I think the pivot on luxury vs. mainstream in the overlapping price range is sportiness. There was a time when luxury meant cushy seats and quiet interior, but a lot of mainstream cars are able to give you that plus lots of tech now. Sportiness and style seem to be the differentiator now. Now at S class money, there…

I gave the Ats a chance, I swear I did. Test drove one, the salesman won’t stop talking about CUE, and saying how you kids love your gadgets (I’m in my 30's). The interior sucks and is tiny, the 4 banger is not nearly as refined as the Germans, and the face lifted front fascia is a step backwards.

It kind of has an XF vibe to it. It’s fine, it doesn’t do it for me like their other recent concepts. I think they want to become staid luxury, whereas most car enthusiasts want Caddy to be a bit more bombastic. Meanwhile, both sides are wrong, and old men are trying to buy up XTS’s while they still can.

I got a Camry dent on a Sonata once, because the stupid thing slip out of gear in a parking lot. I ran right into someone in a Pontiac Vibe. I asked the lady if she wanted my insurance information, and she said you couldnt have made it worse than it already was, and drove off.

Reminds me a lot of the Sin R1, they need to homologate this thing as a GT4.

Yeah I get it, lots of whiz bang stuff... but does the Ats still come with a speedo out of a 94' Chevy Cavalier?

I always thought this video would be James Earl Jones saying “this was CNN”.

I blame the consumer. We go into the dealership wanting a nice little car, but then the people who fill out customer surveys say it is nice but can use a little more legroom and trunk space, so the bean counters send that to the engineers. Then in the next generation, the surveys come back saying the car isn’t as…

Cramming a race car engine into a production car isnt feasible, they barely were able to stick it into a GT car. The rear wheel drive, lmp engined TLX race car has no relevance to the production car, hence why they are retiring it.

Through the mid 90's, there was so much variety in a Nascar field. Each time a body style would change, there would be leftovers from the previous year. At one point, Gm had Buick, Chevy, Olds, and Pontiac bodies in the same race. Of course this was before the chassis/body/engine basically became spec, and the quality…

Let me know when you can buy a street TLX that has a turbocharged Lmp2 engine in it.

It’s a car... with stuff! I drove a last gen Sonata for a few years, and it had stuff like bluetooth and seat warmers that were not standard on many competitors. It was an attractive car, but the steering was rubbery, and you start to notice the cheapness over time. The proportions on this gen Elantra are odd to say…

I always thought the TLX was very tasteful. I see a few from time to time, and they are attractive if not anonymous. A power train update and a diet would probably make them more attractive to the enthusiast crowd.

Illmor built the 3.5L V8 that was raced in the IRL from 2003 to 2012. The Champcar turbo engine was in house, competing against Illmor engines badged as Chevy and then Mercedes.

I think it is a little rose colored glasses to say they were so dominant that they had nothing left to prove. In 92' Williams had a car that was far ahead of McLaren. Also, the Lost Decade was taking full effect. Nissan and Toyota pulled out of global motorsport at the same time. The Honda indycar program was mainly…

Let’s see, pay to be at the back of the grid, or get paid to be semi competitive in Indycar, I will go with the latter. He knows that if he putters around with Manor for a few more races, he will be replaced next year with another pay driver and he will be back at square one. Unless he is offered Perez’s seat at Force…

Saw one of these on the road, didn’t know what model it was until I saw this post. It is a lovely, low slung roadster, and the exhaust sound is spectacular. A happy middle aged man was behind the wheel, and I salute him for not going stereotypical C5 corvette.

Can’t wait to test drive one. My wife loves her CX5, and I showed her the new 9, and said I want to get one for you next year, and she took it as a grand romantic gesture. I think it will sell well, because it measures up nicely against the Highlander at the lower end, and at the higher end the features beat out the…

Experienced a real life Mustang meme today. A GT in grabber blue rolled up on me at a stop light before a long highway stretch. He stares at me like he wants to race, and dumps the clutch, taking off. He loses traction and fish tails it not long thereafter and gets off the gas. He was lucky that he didn’t eat…

In one way I agree with you in that the Tesla is positioned against BMW, and the Bolt is more positioned against the Prius, and it just seems more attractive to pay that kind of money for a car that is perceived as quality. GM doesn’t have the reputation in making small cars to all of a sudden take the fight to Honda…