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They already make a Blazer with a V6, and it's a bottom feeder in the segment. Plug in hybrid is almost also a waste of R&D dollars, you have to put all your R&D money into electric cars, or at least like 80-90% of it.

BZ stands for BZ stands for "Beyond Zero" to signify zero emissions. 4 is the size of the vehicle and X crossover. Because the BZ4X can be had in front drive. In theory a BZ5 would be a mid-size sedan, or maybe BZ5S, a BZ5X a mid-size crossover. But given that a Supra that is small would have to be like a BZ2C, a Tundra a BZ8T. This is all a mess as ultimately they just need to call this stuff Corolla, Camry and Supra, etc.

The GLB is the cleanest look and that is a converted ICE car, a clean sheet EV can be even cleaner with better proportions. But aside from the clean or simple aspect, GM just doesn't style cars well right now. Their interior dept. is still lagging what you find in comparable Kia/Hyundai/Genesis products at similar price points. GM's EV mission only works if they #1 can deliver on price promises like a $30k Equinox, and #2 they get their interior and exterior design departments going to build cars people want. Same goes for VW who claims they will outsell Tesla on EV's within 2 years, when their initial EV's are sales duds unless you count the Porsche Taycan and there is only so big a market for $150,000 sports sedans and they probably are quickly burning through that.

It has gloss black body cladding, which looks as bad as 90s Grand Am body cladding. It has scoops in the fender/front door area, a gloss black roof, they stole the Thor's hammer headlight from Volvo, unoriginal there. Blazer bumpers aren't actually like a bumper, they are 2 sides (the red) and a center piece which is black here, why isn't it just a bumper that runs across the car? It is an EV with big grilles and air intakes unless a lot of those are solid behind and not functional, which is almost even worse. The 2019 Silverado was also a design mess, the worst looking of the full size trucks. The Toyota EV has gloss black fender trim, GM is doing exactly what Toyota is, just like the Supra and Lexus cars with all sorts of unnecessary styling effects to try to make them look boy racer and stand out.

Ed Welburn retired in July of 2016, design has been going down hill since.

This Blazer looks a bit station wagony, but maybe it is just the angle the picture was taken at. I think this is over styled, Toyota and GM both are doing a lot of that lately, all these different pieces and parts of the bumper, the gloss black wheel arches and door trim, the black out roof, that big scoop in the door. It is overkill and this is going to age fast. It reminded me of 90s to 2000s Pontiacs where GM just threw hood scoops, cladding and spoilers on everything to make it look sporty or stylish, and it just got dated and bad looking by the time the car was 4 years old. Tesla's have a clean design, that's how the Model S can have 1 mild refresh in 10 years and still look modern. I think GM design fell apart when Ed Welburn retired. The Mach-E looks a lot better than this. I do think GM if they put out the right products could hit it big in EV's, because I don't think they will have the production issues that some others have had and can hit price points that others aren't hitting. They have potential, but the same people designing these EV exteriors and interiors are the same people that designed the the sedan lineup that is basically dead and gone, and all their uncompetitive crossovers that keep loosing market share to the Asian brands.

Let's see if they really go to that price point and really go wheel to wheel with the AMG and Maybach EQS. Although I still think the S-class is more luxurious than the EQS.

Sticking with the formula that works, looks similar to the current car. The interior is nice step up from the current car, nothing here is a surprise since the C300 has the same powertrain and interior. I think interesting is the C43 since it has a 402 hp turbo 4 that is hand built, air suspension, multi-clutch transmission and 4 wheel steering. That car is a lot more serious than the old C43 which is basically a C-class with the old E-class V6. So the GLC43 should be a really solid performer too. Not to mention the C63/GLC63 that are getting 660 hp, that blows away anything in this segment.

Agreed that they won’t make it. I suspect after 2025 the only car at GM will be the Corvette. Every ICE car they have is dead after this generation, maybe they will do a Cadillac electric sedan.

How many vehicles with a base price of $130k or more sell better? 2020-21 G-wagons are going for $200k on the used market right now. Demand is huge for it and Magna Steyr doesn’t have enough capacity to match the demand. The G-class waiting list is over 2 years long right now.

They should offer a solar panel as that roof rack since this thing will probably drain electricity and could be good for those off the grid types. This will sell like hot cakes as all G-wagens do. I think there is a 2 year wait for a gas G-wagen right now, this will have a long wait list too.

