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Originally Posted by syr74
No, I saw it...I don't buy it, but I saw it. A luxury upgrade of Theta is still a Theta based platform. And there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that basing a new suv on a revised version of the existing Theta suv platform was a lot simpler scenario than trying to respin Sigma into a suv platform assuming that the latter is even possible.
Of course, because he would have no interest in convincing people that the platform of a Cadillac isn't related to a lowly Chevy, and the fact that both platforms just happen to have Theta in the name is pure coincidence. 
Frankly, I don't know why either of you are trying so hard to convince folks that this isn't an updated Theta. |
I can't figure out why it is so important to U to convince us that it is anything else. Furthermore it's almost a way for U to try and belittle a vehicle that is absolutely world class by connecting it to "lower end" models that are stellar by their own right.
A combination of Epsilon II and Theta II seems to be a more expensive exercise than taking the existing Sigma platform that was already in use in both the CTS II and STS... not to mention the existing SRX I.., and build a new SRX II on top of it. Platforms aren't only about the FRAME... they are about accommodations as well... and Sigma had it's limits, one of which was being RWD based. YUP I said RWD was limiting... mostly because the marketing/sales of these types of vehicles shows more success in the target demographic when it is in this type of wheel layout. The SRX I was a great vehicle... but it handled worse than the SRXII.. and it sold like hotcakes... at a Diet Fanatics Convention.
Why.. if I looked around at the market... and saw Lexus selling 100K CUVs
(and yes the SRX I was a competitor to both the RX350 and X5 as they two are competitors themselves) and we were selling 20K CUVs... and losing money... would I not change the game plan? Hell the SRX was DEAD for MY 2010 if U remember. I think the realization of possible hybrid applications via the Provoq Concept was what spawned the Green-Light on the current SRX.
