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G. David Felt

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    WOW, That is one Cheap looking dash. Seems to have the MB Floating screens for the dash on top of it.
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    Just filled up the SS and Escalade this morning $3.179 per gallon.
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    Maybe not, If Cadillac did the float ride of the 50's on a burban as an ugger luxury suv, it very well could be the bomb. Course someone might then say that MB still built a better one or that it was nothing more than a burban. LOL
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    RIGHT! That was my thinking too, If Cadillac had done an Escalade in the 50's it would have been something no one else would have been able to touch.
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    I would take this over the mess MB has put up as a concept. or even this
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    As @oldshurst442 & @ocnblu posted in this thread, there are many auto's built in America like you said the tall auto's with some SUV style way back before MB decided to do it. https://www.cheersandgears.com/forums/topic/90052-mercedez-benz-news-vision-mercedes-maybach-ultimate-luxury-suv-leaks-out/?tab=comments#comment-836050
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    I truly must have never been meant for me to be ubber rich as nothing about this auto appeals to me. I have to laugh at this line: Our concept combines the DNA of an SUV with that of a sedan. Hello McFly, USA auto companies did this DNA back in the 1930's to 1950's I believe but will leave it to the mast of all things old. @balthazar Interesting how MB likes to twist up the history when we have as Bill pointed out versions of DNS SUV/Car merging happening over the last 40 years too.
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    Nice read, like the info about tall people for the back seat being not the best and the experience of how this handled in a snowstorm. Very informative and your right, with a ton of cash on the hood, these auto's should sell and do well till they can update and replace it. Thanks Bill, I learned alot about this auto.
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    Agreed, Last week Seattle was in the mid $2.20-$2.30 a gallon and the Anacortes oil refinery was shutdown as they were changing over from winter blends to summer blend gas. This week $3.09 a gallon. WTF, clearly an investigation into oil manipulation of refined gas needs to be done as you just do not have big jumps when the trading price is not changing that much. Something Stinks and I smell Big Oil Manipulation!
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    Totally sweet, talk about total protection.
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    But if they do them all Unibody, they will truly loose the Defender strength of a Body on Frame SUV. As @Cubical-aka-Moltar points out, the traditional defender was single or double cab and another Unibody just muddies up the picture. I DO NOT see a need for more clone CUV versions under Defender name as it becomes a badge job just about of a Range Rover.
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    Nice clean simple dash, but is this a 2018 or 2008 dash? Seems to be a warp back in time.
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    JEEP CVT suck big time. Alex loved his Patriot and I liked it too, but one reason on trading it in at 81K miles was it needed another CVT. 3 in less than 100K miles. Nope CVT suck big time in traditional auto's, Hybrids seem to be a different egg.
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    High labor costs have GM manufacturing on a short life line. Exit strategy is clear unless they can reduce labor cost while increasing automation.
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    Interesting, A standard cab unibody pickup. It will sell but in very limited numbers I think. Luxury buyers are going to want extra room and as such,I questions it's ability to sell profitably.
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    Very cool as I liked the look of this concept, but I have to doubt it will ever really get built. They are watching Honda and the Ridgeline 2.0 according to Motor Trend and sales for the first 3 months of 2018 has the Honda Truck down 30% which does make one wonder about Unibody pickups. Also VW is testing the waters for a Unibody pickup and while they believe they could sell from 50-70K units a year, the Honda Ridgeline has sold 7005 through the end of March, that means a total of 28,020 trucks for the year and this is down 30% from last year. I question them investing in a truck that has such low sales numbers. Currently the Honda Ridgeline average transaction price as of this week is $40,723. 40,723 * 28,020 = $1,141,058,460.00 OK, can they R&D, tool up, build, support and do a truck for $500 million looking at sales of $1 billion? Maybe........
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    @Drew Dowdell Thought you would find this interesting. a good read on investment opportunities as we enter the great battery race for EV's. This was done by Barings and covers your traditional executive summary, background info, the manufacturing, the future, Cathode Manufactures, Separator Manufactures, Commodities and their conclusion. For anyone else that wants to get a better understanding of the top 3 battery cell tech, chemistry, materials, potential disruptors, and the cathode manufacturers this is a good review even if you are not interested in investment options. Charging Ahead November 2016.pdf
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    GM's Supercharged 3900 engine was awesome!