The Camry, Accord and Altima have global sales too, they will probably be around forever. I think the small sedans may stick better since there aren't really many SUV's at the $20k price point. It seems though that car companies just want to build high end models, and they can all go down that road, but someone won't and will get all the entry level market. The one thing that might bring sedans, or cars is EV's. Because the range on these boxy SUVs will be bad, so you might see more sedans, or stuff like the Kia EV6 or even Model Y which are more like tall cars with the bar of soap shape

Well I guess they could just call them G80 Electric, GV80 Electric, etc.

The GV60 is priced like the Lyric but is full size class (or 2) lower and has less range and horsepower. I think Genesis does a nice job with interiors, but they aren't Mercedes or Audi-level, so the Cadillac seems like the better deal between the 2. The GV60's size and shape seems aimed at the Model Y, although it is even smaller than the Model Y, and it doesn't have the Tesla mystique. I don't really see where the GV60 is a good deal long term, maybe year one it does well, but once the market floods with other electric crossovers, the GV60 could get forgotten. Genesis also backed themselves into a corner with their naming scheme, they have GV 60, 70, 80, 90. So what happens when they make a larger electric SUV? Is that a GV75? or a GV80-EV?

I think this is priced pretty well, and the AWD is barely an increase. Although we don't know how big the options list or how much that price may go up, but this looks competitively priced.

The turbo 4 has more torque than the 5.3 V8 so my guess is that V8 isn’t around much longer. Much like that Wagoneer V8 I think will be gone soon because the in-line 6 makes more power. All these V8s are probably dead by 2025.

Yes, the Hybrid Tundra has a big power advantage. But even the SR5 Tundra at $43k is 389 hp/479 lb-ft, you are mostly looking at Turbo 4 at GM, maybe the 5.3 V8 or Pentastar V6 at Ram or 2.7 Ecoboost at Ford at that price. Toyota kind of beats them all on powertrain now, plus it is based on the Lexus LS500 powertrain, so we know that engine/transmission has to be smoother and more refined than any other truck. GM sees spending money on hybrids as a waste of R&D, Mark Ruess said they want to put everything into EV. So I would imagine if you can still buy a gasoline Silverado in 2032, the 2.7 turbo 4 and 6.2 V8 will still be there.

I watched Mark Ruess on Outline the other day, he said if he got $1 for R&D, he is going to spend the whole dollar on EV's. So the ICE powertrains they have now are it until they are gone. Which is a good move if people adopt EV's quickly, bad move if people don't buy EV's and keep buying ICE cars.

Because the segment classification is C-segment, and E-class is Executive segment. And S-class is Sonder-klass.

3 mechanical locking diffs would be better, but for what these will probably be used for the off road stuff they put in them will probably suffice. These engines are getting dated, the Jeep inline six is 420 or 510 hp, I have to imagine that ends up in the Ram next year as the Hemi’s days are numbered. The Tundra hybrid has a big power advantage over the GM 6.2 liter as well. I don’t know if GM plans to do anything with these powertrains or just let them die on the vine and put 100% of what they have into EV’s.

This car looks better then the EQS and it is more aerodynamic so you can have style and aero both. I think this is a great engineering exercise and this tech will be a nice upgrade over anything in the market now. Question is how commercially viable is this stuff, anything from an F1 car is expensive as hell, carbon fiber is expensive. This is probably like a $250,000 C-class EV, but I think this car styling wise will lead to the EQ c-class.

So what does a Cadillac CT5 or Camaro do? What are they supposed to do with the drive axel in a rear drive car?

Maybe the OEMs will catch up. But Tesla sold 110,000 cars in the USA in Q1, Ford sold 6,700 Mach-E's, Kia 5,281 EV6 and Hyundai 2700 Ionic 5, VW with 2755 id4's. They aren't really threatening Tesla at all. Although I think for Tesla to hit 20% share, they can't have their cheapest Crossover be $64,000 and their base model a $48,000 rear drive sedan, because the snow belt will want AWD, and an AWD Model 3 is like $55k. They will have to come out with an entry level model to get market share.

Elon Musk said 20% market share is Tesla's target. Considering they have 2% market share now, that is 18% they have to steal from someone else. Some of these OEMs might merge or join forces out of need for survival.

Compared to this sea of monotone GM plastic, the BMW was better, although I am sure a 5-series cost more.