Thats because the people that bought them have to justify their purchases somehow. I don’t believe that Cadillacs are better than Lexuses or Mercedes-Benzs yet. I want Cadillacs to be the best, but only when they deserve to be.

I think the new Cadillacs are at least on par with mercedes. But I think Mercedes is the worst of the luxury brands, nothing in their cars seems right to me. And the R class is hideous. Makes the SRX look beautiful. Lexus is being caught by Caddy, the interiors are getting better. STS has probably the best interior GM has ever made, and no doubt that is being improved upon as we speak.

I don’t think it’s a matter of justifying the purchase, I’m sure that a great deal of Cadillac owners are very satisfied with their decisions. The new Caddys are not bad cars.

the Ridgeline has a category?

Good for Caddy! now let the close-minded, import loving, ELF a$$holes rant at how GM is crap….

Mike, Cadillacs are getting better, but saying they are as good as the best is doing GM a disservice. They need to get even better so that import lovers that hate GM actually want to buy them. GM has been building crap product for decades and the american public hasn’t helped by buying that product. Constructive criticism of GM will make it better and if the product doesn’t improve then GM doesn’t desrve to survive.

Caddy….once again the standard of the world….as it should be! Can Lincoln be far behind? After all, Lexus is only a high priced Camry. Check out how the tailpipes hang down on all Lexus and Toyodaaaaaaa. Read someplace Hondaaaaa was slashing Ridgeline prices just to move them! What an ugly contraption!

if you don’t own a Caddy then you have no place to talk….do you… because then you obviously don’t know how they are to live with…. no one cares about what your friend or brother said… go buy a caddy then tell us your precious opinion

According to the auto pacifica website Lexus won not caddy.
http://www.autopacific.com/index/news-app/story.219/title.2006-vehicle-satisfaction-awards/menu./sec.AutoPacific%20News/home.

Hmhh by top performer brand it says Lexus on the side but at the top it says Caddy. Who knows nevermind.

nice try to get people to that web site British_Rover. By the way what did not buiding decent product do to your company?

To number 9 go to http://www.autopacific.com/ and click on the news section for the whole article.

If you look about mid way down it says, “European luxury brands other than Land Rover are down on the list this year.”

Good for Cadillac!! GM has actually paid attention to this one brand under its umbrella and has turned Cadillac around. Now if it can only do so for the rest of its brands (Saturn seems to be on its way however slow to get to the market products (new Astra based small car) and low volumes may not help it) The CTS is a nice car and the sneek peeks Lutz gave us on 60 minutes shows me more good things are to come.

British_Rover, Rover went out of business last year because the product was rubbish

hey #5 , look at the newest story right now, it says “Poor may sales may prompt production cuts at big three”. and there you are trying to talk about honda not being able to move cars. hahah. idiot.

Damn Patrick, have a little itchy burning feeling down there or what!

I pride myself as an AUTOMOTIVE ENTHUSIAST. If Honda puts out a good product, I’ll praise it. If DCX puts out a ****ty one, I’ll bash it. I am an enthusiast, plain and simple. I don’t love or hate any automobile simply because of the company it comes from (unlike, I assume, you… or was it the E.L.F. comment that got your panties in a bunch? )

I don’t even know what E.L.F means, but I’m with Patrick

ELF= Earth Liberation Front = Domestic Terrorism in the name of Eco friendliness.

responsible for burning the 60+ H2’s in LA, emmiting more toxins into the air than had all the SUV’s been allowed to live a full life.

Responsible for burning a $17 Million lodge at Vail resort in Colorado for displacing a rabbit 20 yards deeper into the forrest.

and much more…..

Why do some import car boot lickers find it so hard to believe (and so difficult to accept) that an AMERICAN car can rate this high, especially above a Toyota nameplate? Oh the horror, the horror. Face it, while you were all busy gathering the nails for GMs coffin, GM arose from the dead to come back and haunt you. And this is only going to continue, so get used to it.

Someone please tell me how defending inferior cars and SUVs in any way helps GM/Ford Chrysler get better? Its like telling your child that a ‘D’ grade is good enough and they dont need to try any harder.

“Cadillac has trumped Lexus as the highest regarded luxury brand, according to a owner satisfaction study by research firm AutoPacific”

how is this a ‘D’ grade?

Mike if you truly think one survey result means that cadillacs are once again the standard of the world, are good enough already and don’t need to get any better then i guess i will never own one. I want one with the glamor of a 1959 Eldorado Biarritz, a true movie star of a car. I suspect the V12 concept is a modern take on this vehicle

People are such suckers! The day Cadillac sets the world in standards we’re all gonna be in big trouble. Just say NO. Friends don’t let friends drive jewmobiles

I think the best selling car in Israel is a Toyota, and i believe the car of choice among muslim fundamentalists is also a Toyota, go figure

If you guys would rather drive Caddys than an IS350 or the new stretch LS, then congratulations on the news!

Not only are Cadillac’s jewmobiles Lincolns are as well. Makes me laugh when I see the Kikes drivin’ around in their leased cars thinkin’ their hot ****.

I thought escalades were driven mainly by african americans and that a lot of them belonged to nation of islam and were not jewish

#16: so do I! Cheers man.

