G. David Felt

Or just collect them up to make Soylent Green!

What idiot in design thought this looked good?

Saw today one of the original Lexus coupes at the Park N Ride in excellent shape. They sure are a jelly bean but seem to last.

I really hope the CT6 hangs around as the V edition is just drop dead sexy! The interior is just awesome! Love me this Brown interior!

Very true, the skateboard concept never took off in the 90's when it was all the rage at GM as it would reduce to 25% the number of folks needed to create an auto and the UAW is all about keeping idiot jobs to keep their leadership in power. We are so way past that. The new jobs will be in maintaining the robots that build stuff. Welcome to the 21st century until the 22nd century when robots repair robots and humans are useless as robots will create all due to AI.

WOW, such small minded narrow thinking, keep things static, socialist, live in the past. That video is so full of crap. Too funny that they talk about how great blah appliances from Honda are and they call consumers dumb, your an idiot, go buy something else. This ignorance shows of these two morons that say nothing has ever changed at GM and they are burning Taxpayers money in continuing to waste on idiot pipe dreams that have no use or place is just amazing. People who clearly have no desire to learn and grow to be better. They sound like seniors that just want to hear themselves and keep things static. Idiots ?

Based on your statement then MB should be scrapping many of their low selling cars.

AND The Other Shoe Drops, Bloomberg is reporting that under review from Morgan Stanley, Fords $11 Billion restructuring could cost 25,000 employees their jobs, exceeding GMs cutbacks. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-03/morgan-stanley-predicts-ford-to-cut-25-000-jobs-in-restructuring Morgan Stanley says the largest portion will be in Europe of cutting if not closing Ford of Europe, a business that currently has a NEGATIVE $7 Billion value. Europe is bleeding Ford. Per Ford's announced restructuring that the 70,000 salaried employees will face unspecified job losses beginning in the middle of next year as Ford works through their reorg. Starting in early Spring of next year Ford will cut shifts at two U.S. Factories and transfer som workers to plants building Big SUVs and Transmission for pickups. To Quote Morgan Stanley: Jonas said other automakers will be forced to follow GM’s and Ford’s actions as the industry transforms, first to abandon factories building slow-selling sedans and ultimately to retool to build electric and self-driving vehicles. “We believe existential business model risk will be prioritized over near-term profits and cash return,” Jonas wrote. “We still do not believe investor expectations have fully considered the near-term earnings risk.”

Hello just think of how messy Sleet is, freezing rain, what ever you want to call it. Weather is another game all together.

Where did you get your China Number as I know there is fluctuation between different reporting outfits. The millions on the road and 1.23 million sold last year from both domestic and foreign brands comes from: https://www.statista.com/chart/14098/electric-car-sales-are-surging-in-china/ http://www.ev-volumes.com/country/china/ It is interesting to see where they go and you are correct what works in China is not going to work in the US. Very different dynamics and expectations. They have a young auto culture and so EVs I expect to catch on faster than in the US with the Baby boomers and 50-60 year olds resisting change. That is just cause we know you love a stick with a knob on it!

So just like your Jeep appliance then!

Pretty much dead duck, gotta wonder how long they will attempt to keep this going. In hindsight, they would have been better to not bother bringing it back at all and focused on the very old Navigator they were still selling at that time.

Seems that GM does not think the workers have the skill set based on what they have said for working on and supporting EVs. Once we have options out there beyond Leaf, BOLT and Tesla, I think it will do just fine, but this also requires the workforce to retrain for the new technology.

Winners of this: Fiesta - 5,238 up 72.6% Fusion - 16,652 up 11.8% why are they killing it? Taurus - 2,247 up 4.7% Police Interceptor Utility - 2,777 up 7.2% Expedition - 4,264 up 7.9% Heavy Trucks - 1,048 up 85.2% MKC - 2,263 up 11.1% Nautilus / MKX - 3,153 up 20.4% Navigator - 1,566 up 27.3% Interesting ? what is keeping ford going on the positive side in addition to their 70,000 truck sales. Yet even with the negative down you still have these auto's that are selling very well: Escape - 21,516 down 14.3% Explorer - 17,696 down 17.8% Plenty that are near 10,000 autos sold too. Very interesting to see where the sales are at, you would think they could have a single assembly line that would keep a couple cars going besides the mustang.

