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Reply Tue 25 May, 2004 08:19 pm
I was amazed to see a tester say in the current Road & Track that the Cadilac CTS is what the BMW should have been. Who'd a thunk a Caddy would ever inspire a comment like that in that venerable car magazine?!
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NickFun
 
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Reply Mon 31 May, 2004 07:41 am
I see numbers of people have viewed this post but none offer an opinion so let me be the first. We all know the Caddy is inferior to the BMW in every way particularly in re-sale value. However, some writers have a financial incentive to write good things about inferior cars. In other words, the tester dude was probably paid off.
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Jarlaxle
 
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Reply Mon 31 May, 2004 12:40 pm
Nick, time to adjust your tinfoil hat.
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Pitter
 
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Reply Mon 31 May, 2004 02:29 pm
I don't think the writers at Road & Track are getting paid by anybody but the magazine especially to say great things about inferior cars. I don't recall seeing any rave review there of the Yugo. but maybe I missed it. Having a lead foot I'll take that Caddy over the slower beemer any day.
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Jarlaxle
 
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Reply Mon 31 May, 2004 05:39 pm
For the money, I'll take a Corvette, and a TDI Golf as a 50MPG commuter.

I just don't see the point of a $60K car.
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farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 31 May, 2004 06:05 pm
Usually R/T is sensitive to good design. Nobody will ever accuse the CTS of being a well designed car. It looks like the auto equivalent of an Abrams tank. It is as ugly as a Hummer H2 .

Cadillac design is an oxymoron.
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Brand X
 
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Reply Mon 31 May, 2004 06:59 pm
The Caddy must be decent because in race trim it's kicking butt.
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farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 31 May, 2004 07:05 pm
thats merely a testimony to peoples bad taste. Most Americans will buy anything if given enough sex.
Go to an auto show.

when you say "kicking butt" are you referning to the geezer market?
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Brand X
 
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Reply Mon 31 May, 2004 07:09 pm
You are correct, the babes are giving the sales pitches at auto shows.

They started racing the CTS this year, only a few races so far but it hasn't been beaten.
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Jarlaxle
 
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Reply Mon 31 May, 2004 07:10 pm
I think he's refering to RACING (IIRC, they ran at Le Mans. IIRC, it's a rebodied Corvette.

When something performs THAT well, I can live with strange styling.
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Brand X
 
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Reply Mon 31 May, 2004 07:14 pm
Jarlaxle wrote:
I think he's refering to RACING (IIRC, they ran at Le Mans. IIRC, it's a rebodied Corvette.

When something performs THAT well, I can live with strange styling.


He who?
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Jarlaxle
 
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Reply Wed 2 Jun, 2004 06:18 pm
You. I was addressing Farmerman. We typed our posts at the same time.
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