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    Very cool comparison between the Audi and Jag EV CUV's battery pack. Seems they are both using the same LG battery cells that the Chevrolet Bolt is using. https://electricrevs.com/2018/04/21/audi-e-tron-vs-jaguar-i-pace-battery-pack-comparison/ On top of this, Seems the VW subsidery Electrify America is busing installing the XFC chargers now. https://electricrevs.com/2018/04/20/electrify-america-construction-underway/
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    I agree it is really weird about the CVT. My own bad experiences with them will always make me pass on a CVT. Traditional gear tranny or EV is for me.
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    Would be Cool to have an Escalade ESV 7500 CC Motor! course 7.5 L is good too.
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    Totally agree with you that blind spot monitoring I can do without unless it is part of a package of other features I want also. Dual mirrors and shoulder checks more than cover the proper driving skill.
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    I grew up with my dad always reminding me that every dog has its day. He also reminded me that if your neighbors have jobs, as do I then things are pretty solid. Buy American first when you can to support the local companies, jobs and keep the profits here, then when needed go outside the country. As we all know, many things we have no choice but to buy Asian or European on based on them being the only source for the products. I have stayed true to this with buying American auto's only. Yes, many components are from around the world, but the companies at least are headquartered here, engineering is done mostly here and the profits stay here. My first auto out of college was a Ford 1991 Escort GT. Awesome car, rock solid and a blast to drive and I would probably still have it if it was not for a commercial truck not paying attention on the freeway and rear ending my wife and totaling it. I have tried to buy ford multiple times and did help a friend buy a family sedan, the Ford Contour which she had for a long time before letting her son take it to college where it got trashed and then totaled. Since then the only other auto's I have had that are not GM is Jeep Wrangler, 1993 and Jeep Grand Cherokee 1995. Since then, I have stayed GM for now, but will be looking around and comparing when I do end up buying my next auto. Interesting story, America's Longest lasting Auto's on MSN. Quoted from the story, interesting consistency here! Here are the 10 longest-lasting vehicles along with the percentage of each that have clocked more than 200,000 miles. The average percentage of all vehicles lasting longer than 200,000 miles is 1.2%. Toyota Sequoia: 6.6% Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) Expedition: 5.4% General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) Chevrolet Suburban: 5.2% Toyota 4Runner: 4.2% GMC Yukon XL: 3.9% Chevrolet Tahoe: 3.8% GMC Yukon: 2.8% Toyota Tacoma: 2.6% Toyota Avalon: 2.4% Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (NYSE: HMC) Odyssey: 2.4% The list of longest-lasting luxury vehicles was led by GM's Cadillac with the Escalade ESV and the Escalade both lasting 1.6% longer than the 1.2% average for all vehicles. Interesting that the Germans have no Luxury auto's on the lists. American and Asian plus Volvo. iseecars original story
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    I think everyone is on the same page, but have to totally disagree with you on the Envision. It is anything but a turd / crap vehicle. My sisters that I helped her buy is rock solid and been far more reliable than the craptastic Mazda CX Turds that are terrible for interior space and underpowered which is from actual use of their auto's. From the 3 to the 9 unimpressed with the interiors compared to the Envision. Mazda is a sewing machine noisy box compared to the Buick. Front seats in the Mazda are terrible if your a big person and the back is no picnic either compared to the buick where you can have a 6'6" tall person in the front and still have another person that big in the back and not hit the seats back with your knees or the roof with your head. So please tell me why you think the Envision is a Turd?
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    Depending on the next 18-24 months, GM could push me into another brand depending on what they do with correcting the garbage group packages and how fast they get their butts moving to bring out variety of CUV/SUVs for certain brands with certain power trains. I honestly do not know why in the last 12 -18 months we have seen such a reversal at GM. They were doing really well and surprised everyone with the BOLT and now they are just letting everyone pass them up again and offering / forcing packages on people that they do not want just to get certain other features. I totally get what everyone is saying here and I think more rather than less people are wishing they could a la carte their auto's. @balthazar Has the best Idea of growing Cadillac back into the luxury leader of the world, make the complete product line a la carte options with just a couple packages for those that want it all.
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