Does it have a... periscope, maybe? I would think you'd want to be able to look outside?

So, here's my plea. Enough with the algebra-problem droid names for your cars. Just one of you companies has to have enough guts to take the leap and give your cars names, real names, names that we don't care if they don't hint at where in your Byzantine hierarchy the car fits, and just makes us interested and excited…

i gotta be honest, i haven't the slightest clue what Lincoln sells these days because of their alpha numerics. And im pretty anal about knowing obscure facts. The mkz is their taurus right? And on the topic of the taurus, isnt that debacle a case study in itself about the power of a name. Its like lincoln…

Ghost, bitches.

At least the European carmakers (BMW, Audi, Merc) had some sense to the alphanumerics. I see Cadillac's naming convention as more like Lincoln, where every car's name is two letters followed by a third letter/number that was pulled out of someone's ass.

It doesn't have to be animals. Cars have been wonderfully named after weather, planets, astronomical phenomena, mythological figures, feelings, powers, emotions, and probably the occasional vegetable or adverb. There's so many words and concepts and ideas out there, and not all of them can be easily rendered on a…

American premium car makers haven't traditionally fallen into this pattern, which may be why Cadillac's decision to do it (which they've been doing for a while, really, with letters) is rubbing so many the wrong way. Sure, we may not be craving the return of the Bodystyle de Someplace-European-Sounding naming of…

I still remember vividly, Land Rover taking back my leased 2002 Freelander. It somehow made it to 21k and then the rear main seal went. That was the last straw since I drove a service loaner more that winter then my own car. I signaled to my Service Adviser to print out my service history because I was going to file…

Light aircraft cruise at those heights. Not every plane is a commercial jetliner.

Nostalgia is not replacement for statistics and reality. Odds are Dad did that wrong, and even if he did it right it sure did not help much. A modern car really needs very little and what it does it will tell you about. Replace the oil and trans fluid when it bitches do the rest on schedule and you will be fine.

Yeah but what had been replaced on it? I would say that at most 300,000 miles is the new 100,000 miles.

200k though, forget it, you're riding an atomic bomb.

Yeah I can do the same thing with car companies that use names. Everyone knows what a Mustang or a Camaro is, but they don't know a Spark from an Aveo or an Escape from an Edge. It is because the basic consumer doesn't care about the names. They just don't give enough of a shit to actually learn them.

Except the old men can't figure out the CUE system.

And what if they finally make the Sixteen? (we can dream)

How exactly the CT6 will be marketed with a V8, I do not know.

Flashback to 1973

Oh for fucks sake. Just call it what it is...

GM's reaction to you...

Between Cadillac and Lincoln, the market on illogical...er, dumb model names is pretty much cornered. I can honestly tell you that I don't even know which names apply to which vehicles when it comes to either of those brands.