2010 Cadillac SRX
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CTS seems to be the only car Caddy can currently get right. The SRX began as a poor attempt to match competitors like BMW and Mercedes directly with a platypus of a car. Not quite a wagon, not quite a crossover, the original SRX was an answer to a question nobody asked.
Now they are going stright for the throat of Lexus abandoning rwd and their sttack on BMW and Mercedes in the process. To be fair this a strategy which may pay off in sales......and GM badly needs more of those without question....but it still leaves the lineup even more a hodge-podge of ideology than it was previously which is hardly promising long term. And GM still seems to have issues finishing what they start. For example, the CTS lineup should have been fully fleshed out before this was even considered, including a possible lwb version of the current CTS to replace the withering STS.
Now they are going stright for the throat of Lexus abandoning rwd and their sttack on BMW and Mercedes in the process. To be fair this a strategy which may pay off in sales......and GM badly needs more of those without question....but it still leaves the lineup even more a hodge-podge of ideology than it was previously which is hardly promising long term. And GM still seems to have issues finishing what they start. For example, the CTS lineup should have been fully fleshed out before this was even considered, including a possible lwb version of the current CTS to replace the withering STS.
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CTS seems to be the only car Caddy can currently get right. The SRX began as a poor attempt to match competitors like BMW and Mercedes directly with a platypus of a car. Not quite a wagon, not quite a crossover, the original SRX was an answer to a question nobody asked.
Now they are going stright for the throat of Lexus abandoning rwd and their sttack on BMW and Mercedes in the process. To be fair this a strategy which may pay off in sales......and GM badly needs more of those without question....but it still leaves the lineup even more a hodge-podge of ideology than it was previously which is hardly promising long term. And GM still seems to have issues finishing what they start. For example, the CTS lineup should have been fully fleshed out before this was even considered, including a possible lwb version of the current CTS to replace the withering STS.
Now they are going stright for the throat of Lexus abandoning rwd and their sttack on BMW and Mercedes in the process. To be fair this a strategy which may pay off in sales......and GM badly needs more of those without question....but it still leaves the lineup even more a hodge-podge of ideology than it was previously which is hardly promising long term. And GM still seems to have issues finishing what they start. For example, the CTS lineup should have been fully fleshed out before this was even considered, including a possible lwb version of the current CTS to replace the withering STS.
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Lexus makes a good contrast. Lexus established the ES and RX lineups, and their brand identity, long before they made any serious foray into 3-Series territory with the IS. They got one project right, fleshed it out, and then they moved on. Caddy has so many different recipes on the burner at once it's becoming hard to tell exactly what they want to be known for cookin'.
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