It’s the natural successor to the Cube and that boxy Scion that was hilariously positioned to the youths and mostly found a market of retirees.

I wanted a Chevy SS but they didn’t sell them here. Could import one I guess.

Maybe all the people with good taste snapped them up already. This is Calgary, so if it’s not a gaudy GLS the folks don’t want it.

The local MB dealers here in Calg have a few in stock, as do the ‘ships in Edmonton. There’s probably a dozen province wide, and I can wait for a retired demo or something.

Looking at those! Going to put it up against a V60 and the C-Class wagon

Although I do live in the land of pick-up trucks, I’m trying to keep it to a car/wagon. I do have a few on my long list though, including the ones you mentioned. Thanks!

Mine too! Plan on putting it through the paces against the Regal GS, BMW 4-Series Grand Coupe and Audi A5. Should be a good shootout.

It’s only my list. The wife has a Golf and I like it fine. Although another poster here bought an alltrack recently and has mentioned he fell out of love with it pretty quickly - might not meet the ‘fun to drive’ bit because coming from a weak-ass Impreza with a CVT I feel like I need to over-correct with at least…

Between this, the Navigator and the Nautilus they’re doing the lord’s work. The Nautilus is more my size, but I don’t hate this.

Ugh I don’t like to hear that - can you explain? I’ll be moving from a Subaru to not a Subaru soonish and unlike most, I actually need AWD as I’m in a Canadian city that doesn’t exactly believe in plowing roads.

Honestly I’ve been looking at my options for my next ride (in my price range) and I hate almost all of them - there is no “best” solution.

If you have the kind of ‘fuck you’ cash that allows you to purchase a Lambo crossover, why the need for these swiss army knife vehicles?

You sure they assemble the Regal and not the LaCrosse? Pretty sure the new Regal is rebadged Opel built in Belgium, as was the previous generation.

I wouldn’t hate something about the size of a Grand Cherokee with similar offroading chops paired Honda reliability, but really it’s just going to be a slightly bigger CR-V/slightly smaller Pilot, even though the latest CR-V is freakin’ massive.

GM’s stock price was up 7 percent on the news.

I’ve got the Nokian all weathers and they perform admirably in lousy weather. That said, if I had a more powerful car, or one I cared deeply for, I would run summer performance tires and winters.

Ditto this for the Mazda6 wagon. I keep emailing Mazda Canada about it, but get the same tired response. Infuriating.

Finally! An excuse to post this:

This past summer I was going to fly from Alberta to San Diego then drive the coast all the way up to Vancouver, but instead settled for a Calgary-Kelowna-Seattle-Portland-Walla Walla-Kelowna-Home loop. It was fun, a good balance of driving vs. actually doing stuff in the places you’re driving to.

Automakers assume consumers don’t know the difference - and they’re largely right. That’s why I chortle when I hear things like “conquer the elements with 4motion AWD” or whatever, it’s like, sure guys, it’ll be FWD 98% of the time but keep telling folks they’re going to be unstoppable.