G. David Felt

Yawn, a drop in the bucket for a car that is for the upper 1% category. I find it hard to get excited about this product line. If they were to report that their 300 mile range of electric technology was being licensed to GM and Ford than I would be the first to get up and dance!

Clearly VW is hurting as I saw this morning on TV that the Puget Sound VW dealers are offering Golfs and Jetta's with no money down and only $79.95 a month for 36 month lease and 15K miles. This just screams I have crappy product and have to give it away like Mitsubishi did to keep cars moving off the lots.

Raid

I agree that the new viper looks better in blue than red.

CockRoaches

I know it really saddens me, Harely's have come a long way and are very well built and durable but there ego is ruining there bikes. It would be very hard for a newbie to get comfrotable on one. I have ridden a few at there demo events and I can't ever just trust the bike. I'm always counter balancing which as heavy as they are tires you out. While say on a FZ-6R (an upright riding position and tuned down kind of R6) I can always just trust the bike and it's comfy and wickedly awesome fun to tip over in the corners. I have taken out a couple Yamaha v star's and compared to the harelys they just feel much litghter and confident down the road. They just don't have that solid over built feel. Plus it's 2012 F***ING Water cool that motor. I agree I suspect you could build a whole line of lightweight bikes starting at 100CC, 250CC, 500CC and 750CC and as a quality built bike with almost no noise and clean emissions clean up in the bike industry. You and I are thinking on the same line, but I think there is an under served demand for small CC bikes. I have to disagree, I think that there are not enough options in the low end and allot of people who would buy a small fuel efficient and emissions clean quite bike would if they had the option. I was at Motorplex this past weekend, they sell Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, KTM, Can-Am and Victory bikes and yet only a couple options under 500 CC.

Thanks, Great to see the updates.

Best of luck Cort, May you find a more amazing path in life that takes you to a new high that allows you to enjoy it with your extended family.

It is a shame we only have noisy loud Harley as an American builder of bikes. Should be more builders here that are American owned

I would agree as the fit and finish tend to say I am a wrap cover just like those tacky Carpet dash board covers. The top of the center console does not even flow into the wrap as you can clearly tell on the upper right hand corner. This is NOT the 2014 dash, it is a cover to protect what the real dash will look like. Only the center pod is exposed and even then we have no clear idea what other features we will see being added. Plus I have a hard time that this dash is low velocity air bag ready. I cannot see them building a seemless dash that burst apart and then forces you to replace the whole dash due to a minor fender bender. You could have a ton of cost to just replace the dash.

Is that the state where every brother marries their cousin or something? I thought their official tag line was "The State of official Inbred Living!"

Very cool, would like to see pictures of this one as to what was loose and how it looked. Poor assembly is just wrong at this time in our economy of jobs. Dodge needs to jump all over this crap and fire the morons who do not care about doing their job right. I mean was it a poor design by the engineer or assembly. Someone was lazy.

Customers

Like the push button tranny, reminds me of old Chyrsler cars. Feature rich, but design language ugly. Not a fan and I think it is over priced for the type of engine you get. Pass on wanting to buy one.

OK, you guys have got to check out the flicker site for Caddy Pickups, they have a very interesting 2006 DTS Pickup. Was built after the rear end had been hit. Pretty cool! Very cool a company that actually converted caddy's into trucks and did about 100 of them according to what I could dig up. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7081/7082056559_2539c1863a_b.jpg

1976 Eldorado that the driver had cut the back seat out and truck and turned that section into a pickup bed. Actually done really nice as it had the same curve you found on El Camino's but just a much shorter bed. The car/truck caddy Eldo was Tan with weird strips. If I was not driving, I would have taken a picture as it was actually pretty freakin cool! How weird is this, maybe it was a 1969 as it looks just like this one I found on the net. This is freakin weird as I found the actual one I think on this Flicker page of Caddilac pickups. http://www.flickr.com/groups/1339241@N20/pool/page3/ According to this site it is a 1970 eldorado pickup.

They should have started with a Mercury Cougar rather than a VW Bug, I think.... True, aMercury Cougar would have been perfect for this concept! Ask yourself this, could you drive around all day in a pussy cat?

In taking a look at BMW sales for 2012, while across the board with all divisions sales are up 15.2%, Manual tranny makes up only 1.5%. I wonder if the lack of manual is due to upper mgmt looking at it and asking does it make sense to offer it at the cost to build and test it? MB has about the same percentage and Audi is just under 1%. Now this was just looking at the US market. Compare to world sales and of course manual tranny jumps up big time. This then begs the question, if Cadillac is wanting to get back into Europe / Global sales, then why would they not realize the large percentage of Manual drivers and build the Tranny to support these engines as a Global Tranny.

I would totally agree with you that Honda and Toyota have fallen far behind. Be interesting to see what the next few years do for the auto industry.

What rust? That's just dust as far as dirt is concerned. It's way cleaner than my '81's engine bay and my car is stored in winter too. Looking at the firewall, hood hings, Brake system, I just see lots of rusts for a car that supposedly been always garaged. I agree it is very very clean overall, but then again, I am OCD about how I degrease and detail my own auto's. You're spoiled living in the North West. That is cleaner than they normally come around here. True, I do love not having to deal with the Humidity or winter road salt.

Would be interesting to see what the DB level is of this engine inside an ATS and compare it to BMW, MB, Audi with their equal engine and then post the results. Put up and shut up to the car magazines.

This car would be awesome with a nice set of BF Goodrich All Terrain tires! I could enjoy driving this and sitting up nice and high!

What rust? That's just dust as far as dirt is concerned. It's way cleaner than my '81's engine bay and my car is stored in winter too. Looking at the firewall, hood hings, Brake system, I just see lots of rusts for a car that supposedly been always garaged. I agree it is very very clean overall, but then again, I am OCD about how I degrease and detail my own auto's.