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    Well a Mercedes SUV did it in 3:01.7 so maybe those so called "sports cars" just aren't that well engineered. And the Civic Type R was the fastest Asian car in the test, and it lost to an SUV. And a German car set the fastest lap ever, which is the same car that holds the Nurburgring record. And I know China doesn't crave performance, but they do like luxury, and they like those interiors put out by Audi and Mercedes it seems based on the sales charts.
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    They are taking 90 hp out of the top end V model, but if you put all wheel drive on the acceleration might not be that different. But really Cadillac isn't the performance brand of GM, Chevrolet is. This is the biggest mistake GM management has made with Cadillac. The Corvette should be the "everyman's sports car" and be priced at $50-75,000 with a V6 base and V8 option and I could see a 600 hp Z06 at like $90k as the absolute limit. Cadillac should have the $100k sports cars, the Camaro for example should stop at the 450 hp SS that loaded up is $50,000. If you want more power than that, buy a Cadillac sports coupe. But Cadillac doesn't make a sports coupe with over 450 hp because GM wants you to buy Chevrolets not Cadillacs. Makes ZERO sense.
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    You want another Mercedes SUV, they give you another SUV and Nurburgring tested to boot.
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    Do you know how many 500 hp cars are made by Acura, Infiniti, Lexus and Genesis combined? 1, the Acura NSX. Mercedes has 25 models with 500+ hp, BMW and Audi have many, even Alfa Romeo has 2. There is zero performance happening at The Japanese luxury brands and most of those “luxury” products are built on an Accord or Camry platform. In China the top 3 luxury brands are Audi, Mercedes, BMW and I don’t even know who is 4th but they are far behind. The Asians can’t even sell luxury cars in the biggest market in Asia.
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    Because a GLA is a size class smaller than the XT4. Mercedes puts a 503 hp V8 in their SUV most closely sized to an XT4. If Cadillac makes an XT3 I would have no problem with it being fwd. And I even said I get why the XT4 is front drive, they are going after Lincoln, Lexus, Acura buyers, or people trading up from a Terrain or Equinox and are Daimler with GM fwd handling crossovers. My problem is really more with the XT5 and XT6/7 that are front drive and can’t take a V8. Why is the Grand Cherokee the performance standard for an American SUV? Cadillac should hold that title.
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    This could be competition for Cadillac but I think more so Acura or Infiniti. Really the luxury segment has 2 segments, German: Porsche, Audi, Mercedes, BMW, (Rolls, Bentley, Lambo under German control too) and those that want discount Luxury and are not paying German pricing, this is where Cadillac, Infiniti and Genesis come in. But the previous 2 Genesis cars that undercut the competition way more in price than a G70 aren’t selling at all. The G90 is like 60% the price of an S-class and doesn’t sell, so how is pricing a G70 at 90% of a C-class make any sense? G70 might be a decent car but it doesn’t have enough motor to stand out and the interior still looks weak to me, like worse than the ATS which is dated and has a bad interior.
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    If Cadillac had put these crossovers on a rear drive chassis then you could have the 550 hp V8 in the XT5 and even XT4. Now I think demand for a V8 XT4 would be tiny, so I would understand making that a front drive crossover for the sheeple that buy $40k small crossovers. XT5 and up should be rear drive all the way so they can put a V8 in there.
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    They could get rid of Dodge too.
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    The new A-class sedan which is a size smaller than this has a better interior, and all they have shown is the 200 hp version but the 300 and 400 hp versions are coming next year and will be faster than a G70, I don’t know about handling. But this is Genesis’s C-class competitor and the difference is drastic. First off the C-class has a better interior than a G90 and the C43 will out perform this thing and they have a C63.
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    The new A-class sedan which is a size smaller than this has a better interior, and all they have shown is the 200 hp version but the 300 and 400 hp versions are coming next year and will be faster than a G70, I don’t know about handling. But this is Genesis’s C-class competitor and the difference is drastic. First off the C-class has a better interior than a G90 and the C43 will out perform this thing and they have a C63.
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    I don’t understand why Chrysler is still here? They can move the Pacifica to Dodge and kill the grand caravan and call it a day. An Automomous EV van makes a lot of sense for a ride sharing company that just picks up and drops off passengers places, but consumers would not buy that vehicle, a ride share company like Uber would so the vehicle brand makes no difference.
