Cadillac is preparing to unveil its Omega-based CT6 full-size flagship sometime next year, which means the luxury sedan’s development is now in full swing. It seems spy photographers have been seeing CT6 prototypes everywhere as of late, with the most recent car being spotted somewhere in the Midwest by Carscoops reader Brett Borgard.
These photos, like others we’ve seen, show a heavily camouflaged CT6 with black cladding covering the front, rear and sides of the car. This car has a pair of model-exclusive Cadillac wheels and quad exhaust tips, two elements which have also been spotted on other CT6s. We’ve been waiting patiently for the CT6 to shed some of its camo, but so far, we’ve had no luck.
General Motors has been fairly transparent about the CT6. They’ve said the sedan will use the company’s new mixed material body structure build process, which combines high and regular strength steel, aluminium and steel stampings to build a frame with 20 fewer parts that is much lighter. As a result, the CT6 will weigh 53 lbs less than the mid-size CTS on the road today.
In addition to being extremely light, the CT6 will also utilize an all-new 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged V6 engine that will be the most powerful in the segment. In some applications, this motor will be combined with a hybrid system, allowing the big full-sizer to return around 70 MPGe. It will also be the first car to introduce GM’s ‘Super Cruise’ technology, which will allow the car to keep a lane, brake and control its speed autonomously in highway driving situations.
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Looks like cutouts in both rear fenders… perhaps a prototype of the plugin version? But still with four tailpipes? Maybe not, the charge port would almost certainly be on the driver side front fender.
Any talk about a V12 engine? Will it offer a lot of the features found in the s-class like massaging driver’s seat, the side bolsters that come out to hold you during a corner? No higher end LWB version? Or is that reserved for the supposed ct7? And finally, is it a true full-size luxury sedan, or is it more of a place holder like the XTS?
No talk of a V12. Reuss has said the car will be the most technologically advanced of its kind, so it’s safe to assume technologies such as those you mentioned could appear, or other similarly innovative options. The LWB version to compete with the LWB S-Class and cars like the Jaguar XJL will be introduced further down the road and will be called CT8 or CT9. This is a real full-size luxury sedan, very different from the XTS.
But I think its safe to say that the CT6 will take place of the XTS. The CT6 is what Cadillac would of liked the XTS to be in the first place had they had the development of the Omega platform done sooner. I cannot see where the XTS will fit in with the CT6 going into production. Since as far as luxury flagship cars are concerned the CT6 is still a little small at 203 inch’s long. This car is very simler to the XTS as far as those dimension’s are concerned so I really cant see the XTS sticking around more then a few years. Unless the CT6 starts in the 80K range then I could see the XTS staying for the long haul. Though I have no idea what number they would give it under the new naming scheme.
CT6 is not a place holder for the XTS. The XTS starts at $45,000-$72,000 from base trim to V-Sport Platinum. So it is quite possible that the CT6 could start at $70,000-$130,000 in various collections.
Totally different cars for different customers, former for traditional comfort while the latter for technically advance driver focused elite sedan.
This will be garbage like every GM product and whoever falls victim to GM’s marketing scheme is a slow bum that does not critical think. How many times will this car be recalled? Feel sorry to the millions of victims this year. Hopefully GM gets forced to pay back victims of their greed and lack of worry of safety for their customers, that have lost loved ones and/or hard earned money and time. GM dealerships have not been providing loaners to their victims so travel has been hard for their victims. F em