2010 SRX starts at $6,000 less than the 2009
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I feel the exact same way.
My only problem is that even if Escalade goes on Lambda, I have a hard time seeing myself coughing up presumably significantly more cash for a Lambda Escalade, when I can just go buy an Enclave and get 95% of the same package.
This is all assuming I am willing to give up the RWD biased AWD for a FWD platformed (is that a word?) AWD, but maybe I am making too much out of all that.
My only problem is that even if Escalade goes on Lambda, I have a hard time seeing myself coughing up presumably significantly more cash for a Lambda Escalade, when I can just go buy an Enclave and get 95% of the same package.
This is all assuming I am willing to give up the RWD biased AWD for a FWD platformed (is that a word?) AWD, but maybe I am making too much out of all that.
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you are correct on that as well and it just shows how much GM competes with itself.
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Ya, one minute we are told that platform sharing is needed because it spreads out costs, the next minute we are told it's a major part of the problem and must go away to shrink GM and save it from oblivion.
Either way, as I've said in the past, it will take something unique, that I can't get anywhere else, for me to cough up Cadillac money.... and I've put my money where my mouth is with the 08 SRX...
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When was the last time a traditional station wagon sold well? 1979?
Alotta people here pumped up Dodge Magnum as the second coming of the autoChrist, and it's already gone.
As far as CTS goes, the coupe shold have come first, IMO.
Alotta people here pumped up Dodge Magnum as the second coming of the autoChrist, and it's already gone.
As far as CTS goes, the coupe shold have come first, IMO.
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Couldn't agree more. Only the completely comatose (ERRRR oops, this is GM) have not seen that wagons don't do well in North America.
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If you look at the body work and proportions the wagon has a lot less unique parts than the coupe. Although the coupe would have been a big hit for Cadillac and is needed more than a wagon.
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Whatever, in 1972 you could option up a Chevy Caprice to Cadillac DeVille levels. Same old GM business.
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I have to agree, although I'm not sure how well coupes sell either. At any rate, they're taking a BMW-type approach with the CTS bringing out a new variant ever year (sedan, v, wagon, coupe) and evidently that's worked for the guys across the pond.
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