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t has been inveterate that Cadillac plans to sound out the 2013 ATS sedan in the founder of 2012 followed by an ATS coupe as a 2014 supporter ennead months ulterior. A sofa is also due to be disclosed 9 months after the coupe. Additionally, a V-Series is also in the oven for the 2015 display assemblage. Announcements by Lansing, Cards Mayor Virg Bernero and Pandemic Motors thoroughbred that Cadillac's new ATS serried litter testament be collective at GM's Lansing Grand River lay. Currently the complex assembles the Cadillac CTS and STS.
With an promotion to the air of $190 1000000 to modify the Lansing Noble River construction pass, Cadillac's ATS forge faculty fit below the CTS and is unsurprising to competitor the Mercedes-Benz C-Class and BMW 3-Series. "We leave hit a car positioned below the CTS in our roster to vie with the BMW 3 Program and Mercedes-Benz C gathering." said Cadillac spokesman Cutting Twork.
The 2013 Cadillac XTS is an all-new model.
Cadillac will look to extend its youthful style and cachet into the upper reaches of its lineup with the 2013 Cadillac XTS. Evolving from the XTS Platinum concept shown at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, the XTS will be based on the same platform as the front-wheel-drive Buick LaCrosse and will replace the aging STS and DTS sedans. We also expect an all-wheel-drive option, based on the concept.
The XTS Platinum concept was shown with a plug-in hybrid powertrain using a 3.6-liter V6, plus at least one electric motor and a lithium-ion battery pack. Cadillac says it produces 350 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque. A turbocharged V6 is also a likely option.
Exterior highlights include a sleeker evolution of Cadillac's current styling theme, with 20-inch wheels and vertical headlights and taillights. Inside, the XTS will minimize traditional buttons and switches and use a "dead front" design -- the instrument panel appears black until the car is turned on and the screens light up.
The 2013 Cadillac XTS should go on sale sometime in the spring of 2012. Check back later for a full review of the XTS with driving impressions and buying advice.
Cadillac has confirmed that it will introduce a new large luxury sedan in spring of 2012, a car that was previewed at the 2010 Detroit auto show by the XTS Platinum concept. Now we have learned that said flagship sedan will have a name, also previewed by the XTS Platinum concept (sans the Platinum and concept parts). There had been some thought that the XTS might be dubbed ETS for production, but GM apparently doesn’t believe ETS fits the big car as well as XTS.
Another term GM is not assigning to this car is the word “flagship.” Despite its larger-than-CTS size, the XTS will not go after the Mercedes-Benz S-class, Lexus LS and the like (Cadillac has plans for a proper rear-wheel-drive flagship for 2014 or 2015). Rather, the XTS will shamelessly target traditional Cadillac buyers, mainly aging boomers (i.e.: those who, unlike us, miss the old front-wheel-drive DTS) and probably a few livery operators as well. But these traditional buyers will have to adapt to a decidedly non-traditional interior. As we noted when we published spy photos of the XTS earlier this year, the XTS’s dashboard will be devoid of traditional switchgear and rely heavily on capacitive-touch controls, much like the Chevrolet Volt and Lincoln MKX. Buyers also will have to be content with the XTS’s planned V-6 and possible hybrid powertrains.
We predict the XTS’s packaging will sell well here, although an even more important market for the XTS is China. Given that country’s proclivities toward glitzy grilles and high-tech luxury, there’s a good chance that the XTS finds its largest market in Asia.
As soon as Cadillac announced that they are going to replace Cadillac DTS and STS with a bigger and better 2013 Cadillac XTS, everyone is wondering if GM has really decided to compete with European luxury brands. Sounds like a big step to take right after they have just started to recover from the bankruptcy trauma. GM better come up with something as good as the legendary Eldorado and Rancher.
Before we start giving opinions on that, we must not forget that the good old Cady is one of the oldest luxury brands in America. It has a history of pioneering countless accessories in automobiles and is also the brand behind the all famous V8. Although being a luxury vehicle Cadillac has never been the fastest selling brand, the sales of DTS and STS were slower than ever. The future XTS seems like an attempt to reclaim the throne once again, but is this premium sedan really going to be the saving grace of Cady? Let’s find out.
