smk4565
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Doesn't need a manual, they sell in crazy low numbers and the ZF will be faster and get better fuel economy anyway. I think those 2 engines are fine for standard level, I am surprised there isn't something with more power unless that is coming later. Pricing should be competitive on this, it has to be cheaper than a Z4.
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That is probably the plan. They definitely don't need Dodge and Chrysler and it is possible that neither one would be profitable if they actually had to develop new cars. Jeep makes something like 75% of FCA's profit, and that is with them putting almost no money into the LX cars or Journey in the last 10 years. If they didn't have Dodge and Chrysler, Sergio would have found a merger partner already.
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Cool stuff if you want a super power Grand Cherokee. FCA doesn't have new products though, so this is also done to serve as a distraction that they are putting new stuff out there. But this makes sense, easy money to put a Hellcat in something and charge a lot of money for it, might as well cash in now before CAFE gets really tough in 2020 and before EVs take over.
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Musk said the battery packs are around 50 and 75 kWh in the Model 3. 258 hp is decent since the torque rating is probably higher and it comes on right away. And the Model 3 is like 3600 lbs, it isn't that heavy of a car for an EV.
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I know Tesla uses a dual motor, one front one rear, Mercedes did the SLS electric with a motor at every wheel. With an electric car you can do pretty much anything you want. With a gas engine, especially a V8 you need like a 3 by 3 by 3 foot cube, you can't stick that in the middle of an SUV and make it work. Maybe, rear engine like the old VW buses, but even then what would be the point of a rear engine SUV with no cargo capacity. I'd say a all electric Corvette with motors at each wheel makes sense though.
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I am not talking $h! on USA. I know you said the Yukon could "hold its own" and that is false. As I pointed out even the fastest SUV not he planet can not keep up with a 335i in corners. This is scientifically proven, and I only picked a racetrack in Virginia and one in Germany since that is what I could find for a 335i, there are dozens of tracks with lap times for newer, faster 435i's. And I agree that the Corvette's engineering trickles down to every other car, but same goes for the Audi R8, the AMG GT, LF-A, 911s, etc. Even the Alfa Romeo has 75% of a Ferrari V8 under the hood. That is industry standard.
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Because a Yukon is larger and heavier than a Grand Cherokee SRT and has less horsepower. Also consider a Bentley Bentayga beats a Cadillac CTS-V in 0-60 time. So even an SUV that is faster straight line than a CTS-V can't beat a 2012 335i around this race track which has a sizable straight away, and other decent sized straights. And we were originally talking about a stock Yukon, but even a modified one would need like 800 hp to have any chance at beating a 300 hp 335i on a lap time, and still wouldn't match it in a corner.
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This is all insane, but I found some lap times of a stock 335i (2012 E90 generation, since they are 340i's now). On Sachsenring in Germany the 335i runs 1:44.3 or 1:45.0 seconds (it had 2 times, one might have been a coupe) Here are the fastest SUVs on that track: Bentley Bentayga 1:44.5 Cayenne Turbo S 1:44.7 AMG ML63 1:47.2 The 335i is with them all, and those are probably the 3 fastest SUVs on the planet. I also found times on Virginia International raceway (pre 2014), and the 2012 335i ran a 3:13.2 lap. The only SUV in the top 125 lap times was a Grand Cherokee SRT-8 at 3:17.4 That is a generation old 3-series going as fast as a Bentley Bentayga, the fastest SUV there is, and think of how much faster the 335i must be in the corners since it has literally half the horsepower and torque.
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Yes, they should just buy all of Mazda, they might as well buy Subaru too. Subaru seems to have pretty a good niche, Mazda could be targeted to youthful buyers and sporty car buyers that Toyota doesn't get. They could platform share, share engines, etc. Toyota I am sure has the money to buy both, that sit on mountains of cash. Edit: Just looked it up, Toyota had $27 billion in cash as of March 2017. Mazda is worth about $8 billion.
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All Mercedes gas engines will be paired with a 48 volt mild hybrid system, thus making everything they make by definition a hybrid, but Audi and Volvo are moving toward this too, they are all still burning gas. The Mercedes electric crossover is supposed to go on sale in 2019. We know eventually everything will be electric, it is just a matter of how fas the market adapts to it. If it swings fast to EV, at least Mercedes will be ready. If it doesn't they'll have the inline 4 and six gas engines still. They are covered.
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I'd love to see a Nurburgring time or any race track time, of a Yukon or even Escalade, and inner on the same track a 328i would embarrass it. This isn't even close. I have driven a 2013 Mercedes GL450 with airmatic, has very smooth ride, handles well for its size, and I imagine since it is developed on the Nurburgring it can out handle a Yukon any day of the week. Yet the GL is no where near my car in the corners and I think a 3-series would out handle my car on a windy road. A 5500 lb SUV is not going to handle as well as a 3-series, or even an 7-series for that matter.
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The Bolt is not an SUV or CUV. Where is the Electric SUV the size of an Equinox or Traverse? Tesla already has the 3 row SUV. I don't think doing a sedan instead of an SUV is a bad move, Tesla builds sporty cars and sedan makes sense for their brand. And the smaller SUV is coming. In a way the Model 3 as a sedan makes total sense, most companies are , giving up on sedans because they see easier profit on a truck, but there are still sedan fans as proven by the fact that 450,000 people are in line to get one, which is 450,000 more than any other car on the market has. Plugins are not EVs. Mercedes is technically going to have a 100% hybrid line up by 2019, so then I guess you can compare their 2 million a year sales to the Bolt. Which would be just as pointless as comparing Bolt EV sales to plug in s-Class sales.
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Mercedes is making 10 electric vehicles. I hope the Bolt and its Buick sibling can take on all 10. Mercedes has also had a battery factory under construction, GM does not have a battery factory like Tesla and Mercedes do. I think the electric Mercedes will sell, they don't even advertise any of their plug ins, plus a plug in is not an EV. The real EVs are coming in 2019 and we'll see what they got. Which to my original point, who has an electric SUV now besides Tesla and people are critizicng Tesla for lack of electric suvs.
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I agree with all but the last sentence. I think Cadillac should do the performance SUVs to take on Porsche. Because they are the luxury brand and have the dealerships, etc. If you split Corvette to its own brand, then you have to take it out of Chevy and sell them at Cadillac dealerships anyway, and have Cadillac/Corvette dealers. Chevrolet dealers would revolt if they lost the Corvette. I think the only model turned into a brand was Ram, and that sort of worked since it is pickup and a van, it isn't really a full line. But it weakened Dodge and made them sort of expendable at the same time.