I think Cadillac has improved in leaps and bounds in a very short time and that is very commendable. However, anyone who thinks that an STS is on the same level as a Lexus LS430 is wearing blinders. The LS430 trumps the STS in two areas that count the most in that market segment: build quality and reliability. That’s not to say the STS is a bad car, on the contrary, I’m willing to bet that it’s more reliable (as in less unscheduled dealer visits) than any of the German competition. I think Caddilac deserves something for the huge improvements they’ve made. Lincoln, unfortunately, has fallen so far behind that it’s just plain sad. The LS had so much potential but Ford decided not to improve it much over the course of production and is now a relic compared to similarly priced sedans.

heres my name is just jelous you see he cant AFFORD a Cadillac so he feels the need to jerk off and be jelous of the people who have one. hes probably still driving around in mommys civic hahahaha he makes me laugh.

It usually starts with one survey. Didn’t Lexus’ reputaion start with “one survey”? Cadillac has been receiving praise from a number of sources, so this is no fluke. Their product line has steadily improved and become more competitive, and the next generation of new Cadillacs will continue this.

As far as the” jewmobile” and “kike” comments, maybe you asswipes should log onto nazi****heels.com. Or get a job with Jessie “Hymietown” Jackson.

First of all you illiterate low-life learn how to spell. Yhe word you were attempting to spell is “JEALOUS”. Your ignorance makes me sad.

Driving his mommy’s civic? Lol, some of you guys don’t even sound old enough to be driving…getting kicks because some dude misspelled “jealous”? W.T.F.?

I think the issue is that many people just can not find any reason to want an American car. I do not find the body of any GM/Ford/Chrysler car to be appealing nor do I find their interiors to be of the quality I get with VW/Audi/Acura/BMW/MB etc(just to name a few of the car manufacturers I do like)

Its not just about performance, or just about exterior looks or just about the interior or ride or even reliability. Its a total package thing. I will admit that some German cars have more issues or may require more maintenance, but thats fine with me because I get to drive what I want to drive as long as it doesn’t just fall apart.

That being said I think its a good that Cadillac is improving in reliability. I am not a huge fan of the exterior design of Lexus and I absolutely hate the design of Cadillacs, but maybe I am just not the intended market.

When is Cadillac going to make a car for us christians then? Born again to be precise.
I hope Dan Brown doesn’t drive a Cadillac, that book is scandalous. Didn’t Buick’s have a cross on the front and a St Christopher as standard?

Im a PORG is that like an ELF?

No, wait til December, then you’ll see and elf. It’s funny to see how often Mike makes his rounds here, and simply wants to argue with everyone. Mike, make your point in relation to the article & move on.

oh so a lexus is an overpriced toyota…well here is NEWS for YOU. cadillacs are OVERPRICED CHEVYS (read: piece of ****). as much as toyota has been pounded on for being boring, i would rather drive a toyota than the ugly trash put out by GM.

AJ, it is just too easy for people wound a little too tight (like our dear friend Patrick, for example) to make easy targets of themselves.

and I made my point in the first post:

the ridgeline has a category?

and

Good for Caddy!

While I agree that Lexus and Toyota are a bit boring (new IS excluded) Its not an overpriced Toyota its a refined toyota with options you can not get on the lower end.

For those that are comparing Caddy to MB, you have never driven a mercedes, because its just not in the same category.

Drive a Lexus… or better yet, GET IN one before you Camry blah blah blah.

Lexus car interiors are frigging palaces. Toyota? You wish.

A Lexus is a very high end car–boring or otherwise. The whole Toyota comparison does nothing more than show ignorance.

You know, Mercy Benz are taxi’s in most countrys. How confused we Americans have become.

im 19 workin my ass off putting myself through Duquesne University and own a 1983 Trans AM and a 1997 CADILLAC ELDORADO TOURING COUPE

So you are David Hasselhoff during the week and Wilfred Brimley on the weekends? Do the other kids know of your dual personallity?

I like this web page for the articles. But the comments are really turning me off. Enough with the religous comments and childish comments!!!

Hey damn right im Hasselhoff my Trans AM is KITT also!

Every single time a news post somehow related to Lexus is posted someone always says something similar to “Lexus is only a high priced Camry” now it’s obvious to me that those have never ever even been close to a Lexus. I have driven both and I can honestly tell you there is a WORLD of difference and I’m not saying that Camry is bad in anyway. Lexus makes freaking awesome luxury cars, period. If they are better or worse than Benzes or a Cadillac is however, open to debate.

And before anyone gets smart, I, and no one in my family owns a Toyota or Lexus, hell we only have European cars (two BMW’s and a Benz).

mike, im hardly wound tight, maybe i just cant really stand closeminded people that pull lame **** out of nowhere, like eco terrorist crap. however i commend you on telling that anti semite off, im jewish and it seems there are just a plethora of anti semetic people on this site, maybe you’re not so closeminded afterall. on second thought..

OMG a jewish patrick, ithought we were all Irih catholics or French

No problem Patrick, I’m a methodist myself (christian lite) but I agree that the level of anti-semetism in many cases has grown out of control. Not sure about this forum though, that was the first blatently anti-semetic b.s. I’ve seen. If you want some good reading, google search “Little Green Footballs”, great political blog.

Once again, I was not calling you an elf, I am not calling you a domestic terrorist. I was merely anticipating a wave of anti GM comments, but I forgot that LLN is different from Autoblog in that it is not yet overrun with the full blown enviro wako’s.