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I think for 2020 and moving forward 100% of Cadillacs should have standard Super Cruise, turbo engine, 9-10 speed transmission and all wheel drive. Unless of course it is an EV. Yesterday’s Chevrolet V6 and front drive isn’t going to do jack squat to win buyers. Also their interiors are behind Lincoln who still trails Volvo and the Germans and maybe Lincoln has caught up to Lexus, but that still puts Cadillac in the back of the pack.

Pretty bland and boring, looks sort of like a Hyundai Santa Fe for double the money which isn’t going to excite anyone or stir up buyers. I would hope they price this in the high $40s, they better have some incentives ready to roll too. Out of the gate they are less competitive to the X5, GLE, Q7,MDX, Aviator and XC90. How do you launch at the back of a segment, just think of this vehicle come 2025 when it is still on sale in its current form.

EV will kill the gas motor in the 2030s maybe sooner. When the solid state batteries arrive and recharges are in 5 minutes and gas stations replace 50% of their fuel pumps with charging ports all the dominoes will fall. Not to mention you’ll probably have a electric family sedan that is cheaper and faster than a V8 muscle car in 10 years. Tesla already makes a sedan faster than a Lamborghini for 1/3rd the money. That is going to trickle down.

I suppose Toyota reliability is a plus on these, but Lexus doesn’t know performance.

Agreed, it is all coming but they are too small to launch multiple vehicles at once like a Toyota or GM could. This could hurt Tesla if everyone else gets up to speed with full EV lines.

This looks like it could be the best vehicle in the segment. The other guys all have 280ish hp V6’s turning the front wheels while this has a more fuel efficient four making 310 hp going to the rear wheels. On driving dynamics it should clean up. Interior looks good, front looks good even though it looks the same as the current model. Taillights looks odd, I am not a fan of the back end but that is minor.

Weak engine with no torque for the price you pay and less backseat space than an E-class convertible. I know these aren’t S560 convertible money but Lexus isn’t even in the same league. At E53 AMG money maybe they have an argument but the E-class is probably still a better car head to head.

They probably need another EV platform or two it sounds like then. But obviously small to midsize crossover/sedan is where you start and 3 row crossover off that.

Not if they weren’t selling the 75 kw cars anyway. Plus they have a backlog of Model 3 orders they still haven’t filled. I think sales demand or pricing are the least of Tesla’s worries.

They don’t even have a prototype yet, at least nothing that anyone has seen. They won’t have it on sale this year. Maybe by end of the year they have a concept car worked up. You wonder how scalable it will be, like could the Corvette and Silverado both be built off this platform?

Elon says the Tesla Roadster will be capable of vertical lift off, so advantage Tesla there. Mercedes cars can’t lift off the ground.

Tesla has a lot of demand, so they can drop those base models that probably don’t sell well anyway and not lose any customers. The challenge for Tesla will be if someone like Porsche or Mercedes has Tesla level performance and price but with Porsche/Mercedes interiors and fit and finish.

They better work fast, many luxury brands will have EV’s on sale this year.

Okay maybe that is high but it has to be at least 50% 4-cylinder in a front drive layout. Even stuff like Atlas, Explorer and Traverse have 4 cylinder engines, they are everywhere.

17 million vehicles sold in the USA last year, how many Camry, Accord, Civic, RAV4 , Escape, Equinox, Malibu,almost every Subaru, Hyundai, Kia, and Mazda etc. were there? I don’t know what the breakdown is but by far and a way transverse mounted 4 cylinder is the most common thing.

If Cadillac pluses up the interior then yes. Problem is if Cadillac made a version of a Cruze it would have a Cruze interior with some wood trim or something half assed. Cadillac probably only needs 2 sedans with their volume though, there isn’t really a reason for them to even build a 3rd one that is front drive.

