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  1. smk4565
    All cars have plastic in them. The C and E class in most comparison tests and reviews are said to have the best interiors in their class. The A6 is nice too, that is on par with the E-class.
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    YTD 3/4 series has 20,483 to 19,056 for the C-class. It isn’t too bad right now, last year 3/4-series beat the C-class about 75k to 60k. Which I agree is not good but Mercedes beats them in almost every other segment.
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    Well I guess we'll see how the CT5 sells against the "low quality" C-class.
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    I think the styling will impact sales more than the engine in this case. And the interior and the price.
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    BMW was never class leading, they have been in 2nd place (or worse) for the past 100 years and were almost bought out by the leader.
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    I don't know where all the hard plastics are on a Mercedes unless you are talking about a Sprinter or the wheel cladding on some SUVs, which isn't even on all of them, because most SUVs have body color fender guards. But the E-class does compare very well to a Camry, just as the GLS compares very well to a Tahoe, so compare away, Mercedes wins those all day.
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    Since BMW doesn't make their own transmission and they buy ZF units, I guess they will get 10 speeds when ZF makes it. Mercedes ran 81 billion simulations in 2015 and found that a 10 speed has no benefit over a 9-speed however. So they have already done ZF's work for them, no reason to make a 10-speed.
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    Cadillac needs to start comparing that CT5 to the ES350, MKZ, and Q50, hell maybe a Kia Stinger or Acura TLX. Change the narrative, they look bad in any comparison they do with BMW and Mercedes. And plastic on the C-pillar a la the Cruze is just terrible and shouldn't have black plastic on a pillar of a luxury car.
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    GM probably would sell it for $1. The building anyway, GM May want the equipment inside of it. But the maintenance, upkeep, security, utilities and property tax bill on Lordstown has to be huge. They are probably spending a million dollars a month just to hold on to it, which granted isn’t a lot by GM standards but still I am sure they want to off load it fast.
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    That is a big factory having driven past it many times, it can probably produce 500k units per year if it was running at full capacity. I don’t see how Workhorse would sell that many vehicles, even if they add a van to the mix with the pickup. That isn’t a good looking truck, it has a low EV range and a high price. If they make that truck $34,000 before tax credits, game on.
  11. smk4565
    Only the first car, the first truck and first van. Maybe the first supercar with the 300SL. The ML55 perhaps the first luxury performance SUV, Range Rover is really the first luxury SUV and there was the GMC Typhoon for putting a big motor in an SUV. Some props to the Grand Cherokee 5.9 Limited too. BMW X6 started the crossover coupe game.
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    Benz doesn’t think they can sell Benz diesels here, not sure why FCA wants to make a go of it. I am sure Mercedes would be happy to sell them engines though, I think their diesel sales in Europe are down, there is probably some factory capacity available.
  13. smk4565
    I think that looks like a Mazda or Toyota. Almost looks like a Blazer which I think is trying to look like a Japanese crossover despite the claimed “inspired by Camaro” statements.
  14. smk4565
    What is missing is a crossover coupe with a pickup bed behind it, like a Honda Ridgeline but with a 4-coupe front half. Even better if they make it mid-engined, which Honda could easily do a mid-engine Ridgeline with the engine in the bed area.
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    But they aren’t cool. Once Mercedes and Audi do it, the band wagon will start.
  16. smk4565
    High riding sedans will probably become a thing.
  17. smk4565
    Ran needs a midsize pickup and I could see room for a Promaster City based small truck.
  18. smk4565
    Haha, of course they are. Because nothing says “expressive design” like a crossover coupe. These things will be more common than a family sedan in about 3 years, then people won’t want them because they are too common and they’ll want a sedan to be different.
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    Corvette average buyer is fore sure over 60.
  20. smk4565
    Elon should just buy all 3.5 million shares. More importantly this company needs to sell cars at a profit.
  21. smk4565
    Wouldn’t surprise me if the median buyer age for a Camaro was over 60 either.
  22. smk4565
    Cheaper V8 and 10 speed with the V6 are nice updates. Styling tweaks don’t fix that this was never very good looking any way or that you can’t see out of it.
  23. smk4565
    Smart should be sold in 2nd/3rd world countries, where a cheap, small car is all they can afford. Or as an EV brand in China as a low cost EV for those that can't afford a bigger car because cars are pretty expensive in China. Outside of that, there is no point in the Smart brand.
  24. smk4565
    Chrysler had PT Cruiser, Sebring, 300, Town and Country, Pacifica, Crossfire, Aspen under Daimler, now they have 300 and Pacifica. Daimler didn’t kill those 5 models and not replace them, that came post Daimler. Chrysler probably thought in 1998 that Daimler buying them was god’s Greatest gift, they would probably have been bankrupt well before 2009 had Daimler not bought them. And if FCA was so cash rich as Drew suggests, why haven’t they put any SUVs at Chrysler?
  25. smk4565
    Daimler should have never bought them to begin with, Daimler lost like $20 billion on them. And the Daimler era got Chrysler the LX platform and the Grand Cheroke platform, which are like the only 2 Chrysler products that have done anything the past 15 years.
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