Suaviloquent

I think that it is a tactical move. MB prolly think that anyone with the means to buy the S-Class would buy the S-Class anyways. Anyone else that wants the prestige of MB, but now including the look of the S for all sedans...I think the E-Class LWB and S look alright on their own. Parked next to each other...it might be a shocker to the S owner seeing an E being such a close match. Then again...this is the new paradigm of design. Find one look, claim it, stake the whole brand on it, and then figure out how to make it wider, lower, shorter taller...

The long wheelbase E-Class is like just another nose job that Mercedes does from it's packages.

The President and CEO forgot to mention the huge decline in X5 and X6. My bet is that BMW is losing those sales to probably the Audi Q7 and Mercedes GLE.

Well, recently I had to draft up a liability waiver so...and there's a ton of things legal entities hide in the print or display aggressively.... Basically any attempt to pursue litigation in the case of negligence is waived. I even mentioned 'negligent rescue operations' from law enforcement. YA. Legalese. FUN!

Now the thing is....how many people driving cars that don't have any kind of autonomous driving or safety aids barrel (like collision alert or auto-braking) through an intersection without a stop light into the side of a tractor-trailer... to get a hair cut that such that the hair will never grow back? Probably tens, hundreds, heck maybe thousands of people every year in the U.S. alone. YUP. I think this crash was inevitable. I think drivers should heed what automakers say in the fine print - these features are driver aids, not drivers themselves...not now. Maybe not in a good while.

TRY NOT TO LOOK AT THE LICENCE PLATES PLS. YOU'RE GONNA DO IT ANYWAYS. EXHIBIT A: EXHIBIT B: EXHIBIT C:

CCAP GET ON YUR BIKESICKAL. SHIFT THEM METAL GEARS.

I think SMK doesn't consider the 2.0T a credible car.... So could the hybrid/erev be the car with a base price similar in tune to the what we think... I truly believe, Cadillac ...if they wanted to, could raise MSRP's across the board by a fair bit - because the value is inherent to the badge now for Cadillac cars too. But there's a big difference. The S-Class 550e has a turbo six and a battery pack, with not that good range. And there is only the V8 otherwise or then the AMG versions available here. The CT6 will have the four-cylinder with a much bigger pack for more EV range. It's hard acceleration performance should actually be above the LGX V6 IMO. Invariably...the S-Class 550e, while being priced like the V8...there's a lot of margin built into that car, plus tacked on options. So now, thank you Surreal, my logitech finally kicked in yo. The S-Class goes from a V8 to a turbo six with battery pack. That's a loss of TWO cylinders. COUNT'EM HOSS. Therefore, where can this same phenomenon be replicated in the CT6? Remember, CT6 PHEV makes 449 hp and an unspecified amount of torque as of now. And it is RWD, as is the S550e. Where's the matching performance? Well, only the TTV6 right now makes 400 hp. So the CT6 goes from a turbo 6 to a turbo four with battery pack. That's ALSO a loss of two cylinders. So...the plug-in should be priced like the TTV6. That makes sense. SMK you lost this one...

I've heard that there a 3 fatty acids. One is called Omega-3 Then Omega - 6 And then Omega - 9 By the way...when I'm done I want to be the anthropomorphic version of this. A fine specimen, with plenty of vengeance. The Master Suaviloquent. The script will be adapted for humans: THE WORLD'S FIRST SIR GENERAL MORON TESTED LIKE NEVER BEFORE. UNRIVALED INACCURACY RESISTANT TO TROLL LEVELS OVER 15000 (IT'S OVER 9000!!!!) OFFICIALLY CERTIFIED BY THE CHEERSANDGEARS INSTITUTE OF FITNESS