Beneath that eclectic collection of camouflage resides an early prototype of the next flagship of the Cadillac fleet -- a vehicle GM's luxury division first presented as the XTS Platinum Concept at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show. While much information about this de facto even-higher-end replacement for its current DTS and STS models remains classified, we do know that the production version of the 2013 Cadillac XTS will be spun from a stretched version of GM's Epsilon II platform -- architecture that currently also underpins the Buick LaCrosse -- and that it's expected to start rolling out of the automaker's Oshawa assembly facility in Ontario, Canada, starting sometime next spring.
Despite its full-body cover-up, this prototype appears to retain a good bit of the basic styling and proportions seen on its one-off predecessor. Our current best information indicates that the standard powerplant for the 2013 Cadillac XTS will be a version of GM's 3.6-liter direct-injected V6; although a turbocharged 3.0-liter six also is rumored, as are both front-drive and all-wheel-drive configurations. Interestingly enough, one of the items not cloaked on this prototype are its Brembo brakes, a bit of hardware that seems to open the possibility of an XTS-V variant turning up at some point in the future.
General Motors made a surprisingly speedy trip through bankruptcy court, a process that involved selling the most valuable assets of the "Old GM" to a "New GM" owned by the U.S. and Canadian governments, an auto-workers health-care trust, and a bondholders group. In exchange for government aid, GM agreed to guarantee employment at certain plants, including its Canadian complex in Oshawa, Ontario. The 2013 Cadillac XTS is one of four new vehicles that GM promised to build there. The others are a 2011 Buick Regal midsize sedan, a North American version of the recently launched China-market model; a redesigned Chevrolet Impala midsize sedan, slated to start production in early 2013; and a hybrid vehicle of some kind, perhaps based on one of the above. Oshawa is also the sole source for the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro and is racing to keep up with early-days demand for that reborn "ponycar."
Significantly, the four new Oshawa models share the global Epsilon 2 midsize car architecture that was developed pre-Chapter 11 as a joint effort among GM's European, Asian, and North American operations. According to the National Post, the 2013 Cadillac XTS will be a "stretch" Epsilon, suggesting a larger and plusher sedan than the Epsilon-based 2010 Buick LaCrosse (badged Allure for Canada). That car is built at GM's Fairfax plant in Kansas City, Kansas, alongside the Chevrolet Malibu. The reason XTS, Regal, and the next Impala are coming from Up North--other than GM's need for financial support from Ottawa--is that Oshawa has greater flexibility for building vehicles of different types and sizes. That's especially important now. As an unnamed GM source told the National Post, the company must be able to "juggle the production mix to meet the market" if it hopes to be profitable again and pay back its loans. "That is something that GM has not had the full-scale opportunity to do," the insider noted. "In the past they've built assembly plants dedicated to one vehicle, they run the piss out of it, and they throw money to make the public buy it...That's passé. That's the bad old days we hope will never come again."
Flexibility is a hallmark of the E2 architecture itself, which comes in three basic sizes. The 2013 Cadillac XTS is designed on the largest variation, no surprise for the new flagship car at GM's flagship brand. The Regal uses the smallest version, the LaCrosse and next-gen Impala the in-between size. We've extrapolated XTS dimensions from those of the LaCrosse as well as the redesigned 2010 Saab 9-5, another "big E2" model.
Regardless of size, Epsilon is engineered to accommodate front-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drive powertrains, so we expect the 2013 Cadillac XTS to offer those choices. That compares with the outgoing STS, built on GM's Sigma platform with rear-drive and AWD, and the front-drive-only DTS, whose structural roots date from the late 1990s.
As far as we know, however, the E2 platform cannot accommodate a V8 engine, so look for the 2013 Cadillac XTS to come with the top-line LaCrosse option, a 3.6-liter V6 with economy-boosting direct fuel injection. We suspect this new corporate mainstay will be tuned up some for XTS duty, adding at least 20 horsepower and 16 lb-ft of torque over Buick's version, partly to compensate for the Caddy's expected greater weight. Only one transmission is likely too, the same 6-speed automatic used in most every other U.S.-market Epsilon-based model.
he Cadillac-related announcements keep dropping in as after the release of a teaser photo of the firm's entry-level compact sedan codenamed ATS, GM revealed that we're also going to see a flagship luxury sedan model added to Cadillac's range in the Spring of 2012.
