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Automotive News & Views Can GM make Cadillac the standard of the world Again?
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Replying to: cooterbfd (Feb 21, 2008 9:15 am)
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Replying to: sls002 (Feb 21, 2008 1:55 pm) I never used to like the SRX at first, but I do like it now. It is a pretty cool SUV. The HID is lovely, Nissan makes some pretty good HID as well I have seen the HID on the new CTS though and it does not look like the HID on other Cadillacs it is almost yellowish |
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Replying to: lykourinou (Feb 21, 2008 2:43 pm) |
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Replying to: bumpy (Feb 21, 2008 3:32 pm) |
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Replying to: lykourinou (Feb 21, 2008 2:37 pm)
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Replying to: cooterbfd (Feb 21, 2008 4:32 pm)
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Replying to: lykourinou (Feb 21, 2008 6:50 pm)
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Replying to: bumpy (Feb 21, 2008 3:32 pm) Three different lights: 1. Halogen (white/yellow) 2. Xenon (white/blue) 3. LED (white/blue). Most cars come equipped with halogen lamps. Some higher-end cars come with Xenon (same kind of gas in strobe light bulbs), and the highest-end, most advanced cars come with LED all-around (Most Cadillac and Lexus models). Since Honda is still in the stone age making cars with old, antiquidated 5-speed automatics and clunky, old SOHC powerplants that don't even have VVT phasing on the exhaust cam, we can expect Honda to add xenon headlamps to their lineup of cars around the 2050 model year. LED headlamps in Honda's have a year 2100 target date. |
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Replying to: cooterbfd (Feb 21, 2008 7:06 pm)
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Replying to: victrolajazz (Feb 20, 2008 1:39 pm) So indeed the Cadillac drivetrain was competitive for its time. What the America-haters ("General Motors made nothing but junk during the 80's while BMW and Honda marched on with excellent vehicles...") fail to tell us are these depressing facts. And these facts are that BMW was hardly the "Ultimate Driving Machine", with putt-putt's that barely coughed and sputtered out 120 horsepower, and the Honda Legend -- priced $2,000 more than the 1986 Seville redesign -- had 40 ft/lbs less torque than the HT4100, meaning it was even slower than the 1986 Seville or eldorado. I am not kidding and this is not a Photoshop. This jalopy is a BMW 5-Series sedan from the 80's. Utterly embarrasing in its cheapness:  Downright pathetic. The vinyl seats just scream cheap! So much for the mid-80's GM cars being cheap and the imports being the ultimate drivin machine... In contrast, the next photo is the interior of the 1986 Cadillac ElDorado, the car the America-haters claim is no good. Notice the advanced digital plasma displays, power everything and Driver Info Console. Even though this specimen is sure to have over 200K miles on the odometer, it still looks good:  Car and Driver's 10-Best in 1986-1989. Costs over $2,000 more than the ElDorado, but still manages to look cheaper and less luxurious. Still prettier than the BMW by a long shot, though, and also less expensive by a long shot, as well....  Since the Caddy wasn't any slower than these other cars, and certainly more substantial than either (especially that eastern Europe-looking BMW), why wasn't the Caddy placed on the 10-Best list instead of the Acura?
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