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    Good power, performance and range but it all comes down to what it costs. i like the wireless charging feature also. If they can get this SUV near GLE money they are in good shape. The exciting part about this is Dr. Z said there will be electric sedans, wagons, coupes and 2 and 4 seat convertibles. Makes me wonder if they will use the EV car platform and build C, E, and S class sedans/coupes with basically the same interiors and bodies but with a different drive train. Dr. Prof. Thomas Weber also confirmed that Mercedes has a Hyper car in development.
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    373 miles of range is outstanding, but what does that cost? All EVs come down to cost, if it costs $50k, no one is buying it. If it costs like $29k, this could be what the Beetle was for them 60 years ago.
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    I have said this about the Mustang and Camaro also. If the Camaro is $60,000, it isn't really a Camaro anymore. The Camaro used to be priced like a Malibu or Monte Carlo, it is was middle price Chevy, not they want Cadillac prices for it. If you want a $60,000 sports car that is why the Corvette exists. It would be nice if they offered a cheaper sports car if they are going to push Camaro and Corvette up market, but at the same time, sports car sales are dropping across the board, so it probably isn't worth it.
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    They keep increasing power to levels that are beyond what a pick up truck needs and are getting more into medium duty commercial truck area. So what does that do to weight and cost of the pick ups? There is a point when it is senseless, if the Silverado HD diesel is like $70,000, doesn't really matter if it has 1,000 lb-ft if no one can afford it.
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    It's crazy that these pick ups have over 900 lb-ft of torque now. I remember about 15 years ago when a Silverado or Ford diesel truck had like 450 lb-ft and that was considered a lot.
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    Makes sense to do this, if a dealer is selling 3-4 cars per month, that isn't a viable dealership. Better to buy those out and make the remaining dealerships nicer. As far as travel goes, once you buy the car you don't really need to take it to the dealer for service. Aside from the independent shops, and Midas and Mienke and Monro type places there are a lot of service options. Plus you could take your Cadillac to any GM dealer to fix since the 2.0T, 3.6 V6 and 6.2 V8 are GM corporate engines, nothing in there that a Chevy mechanic couldn't fix.
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    I don't think they need more range they need lower price. Is the Bolt better than the 2018 Equinox? The Equinox looks better, is larger, has more room, better interior. There is a small percentage of people that will buy EV only, most are going to buy the best car for the money. Bolt still costs too much to compete with gas cars, but the day is coming when the EVs will take over.
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    Range isn't the problem it is price. When the car makers find a way to get price down the EVs will take off.
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    It is better value than those other cars for sure, but no one buys those other cars. Question is if the Bolt better than a Camry that costs $10,000 less and have more room, and features and better interior? Or is the Bolt better than an Equinox or Escape that have more room and are $10,000 less. You have to convince people to buy a Bolt, I don't think just because it is electric is a reason that a massive amount of people will buy it. If the Bolt and Malibu were priced identical, I think the Malibu would still out sell it. EV gets mainstream when it is better than the gas car at equal money.
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    I think 300 mile range is plenty to quell any range anxieties and people can charge at home. They don't need charging stations in mass when you have EV's with enough range for 6-8 hours of driving. The EV marketers need to push the convenience of EV driving. They should be selling it as look how much time you can save by not going to a gas station every week. You can pull into your garage and plug it in, like you plug in your cell phone to charge over night. Simple. If you look at all the EVs on that list above and look at the price, there in lies the problem. Focus, Leaf, Golf are all $20,000 cars that are $30,000+ in electric form. Too much money for a compact car. A vehicle like the Bolt needs to be $27,500 before incentives before electric goes mainstream.
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    Clue is an awesome movie that I have seen at least 20 times. 200 miles is a lot of range. 99% of people don't drive 200 miles in a day. 238 miles would take easily 4 hours in the car to achieve, and that is at highway speed, in normal around town driving probably 8 hours. If you drove 238 miles a day, 6 days a week, you'd drive 74,256 miles per year. No one is doing that. People with range anxiety at 230 miles are as insane as people that think they need a 4-wheel drive truck to drive on a gravel driveway or through 1 inch of snow.
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    smk4565 replied to ocnblu's topic in Cadillac

    Waking up a sleeping driver is a good idea, that is why Mercedes came out with that in 2009.