We will come to know that model as the Cadillac XTS and it will replace both the current STS and the DTS, the production of which was terminated this year.
General Motors may not have published a teaser photo of its Cadillac range-topper in the sedan category but the Detroit firm said it will be modeled closely after last year's XTS Platinum concept study adding that the final production model will be revealed in the coming months – obviously either in LA this November or Detroit in January 2012.
The company is highly optimistic for the new XTS claiming it will compete against the best.
"The Cadillac XTS is being designed to compete and win against the finest luxury cars," GM said in a prepared statement. "It takes a new, modern approach to the large luxury sedan, combining high-tech electronics and engaging driving dynamics in a car that is also elegant and spacious," the company added.
The new 2013 Cadillac XTS will be manufactured at the Oshawa Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada, with GM saying it will invest $117 million to prepare the facility and at the same time, "create or retain" 400 jobs on the Flex Line
And rounding out the new offerings from Cadillac spy shot week are these new spy shots of the front-drive Cadillac XTS full-size flagship luxury sedan. Yesterday, of course, we had spy shots of the new rear-drive ATS small sedan.
For those of you keeping track, we're using some basic knowledge of steering rack positioning to differentiate between the FWD and RWD offerings we've been seeing as the camo does a fair job of hiding size and scale and the drivers do a good job of not parking next to measuring sticks. We know one is going to be rear drive, and one front drive.
Zoom in on the brakes here and on the ATS. On this test mule we've got front-mounted four (could be six, hard to tell) piston fixed Brembos (!) and the rear caliper is on the back side of the rotor.
Now check the ATS from yesterday:
The front fixies are on the trailing side of the wheel allowing for a front-mounted steering rack (for better feel -- if you're fighting a 3-series, this is critical) while the rear brakes are leading. And excluding a few oddities, a rear-mounted steering rack (as we surely have here) means front or all wheel drive means XTS.
Other differences between this and the mule from yesterday include a larger, more prominent front clip, side-view mirrors with turn signals, and various different body lines (note the cut-line for the rear door).
On the whole, this flagship Cadillac looks fairly awesome with sharp lines and a helluva presence even under all that camo.
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t has been inveterate that Cadillac plans to sound out the 2013 ATS sedan in the founder of 2012 followed by an ATS coupe as a 2014 supporter ennead months ulterior. A sofa is also due to be disclosed 9 months after the coupe. Additionally, a V-Series is also in the oven for the 2015 display assemblage. Announcements by Lansing, Cards Mayor Virg Bernero and Pandemic Motors thoroughbred that Cadillac's new ATS serried litter testament be collective at GM's Lansing Grand River lay. Currently the complex assembles the Cadillac CTS and STS.
With an promotion to the air of $190 1000000 to modify the Lansing Noble River construction pass, Cadillac's ATS forge faculty fit below the CTS and is unsurprising to competitor the Mercedes-Benz C-Class and BMW 3-Series. "We leave hit a car positioned below the CTS in our roster to vie with the BMW 3 Program and Mercedes-Benz C gathering." said Cadillac spokesman Cutting Twork.
The 2013 Cadillac XTS is an all-new model.
Cadillac will look to extend its youthful style and cachet into the upper reaches of its lineup with the 2013 Cadillac XTS. Evolving from the XTS Platinum concept shown at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, the XTS will be based on the same platform as the front-wheel-drive Buick LaCrosse and will replace the aging STS and DTS sedans. We also expect an all-wheel-drive option, based on the concept.
The XTS Platinum concept was shown with a plug-in hybrid powertrain using a 3.6-liter V6, plus at least one electric motor and a lithium-ion battery pack. Cadillac says it produces 350 horsepower and 295 pound-feet of torque. A turbocharged V6 is also a likely option.
Exterior highlights include a sleeker evolution of Cadillac's current styling theme, with 20-inch wheels and vertical headlights and taillights. Inside, the XTS will minimize traditional buttons and switches and use a "dead front" design -- the instrument panel appears black until the car is turned on and the screens light up.
The 2013 Cadillac XTS should go on sale sometime in the spring of 2012. Check back later for a full review of the XTS with driving impressions and buying advice.
