Posted on 12/04/2020 2:19:36 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
About 17% of Cadillac’s 880 U.S. dealerships decide against spending for necessary upgrades
About 150 General Motors Co . dealers have decided to part ways with Cadillac, rather than invest in costly upgrades required to sell electric cars, according to people familiar with the plans, indicating some retailers are skeptical about pivoting to battery-powered vehicles.
GM recently gave Cadillac dealers a choice: Accept a buyout offer to exit from the brand or spend roughly $200,000 on dealership upgrades—including charging stations and repair tools—to get their stores ready to sell electric vehicles, these people said.
~snip~
Most dealers who accepted the buyout also own one or more of GM’s other brands—Chevrolet, Buick and GMC—and sell only a handful of Cadillacs a month, the people familiar with the effort said.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Cadillac made so many disasters back then, tarnished their image till this day
I believe Oldsmobile had a diesel out as well that sucked.
Here in the PNW, yes, lesbians drive Subarus. But so does everyone else, including conservatives in eastern WA.
Cimarron was probably Cadillac’s nadir. A rebadged Chevy Cavalier.
“Driving cars will not be recognizable in five years. All new cars will be electric and autonomous. “
Peter Lutz, ex GM CEO said this 2 years ago in a meeting.
Doesn’t matter. Musk has said there isn’t near enough electricity in the grid to support too many electric cars anyway.
————————
With the Hiden/Ho team going after Coal, Oil and nuclear plants, we well have often rotating blackouts.
All the tech for wind and solar (if it actually worked - it doesn’t) comes from China.
Are you in CA? A friend posted a picture of she had her husband enjoying a glass of wine indoors, by a camp light. Looked like rolling blackouts to me.
Nukes? Look at the idiocy of Germany and California, for starters. Shutting them down. Sure this idiocy will spread. Has their been any nuke plants built in the last, say 20 years?
There, fixed it for you.
No, I’m sure our Leftist overlords will nix nuclear power. I’m thinking they figure if only those who have the power (in the country) are allowed to have vehicles, then there will be enough power for THEM to drive around. It’s we, the working stiffs, who won’t have the ‘luxury’ of traveling, etc. They are already trying this out with their ‘Covid’ rules that don’t apply to them.
———————————
Already the Green New Deal has depopulation of the heartland, with people forced to live in crime-infected Democrat city hellholes, fully dependent on public transportation, bicycles and walking for mobility.
Fewer manuals than electrics sold, LAST YEAR. If you think finding a car in a pile of dregs is good, you are easy to please.
Friends bought a Caddie SUV a few years ago. It was so beset with problems that they sought relief under the Florida “Lemon Law” and return the POS for a full refund. Well, they missed the statutory deadline by a few days and were forced sell the junk in less than a year (IIRC), and many repairs, after purchase.
Are you in CA? A friend posted a picture of she had her husband enjoying a glass of wine indoors, by a camp light. Looked like rolling blackouts to me.
———————————
No, the Bay Area college I teach remotely at has my students claiming blackout status. We get emails from admin to excuse students living in certain areas on an increasing basis.
Hell, where I’m at, the only time we get brown-outs is during the passage of a typhoon (shut down to save the live grid from wind damage)
I have a 2016 ATS with 50,000 miles. I love it. No problems. Its fun to drive and handles exceptionally well in the snow. I would absolutely buy another Cadillac.
Northstar. Fine thread head bolts in an aluminum block. The only real did is timecerts. Mostly not worth it.
Only real fix.
No, it was their mid 90s Sienna mini-van. Started off good, but after a couple of years, the engine sludged up terribly and blew HUGE clouds of blue smoke when you started it. It wasn’t so bad after it got running and warmed up.
Lots of owners had the same problem and Toyota never owned up to an endemic problem.
We sold it privately and the buyers came back a few weeks later and claimed we had changed the transmission out for unknown reasons. The VIN numbers apparently didn’t match. We had never had it in the shop for any transmission problems, so that was very weird. We never did figure that out and the buyers dropped it. The funny thing is they never came back to us to the big cloud of blue smoke upon starting.
So FOUR European POSes and ONE Japanese POS. We switched to Ford after that (mid 90s Explorer, our first SUV) and had great luck with Ford until our kids’ Escapes turned into MAJOR POSes around 2013.
Our older daughter gave up on all those brands and bought a new Subaru in early 2020 and loves it so far. The other two kids are still driving their Escapes. The 2017 Escape quit running one day on the freeway and had a blown transmission at about 60k. At least that was covered under warranty. The 2013 Escape had a varnished automatic transmission valve body and stopped shifting properly. They were going to charge my daughter $1,700 to fix it so I got on the phone and got it down to $700 which I thought was still outrageous because I know she didn’t abuse it or tow anything.
Lafayette
Down the road from Purdue
Opened in 1989 so they’ve been around a while.
” Musk has said there isn’t near enough electricity in the grid to support too many electric cars anyway.”
Could you show us that quote?
The average US grid load is half peak in the day time.
Night average is half day average.
We have our second Subaru. If we get the itch to buy another new car, it would be another Subaru. But we just might keep it until the wheels fall off, which will be never.
We also own a 2018 F150. I’d love to get rid of that POS. Very annoying electronics and rides quite rough.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.