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  1. smk4565
    Well these new Shelby Mustangs are too high like in price, the 4 cylinder ones and even the 5.0’s that are $40k are in line with where Mustang should be. Trying to sell Mustangs for Corvette or 911 money is stupid, at that point make a Shelby sports car that competes with the Nissan GT-R and that crowd.
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    I don’t think the Corvette should stay at the same price I think it should stay in the same place in the market. Much like the Miata or Mustang since they came out have been in the same place in the market. Prices obviously rice over time. What I don’t think they should do is move the Corvette up market into the $100k plus range into Audi R8 or Aston Martin pricing because the Chevrolet dealership experience isn’t going to be the Audi or Ferrari or Aston Martin experience. And it would go against the Corvette’s mission. Cadillac exists for a reason, expensive cars should go there.
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    I think they should build a Cadillac sports car above Corvette even if it doesn’t sell just for brand image. I would build it if I were in charge at GM but I am not. My point isn’t hat statement was more about how many V8 CT5’s would they sell in today’s market where sedans aren’t selling. I also said the CT5-V should have the blackwing V8. But they might sell 500-1000 Blackwing CT5 per year, and I think GM just doesn’t care about selling that little of volume when they can put money behind the crossover of the month and sell 100,000 of those per year. Which is why Cadillac needs rear drive crossovers because a Blackwing V8 SUV would out sell a Blackwing V8 sedan.
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    Which Corvette was priced even money with a Ferrari or Lamborghini?
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    Mercedes isn’t doing what Lincoln, Rolls do or what 90s Lexus did in being all about comfort. They have always been about engineering, safety, technology and they mostly built Autobahn cruisers. Buying AMG 20 or so years ago and now having the best racing team in the world has let them make performance cars in addition to the same car they always had. Cadillac doesn’t have a brand identity. They have a 5800 lb truck as the symbol of their brand then make a compact rear dive sedan and claim every gram of weight matters and weight savings was #1 goal, huh??? Why aren’t their sedans roomy and comfortable with a lot of torque like an Escalade is? This strategy of cloning a 3-series and cloning a Lexus RX hasn’t worked because it leads to no focus, no brand mission.
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    If Cadillac goes all luxury (like Lincoln) then they don’t need a sports car. But if they are going to play the performance luxury game like the Germans then they should have a sports car. And yes the Corvette has been expensive, $30k in the late 1980s and $39k base in 1999 which both are like costing $60k today. I get they aren’t attainable for all, $60k is an expensive car, heck $35k is a lot for a car. But the Corvette was never priced like an exotic, they were always in range for middle or upper middle class, you didn’t need to be in the top 1% to afford one.
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    We shall see, but I have said for over a decade that Cadillac should have a sports car above the Corvette. I am also a believer that the Corvette should be front engine, rear drive, turbo V6 base, V8 Stingray/Grand Sport and 600 hp V8 Z06 as the range topper and that would live in the $50-90k range against Supra, Boxster/Cayman, Jag F-type, etc. Corvette should be an attainable sports car as has been it's mission since the 1950s. Then give Cadillac a $100k + sports car that is above the Vette, give them 2 if you want, but the ultimate GM performance car should be at Cadillac. The one way I would disagree is if Cadillac were to go to a Rolls-Royce style mission where they are not about performance and don't want to be "sporty" and are solely focused on being about comfort and luxury and pillow ride. If that was the brand mission then a Cadillac sports car would make no sense. I also think Performance crossovers will be on the rise because crossovers are what people want, but people will still want horsepower and performance. That is where the market will go, millennials won't buy sports coupes when they get older and have the disposable income, they'll buy stuff like a Macan or Cayenne because want a sports car, but they need "active lifestyle" crossovers to never haul crap they don't have or need a 3rd row seat for that 1 time a year they have to take their 1 kid's friends to Cheek - E- Cheese for a birthday party.
