Drew Dowdell

I'd want to keep it FWD for the "wow! that's neat!" factor.

But Cadillac should build "Standard of the World," take magnetic ride, hyperstruts, air springs, etc and put that on a rear drive chassis.

They ARE. It's just not this car. Cadillac can not offer more than one vehicle type at a time?! The RWD flagship wasn't even given the go ahead till Whitacre became CEO. It is also going to be on an entirely new platform. You don't get a new platform like you download apps on your phone. They take time to build and develop.

In the meantime, Cadillac dealers need more than CTS, SRX, Escalade to sell.

There is no need for hi-per strut on a RWD vehicle. There will be an ATS-V using Magaride, but probably not air springs. But why should Cadillac give away one of their signature technologies on a base ATS? They can already go BMW hunting in a Cobalt SS... no need for Magnaride.

I'm trying to imagine the $h!storm you would spew if Cadillac offered their flagship sedan to Taxi companies in order to boost profits and sales numbers.

a beefed up TH 425 should do it.

For some reason this design always telegraphed 'RWD' to me. And it's not the longitudinal engine layout, for me it's the design emphasis toward the rear.

CTS-V powertrain means converting this to RWD, if the purists would allow such blasphemy...

and give up my flat front floor? I think not.

Besides burning the front tires off with a 556hp s/c V8 would be just as fun.

I feel like I need to create a shortcut to these two lately....

I'm wondering if it was just a Benz company car off the lot.

but but... then it would be a FWD Cadillac flashship1!!!!11!!!!eleventy!~!!!!!~

14...hmm

Gamma II

Delta II

Epsilon II

Theta-Epsilon

Lambda

Global compact truck

US full size truck

Global van

Corvette

Alpha

Zeta II

and 3 more..(maybe older platforms for South America or Chinese markets? Or Chinese-market only paltforms?)

Omega

my guess is that the displacement would be reduced a bit, but otherwise be mechanically the same.

bet the name could be bought cheap

Too much "flair". Would be worth it for the one Von posted.

Update: The case against the Mercedes Benz Executive has been dropped.

One of the latest possible “illegals” has been arrested in Alabama for not carrying his driver’s license under the new anti-illegal immigration law. The problem? The suspect is also an executive manager for Mercedes Benz.

From the AP:

Tuscaloosa Police Chief Steven Anderson told The Associated Press an officer stopped a rental vehicle for not having a tag Wednesday night and asked the driver for his license. The man only had a German identification card, so he was arrested and taken to police headquarters, Anderson said.

The 46-year-old executive was charged with violating the immigration law for not having proper identification, but he was released after an associate retrieved his passport, visa and German driver's license from the hotel where he was staying, Anderson said.

Prior to the new law, a person driving without a license would not be arrested, but instead received a ticket and a court summons.

Mercedes Benz’s first U.S. assembly plant, built in 1993, is located near Tuscaloosa where the arrest took place.

Alabama’s immigration law is thought to be the toughest in the country and is currently facing several legal challenges. Parts of the law are on hold while those challenges proceed, but the part that allows officers to check immigration status during routine traffic stops is still in effect.

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Sterling?

If they want to do this, they need to bring about a small brand that isn't Jaguar.

Do you subtract all of the taxi sales before you make the claim?

Lacrosse 3.6 V6 AWD v. Audi A6 3.0T Quattro would be matched up pretty close. Same weight, same wheel base, the Audi has a little more torque at a lot lower RPM and could probably outrun the Buick, slightly, on the straightaways.

The A6 3.0T Quattro does 0-60 in 5.4 seconds. That is over a full second quicker than a LaCrosse, that is much quicker than a CTS even. The Audi would run 4 rings around a Buick, a CTS AWD would probably struggle to keep up with an A6. Plus the A6 interior is better than any American car interior. Although I personally don't like Audis, they do a few things well.

keep it on f@#king topic. We are talking handling here. The Buick could have a cardboard interior and then Audi have one built from f@#king angel farts but it would have no f@#king bearing on how either car handles. We are addressing your STUPID assertion that the XTS is automatically inferior in handling to the Audi despite them BOTH being front wheel drive. If you hate GM so much, why are you here?

Magnetic ride control is what lets the heavier CTS run with the lighter M3 to the point where any differences are the result of driver error.

I'm driving a Hi-Per strut Regal GS this week and there is NO torque steer from a 295 ft-lb front driver.

You simply haven't got a clue because you HAVEN'T DRIVEN THESE CARS.

I am sick and tired of every thread becoming a GM bashing, RWD praising, any brand other than GM humping pointless tirades. There is no constructive discussion left on the website anymore.

At the start of the thread, there were some very valid points regarding the design changes and ideological inaccuracies of the car countered by valid reasons of sales numbers and easy money necessary to keep the brand alive.

If GM cannot do anything right, and other manufacturers do, then this is not the forum for you, move on and join those forums. There is one thing to point mistakes and talk constructively and then there is other to just constantly keeping on bitching, moaning, and whining about anything GM does.

this.

Lacrosse 3.6 V6 AWD v. Audi A6 3.0T Quattro would be matched up pretty close. Same weight, same wheel base, the Audi has a little more torque at a lot lower RPM and could probably outrun the Buick, slightly, on the straightaways.

I've seen 25 year old Caprices with 300k miles on them too and you're talking to a guy that drives a 30 year old Oldsmobile as a daily driver.

Mercedes doesn't even build them like they used to. It took them 3 years to get the previous generation S-class right.

Sure, they could sell 250k a year if they sell them to cab companies and police departments world wide.

The base model E-class for consumer consumption is 39k Euro INCLUDING the 19% VAT. Meaning Benz only gets 33,474 euro or about 45k.

Now, taxi models and other fleet models are even less expensive than that.

The A6 is FWD based. I know, I've driven a FWD diesel A6 on the Autobahn. The FWD Lacrosse is at least equal to that now.

Chevy Cruze Sunfire Edition make it in coupe and convertible.

a rear locking differential would solve the problem on all of those.