Drew Dowdell

If Cadillac wants to be like Mercedes, they better be developing a STV (Savanna Touring Van) and fleeting the CTS and XTS out to Taxi companies. Edit: Oh yeah, and they'll need their own version of the Spark and Granite. Maybe they could reuse the tooling from Hummer to make their "old military vehicle turned luxury" SUV. And a garbage truck..... GOTTA make a garbage truck to compete with Benz.

I rented a 2011 F-150 Crew Cab for the weekend to do some haulin. It has me thinking about a truck again. This truck is too big to get around comfortably in my driveway though, as much as I liked it. The Avalanche is 22 inches shorter and I could really feel the difference.

I think we should be doing everything we can to encourage new car company start ups in this country. Even if they start off just building cop cars. There is always a market even on the civilian side for durable and efficient. These could be the new Checker Cab for areas that don't have the NY Taxi board.

That means an Impala with 37mpg

jeers

not factory?

<-- You can see my opinion on the subject.

7Springs opened this weekend!

the tailgate setup is sweet

why won't Jeep just build this at the factory? Why does it have to be a kit?

I'll point out that the CTS still sells with the 3.0 V6.

aannnd... yet again you ignore the 2.0T Audi and 1.8T Merc.... double standard......

Well they should have closed up shop right then!

that shared an engine with plymouth... I mean.... imagine if it was an Imperial....!

any word in there on where they're going to build the vehicle? It still looks like it would make an interesting mid-size family sedan.

Well, it's not 1975 anymore...in 2011, GM can't afford to have exclusive engines for Cadillac...unfortunate, but that's just the way it is. At least the ATS will have an exclusive platform for some window of time, and Cadillac still has an exclusive platform in the Sigma. And the Chevy 250 6 was not a 'stovebolt', the Stovebolt was a nickname for the Chevy 6 from a much earlier era.. Still hard for me wrap my head around the idea of a 4cyl Cadillac, but such it is in today's market. I doubt if many potential ATS buyers will remember the FWD/4cyl &#036;h&#33;box Cimmaron. Is it hard to wrap your head around a 1.8T 4-cylinder C-class? Or a BMW Z4 4-cylinder? In fact, it is Toyota and Nissan getting left behind by using 2.5 liter V6es instead of moving to Turbo-4s

No, I'm not pre judging it. I'm specifically NOT judging it. 1. I'm saying your guesstimate of the power output of the 2.5 is wrong. 2. Excluding the 3-series, the average base horsepower of the competition is 204 hp. To rail on GM about a base Cadillac with the same horsepower is a double standard. 3. GM can easily get more than 10hp more out of the 2.5.

The 2.5 will have more power than in the Malibu, most likely over 210, which puts it in the same starting class as the IS250 (204 hp), G25 (201 hp), A4 (210 hp), TSX (don't care enough to look it up), and C250 (201 hp from a stressed out turbo charged 1.8T). Only the 3-series will have substantially more HP, but the base price of the 3-series puts you into 2.0T or even 3.6 territory, so if you were actually cross shopping the two, the 2.5 isn't even going to be on the radar. There are a lot of double standards going on around here lately, and I really don't like it.

No, I'm mad because you (and a few others here) are pre-judging something that you don't know about on top of having a double standard against GM.

So Audi gets a pass for turning the engine 90 degrees? Cadillac is turning the 2.5 90 degrees as well. double standard yet again.

You know why I don't like it? Because it shares its engine with a Plymouth..... pshh.....

Nouveau Riche

The Avalon has a better engine than the IS and the same engine as the ES. The Maxima has a better engine than the base G. Even the Altima can be optioned with a better engine than the base G. The 4.2 Liter currently in the Jaguar XF is just a variant of of 3.9 the Ford Thunderbird from years ago. The Audi A4 uses the same 2.0T as the Beetle I was just driving. All Audi did was turn the boost up a bit. All of Mercedes' work vehicles use one or other of Benz's engines from a taxi Premium German Luxury Sedan. Bentley uses the W engine from the People's Car Volkswagen Phaeton. Can we drop the double standard for Cadillac please?

So I guess it'd be cool if the ATS gets the 4.3 from the Savanna..... just saying.

The V6 in the E-Class and S-class is the same V6 in the Sprinter.