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Sounds similar?

I will not disagree that Cadillac should be an active participant in racing. In fact if you would have said this statement few years ago, I would have wholeheartedly agreed with you for GM to be in F1 as a Cadillac. However, as the recent developments of F1 have turned out it is nothing but a monopolistic organization run by a megalomaniac Bernie Eccentric-stone. Besides, F1 participation, will not directly precipitate into sales. No point for GM to make millions of $$ of "investment" to be part of the "elite" club. If GM had balls, it would help create its own racing league in Asian and Pan-American countries and break the hegemony of F1. There are manufacturers who have openly dissented with F1 governing body. Bring them together and we have a good for racing league than a circus the current F1 has turned into. While not far-fetched, it is a tall order.

Before you start jumping again, please go back and justify your previous post. Again, what does this have to do with Cadillac? If you talk about numbers, let me be a necromancer and re-ask you the question I constantly prod you in other topics when you talk about Mercedes sales - Toyota sells tons of Rav4, Corolla, Camry - is it the best manufacturer? You have always skirted that issue, do not post till you respond to it. Yes, E class sells - but for this: or this: or this: or this: or this: or this: OOPS MY BAD! I thought we were talking about taxis.

Inevitable.

None, drive this and you will realize it is a solid effort from GM. Packaging in general is done good by General.

Congo-rats, a good choice. What is the status of your other rides?

WTF has F1 championship to do with this argument in Cadillac? Are you just trying to prove how omniscient you are? And since you are bringing the pony in this show, Mercedes took 5 years to win that championship as a Constructor and Engine supplier with possibly the biggest budget since it returned in 2010. Shame on Dieter! I would have expected him to win with Michael Schumacher in the 2010 season. Before that Mercedes won as an engine supplier when you had Mika Hakkinen destroying everyone in 1998 and then in 1999 after being let pass by Schumacher, returning from injury in the final Suzuka Gran Prix. Schumi just did not want Eddie Irvine to be first Ferrari driver in 20+ years. Get your facts straight SMK. Didn't you just contradict yourself there? So much for NOT the moving goal posts. So Audi and Porsche get a pass for pillaging the VW parts and bins because the company as a whole has a bigger budget? Do you even proof read your own garbage? Engineering is NOT who has bigger budget. Engineering is who makes the MOST out of the budget he gets. It took more money to make the movie Gravity than for India to put a Mars mission. And with such a big budget, where is the US government with moving the country forward?

Basically an expensive Corvette competitor.

Awesome Cort. Keep it up - success is just another heartbeat away.

A bit removed from $60,000. Also, a wage comparison would be worthwhile. You just asserted the fact that commodity price AND wages are playing a critical factor in the purchasing power.

There is a sense of entitlement across the cross-section of the society. Not any exceptions to Generation Z, Y, X, W, etc. I had a friend tell me that after he came back from Vietnam in 71 at an age of 23, bought himself a good used two year old Corvette 427 from the money he had saved while serving. Can a modern day GI do that with a Z-06?

I have always expressed reservation of Mulally even when he was the CEO. I consider him to be a Smoke and Screen kind of guy. All he did was create perception of how good Ford is. To his favor he had limited resources as well. If Fields does not follow his footsteps or take genuine measure to fix Ford, we will start to see chinks in Mulally's armor cropping up.

In general, spread of average age of buyers from lowest of 48 to highest of 61 is not a good sign of health of economy of this country. The purchasing power is hugely lop-sided.

Another Audi, another sedan, another uber-bored manatee face looking at you and another not-sedan name. Damn Germans.

SMK, take some time off the site to have a Dulcolax to release all the Mercedes garbage you have been eating. How do you know pretty much everything has been done? When you have seen nothing about the car?

Just like Camry outsells Mazda6. It is perception of how good the cars are in the mind of brand whores like you. Mercedes Benz may manufacture a re-badge Malibu and you will still call it better than any Cadillac offering.

Take that A3 out and it is basically flat. I wonder how long A3 will sustain this brand before decline starts.

