G. David Felt

Toyota’s bold new electric cars look nothing like your friendly Prius http://flip.it/3Wq13u Seems Toyota is joining the ev game and moving up ther time table to get them to market sooner. No frumpy Prius here.

Out wine tasting with my wife and sister. New Gladiator showed.

Your missing my point, Building a race engine is one thing, we all know MB will put this into as many auto's as they can to recover development cost. Point being, plenty of quality engines have been built with low end grunt that moves plenty quick with decent hp. This engine continues what I view as a poor design based on Marketing lies about needing high reving high HP engines with lower torque or very weak torque as most Italian cars have and more and more German cars have. High RPM to produce the torque does not make an efficient engine. Proof is in the need to Turbo the heck out of the auto's adding a ton of weight and not really getting any more MPG efficiency out other than a smaller engine for lower tax purposes.

Agree that the Quad had it's problems, Yet it was loved for being a motor that could be turbo'd and pushed to over 1200hp / ft-lbs of torque. I give props as MB has built a small motor with high HP / torque numbers, yet the Torque is still below the HP and high in the RPM band. This means like a sewing machine engines you have to really rev it to get the performance out of it. GM on the other hand built plenty of small motors that could move without reeving the hell out of them.

@smk4565 this hurts, MB best selling GLC is not getting the love in the new release. As they say, one step forward and one giant step backwards. Mercedes-Benz GLC review: one step forward, one step back for this popular family SUV http://flip.it/erXKDL

Wonder if a 2016 radio could be bought and fit into the 2015? ?

Yes allot of Juice, but pathetic still. Still not sold on these overhead cam and in this case dual with high horsepower and weak torque. Guess Germans like Italian love their High revving noise over actual grunt of moving. Interesting note is that the Quad 4 always had more torque than HP without a turbo and still passed emissions. Anyone that drove a Quad 4 could feel the grunt of movement in your gut without having to race the sewing machine engine.

I actually am, this is a hand off to a new generation. A.I / M.L. is a reality, for those not accustomed to the acronym, Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning. I am working on a project right now, it is real and will be coming to technology near you soon. I am excited by the new robots and the final hand off from both Linda and Arnold to a new young cast. Having Cameron doing the movie, should be great.

Lovely another WASTE of Tax payers dollars on a company visit to really hid the cost of being used to stump for re-election of Potus45. https://www.abc27.com/news/local/carlisle-west-shore/vp-pence-to-attend-pa-gop-state-dinner/2053594541 Pretty clear this is a fund raising / re-election visit than a valid company visit. Need to stop of Political people from abusing the system this way. Seems since December 47,000 manufacturing jobs have been shed. Guess the Trump Bump is over. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-05/manufacturing-jobs-boom-is-fading Harvard University economist Robert Z. Lawrence described this phenomenon in 2017, writing that it suggested “a tradeoff between the ability of the manufacturing sector to contribute to productivity growth and its ability to provide employment opportunities.” In the booming 1990s, big gains in manufacturing productivity were accompanied by more or less flat manufacturing employment; in the less-booming early 2000s and in the immediate aftermath of the last recession, spectacular gains in manufacturing productivity were accompanied by plummeting manufacturing employment.

Totally agree, I think there is more here that will come up as your right, the sales reporting was in the news for a long time, yet this I think will bring up additional uglyness.

Way to go, Congratulations! ?

Yet it does hurt the Americans in their pocket book. The gov is another mess all together and I just do not see this changing anything versus getting an agreement to send advisors to work with their military on the southern border. We have tried the Bully with a big stick approach before and look what it got us in Panama. A General becomes dictator and biggest drug lord that then has to be removed by us after we put him in there. End result is the Tariffs are the wrong approach I believe.

That is the error in his logic as it will not hurt americans except in the pocket book and it will not stop people from attempting to come to America for a better life. Also Mexicans make up a minority of people attempting to come into our country. Good read here on this subject as 2007 was our highest rate as 12.2 million illegals and yet Nafta has helped to reduce that amount to 10.7 million by 2016. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/11/28/5-facts-about-illegal-immigration-in-the-u-s/ This is additional good info on the subject of illegals: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/12/03/what-we-know-about-illegal-immigration-from-mexico/ NPR also backs that Mexico is no longer the lions share of illegals. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/25/525563818/mexicans-no-longer-make-up-majority-of-immigrants-in-u-s-illegally

Agreed, the Tariffs will not change the immigration of people attempting to come to the US for a better life. It will also not bring back those jobs already moved offshore.

I understand what you are saying but in reality, I doubt much if any of the jobs will come back to the US versus going to another country that has low labor costs and no tariff war with the US. Perfect example of this is I can see much of the computer assembly work being done in Mexico going to 3rd world Asian countries like Malaysia.

