How can we make this website beneficial to Cadillac? What can we all do as a team that can impact Cadillac in a positive way. All ideas, suggestions and criticisms are welcome...

Thank you...

I wish I cared at this point. I've tried to talk it over with Cadillac and quite frankly, everyone I talked to blew me off.
I'm more interested in being a value to Cadillac owners.

I understand your point of view, totally.. But, they're going to wake up at some point or another. And when they do, and they eventually find us, I'd like for them to see us as a benefit.. I want us to be a benefit to people who own Cadillacs and to the company that makes them. We don't necessarily need their blessing. And we shouldn't expect to be repaid for the favor...

So with that in mind.. Is there anything we can do for them? Maybe something that causes them to be happy to have found us in the future?

id say keep doing what we're doing...having a mostly non-confrontational forum that celebrates the Cadillac without bashing every other make out there. there is some very good insight on this board and alot of differing views which is a great thing...Cadillac would be wise to read some of these posts.

Thanks Brett.. I think we all have high-hopes for this place and Cadillac.. Hopefully we can make a positive impact on Cadillac sales across the globe...

Another thing that would help would be to have a close relationship with the CLC. There are several current and past Cadillac employees (and executives) in their membership. I know Cadillac keeps a close eye on them. If we were to get close to them, it would probably help in the long run.

What's the CLC? Cadillac LaSalle Club?

Yeah

Maybe I'll go and ask them for a link exchange... Any other suggestions?

www.cadillaclasalleclub.org?

That's the one ;)
There club magazines etc that are published all over the world. I know this because I just recently found out that the New Zealand chapter used pictures of my car on their front and back covers.

Unfortunately Cadillac is a typically unresponsive arm of the parent company.....They don't seem to want customer input! I think what we're already doing here is fine and I like the CLC thing.

I sent them an email. Hopefully they respond soon.. Cadillac will change their ways, eventually. They can't stay old fashioned forever...

If Cadillac stayed old-fashioned forever, would there have ever been a CTS or XLR?

Of course. They would've just had REAL names instead ;)

Oh No! Not real names!!! Too complicated for the young victims of modern public education! ( Requires reading skills!)

Don't buy small or these new Hybrid cars, there is enough oil in the ground, they are still discovering patches of oil up here that are as large as Texas.

The problem with that Ralph, Is that you have to fight the environMENTALists ( Pronounced...Anti-American industry ) Who have lobbied themselves into a position of unrealistic importance based on a lot of junk science and political rock throwing. A lot of you weren't here for the '70s when the environmentalists were insisting based on junk science that we were headed into another ice age! This was due to a phenomenon known then as global cooling ( Which NO ONE could prove ) They had all kinds of scientists running around babbleing about how we were all gonna freeze our asses off! Then in the late '80s all of the sudden it was the supposed dreaded hole in the Ozone Layer ( which we have not been able to measure long enough to know what is normal ) that was causing Global Warming! And once again they parade out a bunch of guys with white coats and glasses on the end of their noses to tell us that were all gonna drown in the melting polar ice caps! They tell us regularly that were killing off all the forestation on the planet yet everything that I've read on the subject seems to indicate just the opposite! Once again they are trying to give you a doomsday scenario to scare you into seeing their way in order to further their own ANTI-AMERICAN agenda! This kind of stuff never seems to come from anyone but the left! Is this a coincidence? I don't think so...Because as we have all seen over the last few years...The left will say anything to further their cause or hide the information that doesn't support it!

you know what is REALLY funny?

in one of my past issues of Motor Trend, for the main letter to the editor thing, there was some guy bitching about how Americans are stupid in that we buy SUV's and huge trucks when small cars do the same thing, he was going on and on about how much they weigh, the chassis is more heavy, all the metal, how much more glass they have then a small car etc.... all this real anti-anything under 20mpg junk

this was on the left side of the page when you open the magizine up.

and you know what was adjcent to it, right on the right page?

a full page ad for the Hummer H2

damn I love GM

man, it was soo funny though, the guy is going on and on about all the glass, so I look at the H2, and like oh yeah, there is alotta glass on that thing. lol, it was funny.

I got into a "debate" a few times with some guys in Austrilla, (online) becuase they would keep knocking American cars and V8's saying their 1.3L (errr, 1.35, yeah I know big differnce, obviosly to him it was) were fine, so we get talking about sheer power and tourqe, and I was talking about a '67 GTO, and the guy was like yeah my Alfa Romeo (their expensive cars are nice) with the 1.35L would smoke that chunk of metal. I couldn't do anything but laugh

His attitude is typical of the brainwashed euro types that think what they've been told all their lives is gospel. ( I know it's Austrailia, but it's the same mentality!)

Here, here, also, if Saturn can make an all plastic car (except the steel roof), and Ford had the technology to build an all plastic engine that would not melt, I would have no problem buying a full-size, light-weight, gas mizer SUV. Only then, we would piss-off the oil companies.

Originally posted by Ralph
Here, here, also, if Saturn can make an all plastic car (except the steel roof), and Ford had the technology to build an all plastic engine that would not melt, I would have no problem buying a full-size, light-weight, gas mizer SUV. Only then, we would piss-off the oil companies.


With all this red hot plastic technology we're hearing about, You'd think that these companies could get their interiors to stay together a little better! I haven't had any problems with the Cadillac but the kid has a Mustang that rattles and falls apart if you look at it wrong!

Originally posted by Panther

I got into a "debate" a few times with some guys in Austrilla, (online) becuase they would keep knocking American cars and V8's saying their 1.3L (errr, 1.35, yeah I know big differnce, obviosly to him it was) were fine, so we get talking about sheer power and tourqe, and I was talking about a '67 GTO, and the guy was like yeah my Alfa Romeo (their expensive cars are nice) with the 1.35L would smoke that chunk of metal. I couldn't do anything but laugh

Unfortunately,
The argument over old vs. new muscle has been done MILLIONS of times and it will NEVER be settled because the "old" guys are too stubborn to admit the truth; there IS a substitute for displacement, it's called "technology".
There ARE indeed 4-cyl. cars out there these days that will in fact SMOKE that "stock" '67 GTO. Hell, the '04 GTO would smoke any of the old "stock" GTO's.
But that doesn't mean I would rather have one of the new cars ;)

about cadillac, i think once they see what a following they have when the V cars start kicking ass they will come around.

On the anti-V8 people, that is one of the most un-american things to say. I mean come on, arnt we "free" to do what we want as long as we dont hurt anyone else? basicly. So why do we have to deal with crap from other people, and our own government about buying AMERICAN cars that we love? So has anyone seen the anti-SUV adds? its like the anti-drug adds, if you have a gass gusler you suport tarorists, thats a real nice thing to have put on you just about a friggin car!

I'm worried that activists will start targeting all V-8 large cars, just like the anti-gun lobby not stopping at semi-auto's, the environmentalists, etc. will not stop at large SUV's. These flakes are arguing that driving a large VEHICLE hurts them because it pollutes the air they breathe!

Not as much as I will if they make me drive a piece of crap 4 banger!

Was it not Britain that sent the prisoners that it didn't know what to do with to Austrailia? If that is truely the case (and I believe it is) it's no wonder that the hard core idiots in that part of the world are trying to influence world opinion against our way of life.