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Originally Posted by The Tony Show  Ummm.....I know- that's why the STS had less legroom than the Lucerne, because the Lucerne shares a chassis with the DTS, not the STS.
If you said the STS had a lot less legroom than the Lacrosse then there would be something to discuss, but a Lucerne/DTS having a big back seat isn't exactly a revelation. |
What I was getting at was that the DTS is larger in virtually ALL dimensions than the Lucerne but the Lucerne is only bigger than the STS in a couple. This would suggest to me that the Lucerne is NOT "cross the board" a larger car than the STS. And if that is correct, how can you simply say that the Lucerne shouldn't be compared to the STS? Or that's it's unreasonable to.
Face it, these cars don't necessarily have any clear-cut points of comparison. For that reason, it's kind of hard to "directly" compare it to any one competitor. For that reason, if they want to play games with the specs, making it hard to compare models, I say fine, and find ones that are at least "close". In this case, that's not hard since ALL the GM sedans in question here are separated by at most an inch or so. What I've found over the years is that those dimensional specs can be misleading at times. A car that looks bigger on paper, may actually be functionally smaller. Such is the case here. While the Cadillac and Buick seem fairly close in virtually every dimensional spec, they are quite different with respect to egress/ingress and I found that surprising.