smk4565
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Not a fan of that grill still. Looking like the LS is good since you could sort of confuse the 2 and think this car costs more than it does. But to me it is still a Toyota Avalon with an ugly grille. I guess it would stand out which is a plus, compared to the forgettable styling of early 2000s Lexuses.
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I have not, the most expensive Escalade costs less than the a base model G-wagen. The G65 was like $250,000 in it's final edition. It is ridiculous to compare them on price. I know, I just brought it up because the CTS is now bigger than the STS was when it was here, and a complaint on the STS was it was too big, too heavy, not sporty enough to take on the smaller, more nimble Germans. And Cadillac killed the STS, only to make the same car 4 years later, but with the name of their entry level car. Horrible product planning. That would be like killing the Malibu, only to make the Cruze a mid-size Camry/Accord fighter for $25,000 in 2022 and then wondering why it doesn't sell.
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Looks like GM fired him, but did him a solid by not saying he was fired just that he is leaving to pursue other interests to make it seem like Johan's choice to leave. I have said from the beginning that this guy was not the answer, Audi has done better since he left, Infiniti did better since he left, Infiniti's QX40, QX50, QX60 name scheme is just as stupid as Cadillac's XT4, XT5, XT6. This guy is clueless, and was lucky to be a market president of Audi when Audi got their act together at the home base, it wasn't like he was in charge of product planning, he just had to sell what Germany gave him. As far as Cadillac goes, I think the problem they have is every few years there is new management and they blow it up and start over. It is like the Cleveland Browns of the car world.
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Dealers are already selling out of their Urus allotments and the thing doesn’t even arrive for 6 months. It will be their best seller for sure. The CTS thing is exactly my point, the CTS should have stayed a 3-Series fighter and they should have had a new product above it. Same with Escalade, it should stay at its current price and a new SUV should go above it.
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They'll top 1,000 Urus's easy, I think Lambo will double their worldwide volume of 3,500 units, Urus will easily be their top selling model. Ferrari is going to make an SUV too, Bentley has one. The Escalade needs a $10k price cut to compete with Navigator, but they are going to magically raise the price $20,000 for the new one? That is in effect $30k more than the current sale price. I don't see it happening, they tried to push the CTS up 20% in price and sales collapsed. I think a model better than Escalade is needed, leave the Escalade where it is. But if they want to make a base Escalade $125,000 with a $200,000 V-sport to go against the G-wagen bring it on. And good for Cadillac if they do it, if you can take a Tahoe and charge and extra $70k then take the money and run.
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Not going to happen. The ZR1 is about 600 lbs heavier than the AMG and that is before you putt batteries and electric motors in. The Bolt's battery pack is 960 lbs, even with 1/3 of it you are talking 320 lbs of battery. They would need to take 1,000 lbs of weight out of a current Corvette to get the weight in check before adding Secondly, the Corvette has road car suspension (finally dumping the leaf springs for coils in the mid-engine model), not Formula 1 car suspension. And the AMG can generate 500 lbs more downforce than a 2019 Corvette ZR1with the huge rear wing. And the AMG has active aero and DRS because it doesn't have a fixed rear wing. Thirdly, even with the new 5.5 liter DOHC flat plane crank V8 with turbos the horsepower is about the same as the AMG 1.6 liter V6. And the Bolt's EV motor spins at a max 8,810 rpm, the AMG electric motor spins at 50,000 rpm, so Chevy has some EV motor work to do.
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No, I am just saying tracks like Willow Springs and VIR favor high horsepower straight line ability cars. The Corvette does well on both, on the tracks less powerful cars post quicker times than the Corvette. The E63 is the fastest sedan ever around VIR, but it isn't the fastest sedan on the Nurburgring for the same reason. Lots of straight line power but it is a big sedan to get through corners quicker than an M3 or Guilia or something.
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I don't mean a higher trim Escalade, I mean a vehicle above Escalade. Something like a Lamborghini Urus competitor with more luxury than an Escalade and more performance than a CT6 V-sport. And maybe Escala will become a $150,000 base price SUV, I dunno, but I think if Cadillac wants to march upward, then SUV is where you do it.
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The Escalade is a cash cow no doubt, I just don’t see it being 11% of GM’s total profit, though I would guess it has the highest per vehicle margin of any GM product. I don’t know they never went above the Ecalade, why did they stop? Cadillac could easily have an SUV In the $125-175,000 range. Go above the Navigator and make it 2nd rate.
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That was a lot of ranting but I don’t get how a sub $100k AMG only Model is a bad thing. And you can spend $60k on a Camaro or Mustang and it will still have the same rental car interior as the one at the Orlando airport Hertz lot. And it is about driving dynamics. The 755 hp Corvette ZR1 is slower around the Nürburgring than the 577 hp AMG GT or the 520 hp 911 GT2 RS. And the Porsche is like 15-20 seconds faster, it isn’t even close. I think to have a business case for an entry level AMG you start with a 330 hp turbo 4 around $55k and use the 430 hp turbo 6 around $65k. And no V8 because you want to keep the car small to compete with Audi TT, Cayman, etc. AMG could go the other way too and make something above the GT but below Project One, but they’ll sell like 500 a year so why bother. I think Moers wants to attack Porsche at every segment and not Ferrari.
