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I have driven the 3.6 with and without DI in the CTS, but that was before the LFX upgrade. I thought the problem with the engine was above 4,000 rpm it sounded harsh, thrashing and wheezy almost. It was like the engine was resisting higher revs and made a lot of unpleasant sounds so you would slow back down. It is a far cry from a BMW engine. In regard to the 2.0T, reviews of the ATS say that engine feels more like 230 hp than 270 hp. So you wonder if it really has 270 hp to begin with, because the 328i outruns it with ease. But BMW engines are severely under rated in horsepower. I think Cadillac needs and all new turbo 4, all new V6, all new turbo six and all new transmission. What they have isn't matching up to the Germans. Which is a shame because the car magazines love the ATS's chassis and rip it on engine and transmission.
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Looks pretty much like the same car, with the same formula. Somehow after 25 years of complaints, they will still mess up the interior so they will only sell these to the same group of 55+ year old males that are loyal to the car. The Corvette is like the Cadillac Deville of sports cars, GM is so afraid to change it because they don't want to alienate the "traditional buyer" yet sales keep dropping until one day it becomes irrelevant.
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Ugly grille, and all they did in the back was flip the tail lights upside down. Underpowered as well, I think this car is about to get left in the dust by the European big sedans. The Europeans have more fuel economy and more power to offer.
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Opel/Vauxhall News: Opel Reveals A New 1.6L Turbo
smk4565 replied to William Maley's topic in Opel/Vauxhall
Encore and Verano need that, and optional for the Cruze. Then Buick at least has some separation from Chevy, rather than having the same powertrain.- 12 replies
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Cadillac News: GM Announces A New Global Head For Cadillac
smk4565 replied to William Maley's topic in Cadillac
Ferguson said they are looking at a flagship model, what are they still looking at or considering? All the big boys have one, if you want to play with them you need a super sedan. Another 2-seat sports car? Here comes XLR 2! -
I gas powered turbine would be even more compact. Electric cars just don't work right now, if/when the batteries and recharge abilities get better and cheaper then maybe they will catch on. But until you have electric cars that perform better than gas ones at less cost, people won't switch. People won't leave what they know for an unknown or unproven. This is why 87% of Camry buyers buy another Camry and the other 13% die off.
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It isn't so much the exterior size, but the interior room that matters. People will buy small cars, especially as big cars get more and more expensive and gas goes up. But I think the Encore doesn't have enough to justify the price. Do people really want this over a Mini or VW product that have a bit more cool factor than a Buick? Or a CR-V or Escape that have more room and power for the same price. Tough sell for Buick here I think
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Cadillac News: GM Announces A New Global Head For Cadillac
smk4565 replied to William Maley's topic in Cadillac
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Disappointed, but how can they not be surprised? You take a car that is smaller, less practical, less attractive, no more luxurious, and worse performing than an Altima, and charge $36,000 for it. Not surprised that it didn't sell well. I am almost surprised they were able to sell 5,000 of them. But now it gets tougher, the green freaks wanting to make a statement already bought one, so now they have to convince the general public to buy one.
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I bet the A-Team has the lead for most rolled Jeeps. That show wrecked a lot of cars too.
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You realize that most Jaguar, BMW, Mercedes and Audis have loads of low end torque. And the GM 2.4 liter and 3.6 liter engines make similar torque to the Asians, often at even higher RPM. But to your point, more gears should help to keep the engine in the sweet spot and get more out of it. The switch from 4-speed to 6 allowed for downsized engines, and the 4-cylinder replacing the V6 in many cars. I remember reading a while back that Mercedes thought 9-speed was the ideal and that 10+ was of no benefit, but of course they are making a 9-speed so that could be a biased point. I will say that the Mercedes 7-speed is the best transmission I ever experienced, so I suspect their 9-speed will be great too. Infiniti's 7-speed though is one of those gear skippers and it hunts for 6th or 7th to save fuel then throws itself down to 2 if you get on the gas, it makes for a jerky car to drive.
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BMW News: Rumorpile: 4-Series Means Coupes, Convertibles, and Gran Coup
smk4565 replied to William Maley's topic in BMW
4-series is dumb to me, just like Audi A5 is dumb. It should be 3-series sedan, coupe, convertible, wagon. Multiple body styles on the 3 as it is now. 6-series/Gran Coupe are niche vehicles anyway so I don't mind the use of 6 there, especially since it is more 7-series than 5-series now. Mercedes is going the opposite direction and I think for the better. C-class, E-class, S-class will all have a coupe, no more CLK or CL. Makes more sense. Much like Cadillac having CTS in 3 body styles makes sense, calling it CTS, CTC, CTW, or CTS2, CTS4, or something would be stupid. -
Bi-Turbo V6 Aluminum Body to cut weight. Oh wait, Ford already did that, but better late than never.
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It is still FWD and still not what a Cadillac should be. I don't think they could get it under 3200 lbs either with the Delta II platform with the added weight of the hybrid system. Unless they use carbon fiber body panels, but then cost is way up. Should just make a diesel ATS and CTS instead because right now hybrids and electric cars suck, unless maybe the top of the line Tesla model S or the Mercedes SLS AMG Electric Drive which has 740 hp and 737 lb-ft of torque and AWD. If Cadillac wants to build a 700 hp electric CTS-V I am on board for that.