What is wrong with it? Cadillac makes front drive XT4, XT5, XTS, soon to have XT6. And those are mid range cars, not entry level. I prefer rear drive but for a small car with this level of power the drive train doesn’t matter so much. I have driven the current CLA with the 4matic it doesn’t feel so FWD in the power delivery. Although that said it is no where near as good as a C-class or E-class in ride/handling/acceleration. I wouldn’t buy a CLA but FWD layouts with 4 cylinder engines is probably 75% of vehicle sales now.

They should make a Gladiator with the Demon engine, rear drive only and drag radials. Seems like something FCA would invest money in.

If everyone else dumps their sedans, more sales for Mercedes. I did read the CLA250 has 221 hp, up 13 from the current model. I think the AMG 35's will be the sweet spot of this range with 300 hp.

I think the GLB will be the the big debut off this platform and sell like hot cakes.

Well they could put a turbo V6 in there also like the Edge ST. I think a V8 SUV would be pretty thirsty and even if the Blazer was on a Camaro platform I doubt they would go there with it. Camaro/Charger/Jeep buyers don't care about pushrod, so they can get away with it. The V8 will be dead in 10 years anyway. The problem really though isn't the engine on the Blazer it is the price tag.

Well true, if it was an Alpha platform with a 335 hp V6 and 450 hp V8 option then I could see the $57k price for a V8 "camaro SUV." But as it stands this is a Jeep Cherokee, Ford Edge, Honda Passport competitor which are like $28-$40k with exception of the Edge ST that is about $45k.

It looks a lot better than the current car, but it also looks pretty much the same as the A-class sedan, I don't see the reason to build both of these when one would suffice. I'd rather this be the "sedan" and them offer the A-class hatchback as the other body style. I like the looks of this, the rear end that looks like a C or E coupe is an improvement over the A220. I am not a fan of all these Edition One trims with neon orange or yellow striping that every Mercedes seems to get. It seems like a cheap marketing ploy that they should be above doing. CLA250 should have 208 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque.

GM seems to think Chevrolet is the performance brand and people will pay for it. That might work for a Corvette, but Camaro sales are down. And they want to price a Blazer like a Cadillac. It used to be the top end Chevys were still cheaper than a Cadillac. Trying to move Chevy up market is stupid because it ignores the entry level buyer for other brands to pick up and puts Chevy on top of Buick and Cadillac.

The problem for Cadillac is they had old retirees in Palm Beach buying cars and they realized they had to change course. They saw Mercedes in the 1980s being the car for country club elites (Bobby and JR Ewing on Dallas drove them, the old lady on Falcon Crest had one, etc). Thus Mercedes had a bit of an old stodgy image where as the BMW 3-series in the 90s and early 2000s was a huge seller and young people were gobbling them up and Cadillac wanted to get young buyers. So they chased the 3-series, 5-series, and X5 with their early 2000s renaissance. Then the Lexus RX got hot, so they changed course and went after that. Inconsistent strategy, marketing and branding. Mercedes stayed the course, the philosophy of now isn't really any different than the 1980s Mercedes, rock solid build quality, smooth ride, technology, safety, and powerful engine available in every car. Cadillac should be more like an American Mercedes, but that car is now Tesla it seems. I would agree if you can't make a V-series of every Cadillac (which they can't with the platforms they use) then you might as well shut that down and focus on luxury with smooth ride and smooth acceleration. An S560 does 0-60 in 4.5 seconds, that is pretty fast for any car let a lone a full size sedan and it isn't an AMG car, doesn't have any boy racer wings on it, etc Cadillac can build torquey, smooth accelerating and riding cars, Battery-Electric can play a big role there, that is what Tesla is doing. And Tesla don't have a "sport trim" either, unless the little P badge is a sport trim, but all the cars look the same. I read a fully loaded Blazer is $57,000! They are nuts. That is a well equipped XT5 that has the same engine and is the same size. It gets you a bare bones GLC43 but that says AMG on it, not Chevy. And there are a slew of Lincoln, Infiniti or Acura SUVs for $50k also, or a Jeep Grand Cherokee. They have way overpriced the Blazer, the Honda Passport will probably outsell it.