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  1. smk4565
    About time. Those platforms are old as dirt.
  2. smk4565
    Then why not just build EV’s? I am all for EV’s and I think what Tesla has done to get market share and not use the old dealer model and all that is great. Part of the Tesla appeal is you are buying the future, that luster may wear off when a lot of people have autonomous EV’s. I don’t see Karma building a better car than Tesla, Audi or Mercedes, so what is the point, especially with the $100k type money they will want for it.
  3. smk4565
    Well BMW bought Rolls. Ferrari is viable due to their price point and merchandise sales. Jaguar has bled money from one owner to the next. Those were all established brands though. Fisher went bust, Karma will do the same. Why would buyers trust a brand that might not be able to honor a warranty or be in business for repairs.
  4. smk4565
    Why are we demanding those drugs in the first place? I don't know the answer to that, probably many sociological and economic factors go into that, stress, depression, mental illness, etc. But maybe we should look to solving problems at home, rather than just blaming everyone else for our problems. And yes there is loads of corruption in Mexico with the drug cartels and they need to clean up their mess too.
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    If Karma was a viable company they wouldn't have to buy their engine off BMW. I feel like they are buying BMW i8 powertrains and putting it into an old sedan shell they have and trying to sell it. This company seems less viable than Saab was 10 years ago. As for the Germans they have plenty of EV's coming, and the market really hasn't demanded them yet. Tesla is a bit of an anomaly, with how quickly they were able to find success. I do think EV is the future, but won't hit it big until the 2025-2030 time frame. Karma is no Tesla.
  6. smk4565
    Why is this company still around? It was a cool looking car in 2012 or whenever it came out, but that is old news. And who really wants to pay top dollar for some unheard of brand with a parts bin car when you can buy a Tesla or one of a dozen German luxury cars.
  7. smk4565
    Which company only produces and sells cars in the USA? FCA, Ford and GM all import cars to the USA from other countries. And they all export to other countries. Tariffs would hurt every car company. Some would just feel more pain than others. Oddly enough Honda and Toyota would probably be hurt the least.
  8. smk4565
    Everybody would lose. But the GLC, GLE, GLS and C-class are made in the USA so those would not be affected.
  9. smk4565
    Right, it is easy to say booo Mexico, go USA and stir up the base. But when you look past that, tariffs will add about $10k to a lot those Mexican made trucks, that will hurt the dealers in the mid-west and Texas, that will hurt businesses that need to buy those trucks, etc.
  10. smk4565
    Well a V8 Mustang is 16/25 mpg, a S560 is 17/27 mpg and a 750i is 18/26. And 2 of those V8s have an extra 1,000 lbs to pull around. So I don't think CAFE is a reason to not use a turbo V8.
  11. smk4565
    I am not saying get rid of it, I am saying Ecoboost the V8. Every engine Ford makes now, or almost all of them are turbo, but the V8 isn't. They should turbo the V8.
  12. smk4565
    If Trump did add a 25% tariff to the Silverados coming from Mexico, we would get to put that will customers change brands for $10,000 price theory to test. The Tundra is made in the USA, it would be curious to see what sales of the Tundra did if Ram and GM trucks had tariff on them.
  13. smk4565
    Wouldn't an eco boost V6 use less fuel than an N/A V8? An Ecoboost V8 shouldn't use that much more gas than a regular V8, even more so if they used a 4 or 4.6 liter V8 instead of a 5 liter.
  14. smk4565
    Why don’t they put a 400 hp Ecoboost V6 in the middle and 550 hp Ecoboost V8 in the GT and then have the Shelby.
  15. smk4565
    I did watch Autoline and Jeremy Clarkson said a couple months back there was one city in China that awarded 1 car license all last year. Once China goes EV the rest will follow, there are 4 times more people there than in the USA and they spend on infrastructure and grow, grow, grow.
  16. smk4565
    I will avoid from political talk other than saying 2020 can’t come soon enough. But this won’t happen. Zero percent chance he closes the border next to zero percent chance he puts a 25% tax on GM cars and screws GM and all its dealers, and many of those dealers supply a lot of jobs in small town middle ‘Murica where Trump’s voters come from. ”All talk, no action!” To quote someone famous.
  17. smk4565
    Mercedes said they are dropping the V12 to pursue electric so obviously BMW is going to follow suit. And how many 760’s do they even sell? Mercedes has sold way more V12’s than BMW over the past 20 years. How long Rolls Royce keeps a V12 is a better question. But once the next gen batteries come it is goodnight ICE. People to light their homes with kerosene lamps because electricity came along. And China is going to make it near impossible to buy ICE cars, then the automakers will just say screw it because it isn’t worth it. Their government will tax the hell out of ICE cars and you have to win a lottery to be allowed to buy a gas car there. Who the hell wants to deal with that? Or you can just go buy an EV no problem.
  18. smk4565
    Maybe in a Ferrari a V12 makes sense for noise. But in a 7-series, S-class, Rolls or Bentley you want silent drive and torque. EV does that.
  19. smk4565
    V12 serves a purpose now but electric will replace it. Electric is more quiet and smoother which is what they want in a Rolls or Bentley.
  20. smk4565
    They can get 600 hp out of a V8, so I don't know how much longer the V12 is needed. Post 2023 it will all be about electric cars, especially on the high end.
  21. smk4565
    All their cars on in a 7 year cycle with a refresh after 4 years as it has been the past 30 years or so. The SL and G-class are the exception to that.
  22. smk4565
    G-class is doing well, the GLB could be what reverses the decline. It will sell well in China and Europe also where gas is expensive. GLB might be a 3- row also which no one in this segment does
  23. smk4565
    I guess he is not going to lead the new Renault-Nissan-FCA-Mitsubishi alliance.
  24. smk4565
    Buick and GMC SUVs are a bit dated, there seem to be 5 new crossovers every month hit the market, just in the past year or so you had Atlas, Acent, Palisade, Telluride enter the Traverse segment. Kona, Passport, etc. They just keep coming. Cadillac is struggling, BMW X7 is probably going to outsell the Escalade and Navigator this year, Cadillac and Chevy sedans are dated and sedans industry wide are struggling. The butt kicking will get worse when you remove Impala, LaCrosse, XTS, Cruze, Volt off the list next year. I don't think they'll make up that volume it will just go elsewhere, but I don't think GM is playing a market share game either.
  25. smk4565
    Depends on who they compete with. If they go into a mass market at a good price, I think people will give them a chance. Alfa is trying to go against BMW, Audi and Mercedes, those are heavyweights. I don't think Peugeot has built in negative perception either.
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