Drew Dowdell

If it's just a VE, why would they even need a powertrain mule?

With this and the Aura.... it's getting a lot harder to justify the money for a CTS. The Caddy better be a knock out!

higher res and park them closer together...

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This is important: So if you want the 4cylinder and 6-speed, you can have it, just have to pay a lil more for it.... which is fair.

You guys are jerking off over this interior?!? It's a poor rip off of an Equinox!

If it only gets 12mpg... then, yeah, ghey

I'm going to point out that you might just have an issue with BMW's system. Honda came up with a camless, valveless "valve train" that looks astounding. Instead of the traditional valves and camshaft, Honda placed a single ceramic tube above each cylinder bank. Through this tube was carved holes. As the tube rotated the hold would line up with the intake hole or exhaust hole in the top of the cylinder. The result was the complete elimination of all reciprocating mass from the valve train. This made the engine capable extremely high RPM <a Honda favorite>. The downside was that eliminated the possibility of using VVT, another Honda favorite. I believe in the end, emissions issues killed the project for production car use, but Honda is/has still pursued this technology in racing.

Apparently most of this MCE is going to be on the interior. I hope they move the stupid cruise control location. It's exactly where you'd expect the tilt wheel control to be and it's not easy or intuitive to use at all.

For me it's not the engine technology but the interior bits that are annoying. iDrive, NAV, Bluetooth, etc.

Caddy is a global wannabe. I wouldn't judge Europe's reaction to the BTS as an indicator of it's reaction to Cadillac as a whole. It was up against the 9-3, 3-series, C-class, A4, Passat, yet it didn't even have a diesel option.

He did post this as a question. He asked the question if anyone else has noticed Camries being fleeted. The point here is that GM admits that it fleets it's cars. Impala won Fleet COTY award twice in a row. We know this. We accept this. Toyota on the other hand has been treating the new Camry as the second coming of Christ. With the Camry you get a police escort and a marching band procession with Richardo Montalban carrying the Motor Trend COTY trophy and telling you what a wise purchase you've made while you walk to your car. It's PR hype. But if the car gets this much hype, why is it being fleeted.....apparently extensively?

it has a Velite rear end?

If DOHC is such a savior, fine interiors such a savior, why is Olds where it is today?

I think that would be the distinction between Flagship and Halo. The Allante was never the Cadillac flagship even though it was the most expensive, that title was held by the Seville for the past 30 years until the 2nd gen Escalade.

Now that Pheaton is gone, the Tourege for VW The B9-Tribecca for Subaru Enclave for Buick QX shares the title with the Q... Escalade for Cadillac Navigator for Lincoln

Most likely.... but there would<should?> be minimal investment. All the changes should be behind the C-pillar. If you get an additional 8k sales globally, well, that's 8k more CTSes that you hadn't sold before.

this post just proves that we have to stop thinking in "USA only" terms. Sure the CTS wagon might not sell great here, but sales in Europe and Asia would likely be outstanding if the rest of the car is right. We want GM to be a Global player... well they need to start acting like one.

Fly tries a new method to protect his Aurora from the onslaught of Toyotas.

That's called shifting the blame. The Cheeseburger didn't attack the fat guy and shove itself down his throat. You can't blame your own lack of willpower on your parents.

SRX?

It's hard to lose money on a car with tooling that goes back to the 70's, but if anyone could, I'm sure it'd be Ford.

right.... that double bacon cheeseburger and fries march up to people's office every day and forces itself down their throats.....

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