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  1. smk4565
    They want them super expensive because it is easy profit margin. Chevy could put a 490 hp Corvette engine in a Colorado/Canyon and charge $65,000 for it as Cyclone or SS. Easily can add $20,000 to the price and beefing up the brakes and suspension 15% and going from V6 to V8 probably costs them $5,000 so they clear $15,000. As long as people pay big money for trucks the manufacturers will keep making them more and more expensive.
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    I’d bet on Elon Musk before betting on anyone running GM, Ford or Excellious or whatever the hell the company that builds the Ram truck is called. Elon is worth $76 billion, GM’s whole company is worth $42 billion and Ford is worth $27 billion. So Elon must be doing something right. Also the billionaires on Wall Street aren’t billionaires by betting on losers and they have bet on Elon. And Ram will make some nice short term profits off the Hellcat TRX, but just all these Dodge/Chrysler products are really dated. At some point you need actual new stuff.
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    Surprised it took this long, for Botha Raptor competitor and for a Hellcat Ram. I think there is room for an off road Ram with less power at less price and also something more like the Ram SRT-10 that was a more road focused truck with the Hellcat. Also don’t know why there isn’t a ZR1 engine in a Silverado, it is easy to drop in a big engine and jack up the price and people will pay it. Of course is Tesla can pull off the Cybertruck then all bets are off.
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    I am excited for it. Will be nice to see some new entrants and cars that the rest of the world gets that we don’t. And Citroen and Peugeot make crossovers too.
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    Correct on the 7:48 time for CLA45/A45, I think I miss read something. But that would beat a current CT5-v in a battle of similar priced 4-doors. Maybe, but those Broncos will be a hot item, they’ll sell for over sticker the first 6 months, Ford will have the 0% financing and cash back offers on F150 from day 1. The average incentive on a full size truck in the USA is around $9,000. They aren’t discounting Broncos I know that.
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    Steve Carlisle has now said under $60k for Lyriq. Moving people from Chevy to Cadillac is great for GM maybe not great for the Chevy dealer if they don’t have a Cadillac dealership. I have a coworker with a 2015 F150 who is really interested in the Bronco. That might be a move across rather than move up but I think there is a good amount of move up within a brand.
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    Sure they move up within a brand. Escalade buyers never owned a Cadillac before? Impala or Equinox don’t pull buyers from Cobalt, Cruze or Malibu? If any brand is letting all those 3 year lease return customers go out the door instead of moving them up through the brand or at least keeping them in brand, they are not doing their job.
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    Rumor now is that the Lyriq will start under $60k. That’s a good move but we still need to see the final version. But price is key to this car, they have to make the pricing look like a good deal to get people to buy a Lyriq over an XT5 or a rival brand’s product. And maybe GM is willing to lose money on them because they need CAFE numbers and want to keep cranking out Silverados and big SUVs, and the CAFE helpers like Sonic, Cruze, etc are gone.
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    The CLA goes to over $76,000. And the CLA45 does the Nurburgring ring in 7:42 which is the same as the estimated time of the 640 hp CTS-V so it no doubt would spank the CT5-V. If we do get a Blackwing CT5 I imagine it will edge out the CLA45, but not the bigger AMG’s.
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    The CT5 starts $10k lower than the CTS, and it is 3 inches shorter which doesn't make much difference. The CT5 has roughly the same base price as a CLA, and a CT5-V starts about $5k lower than a CLA45. The CLA45 is also faster than the CT5-V in a straight line or around a track. So I wouldn't say the CT5 is in the E-class's segment, it it's a CLA fighter now.
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    I mean Cadillac with the whole line up spent the better part of 15 trying to copy the Germans and that didn't really work. If CTS and CT6 were successful, they'd still be here. And Germans again pretty much have the mid and large luxury segments to themselves, with the exception of the tiny volume of Genesis and Jaguar and the Lexus LS, since GS is dead.
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    What car designers don't seem to get is people started walking away from sedans to get SUVs because they wanted more cargo space and more head room. So their answer to make sedans desirable was to make sedans lower and sleeker with sloped rooflines, and then more people left sedans for SUVs. Now they are making the SUVs lower and sleeker with sloped roof lines, next people will go buy vans since SUVs will have useless back seats and cargo room. And come 2030 we'll see the new Ford Transit Fastback Coupe combing the utility of a van with a attractive fastback design of a 68 Mustang.
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    I meant Cadillac's whole brand market share has shrunk over the past 15 years in the USA. CTS-V and CT6 are now gone, so I guess they have 0% market share against 5 and 7-series and E and S-class. Now that the luxury market is 70-75% SUV, performance SUV is going to be the measuring stick, and Cadillac doesn't have a player there. Essentially Cadillac is back to the 90s with a slew of front drivers pitted against more agile, better handling rear drive Europeans
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    Cadillac didn’t steal any market share, they have less now than they did in 2005. And Cadillac left the middle and upper sedan segments and now compete with CLA and C-class. If Cadillac’s strategy had been working they wouldn’t change leaders, change the names, change the product line, etc every 5 years.
