OFFICIAL: 2015.5 (2015i) Discussion Thread

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I don't mind a Denali grille on a Yukon or Escalade parts on (Obviously) But putting Denali lettering on it is a little too far :imo:
 

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If I didn't get a real Denali I would have done the same thing.

I couldn't care less what others think - I just think the Denali grille looks about a million times better.
 
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Whatever pleasure you get with having a "look-alike" Denali will be CRUSHED when the first person who knows better calls you out on it and makes you feel like a poser.
 

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DETROIT — Cadillac dealer Bill Wallace loves the reaction to the flashy 2015 Escalade that hit his showroom this spring: A dozen customers have plunked down deposits, and more are lined up with checks in hand for the redesigned SUV.

But Wallace is refusing to take additional orders for fear of aggravating customers.

“We can’t get firm delivery dates” from General Motors, says Wallace, owner of Wallace Cadillac in Stuart, Fla., who says he has seen four would-be buyers walk after weeks of waiting. “It’s hard to tell a guy who is waiting for a $75,000 car that I have no idea when he’ll get it.”

Cadillac dealers nationwide are frustrated over the choppy rollout of the ’15 Escalade, the first redesign of the luxury barge in eight years.

Logistical snags and prolonged quality inspections at GM’s SUV assembly plant in Arlington, Texas, have led to delays of a month or more from the time Escalades roll off the assembly line to when they show up at dealerships. That’s roughly triple the usual wait time.

Kurt McNeil, head of GM’s U.S. sales operations and interim Cadillac sales chief, told Automotive News that a lengthy quality-assurance process on some interior parts, such as leather that’s cut and sewn by hand, contributed to the delays.

“We deployed more people to Arlington to speed up the analysis process,” McNeil said in an e-mailed statement from a GM spokesman. He said GM “added many more trucks to the distribution system to increase shipping capacity.”

GM also has struggled with the logistics of prioritizing deliveries of presold Escalades vs. other SUVs built at Arlington, the redesigned Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban and GMC Yukon and Yukon XL, according to two people familiar with the matter. In some cases, SUVs set aside for quality inspection have been stuck for weeks in holding lots as workers tried to clear hundreds of other trucks ahead of them, the sources said.

Dealers say the delays have been especially irksome because they have inconvenienced an influential, high-rolling clientele who haven’t blinked at the big price tag, which went up about $8,000 from the outgoing generation, to $72,690 for a base model, including shipping.

“These are some of my most loyal customers,” says Todd Snell, CEO of Snell Motors Inc., a Buick-GMC-Cadillac dealer in Mankato, Minn. He said a few waiting customers lost patience and went outside his market to buy their Escalades.

Snell said he normally keeps 10 to 15 Escalades on his lot. As of late last week, he had none on the ground and had sold only one 2015 model — he hasn’t even test driven one because of the scarcity. He said one customer’s vehicle was held up at Arlington for two months, according to information from GM’s tracking system.

“I commend [GM] for wanting to get them right,” said Snell, who also stopped taking preorders. “But at the same time, we have customers who think we’re lying to them. We tell them it’s been built, and then weeks go by.”

The problem with the Escalade launch is different because it has snagged built-and-spoken-for vehicles that are simply taking too long to show up.

“We have orders we placed in February and March that still aren’t filled,” says a manager at one of the nation’s highest-volume Cadillac stores. “If we got 20 in a shipment this morning, they’d be gone by this afternoon.”

Wallace, the Florida dealer, says he believes the launch will be “an enormous success” once the distribution bugs are ironed out because customers think the truck “is spectacular. They get inside and just say, ‘Oh my God.’”

GM “has taken care of the hard part,” Wallace says. “The ball is at the goal line. They just need to get me the car.”


I wonder if this will affect the launch of the 2015.5??
 

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Have a 2015 Yukon Denali on order, should be shipped within the next week or so. Just found this forum and read about the 8 speed transmission. Now I'm torn. Would like to hear more from those with the 6 speed. Their feelings about lag issues, etc. I told the salesman today about it and he said doesn't have any info on the order date. I don't need the truck until December. Thanks for the advice.
 

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Have a 2015 Yukon Denali on order, should be shipped within the next week or so. Just found this forum and read about the 8 speed transmission. Now I'm torn. Would like to hear more from those with the 6 speed. Their feelings about lag issues, etc. I told the salesman today about it and he said doesn't have any info on the order date. I don't need the truck until December. Thanks for the advice.

Just hold the order if you can.


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This probably isn't the best place to get that question answered. Go drive one and then make your decision. I can tell you I have one and haven't experienced any of the lag people talk about.
 

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Ya. I told him I would make a decision once mine arrived. Hopefully they have more info by then.
 

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This probably isn't the best place to get that question answered. Go drive one and then make your decision. I can tell you I have one and haven't experienced any of the lag people talk about.

X2. If I wanted a race car, I'd bought a 2015 Z06. If I wanted a trailer hauler, I'd bought a Denali 3500HD truck.

My Denali hauls family. My wife wouldn't know the difference in a 1 speed or a 10 speed transmission.
 
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Just cancel and reorder in 2 weeks. You'll have it by December. Why debate getting the outdated model when you can simply refuse the order and reorder another unit.

BTW, the dealers are no longer accepting orders for the outdated models and GM is done producing the outdated models sometime this week.
 

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