Cadillac previously announced it would initiate a new product hiatus following the debut of the 2017 Cadillac XT5. Cadillac President, Johan de Nysschen, reaffirmed this statement to Automotive News during the 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show.
de Nysschen commented the next crossover will likely arrive in two years, marking 2018 for a debut date. The upcoming crossover will slot below the 2017 XT5, and could very likely wear the ‘XT4‘ name. The compact crossover has become a priority for the brand as the segment explodes in the United States with vehicles like the BMW X3. Sales tallied 217,663 vehicles, up 49 percent from this time last year.
The Cadillac boss also noted the 2017 XT5 was indeed the first of four new crossovers coming, likely due by 2020. The 2017 XT5 fills the midsize gap, replacing the SRX, a larger crossover to bridge the gap between XT5 and Escalade is likely and a subcompact crossover will likely bow to take on the likes of Audi Q3.
In the meantime, Cadillac will continue to find ways to push the Escalade’s transaction prices up, possibly past $100,000.
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Please, if anything at all, give it the alpha platform
Exactly. Torque-vectoring AWD only helps the driving characteristics. The Art & Science design language is best executed by RWD proportions with short overhangs.
If this compact crossover ends up up on the D2XX platform, I’ll flip my sh*t.
The D2XX from what I have read is too big for compact crossover work so unlikely I hope.
The Alpha seems like a good fit but I am done trying to guess what Cadillac will do.
It will be a variant of the Alpha chassis.
New crossovers can not come fast enough for Cadillac, especially a compact one since that segment is showing the most growth moving forward.
Also a V-Sport Escalade would be perfect to get the ATP’s north of $100K.
Does the 2018 date mean it will debut in 2018 as a 2019 or debut in 2017 as a 2018? The article also pointed out that the larger crossover will debut about a year after that then followed by a x1 competitor
Other articles I have read suggest a Cadillac compact crossover bowing at an auto show in the 2nd quarter of 2017 and production beginning in the 4th quarter as a 2018 MY vehicle.
I hope that is right. Love to see it sooner rather than later and on a revised Alpha.
Invasion of the Station Wagons! (CUV).
Well you had better get on board the train Deliveryman because that is the way the entire industry is going, not just the luxury segment.
Crossovers of various sizes and shapes are the only segment driving any real growth.
Any CEO not redirecting their resources to building more and more crossovers should be fired by their respective board of directors for not maximizing sales volume and profits.
Car and Driver test results said the 2015 Cadillac Escalade could accelerate zero to sixty in 5.6 seconds meaning dropping the LT4 640 horsepower supercharged 6.2L V8 or possibly a twin-turbo 6.2L V8 into the Escalade could potentially allow it to match the performance of the 2017 Bentley Bentayga zero to sixty times of 4.0 seconds.
Agree that much extra power would seriously improve acceleration numbers but I can not see Cadillac developing a 6.2TT just for use in the Escalade.
Cadillac is committed to doing their own powertrains and doing a one off engine would seem to be a waste of resources.
The LT4 will not happen. There will be an Escalade VSport, and it will have a TTV8. There WILL NOT be an Escalade “V”.
2018?? If we’re going to have to wait that long (while the competition racks up sales) for the XT4, GM has to make it THE BEST in the segment. CUVs are selling like hotcakes. The XT5 shows what Cadillac can do in the CUV market and it’s very impressive.
Will this XT4 be like the Buick Encore and Chevy Trax?
No. That will be the XT3 arriving before 2021.