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  1. riviera74
    Yeah. Turbo 4cyl do not belong in a CX-9 or a Highlander. The V6 is still useful. Mazda better buy a clue or dump the CX-9.
  2. riviera74
    This was a warning shot from CAMI. Next time GM will simply move production out and Ingersoll workers can go pound sand and kick rocks. Nobody is entitled to a well-paying union job whatsoever.
  3. riviera74
    Elon Musk had better be careful about Tesla having cash flow issues. A LOT of younger companies go out of business because of negative cash flow, probably more than any other reason. Remember one reason GM had to file for BK was the debt and cash flow issues that had existed for years. If Ford does NOT pay down its recession-era debts, they will have cash flow issues too, and that might threaten the long-term survival of Ford.
  4. riviera74
    Sounds like that XLE Highlander is trying to be a cheaper version of the Lexus RX, if the RX were a 7 seater rather than a 5 seater. Then again, in some respects it looks like an Enclave competitor without the Buick curves or presumably the personality.
  5. riviera74
    As much as I would like to make fun of Sergio's comments, he may have a point. Battery-powered EVs are currently NOT CHEAP enough to make or scale at the moment. If a battery-powered EV was as cheap as a traditional ICE-powered vehicle, then scale and pricing (let alone profit) would almost resolve themselves. Right now, a lot of automakers are trying to crack that granite and FCA is not in that game. Of course, given Sergio's intransigence, it may well be 2030 before an EV will be cheap enough for FCA to make such vehicles. Then again, will FCA survive until 2030? They are having a difficult time as it is right now.
  6. riviera74
    Will CAMI vote yes? Should GM accept a YES vote from CAMI? Given the current administration's beef over NAFTA, a YES vote from CAMI may not save their bacon for long.
  7. riviera74
    A lower-cost CivicType R. Sounds like decontenting to me. By the way, what would call a decontented Civic Type R?
  8. riviera74
    My money is on GM ditching that CAMI plant. This is not the 1980s anymore. Mexico is more than able to produce enough Equinoxes the market will bear.
  9. riviera74
    Remember when Hyundai was the low-price leader? With this pricing on this model, it seems like Hyundai thinks it is Buick all of a sudden. I am glad I am not the only one who thought that this CUV was overpriced.
  10. riviera74
    Car sharing works best in places where car ownership (especially parking) is really expensive. Think large and compact cities where there is little actual land. Much of Europe would qualify; most of the USA would not.
  11. riviera74
    Car Dealers are married to the status quo because state laws protect them from being shuttered by out of state automakers. This is the same reason Cadillac has too many dealers that sell too few cars. Solve that and then car dealers will change their behavior.
  12. riviera74
    If your v6 larks torque, you built your engine wrong. If your 4cyl lacks torque, you built a Honda engine. A Jeep turbo 4 is silly when they can use the Pentastar v6 and add some more torque. How do you haul and tow and climb rocks with a turbocharged 4cyl?
  13. riviera74
    Isn't it strange that all car marques under the VW flag are competing against each other for sales rather than retain their respective unique selling points? Did the respective car marques NOT LEARN from the foibles of GM Ford and (nowadays) FCA?!
  14. riviera74
    That may well be true, but it is sad when Italian sports car companies insist of frittering away their unique selling points just to make a fast buck.
  15. riviera74
    They should radically simplify the corporate structure, just to save $$$$. The only problem is is that VW Group is partially owned by the German Lander (or state) of Lower Saxony. Simplifying the corporate ownership structure will probably require privatization first, then a buyout under one owner.
  16. riviera74
    Sorry, but who wants a Ferrari SUV or Crossover again?
  17. riviera74
    Voice commands while driving may well be the future, but voice commands need to be perfected first. Also, what if you have your radio/streaming music on and you need Nav again?
  18. riviera74
    Looks a lot like what a larger first-generation Scion xB would have become. I guess taking on the size of a Ford Flex and making it a Toyota sounded like a great idea to them. Perhaps it will sell here once brought here.
  19. riviera74
    A turbo 4 over their V6 is silly, if not stupid. If it is about CAFE, then it is the V8s that FCA offer that need to go on a diet. In order for a 4cyl Wrangler to work, Jeep needs to dump several hundred pounds off that vehicle. Otherwise, keep the Pentastar.
  20. riviera74
    That new Toyota Century looks a lot like a Rolls-Royce. Too bad neither Lexus nor Cadillac have the guts to build one like this here.
  21. riviera74
    What GM needs is an electric version of that platform so that it can sell real EV cars and crossovers for real $$$$. Fuel cells might be good in theory, but may well be impractical.
  22. riviera74
    It is true that citizens of Japan and Europe are far more patriotic (or nationalistic) in the auto purchases than Americans ever were, even as far back as the 1970s. Before 1970, foreign-made cars were less than ten percent of all US car sales. Now it is at least 50% or more. I honestly wonder why (a lot of) Baby Boomers especially decided that buying American was suddenly a bad idea. Virtually nowhere else does buying foreign-made anything sound better than here in the good old USA. I wonder why. As for Jeep's success in Japan, that news is welcome. I suspect everything listed AND a true unique selling point are why Jeep is so successful in the Far East.
  23. riviera74
    Does GM NOT have an semi-idle plant they can use right now to build the Equinox in the USA? They should just switch that plant over to Equinox production and then tell CAMI and its entitled labor force to go pound sand because they are fired.
  24. riviera74
    The day EV car sales will explode will be when one of two things happens: we see oil prices top $100 a barrel for more than a month OR EV prices are actually cheaper than their ICE counterparts. If both happens at the same time, the switch to EV will be swift and thorough. I would like to see OPEC (and their ill-gotten near-monopoly power) go the way of Studebaker since they have only caused problems for all of us since 1973..... and maybe take down the private oil majors down with them. But that day may well be a long time coming though.
  25. riviera74
    Not all the news is good. Buick down 20%; Dodge and Chrysler down at least 16% each; FIAT down 24%. Buick slid despite having THREE crossovers; Chevrolet is up 17% with how many crossovers....? Some things are weird these days.
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