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  1. smk4565
    Lexus has about 400 dealers I believe. Maybe Cadillac can sell some of their buildings to Genesis.
  2. smk4565
    They need crossovers in a bad way, crossovers are really the bulk of $30-60k vehicle sales whether they be from a luxury or non luxury brand. Getting that product mix right is step one, step two is the product. Their powertrains are dated, the G90's interior is at best on par with a C-class, and they lack any performance vehicles. I am not saying they can't do it, but they have to elevate their game and spend more money on product development. And that is where all these wanna-be luxury brands fall down. They don't have the volume or profit margins to justify spending $2 billion on developing one car, so they cut corners all over the place and it shows.
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    Cutting from 350 dealers to 100 doesn't sound like a growth model. I get that they want their own dealership to make them seem like a stand alone brand and have the separate experience. But they need more models and better models if they want this to work at all. They could spend $50 million on a dealership building with a $100k a year salary chef providing gourmet lunches to service customers, but if the G80 is what they are selling it isn't going to make a difference.
  4. smk4565
    The Camaro and Mustang have a back seat though, not offering a back seat in the Z has been a sales killer. Pricing a base model Z 4 or 5 thousand dollars above a Mustang is a sales killer also.
  5. smk4565
    The problem with the 370Z is the price. And it always has been. The convertible has no back seat, the coupe I can't even remember if there was a back seat some years, if there was it was probably too small to use. So it is too small also. And it isn't cheap like a BRZ or Miata, they want V8 Mustang money for a smaller, less powerful less equipped car. The Z could work with a base 4 cylinder for $24,900 with a V6 model at $28,900
  6. smk4565
    Right, everyone craps on the CLA, which the CLA45 can dominate any Acura outside of the NSX. Acura's so called "precision performance" can't even beat the bottom feeder Mercedes. I am not buying FWD performance is on par with RWD.
  7. smk4565
    I got it! The RS1 , which will undoubtedly be a VW Polo GTI with 4 rings on the front.
  8. smk4565
    This isn't hard to figure out, build electric sedans in small and medium size that look like any other 3 or 5 series. Build compact, small and medium size electric crossovers. The i3 is hideous looking, the i8 only looks remotely good because it is a mid engine super car, but compared to other mid-engine super cars it is ugly too. You know why the Electric Mercedes SUV looks like a GLC body with a LED grille vs some weird spaceship lookin car? Because people buy GLC's and GLE's and they don't buy i3's or i8's.
  9. smk4565
    They have an RS Q7 in Europe, so that would be easy, they probably figure and RS6 would eat away at RS7 sales.
  10. smk4565
    I guess the RS6 is the missing vehicle. Unless they go with an RS Q7 or RS version of the new Q8.
  11. smk4565
    I did wonder why not put the navy seats in front because those will get used more, and put the white seats in back where they will get less abuse.
  12. smk4565
    But Acura’s commercials and tag line say “Precision Crafted Performance”. They are stating Performance is their #1 attribute. If they want to play that game then back it up, the RDX’s German competition has a 500 hp twin turbo V8. And they don’t have rear drive so whatever horsepower they put in a TLX is pointless it will just be an over powered Accord.
  13. smk4565
    I think the interior looks great, I like that it is different, who says the front and rear seats have to be the same color. Not sure about this coupe Range Rover idea and that sort of defeats the purpose of a fancy back seat of you can’t get to it.
  14. smk4565
    So at best, Acura is going to have the equivalent of a 2013 XTS V-Sport. Way to move the needle Acura. I bet the press release about SH-AWD and PAWS will leave out the 60/40 weight distribution. Everyone has AWD, the difference with Lincoln or Acura is the chassis and weigh bias.
  15. smk4565
    I can't wait for a twin-turbo V6 in a front wheel drive sedan, that will be exiting, they will put the Lincoln MKZ on notice! Because nothing screams performance more than front wheel drive. Here is how sad Acura is at performance, the fastest version of the TLX, has the same 0-60 time as the slowest Mercedes GLS.
  16. smk4565
    But an electric XJ is probably 3 years away, the Porsche Mission E will be on sale before that and the other guys will probably have one in 3 years also.
  17. smk4565
    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.
  18. smk4565
    Diesel is the past, electricity is the future.
  19. smk4565
    "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.
  20. smk4565
    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.
  21. smk4565
    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.
  22. smk4565
    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.
  23. smk4565
    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.
  24. smk4565
    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.
  25. smk4565
    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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