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    Cadillac tried that strategy 15 years ago and it failed and they keep going for it and kept failing. I want a Nurburgring carving auto, but most people don't buy cars like that. And Porsche, BMW and Mercedes already have that market covered. Cadillac needs to forge a new path. Cadillac spent 15 years trying to be German, failed at it, time to try being American. And interestingly enough the only successful product they made in the past 15 years is the most American and most like an old school Cadillac. With an aging population (and an overweight America) I think cars/SUVs that are easy to get in and out of (proper ride height) that are roomy and glide over bumps in our deteriorating roads and have good torque for smooth acceleration would do well. EV's give you torque, roomy and quiet interior, so going al EV gets them half way there, if they can put together the other half and get the marketing. Because not only has it been a long time since I rock and rolled, it has been a long time since Cadillac made a good ad.
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    Cadillac cut ELR, XTS, ATS, CTS, XTS, SRX and CT6 from their lineup over a 4 year period. That is 7 model lines and they are still in business. I think Mercedes will survive cutting SLC and coupe/convertible body styles from the C/E/S class. Especially with rumor of a CLE coupe/convertible coming to back fill those cuts. And they are cutting cars that don't sell, and replacing them with things like GLB that will sell more units by itself than the 7 that got cut. That is a smart move and they are building what the market buys, which is why first half of 20201 they are #1 selling luxury brand. If Mercedes is hurting at #1, I'd hate to be the guys in 5th or 6th place.
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    They said all Cadillacs will be EV eventually and all EV Cadillac's will have an "iq" name, so I guess CT, XT will all be replaced. Not sure how they fit Escalade in that. Which is why these naming conventions are dumb and they should go back to names. Eldorado sounds a hell of a lot better tan Soniq, or Boutiq or Magnifiq, or whatever lame name they give to the electric sedan they make. Also this Cadillac trying to be urban and techy to appeal to millennials on the coasts or to build Nurburring corner carvers isn't working. Americans who buy Cadillacs want roomy cars, Cadillac built cramped interior ATS and CTS and scared them off, and they attracted zero German car snobs in the process. Roomy, comfortable ride, quiet, torquey should be the pillars of Cadillac.
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    All automakers platform share. Anyone that doesn't is a moron at business. And really Mercedes is cutting 6 body styles off existing models, but they added an all new GLB, are adding all new EQC, EQS, EQE, etc, so they are making new stuff. They need money to go after Tesla, and they don't need 6 or 7 convertibles in their line up when very few people buy enthusiast cars.
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    Elon Musk by himself is worth 3 times as much as the whole Hyundai motor company. I don't think Musk is worried.
  20. smk4565
    $81 is still far from $100k. And even if a loaded GMC Hummer is $100k, a G-wagen starts at $130k and goes to $200k. Why can't there be a Cadillac that starts at $130k or $150k? And if Cadillac isn't cranking out cars left and right at $75-100k, which they aren't, I don't know why you would try to go there with a GMC SUV. The GMC Hummer will fail hard if it is double the price of a Bronco which is a cool looking vehicle with a load of appeal. And GMC can try to go head to head with the Cybertruck if they want, but the Tesla fan base is near impossible to crack. And Elon Musk by himself is worth more than Ford and GM combined.
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    It says own brand. Hyundai - Ioniq - Genesis, just like Chevy-Buick-Cadillac. It also does't make sense because it makes Ioniq look like the future brand while Hyundai is the brand of the past. Why damage the Hyundai brand while trying to make a spin off cool? A possible reason for this, is the Ioniq cars are going to be expensive, like $60-70k for that Colt 45 concept in the picture, and no one in their right mind will pay $60k for a tall Hyundai hatchback. So they figure a new brand will work, but it won't if it is Tesla pricing because they aren't Tesla. Who will be first to sell the Idiotiq?
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    But GM/Cadillac don't have anything in the $100-200k range, and north of $200k the volume is probably too low to make it worth their while to do given the volumes they need on cars. And if Chevrolet has the best sports cars at GM, GMC has the best off roader, what does Cadillac have? The problem with Cadillac is they don't even have the best stuff at GM, let alone compared to Tesla, Mercedes or Porsche or Lexus. Taking Chevy SUVs and plussing them 20% doesn't make for a desirable brand and that is where Cadillac is right now.
  23. smk4565
    Too many brands. In 20 years every car will be electric, so making an EV only brand makes no sense, because then when Hyundai is EV only, Kia is EV only, and Genesis is EV only and Ioniq is EV only, you just have overlap. The other big issue is cost. They have to market an entirely new brand that people won't know, which will cost a ton of money because they aren't Tesla. Look at how much money has been spent on Genesis to get about 10% the volume of some competitors. It think it will cost double what Genesis cost to get going, because you are launched a new brand and trying to overcome EV vs gas also. The billions they will spend in marketing could have gone into product.
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    Sierra Denali starts at $55k. Maybe a 3500 dually diesel gets up to higher price. I am talking a vehicle with a base of $100k, GMC could never do that. And 3500 spec trucks with a diesel are not really a good comparison due to the commercial nature. I am talking passenger cars/suvs. Because there are Freightliner M2 106's selling for $150k and I wouldn't call that a luxury product, it is a commercial vehicle. If the Hummer is $100k and the Bronco is $30-50k, I can tell you right now the Hummer will last about 3 model years and be gone as fast as the H3T was.
  25. smk4565
    Because they never sold anything at that price before, even a Yukon Denali is $72k starting and that is pretty well equipped as is. Also Cadillac hasn't been successful with a $100k product before, so I don't see how a brand below Cadillac can pull it off.
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