Cadillac has confirmed that it will introduce a new large luxury sedan in spring of 2012, a car that was previewed at the 2010 Detroit auto show by the XTS Platinum concept. Now we have learned that said flagship sedan will have a name, also previewed by the XTS Platinum concept (sans the Platinum and concept parts). There had been some thought that the XTS might be dubbed ETS for production, but GM apparently doesn’t believe ETS fits the big car as well as XTS.
Another term GM is not assigning to this car is the word “flagship.” Despite its larger-than-CTS size, the XTS will not go after the Mercedes-Benz S-class, Lexus LS and the like (Cadillac has plans for a proper rear-wheel-drive flagship for 2014 or 2015). Rather, the XTS will shamelessly target traditional Cadillac buyers, mainly aging boomers (i.e.: those who, unlike us, miss the old front-wheel-drive DTS) and probably a few livery operators as well. But these traditional buyers will have to adapt to a decidedly non-traditional interior. As we noted when we published spy photos of the XTS earlier this year, the XTS’s dashboard will be devoid of traditional switchgear and rely heavily on capacitive-touch controls, much like the Chevrolet Volt and Lincoln MKX. Buyers also will have to be content with the XTS’s planned V-6 and possible hybrid powertrains.
We predict the XTS’s packaging will sell well here, although an even more important market for the XTS is China. Given that country’s proclivities toward glitzy grilles and high-tech luxury, there’s a good chance that the XTS finds its largest market in Asia.
As soon as Cadillac announced that they are going to replace Cadillac DTS and STS with a bigger and better 2013 Cadillac XTS, everyone is wondering if GM has really decided to compete with European luxury brands. Sounds like a big step to take right after they have just started to recover from the bankruptcy trauma. GM better come up with something as good as the legendary Eldorado and Rancher.
Before we start giving opinions on that, we must not forget that the good old Cady is one of the oldest luxury brands in America. It has a history of pioneering countless accessories in automobiles and is also the brand behind the all famous V8. Although being a luxury vehicle Cadillac has never been the fastest selling brand, the sales of DTS and STS were slower than ever. The future XTS seems like an attempt to reclaim the throne once again, but is this premium sedan really going to be the saving grace of Cady? Let’s find out.
Beneath that eclectic collection of camouflage resides an early prototype of the next flagship of the Cadillac fleet -- a vehicle GM's luxury division first presented as the XTS Platinum Concept at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show. While much information about this de facto even-higher-end replacement for its current DTS and STS models remains classified, we do know that the production version of the 2013 Cadillac XTS will be spun from a stretched version of GM's Epsilon II platform -- architecture that currently also underpins the Buick LaCrosse -- and that it's expected to start rolling out of the automaker's Oshawa assembly facility in Ontario, Canada, starting sometime next spring.
Despite its full-body cover-up, this prototype appears to retain a good bit of the basic styling and proportions seen on its one-off predecessor. Our current best information indicates that the standard powerplant for the 2013 Cadillac XTS will be a version of GM's 3.6-liter direct-injected V6; although a turbocharged 3.0-liter six also is rumored, as are both front-drive and all-wheel-drive configurations. Interestingly enough, one of the items not cloaked on this prototype are its Brembo brakes, a bit of hardware that seems to open the possibility of an XTS-V variant turning up at some point in the future.
General Motors made a surprisingly speedy trip through bankruptcy court, a process that involved selling the most valuable assets of the "Old GM" to a "New GM" owned by the U.S. and Canadian governments, an auto-workers health-care trust, and a bondholders group. In exchange for government aid, GM agreed to guarantee employment at certain plants, including its Canadian complex in Oshawa, Ontario. The 2013 Cadillac XTS is one of four new vehicles that GM promised to build there. The others are a 2011 Buick Regal midsize sedan, a North American version of the recently launched China-market model; a redesigned Chevrolet Impala midsize sedan, slated to start production in early 2013; and a hybrid vehicle of some kind, perhaps based on one of the above. Oshawa is also the sole source for the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro and is racing to keep up with early-days demand for that reborn "ponycar."
