El Kabong
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Good stuff. It'll be interesting to see the specs on those.
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I like seeing "640 miles" on the range to empty display on my truck. I like it a lot.
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I had dealership stuff to deal with so I couldn't really elaborate on my thoughts at the time. So anyways... I don't rag on Buick because Cadillac exists. If Cadillac didn't exist then it might be a different story. If they were content to be an Acura/Lexus ES fighter then eh, ok. If they tried to steal the thunder from an aluminum-chassis large luxury sedan with the aforementioned ES-fighting product I'd laugh them out of the room.
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If it isn't obvious that their target clientel isn't the enthusiast by now..then I don't know what to tell you.Making an enthusiast vehicle vs making a luxury vehicle are completely different. Are you going to hound Buick for making only FWD vehicles when you consider them more lux than Lincoln? There is no need to hound Buick. Buick knows its role-comfortable FWD-based cars. Luxury and sporty need not be mutually exclusive.
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Sorry. You lost me when you said the 300 sold on the basis of fleets and the wimpy V6 engine. Same old wings. Yup yup yup
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We'll have to agree to disagree on much of that. The first-gen 300 had an awful interior yet still sold like hot cakes. The MKZ in RWD would have been much more compelling, but I agree that the MKS would have been more direct competition. Still, my point stands on THAT vehicle, then. And the last sedan that Lincoln sold that even raised an enthusiast's pulse?... the LS sedans. In RWD.
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Okie dokie.
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If the cars were RWD they would at the very least have caused the Chrysler 300 some serious hassles. With some chassis development they would have sent Lincoln in the right direction for future product. It took the CTS THREE GENERATIONS to get to where it is now. The first one was a rather flawed diamond, but it at least showed that Cadillac was willing to give something different a try. Actually, you could go back to the Catera... it was a SERIOUSLY flawed diamond. But once again, GM stuck with it because even if the first one didn't sell so well they at least knew it wasn't poaching Malibu sales.
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Now, seriously... If you cannot address my post, let us move on.
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Why don't you stop whining and address my post about your aluminum SUV claims? Because it's easier to whine, that's why. Same old wings. Same old crap.
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Your first three sentences perfectly justify my opinion of you, and your last few lines show why you are held in such low regard by so many both here and elsewhere. Your speculation about the aluminum Navigator sending the competition scrambling is especially laughable. It didn't overturn the apple cart when the F-150 did it. And it isn't invincible in this segment either. Those of us who know what's what know that Land Rover's calling card for DECADES was aluminum bodied SUVs. Ford ain't leading the way here-not by a long shot. SO... PR fluff, debunked. Again. And again. And again. And...
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Ya, and I want to clarify that as well: NO WAY SHOULD GM DO THIS MERGER. It would just create massive redundancies for them. Except possibly for Jeep-and that only because it has better brand goodwill than Hummer did.
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Now: onward!
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I'll tell you right now that the air suspension and EcoDiesel were two of the key decisions in buying my truck, man. GM is certainly CAPABLE of doing both. But the problem is, they haven't. They need a bit more imagination that way.
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Spare me the sanctimony. If I wanted to read Ford PR I'd go to their website. Bottom Line: you can dress wings up, but you can't take him anywhere. And lord knows he's been in a LOT of places. I ain't here to hold his hand.
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What FCA has is Ram, Jeep, the Hemi, the LX platform, possibly the 200... and that's about it. Notice which side of the Atlantic this all comes from? Really, nobody's issue here is with the product (especially me, clearly). But the finances behind the product are frankly kinda terrifying. I applaud Mopar in particular for making lots of sales with some unconventional engine and tech options, and mostly in an inexpensive fashion. But exactly how long can they keep that up? At some point you need cash, and lots of it. And when your European operations are a financial black hole, the money's gonna flow there to prop them up first. I used to tell Vexner that my worst nightmare was Fiat doing a Cerberus-style cash drain on Mopar. I fear it may well begin to happen in earnest, and soon, if the European operations aren't cut away or restructured.
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If your point was that Ford follows where GM leads then by all means, prattle on :D Fanboy of the year statement? lol I don't force him to post silly PR posts, nor do I force him to write dismissive replies when he's called on them. But sho' 'nuff I'll point out how ridiculous he looks when he does it.
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I read, possibly on Autoextremist, that the program delays would fatten up the coffers a bit, and so make the company more merger-friendly.
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Well, it's definitely got a whiff of hypocrisy about it.
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If your point was that Ford follows where GM leads then by all means, prattle on :D
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My EcoDiesel has the 3.92:1 rear end. I didn't know that could even be a thing. I couldn't build one online like that.
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ROFL@Olds TOTALLY nailing it
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Look, I'm sorry that it took a "displaced GM worker" to school a self-proclaimed "Ford powertrain engineer" in the history of flex manufacturing. But it IS somehow symbolic And yes, GM was that dominant back in the day. It was so dominant in fact that the Feds would occasionally play around with enacting antitrust legislation against them. Glad I could clarify that
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It's your money, so by all means buy it!
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I agree, FWIW. But who's gonna watch the watchers?