Here’s the other thing that’s left out of every “Ford ditched all sedans” conversation. Ford ditched all sedans IN NORTH AMERICA. They’re going to continue to have compact cars and sedans internationally. The Fiesta, Focus, and Fusion are all on Europe-led platforms, anyways.

The CT6 is the first Cadillac in a long while that has failed to nail the proportions. All their other vehicles look great in terms of stance and proportion, but the XT6 looks like a tall minivan.

I actually don’t agree that fuel prices will rise. EVs are too viable at this point - oil companies need time to diversify. What a repeat of the early ‘oughts will do is drive EV adoption up and ultimately hurt the oil companies.

While you do have a point that the mpg differences are fairly consistent, we also haven’t had a real increase in sedan mpg. 30 mpg was pretty easy to achieve for decades now in a sedan. I have a feeling companies just haven’t been focusing on increasing it in sedans and focusing on CUVs and SUVs.

Hey... if they manage to go back to aircooling by making the car hybrid, it might not be so bad \joke

Ford is doing a much better job badge engineering and sharing platforms. GM doesn’t do enough to differentiate its brands. Look at the Suburban/Yukon/Escalade. They’re pretty much identical.

I don’t know what BMW’s numbering scheme even is anymore but they should do exactly as you suggest. I’d argue a 318is ish kind of turbo 4 w/ a manual in the $40k range might be interesting. If they are worried about sales they could build it as one package that you have to get wheels/tires/transmission/shocks on a…

We could, and I know this is crazy talk here, fix the stupid certification rules so that it wasn’t so expensive to certify a mostly-the-same car with a slightly different drivetrain.

I drive a manual 335i F30, and it’s a great car. But I can’t say I could ever justify anybody having bought it new. The price is stupid for the performance. I bought mine when it was 18 months old, and I paid $28k less than sticker. It lost just about half of its value in 18 months.

Less rare for F22s, but still really uncommon.

I believe they have to emissions certify all powertrain combinations. Not sure about crash testing, but maybe there, too.

Their take-rate is so low on the sticks in the non-M 3-ers that they probably can’t justify the expense of running another projection line. Basically, the same story as every other manufacturer who has dropped manuals.

Simple answer, they don’t want to. 

No, the CT6 is dead. The V is still coming to be sold for a few months and that’s it. And that is bigger than the Impala and Lacrosse, which are the same size as the XTS, which is also dying. IDK why they didn’t at least keep the Lacrosse, which was always the best version and was just redesigned in 2017 to become…

GTI all the Golfs.

“Why is the German car over-engineered?” he asked.

This is what I don’t get. Every time Jalopnik commenters tell me “They’re making what the market demands!” I just wonder if they’re forgetting fifteen years ago. We went through this exact same thing. Americans bought stupid, giant SUVs when gas was cheap, gas prices spiked massively, everyone was fucked. And now…

While that car is beautiful, basically the entire front is a grille