way you are an engineer at one of premier automotive companies in the world. For U not to be able to comprehend what the reality of the pricing is insane. No one is actually paying higher pricing when one looks at the overall discounts and eventual resale values due to a lack of a reliance on fleet sales and lopsided values versus the foreign competition

Then those State's shops lack of expertise needs to be addressed so that they are up to "code." I'm pretty sure Wings is attempting to use this as a negative smear against the spectacular CT6, but it inadvertently shows just how advanced the car is This country needs to, by and large, no completely, embrace technological advancements that move us into the next decades going forward. Like Drew points out.. your average American mechanic will not be able to fix your Tesla or Bolt... All why the hell not?

I old dig the Ala carte, especially optional engines in luxo. GM would just realize that the OHV V8 should be in everything they make in one form or another.. only exception maybe being the XT5.. and even that should get a TTV6 with minimum 400HP asap.

I was thinking about this the other day about cars that I miss.. options that should be still in cars, or even styling cues U miss, but manufacturers did away with them. RULES: Format will be One or Two things. As in 1) "A Car" (not an entire brand tho) 2) "A Option" 3) MUST BE REALISTIC.. and be capable of actually making money for the company. No FANTASY U can do either or both.. but no more than 6 Sentences about the car or option and what made it great. This is a "piggy back..." So we can't say the same option, but we can say the same car ####################################################### I'll Start: 1) The Hummer H3. Everytime I see one I get a chubby. I love the thing and truly believe GM should simply revive the vehicle as was, literally just turning the tooling back on and updating the interior and engine. The vehicle was awesome 2) High Beams in the floor Moving it to the stalk made no sense to me. Having it in the floor seemed safer, especially now that most cars are automatic and your left foot is normally doing nothing at all

All day long. Its funny when people were saying the Silverado, Camaro.. etc were soooo much more expensive than the competition. YES.. they were.. but it was always an incentive to be had if U went into the dealership. Pricing the trucks $2500 more than was necessary.. then making the customer feel like they were getting a deal when they beat the salesman into giving them $1500 in discounts. Sales organizations been doing it since the beginning of time. Hell most people do it when they sell shit outta their back yard.. including cars.

I agree with Dingy... We had some hella Synth Music coming up.. but these two always got me I kno it says the TIME, but everyone who knows music knows that PRINCE wrote, performed, and produced all of their stuff U can even hear him in the background

I agree. Cadillac's excuse is the Corvette existing. It's bullshit. The C7 would have been the perfect basis for the return of the XLR.

Showing how WEEEEEAK U are. I can't stand Wings but if I like a Ford, as it is American, I'll buy a Ford. Second... I always find it laughable when some clown reading the mags reads one word... One negative word.. And they run with it for all time. Pathetic. Smfh

Riiight. The awards situations are a wee be different in the fact that they are not the BIASED point of view of ONE writer as many of the reviews are.. good or bad. The Awards are committee situations that are consensus or multiple people. As to the stitching... your condescending throw off means zero to me.. The overall car, LaX, is simply better than the last generation. If suddenly real stitching that didn't even exist in S-Class a generation or two ago is now the measure by which Premium cars are measured then I would say that we are becoming waaaaaaaaaay to spoiled. Either way.. I'm still waiting for YOUR OWN independent test of any of these cars... otherwise its just U smacking those lips son son.

Me learn to read?? Here is your quote: Your focus on SH-AWD after saying GM does not have an answer for paints a picture that it some who is BETTER due to PAWS. Its not.. so why'd U type it. 2) Why did GM have to mass market an EV when EV were basically not necessary from a consumer point of view. Furthermore U can parade Musk all U want.. but I don't find anything admirable about his company completely existing due to carbon credits. 3) Then the Bolt is a LUXURY car.. It has the same type of tech and done so at literally 1/3 the price.. with better support. 4) The TL and TLX are on the same level as my Impala. We agree.. that a Chevy.. is on the same level as a supposed luxury car make by Honda. Yes.. I agree with this wholeheartedly. Considering the Corvette, Camaro, Tahoe/Subur all fetch prices well north of almost everything at Acura save the NSX.. I'd say that Chevy is now a bonafide Luxury car maker as well. U'RE THE BEST

