This week the people in charge of deciding the 2016 World Car of the Year awards released the official list of nominees for the coveted distinction. General Motors appears a few times, with cars on both the World Car of the Year and World Performance Car of the Year ballots, but one of its new vehicles is strangely absent from the list of potential World Luxury Car of the Year winners.
The WCOTY nominees comprise of the BMW 7 Series, Jaguar XF, Infiniti Q30, Bentley Mulsanne Speed, Audi Q7, Volvo XC90 and Mercedes-Benz GLE. The Cadillac CT6 is strangely absent from the list, though it does appear on the list of nominees for World Car of the Year.
Maybe the jurors think the Cadillac CT6 is more than just a good luxury car. If they are confident it could be in the running for the more coveted WCOTY distinction, it would make sense to leave it out of the running for WLCOTY. Last year the jury put the Mercedes-Benz C-Class on the WCOTY nominees list instead of WLCOTY and it ended up winning, so it’s not outside the realm of possibility.
We’ll have to wait until the 2016 New York International Auto Show is closer to know whether the CT6 has a true shot at taking home the WCOTY award. For now, you can check out the list of World Luxury Car of the Year nominees here, and World Car of the Year nominees here.
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In fairness, all of those other luxury cars you listed are currently for sale in dealerships. We don’t even know what the base price of the CT6 is yet, let alone it being available for actual sale.
Possibly why they omitted it from that particular list.
It’s on the World Car of The Year list, but not this list?
That’s what I was thinking too hardly anyone’s touched the car yet
Several reasons……let’s look at some! Cadillac’s marketing is essentially dead!. No ads or commercials of future product. They need to capitalize on this and be vibrant and exciting. “Dare Greatly” has to be more than a slogan. Instead, a bland color palate, too much Gray in the interior. CT6 should have been more striking, inside and out. STILL, no V8 in the Cadillac line-up (“V’s” don’t count) and the TT 500 hp. V8 due at some point for the CT6 V Sport, is over a year away. I have friends that didn’t even consider a Cadillac because they wanted a V8.
Cadillac has got to step up their game. They need to Dare Greatly in styling, engineering, variety (hybrids,Coupes, SUV’s, a convertible or two, pwertrains,…etc. This whole fashion and Haute Couturier thing is okay, but those people, in reality, are buying MB, BMW, and Audi,….not Cadillac’s…………………..
I generally agree with your post but that wasn’t the point of this article which was ‘CT6 nowhere to be found on list of world luxury of the year nominees ‘. None of your points address that hypothesis.
It is going to be a very long time before Cadillac convinces the world it is a legitimate luxury car.
One possible reason for the lack of respect for Cadillac’s CT6 is that the base engine for Cadillac’s CT6 is a 265 horsepower turbocharged 2.0L 4-cyl engine as they might not buy Cadillac CT6 Chief Engineer Travis Hester’s story of how the car has a curb weight of under 3,700 lbs and be capable of matching the performance of Lexus’ LS460 F-Sport with the four cylinder engine or how Cadillac’s CT6 with the LGW 400-horsepower twin-turbo 3.0L DOHC-4v V6 should be able to outperform most of the sedans that were nominated.
I know this has nothing to do with the article but I was at my local Cadillac dealer and a salesman told me the CT6 will start at 75K. I hope this is not true. I really don’t see many people paying that kind of cash for a 4cyl RWD car. If it is true I honestly think Cadillac just shot themselves in the foot again. I can see the car fully loaded in this range, maybe higher. But not base. I was thinking maybe it should start at the low 60s. Then again this is a salesman and they most of the time have about as much info as we do.
Yeah, after hearing several initial impressions of the CT6 from auto journalists, many are simply uninspired by it. Now we know this isn’t the coveted ultra-luxury sedan Cadillac promised, and is a stopgap model showcasing much of what to expect in a ultra-luxury Cadillac sedan. Therefore, the standards have been lowered; but what several journalists have experienced with the CT6 is somewhat disappointing. A Motor Trend writer stated the materials felt cheap, even for the CT6’s intended target audience. He stated the pricing and interior quality is more along the lines of the four door coupes from the Germans, but a step or two lower; about a cut above a fully loaded CTS V-Sport. However, he did mention the quality was somewhat superior to the Benz CLS, but behind the BMW 6-Series Grand Coupe and Audi A7. Also, a Cars.com YouTube video on CT6 pointed out some points of poor fit and finish. Granted, all of these reviews come from a prototype model, these impressions may change….
So it’s apparent the CT6 may very well turn out to be a flop, but I won’t make that judgement until some real driving impressions hit the news, which sources say is very soon now. I guess maybe this is why the CT6 is not listed with the other luxury entrants for the WLCOTY award…..
the CT6 styling is stale….the CT8 should turn away from the current styling them…more towards the Elmaraj….it would be good if the CT8 would look like a stretched CT6 with Elmeraj blend….with a much higher-end interior and exterior.
they should call the upcoming flagship DPS instead of CT8….CADILLAC DPS ???
Cadillac’s commercial for the new CT6 with the slogan of ‘Only those who dare’ is pathetic as Cadillac should emphasize what the CT6 is.. if I was directing the commercial, I would start with an explosion and explain of how the CT6 was designed and developed using the latest in automotive engineering with images of the ‘front hinge pillar’ which looks if it was designed for a race car or fighter jet as a single casting which replaces 35 components as to why a similar size Lexus LS400 is a thousand pounds heavier than the CT6.