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  1. smk4565
    After the MKZ becomes the Zephyr, the Continental takes over for the MKS, the Sentinel can be their biggest car, and here is the Mark 9. They build all these concepts then run a rebadged Fusion out there, gee I wonder why Lincoln is near dead.
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    Lincoln should build this: The grille needs reworked, but for 20 years ago, this is better than the crap they build now.
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    I don't see the point of the GLC coupe either, but dopes will buy crossovers no matter what, so I guess we are getting it. They should just let the S-class take care of the Panamera. The S-class is so good, I don't think even Mercedes could build a car that competes with it.
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    There was a Cadillac Aurora concept car around 1990. Cadillac could use Aurora, Seville, Fleetwood for their sedans, Eldorado for a premium coupe. Come up with another name for an SUV below the Escalade. Sounds better than CT3, CT5, CT6, XT3, XT5, Escalade.
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    The standard ATS is boring looking, the lower front fascia on the V makes it look a lot better. The hood scoop and spoiler are a bit too boy racer, the hood scoop reminds me of a 90s Firebird. I think a solid hood would have looked better. It would be nice for them to replace CUE and switch the instrument cluster to a TFT screen. I don't get how BMW once made the holy grail of steering feel and now they can't find it. The M3 still seems to get accolades from the chassis and overall handling. It will be curious when these cars end up in a comparison because the C63 has the V8 muscle but is 3,900 lbs, the M3 is only 3540 lbs so it has the weight advantage.
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    I am not really sure where they are going with this, because the CLS uses the E-class chassis, which moving forward will be on the MRA platform that the C-class and future GLC use. They'll have a CLS63 which is about a $100k car, that already sort of competes with the Panamera. The S-class has its own platform, and even though it is a luxury car, not a sports car, it still has the muscle to match up with a Panamera. The S-class already outsells the Panamera easily. The only way to differentiate would be to take the AMG GT and make it a 4-door, because that car is 97% aluminum and very light, but I don't think anyone wants a 4 door sports car, no one bought the Aston Martin Rapide.
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    Alpha numerics saved Pontiac, look at the success of G3, G5, G6, G8, oh wait, that didn't work. I wish Cadillac would use names, they could even source "Aurora" and "Bonneville" for entry level cars if they wanted to. Even though they weren't Cadillac names, they have been gone a while and are from the GM stable. Lincoln could use "Mariner" for the MKC to pull a Mercury name back.
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    Sort of like how American car companies have to rely on pickups and SUVs to turn profit, we know the Cobalt, Focus, and Caliber weren't paying the bills. VW brand does really well elsewhere in sales, just not here. Profit per car on a VW globally is only like $700, not that much. I don't see Peich just retiring to Austria to drive his Veyrons, the guy is going to come back with a vengence because he is a narcissist.
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    Peich doesn't seem like the type to go quietly. I imagine he will try to work up a merger or company split or something. He still owns 10% of Porsche and Porsche owns 51% of VW.
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    The G-wagon is mostly hand made Since the current assembly lines are tooled to make it. It is most a 1970s blueprint after all. They were going to drop the G-wagon 10 years ago but the fans wanted them to keep making it. The fan base likes the vehicle as it is, I think that is why it hasn't changed. Being mostly hand built and low volume jacks the price up, but the G-wafon faithful keep buying it.
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    Bring back the names, leave town car dead, but Continental, Zephyr, even Mark VIII would be way better. They have Navigator, might as well have an Aviator.
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    Any sedan, coupe or convertible Cadillac makes should have a V-series. If they have a rear drive crossover they could do one for that also. Definitely need it for the cars though. There may be an M7 coming, BMW needs it because Jaguar, Maserati, Porsche, Audi and Mercedes all had performance versions of their sedans. BMW missed their chance back in 1988 they built a prototype of a V16 7-series called the 767i and they never built it. That would have been the granddaddy of all sport sedans.
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    New look is awesome. Much easier to read and navigate. I like it.
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    My main points are that Cadillac has lacked consistency over the years, and they haven't progressed as they should have. The Northstar was a great engine for the early to mid-90s, but then they didn't keep updating it, and moved to the corporate V6 because it was easy to do. Marketing has been inconsistent, naming schemes inconsistent, and even now, the Cadillac company line is how every gram matters, cut weight, and CT and XT names are the way to go. But their most noticeable and most successful vehicle is super heavy and has a word name, and is not an XT8. It doesn't make sense, you can't have one strategy for half the line up and a different strategy for the other half. I still think Johan is over-confident and thinks a light weight platform and some turbo fours and sixes will defeat the Germans, but they tried that on the ATS and CTS, against old German products and it didn't work. Now the A6, E-class and 5-series are all getting replaced in the next year with a new model. Cadillac needs to go back to its Eldorado and Fleetwood V8 roots and be the American luxury car again. And I don't mean build land barges, but modern luxury with bold styling and big power, the way they used to do it.
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    When is the Escalade moving to Omega platform to save weight? They can drop that gas hog V8 and put a 2.0 Turbo hybrid in the Escalade and really stick it to the over weight Mercedes GL once and for all!
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    Weight savings are great, but imagine a CT6 with 400 HP base, and 500 in a V8 and 600 in a V-series, rather than 270 HP base, and 335 HP v6 optional and 400 HP V-sport or whatever. And I bet the coming V8 is V-series, because that will be the 5th engine choice in a low volume car. The new 7-series is losing 450 lbs and the E-class is losing 220, that starts to solve the Germans weight problem. The BMW i3 is light, only 2800 lbs, it must have the best handling and performance ever, it is 600 lbs less than an ATS!
