I think that’s right. (And I want to take back my harsh take earlier). To me - the folks I know/see with a Denali are a very specific archetype: they have a few “toys” like an ATV is 2, a SeaDoo (or 2) and a third garage in their McMansion. I hate myself for sounding like a snob and for thinking down on these people,…

Maybe so. But the basic Range Rover Sport at $73,000 MSRP is head and shoulders above any American car or Audi

I’ll keep an open mind about the new GM cars using better materials, but the only thing I see what I see a Denali is someone who has poor taste in cars.

Thanks - I’ll def. keep an open mind about it. The last one I rented was a top trim 2017 Cady Escalade and that thing is plastic garbage on wheels.

The difference is in the quality of materials used. Be it the supple leather, the inlaid wood trim or the brushed metal buttons, feeling is believing. In US cars the materials are more of a craptastik quality.   when I rent these US-made “luxury” vehicles I feel like I’m in a home that was just remodeled with…

As a former AMG owner (2008 SL 55 AMG), I was floored that a basically new CLS AMG can be had for $40K. I guess the rumors are true - AMG no longer means what it used to mean.

This is true, actually.

I think they stole the interior from their other line of Utility vehicles?

This is my sentiment exactly. My Mini was paid off but i sold it as soon as it started needing a lot of new parts (turbo, fuel and water pump, some other stuff). It costs me much more than money - time, stress and grief- to have to deal with regular breakdowns. I sold it and bought a gently used (6,000 mi) “new to…

I concur. Worse - I had a 2011 Mini and the silly gauge wasn’t even accurate.

Taste and preferences definitely play a role. I was raised around cars and gearheads who loved nothing more than to spend the weekends spinning wrenches by day and tires at night. But the times they are a changin’ to say the least. Whereas I wanted nothing more than a 1963 Corvette as a teenager in the late 80's and…

My main point from above is from a simple observation: my last time attending B-J was last year - and I couldn’t help but notice that almost every attendee there (outside of vendors) was over 65, white and male. Those who weren’t were either their wives or their sons. That is not, but it’s very nature, a long-term,…

That’s exactly what it is. There simply aren’t enough old white or soon-to-be white hair white men in the queue to keep this bubble going.

Right on. My 87 year old dad is rocking his 2001 Impala!

in High School i drove an blue-ish ‘84 Lebaron. God I hated that car. Growing up on the east coast one of my favorite things to do was drop the top and ride the thing like a sleigh down plowed, snow-packed mountain roads they used to maintain in nature preserves. That was the best part of having a front-wheel drive…

I have to agree with this. I was recently given a free rental car upgrade to a full size Cadillac SUV. The thing was massive, but the interior was so godawful cheap. Plastic everywhere, buttons that needed hard presses to work.... I was really unimpressed. And then I looked up the MSRP on the model and couldn’t…

I do empathize. And the kicker is that I bet USB-c doesn’t last 1/4 as long as a standard as USB-a had. If we’re lucky the next breakthrough is true high speed wireless, and the usb-to-wireless dongles can just plug into the legacy devices that in turn can talk to anything wirelessly with them. But me thinks and…

Hey I had a fortune wrapped up in software on floppy disk once - and a fancy dot matrix printer and one of those modems you plugged your phone receiver into. I’m not upset that I had to upgrade everything entirely a few times since then.

It’s also kind of depressing, when sung by most people. There are times I’ve heard it very fast tempo, which is better, but mostly it’s a slog sung in a way that makes it seem everyone would rather be somewhere else.

Now compare this to the milquetoast GM car unveiled today and wow - have we lost our design mojo or what? Why has everything become so unthreatening and bland?