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    The Model S is getting dated, that vehicle needs an update, mostly with styling and interior, since they are still fast and like 2.4 seconds 0-60 with ludicrous. GM won’t allow a car to be faster than a Corvette, especially not a Cadillac sedan. So the Celestique will be slower than the C8. Now that isn’t a problem if luxury is off the charts, Bentley, Rolls and Maybach S-class don’t really crack the 4 second 0-60 barrier but they have luxury. Cadillac hasn’t had a class leading interior in 50 years so I want to know how they think they can have a car that costs more than double an Escalade ?
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    The Model S challenger is the Celestique but it is double the price and slower. A winning strategy.
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    Daimler, BMW and VW have taken a hit from Tesla. As have Cadillac, Lexus and Infiniti. Look at how all those brands are seeing their sedan sales die off yet Tesla is cranking out Model 3's and S's are a pretty good clip. Cadillac Celestique won't sell, it will be a bigger failure than the ELR was. No one will take a hit from that other than Cadillac.
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    Cybertruck has over 500,000 orders, where are those coming from? There are only X number of full size truck buyers in the market. People that never bought a truck or never thought of buying a pickup are not all of a sudden going to buy a Cybertruck. I suspect F150, Ram 1500 and Silverado all see a 10-15% drop in sales the year Cybertruck goes on sale. Taycan is faster than a C8 Corvette and it says Porsche on it. The Cadillac won't be faster than a Corvette, because the Corvette has to be the fastest car at GM, so the Celestique won't be faster than a Model S either, since the C8 is slower than a Model S. And interiors have never been a Cadillac strong suit, they haven't had a best in class interior since like 1960 so I can't imagine all of a sudden they come up with a Bentley level interior for this car.
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    The Chevy/Buick SUVs are important since that is the meat of the market. They will have to beat out the Tesla Model Y and Mustang Mach E. The pickup is also important since Cybertruck pre-sales look like there will be strong demand and that will really eat into Ford/GM/Ram sales, and for those brands that is the #1 profit maker. Steve Carlisle said the Celestique will be over $200,000. He must be outside his mind if he thinks people are going to pay more than Porsche Taycan prices for a Cadillac.
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    But an XT3 would be more luxurious than a Buick and have Super Cruise. If it is about R&D dollars and they want to spend the money on EV’s then I can see that as a better use of resources. A small EV Cadillac would make more sense, especially from a weight and packaging standpoint. As for the UX, if it was a hybrid at this price point it wouldn’t be as much of a rip off and Lexus buyers would be able to brag about driving a hybrid even if the car sucks, it still gives them a reason to buy.
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    Toyota sold 17,000 UX’s last year and 49,000 of it’s platform mate the CH-R. And they probably sell more than that in Asia. It is a small segment but it is growing, and Cadillac will probably only sell 17k CT4’s this year and that car actually costs some money to build, definitely costs more than a rebadged Trax would. Probably the only reason there isn’t an XT3 is so that it doesn’t overlap the Buick Encore/GX.
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    The Lexus UX needs more motor, at least as an option a turbo or the Camry’s 2.5 liter.
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    A Cadillac XT3 would outsell the CT4 or CT5 easily and would maybe outsell the Escalade but not have nearly the margins Escalade does.
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    An XT4 is about 8 inches longer than a GLA, 6 more than a Q3, so there is room at Cadillac for a 175 inch long XT3. Hyundai Kona is selling well and is 18 inches shorter than an XT4. And the Hyundai Venue is 2 feet shorter than an XT4. Not that Cadillac is competing with Hyundai, but the market is demanding SUV's smaller than the XT4, because a lot of manufacturers are bringing out smaller than XT4 vehicles, and GM has some in the stable as well. Escalade is their GLS competitor, though I agree using Omega for an SUV would be better than any of the current Cadillac SUV platforms that come from the Equinox, Acadia and Tahoe.
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    This was rumored, I am sure there will be lots of online reveals of cars now. Corona virus could really put a dent in the global economy if it gets worse.
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    It won't cost a lot of money for GM to make a Cadillac XT3 out of existing parts. Cadillac could easily do an XT2 at 170" long and $29,990, and XT3 at 175" and $33,990 or something along those lines. Just like they could do an XT7 easily as well as either an Omega platform SUV, or a fastback roof, coupe style XT6. All this stuff is in the parts bin somewhere.
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    But XT4 is a Lexus NX competitor. Cadillac, Lincoln and Acura have no competitor to the UX.
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    X1, X2, GLA, GLB, Q3 are all better than this thing. There are 5 better options right there. Really the XT4 would be an NX competitor. But Cadillac could easily put out an XT3 at $33k and easily undercut the UX.
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    Yes and $2k extra for TRD Pro stickers. I actually think this vehicle is one of the biggest rip offs on the market right now.
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    It has plastic body cladding, that means it can go off road. Less horsepower in this than a 1998 Pontiac Montana minivan, which was also a proven off roader.
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    China has displacement taxes and Cadillac (And GM) is reliant on Chinese market sales. GM sells more in China than they do in USA so they have to engine downsize.
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    Your next car

    smk4565 replied to ocnblu's topic in The Lounge

    I plan on waiting a few years since I like my current car. Then I'll get another used Mercedes. I would like an SL, but I don't know if I really want to live with a low to the ground 2 seater when I am 6'2". If not the SL, back to an another E-class.
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    But the GLS has 3 other power options at 483, 550 and 603 hp, Escalade has the diesel option now, do at least there is another engine choice. Looks doubtful that MB will bring the diesel GLS back here. I think a supercharged V8 Escalade would sell better than a diesel Escalade though.
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    Does GM have a FWD transmission that can handle 400 hp? I guess they can resurrect the XTS V-sport powertrain for an XT5 or XT6, but would either of those be any good? Or would they torque steer all over the place and have reliability issues? But again, I hear the "Cadillac could do it" but at the end of the day they don't do it. And others don't either (Acura, Lexus etc) but then you see a Lincoln Aviator with 400 hp base and 495 hp as an option, when Cadillac maxes out at 310 hp because that is all the front wheels can handle. If Cadillac was going to do all this stuff, have the brand product line, or have good marketing, it would have happened by now.
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    Who knows if they will really do a V8 in the CT5, that could easily get budget cut if the CT5 sells slowly out of the gate. SUVs are what sell, and Cadillac put all theirs on chassis that can't support much more than 300 lb-ft of torque, this is the great miss. And Escalade-V, we'll see if they actually make it. I think they should, it is easy profit margin, but they haven't done it yet after years of horsepower wars. In the 2020s things will probably become the EV wars, and the 6.2 V8 will seem like yesterday's powertrain.
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    Problem isn’t really Cadillac’s past, it is that the current product line isn’t good enough. And I sat in the CT4 and CT5 V’s, they are like Genesis G70 level interiors. Nothing special or class leading about them. They aren’t that much of an upgrade if any over the CTS and the CTS wasn’t selling.
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    I sat in a Kia Telluride at the auto show with a $47,800 sticker and it was nicer than an XT6. Kia is on point with that Telluride, easily the best interior in its own segment. But when they can punch above their weight class and have a better interior than Cadillac or Acura that is an achievement. And a problem for Cadillac, they don’t punch above their weight class which is what challenger brands have to do. Even the current Escalade which i get has been around a while, the interior on that is like Lincoln Corsair level.
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    Cadillac isn’t well defined because they change naming schemes every 10-15 years, their 2nd longest running nameplate dates back to 2016 and they are killing it off. They also change marketing and slogans every other year. No focus with this brand, no plan.
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    I think Cadillac's 3 best sellers are FWD, and they make up well over 50% of their total volume.
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