You guys. Really, you guys. Cadillac is coming out with a three-row crossover… just like every other relevant mainstream luxury brand. Are we turned on? Are we excited? Are you not entertained? Hell, we first reported on this happening since 2011, and then in 2012, and then again in 2012, and twice in 2013 thus far, not counting now.
It’s no secret that crossovers are huge volume players, and that they’re quite profitable. So it should be no surprise that it’s coming. Expect it as early as late 2015, expect it to be a primped up family member of the next-generation Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse and GMC Acadia — much like the Cadillac XTS is to the Chevrolet Impala, or the 2015 Escalade to the 2015 Tahoe — and look for it to be priced competitively to the Audi Q7. But will it be badged as an Escalade variant? That’s really the bigger mystery here./.rant
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I think lambda is the wrong platform for this vehicle. Cadillac needs to go all RWD/AWD to pursue the performance luxury market. I think a cadillac 3 row crossover should go on the upcoming omega platform. Give it the N/A 3.6 and a Vsport 3.6TT and you have a great vehicle. Also move the next SRX to the extended alpha platform from the new CTS and offer the 2.0T and a Vsport 3.6TT. That would be ideal for Cadillac and would definitely go head to head with the competition.
I would love to see a 2 row based on the Alpha and a 3 row based on the Omega both is a very sporting nature to compete with BMW and Porsche. As for any others you can make them the fancy trucksters that some want.
I must be the rare one that could care less about a 3rd row but I do know they need something like this to pick up this segment.
As for the duplication of the name let it go GM as you already help kill the Cutlass name by using it as a marketing tool that did not fit or work on the other models.
My '08 SRX will be definitely showing its age by late 2015, and I never buy a new car until the summer/fall of the following year, so I'm looking at late 2016.
So, yes, I'm quite interested in any news on this front. And I keep getting more and more depressed because the date keeps slipping farther and farther into the future.
So, no, DON'T STOP with the reports.
Stupid idia Lambda Based crossover with only only V6, it wood be great the Alpha Based BMW X5 Fighter ! ! !
Who deeply believes a CUV is luxury?
Is it luxurious to waste gas when you seriously have no need to?
Look at a 7 seat Tesla model S. It's not some boring soccer mom machine. It's
Baffling how Americans believe it's luxury to waste and pollute.
CUVs are taller than sedans , hatchbacks or station wagons. Taller means more
aero drag which is wasteful and dumb. CUVs have more mass which means more
to push around.
I love hearing the bold justifications behind folk's buying Lexus, BMW, Infinity, Cadillac or Mercedes CUVs. "I need AWD",the say. Yet how many times last year did
you use AWD? "Well, yes, zero, but it's there if I happen to need it!", they reply.
Really?
Next comes, "I feel safer in a great big high machine because of all the other great big high machines out there". This is my sister's particular rationale for driving a beast, that with V-6 gets 22 mpg which she feels is "good mileage". Are we really truly that stupid?
Lastly is cargo capability. "I need a CUV because I have a big family with need to haul baby strollers and handle trips to Costco. Well if you sat at Costco for 1/2 hour
and looked at the body weight of half the customers, you see literally tons of evidence of conspicuous consumption, American style. Is excessive consumption
luxury? Just burn all that gas 'cause we can? Are we the Roman Empire? Truth be told a mid-sized station wagon or hatchback has more length of storage floor than even some larger 3 row SUVs. Fold down the rear seat back of many small or
mid sized hatches and you can haul enough groceries for your neighborhood!
So what's the deal, America? Why do you believe buying a CUV is even remotely smart? Could it be ignorance, or is it like what Jon Stewart quipped during a clever but sad bit he did highlighting how the last eight U.S. presidents gave many speeches about our addiction to oil and hope his plan would solve this malady, when he remarked, "Boy! That thing could really tow that boat I don't have up that
hill I don't live by!"
By the way, my sister's "luxury" CUV that gets 22 MPG? That's HWY. Her true
COMBINED MPG is closer to 15-16. Most of us spend half or less than half of or driving time on the freeway.
A Chevy Volt is an intelligently designed vehicle...ELR for $75k? Not so much.
Why hail automakers like Cadillac for building a CUV that's playing catch up
to pathetic $45-70,000 German and Japanese machines? Instead tell your car dealer you want GM to produce a PHEV or EREV family hauler with luxury
amenities if that's your thing.
They can do it and they will...if you refuse to buy these high-profit' low return
junkers they tell you that you need, and demand more.
Hey, Check this irony -
Those same uber consumers at Costco with the bulging waistlines and
on meds for high chloresterol driving that CUV will sit in line at the Costco
gas pump for twenty minutes to save 13 cents per gallon!
How messed up is THAT?!
Yes stop asking when they will add the third row. There are more important things. Like when will they add the seventh and eighth cylinder.
Whenever I read diatribes like this, knocking down people he does not know and how they want to live, I always wonder what went wrong when they grew up. So much hatred.
Maybe he should get some kids and see what life can be like with a 5 seater car. It can be done but only as a second vehicle. At least with my lifestyle.
Now when I retire and the kids are gone our plan is to hopefully have a Volt type compact (well, maybe a Cadillac version) and an Enclave but right now we need two Enclaves to meet our needs.