In that case I’d buy a pre-update Taco - tons of configuration options, millions of them out there, etc.

V6 3.8L 240HP where I live.  I’d take any of the others over it because of that.  Density altitude sucks.  

Yup.  When you take this long to roll out an update, you have to be forward looking - not copying the current models that are due to be replaced the following year or two.  

Not sure why someone would buy such an outdated truck when the new Colorado and Tacoma are out/coming, and there are other options available.  And I say that as someone that owned an loved an 07.  I see absolutely nothing compelling about this truck at all - at least the prior one had a manual as an option. 

That’ll do it.  They won’t blink unless they close the roads entirely.  Be safe up there!  

To be honest, pretty tough if you don’t look safe out there. Travel with real snow tires if you’re RWD, have chains in the trunk if it looks like it might be bad (or stay off the road), or come with AWD and three-peak tires (https://www.tirerack.com/upgrade-garage/what-is-the-threepeak-mountain-snowflake-symbol.) FWD…

Yup. It’s a graduated system with “levels” that determine the equipment you have to have - but there’s no grandfathering. If you started out at level 2 without L4 equipment, and they crank it to 4?  Time to get off the road and find a hotel.  I used to have a Corvette with true snow tires (M+S with the snowflake…

Colorado. Every year we have the two major highway arteries shut down - often for 8+ hours, I sat in one last year for that long - because of someone that didn’t have chains and didn’t understand what 8% grades + snow and ice means. I70 through the mountains there’s often no way to even get a wrecker to them easily -…

True. Yet I can buy almost any other super-sedan with AWD, as all the ~other~ manufacturers are making their top cars with AWD now - just not Cadillac. With the exception of Lexus, who seriously horks with their AWD sedans (and coupes), BMW makes the M3/M5/M8 in AWD. Benz makes most of their AMG models in AWD. Audi is…

And I only care about the place I drive.  Although I’ll point out - Benz, BMW, Audi, etc all seem to agree with me, since the M3, M5 and AMG cars all now have AWD - and Audi always did.  I can buy an M3 and drive it year round here.  Yet somehow the American manufacturers are still competing with the models from a…

Blackwing would have ~tried~ to be the M5 competitor. It’s fuzzy at that level too. I’d say it was truly an M550 competitor though, so you’re right.

Doesn’t matter. If you want to run RWD here, you have to carry chains or risk an impound. You feel like chaining up a CTS-V every time you have to go somewhere (I used to live between two traction control zones)? If that’s even possible, of course - most say it’ll void the warranty on performance cars.

It’s more of a competitor to the M340 than the 540 M-Sport/M550. Caddy aligns oddly these days in terms of size and feature sets.  

They do, however, have AWD options (or it comes standard), which makes them usable year round for parts of the country (like where I live - traction control laws are a thing). This is a summer toy for many of us - and there’s a lot more competition in that space.

Sadly, FWD is a minimum for me, and AWD is on the ~edge~ of being a hard requirement too- I live in Colorado and regularly have to drive through traction control zones. I don’t do tire chains. Thus... AWD and snow tires it is. By law, because out-of-towners block the major highways.

Ditto.  I’m due up next year.  The GTI/R was on the list - because it could be both my last ICE car new, and one last hurrah of the manual.  Now it’s off the list.  Was hoping they’d fix the screen too.  

Heaven forbid it be both V8 and german.  

This is what I’m praying for.  I want one.  At MSRP.  

Not enough range. I’m really waiting for the I5 to drop lightly used, or the next generation of battery tech (especially for the E-Tron/Taycan, which have the same issue as the I4 with not enough range). I’ll need one more ICE car I suspect, based on normal depreciation cycles, before I can move to BEV (I’m absolutely…

A functional infotainment system that doesn’t date to 2009.