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Commerce clause? /s
If you can afford to pay $20-40k more for a little trim and a badge over the exact same vehicle available elsewhere, are you really worried about the gas mileage??
GM Government Motors
“Will someone enlighten me where I can find the clause in the Constitution – allegedly the supreme law of the land – that endows the federal government with the rightful power to dictate car design to GM or anyone else?”
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
Why would you even think to search the Constitution in year 2014 a.d.??
420 hp isstill more than the 60’s produced. And this is 31 highway versus 12 of the bygone era.
Government Motors can do what it wants.
And the taxpayers can pay for it.
The government has abused the interstate commerce clause and interpreted it to mean that any interstate commerce is subject to unlimited regulation by the federal government.
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I have never owned a vehicle that did not contain a V-8.
Why would anyone buy a Cadillac nowadays anyhow?
Or any car from a US manufacturer?
Didn’t GM go broke and you and I bailed them out?
It’s a shame.
GM cars used to be the best, but that’s 40 years ago by now.
Mom had a beautiful Silver Teal Metallic Olds Aurora with the Autobahn package and the Cadillac Northstar engine.
Loved driving that car... the driver’s position was like being in an aircraft cockpit... and talk about Balls. Sadly she replaced it a few years ago for an Envoy... it only had 58k on the OD... but was having electrical problems related to a gasket leak in the windshield.
I also remember seeing Cash for Clunkers videos where they were taking perfectly good Auroras and running them wide open with water and sand in the crankcase to failure. It made me sick to my stomach that ANYONE would do such a thing.
Cadillac's target customer: Union thugs and pimps.
Where was this writer 25 years ago?
I owned the last Chrysler car with a V-8 engine (1989 Chrysler 5th Avenue [318ci]) for about two decades. When the M-bodies were phased out and the LH platform came in, NONE of the vehicles had a V-8, not the Intrepid, not the Concorde, not the New Yorker/LHS. Certainly no V-8s went into the Cirrus/Stratus/Sebrings. Not even the Chrysler 300M, which did NOT sport the 300 hp that is normally emblematic of a 300 letter car. Only in 2004 did a V8 come back in a Chrysler automobile.
(Notes: The Dodge Viper had a V-10. The V-8 360 engine was available only in trucks.)
More government via bureaucracy.
That's a pretty significant fuel savings and 420 horsepower is nothing not sneeze at.
420hp and 31mpg highway? Try to imagine telling any SAE engineer that in about 1974.
Cadillac used to be a distinctive car, and pretty good quality too, with solid bodies and good engines.
Now Cads mostly look like cheapo rental cars in the lot at the discount (off-airport) place...
and their body metal is about as sutstantial as Reynolds sandwich wrap.
if you want a cheap Chevy, just buy a cheap Chevy and save yourself a ton of $$
Engines are far different now than they used to be. Formula One cars have gone from V10s to V8s to now V6s.
I love V8s. I rebuilt a 1941 Ford Business Coupe with a flathead V8 tuned with 1950s circle track racing parts.
But time moves on.
If you can get more horsepower out of a lighter unit, all the better. Big block engines in muscle cars made for absolutely dreadful cornering. Great in a straight line, but there’s more to driving than drag races.
“The last of the V-8 Caddys – the (very) limited production CTS-V sedan/wagon – is being retired. There appears to be a replacement on deck for 2016”
Will the replacement be a smaller cubed V8? Maybe a 5.3L?
I’m looking at the new Ford Transit and there’s no V8 in it. Beautiful vans, thou.