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  1. smk4565
    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.
  8. smk4565
    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.
  9. smk4565
    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.
  10. smk4565
    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.
  12. smk4565
    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
  14. smk4565
    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.
  16. smk4565
    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.
  18. smk4565
    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.
  19. smk4565
    There is over abundance for sure, especially when China has 100 EV car makers and eventually they will spread out past China. Not only will the tariffs kill off some weak brands, but it is going to crush a lot of suppliers once the supply chains get all destroyed. Not to mention dealerships that close up and job losses there.
  20. smk4565
    Tariffs will kill off the Japanese sports cars, and the Mitsubishi brand and probably Maserati, JLR, Alfa Romeo who are all struggling and might be gone in 5 years even without tariffs. Which then, with less competition in the market, prices of everyone else will probably go up.
  21. smk4565
    Ford is selling about 150k Mavericks a year, or on pace maybe to get there this year. If Kia comes out with a sub $30k pickup they will sell 90k of them easily. Also if VW would do a crossover coupe version of the Taos, and a crossover coupe Tiguan, sales would go up 11,000,000%. Because if you have 5 crossovers that struggle to sell, don't make them better, just make a coupe version of the same piece of crap.
  22. smk4565
    Seems like they want to push the Corvette to hypercar territory which would really throw away the original mission of this car. Although the C8 already sort of started to do that. It seems like we are just a few years away from having almost no sports cars under $100k, because I think the Supra and Z4 are dying soon, I can't imagine the Nissan Z will be around much longer with their issues, Mustang is on pace for its worst year ever. But there are probably 50 supercar/hyper cars at $250k+ available. The choices are endless among Ferrari, Lamborghini, Aston Martin, McLaren, Rimec, Bugatti, Koenigsegg, Gordon Murray T50, and all these other one off build in a shed super cars for a million dollars.
  23. smk4565
    But this is like a Camry price point car.
  24. smk4565
    Well 25% tariff added to it, which makes a G90 like $125,000, and probably dead in the water in the US. The Chinese have luxury cars with over 1,000 hp for less than the price of a G90. I don't know that they are really going to compete there either. Unless they come up with some next gen EV tech and have full self driving and impeccable build quality or something.
  25. smk4565
    Here's the problem, the G90 doesn't sell, and coupes and convertibles don't sell, combing both would be a disaster. If they did a mid-size car maybe they would have a chance, but maybe they feel like the 4-series and CLE already kind of took that space away. And Cadillac for sure needs to do a coupe version of whatever replaces the CT5. I think if you took a Lyriq drivetrain and throw a coupe body on that for $70-80k range they have a winner.
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