Drew Dowdell

I see nothing wrong in that S-class interior...you ever sat in one? They are really nice...a very comfortable place.. it's a solid, well engineered car.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with which wheels do the moving.

AT LEAST the E-class is a world-class luxury car platform... not a FWD mass market platform.

It's the freaking Crown Vic of Europe!!

The Lacrosse is already a more than competent handler. I've chased an Altima Coupe up a twisty road in a Lacrosse CXS that was built before Hi-Per strut.

Now add magnetic ride control, one of the best AWD systems out there (that can be tuned for RWD bias even in a FWD based car), and Hi-Per strut....

I am NOT saying that it will take on an M5 on the 'Ring, but it will likely more than match any E350 or 528i in feel.

and that is all it need do.

Just in time for the holidays again.

The SRX is still larger than the RX350, but they went the wrong direction with it. They will lose current SRX owners, and won't steal any away from Lexus, Lexus retains customers like crazy. The air vents in the SRX, Equinox and LaCrosse are too similar. It's not a Cadillac if there are all kinds of similarities with Chevy and Buick. Cadillacs have to offer value to make people want to spend $50,000 on a new one, rather than just waiting for a 1-2 year old used model that sells for $25k.

amazing how none of that happened. They moved from also-ran to 2nd place in the market. The least expensive one I could find on Cars.com near you and I was a base 2011 with the 3.0 and FWD for $29,864. All of the others are well over $30k used.

Best Buick ever, but they'll never hit 70,000 units a year.

Headlights from the Accord, 5-series tail lights, Lexus LS exhaust pipes, and a Malibu-like side profile is just taking what others already did and merging it, that is out of the Hyundai playbook. Wood trim looks really fake, although the dash materials and leatherette with the stitching look nice.

I like the contour line along the side of the car, that is unique and looks good, but I hate the venti-ports on top of the hood and don't like that it is over 4,000 pounds. Can GM make anything that isn't obese?

A question I have about the 3.0 V6, is why peak torque is hit at 5900 rpm, when BMW's 3 liter hits it around 2800 rpm.

Looks like they'll be within striking distance of 70k this year.

How much vacuum line is under there? It doesn't have to be the tubing that is cracked, but one of the connectors. Also, the tubing can be clogged.

Buy a small spool of it, replace it all, and the connectors.

Nice putting Americans back to work.

Am I the only one that sees a Prius Matrix?

the 2.5 has all the fuel economy of a v6 with all the power of a 4 cylinder. throw in the nhv of a misfiring pushrod and it is the worst of all worlds.

there is video I believe. the point isn't what the cobalt "is", Nicer dash materials don't change handling characteristics.

The ATS chassis doesn't exist on any car currently for sale. It it new, and the Camaro will be based off the ATS. That I am fine with, the Camaro is a sports car, they should base it off a sporty platform. And the Camaro will have a basic interior, it won't be at all similar to the Cadillac.

That's the same scenario with the LaCrosse & the XTS; not at all similar.

It isn't the same, because the Camaro will be able to have acceleration and handling like a 3-series or G37 so it should match up well against a Mustang, Genesis Coupe, 370Z etc. The platform won't limit the Camaro's performance. The XTS can't handle like other luxury sedans with the same price point. And the LaCrosse has a lot of the features that the XTS has, the Impala has the same engine/transmission. The DTS is a sales dog, and Cadillac just rebuilt the same car on a different platform. Weak effort.

You've driven an XTS already? Care to share pics and do a writeup?

You have NO bloody idea what the car handles like. GM was able to get a Cobalt SS to out handle a 3-series and the XTS is FAR more technologically advanced than a Cobalt.

You've gotten in trouble for making assertions you couldn't possibly back up before. Don't start down that path again.

If front wheel drive and corporate platforms are good enough for the most expensive Cadillac sedan, then why not make the CTS off the Malibu platform, and the ATS off the Cruze platform. Where does it stop. If Cadillac replaced the current CTS with a car built on the Regal/Malibu platform and gave it a turbo 4, everyone would cry bloody murder. Yet when Cadillac makes their top end sedan with that formula, people defend it. I don't get it.

This isn't Cadillac's top end sedan. This is Cadillac's largest sedan. Cadillac's top end car has not been it's largest car since at least 1967.

Going backwards chronologically:

CTS-V

STS-V/XLR-V

STS

Allante

Seville/Eldorado

Eldorado

The Deville and Fleetwood haven't been Cadillac's flagship for decades.... RWD or not. In fact, Cadillac's flagships were front wheel drive from 1967 till 2004.

Not the same in my eyes... :-(

Kia getting a slit front grill in 5..4...3...

The biggest factor in car sales in the luxury brands is "I like the way it looks".

You know what? I want to see the definitive proof that all of these luxury car buyers don't know what wheels drive their car.

Sure, people who buy cars like this have money to burn, but my gut tells me that they would much rather burn it with fine aged liquor than Ronsonol.

In my area, most of these luxury cars get purchased with AWD. Once that decision is made, then the RWD v. FWD thing is moot in people's minds. They have no idea about front bias or rear bias... they just see "AWD" and they're off.

In the mind of a non-foamer, an AWD BMW 5-series is the equal to an AWD CTS or XTS or 300c or A6 or E-Class for that feature. Full stop. End of argument for them when comparison shopping.

From Cort:

Yes, I am HOME!

I have seen SOME of the message boards/groups, but it'll be some time before I can get up the strength to post for long periods at a time to "catch up" everywhere, INCLUDING Facebook. But, rest assured, I WILL RETURN. Since my "big heart" is no longer so, this should be fun. *grins devilishly*

HUGE KUDOS to my lil sis, Joylyn Johnson for keeping people updated via my Facebook wall. I understand that some, for whatever reason, didn't see the updates, but I suspect that is more of a FB issue....

I haven't sat in a G-series in a long while. Have they improved the interior much?

Well, to defend Hyundai here on this one. The Genesis and Equus are not sold under the Hyundai brand elsewhere, so it isn't surprising that they don't share a design language with the rest of the Hyundai lineup in the US. If Hyundai has made a misstep on this, it is that they didn't introduce their luxury brand here in the U.S., not that the design languages of two separate brands globally don't match.

made some changes to the Pages tab today. Let me know what you think

not especially, the genesis sedan is routinely called a barge when it comes to handling. more Town Car than 7 series.

conversely, nearly every review of the lacrosse compliments its handling.

the awd lacrosse has a weight distribution about the same as an A8. an xts awd would be better. even if only slightly

No.

Magnaride would.