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Kick ass!

Makes sense if you consider the 165PS diesel has gobs of torque for a 2.0L engine, and the rest (including it being offered in the German market base model that has the 100PS naturally aspired 1.4L engine) is about marketing. Don't forget the Megane coupe (especially the RS version) is a direct competitor to the GTC and it is an amazingly tuned car, so this type of marketing stuff becomes important.

I don't like pimp-yellow, but the car looks really nice even in that color. Assuming I still have a job and enough money towards the end of the year, this in 1.4T configuration (no 1.7CDTI announced yet), will most likely be my next car BTW, the Opel GTC page on Facebook had word on higher performance variants (yes, plural). I think we'll see a 200PS-something GSI to fill the void between the current 180PS 1.6T and the Astra OPC.

Cool! Enjoy the car

You don't look a day over 51

Parabéns!

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Yep; and that would give a small car (Fiat baged 500), a B-segment car (Alfa-Branded MiTo) and the C-segment and upwards would remain a Dodge/Chrysler thing in NA...

Given GM's track record over the last 20 or 30 years, I'll believe it when I see it.

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Glad everyhting is OK with you. I just read about the tornadoes in the news; they're were saying 4 people were killed

They should offer a Police package Ute with a machine gun mount right behind the passenger compartment

What's so funny? The Audi A8 is on the MLB platform with the A4 If so many on here are going to simple dismiss the XTS because it share's a few hardpoints (but not wheelbase, roofline, doors, overall length, suspension bits, drivetrain or interior) with the 2012 Malibu... then I'm free to do the same thing to the A8. MLB is a very loose definition of a platform, I believe, more of a component set. The A4 A5 A6 do not use aluminum space frame construction like the A8. Those cars don't actually share platforms with the A8 in the sense GM or Ford have traditionally defined platforms, or even in what GM calls architectures (even though the GM definition is closer to what the VW Group aimed at with the MLB). In any case, the point many of us are making (implicitly) is that if XTS and ATS shared a platform no one would complain. But the A8 does not share a platfom with the Passat; it's an Audi (and eventually Bentley) thing. Another important point is that for the money GM is spending changing those Epsilon2 harpoints, etc, perhaps GM would be able to properly reskin a Holden Caprice, put in a Cadillac-level interior and have a proper RWD flagship right now instead of falling into the same "it's coming" talk we've all read for 20 years. The XTS's styling would be perfect for the proportions of LWB Zeta, and to me it's a shame to see that opportunity fly away once again.

Agreed.

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I think it was Dodgefan that posted a chop of the XTS with RWD proportions; it looked great! Try and look it up in older posts; to me it is what the flagship Cadillac should look like.

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There's a car here in Zinkgruvan (Sweden) that looks to be a 1959 Pontiac Bonneville. Also, one of the mine workers parked a 1957 Chevrolet next to the canteen 2 days ago. Lots of love towards 1950's and 1960's American Iron here in Central Sweden!

I think that's where thry sould head towards as well. But make sure to give Cadillac (perhaps the Corvette can be paired with Cadillac on that innovation schedule) precedence in the application of innovations, even if for just a couple of model years.

And to some extent I agree with them: it is much better, marketing-wise, to say Chevy is sharing the Cadillac technology then marketing the thing upside down as GM effectively does now.

I don't think GM thinks of its R&D dollars that way. Or, perhaps should I write that I hope GM doesn't think about R&D in that purely brand-oriented way. Corporate R&D is what GM should have, then feeding the innovations to Cadillac 1st (top-end brand, higher margins, blah, blah, blah) and have those innovations trickle down the brand ladder.

So that's said to be Delta-based... When I 1st saw those pics it was being discussed as a Gamma-based Opel CUV.

Better looking IRL than in pictures?