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  1. smk4565
    The Alfa interiors aren't as good as any German car, not even close. So there is one problem, they have performance but the Germans have that too. And the reliability worries I feel like are a huge obstacle. You almost know going in it will break so why buy it? Alfa almost has to give these cars away for 5 years and prove they are reliable before masses will pay money for them. They should be selling Alfa's at $400 a month for 72 months. I get that is $28k, but that is about what people are willing to risk on one of these. For a hot second Alfa was bragging how the Guilia was the fastest 4-door around the Nurburgring and the Stelvio was the fastest SUV, then Mercedes took both those away about a month later. So you are getting 2nd place performance with sub par interior and bottom of the barrel reliability. Not a recipe for success.
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    It will have an A-class looking interior. They'll sell boatloads of them to people that want a G-wagen but can't afford one.
  3. smk4565
    Exactly. $75 a month savings isn’t enough to get rained on. They need to lease them for about $400 a month.
  4. smk4565
    So $75 a month cheaper isn’t enough to move the needle. The GLC outsells the Stelvio nearly 10-1. I don’t think the Alfa name has enough cache either and they don’t advertise a lot either.
  5. smk4565
    Their lease deals must not be as good as the Germans. I have to imagine buyers fear reliability and steer clear of Alfa’s.
  6. smk4565
    The problem with Alfa Romeo is it doesn’t have a 10 year bumper to bumper warranty.
  7. smk4565
    The small trucks are definitely coming, when you look at a Colorado or Ranger of today vs a 90s S-10 or Ranger the new trucks are huge. And those mid-size trucks are in the $30-40k range easily, and that is for the average ones, not the top of the line. A small truck in the $20-30k range would sell for sure.
  8. smk4565
    Fiat and Chrysler brands they can close tomorrow. Alfa is hurting, not a surprise. Jeep with a lot of slumping vehicles is a surprise in an SUV market except besides Wrangler a lot of those Jeeps have been around a while and about 10 new crossovers go on sale every month, those Jeeps are old news.
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    The 6-series is a dead nameplate and the i cars sell like crap. They still do well with 3-5-7 series, not as well as Mercedes in those segments but BMW is #2. BMW outsold Mercedes in March and they did it with SUVs, those SUVs are all doing well. X7 is already out performing Navigator and up to Escalde avg volume and they are just getting started.
  10. smk4565
    The Tesla semi can tow the max weight allowed on American roads, I thought it was 55,000 lbs but it must be 80,000 lbs as stated. I think Tesla’s half ton trucks will tow as much as any other heavy duty. There isn’t any reason Tesla couldn’t do a heavy duty pickup that can pull 50,000 lbs.
  11. smk4565
    Tesla's EV motors are going to pull more than any diesel or V8 the big 3 have. They made a Model S faster than V12 Lamborghini, they have a semi that can pull 55,000 lbs. Electric just has too much torque for an ICE to compete with. And weight and packaging for batteries won't be too much of an issue on a full size truck.
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    Tesla is going to turn the full size pickup market upside down. This buyer loyalty thing exists because all these trucks are similar and differences in capability aren't that far off from each other. But when someone new comes with significantly better product, at similar price, look out. Wouldn't surprise me if Musk's truck can pull 20,000 lbs and has a sub 5 second 0-60 time.
  13. smk4565
    Toyota should redo the Tundra and undercut the F150 by $5-10,000 and put that theory to the test.
  14. smk4565
    A new SUV called the SubTraxx.
  15. smk4565
    This has the same starting price as a Tesla Model 3. Good luck to VW on that.
  16. smk4565
    I never knew they used it on an S-class, the past 25 years so so the S-class has not had MB TEx and I couldn't find an 80s car with it either, I read a 1988 S-class review that says leather is standard so we are 30 years with it that way. But, MB Tex lasts longer than leather and is easier to clean. There are Mercedes that are 50 years old with MB Tex still in good shape and that wouldn't happen with leather, it would dry out and crack. In some ways it is a superior material to leather and all these MB Tex cars offer leather too, so the consumer has a choice. Plus you have to have ability for people to option a car how they want in order to sell it. If you make everything standard, then a Camry would start at $35,500 and have piss poor sales, an F150 would be $70,000 base and sell about 6,000 units a year instead of 800,000.
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    The Camry is the most American ca you can buy I think. I don't think people care where anything is made for the most part, they buy the product they like. People buy phones and TV and computers made in China and they don't care. There wear clothes from the Philippines and Vietnam, and they don't care really care where stuff comes from, they care about quality of the product and price. If GM sold an American made Silverado for $35,000 and the exact same spec truck with the same quality as a Chinese made Silverado for $30,000, 99% of the people would pay less to have the Chinese one and they wouldn't shed one tear when the American factory shut down. That is the the cold truth of how it is.
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    I think the S-class and SL have 2 higher grade leather options, E-class, GLE, GLS I think have some sort of designo upgrade to the leather. The options and equipment mix must work as they outsell everyone else in global luxury. Maybe vegans and people of certain religions that don't want to harm a cow like MB-Tex.
  19. smk4565
    Well not a lot is made in the USA. Chevy is no more American than Honda or Toyota at this point. If Michigan is unhappy about GM closing factories they should look for other things to manufacture. Build solar panels or windmills in those old factories.
  20. smk4565
    I didn’t say that, I said the E-class and down has MB-Tex standard. Whether the 70s S-class had vinyl seats or not doesn’t really matter. I was talking about the current line up.
  21. smk4565
    They should do a coupe version and call it Mariner, and a coupe of the Aviator called the Mountaineer.
  22. smk4565
    People want crossovers and cars keep getting more expensive. The Venue will sell in the USA just fine.
  23. smk4565
    Well they offer leather on everything if you don’t like MB Tex. The nice thing here is at a time when everyone else is just making crossovers andnkilling sedans, here is a sport sedan that doesn’t cost crazy money.
  24. smk4565
    Should have sold 100% to Geely.
  25. smk4565
    Like 185 inches to 191 I think, not that big a difference. I think one being an Audi and one a VW matters more. Or a Stinger is about $5k less than the Arteon and the same size.
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