I want one!

Most manufacturers use fake DLO or glass treatments (not unlike the early 90s Fox Mustangs or Jag XJSes) to hide the hugeness of the pillars everyone has to put on their vehicles to meet crash regs. Mazda isn’t doing that. I like it.

It only looks like it’s too wide because most manufacturers today use a ton of visual trickery to hide equally thick C pillars.

They used to have one they shared with Ford at Flat Rock, MI.

The CT6 will continue to be built for the next 7 months, so they have until the 2020 model year to put it on something else.

In fact, the 5.3L Impala SS got to 60 no faster than the contemporary Camry SE V6 did.

The Bonneville came with the Northstar (as did the Lucerne), not the LS. The Grand Prix GXP, Impala SS V8, and LaCrosse Super ate transmissions like they were Skittles and were fast in a straight line, but in no other way. The 3.6L V6 they put in the Impala in 2012 made it just about as fast as the 5.3L V8 of a few…

That’s the opposite of the truth for GM. See: Fiero, Allante, Oldsmobile, etc.

You don’t think they’ll put SuperCruise on the next Escalade, XT6, and migrate it down to the XT5 and 4?

Lutz was gone years before the ELR launched. And no, a 200-mile battery would not have helped sell a Volt Coupe with a Cadillac badge on it for twice the price.

The county the plant is in (Trumbull) went for Obama by 23pts in 2012, and Trump by 6 in 2016. A 30-point swing.

The county the plant is in (Trumbull) went for Obama by 23pts in 2012, and Trump by 6 in 2016. A 30-point swing.

The county the plant is in (Trumbull) went for Obama by 23pts in 2012, and Trump by 6 in 2016. A 30-point swing.

Yeah, GM had a bad habit of launching half-baked models that were incredibly popular until everyone was put off a few years later by all their problems. Add to that GM’s penchant in the ‘70s, 80s, and 90s for keeping old platforms around way too long, and GM had a zillion justifications for constantly changing names.…

Going back to 1966 when Lordstown started making Impalas, GM has worked through the Corvair, Vega, Nova, Chevette, Cavalier, Cobalt, and Cruze within just Chevy.

“$200,000 cars that look like late ‘90s kit cars,” I think you mean.

I genuinely didn’t realize Panoz was still a thing. I’d totally forgotten about them after, oh, 2003?

Noooope. The Swift won a TON of accolades when it came out. Hell, even its replacement is beloved by the motoring press.

These cars came out at the same time. So it’s not like they knew to copy off each other.

It’s the Final Edition of the current generation. Unless you believe that VW will continue making these in some corner of some factory somewhere, it’s correct.