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    Rumor is that Mercedes is working on a boxy looking GLB crossover to slot between GLA and GLC. That would give them 10 models of crossovers, SUVs and wagons. Also debuting at the Paris motor show was this Pullman Guard that goes on sale in January for $1.56 million. Dictators rejoice!
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    So are the only places to ban Tesla sales Michigan and North Korea?
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    It is much better looking than the current Equinox, the current car has dopey looking headlights. Even though this has a strong Acura/Honda vibe from the headlights and grill I like it. Good engine choices, I doubt many buy the diesel but it is worth giving it a shot, 3 engine choices is better than 2. downsizing it was an excellent idea, the Equinox now is like Edge size, it is a foot longer than an Escape or CRV. Now they can slot a crossover in between Equinox and Traverse.
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    That won't sell here. I am not even so sure it will well in Europe where crossovers are heating up, but Europeans are more likely to buy a wagon, so maybe this will appeal to them. All they did was lift the suspension 1 inch and put some gray plastic on it. Seems pointless to me, but it isn't like it cost them anything to do this, and maybe they are trying to keep the wagon body style alive.
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    A unique EV platform makes the most sense, trying to convert a gas engine platform to EV doesn't work. The Bolt is so small though, there isn't really much else they can build off it, a subcompact sedan won't sell, and they already have a Trax, unless they want a Traxx EV that looks like a Traxx but is a Bolt underneath. Cadillac should develop an EV car platform to replace Alpha, they could build the ATS and CTS replacements and XT3, XT5 all off that one EV platform. They could put 4 EV Cadillacs out around 2020, let a 2nd generation of gas powered Alphas live on until like 2024 until it is time to kill it off. At Cadillac's price point you don't need to worry about value shoppers and can focus on performance and technology.
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    Passing power and highway merging power is more important than 0-60 I'd agree. And my car never really feels fast at all, but the speedometer tells a different story.
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    This reminds me of when Tucker tried to get up and running in the late 40s. (which is a good movie by the way) The Big 3 did everything they could to pressure lawmakers to block Tucker at ever turn, and Tuckers car was at least a decade ahead of what any of the Big 3. They got their protectionist laws back then, although it only delayed the inevitable until the 1970s when Toyota, Honda, Mercedes, etc came to the USA and cleaned their clock.
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    The Model 3 is supposed to do 0-60 in 6 seconds. Of course that is their claim and we don't know what the actual car will do, but 6 seconds puts it in line with ATS 2.0, C300, 328i, A4 etc, cars that are around $40k. If it is sized like those cars and performs like them, Tesla can make a compelling argument.
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    The dealership laws are mostly pretty bad. The idea that a company can't sell direct so we can protect another business line removes competition which isn't good. Tesla will still cars online and get people to drive a couple hours to pick it up. GM and Ford and their dealers are scared, if they weren't they wouldn't care, but hat 1950s and 1960s thinking of protect Detroit and keep all other completion out thinking still exists. Instead of seeking government protection how about spend those lobbying dollars on building better cars.
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    I have to imagine the average income of a Tesla buyer is over $100,000, they don't need a tax credit to make the car affordable. I read a survey that said 89% of Tesla buyers would still buy the car even if there was no tax credit. Chevy buyers look for a deal though, it is a value brand customer that wants cash back or a low lease payment. A Bolt with no incentive is a hard sell, Tesla doesn't need it.
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    Tesla has sold 110,000 cars world wide through the end of 2015, but only about 60,000 of those cars have been sold in the USA. Ford and Nissan have used more EV credits than Tesla so far, in 2017 maybe Tesla passes them up, but GM, Ford, Nissan and Tesla will all run out of credits around 2018, then they have to sell without help and compete with their gas counterparts head on. Good news is Mercedes has 191,000 tax credits left for S-class and GLE plug-ins, although you only get $4,040 credit for those due to battery size.
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    Lexus did pass up Mercedes, and they do have solid reliability for sure. But people here always claim that no one wants an old Mercedes, yet 70% of 20 year old Mercedes are still running, while most brands can't crack 20%.
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    I would take the C300 over any other coupe in the segment, but if I was picking a different coupe then probably Infiniti Q60. It looks decent, and even the 400 hp TT V6 is $52,000, so I could get that with no options or a loaded up 300 hp V6 model. I don't care for Audis, buzzy motors and VW clone styling. BMW styling inside and out does nothing for me, even though they make a great inline engine.
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