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    GLA, CLA or any A-class/B-class is 4 cylinder only. The Metris is 4-cylinder and any “300” model is 4-cylinder. 400/450 models are Six cylinder and 500s are V8s.
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    The problem I see with this car is the interior, it looks like it belongs in a Sonata and not a luxury car. I have not sat in one of these, I have sat in the G80 and G90 and the materials and build quality have a discount feel to them. They want BMW money for the G70 but you aren’t getting BMW interior and build quality and you aren’t getting the BMW badge. And yes the badge matters. They probably need a $5k price cut as the car is now, but I imagine there will be incentives on these and you’ll get dealers selling at $5k off sticker which could make it a good buy.
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    The problem I see with this car is the interior, it looks like it belongs in a Sonata and not a luxury car. I have not sat in one of these, I have sat in the G80 and G90 and the materials and build quality have a discount feel to them. They want BMW money for the G70 but you aren’t getting BMW interior and build quality and you aren’t getting the BMW badge. And yes the badge matters. They probably need a $5k price cut as the car is now, but I imagine there will be incentives on these and you’ll get dealers selling at $5k off sticker which could make it a good buy.
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    So this signals that the 550 hp CT6 will be the top of that line which I assume means the CT5-V will get the same 550 hp engine. I think Cadillac’s low sales volume on sedans/coupes hurts their ability to do a lot of performance cars or high performance cars. The CT6 is a car that might sell 20,000 globally per year, and the V-series might be 1,000 per year, so how much time and effort are they going to put into that.
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    Because it is a weak turbo 4. The Silverado even has a turbo 4 now, there is no need for a V6 in a family sedan, they just make the car front heavy and no faster than a good turbo 4. And the CLA45 does 0-60 in 4.1 seconds of something in that range, that is faster than a V8 Lexus GS-F. If GM put their engineering hats on they could turbo 4 stuff like the Lacrosse and Acadia, he’ll they have a non-turbo 4 in the Acadia now. A six cylinder in today’s world should be nearing the 400 hp level.
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    They have to get battery price down which is part technological advancement and part economies of scale. There isn’t enough economy of scale of $75k SUVs though. Bolt has the same problem, it is near $40k for something the size of a Chevy Sonic. They need about 20% price drops on these EV’s to get them selling.
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    Almost all those cars are lousy. You can put 300 hp in a front drive suv because they are so heavy it will reduce some torque steer but most of those 300+ hp vehicles are all wheel drive and the CLA is a 4 cylinder with more power than the V6s on that list so you don’t need a V6 for a front drive car. The other issue is that NA engines are becoming obsolete, everything is getting turbocharged and electrified to the point in the 2020s the vehicles with 6 cylinders will be large trucks and performance cars. In addition I think turbo 3’s will become common place for small cars.
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    Sounds like FCA heard Mercedes was doing this, and said “well they know what they are doing, let’s do the same thing” It does make total sense though, you don’t need more than 275 hp in a front wheel drive car, the chassis can’t really handle it, and you can get to 275 hp with a turbo 4 or hybrid, etc. Over 300 hp is going to be a rear drive vehicle and the inline six makes the most sense for that.
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    How much would economies of scale help battery cost? Even Tesla is producing maybe 20,000 cars a month vs GM or Toyota making 600,000+ gas engines a month globally. They need more volume on these EV’s it seems.
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    I bet $100 to a donut there is a Hellcat version.
  22. smk4565
    It seems pretty impressive, Audi has base and Premium trim cars, I imagine after a year a more base model at $69,900 will show up. It looks good, in and out, I still think Mercedes should price theirs at $70k and just undercut this thing.
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    Of course they are making an SUV. They could probably make 2 of them. The V6 is going to be the Alfa Romeo with a hybrid electric motor I assume, that has been rumored for a while with 600 hp. Mercedes is throwing down the gauntlet with their hyper car so will be interesting to see how Ferrari responds.
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    Motor Authority has a spy photo of the EQ S, but it is so heavily wrapped up you can't tell anything, I tried to post it but it didn't work.
  25. smk4565
    They can make a better EV if it is on a dedicated EV platform, then they can get more space inside and have a flat floor, rather than something with a transmission and exhaust tunnel. Plus you get a front trunk for whatever that is worth, the EQ C doesn't have that. I think at some point the lines will merge when there is no more gasoline car. I could see the 2027 the S-class becoming EV only, and then phase out the EQ S at the same time. Unless that doesn't happen until the 2030s. What needs to happen is the AMG version of these electric cars.
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