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  1. smk4565
    Mark Reuss has spent his whole career at GM. He has been at the helm a good while, he hasn't helped to save Cadillac yet, so I wouldn't exactly bank on the cast of characters that led Cadillac to where they are, getting them out of it. And yes Johan and Bob Lutz are gone, but once upon a time GM thought those guys were saviors, then they dropped them to have someone to blame for Cadillac's failures. EV is the future, they have to go all in on it. But you still have a brand image issue, BMW and Mercedes are still BMW and Mercedes and Tesla is the hot brand. They can build EV's but you have to convince people to buy Cadillacs still, and we are nearing 20 years of "renaissance" and no improvement in sales, mostly everyone else has grown while they shrank.
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    I imagine he M760 will be quicker than what they state. It has all wheel drive, with V12 power is has to be quicker than that. 3.9 seconds for the V8 seems right, the V12 has to be better than .3 seconds faster, although the bigger difference is going to be in the 100-150 mph range where the V12 torque can go to work.
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    What if he buys them the finest, most luxurious spread of great American fast food? That is a good way to solve problems...
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    Kind of a boring car, but I am glad they offer a turbo in there. It is nice that if you are looking for a small car and don't have a big budget you can get something with some power and don't just have to pick from a collection of 160-170 hp NA 4-bangers.
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    G70 might be a nice car, I have never been in one, but there just isn't much to make me excited about it. They are nearing Tesla Model 3 money and one is a Tesla, one is a fancy Hyundai, we know which one people are going to pick.
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    Twin turbo V8 in the G70 or go home.
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    It looks more obnoxious which is probably a good thing for the type of people that buy this car. I don't really mind the big grille because it is different, a lot of cars have the same shape grille or smaller size grille, and this car will stand out. Nice power bump to the V8, that is cranking a lot of power for a mid-range engine. S-class is still a much better looking car inside and out. The late 90s 7-series is still the best looking 7-series ever.
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    Nope and the GLA is an ugly looking vehicle that doesn’t seem too practical. I never drove one but have driven the CLA which is pretty average. The chassis isn’t the reason people don’t buy a QX30, no one in this segment cares about a chassis. I think the GLB will be a big hit coming off the new version of this chassis and probably outsell any Infiniti with ease.
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    I have been to England and Spain, but I would like to go to Paris, somewhere in the Alps where they film all those James Bond movies, and driving the Nurburgring would be cool also.
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    Well that V8 is GM's newest engine and developed for Cadillac so it should go in Cadillacs. The S63 sedan gets 17/26 mpg and 17/27 mpg in the S63 coupe, that compares well to the 14/21 mpg of the CTS-V and the Mercs have all wheel drive which isn't helping fuel economy. Also the AMG 4 liter V8 weighs the same as the non-supercharged GM 6.2 liter V8 and beats China's upper tier displacement tax. It must work because AMG has the fastest SUV, fastest wagon, fastest 4-door car around the Nurburgring and the GT R was the fastest front engine/rear drive car around the Nurburgring, not sure if it still is. That engine performs at a high level across the board though, and it isn't even electrified yet which will be the next phase. And AMG could get more power out of that V8 if they wanted to, but they have to factor in refinement and NVH too. The new 2.0 liter A45 engine is said to produce 416 hp and that is just half their V8, they could get 800 hp out of that 4 liter if they really wanted to, they get 800 hp from a 1.6 liter V6 so out of a 4 liter V8 should be easy.
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    Maybe it is their last chance. Buick has better volume in China and they are a lower price point but the growth is slowing there anyway. Who knows what GM upper management is thinking, they haven't had the best of leadership over the past 30 years.
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    Yet Lexus or Cadillac could never penetrate Europe with their so called luxury cars. And no, I have never been to Germany, nor do I have any German decent in my family. And Mercedes is Europe's #1 commercial truck producer, so that commercial market is part of their business.
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    Maybe in Germany they like luxurious taxis that are reliable and can go 300,000 miles or more. I don't think Daimler cares who buys their cars, they like every other car company are in business to make money. I am sure Cadillac would love to get 10,000 orders for Escalade taxis to make money off it.