With the way that the CT6 is priced I think a 5k price spread a step up from "base" is totally fine. I would not consider the 2.0T a "BASE ENGINE" anymore. It has its advantages of weight and handling over the V6, and darn near the same performance. It's a Phantom. It exists because it exists yet again in a different context and different place. The 2.0T engine option has China to thank for it's existence, and GM decided there's no harm in having it available here - the supply of that engine is ready, and their platform is flexible. The Voltec system will prolly be AWD (unless it's not - please tell) and add some gusto to the car. I can imagine Cadillac finding a way to package the battery so that truck volume isn't lost...And remember, Cadillac is predicting a 35+ mile EV range. That's twice or three times anything PHEV or EREV of that general size. But really...it's a stretch to compare the top dog Mercedes (before the Maybach variants)...to a this adapted to be the temporary flag holder (Not flagship). Mercedes can do whatever it wants with it's pricing of that car...and by no means are they peddling the plug in as a value...because it gets piss poor EV range and piss poor mileage when the pack is drained. And the trunk gets truncated as much as if you had the wine cooler option. If the E-Class LWB was going to be sold stateside, I'd think the CT6 and that E-class variant they'd be at each other's throats - because the comparison makes a lot of sense. Otherwise...neat tangent into the CT6. But the 2.0T is not really a mistake for the CT6, because it came ahead of its time and wasn't what we all expected. But it's still a hell of a car. And I'd bang, OK? Not the hybrid though - that can stay in China.

I've heard of one being from Krill Oil. Is it BS?

Hmmm...Hmmm,,,,HMMMM...Noooo....MAYBE.. NAHHH I don't get it. I think Surreal and SMK have the exact same point/seem to be in agreement. SMK says make the hybrid the affordable choice. Surreal says it can be priced like the base model. They both achieve similar ends. Perhaps if the plug hybrid offers performance upgrades, it can still be priced above base, but below TTV6. Where is the disagreement?

Oh yes...and Happy Canada Day/What America wants to be Day.

So yesterday I could not really work out, but I did walk around for altleast 7 hours and did a storeroom clearout which involved lots of lifting, shuffling and stuff. Two weeks into the program, now I think I am conditioned to drinking more water often. I didn't get to drink any water during the 11:00 am till 4 pm....so my throat and skin felt dry the whole day after 1 pm. And drinking water would not solve it. But this morning I am fine. More question time. Are Omega 3 supplements good? If so, which brands can be trusted. And OLDS, another right time, right place moment...GIMME SOME GREEK CHICKEN RECIPE BRO.

Uh....you didn't call this. Absolutely everybody here found it quite stupid to offer the 2.5L in the Cadillac ATS as the base engine.

Well, better late than never.

It's the insurance companies. It's win-win. Higher premiums for less safe cars means people gravitate to higher safety cars when buying new or used. Higher safety cars themselves add more cost and compromise ... the cost of safety passed down into the purchase price, the extra tech options needs to overcome piss poor outward visibility, among other things...higher weight of more airbags...more weight or if in a performance car, extra cost of keeping weight low passed to consumer. And autopilot, NOT at all meant as a safety feature...now means Tesla insurance premiums will somehow find a healthy increase. And then...higher price car....higher premium - yet even though the car does its job better - reduces fatality...which means smaller payouts...repair coverage is easily favored over a fatal accident coverage... When they get to set the rules as to what makes a vehicle safe - they can perpetually increase the cost of vehicles, and the only thing setting things straight is that the manufacturers are becoming competitive as hell...

