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  1. smk4565
    Generic, forgettable styling. Build an EV, and put this to rest. The original Insight could hit 70 mpg, I bet this new one can't with 15 year newer battery tech.
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    Carl Benz invented the automobile. Here is the patent from January 29, 1886 to prove it.
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    They should stop production until June 15th.
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    It is bigger than an Encore, it is as big as an E36 3-series and those sold well. A lot of people will think the car is too small, but some people won't mind or will want a small car if they live in a city. This car has outstanding value I think. I'd rather see the CLA die and the hatchback replace it also.
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    How could Mercedes benchmark Cadillac or BMW when Mercedes invented the car in the first place?
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    The X1 and GLA are $500 apart in base price and base price with all wheel drive. Direct competition. The X2 is the answer to a question no one asked. This is as bad as the 4-Series 4 door coupe which was just a 3-Series sedan with a 1 inch wider track. No wonder Mercedes beats them all the time.
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    But they have an X1 to do that. They need 2 products to compete with the GLA? Plus the X2 is $5k more than a GLA, what a ripoff that is.
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    Yes, the problem with CT6 to E-class comparison is there is no 600 hp CT6, and why is Cadillac trying to build a full size car at E-class prices when the CTS isn't a mid-size car for 3-series prices at $36k. The CT6 coming out at $56k immediately was Cadillac admitting that their full size car wasn't as good as a Lexus LS, 7-series, A8 or S-class. And then they got 3 sedans within $10k price of each other which is pointless.
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    Agreed. The names aren't the problem the cars are, or were in case of the 2000 Catera. I actually think if you had 2 identical cars, one named CT4 and one named Catera, the Catera would sell better. Look around global luxury, Phantom, Ghost, Aventador, Hurcan, Panamera, Cayenne, Bentayga, Urus, Vantage, Rapide, Ghibli, Stelvio, just to name a few. Loads of names on global luxury cars.
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    The new A-class has a pretty good interior, it is better than what the CLA has. I think this car looks better to, they should just kill the CLA all together and sell the A-class sedan. They don't need both.
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    I still don't get the point of this car, other than the fact that they have X1 and X3 through X7 and had a hole to fill. An X1 with a lower roof? why?
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    Will it have over 600 hp like other crossovers have?
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    Because the CT6 is Cadillac's flagship full size car and the $10,000 cheaper XTS has a V6. The CT6 should have had the 3.0TT V6 standard because that is what you find in a base model A8 or Lexus LS, and they should have had a V8 option. At very least the 3.6 V6 could have been the rental/livery spec engine if they needed a value leader at $55k. This is the problem with Cadillac and has been for years, they undershoot the competition and they always make this play as the value choice and water down the car with cheap door handles, cheap trim pieces, Chevrolet engines, etc.
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    Bottom line is in a couple years time, ever car magazine will compere the Mercedes E-class or GLE or GLS450, C43 AMG or whatever, to the competitors from Lexus, Cadillac, Jaguar, Audi and BMW, and they will all knock the V6s for how they aren't as refined, and say how the BMW doesn't have the fuel economy of the Benz.
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    Mercedes could sell flaming bags of dog poo as long as they have a 3-point star on them. The ATS isn't that good of a car, and more importantly Cadillac is a damaged brand that they haven't been able to fix 30 years of damage to. C-class, 3-series and Q50 are the top sellers of their brand and Lexus IS is #2 seller at theirs, I think the A4 is the #2 selling Audi. ATS is in the biggest segment of the luxury market and can't move metal. Keeping the ATS Coupe around a model year makes sense, they can probably build a model year's worth of them in about 2 months and have them so there is a 2 door option until something else comes along. Who knows on CT4, Cadillac seems to be giving up on cars, and just rebadging Chevy/Buick SUVs. Dropping the CTS makes 100% sense, there should have never been a 2.0T CT6 just like there never should have been a 2.5 ATS.
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    Well....... We know what the engine does in the Euro S-class, but that isn't an AMG car either. And I think the overall NVH, gas mileage, power output, etc, all together will make it the best 6 cylinder out there. Aside from the Mercedes-AMG 1.6 liter bi-turbo V6 with 750 hp.
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    On exterior dimensions the Passat is smaller than the Malibu, Fusion or Accord. There is no reason to make it Impala size so sales tank. The Impala, Avalon and Taurus won’t even be in production in 10 years. VW should build 10 crossovers before they consider another sedan.
  18. smk4565
    94.6 cubic feet interior passenger volume in a Cruze, 94.1 cubic feet in a Jetta. The Jetta has the largest trunk out of the Cruze, Focus, Civic and Corolla. The Jetta only gives up .3 cubic feet to the Malibu's trunk. The Jetta doesn't need to be any bigger. It is right there with every other small car. And there is for sure no reason to make a Passat bigger or to put a model i the large sedan graveyard.
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    Jetta and Passat have 8 inches in length separating them, 183.3 and 191.9. There is a larger size gap between Civic and Accord, Cruze and Malibu, and Focus and Fusion. And no brand is looking to add more sedans, Chevy and Ford are trying to have less cars.
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    Is there too big a space between the Cruze and Malibu? Ford plans on offering Focus, Fusion and Mustang as their only cars. Golf is a classic VW so it stays and Jetta and Passat is all the sedans they need. They are building that Aerton thing but it will be a sales bust. I don’t really think they need the Beetle, the current one isn’t the cheap entry level car the original Beetle was, the Polo is now that.
  21. smk4565
    Golf, Jetta, Passat and about 6 crossovers is their path to success.
  22. smk4565
    The white car in the picture looks large, the Jetta should be a small car, not a mid-size car. I am surprised it doesn't look more like a 4-door coupe, since car companies think that is what people want. So while people flee sedans like crazy for a more practical, more cargo room SUV, the car companies think the way to make a sedan more desirable is to cut the roof line so there is less space and it is less practical.
  23. smk4565
    Well that bi-tubo V6 goes back to 2014 model year in 329 hp guise, the E43 396 hp version came out for 2016. The business case is that it is cheaper to make I-6 engines because they make hundreds of thousands of I-4 engines and 75% of the parts are the same, so they can buy in bulk and build on the same line, etc. Economies of scale are better. And sure they have to meet emission laws, but that is good, they have an engine that emits less C02, uses less gas and makes more power. Road & Track from the Euro-market S-class with this engine, it made 435 hp 0-60 in 4.7 seconds and they said it can shut the engine off during coasting not just stop lights, and the start stop is unnoticeable, zero shake or vibration. They were very impressed by it.
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    We don’t know any specs of this engine or the E53 and CLS53 but we do know horsepower, torque and gas mileage will be better than what is in the C43 and E43 now. That is why I am excited, the E43 (which has won comparison tests) will have had 2 model years and they will replace with something better. The CT6 twin turbo V6 came out at the same time as the E43, we the CT6 get an all new engine next year? Will the 540i? Is the Lexus GS even going to be in production next year?
  25. smk4565
    These companies can’t wait to put in their advertising how they use environmentally friendly Tesla trucks to ship goods. You watch, every Fortune 500 company that ships things by truck will buy them because they want to show how sustainable their methods are.
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