G. David Felt

Love the auto's, like Balthazar I do love the last one especially since it is not sitting on the freakin ground. Not every auto needs to be Cig pack high or lower. Never been a fan of laying the frame on the ground. No purpose or usability there to me. These are some lovely rides Thanks for posting.

after having my CD collection smashed by an accident, I have come to appreciate keeping the masters at home, rip the songs onto a USB drive, SD card or my Zune and play them in the car. More music, greater variety and no chance of the cd's getting borken, warped or messed up. For me, I have moved beyond the CD drive need in an Auto. I will say I do wonder what is behind the dash in the ATS that they could not have had the drive mounted there leaving more room in the glove box.

I can see Telsa becoming a division of GM, moved into the Caddy Family as a special sub division and then the technology used to move Volt everywhere with longer battery life and reducing the price greatly.

Very True, distinct design language that is clean and Identifiable. All GM models should strive for that individual goal.

Let us know when you nail your new employement! Good Luck and make sure to snap a pic or two.

Rudolf

H'mmmm are we just a bit late to the AWD party or what?

That would confuse me also. What the hell happened to the rest of the electronics.

I have pictures of the glove box with the single cd/dvd player in my cadillac customer appreciation editorial. I have not looked, but does the stereo have an internal harddrive to strip the songs off the cd's? Otherwise I know it has an SD slot so you could get a 64gb SD card and load it with music and plug it in. To me an SD with music on it is far better than cd's.

Actually if you really read the fine print, this single disc slot will play a cd but is mostly for the NAV DVD. CD by what I am finding on the internet is considered dead by the auto industry since you have your Ipod/Zun/Smartphones with play lists and the USB ports and of course you have Serius XM satellite for great tunes. Hate to say it, but buying music on CD is becoming like a record, a dead market.

Love those cars!

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I think $59,000 grand is too damn expensive, but I've learned by now that no one cares what I think. Anyhow, on a serious and less curmudgeonly note, I don't think it's exactly fair to single Tesla out on the fact that you can option up a $59,000 dollar Model S to almost double its base MSRP (in other words, buy one for the cost of two). Porsche is far more guilty of this. Go load up a V6-powered Panamera sedan as much as you possibly can on their online builder and tell me who deserves to be crucified here. Options are the easiest and quickest way for automakers to make money. I shouldn't have to say that. It's a huge factor in how Porsche is happily humming along building expensive aspirational cars in a market that, in reality, doesn't support them. For a small automaker like Tesla that needs all of the money it can get to grow larger, this route is a no brainer. Personally, I hope that we see more cars like the Model S that correctly marry the concept of performance and electric propulsion with a price tag that doesn't just appeal to the "one percent" (as expensive as it already is, it isn't totally unobtainable to those upper middle class citizens capable of paying a monthly installment on a new BMW 5er, etc.). If someone builds that cheap plug-in $20k rear-drive coupe that I mentioned earlier, I'll get on the electric car bandwagon quietly and happily. It is just not Telsa, I discovered you can take a CTS Coupe V and with all options and adding in the performance upgrades from GM Performance have a $100,000 coupe.

I will remember to pluck you out of my suburban grill along with the rest of the cyclist that think they belong on the roads with auto's.

No one ever said Luxury Auto's were about Fuel mileage. For most people who can afford a luxury compact car, this is great mileage.

LOL who would not have seen this coming are really sleeping. This company might have 2013 as a stand alone, but I would doubt it. I suspect they are fishing themselves around and will be a division in another company by mid year 2013.

I would agree with you on everything you say except the time line. 2050-2075 for a 30% market share.

They probably could have covered a couple police or firefighters salary with what they spent on this stupid project.

Clearly that was missing from the mgmt team when the discussion about names came up.

That is far more A8's than I thought they would sell.

Nothing looks more awkward than a Wrangler 4-door - can't believe that they sell so well. They are just a proportional nightmare. I freely admit that I can't stand 4-doors generally, but the Wrangler is the worst of them. I have to disagree, I actually have always felt the two door wrangler was fun but just wrong in a world of families and the need to haul people. I owned one and loved it for the off road capabilities, but hated it for the ease of getting people into and out of it. The 4 door wrangler is awesome, looks manly and does everything a person wants out in the woods in comfort.

Ugh, What a toyota Turd! I feel for you.

Nice review, for those looking for a small luxury car in this category, I cannot see any real competition at this time.

For what ever reason that escapes me, I really am not surprised by these numbers. My gut tells me that Americans who have had steady jobs over the last few years are finally biting the bullet to get new auto's.

Your Too Late, Lowe's is a major advertiser of selling like Home Depot Home and commercial charging stations and they have them installed in their parking lots. Fools are charging 99 cents per hour compared to ever where else in washington that is at 79-89 cents per hr. I am sure some electric lover will pay it when they get to the store and realize they have no juice unless they are the Awesome VOLT drivers who will drive home while using their generator and then plug in. My suburban still has the 12 disk cd changer under the front passenger seat. Works great. Awesome Alpine unit.