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Originally Posted by goblue
Wes and Mgescuro, I'm with you on cars, and frankly - if it were 5 or 10 years ago, I'd demand all RWD crossovers as well. However, things have changed. Haldex is incredible. There is a market for RWD cars, but for whatever reason, its just not there for crossovers. It would be foolish for GM in its present state to go after that market.
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It certainly isn't stopping BMW from going FWD is it?
You're arguing a point that NOT ONE SINGLE AUTOMAKER IS FOLLOWING. Name one automaker that shifted from RWD/FWD to FWD/AWD and started arguing the benefits of Haldex? NOT ONE.
Infiniti comes closest because they too had a crappy selling sport CUV. But they kept with the Skyline platform, improved the interior quality, and kept going with it.
They didn't go to the Altima platform, stuff Haldex into it and started preaching it's friggin benefits!!!!!!!!!!
The reason for GM's bankruptcy can be directly attributed to completely inane business decisions like the one being discussed in this thread.
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Originally Posted by goblue
Where Cadillac is really missing opportunity is by not moving the whole lineup over to VOLTEC ASAP. It's the engineering interpretation of A&S.
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Oh please. GM couldn't even disseminate 2Mode throughout it's lineup, and it's exponentially CHEAPER than Voltec!!
As I've said before, Voltec is not the key to success in the luxury market!!! The basic tenets of a luxury sedan/coupe will ALWAYS remain in play: leather, amenities, technology. Right now, Cadillac CANNOT even get those right.