Comparing the ratios of populations 300 million to 1.6 billion, the US is 1/5th of their population, so I am guessing 1/5th of Cadillacs lineup stays local such as Escalade and 1or 2 XT's the rest is imported.

There are always holes and if you have no product allocated to those plants, then there is no reason to keep the going. This is not socialism, but capitalism. UAW needs to EMBRACE the New Era of EVs and work with GM to produce them at these unallocated plants and increase training of needed new skills for their workers.

Gotta Love Hazee Beer! So many Micro Breweries and such little time!

Those numbers where for the US market only and so it is correct that in the global view, some of these auto's would not be on this list. For the US, these numbers suck for sure.

Solid State deep density batteries is where this will help small auto's like the basic 2 door Porsche. Yup about 5-7 years away for them.

Which should speak volumes about the long life of CVT versus traditional geared Trans!

I would be happy that headlights are always on period when you are in Drive. The amount of people driving asian auto's at dusk or at night turned off is amazing to me and they wonder why people are flashing them or honk their horns.

Totally agree with this. I hate the nanny safety devices that they are forcing out on all the auto's. Drive and pay attention or pay someone to drive for you.

This story I believe is spot on and will make loyalty to a brand of product harder. Due to the cost of an Auto, having your employees drive what you make is hard now and will just get harder due to the cost of the auto. https://flipboard.com/@flipboard/-salaried-workers-beware-gm-cuts-are-a-w/f-d67435d894%2Fapnews.com I believe this is a perfect point of what the jobs are that will be eliminated: The jobs that GM will shed through buyouts and layoffs are now held by people who are experts in the internal combustion engine, mechanical engineers and managers who work on complex components that won't be needed on the much simpler electric vehicles that the largest U.S. automaker says are its future. I believe this story by Bloomberg is also spot on and tells us what to expect to come for our luv of all things trucks and SUV / CUVs: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-30/gm-bets-on-bigger-greener-cars-and-it-isn-t-alone Some interesting quotes from the bloomberg story: Five years ago, medium- and full-size pickups were the largest group of vehicles sold within the U.S. light truck category. Since the start of 2016, though, a single class of SUVs — compact crossovers, such as the Ford Escape, Honda CR-V, Subaru Forester and Toyota RAV4 — has been bigger on its own than the entire pickup market. American cars are now light trucks; American light trucks are now SUVs. I’m in Shanghai this week, where electric vehicles with their distinctive green license plates are easy to spot. Most of them are Chinese-made; many of them are small SUVs. They also match nicely with the (not just American) preference for taller SUVs and crossovers. CLOSING COMMENT IN THE STORY: If Rivian, and its eventual electric pickup peers, are successful in the U.S., they’ll be growing in a flat auto market. That makes Scaringe’s goal intriguing, because it would mean eating into demand, even incrementally, from another vehicle class. The question, then, is this: Would a $69,000 electric pickup eat into the top end of the truck market or the heart of the luxury SUV market?

I am honestly surprised that GM has not tied up with any designer or premium sports product company for a Premium Cadillac auto. Asians, since I am married to a Korean, are crazy for brand names and I truly believe Cadillac could sell a Coach Edition CT and XT in the Asian rim and even sell some here. Also who could not see Escalade selling a Premium NFL edition or any other sports edition versions. At least do this probably better yet for the sports at the GMC level. Based on this list of most valuable companies: https://www.forbes.com/powerful-brands/list/#tab:rank Why does Cadillac not have a Louis Vuitton or Nike Edition?

The movie is great that the song was in. Hocus Pocus https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107120/