Here’s a take that’s apparently hot, but shouldn’t be:

I’m not sure how Tom is defining “found footing”. He even follows that up immediately with “While Ford did move a lot of units...”

“The Ford Fusion never really found footing in the American sedan market...”

regular non-enthusiasts will gladly buy something that’s sportier than what they had, but not crazy.

I think the bigger problem is more about how the brand is creating confusion through its lack of consistent names. Previous V models were like the M4 or C whatever AMG. These cars are more like the V-Sport or BMW M Sport models they had before. I’m guessing there will be a new V+“Something” for the top of the line car…

This is about more than just Cadillac dumping down some horsepower numbers and covering it up with a rotten-band-aid-of-an-explanation.- This is about Cadillac being unable to make up it’s mind- they spend ten years building up a badge to mean something, and then strip away all meaning the following year as the wind…

The dipshit executives over at Cadillac who approved axing V-Sport in favor of making weakling V cars and then introducing a new, higher-end badge for real Vs needs to be fired yesterday along with the useless flotsam who came up with and floated the idea across his desk.

Here’s my trade!

I’d love to get my hands on a 1.0 EB for a project car. I often forget it was even a thing.

The best argument is the Mazda CX-3 vs Mazda3. The Mazda3 is actually much larger than the CX-3 which is based on the Mazda2, with the only exception being height (and related to this the cargo volume, which only applies if you’re stacking everything to the ceiling).

There are definitely too many dealerships out there (17,000 in the US) and many of them are GM/ Ford...so the name of the game is definitely consolidation. However, simply yanking the franchise agreement isn’t as easy as you’d think. The manufacturers are sort of reticent to eliminate dealers, but the real challenge…

“Ford’s total car deliveries skidded 21 percent last month” - that tends to happen when you don’t sell cars anymore.

“Charlie Chesbrough, senior economist for Cox Automotive, told AutoNews that he has a working hypothesis. Mainly, it costs more to buy a car these days, and it’s tough to borrow the money to do it. It’s pretty tough to sell to a market that doesn’t have the means to buy.”

When I go to Europe, I use public transport. It’s clean, efficient, it’s nice.

Go fuck yourself.

Oh Trump, this is a Slazenger 7.

One of these babies and you’re only limited by your imagination.

Per the Detroit Free Press, that Silverado was built in Fort Wayne.

Yeah I get that. I was just going by the headline which is not very accurate. I agree with you by the way.