Significantly, the four new Oshawa models share the global Epsilon 2 midsize car architecture that was developed pre-Chapter 11 as a joint effort among GM's European, Asian, and North American operations. According to the National Post, the 2013 Cadillac XTS will be a "stretch" Epsilon, suggesting a larger and plusher sedan than the Epsilon-based 2010 Buick LaCrosse (badged Allure for Canada). That car is built at GM's Fairfax plant in Kansas City, Kansas, alongside the Chevrolet Malibu. The reason XTS, Regal, and the next Impala are coming from Up North--other than GM's need for financial support from Ottawa--is that Oshawa has greater flexibility for building vehicles of different types and sizes. That's especially important now. As an unnamed GM source told the National Post, the company must be able to "juggle the production mix to meet the market" if it hopes to be profitable again and pay back its loans. "That is something that GM has not had the full-scale opportunity to do," the insider noted. "In the past they've built assembly plants dedicated to one vehicle, they run the piss out of it, and they throw money to make the public buy it...That's passé. That's the bad old days we hope will never come again."
Flexibility is a hallmark of the E2 architecture itself, which comes in three basic sizes. The 2013 Cadillac XTS is designed on the largest variation, no surprise for the new flagship car at GM's flagship brand. The Regal uses the smallest version, the LaCrosse and next-gen Impala the in-between size. We've extrapolated XTS dimensions from those of the LaCrosse as well as the redesigned 2010 Saab 9-5, another "big E2" model.
Regardless of size, Epsilon is engineered to accommodate front-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drive powertrains, so we expect the 2013 Cadillac XTS to offer those choices. That compares with the outgoing STS, built on GM's Sigma platform with rear-drive and AWD, and the front-drive-only DTS, whose structural roots date from the late 1990s.
As far as we know, however, the E2 platform cannot accommodate a V8 engine, so look for the 2013 Cadillac XTS to come with the top-line LaCrosse option, a 3.6-liter V6 with economy-boosting direct fuel injection. We suspect this new corporate mainstay will be tuned up some for XTS duty, adding at least 20 horsepower and 16 lb-ft of torque over Buick's version, partly to compensate for the Caddy's expected greater weight. Only one transmission is likely too, the same 6-speed automatic used in most every other U.S.-market Epsilon-based model.
he Cadillac-related announcements keep dropping in as after the release of a teaser photo of the firm's entry-level compact sedan codenamed ATS, GM revealed that we're also going to see a flagship luxury sedan model added to Cadillac's range in the Spring of 2012.
We will come to know that model as the Cadillac XTS and it will replace both the current STS and the DTS, the production of which was terminated this year.
General Motors may not have published a teaser photo of its Cadillac range-topper in the sedan category but the Detroit firm said it will be modeled closely after last year's XTS Platinum concept study adding that the final production model will be revealed in the coming months – obviously either in LA this November or Detroit in January 2012.
The company is highly optimistic for the new XTS claiming it will compete against the best.
"The Cadillac XTS is being designed to compete and win against the finest luxury cars," GM said in a prepared statement. "It takes a new, modern approach to the large luxury sedan, combining high-tech electronics and engaging driving dynamics in a car that is also elegant and spacious," the company added.
The new 2013 Cadillac XTS will be manufactured at the Oshawa Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada, with GM saying it will invest $117 million to prepare the facility and at the same time, "create or retain" 400 jobs on the Flex Line
And rounding out the new offerings from Cadillac spy shot week are these new spy shots of the front-drive Cadillac XTS full-size flagship luxury sedan. Yesterday, of course, we had spy shots of the new rear-drive ATS small sedan.
For those of you keeping track, we're using some basic knowledge of steering rack positioning to differentiate between the FWD and RWD offerings we've been seeing as the camo does a fair job of hiding size and scale and the drivers do a good job of not parking next to measuring sticks. We know one is going to be rear drive, and one front drive.
Zoom in on the brakes here and on the ATS. On this test mule we've got front-mounted four (could be six, hard to tell) piston fixed Brembos (!) and the rear caliper is on the back side of the rotor.
Now check the ATS from yesterday:
The front fixies are on the trailing side of the wheel allowing for a front-mounted steering rack (for better feel -- if you're fighting a 3-series, this is critical) while the rear brakes are leading. And excluding a few oddities, a rear-mounted steering rack (as we surely have here) means front or all wheel drive means XTS.
Other differences between this and the mule from yesterday include a larger, more prominent front clip, side-view mirrors with turn signals, and various different body lines (note the cut-line for the rear door).
On the whole, this flagship Cadillac looks fairly awesome with sharp lines and a helluva presence even under all that camo.
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