Robert Hall
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Looks awfully tiny to seat 7 adults. I bet it's not 7 dfelt sized adults. the cargo capacity w/ seat down is slightly more than the Blazer.
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I like both lead actors...Viggo Mortensen was great in 'History of Violence' and many other films, and like Mahershala Ali from his recent turn in season 3 of 'True Detective'...
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I haven't seen it...probably will, but I did see an article about the inaccuracies w/ the '62 Cadillac in it...(the car they used was more worn than it should have been for the period, etc).
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I'm sure in Germany and other markets in Europe this was a Big Deal in the news, but in the US the diesel VWAG models had such a tiny market share that they didn't get much media attention beyond the automotive press... the Explorer tires issue, Takata airbags issue, GM ignition issue were all fatal flaws and affected millions of vehicles in the US market...a few diesel VWs with poor emissions? Not a big deal here.- 17 replies
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Maybe their lot is out of camera range to the right or behind the building.
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Oddly, they parked them in the wrong order..the XT6 should be between the Escalade and XT5.
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Rise Above. But don't look below (at the shared components).
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Yeah, it could get pretty boring..like posting on a one-marque forum...though I do spend time on Jeep WK2 forums. Being able to discuss the good and the bad of all cars or car companies is what makes forums like this interesting..
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Whatever...we know you have a xenophobic hate of FCA products, that's your problem. And what is the GM equivalent? GM doesn't have any performance SUVs these days. And lay off on the personal attacks of ccap41, myself and others..keep it professional.
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You missed the point. They handle way better than some damn FWD/transverse engine wannabe minivan. There is nothing aspirational about a CUV on a damn FWD/transverse engine platform and 2.0 4cyl that is shared w/ Chevy and GMC... now the Cayenne Turbo, X5 M, Trackhawk, etc..those are aspirational products. And stop it with the 'U'..this isn't text messaging.
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I think Cadillac has some great stuff...the Escalade, the sedans. But there really isn't anything special about their volume lease CUVs. They 'dare greatly' at times.
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True..look at all the variety of outputs Tesla has had with the Model S.
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More of a bug-eyed twit.
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Well, you don't see performance versions of CUVs or SUVs being made from FWD/transverse engine generic platforms...look at the good stuff--Range Rover Sport, Jag F-pace, Cayenne Turbo, GC Trackhawk, Mercedes AMG SUVs, BMW M SUVs--these are all proper AWD/RWD platforms.... and if Porsche didn't have the Cayenne, they would have long gone out of business..it's their money maker that enables them to build sports cars. The FWD/transverse engine CUVs are just minivans with less practicality. The whole purist bullshit argument against Porsche and BMW having SUVs is about 20 years out of date... I'd love to see Cadillac have a V-series SUV with the CTS-v powertrain, but that's not going to happen w/ a generic transverse engine platform...
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Interesting.. I wonder if one of AM's newer hypercars will appear like the Valkyrie...Fukunaga should be good as director, hopefully writing also (the first season of True Detective which he was involved with was excellent). Rami Malek as a villain, though? Ick...
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Problem is, the GM CUVs are hampered by having generic FWD/transverse engine platforms, which is the same kind of generic garden variety architecture the RX has...so they aren't aiming high.... they don't have proper AWD/RWD based CUV platforms like M-B, BMW, and Porsche have... for women leasing CUVs in suburbia to haul around offspring, the XT6 should do fine against the RX.
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The XT6 should do fine against the 3 row Lexus RX, though... that's more of it's target market than any of the European performance-oriented luxury CUVs.
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I suspect it I had to use an Android phone now it would end the same as my last two Android phones--smashed and stomped.
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Yes... they just work, work well, and you don't have to do much out of the box. As a software engineer I deal with endless, multi-level complexity on a daily basis....don't want to deal with it in my phone or my car...
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fig newtons
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Hyundai News:2020 Hyundai Sonata Gets a New Platform
Robert Hall replied to Drew Dowdell's topic in Hyundai
And it's just a transverse 2.0L 4cyl FWD subcompact. $40k is way too much for such pedestrian crud...$30k would be high for something that low and common IMO.... but there are plenty of sheeple out there that will pay for the MB badge regardless of the plebeian hardware... -
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http://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/engines/cc-weird-engines-outtake-oldsmobile-v5-diesel-grasping-at-straws/ Inpired by the X8, I was googling odd numbered V engines like V3s, V5s, etc. I found an Olds V5 Diesel engine prototype. Wild. I wonder if anyone ever experimented with weird configurations like a V6 w 4 and 2 rather than 3 and 3 or a V8 with 6 and 2 or 5 and 3 cylinders per bank.
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Hyundai News:2020 Hyundai Sonata Gets a New Platform
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I wonder what ‘Third Generation’ means in this context. The current Sonata is in like its 7th or 8th generation. -
No, not bad...but today's Renegade and 2dr Wrangler are about 20 inches longer..