Obviously U haven't been reading MT for as long as I have. I can tell U that very often they don;t necessarily make stuff up.. but they do over blow or sensationalize shit that doesn't even matter. They do some time show blind bias too. Like the legendary time they rated the Toyota Matrix as a 5 star.. but rated the Pontiac Vibe as a 3.5. This was a MECHANICAL analysis.. and everyone who read it stood up and called BULLSHIT on Angus McKenzie. and GOOD LORD is right. Try walking away from your computer for an hour.. mozying down to Buick and checking it out for yourself.. and while U are at it.. which is the REAL reason why I responded to your post.. go to the Chevy dealer too and make sure that your blanket statement is correct on whether or not the Impala, sitting on a different platform (yup) and separated by 3 years is employing this "fake" stitching as well. MY THING IS PROOF.. FIRST HAND.

The problem I have is that for some reason U have taken some offense to what I said about ONE effin car.. that wasn't even high on my list of cars to talk down about. In other words the Acura being included wasn't even a thought.. Its a car that I drove.. its a car that I was inside of.. its a car that left me with an impression of "meh." That's it. I didn't say I hated the car.. but for some reason U swooped in and started defending it like it was even a factor in my day. Move on Brah...

Again.. WRONG. I really wish U didn't LIVE on every word that MT types then blanketing every car with their words. I literally went outside and found an are of my dash to "pick" so as to not let anyone see the shredding ..Its seems pretty real to me. I will admit that I didn't get into the LaX recently and start picking the threads while the sales guy was talking. Again.. maybe GM saw the pointlessness of having real stitching in a $30-50K car (or any car for that matter..) but I dunno.. I will head up to the Buick dealer to commit vandalism on the interior just to do what U don't.. speak from first hand experience and not what Motor Trend told me.

Well at least this went down with the annoying videos... Coupla things.. yeah.. if Tesla were to spend some money on interior fitment it could instantly race into the Luxo field.. but that would be with EV powertrain or not. The EV tech in the Tesla is not more advanced than the Bolt. Its insane to say so. I could go out and build a damn EV car if I put my mind to it, but Tesla is doing it without a care in the world.. Let me explain, and like U I'm gonna go all over the place: Tesla is an upstart company funded personally by a Billionaire from the tech industry that hasn't made one profit since its inception. It sells a vehicle that, in reality, has its core creation set waaaaaaaaaay back when GM was just a thought in Billy Durant's head. True innovation lies in intermingling of great engineering within the confines of every day life, while at the same time turning a profit. We can put up patents from the last 20 years and each year I think U will see GM flying high. To put up inventions and innovations of GM, a 107 year old company would truly boggle the mind. Electric Start, Air bag, Automatic, Catalytic Converter, Onstar, the Volt (EV1) not to mention the innovation of the Corporation in modern times by A. Sloan to name a very minute few. The EV1 is a great example. The Tesla S employing a 60-85 kWh lithium-ion achieves a 208 to 270 mi range. The EV1's 26.7-kWh nickel-metal-hydride battery pack 100 to 140 miles. Think about that. What if.. 20 years ago.. the EV1 had of had the same AVAILABLE NOW battery tech that the Model S does? 20 Years is a long time. Innovations in the modern world have proven that it moves exponentially thru time, building on top of what has already been built innovative. In 1996 a Intel Pentium 133 MHz PC with a 400 MB hard drive would have set your soul on fire. Today I won't even get into what we have just walking around in our cell phones.Technology continuously evolved by building on top of what had already been done. Had the Electric Car not been killed in 1996.. I truly believe we would be capable of 1000 mile EVS. GM would have lead that charge The EV1 could go from 0 to 60 mph in nine seconds, while Car and Driver tested the 2011 Nissan Leaf SL to do it in 10 seconds. Ironically the NiMh battery powered EV1 had a longer range than the current Nissan leaf. BOttom line is that GM balances its innovations more to the market than the science fair types that must have their projects front and center. While Tesla is essentially nothing but a toy car concept brought to life-size proportions, 20 years after GM did it and killed it due to the market not being a viable one due to gas prices at the time being less than $1. Point is I dunno what U are getting at. Is this faith in Tesla because of its ability to go 0-60 in 2.8.. or because of its range??? If its the 0-60 times then I think some where some one missed the point of these things. Furthermore if GM... Ford.. Toyota or the like wanted to do a supercar for $100K using EV only driveline and lose money day after day.. not even being able to, due to not having buffers (GM can lose a dollar or two on BOLT because GM will make a ton on the Silverado/Tahoe etc) they could. SH-AWD: Please stop. SH-AWD is great.. but it is not that different than or better than Quatrro, XDrive, Haldex, or GM's essentially modified Haldex system. Acura touts it because Honda doesn't provide them with any other viable solution to lack of RWD. Just to focus on the GM system.. in the CT6 for example.. coupled with the RW-Steering one would certainly see what I'm talking about. The ability for torque to be pushed to different corners.. or rear, back and forth has been around for almost a decade. Hell Saab was kicking it back in 2008 with the XWD system in the TurboX. TLX vs Impala: What the Eff are U ranting about? I have my opinion on the car and that's that. The LUXURY of the car leaves much to be desired. The PREMIUM of the car does not.. same with the Impala.. but there lies a problem with that one. In terms of TOLERANCES.. and being "screwed together tighter" what proof do U have that the Super-Epsilon in any iteration is screwed together less tight than the Acura.. let alone versus one another? Mud slung on me?? Shit talked by U.. and being regurgitated then swallowed.. REPEAT over and over again

