Its Orlove, what do you want?

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And with the headquarters moving away from the product to the marketing you will get cars that are ... marketing driven and derived. That is a recipe which has generally worked very poorly for car companies. However, it should make firing all the idiots easy when it goes south because they will ALL be in the New York…

Last I checked Mercedes, BMW, and Audi never had their global HQ's in Michigan. I don't care for the move at all, they cannot just distance themselves from Detroit and make it all better. Own where your from and don't try to be a cheap imitation, people well see right through it.

You beat me to it!

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Yes! I've been saying the same thing.

Does he remind anyone else of Ed Rooney?

No, they really shouldn't. Having two separate pipelines for everything is silly, wasteful and inefficient.

It's a move that makes sense if you're talking about industries where you have to have a lot of direct contact with the client, where there's an account manager who has to go schmooze high value people a lot. The cost of having the sales guys in the big international city promising random things without asking the…

they have a winner... sitting... right... there (gritting teeth) and yet they don't see it. Do they have Mr. Magoo in charge or something?

Engineering is still in Detroit.

Cadillac just needs to make the damn Elmiraj.

Sure, I pity the poor engineer's hurt feelings, but to tell you the truth, I also can't think of the names of any of Cadillac's engineers. Nor can I think of the names of any of Toyota's mechanical, nor can I think of the names of any of Volkswagen's engineers.

Pantera — hadn't even considered it. Excellent suggestion.

DeTomaso Pantera.

There is only one answer for the next car, Demuro.

And it's clearly not in Park, meaning no engine brake / transmission brake.

My first thought too, fakity fake fake.

There is no engine in that car. You can't crush iron like that. Plus, no fluids. Not even radiator coolant.