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Automotive News & Views Can GM make Cadillac the standard of the world Again?
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...that Cadillac doesn't think it is already back on top and starts to slack-off again. Cadillac's rennaisance began with the 1992 Seville and Eldorado. It still has a ways to go before it is truly world-class. Good signs: Cadillac CTS is a quantum leap over the abyssmal Cimmaron and mediocre Catera. The 2008 CTS looks even better. Hope to see it in the metal soon! Cadillac Escalade is still the King of SUVs. Much-improved interior in DTS but fix the dang steering wheel! It looks as out of place against that gorgeous intrument panel as a wheel from a Boyertown van would look in an Aston Martin. The Cadillac V-Series. Bad signs: The STS is an also-ran. Don't like it as much as the previous FWD generation. I was very disappointed in the new STS. I much rather like my older car. The DTS is still considered pretty much an old-school Cadillac. RWD or AWD would add considerable cachet to this model. And again - dispense with the cheap Impala steering wheel and bring back the automatic parking brake release! Cadillac Escalade truck - get rid of this stupid anachronism! It might've made sense back in the 1990s, but it's an embarrassment today. You don't see Toyota making a Lexus truck out of the Tundra! The XLR needs more development. It still comes across as a Corvette in a Brooks Brothers suit. |
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Replying to: lemko (Jun 29, 2007 6:03 am) I keep seeing an STS4 picking up the kid at summer school. What does the 4 mean?
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Jun 29, 2007 6:08 am) |
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Replying to: lemko (Jun 29, 2007 6:03 am) I think you're right. I talked to a guy last Sunday at Mesa Verde National Park. He was driving a new Escalade. I asked how he liked it. It was a rental and he loved it. Said it handled and rode better than his wife's MB S430. Best road vehicle he ever drove. He had flown into Durango and that is all that was available for rent. I would buy one if my wife would go along with it. I agree about the PU version being, Eh! Don't be surprised if Lexus comes out with a Tundra re-badge to compete. Their LX470 is all but dead and they do not have a large SUV to compete with the others. |
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Replying to: lemko (Jun 29, 2007 4:32 am)
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Replying to: sls002 (Jun 29, 2007 7:19 am)
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Replying to: lemko (Jun 29, 2007 7:25 am) |
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Replying to: lemko (Jun 29, 2007 6:03 am) Oh come on you can't really believe that can you? It is still at its heart a Chevy/GMC truck. All other Luxury SUVs in that class or price range, except for the Navigator, are not handicapped by a plebeian mass market platform. The Navigator is the exception to all of this but it is even worse then the Escalade. Everything else is some for of unibody platform some with subframes. Everything else is a fully independent suspension, many with standard air springs and some with standard adaptive air suspension. Many luxury SUVs now have a adaptive combination hydraulic/pneumatic suspension. The only thing the Escalade has going for it is the engine which is fairly impressive but with over six liters of displacement I would hope you could get at least 400 horsepower.
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Replying to: lemko (Jun 29, 2007 4:32 am)
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Replying to: fintail (Jun 29, 2007 9:51 am)
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