Yup. I can list a few luxo cars that I believe are under the current LaX in luxo when the content is viewed. The 528 is a vehicle I have driven and could not figue for the life of my WHY anyone would buy it when the 535 and up were available. The 320 and 328.. the MKZ... the Genesis... the TLx.. the ES350.. Shit. I am seriously trying to figure out.. based on the interior.. why the Maserati Ghibli and Tesla Model S are considered luxo

How so??? Have U been in a new '17 LaX? In fact I wager to say that a '16 LaX was quite the definition of a luxury car. Even more interesting is that U, I bet, have no issue with labeling an MKZ, ES350, or TL a luxo.. so why would the LaX not qualify? Fact is the XTS is a luxury car.. the LaX and Impala have a great deal of the qualities built into the XTS... Yes the Caddy has a softer leather and slightly different chassis tuning.. but the badge and styling are the truest differences in the three. They are all quite nice, despite your prejudices. BTW, honestly, the new LaX is a very nice place to be The analogy is completely lacking.. "CREDIBILITY." Why? Because it makes absolutely zero sense. BTW. I might hump GM til its lips are a bruised purple.. but I have, I guarantee, driven and been in 10X as many of the competition as U have.

WTF is the LaX doing??? Its being a Buick that what. This is not the Alfred Sloan era. Each one of these brands essentially lives on its own.. with only a nudge towards the other despite themselves. Chevy having the Impala has NOTHING to do with the LaX in the minds of the buyers.. Ye.. the new LaX is more premium than the Impala.. in fact I'll go so far as to call it a LUXURY vehicle.. cause again.. we must be mincing words in what PREMIUM means. To me.. and many alike.. Premium= IMPALA (especially LTZ) , Avalon (epecially XLE Premium), Maxima (especially Platinum,Taurus (especially Limited) , and 300. And again.. as I said.. it must be a dealership thing with Stew's brother because the Caddy dealers in my area loan out nothing but Cadillacs over the last 7 years. Oh.. and YES my Impala is LOVED. It has been an exemplary car in all ways.. getting attention and praise as much as any luxury car on the market including Caddy and Benz. It has never let me down.. is quiet, serene, plush, smooth.. and powerful. I kno I kno... 305HP isn't a big deal anymore but just a few years ago it was literally powering Corvettes and 911s.

Lmfao.. Are U even serious? I said ES nor LS

We certainly agree on all points. The LF3 should be a company engine. Even if they tuned it specifically for each brand in terms of HP. Sorta like the Vette and Camaro's LT1

And yet, last I checked the Lexus ES was touting the same engine as the Camry and etc. Yet... Its premium. Pleeeeeeeeease. If it's premium and the Impala isn't, specifically the LTZ, then we are only talking badges