May be I should have stated better. The NAME CT6 is as anonymous as K9000. The car just exists without any siginificance. There was no comparison of actual cars intended. As far as second comment, may be again, I should have stated better. You have a number 6, which has no significane whatsoever, and is possibly associated to the biggest car in the lineup, what numbers the smallest cars are going to see? -1, -2, -3? At least give yourself room for expanding at the bottom if you are going to be stuck with the logic of using CT and a number. It is funny de Nysschen is poo-pooing about the name change and how it is important to the brand. And here we were giving him a free pass for being hired after the trademarking of names. I think there's room for that expansion: CT6 and CT5 have been trademarked; we now know what CT6 is, and CT5 could either be a 4-door coupe or an Alpha-based (or Omega-based - that's what I'd do to maximize the 'milking' of both the Alpha and Omega architectures) 2 door to sit between what is now the CTS sedan and the CT6. I expect the CTS to become CT4 and the ATS to either become CT3 or CT2. Don't see the need to go further down than one notch below where the current ATS is; Buick can and should handle that. You may not, but GM sees the need to build a RWD car smaller than ATS. According to Uwe Effinghaus.

May be I should have stated better. The NAME CT6 is as anonymous as K9000. The car just exists without any siginificance. There was no comparison of actual cars intended. As far as second comment, may be again, I should have stated better. You have a number 6, which has no significane whatsoever, and is possibly associated to the biggest car in the lineup, what numbers the smallest cars are going to see? -1, -2, -3? At least give yourself room for expanding at the bottom if you are going to be stuck with the logic of using CT and a number. It is funny de Nysschen is poo-pooing about the name change and how it is important to the brand. And here we were giving him a free pass for being hired after the trademarking of names.

Second.. the CT6 is not a renaming of any existing car. Its a name for a new product completely. The whole line-up at some point will have new naming "scheme" granted, but the reasons for sticking with the "CT" part was to keep in relation with the oldest and best known CAR product still in the line-up. The issue at hand is whether or not the name CT6.. the "6" portion being worthy of being the flagship. Furthermore the true focus of the Cadillac brand should be is focusing on the BRAND CADILLAC. This is what the original reason they went with alphanumeric in the first place. NO ONE.. and I mean NO ONE.. ever tells me they drive a 3series,, 5series,,, 7series... EClass.. XTS. They always say "oh that's my BMW.. my Benz.. my Cadillac." Well. unless its the Escalade.. which is essentially a brand in and of itself similar to the Corvette. What does CT6 signify? If it was building up from CTS then why a 6? Why not an CTL - for Luxury, CTZ for being top of the line, or even an CTR. Why a CT6? It has no history, no continuation, no logic, or no panache; it is like a Kia 9000, just an existence. If Cadillac wanted to change naming, even ATS would have been converted to CTA or something like that. If it was path going forward for the brand, then again why a CT6? Heck a CT8 or CT7 or a CT12 sound more convincing for a luxury car. If it was CT12, SMK may have thought it to be a V12, even if it did not have one. If GM wants to rename entire Cadillac lineup, by God by all means do it. If all vehicles are going to be called with CT and a number, where do ATS, CTS, the RWD smaller car, coupe will fall? They should be certainly below the CT6 since it is the flag-bearer. Are we going to have CT-1, CT-2 if Cadilliac decides to expand the lineup? But then consumers will confuse the negative sign for GM changing the name and adding a dash. How about naming the crossovers? Also, all that brand equity of three generations of CTS will be going down the toilet with a name change. Incoherence is one word to explain the madness of naming. As lame as LTS sounded for some rather than having a real name, at least it had some logic. If chaos is what sells in luxury market, then Cadillac may have a winning formula. Probably that is why Hyundai is struggling because it gave the luxury car a real name.

No B Pillarz!!

A new car. LOL. Check the tie rods, my car had the same issue a year ago, found out it was the tie-rod. Also breaks can cause the problem. Have you seen the 2015 Toronados?! They are to die for! I'll take a look and have it checked. Yes they are wonderful. However, I did not say new Toronado, just a new car.

A new car. LOL. Check the tie rods, my car had the same issue a year ago, found out it was the tie-rod. Also breaks can cause the problem.

I can see someone with three breasts, but three kidneys a little overwhelming, don't you think? Nevertheless, this is huge for GM. That LS7 always makes me smile when I start it. To me it is technologically superior than the Germans 6.2 M156 or 4.0 S65.

Using Series makes far more sense to me a 46 year old Cadillac lover than the CT crap that I feel cheapens the line. Taking nothing away from Corvette, but you have a C6 corvette and now you want a CT6 100K lux sedan? This cheapens the branding to me, does not help it. C6 or C7 is more of a generation number, not a car name. GM does not sell the car as a C6 or C7, but a Corvette or Corvette Stingray. Unlike CT6, which if it materializes, will be a name of a vehicle.