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  1. smk4565
    What I wonder is if this move has to do with CAFE? And will the Camaro V6 be replaced by the 2.7 turbo 4 and the Camaro SS get the CT5-V engine? Making the V8 Camaro only at the Z28 or ZL1 high dollar level. And I could see the 2.7 as the base Tahoe engine too. And if it isn’t about CAFE then are they moving Cadillac down market because the Malibu could be the only sedan GM has outside of Cadillac when they kill the Opel based Regal. And maybe they need sedans in that $30k- $40k range.
  2. smk4565
    The C-class, as with all Mercedes-Benz/Maybach are luxury first and then performance. A C300 isn’t a performance car, so 255 hp in there is fine for its purpose. And you can get 503 hp in there if you want. If Cadillac has world beater interiors and was selling ride comfort and hand stitched leather the power wouldn’t matter. Sort of what Lincoln is doing, they are trying to sell interior comfort and don’t care about performance. But Cadillac are selling V-series sports cars here with these engines.
  3. smk4565
    But you can get an A-class with 406 hp also and that is a tiny car. I am not against a 4 cylinder, CT4 and CT5 should both have standard 4’s because most people don’t care about having more than 250 hp or so. But these V-series are weaker than the ‘04 CTS-V by a good margin.
  4. smk4565
    The BMW M5 Competition has all wheel drive and the dyno test shows 617 hp and 606 lb-ft at the wheels. So that is 700 hp engine at the crank. Cadillac didn't have to remove horsepower to make them all wheel drive.
  5. smk4565
    And where are they doing that? There is no shortage of horsepower at Mercedes. They also didn't release an AMG E-class with 355 hp, well they did back in 1999, but they would not today.
  6. smk4565
    No, but most performance cars rev over 6,000 rpm at least. This isn't a Bentley Arnage.
  7. smk4565
    Oh you are right, it is a DOHC. I thought then it came out they said it was a pushrod, but that is my mistake. That is a crazy low redline for a DOHC engine.
  8. smk4565
    These will have to be cheap, there is speculation that CT4 will start in the low 30s for the base care, CT5 around $40k, and that V-series might add $7-8k on top of the sport trim pricing. But in the CT5's case you are paying $7k for 20 horsepower. And there will be a discount when they sit on dealer lots, so I wouldn't be surprised if CT4-V's are going for like $40k actual sale price and $50k on a CT5-V.
  9. smk4565
    Well that is what it is. A low revving pushrod 4 that has a 5,700 rpm redline in a freaking performance car! How is that Cadillac level refinement, or high performance? GM just can't help themselves, they will nickel and dime anything and they clearly don't care about Cadillac as a brand given these two vehicles.
  10. smk4565
    I imagine an XT4-V and XT5-V are coming with like 40 more hp than the standard car and they'll throw on a lot of appearance package stuff.
  11. smk4565
    First off neither of these look good. And does GM do an interior that isn't monotone gray? Every new vehicle intro is some bland form of charcoal gray on every surface, and the CT4 interior seems like it came out of a Mazda, not a Cadillac. A 4-cylinder pickup engine in a V-series Cadillac is a joke. 20 hp increase for the V-series means V is no longer for Velocity. They really phoned it in on these. It is almost as if they want sedan sales to tank even more so they can just cancel them all.
  12. smk4565
    I thought this car looked great when it came out, it looks way bland now. They were better off with that retro Jag look, at least it had personality. I think Jaguar sedans are pretty much dead, they can make it an EV but it probably won't be good as a Tesla, or a Mercedes or Audi EV so it could have the same problem. Jags are also small inside, somehow the XJ is more cramped inside than my E-class. Maybe with an EV they can get space, but they are awful at it now.
  13. smk4565
    BMW has an X8 in the works, (a 3 row crossover coupe I would assume) so there is no reason Cadillac can’t go XT1 through XT9. Other than the next recession that hits car sales and wipes all these overpriced crossovers out. When crossovers are as cool as minivans were in 2010, they will he discount them left and right and move back to sedans or some autonomous Pod with screens in it instead of windows.
  14. smk4565
    They could even do a Tahoe based Rainier Avenier and sell that too. At some point this crossover craze will come crashing down and I will love it. But that seems a way off, the Buick-GMC dealer stable could probably have 10 crossovers and 1 sedan in the showroom and the sedan would be the worst seller out of the 11.
  15. smk4565
    Enclave also went on sale before the Atlas, Ascent, Telluride, and Palisade hit the market. Now you have newly upgraded Mazda CX-9, Ford Explorer and Toyota Highlander too. And Pathfinder, Pilot, Traverse, Durango still in the 3 row space, with Jeep about to enter it. There are over a dozen 3-row SUVs in that $30-40k range starting price.
  16. smk4565
    I don't think they are worried about confusion when they have the Encore and Encore GX as 2 difference vehicles. I would have used Tracker here. Saved Trailblazer for a Jeep Wrangler/Ford Bronco competitor.
  17. smk4565
    It looks like a Volvo XC40 or that little Hyundai, I am over the "floating roof" already. Otherwise it looks fine, looks like a Blazer/Camaro for less money, looks much better than a Traxx. To me "Trailblazer" is better than "Blazer" so I don't know why they wasted the Trailblazer name here. Probably should have called this the Tracker.
  18. smk4565
    Buick could easily do an Envision GX between Envision and Enclave.
  19. smk4565
    Why didn’t they give it it’s own name rather than name it off the smallest car. That is worse than calling it Envision Sport. I imagine Buick will have no sedans post 2021 and will be all Chinese and Korean crossovers plus the Enclave.
  20. smk4565
    We all know you can’t kill a Toyota Hilux, maybe Toyota needs to advertise their durability more.
  21. smk4565
    There is no reason that Toyota couldn't build a chassis for the Tundra as good as F150 or Silverado's and this engine seems to be better than what anyone has now, and Toyota reliability is solid too. Toyota doesn't lack money or resources, they just don't seem to care about the Tundra, if they didn't, the 2019 Tundra wouldn't have the same engine as the 2007 Tundra.
  22. smk4565
    The G-wagon has 3 parts carried over from the old one, everything else is new for 2018.
  23. smk4565
    Tundra powertrains were born in the same day as dirt. They need to do something to to make their truck competitive and this seems like a good first step. What makes no sense to me is Toyota can win any spending battle they want with Ford and yet they let the F150 walk all over them.
  24. smk4565
    Renault has a pretty full line. They won't need Fiat, as Renault has small cars and small SUVs and commercial vans that they can co-develop the next generation Ram vans with Renault and sell those with different badges. Jeeps lets Renault strengthen their SUV line up if they need it. Dodge could be come the American version of Renault. Lot of possibilities here to merge the lineups and stream line it all.
  25. smk4565
    More and more auto companies will merge. I’d say this is a done deal and others will follow.
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