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    Prices on all these will go up. I see ads from manufacturers saying they are protecting MSRP though May or 2025 model year. But they probably all had 60-100 day supply of vehicles which almost gets them to when 2026 models would start. And they are going to pull incentives in the short term. I suspect 2026 MSRP’s are going way up.
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    Toyota makes money through and Stellantis kind of struggles and has a lousy stock price. @Drew Dowdell @G. David Felt Question on the Buick Encore and Lincoln Nautilus, are they 25% tariff die to imported auto or 145% tariff due to Chinese goods?
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    Porsche, Mercedes and BMW are 3 of the most profitable car brands, I am pretty sure they know what they are doing. Cadillac sold 160,000 cars in 2024 (US sales) Audi sold 196,000. Mercedes, Lexus and BMW are in the 300s. I think Cadillac is on the right track with their EV's and they have to keep advancing the tech, going into Formula 1 is a right move. Cadillac is doing a lot of correct steps, but there is still a long journey ahead to overtake BMW.
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    Doesn't BMW sell more EV's than Cadillac and Genesis? And once Mercedes redoes their EV's they'll be fine. CLA this year, the AMG EV sedan is being shown this year, electric GLB and GLC I think next year, electric E-class in 2027 and so on. And not that I am big plug in hybrid believer because I think it adds a lot of weight and complexity, but Mercedes makes 11 plug-in hybrids, Cadillac and Genesis don't have any. And a lot of people think PHEV is where the market is going in the near future.
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    BMW has come down, Cadillac Lyriq interior compared to like an XT6 is a big leap forward. Still some cheap bits even in a Lyriq interior. Buick and Cadillac have about 15 models combined, pretty close to BMW. But I would argue back why doesn’t Cadillac make a coupe or a convertible or a sports car, etc. Because they probably fear it would not sell because they are not on par with a Mercedes or BMW.
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    The Optiq isn’t made in the USA either.
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    The EQB is a bad car, and the Optiq is the best of that group but also the newest. We’ve seen the new CLA that charges twice as fast as the Optiq, that will become a new GLB in a year and there will be an electric GLC in about a year.
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    It means something in advertising and the Optiq is like a 0-60 in 60 seconds car, which is fine for 90% of buyers but you have to have that 500 hp option for a 4 second car. And I get that all these EV's are fast, but all these Chinese EV's are doing self driving and crazy horsepower or they can double as a boat or jump over speed bumps or some other crazy thing so you have be able to complete with them in Asia. And in the USA, Cadillac has to compete with the Germans who all do performance.
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    I'd say Buick interiors are more Hyundai/Kia level. Yes they are better than Chevy, but Chevy has historically had bad interiors. The new X3 interior is a design mess, but probably still better than anything GM has near that price. BMW outsold Cadillac and Buick combined last year in the US. Despite Cadillac's EV resurgence that I think is going pretty well, they still have a long way to go. GMC to Chevy is Jeep to Dodge, basically the same, a little more trucky and less brand image stigma.
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    It is an interesting idea to have this low cost vehicle that people can customize now they want. I suspect though that as much as people say they want a small truck or want a basic car with manual windows, etc they won't actually buy it. It's like people saying they want a manual transmission station wagon, but no one actually buys it.
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    The Envision is still wrong wheel drive for the BMW true believers, and wrong badge for the snobs. Solution to the Terrain/Envision issue is just make the Terrain interior better and make the 2.0T an option. I think a general problem is GMC or Buick is they aren't really much nicer than a Chevrolet, they are basically Chevy overlap, but GM must feel there is enough market out there for people that want a 10% nicer Chevy and won't otherwise buy a Chevy if GMC and Buick weren't around. And they can't buy out the dealer network because it would cost too much.
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    The Toyota version looks better than the Lexus version. And they should call it Avalon, instead of bz7.
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    And yet they are selling. I don't get how their sales keep going up. Although they did well on the new GX and the TX fills that 3 row SUV void that they had been missing, so maybe just getting into those 2 segments boosted sales.
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    Definitely need this as 300 hp in aa 5,000 lb car or whatever these weigh is adequate but not a lot. I imagine it is easy to go to the Lyriq's 500 hp motors, swap in some better brakes and beef up the suspension a bit. They should V-series all Cadillacs, especially if selling in China where they have all these 1,000 hp or 1,500 hp cars.
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    This thing is huge, I don't know why it is so big. Unless they plan to kill off the LS, which they say they are not doing. The interior looks too sparse and boring. Good that they did hybrid and full EV. Looks too much like the Camry, and the moldings on the doors look weird. I am so sick of plastic moldings tacked on doors, why can't car companies just make a metal door without cladding and molding all over it like a 1990s Pontiac.
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    Buick is at risk of becoming Chrysler, a 1 model brand. They can keep the Enclave since it is built here, and the XT6 is dying this year which might help sales. They won't kill the brand since they don't want to buy out dealers, so you cut them down to 1 model and hope dealers opt-out. The Envista and Encore GX hit a sweet spot of small SUV at under $30k, but the tariffs would wreck that formula. Although the Kia Seltos, Hyundai Kona, VW Taos are all imported too and would suffer the same problem.
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    This thing looks worse than the EQS. 2 things that car companies need to get rid of is the bar of soap design and the yoke steering wheel. And I just saw Mercedes is going to steer by wire and showed a yoke style steering wheel. People don't want yokes in a car.
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    Audi in recent years has gotten pretty stale and boring.
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    I assume this is like Blazer EV size, and the Blazer has a lot better range. Also a tough size of SUV anymore, because the "compact" SUVs like the Rav4 an CRV aren't so compact any more, they are kind of like mid-size vehicles and if you need bigger than that you go right to the 3 row. That is why vehicles like the Edge and Venza got killed, and the Blazer (ICE) is probably getting killed.
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    Reminds me of the Bentley Dominator
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    These might be over $50k, which is a lot for a Subaru. The Mercedes CLA has 400 mile range and will charge at 320 kw, not that Subaru is competing with Mercedes, but 150 kw is sort of slow, but the Ultium cars are the same. But if EV buyers rarely fast charge and charge at home, then it doesn't matter.
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    It doesn't look good, and I think it looks too funky for mass market adoption, which is the problem these car companies have with EVs. They make the EV the most radical looking car in the line up, when if you ant volume it should be the most vanilla looking. Price will determine whether it sells or not.
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    260 mile range and 150 kw charge rate aren't that great, but maybe enough for the majority of buyers that charge at home and drive 50 miles a day. I wonder if this is really unique to Subaru or if the Toyota Crown Signia EV is coming out next year.
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    I think it is too tall, and I don't like the body color piece of plastic they just glued to the rear window. They should have left that out so it looks more like an Outback. And I am also tired of split headlights, I don't see the point of those, it adds cost and it doesn't look good.
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    The 2026 Solterra, now with more Camry front end styling! It looks better since the original looked terrible, this gets them to average looking. I doubt 338 hp yields a sub 5 second 0-60 run, maybe mid 5's. They at least got the range fixed, so if the price is the same as before, it gets it more competitive with the Equinox and iD4.
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