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Originally Posted by Lucky13
Short and selective memory from Efthreeoh, guess he wasn't around for the Cadillac Cimarron. Yes Cadillac has heritage from the same time period as mentioned for BMW but it was embarrassing. If he read the Car and Driver article as I did it says clearly that the ATS engine is crap compared to the BMW.
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Yeah, well I was around for the Cimarron and well remember what a joke it was. But it was a joke because it was a warmed-over Cavilier economy car, not just because it had a 4-cylinder tractor motor. That car is long gone anyway and was around for one model cycle, so I'll say it is nowhere close to a heritage model for Cadillac; sorry, nice try.
BMW has been continiously selling in the USA the 3 series with an N/A I6 for the last 25 years. The 3 series has always been a sports sedan since day one. The cavilier was Cadillac's attempt at a luxury economy car when gas was the equivelent of $4.50 a gallon in the 1980s. The ATS is a clean-sheet sports sedan with no heritage; it's that simple.