Sorry but Lincoln just cancelled the Continental and still isn’t selling anywhere near what Cadillac is, so your point is...

Indeed. My take on that very theme: Lincoln was as good as dead; the smart money was on Cadillac and its RWD platforms. Suddenly, the Navigator is red-hot, the Aviator is on-stage, the Escalade is obsolete and unreliable, and no one wants to buy a silly Cadillac sedan with a supercharged engine. Everything that…

Many have been pretty hard on Johan, but in the end- he did bring us a twin-turbo V8 Cadillac.

Yeah, this has never gone poorly for them in the past /s

I figured, but I was holding out hope.

Almost certainly a fwd based PTO awd

I think the front wheel drive platform on a luxury sub brand always triggers a subconscious “that must be a rebodied (insert cheaper car)” even if that’s not really the case anymore. despite any of its positives, the FWD=economy car is a real stigma. so for me, personally, I would consider the Lincoln more if it had…

Can you imagine a car company doing something like that today? Circumventing a bad review by just... going to geographical places where that review would most likely to hold the least amount of weight?

While this is accurate information, it is just another in a long list of completely worthless metrics in the automotive industry.

They can’t hide the proportions of a FWD car. It just doesn’t look right in the luxury flagship segment. I think the styling of the car is fine - I like it, but that dash-to-axle ratio makes me cringe.

Yeah, no, this is TOTALLY not true. Not even a lot of enthusiasts know. You are in a class i call “super-enthusiast” and there aren’t as many of us as you think.

Because most consumers know what platform a car is made on...

Do you really not understand how long it takes to develop a new vehicle?

Reputation, reputation, reputation.

I think your opinion is spot on. Let the haters hate.

While I am excited to see that Infiniti is selling their VC turbo engine in a real production vehicle and they deserve real credit for that (also looking forward to Mazda’s Skyactiv-3 technology), I am sad to see all of Infiniti’s SUVs/CUVs go to FWD economy car-based platforms instead of the RWD-based FX. While I…

I agree. I don’t see this as a bad thing. You have some kids and decide you (the collective you, btw) “need” an SUV. It’s easy to convince your other half to spend an extra $5000 on the sport/ST/M version of whatever you were looking at. It is damn difficult to convince them to forgo a 3 row SUV for a sports car or…

I love the design of the Allante and it has held up remarkably well. The one thing Cadillac completely blew was making it front-wheel-drive like those cheap little penalty boxes the poors drive. If it were RWD, and a tad cheaper (I know, longest assembly line and what-not made them expensive to produce) I think it…

Transverse V8 == CP

but this