The real answer is gray. Different circumstance every time. Typical auto margins like GM or Ford are like 9, 10%. Bonus pay to exec's is almost always earned thorough options exercised to purchase equity below market value. However, having a large domestic parts content is still commendable. Huge multiplier effect...and all these companies eventually overlap suppliers. So I find it funny at times how American cars sometimes fail to have the high parts content we want, and how Mexico in some cases counts as "domestic". I'm not sure about what kind of deal design/engineering has - except the effects like manufacturing are localized at times. Like Ford's campus, or GM renaissance. But then again, we hear all the time how GM Korea for example did a lot of work for the previous Cruze, Spark and gamma crossover twins. Ford's Mondeo is an American car, designed in Germany, tested in Britain, built formerly only at a Mexican manufacturing facility for our domestic market.... Like where is the value captured for America when the only thing America gets is now the assembly and the profit... but everything else is lost. I think the Kogod study...I think...I may be wrong...please do call me out on it...but I do not think they make the distinctions that clear of what it actually means to have a car American engineered. and and yet fully American. Because I don't think the Malibu, for example was just designed by Americans for the rest of the world. Some input came from foreign branch locations. Yet as per Toyota's claim, they say...which you can place any weight on as you like, that their Avalon was fully designed and engineered in USA, and has a very high domestic parts content...and is exported as well. But then the vehicles that are high in the domestic content and local contribution to profit, and high white collar jobs are almost quintessentially American. Pickup trucks - the light duty and heavy duty are ALL big 3 middle finger time. Domestic commercial vans used to be big on local parts content, but Chevy hasn't updated or provided a true replacement for the Express vans (not the rebadged Nissan from Mexico); Ford imports the transit connect as a passenger car and then reverts it back to a cargo van, and the Transit is probably more Euro than American, and it's diesel engine is imported from Europe. All that being said. I would myself reject a Chinese made prestige or above car...especially if it's Buick, Lincoln or Cadillac. I think for the home market domestic consumption...all of those luxury cars should be made in America, and exported for the highest prestige cars at the very least. But we can't do that can we? I have nothing against this Buick, I believe it to be a benign car, fully better for the specific things a person such as DFelt's siblings would need. But I do not like that even before a Chinese built crossover is sold here by a Chinese company (large volume wise)...GM is looking to cash in on the crossover craze. And why not? Buick needs maybe 2 MORE. But I do not want to be a part of that, GM or ANY American luxury or expensive or TESLA...yeah even YOU... if assembled in China and specifically China (throw in India...Eastern Europe, Baltics...heck Japan)... will never find their place in any driveway of mine.

That light that shines on the tray below the screen...is a damn nice touch.

Wow....they didn't have this before? That's really late to the game to offer this perk.

Whoops DFELT... (ME AT MYSELF - ) I meants to say ....That guage cluster screen THO. Like lookit that. It's like the perfect marriage of digital and analog. The tach is a real needle...and then all them infos and techs and distractions are on a hi-def screen. Not just one. TWINS.... More automakers NEED this kind of copulation....errr...breeding....no...paid performances....

That screen THO....

YUP.

What I gleamed from the Fusion v. Malibu interior fight is this. The Fusion has more consistent materials in terms of graining, and has bigger patches of squishy stuff. The Malibu has smaller patches of the squishy stuff...but the squishy stuff is strategically placed and of a deeper squishyness. And the brown interior is a nice change...too many top trim interiors are now either parchment leather that will show age easily or teutonic black which just seems trying too hard to be cold and calculating instead of warm and inviting. And then the Fusion Platinum whacks every car that is supposed to have a luxury interior, but doesn't have leather on the dash or the doors. Sync 3 is now a match for Mylink...the 4G LTE is nice stuff, but the Fusion screen while capacitive now too is still matte. That was a good choice. Aside from that...the Fusion can have incentives to level the playing field for it's value. I like the front end of the Fusion more, but I like the rear end of the Malibu more. The side profiles are equal to me. They both use the same transmissions except the Chevy premier model, and similar enough engines, both have great hybrids.

Well the residuals for a typical lease length for the 24 or 48 mos is actually favourable for the GLC... But the GLC is fine and dandy...but IT HAS has this stupid thing. You turn turn off the engine, but before you press the park button, the transmission shifts to neutral. So on an incline, it's fricking scary to do a parallel park job. And they won't fix it even though CR reached them about it. What evs. My main issue with the this Buick is that it should be made in USA (assembled rather)....aside from that, it looks pretty good. But the exterior is lacking some pop, you know what I mean? It looks kinda bland compared to the Lacrosse....