Kobrano, I think you missed the "American" bit of the car discussion   Just because it is built in the US, doesn't make it American.  They import all the parts, and some of it is even assembled before it gets to the plant.  Hardly any of Honda's profits stay in the US. Don't get me wrong, almost all cars are made of a mix of foreign and US, but Honda is definitely not an American car.  It would be like saying that Mercedes is American (Daimler Chrysler)

My husband has driven a rear wheel drive car his entire life.  The only time that I can remember that he ever got stuck was driving a GTZ (front wheel drive).  If you get stuck in your driveway 20 to 30 times in a year for any reason, you are simply just a bad driver.

After looking into it, it does appear that Honda has ramped up their US industry on certain models, so with that I was wrong.  However, buying a Honda is not supporting American Made cars.  Honda doesn't have plants here because they want to support the US, or that they want to strengthen the American work force, they are here to make more money and take advantage of tax and import savings.  With having a certain amount of business in the US, and having a US division, the cars that they import are treated differently.

They have about 16,000 workers in the US.  GM has about 150,000.  And, they also employ almost as many in their finance division (which also includes Ditech, which is owned by GM)

There is no way that you can lump an XLR with the typical Cadillac (or any car, for that matter).  That is just absurd.  It, and the CTS to a lesser degree, are luxury sports cars.  The XLR is almost like a luxury Corvette.  The XLR has a retractable hard top- it doesn't fold, it completely retracts (best of both worlds: have it open on nice summer days, and have a hard top without noise for the rest of the time).  The XLR has heated and cooled seats (that would be handy).  It also has an amazingly tuned suspension and a 4.6L V8 with variable valve timing.  It does a quarter mile in 14.3 seconds (damn, that is one fast Cadi!!) What about the touch screen climate and audio controls?  It also has hands free navigation that can be customized for different driver profiles.  Bose stereo.  Push button start (no key needed, just your keyless remote).  Heads up display (first "luxury" auto to have it).  Adaptive cruise control (senses the traffic patterns in front of you, and adjusts cruise control- especially handy if on a business call while driving, even with hands free)........ not the typical "car" in any class.  

The last car that I would consider is a Jag.  They are just a really expensive, fancy looking Taurus.  Jag+Ford=bad idea.

Nope.  I've owned foreign cars.  I own a few right now.  I have no problem with people buying foreign cars.   

Uh, I said that by having plants here that they get tax and terriff breaks on their imported cars.  How does that imply that "they'd be more American or help our country more if they kept their plants overseas"?  Now you are just manking your own assumptions. 

Yes, and the generlization was "Cadillac is the last car i'd examine if I was looking for a new one", which would include the Cadillac that he is looking at, and the one that this entire thread was based on.  I was also trying to bring the response back on topic (since the topic was basically "this is the car that I am looking at, but is there one as good that is front wheel drive".  I was pointing out the features of the car.  It's hard to top the features that it has.  And, simply, if I had the cash to blow on a single car, I'd buy that car.  But, I don't...and I already have too many cars....so it doesn't matter.

Brad seems pretty smart, so I am pretty sure that he can make up his own mind. 

I got the new car:

Jaguar S-type RACER upgraded to 500 HP!