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  1. smk4565
    Well it is the same car, the CLA is the coupe, and A-class is sedan and hatchback. I don't see how giving buyers 3 body styles instead of 1 is a bad thing.
  2. smk4565
    So if the CT4 is priced below the A-class, is Cadillac competing with Toyota and Ford too?
  3. smk4565
    They have been making the A-class for 20 years. CT4 has the same chassis and same wheelbase as the ATS, so it must share something.
  4. smk4565
    It has been know that CT4 and CT5 would replace them for a long time, probably a Johan idea. These were the Johan cars the Johan supporters said would make Cadillac beat the Germans. I am not really sure why the Cadillac brand is still here outside of the Escalade. The rest of the line is awful.
  5. smk4565
    They probably recycled the ATS chassis and wheelbase and the body just has more overhang. Which is fine, nothing wrong with the chassis. CT4 is bigger than a C-class, but priced like an A-class, which also is probably a good idea to give more size per dollar than the others.
  6. smk4565
    No price too steep to stop rapists and murderers flooding our streets. ? China will be the world super power within 20 years. They have 1.5 billion people, and they spend their money on infrastructure and technology and not wars in the Middle East.
  7. smk4565
    Who knows if there will be a more powerful version than these. GM can say that now, doesn't mean they will build them. If these cars don't sell they may not bother to put a bigger engine in. This CT4 seems to be a refreshed ATS, I would like to see the actual dimensions and weight of it. I am also curious on the price, and how Cadillac came up with this strategy and direction for these 2 cars.
  8. smk4565
    I said peak horsepower at 5600 rpm is low for a sports car. And yes 6100 rpm is low for a DOHC engine. Regardless they replaced a 640 hp engine with a 355 hp engine and a 460 hp engine with a 320 hp engine. I remember 5 years ago when people ripped a 375 hp AMG in a car smaller than the CT4-V, yet no one says this dilutes the V brand.
  9. smk4565
    6100 is fine, just on a sports car I would have thought it a little higher.
  10. smk4565
    I would love to know what these 2 cars weigh.
  11. smk4565
    Exactly right. Because either cost of goods goes up 5% and American consumers pay more, or companies like GM take a 5% hit in margin, and most auto companies are running 5% margin anyway. He could impose a 50% tariff and immigration would not change at all. Even more stupid is the fact that we need more workers in this country and aren’t letting them in.
  12. smk4565
    The LFX V6 Cadillac uses now makes peak horsepower at 6,800 rpm with a 7,200 redline. Which I must say is rather high, because who drives at that kind of engine speed.
  13. smk4565
    What I wonder is if this move has to do with CAFE? And will the Camaro V6 be replaced by the 2.7 turbo 4 and the Camaro SS get the CT5-V engine? Making the V8 Camaro only at the Z28 or ZL1 high dollar level. And I could see the 2.7 as the base Tahoe engine too. And if it isn’t about CAFE then are they moving Cadillac down market because the Malibu could be the only sedan GM has outside of Cadillac when they kill the Opel based Regal. And maybe they need sedans in that $30k- $40k range.
  14. smk4565
    The C-class, as with all Mercedes-Benz/Maybach are luxury first and then performance. A C300 isn’t a performance car, so 255 hp in there is fine for its purpose. And you can get 503 hp in there if you want. If Cadillac has world beater interiors and was selling ride comfort and hand stitched leather the power wouldn’t matter. Sort of what Lincoln is doing, they are trying to sell interior comfort and don’t care about performance. But Cadillac are selling V-series sports cars here with these engines.
  15. smk4565
    But you can get an A-class with 406 hp also and that is a tiny car. I am not against a 4 cylinder, CT4 and CT5 should both have standard 4’s because most people don’t care about having more than 250 hp or so. But these V-series are weaker than the ‘04 CTS-V by a good margin.
  16. smk4565
    The BMW M5 Competition has all wheel drive and the dyno test shows 617 hp and 606 lb-ft at the wheels. So that is 700 hp engine at the crank. Cadillac didn't have to remove horsepower to make them all wheel drive.
  17. smk4565
    And where are they doing that? There is no shortage of horsepower at Mercedes. They also didn't release an AMG E-class with 355 hp, well they did back in 1999, but they would not today.
  18. smk4565
    No, but most performance cars rev over 6,000 rpm at least. This isn't a Bentley Arnage.
  19. smk4565
    Oh you are right, it is a DOHC. I thought then it came out they said it was a pushrod, but that is my mistake. That is a crazy low redline for a DOHC engine.
  20. smk4565
    These will have to be cheap, there is speculation that CT4 will start in the low 30s for the base care, CT5 around $40k, and that V-series might add $7-8k on top of the sport trim pricing. But in the CT5's case you are paying $7k for 20 horsepower. And there will be a discount when they sit on dealer lots, so I wouldn't be surprised if CT4-V's are going for like $40k actual sale price and $50k on a CT5-V.
  21. smk4565
    Well that is what it is. A low revving pushrod 4 that has a 5,700 rpm redline in a freaking performance car! How is that Cadillac level refinement, or high performance? GM just can't help themselves, they will nickel and dime anything and they clearly don't care about Cadillac as a brand given these two vehicles.
  22. smk4565
    I imagine an XT4-V and XT5-V are coming with like 40 more hp than the standard car and they'll throw on a lot of appearance package stuff.
  23. smk4565
    First off neither of these look good. And does GM do an interior that isn't monotone gray? Every new vehicle intro is some bland form of charcoal gray on every surface, and the CT4 interior seems like it came out of a Mazda, not a Cadillac. A 4-cylinder pickup engine in a V-series Cadillac is a joke. 20 hp increase for the V-series means V is no longer for Velocity. They really phoned it in on these. It is almost as if they want sedan sales to tank even more so they can just cancel them all.
  24. smk4565
    I thought this car looked great when it came out, it looks way bland now. They were better off with that retro Jag look, at least it had personality. I think Jaguar sedans are pretty much dead, they can make it an EV but it probably won't be good as a Tesla, or a Mercedes or Audi EV so it could have the same problem. Jags are also small inside, somehow the XJ is more cramped inside than my E-class. Maybe with an EV they can get space, but they are awful at it now.
  25. smk4565
    BMW has an X8 in the works, (a 3 row crossover coupe I would assume) so there is no reason Cadillac can’t go XT1 through XT9. Other than the next recession that hits car sales and wipes all these overpriced crossovers out. When crossovers are as cool as minivans were in 2010, they will he discount them left and right and move back to sedans or some autonomous Pod with screens in it instead of windows.
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