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    CT4-V and CT5-V should be the blackwing V8. The "V" cars they introduced the other day should be V-sport or the sport trim engine, although I hate the term "sport" as a trim level (at least when written on a car), that is something you see on a Camry or a Crossover, you don't see a Mustang Sport or a 911 Sport because people know it is a sports car, they don't have to advertise it.
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    Me thinks that GM thinks Chevrolet is the performance brand at GM. I don't expect much from these higher performance V cars, because GM plays everything really safe and how many high performance Cadillacs would they sell? I think they just want to build more crossovers like Trailblazer and Encore GX instead because that is what people buy.
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    Good post. And I think a lot of the current Cadillac line looks like it was designed by the same people that design Chevrolets. And they shouldn't look anything alike.
  11. smk4565
    Well SUV is the bulk of the market. You have to do more to stand out in the SUV crowd when there are so many. I think it will actually be easier to sell sedans in the 2020s from a competition stand point because most brands will only have maybe 2 sedans and 7 crossovers, so if you want a sedan, the choices will be much less, they'll get sales by default.
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    This country has plenty of our own problems, drug addictions, gun addiction, I could go on and on. And central American countries have problems too, yet I don't see us spending a trillion dollars there to fix help fix them like we did in Iraq so weapons contractors could get wealthy and we can save 50 cents a gallon on gas. Blaming Mexico for problems is a lazy excuse for our own issues. And I haven't seen any joint plan by USA and Mexico to clean up all the drugs, gangs and mess in central America in the past 20 years either.
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    And what about XT4, XT5, and XT6, which is the volume of the Cadillac brand? Those are front wheel drive. Although I do think they can drop the CLA, it is too similar to the sedan. The GLB will be where the volume is, since crossovers are what sell.
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    Well it is the same car, the CLA is the coupe, and A-class is sedan and hatchback. I don't see how giving buyers 3 body styles instead of 1 is a bad thing.
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    So if the CT4 is priced below the A-class, is Cadillac competing with Toyota and Ford too?
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    They have been making the A-class for 20 years. CT4 has the same chassis and same wheelbase as the ATS, so it must share something.
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    It has been know that CT4 and CT5 would replace them for a long time, probably a Johan idea. These were the Johan cars the Johan supporters said would make Cadillac beat the Germans. I am not really sure why the Cadillac brand is still here outside of the Escalade. The rest of the line is awful.
  18. smk4565
    They probably recycled the ATS chassis and wheelbase and the body just has more overhang. Which is fine, nothing wrong with the chassis. CT4 is bigger than a C-class, but priced like an A-class, which also is probably a good idea to give more size per dollar than the others.
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    No price too steep to stop rapists and murderers flooding our streets. ? China will be the world super power within 20 years. They have 1.5 billion people, and they spend their money on infrastructure and technology and not wars in the Middle East.
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    Who knows if there will be a more powerful version than these. GM can say that now, doesn't mean they will build them. If these cars don't sell they may not bother to put a bigger engine in. This CT4 seems to be a refreshed ATS, I would like to see the actual dimensions and weight of it. I am also curious on the price, and how Cadillac came up with this strategy and direction for these 2 cars.
  21. smk4565
    I said peak horsepower at 5600 rpm is low for a sports car. And yes 6100 rpm is low for a DOHC engine. Regardless they replaced a 640 hp engine with a 355 hp engine and a 460 hp engine with a 320 hp engine. I remember 5 years ago when people ripped a 375 hp AMG in a car smaller than the CT4-V, yet no one says this dilutes the V brand.
  22. smk4565
    6100 is fine, just on a sports car I would have thought it a little higher.
  23. smk4565
    I would love to know what these 2 cars weigh.
  24. smk4565
    Exactly right. Because either cost of goods goes up 5% and American consumers pay more, or companies like GM take a 5% hit in margin, and most auto companies are running 5% margin anyway. He could impose a 50% tariff and immigration would not change at all. Even more stupid is the fact that we need more workers in this country and aren’t letting them in.
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    The LFX V6 Cadillac uses now makes peak horsepower at 6,800 rpm with a 7,200 redline. Which I must say is rather high, because who drives at that kind of engine speed.
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