Drew Dowdell

What do you think of the door handles? Seem strange to me. But this is one car I want to see in person before I form an opinion of it... Unique and interesting. I liked it. Probably could use a tune to the response time a little bit. They are electronically activated, but not as instant as I expected. The guy that likes 3-different sizes of sausage thinks the Continental is boring....... Lincoln must be doing something right. Well when you have the best looking full size sedan on the market, the classiest looking small luxury sedan on the market, might as well make the middle sedan look similar. Mercedes has interesting looking interiors again. From 2010 to 2014 they got boring, the interiors are fantastic again. They have a sort of bland looking car on top of a stretched Fusion platform. I am also not that excited because I know they'll price it higher than they should, and it won't sell, and this car will be forgotten about, unless they can push a bunch to the Hertz Gold lots in 3-4 years. If you did not know this was on the fusion platform, there's nothing in the car to give that away.

Someone asked for a door handle.

Call it what you like, but nobody but GM fans will know what the CT6 is and how to find it. The Continental is one of the darlings of the show. And I don't recall much hoopla the first time the showed the CT6. Were you in NYC for the debut of the CT6? I was... I had an invitation from Cadillac for the event... How did you get your invite? I remember the hoopla because I was there.

And the other 2/3 were industry people who have also seen the CT6 before. No one was crawling over the MKX either for the same reason. Pacifica had security guards to keep the Kia engineers off. Cars that are new to the show get the attention. Stop being such a cheerleader.

The guy that likes 3-different sizes of sausage thinks the Continental is boring....... Lincoln must be doing something right.

I alluded to it in another thread that I had a bit of a medical on monday. I'm fine but still feeling out of it. I hadn't really eaten much since sunday morning, little sleep, very little breakfast sunday morning, overly hot Cobo center while I'm wearing a suit jacket.... my blood sugar dropped and so did I.... in the middle of the Chevy booth. I sat it out for about an hour drinking O.J. and just went on with the show at a slow pace the rest of the day. I'm heading home tonight so I have a full day to rest tomorrow. I'm still kinda "meh" but okay.

The south american trailblazer is based on the Colorado and it's no featherweight. The Acadia is FWD/AWD on the heavily modified Lambda platform, I'm not sure GM's new coding for it. It's on a new platform called C1XX. No real sharing with Lambda to speak of. Shared with the new XT5. Here are my shots of the GMC Acadia from the show. To me, this is the biggest evidence that the Terrain will shrink significantly next refresh. In 5-passenger trim, the Acadia is dangerously close to the Terrain in interior room with almost all of the extra space happening behind the 2nd row. Thank you for the clarification! The Lambda part was an educated guess. The D2XX and E2XX underpinning GM's new FWD sedans are based on the Delta and Epsilon platforms in some capacity, I didn't know the Lambda chassis was being ditched after one extended generation. The Chi platform back in the day was supposed to be the "sedan" version of the Lambda platform and used for big cars like the Lucerne and DTS. 2007 happened and that Chi platform didn't. Epsilon was never intially intended to be stretched to the lengths it has been and thats why the XTS, Lacrosse and Impala have some weight issues. I imagine the only reason the Lambda platform lasted as long as it has (though with bargain basement updates) is because of the huge volumes that GM continues to enjoy on them. Now this new C platform should give GM a lot more breathing room to share among more vehicles.

The south american trailblazer is based on the Colorado and it's no featherweight. The Acadia is FWD/AWD on the heavily modified Lambda platform, I'm not sure GM's new coding for it. It's on a new platform called C1XX. No real sharing with Lambda to speak of. Shared with the new XT5. Here are my shots of the GMC Acadia from the show. To me, this is the biggest evidence that the Terrain will shrink significantly next refresh. In 5-passenger trim, the Acadia is dangerously close to the Terrain in interior room with almost all of the extra space happening behind the 2nd row.