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This all comes down to Jaguar building a better mouse trap. Because the German trio are all making electric sedans too. Tesla is doing well because they are the only game in town right now. When there are 5 full size EV sedans on market, then it gets back to who does it best.
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Diesel is the past, electricity is the future.
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Infiniti News: Infiniti To Become Electrified Brand for Nissan
smk4565 replied to William Maley's topic in Infiniti
"Electrified" is a loose term, when a mild hybrid could count as electrified. I imagine 100% of cars sold by 2025 will have some sort of electrification. -
It is all new platform, and yes it should have way more space since it is basically like what Tesla has with the flat floor and all that. Rumor is 400ish hp and 500ish lb-ft of torque. What is interesting is I read the EQ C crossover is the size of a GLE which looks to be the case based on the size of the vehicle in the spy photo but then wouldn't it be an EQ E? or EQ GLE? A lot of speculation still on this thing. At some point these model lines will have to merge, because every Mercedes will be electric one day, not til the 2030s I imagine, but eventually.
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I believe the C3 and C5 Aircross would sell well here, the rest of their merry band of hatchbacks I don't think so, but these 2 would sell for sure.
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I thought Fiat had a pickup, good work on uncovering it. The Fiat Fullback: So they already make one, I don't see how Sergio can claim they can't find resources to do it.
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I would skip a midsize pick up and do a small pickup of which there are none on market. And couldn’t the Promaster city or some Fiat platform work for a pick up? Or use the Pacifica platform for a pick up like Honda does with Ridgeline.
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I think Citroen could do well. They focus on ride quality rather than Nurburgring cornering which makes them different than Germans and should appeal to the aging baby boomer population we have. Opel could do okay but I don’t know if they would have anything better or different than GM or Ford already sell here. And if you want to break into a new market you have to have something much better than what is already there.
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To boost sales every car should come with a free Sweater from Sergio’s Sweater Shack, offering the finest Italian made sweaters that are made in Italy.
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The base Mazda 3 has 150 lb-ft with a 184 lb-ft option and the base Jetta has 184 lb-ft. They might cost a little more but they are the same segment of car. Maybe they will put an optional engine in still.
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But it still has 132 lb-ft when others in the segment have 155-175.
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Why is the V6 here? The Turbo 4 has the same HP and more torque and better gas mileage.
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The inside looks nice for the class, it looks like a Mazda on the inside but that being said I would rather just have a Mazda interior. The engine here just seems way too lame. No torque tied to a CVT means this car will feel like driving a bucket of paste. Again the Mazda 3 has has more go and still gets great mileage.
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What does N stand for and how does it relate to performance?
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The grille is way too big and the whole car looks like a busy mess of lines and angles, you don’t need to crease and style every square inch of the car. I think the inside looks high quality, however it looks way too techy with that big screen and Lexus mouse pad thing. This whole car inside and out is way off the target market for this car, and they aren’t going to get younger buyers so they might as well satisfy the 70+ crowd.
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What new design language? It looks like the same Acura grille they have had and the back just looks like any other Mazda or Nissan with floating roof. Yawn, more generic styling.
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The mild hybrid system sounds awesome, perfect for a truck to add some extra low end torque when starting out. It is too bad it is coupled to the same V6 and Hemi that have been around for years. Oddly enough I saw a mid 90s Ram with the V10 Magnum badging the other day and remembered how it made exactly 300 hp which was a big deal when it came out, now a turbo 4 can do that.
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I like the interior, looks good for the class. The outside looks sort of like an Elantra but more boring.
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The twin turbo V6 in the CT6, if you make that a plug in you are talking about 450 hp, 500+ lb-ft of torque with probably double the gas mileage of the 6.2 V8.
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The old Silverado hybrid had a bad system ignored is like having a Nokia flip phone 10 years ago and saying it didn’t sell do smart phones won’t sell. The CT6 hybrid has 335 hp and 440 lb-ft of torque, I imagine that is better than the what the Diesel engine will do, and be much cheaper to run. And why couldn’t they take the 3 liter turbo V6 and put the same plug in hybrid system on it? That would mop the floor with the not so Eco ecoboost F150. However I get the feeling that GM will stick with the 6.2 V8 even when Tesla has a pick up that can tow 20,000 lbs and accelerate faster than a Corvette.
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450 lbs is a nice weight reduction, but I seem to remember the F150 dropping 750 lbs when it went aluminum so I am not sure how they stack up now. The larger bed seems like a big win. As I said in the F150 diesel thread, I think the opportunity is plug in hybrid or electric truck, because of the torque advantage and the fuel economy advantage to be gained over the other guys for whoever is first to do it.
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After seeing that MKX console a few times, that wouldn't look bad in a $27k Edge, in a luxury car it is just embarrassing.
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Cadillac News: Rumorpile: GM To Build Cadillac XT4 In Kansas City
smk4565 replied to William Maley's topic in Cadillac
And it did well from 2013-2016, and Subaru has done well in recent years. Fusion is now getting need of a refresh, plus it is large for some. When you look at the top selling crossovers like Rav4 and CR-V they are smaller than a Fusion, so maybe they need awd in the Focus too. I get that the masses want crossovers, but I think this is also in part because the masses want all wheel drive, and there aren't a lot of compelling sedans out there, the crossovers offer more luxury features and panoramic glass roofs and things. And sadly most people don't care about ride or handling. -
It looks pretty big, which makes me wonder still if there is a market for smaller size trucks. If this didn't have a Ford badge on it, I probably would have thought it was a Toyota. Ford needs this though, they are missing out by only having the F150, I think they will sell a lot of these for people that find the F150 too big.
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Cadillac News: Spying: 2020 Cadillac CT5 Makes Its Spy Photo Debut
smk4565 replied to William Maley's topic in Cadillac
If you want a sedan, it is getting more and more that way. Audi still sells a lot of sedans worldwide, and has a big following. Lexus does well with the IS and ES, they don't do well with the GS and LS. Infiniti has 1 car that sells in the Q50, although it does pretty well. Looking at the number of crossovers that sell in the $40-60k range whether they be luxury brands or a loaded up Honda Pilot, there are people spending that kind of money on cars, but not a lot of compelling sedans to steal buyers back. You have dead weight like the Acura RLX, Jag XF, Continental, the trio of sedans Cadillac wants to kill off, the Infiniti M56/Q70 that has been on the market 10 years, etc. There is opportunity here for Cadillac to build a winner and take some slice of the $40-60k segment, but they better do better than they did in previous efforts. And the problem I see is most automakers don't even care about sedans anymore, they just throw something out there for people that want a sedan and figure they can just push them with incentives if they have to.