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Maybe GM should spend some money on a new transmission then. And use bi-turbo VVT, DI, etc. No one is telling GM that they can't, shell out the money and build a new engine with all that stuff on it. We can compare the Bentley Mulsanne 6.75 liter bi-turbo pushrod V8 with the S63 AMG 5.5 liter bi-turbo DOHC V8. Bentley makes 505 hp, and 752 lb-ft put through and 8-speed transmission and gets 11/18 mpg. S63 AMG makes 564 hp and 664 lb-ft sent through a 7-speed transmission and gets 15/23 mpg. Both are similar in weight and the Bentley has an extra gear which should offset the weight advantage the S63 has. Perhaps the closest comparison is the Genesis 5.0 and the 300C because both have VVT. The Genesis is rated at 17/26, the 300C at 16/25 mpg even with cylinder deactivation. But again the Genesis has a better transmission, and the Hyundai 5.0 makes 66 more hp than the Hemi.
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And that engine is gone, the replacement gets up to 563 hp and 664 lb-ft and 15/23 mpg in the S63, slightly less power but 1 mpg more in the E63. The E63 gets 16/24 mpg now. The CTS-V gets 12/18 mpg with automatic and weighs 174 lbs more than the E63, so not really seeing the weight and fuel economy savings of the pushrod there. The sad thing is the CTS-V is the only GM sedan available with a V8 anymore and Ford doesn't have any. The V8 sedan is dying, outside of Mercedes where it seems to be alive and well. Even BMW is pushing the straight six all the up to $100k cars.
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Well i can see DOHC V8 having better image...but ..what else? What is there i can use in real live that DOHC v8 does better than OHV v8? Is coyote v8 better than LS3? Yes, best DOHC v8 engine is maybe better than best V8 OHv (but i'm still interested to know which are criterias) but how much does best DOHC v8 cost? Does GM has car in which they could put that engine and price it accordingly? Also,just to see which criteria do you consider important (i don't mean to be offensive just curious) here is a list of some DOHC engines..which one do you think is(just the engine not the car) better? And why? 5.0 l v8 TT from koenigsegg agera 4.5 l v8 from Ferrari italia 458 M838 TT from Mclaren 6.5 l v12 (L539) from Lamborghini aventador Synergy V8 AMG M159 AMG M157 Koenigsegg has the best engine, it makes 1,000 hp end of story. The McLaren V8 is impressive for the amount of power it makes from a small displacement, but the AMG M157 wins there. The AMG engine has almost as much horsepower but way more torque and is more efficient. The Ferrari Italia V8 sounds good, but I'd probably rather have the McLaren or Mercedes V8 instead.
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Hit the nail on the head. Not really, he hit his thumb. SOHC and DOHC are not equivalent and if you bothered to read the rest of the thread, you'd see how. I did read the rest, SOHC is worse than DOHC but no one really makes them any more either. But either way, OHC is better than pushrod, the example of the Crown Vic is because the engine was left the same basically form the early 90s. Comparing a bad SOHC V8 to the best pushrod on the market isn't really making any sense. That is like comparing the GM 3900 V6 to the Nissan GT-R V6.
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Hyundai had no V8 5 years ago and had to build one from scratch. And they built DOHC, they spent a lot of money on that engine, it could have been anything they wanted and they went with DOHC. The only reason GM and Chrysler still use them is lack of funds to design the replacement. I understand the argument of GM should continue to use the pushrod rather than spend the money to make a DOHC V8 from scratch at a time when V8s are dying, maybe it isn't a good investment. But I don't buy that pushrods are better, why doesn't Lamborghini or Ferrari use a pushrod V12 or V8 then? How are Lexus, Audi, Mercedes, Aston Martin, McLaren, Jaguar, etc all wrong, and Chrysler/Dodge and Chevy are using the superior engine?
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Hit the nail on the head.
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I saw 2 yesterday, although they were both beige, could have been the same car that I saw twice. The only weird thing about it is the hood looks really low and the trunk looks really high. Seems off in proportion. The LED lights on the front look better than the CTS's though.
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I never experienced a Rolls V12, but that car has loads of sound deadening also. But the BMW inline six is better than their V8 in a lot of ways. The engine is just so smooth, balanced, it revs easily, never sounds harsh. And it is good in a luxury car or good in a sports car.
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All of you that think you don't need a DOHC V8 don't own one. Once you get used to having a DOHC V8 it is hard to go to anything else. The only thing I have driven that is better is the BMW straight six, that is the smoothest engine out there. Fuel economy concerns though will push the DOHC V8 crowd like myself to DOHC V6s, possibly with turbo or supercharger.
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At the way the market is moving away from V8s, there might not be much need for one anyway. The Corvette loyalists will buy it whatever the engine is, although Corvette sales are shrinking and the fan base getting older and older. Pick-ups will sell with anything due to so few brand options, and the V6 will become more common there anyway. And the Cadillac flagship will be DOA anyway, and that is the only car that really needs a DOHC V8. The CTS could use one since the E-class and 5-series have one, but they will sell the CTS at a discount to compensate for lack of a V8, much like Audi and Lexus do. And that is why the E and 5 combine to sell 9,000 a month and the A6 and GS sell 2,000, with a smaller profit margin to boot.
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If the Encore were a Verano based crossover with the 2.4 liter and the same price point, it might sell. But did Buick notice that this has a higher base price (though slightly lower loaded price) than a Volkswagen Tiguan? And did they notice that the Tiguan even in base form has the award winning VW/Audi 2.0T engine with 200 hp and 207 lb-ft @1700 rpm. 138 hp vs 200 hp, really? And I think the Tiguan has a better interior also.
