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It's sad to see the old brands die away. I remember the Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Buick, Plymouth, Mercury, even AMC of the 60's. But realistically all these nampelates were and are shadows of themselves. In fact Oldsmobile probably had the best lineup of any of these brands just before it's demise. Pontiac, Buick and Mercury are practically a joke today. The funny thing is Pontiac right now has a much better linep than Buick which is an absolute disaster, as is Mercury. The truth is you can get the same cars, slightly different, from the other GM divisions. If Pontiac is not going to be the affordable performance division than it has no real purpose. Truly sad, I loved Pontiac in the 60's.

Yeah, it's a capable and nice looking big car, but it's totally outgunned by it's competition. It does make a decent used car buy. One and two year old DTS are all over the place cheap as can be (fleet cars?). The vast majority of younger people hate the car and it does nothing to enhance Caddy's image, which is the big problem with the car IMO.

I agree. It took them too long to get this car to market. It will sell OK initially to fans who have been waiting to get a new Camaro. After that it will have to sell to the general market. It's just the wrong type car in this environment unfortunately.

Very, very cool. I bet that thing sounds great too.

Mine's silver (platinum they call it)/two tone interior, with the 17" polished sport package and the luxury package and the Bose/moonroof package. I don't have nav either, I think that's the only option I didn't get, it's an automatic. Mine only has 12,000 on it so far, because I drive my 84 Corvette a lot in the summer. In fact I've commuted in the Vette every day this week. I actually drove an 08 CTS and preferred the 07, it felt sportier and lighter to me. The 08's were just out when I got my 07. An identically equipped 08 was a lot more money and didn't have the 72 month 0% financing I got on the 07. The CTS is a real nice blend of sport/luxury.

Thank you. I love the CTS. I originally wanted an STS but for the difference in price (my CTS is an 07) the loaded up CTS offered just about everything the STS had. And it rode sportier. Thus the problem with the STS, especially compared to the 08 CTS. Don't know why Caddy didn't differentiate the STS more, instead of just softening the look. They should have stetched the frame, kept the sharp angles and gave it almost every option as standard. As for the dealerships, its a huge problem. I had a Jag X-Type before the CTS. The Jag dealer was all new and modern, felt like a modern office buiding with nice wood touches, only Jaguars would be in the showroom. The salespeople were upscale in the way they treated you, service was unbelievable. They would pick the car up at my house in the morning and leave a loaner in my driveway. At night they would either drop the car off at my house and take the loaner back or come to my place of business, which was 50 miles from the dealer and drop off the car.

Wow, so you think the number of posts has something to do with intellect?? No wonder you think GM is going to design a $150,000 16 cylinder Caddy to sell alongside the DTS while it flirts with bankruptcy. How about they just make a competitive large sedan first? And I bought a new CTS last year so I've seen the Caddy shopping experience up close. The dealerships are far, far, from what most luxury car buyers expect.

Yeah, I can just see Bugatti custmers shopping in your typical Caddy store Mine sells Pontiacs-GMC's and Buicks in the same showroom as Caddy. Before they took it over the old dealership sold Hyundais in the same showroom! Caddy survives as an "affordable" American luxury brand. Today GM has no funds to take risks on $150,000 cars that will sell 100 a year. They're barely surviving at the moment.

Caddy doesn't even have a competing V8 (the Northstar is outdated) and people think they're going to consider a V16 in this marketplace? they would be lucky to sell 500 a year. I could just see the typical Caddy customer asking what a tuneup costs on the V16 - or typical repair costs. They shelved the new DOHC V8, never mind development cost of a V16. It's dreamworld.

Yup. My wife drives an X3. Her lease is up in Sept.09. She looked at the pictures and loves the new SRX and absolutely hated the CTS wagon. Thier brains just work differently than ours where cars are concerned. My wife is not crazy about my CTS either. But my three daughters, all in thier early 20's love my CTS. Funny they all hate the CTS wagon pics too, and like the new SRX. I think Caddy has hit the Lexus RX market dead on with the new SRX. I bet it sells very well, depending on price of course.

A Caddy over a Maserati Quattroporte???? Well....ok I guess

That car is HOT. The best looking Caddy since the late 60's Eldorado IMO.

Yeah, but a one-time loss is still a loss. You keep getting hit with massive one-time losses and you're still out of business. All it means is that the particular loss is not from continuing operations. It would be a lot better to be getting one-time gains wouldn't it? Right now GM keeps getting blasted by huge one-time losses and they're still losing money from continuing operations also. The cash drain is massive.

I love Amtrak. Living in the Northeast it's pretty convenient to hop on the train and avoid the traffic and the airports. I've done about five cross country Amtrak trips too. There's nothing like having your own sleeper and traveling across the country. The gas crisis might finally get our country to wake up and fund rail properly.

Acura competes on price and dealer service. I've owned two, a Legend and a CL - they price their leases really aggressively. The cars are very sporty for everyday driving, not good for absolute performance due to the front wheel drive. They're big sellers here in the Northeast because of the FWD and because they come absolutely loaded standard. The only option on most models is navigation. Thier bread and butter car, the TL is getting long in the tooth but a new one will be coming out next year so I'm sure they'll be getting press again. The new TSX is coming too.