So where do you live again?

If it didn’t work, dealers wouldn’t do it.

They use only the finest engine degreasers and detergents — take a whiff, this engine bay smells like cotton candy. 

On the bright side, when you buy a Buick you instantly become 80 years old, so now this guy can qualify for Medicare and all sorts of discounts on white shoes and salad bars. Pretty shrewd financial maneuvering if you ask me.

A family friend of ours has a 2006 STS-V, which I’ve had the pleasure of driving quite a bit. What a fun car. Hers is silver with the light grey interior, which is especially rare.

The funny thing is, the CT6 actually outsold (9,669 units) the 7-Series (8,271), as well as the G80 (7,446) and G90 (2,136) combined in the US last year. It also outsold the Lincoln Continental (8,758).

The market didn’t respond because 1) the engine options were wrong (the 4 cylinder never should have been offered, the 3.6 doesn’t have good NVH, and there is no V8 initially), 2) Cadillac has horrid reliability, and 3) Cadillac is still trying to price their vehicles with the Germans even though the brand reputation…

This is typical GM behavior. They bring out a new car that isn’t quite done. It doesn’t sell well. GM improves the shortcomings after 2-3 years and just as soon as the car is right they cancel it. The CT6 should have had the flagship V8 engine option from the very start and never should have had the four cylinder…

How the hell did they justify the $97k price? You can get pretty much any luxury sedan at that price. 2019 A8 starts at $83k. 2020 7 series at $86k. 

June 20, 2020's NPoCP

I just think its sad that Cadillac is so bad at competing in the very market segment it used to almost totally own for decades - full size, V8, RWD sedans with plush interiors and a smooth ride. They haven’t been truly strong sellers in that category since, what, the 1980s?

Still a tragedy that the CT6 is to be killed off so soon, after a relatively short existence, and just as it was getting really good with the V8 and CT6-V. This car was such a monumental leap forward for Cadillac, from the new lightweight platform to the SuperCruise debut, not to mention the fact that it was the first…

I’m biker, and was raised by a biker. My dad was the guy with the not a Harley among his friends.

The problem with Harley is on the showroom floor. You got too many old school bikers selling bikes. That is one of the reasons why Buell failed, it’s because their salesmen didn’t have a clue about them and preferred to try and sell you a softtail.

Looks like the American Dream sells better the further you get from America. Who knew!?!?

Correction: Polaris is over there using Indian to print money.

To me “e-ute” is much tidier and kind of sounds a little like “cute” too which is a plus. Like “Check out that cute e-ute!”

Davey was my best and only friend from k-6th grade and really gave credence to the final words in the movie Stand By Me, “I never had any friends later on like I had when I was 12.” Rather, I am 43 now and I still have never found a friend quite like him later in life. Sadly I will never get to tell him face to face…

Weird a level headed comment on these stories. You are brave sir.