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  1. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. smk4565
    But this is like a Camry price point car.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. smk4565
    Yeah 440 mile range is excessive. I think if you offer extended range battery as a stand alone option it is fine, but you should be able to get the standard battery on any trim so they can get the cost down.
  12. smk4565
    Agree, if you have a 5,000 lb EV it is going to be more efficient than a 6,000 lb EV, thus be more efficient. They could make a 3,000 mile range F150 Lightning right now as long it is pulling a 5,000 lb trailer full of batteries and cost $450,000. I suspect if they made a solid state Equinox EV for $35,000 with a. 302 mile range and a 600 mile extended range option that was a $15,000 stand alone option, and took away interior space and made 0-60 time longer it would have a worse take rate than manual transmissions do now. The Cybertruck will be the litmus test for this, I suspect almost no one buys the $15,000 bed mounted battery that takes away half the bed and makes it slower and less efficient.
  13. smk4565
    But we don't really need 600 mile EVs. What we need are EV's that replace the 100 kWh battery with a lighter, cheaper 75 kWh battery and get the same range.
  14. smk4565
    We'll see if Toyota is first, Mercedes already has solid state on the road in prototype form. I would imagine they want that ready for the next generation S-class EV that replaces the EQS. And usually the S-class gets the technology first. E-class EV is due out in 2027, I don't know if they would be ready that fast, and even if so, is this expensive tech that starts on S-class and 10 years later ends up on a regular car. From their media release: Safer, lighter, more efficient and 25 percent longer range in the first vehicle: solid-state cell chemistry delivers higher energy density and weight reduction, with improved driving efficiency and cell safety Mercedes-Benz, together with Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains (HPP) based in Brixworth UK, developed and patented new innovative solid-state battery pack Mercedes-Benz integrated solid-state battery, with cells from U.S.-based solid-state battery leader Factorial Energy, into slightly modified EQS Sedan Road tests with new solid-state battery in "621 mile" EQS development car started in February 2025
  15. smk4565
    Yep, BYD (and other Chinese brands) will take over Asia, Mexico, South America, etc were they need lower priced cars and they are making some inroads to Europe also. And at the improvement rate of Chinese cars with all these 1,000+ hp, 400 mile range, charge in 5 minutes they will move into luxury and performance segments. Which forces legacy auto into the middle and upper market in the US and Europe and I don't know if that is enough volume for them to survive, probably half will die after getting beat up by tariffs when BYD swoops in to pick up the pieces.
  16. smk4565
    Cadillac's EV's seem to be selling though and Genesis's are not. The Lyriq is more GV80 sized the Optic is GV70 size. I think Cadillac could still step up the interiors a bit and the Ultium platform cars are still a bit heavy compared to other EVs, but I think they have a better line up than Genesis. And Cadillac will have an EV sedan or 2 to replace the CT4/CT5, although rumor is one is mid-size and the other full size. Either way, I was just reading about the BYD Yangwang U7, which is a full size sedan, interior looks on par to a Genesis G90 but it has 1,287 hp and costs $86,000. And it charges at 500 kw, and BYD has 1,000 kw charging cars going on sale this year. And the Yangwang U8 SUV also is a boat, which the Escalade IQ cannot drive across rivers. All these guys are toast anyway.
  17. smk4565
    I found a Genesis dealer website advertising $378 for front brake pads and a Mercedes dealer advertising $299 for an S500. They both use synthetic oil, both require premium fuel. I doubt a G90 is any cheaper to maintain than a BMW or Mercedes. I can appreciate that Genesis had their own styling language and tries to be different, but they don't have the performance of a German car, don't have the reliability/resale value proposition of a Lexus, I think Cadillac does EV's better than Genesis. There are just too many getter choices. Now if you specifically want a LWB chauffeur sedan and can't afford the Maybach, then this G90 is the only option, at least in the US, I don't know what all China has for this market.
  18. smk4565
    Not sure the maintenance is so low on a Genesis. Hyundai/Kia parts prices are insane. An engine wire harness on an Elantra is over $5,000, it is $6,000 on an Elantra Hybrid on and S-class and it is $4,370. A Tucson front door is $2300, on an S-class it is $2,100 on a Lexus LS is $838. A Kia Sorrento quarter wheel opening molding is $808, for plastic. 1 headlight on a G90 is $3,649, more than an S-class but less than the BMW $5,000 laser headlight. On a Mercedes a front radar sensor is about $650. On the current Hyundai Tucson front radar sensor is $2000, on the prior generation they are $2700 S-class parts are expensive for sure, but expected for the price of the car and basically on par with Tucson/Elantra parts. Lexus parts are cheaper than Hyundai/Kia or Mitsubishi parts. And it seems like the Hyundai 3.5 V6 doesn't have issues, but those 2.0 and 2.4 liter 4 cylinders for the 2010s burned oil and grenaded themselves like crazy. Those are the engine equivalent to the Nissan CVT transmission, do not buy ever. On top of the fact that you can steal those Hyuundais but putting a scrunched USB jack in the ignition. I just can't trust anything Hyundai makes, it looks nice new and after 5 years they look like crap and fall apart.
  19. smk4565
    They are getting there on price, I think they need an SLE trim around $60k, then with the tax credit you getting closer to ICE prices.
  20. smk4565
    The top 1% aren't buying a Genesis. They are trying to sell to baby boomers who used to have a Buick, Cadillac, Infiniti or Lincoln and they don't have luxury sedans anymore, or maybe people that think a Lexus LS is too sporty.
  21. smk4565
    All black to me is a lack of style and design. It shows no creativity or imagination, it is just lazy to make everything 1 color. Also I am tired of this gloss black trim trend on the outside and inside of cars, "paint black" fingerprint magnet center consoles. They don't really sell many of these G90s, did they need to make an extended version? Do they even sell in China where they are buying EV's and buying local more and more?
  22. smk4565
    They can catch up as fast as they want to. If they want to pour billions into R&D for solid state batteries, they can kind of just skip over the 400V and even the battery tech in this recent crop of 2021-2025 era EVs. Toyota isn't short on money or engineers, it just depends on where they want to deploy it.
  23. smk4565
    Agreed. When Tesla was the only game in town outside of compliance cars like the Leaf or Bolt, it pretty easy for them, but now pretty much everyone except Toyota/Subaru/Mazda have a pretty competent EV in their line up (and a Stellantis, but they don't really do anything well). Second problem is Tesla's line up is small and they are slow to refresh it. The Model X and S have had one minor refresh in like 8 years, and the new 3 and the 2026 Y are really just front /rear fascia refreshes on the same car that is 8 years old. Now you have the Chinese undercutting Tesla by a ton on price with cars that are equal on tech and range (or even better), an d the luxury brands have EVs with luxury interiors, Tesla doesn't have a luxury car interior,
  24. smk4565
    Priced like a luxury car with the interior of a nice Honda or Toyota. Besides Elon scaring away buyers, I think as all the other guys start putting out EVs in more segments and in lower prices, Tesla is in for some competition. The new CLA is way nicer than a Model 3, and has better range and faster charging. And that's the cheap Mercedes that people want to say isn't even luxury. The Equinox EV basically gives you what the Model Y does except maybe you lose some 0-60 time.
  25. smk4565
    It is a failure, although BMW does it and sells more EV's than Mercedes and Audi combined, by doing ICE and EV on one platform. Mercedes isn't doing what BMW does, the electric GLC, E-class, S-class, and on a totally different platform than the ICE cars but look the same as the gas car. 2 platforms, 1 design language.
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