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    Even if the 4.2 liter V8 has flaws, it is the best engine Cadillac has, so it should be in every product they can fit it in. Leaving it on the shelf in favor of a turbo V6 or a 2015 era Corvette engine would be a bad idea. Inline sixes aren't hard to fit in rear drive cars. If GM had more rear drive cars it would make more sense.
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    The new 7 looks to have upped its game, they have 523 hp V8 now with a 3.9 second 0-60 run and the V12 is still there if you want more. With these big cars if you look at global numbers, the American market is only 3rd most important to a lot of these German brands. Globally there were 77,927 S-class sales in 2018.
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    That 2 tone paint though, that is how you do luxury. And Cadillac used to do that.
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    An S560 starts at $101,350, $104,350 for the 4Matic and that is the volume model. Even a base rear drive S450 is $91,250 and I don't think I ever saw one of those. If any other car on that list was $104,000 before options their combined sales would be about 10 cars. And yet XTS, Continental and CT6 are getting killed off anyway. The A8 is still around because of China and VW not really caring that it doesn't sell, because if they cancelled it they couldn't pretend Audi is on par with Mercedes, which it is not. I actually think the CT6 is a good looking car aside from the goofy headlights. I like the big grill and the sort of slab sided look. I think the body shape and proportions are quite good on it, sort of like a modernized better shape of the 2005 Chrysler 300 which I liked that design when it came out. The V8 finally gives it a worthy motor, this car's problem since launch was all the corners Cadillac cut. And those Mercedes left to right would be be C-class, GLA, GLE, E-class, CLA. Easy to identify.
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    XT4, XT5, XT6, CT6 are all wearing the same front end now. It is quite simple, 3 LED bars on this: And this has 1 LED bar:
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    I just read on Automotive News they they are only building 275 CT6-V's for the United States before production ends in March 2019. Shame on BMW if the 7-series didn't outsell the CT6 last year, I don't really care to look up the sales figures. The S-class dominates this segment, all the other guys might as well just pack it up and go home, with maybe the exception of the 7-series since they sell a lot of those in Europe.
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    They could probably build enough CT6’s in 5 months to give dealers a 2 year supply. i wonder if they found a way to make a crossover on Omega which makes the platform more viable.
  21. smk4565
    I don't get the hype, it isn't a very good looking car from any angle. It doesn't really look pretty, or fast or even interesting. The interior looks like a poor man's BMW knockoff. And the BMW M340i makes 382 hp and costs the same as this car. So why not just get a 3/4-series with 47 more hp, an actual BMW interior and pay the same money?
  22. smk4565
    The Hemi barely makes any more power than the 3 liter V6 in the Explorer ST. They badly need a new V8 or some sort of boosted V6 or something to replace that severely dated engine. 1,000 lb-ft diesel engine sounds epic. You are just wasting your time driving any vehicle with under 1,000 lb-ft of torque. As far as electrics go, the Rivian is obviously a different class, but someone could make an electric pickup that could rival this. Tesla and Freightliner are working on electric semi's, you can get several thousand torques from electric motors and pull anything you want.
  23. smk4565
    It is still ugly, maybe even uglier than before, and the track package adds on an early 2000s Fast and Furious body kit. This 5,000 lb luxury barge is faster than this Lexus
  24. smk4565
    Is this the new Cadillac EV?
  25. smk4565
    Hey, this thing has 400 hp and rear wheel drive! I wonder why Cadillac didn't think of that with the XT6. I like that Ford has 4 powertrain options here, 4or 6 cylinder or hybrid, there is something for everyone here, which is what you need to do to be successful. Some people will want the 400 hp, some could care less about performance and only care about gas mileage, they have both ends of the spectrum covered. I seriously wonder if they could do a 4-door coupe version of this and jack the price up $10k and sell them. The Explorer 2 door did well back in the day, and crossover coupe is all the rage, I saw an Audi Q8 today.
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