Dirty Laundry in the news now to attempt to force them to pay him. Gonna be interesting to see how this goes. Suspect other ugly things will show up.

Very true, I heard this morning that it will take 180 to 360 days to move sub assembly to other manufacturing plants either in the US or other countries where we have no Tariff war for computer parts. Whole assembled computers with are many companies that build them in Mexico are looking at 18 months to 2 years to move. So guess what, Monday is coming and all prices across the board go up 5% ON TOP of existing Tariffs and then they change to 10% on July 1st, 15% on August 1st, 20% Sept 1st and 25% Oct 1st. Many do not realize we already do have tariffs on existing products from manufactured goods to food such as Avocado's. Get ready for your costs to jump big time this month and the rest of the year. Those interested in the tariff schedule: MEX_Tariff_Sched.pdf

5 days till Mexico Tariffs hit the US. Yes this goes in effect on the 10th of June and Tech companies are going to be hit hard as many vendors have Server assembly and subassembly built in Mexico. This is going to hurt everyone big time as US bound products are built in Mexico. Hurting our trade friends and consumers here in the US.

So then you will be admitting that the EV has a place in society and should be embraced and supported. To Quote: The administration currently has 25% tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods. Tariffs on an additional $300 billion would cover virtually all imports to the U.S. Trump has said the increases were to pressure China to reaffirm pledges it made in previous trade negotiations. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/trump-administration-advances-plan-for-300-billion-in-new-china-tariffs Seems having a 25% tariff on everything from China will make things crazy expensive here. Interesting read on the $300 Billion in additional Tariff's. https://www.internationallawoffice.com/Newsletters/International-Trade/USA/Arent-Fox-LLP/Additional-duties-proposed-on-another-300-billion-worth-of-Chinese-products

That is hard to know as even the web site: https://www.cadillac.com/future-concept-vehicles/xt6-crossover-suv has stated the features are based on a pre-production model and could change. If Super Cruise is not on the XT6, that would be a mistake for Cadillac.

So that looks like a witches hat to the left, so witch trials with mid-evil torture? ?

Saw a Cherry Pontiac G6 2 door Coupe on the way to the gym today. Wow, first one I had seen in forever. Had out of state plates, but could not identify them.

Yet if your neighbors no longer have jobs, that does not matter to you? If you start seeing an increase in homelessness around you that does not matter to you? The fact that more and more countries are shunning working with the US, that does not matter to you? The fact that friendly countries that used to support and work with the US are now asking us to leave such as Philippines, that does not matter to you? How about the fact that we waste billions on protecting oil from the Arab countries that goes to China, North Korea, etc. That is ok with you? I vastly appreciate that everyone here has kept this conversation civil and verbally clean for the most part. I enjoy sharing of ideas and thoughts, EDUCATION IS THE GREAT EQUALIZER! I truly believe what I have posted and that through education and sharing of ideas we make ourselves and society better. Trump has stated that he considers himself to be one of the best Businessmen in the world as he has posted via a ghost writer that he is the Art of the Deal! Yet his own performance has proven this to not be true. This is backed by 6 verifiable Bankrupt companies that he supposedly led. Strong CEO's / Leaders embrace transparency to ensure that they are looking out for the best of the Whole and not the one. Trump is all about the one! I point to these outstanding CEO's that not only made huge differences, but have left legacy's that people look too. Yes some have had more recent leaders screw things up, but these CEO's are amazing: Lou Gerstner, Turned IBM around and into a High Tech Service provider and took his half a billion golden parachute over 10 years to prove he built a company to last with a bull pin deep in talent. Lee Iacocca - I am pretty sure everyone knows why here for the K car and turning Chrysler around. Mary Barra - Controversial to various members here but she has turned GM into a major Profit company with a focus long term on the EV industry based on CUV/SUV Profits of today. Want current CEO's, then look at this list of top 2019 CEO's provided by Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/pictures/mkl45kjhg/top-20-ceos/#1bde21963c94 Yes I can list more but the point is we have leadership that is amazing and when compared to Trump, he fails big time. I forget the Steel Manufacture CEO who said he was not the smartest person in the room but surrounded himself with smart people and listened and was able to lead to the best solutions. Trump fails to listen to smarter people than himself. That alone makes one question his ability to lead and why his tax returns are important to see so that we can see how he has made his money and where he and what he took advantage of to do it. Plus did he do it legally. Leading by example is one of the best ways, but if corrupt, all you end up with is shit in the long game.

Considering how many miles I put on my Escalade yearly all road trip miles, I would love this feature. I hope they roll it out on the next generation. I see no reason not too. Drew, is there a timeline when the whole Cadillac family gets Supercruise?

That is very cool and I am excited to see them add more and more highways to it. I wonder how long before they go and add Mexico? ?