G. David Felt

Very cool, to read this on the MB EV concept auto. http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1110498_british-magazine-gets-ride-in-all-electric-mercedes-eq-concept Clearly a very different way to drive and how to send power to just front or just rear wheels.

I can honestly say that my own parents who are baby boomers do not like the CT6 but love the XTS. With that said, yes you might have 10% of the XTS sales cannibalizing CT6 sales but not much more if that. Looking at both side by side and sitting in them, clearly two different beasts and appealing to two different customers. Ride alone is where you divide the type of customer and this is very much age driven.

Understandable and expected. I really wonder just how many they will actually build. Yes we have heard the comments from them, but will people actually buy it in the numbers they think? This is going to be very interesting to see what happens, I am more interested in seeing where the first one is totaled. Which state will have the first totaled Demon?

So very true for the GM trucks, Ford is better now that they have gotten them a bit more quiet, RAM is just noisy with no real tuned exhaust note. I doubt @balthazar would get rid of his diesel. He uses it way too much.

Just based on these 3 pics, I would take the Vantage over the Italian mess.

@oldshurst442 I get you do not like it, but the baby boomers love it and as long as we have millions buying them here and the Chinese who love their versions as personal limos it makes good sense to tweak and continue to build it. In fact I can see the XTS being moved to the classic form and still being built especially for the Limo, Livery and private auto chauffeur business at the airports past 2020. I agree with many that it is a relic of the past GM, but does make money, has a clear market that wants it and no reason to kill it. Why kill a money maker just because. Kinda like the stupid decision to kill the Avalanche / Escalade Ext.

I would have to agree with you, I have rarely seen the diesel trucks get above EPA MPG. I think this is mostly a car thing.

I think depending on where you live you have two types of users. The look at me soccer mom where the luxury suv never goes off road or rarely gets messed up and those that want the luxury but do use them in the mountains. I see plenty of the luxury suv at the ski resorts during winter but more so during summer off road on the logging roads out camping. Weird? Yes but true for washington state. So many tree huggers want their luxury and be out in the wilds.

I think allot of their previous customers are wanting SUV/CUVs now and if they want to hold onto them, they have to deliver what the customer wants. Cars are out of fashion as the hot trend is SUV/CUV crazyness. Not because they really need it.

So Uranus is finally getting built. Just a car on steroids to be a CUV. I wonder how it will really stand up to the world wide competition especially when they have been building them for so much longer.

I can understand that and respect it. For me, I got my Escalade ESV Platinum edition as it did not seem that much more than a fully loaded Yukon XL Denali edition plus I liked the style and the few features better than the Yukon. With that said, I can also agree with you on the SS over the ATS. I would take one too if I could not afford a CTS-V edition.

And yet myself and @Cmicasa the Great who have put our money where our mouth is do not seem to have the problems so many of you state CUE has. So is this just repeating what other magazines are stating due to a lack of familiarity with the system or what?

Sorry GMTruckGuy74, never have used it. Since I went monochromatic, I never have the need for Chrome polish anymore. In fact I still have a container of Turtle Wax Chrome polish tat I do not use any longer.

That is not able to be confirmed. Marketing and sales are a fickle thing and without thousands being interviewed and documented that they have refused to buy Lincoln because of being FWD one has a hard time saying that this has stopped people. More likely the poorly built auto's, cheap material and fit/finish played a bigger part in people not buying Lincoln.

Buick and Lincoln do not need to emulate this 1980's warm over nor do they need to follow the whole RWD thing. FWD and AWD works and has not stopped plenty of people from buying Audi. CUE is good, but can be even better with more responsive touch system and a current nav equal to google or a couple other industry leaders. For the most part, CUE works just fine except when you get to non-GM drivers that seem to think CUE should be just like the germans or asians and cannot seem to figure out how to use it. Kinda like Apple or Windows. two different interfaces and part of the group is always confused.

Lucky Man, so glad someone got to drive them.

Very cool, if I could fit in one, I would love to drive a Vantage. How did you get a test drive?

@balthazar Sorry as I am sure the auto is very nice, but that interior is

Hell, they should just make that the standard for the last couple years of production. It is an awesome car as far as full size cars go.

@Drew Dowdell Cool, let us know how it lasts. FYI - Too funny on the Vacuum hose comment!

Interesting, if they truly build it from the ground up, having a 90 kWh battery to be better than the competition is what they should do or at least start with a 70 but also offer a 90 and say 110 kWh battery options.

Old warmed over auto. PASS The style is dated and dead on arrival. Dash reminds me of something out of the 80's. Overall nothing I would want Buick or Lincoln to emulate.