Drew Dowdell

Well Cadillac didn't even bother covering this up with a sheet on the show floor....

I'm pretty sure Benz is just making up numbers these days.

Remember what he was working with guys... it's not like he had a completely clean slate on the W-body. The Epsilon II isn't a clean slate, but it is a much more flexible one.

and I missed this how?! This was how you had your Eldorado without pissing off the shareholders.

you're not using the front page?

Width is the same, Longer overall. Same footprint as XTS. The grill and lights really help make the car look wider.

No, they won't shrink, they'll be on SlimFast. The new CAFE is less harsh on vehicles with bigger footprints.

I know the band was captured on video, but I don't know if the intro was.

There is something else coming that will compete with the SHO.... and by compete, I mean blow it out of the water. The long rumored RWD Holden Commodore-based Chevy 'SS' I presume...or a performance version of the Impala? It will not wear the impala name

Imagine if you will an older German gentleman in a conservative suit introducing the car. Then imagine him saying "Big is beautiful, but even though it is big, it moves like jagger" in an awkward German accent and then imagine, as soon as he says that, a marching band starts playing and comes up on stage playing "Moves like Jagger" that's how this was introduced.

There is something else coming that will compete with the SHO.... and by compete, I mean blow it out of the water.

it shares more directly with the Avalon now rather than the Camry

as always, much better in person.

There is a reason for that. The forum software we use (me guessing here) can only take uploads of 2 MB (per picture). That means I have to resize them to fit. Usually, that means pictures get resized to 1024x768 with the software I use. Sure, the pictures don't always look right, but at least I can get them onto the site. I wished the upload size was larger so I could not resize them as much. But, I'm not sure if there is a solution. Do you have a "preserve aspect ratio" option when you are resizing photos lol ouch

Most of the body is carbon fiber....they let a little of it show through the paint.

Added a bunch more pics to the gallery including some of the controversial steering wheel. IMHO, the aesthetic design of the wheel isn't the problem, it's the buttons. They are, I hope, just temporary insets, but they don't have the feel of something that will hold up well over time. I see them as a possible replacement issue.