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    By that thinking, the Corvette should lose the V8 in favor of turbo 4 and turbo V6 engines, because the Corvette is lighter than a GT-R or Mercedes SL, and the Corvette can do with less power. A 300 hp Turbo 4 would give the Corvette the same power as in 1996, and a 400 hp turbo V6 would give the same power as 2005, so that should be adequate, since the imports weight more.
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    Again.. irrelevant and wrong. Cadillac has a 420HP, 460 ft lb V8 in their most recognizable vehicle, the Escalade. They also will have V8 in the CTS-V and CT6. That still completely ignores the fact that their TTv6s from 3.0L to 3.6L encompass ground from 400hp to 464hp. Also in the 2007 Cadillac had a S/C V8 with 469HP and a N/A one with 403HP. U are ignoring all of that for the simpleton sake of your argument...again.. against anything positive from Cadillac I was only using base V8s to make the comparison easy. Because this is also about the mainstream engines, as the Northstar was main Cadillac engine of the 90s. Mercedes had a 622 hp supercharged V8 in the SLR in 2007, I guess I could compare that to the 469 hp Cadillac supercharged V8. But that wouldn't really seem fair.
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    Looks very Asian, the rear looks like a last generation Sonata. Doesn't really look like a Buick, just a mish-mash of Honda and Hyundai. Is that the American market car too?
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    If they took the V8 out of the Corvette in favor of a 2.0T base and 3.0 TT V6 optional, and made a V8 available only in the Corvette Z06, with claims of how the Corvette is low weight so it only needs 4 or 6 cylinders and not 8, there would be outrage. That is what they have done to Cadillac, ripped away the V8 and are claiming we have 90s V8 power just out of fewer cylinders. But the other luxury brands aren't making 90s horsepower. To my original point of how Cadillac has lagged in horsepower, let's look at BMW, Mercedes, Cadillac and Corvette V8s. 1988 BMW (no V8, only a 182 hp straight six or 300 hp V12) 1988 Cadillac 4.5 liter: 155 hp, 245 lb-ft 1988 Corvette 5.7 liter: 245 hp, 345 lb-ft 1988 Mercedes 5.6 liter: 238 hp, 287 lb-ft 1996 BMW 4.4 liter: 282 hp, 310 lb-ft 1996 Corvette 5.7 liter: 300 hp, 335 lb-ft 1996 Cadillac 4.6 liter: 300 hp, 295 lb-ft 1996 Mercedes 4.2 liter: 275 hp, 295 lb-ft 1996 Mercedes 5.0 liter: 302 hp, 339 lb-ft 2007 BMW 4.8 liter: 360 hp, 360 lb-ft 2007 Corvette 6.0 liter: 400 hp, 400 lb-ft 2007 Cadillac 4.6 liter: 320 hp, 315 lb-ft 2007 Mercedes 5.5 liter: 382 hp, 391 lb-ft 2015 BMW 4.4 liter: 455 hp, 480 lb-ft 2015 Corvette 6.2 liter: 455 hp, 460 lb-ft 2015 Cadillac: (no V8) 2015 Mercedes 4.7 liter: 449 hp, 516 lb-ft Cadillac lagged in the late 80s, but in 1996 BMW, Mercedes, Cadillac and Corvette were all about the same. By 2007 Cadillac was falling behind, then the just gave up on the V8. 20 years ago, 300 hp was a powerful engine, with inflation in today's numbers it is 450 hp.
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    If Cadillac grew horsepower at the same rate as the Corvette, then in 1995 a Seville/Eldorado had about 10% less power than the Corvette base model. 10% less power than a 2015 Corvette is about 400 HP. So the average Cadillac should have 400 HP. The 3.6 V6 could be base engine on CTS, the 400 hp 3.0 twin turbo the mid-level engine and the v-series the top. And they should have put that hybrid system on the twin turbo V6, why does Cadillac love 4-cylinder engines so much, put those in a Chevy. If the Corvette had a hybrid 4-banger giving up 100 HP to a GT-R or 911 and GM said the Corvette will make up the horsepower shortage by having less weight, people would be in outrage.
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    S-class sold 103,000 cars in 2014, its best sales year ever. I guess buyers didn't miss it. S-class hybrid has 436 hp now, much better than 335. My point was that Cadillac in the 90s had good power. An Aston Martin DB7 had 335 hp, a Corvette had 330, even the Ferrari 348 of the early 90s had 312 hp. Most sports cars were in the 300s. Pretty much every Cadillac was putting out power not far from the GT cars and serious sports cars. Only the high end exotics like the Viper or Ferrari 512TR could really blow it away.
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    What sucks is the Camaro will probably have better engines than this car. The Camaro will no doubt have more power than an ATS, on which it is based. If you go back 20 years, the Northstar put out 300 hp and a Camaro SS or Trans Am made 275-305 depending on the year, but that was a top end Camaro. And all the Cadillac sedans had 300 hp in an age when a Corvette had 330, a 300ZX twin turbo had 300, and S-class had 389, etc. 300 hp was a lot in the 90s. Now most Cadillacs have 270-330 hp, basically 90s level power and the rest of the market has increased so much.
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    I'd think twin turbo 4.0 liter. If they have a 2.0 liter turbo four and a 3.0 liter turbo 6, it only makes sense.
  25. smk4565
    The Mercedes V12 is Bin5 ULEV III 125 emissions rating so it meets California emissions for 2025. The S600 scores a 6 on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being an all electric, zero emission car, a CTS also scores a 6 in smog rating. The V12 will be around a while.
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