The order guide is now live for the 2017 Cadillac CT6 PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle), giving us all almost everything we’ve wanted to know about the fuel-efficient variant of the full-size prestige-luxury sedan.
First things first: the 2017 CT6 PHEV will be powered by quite the powertrain combination that consists of the now-familiar 2.0L turbo I-4 LTG engine paired with a continuous-power plug-in hybrid system with a lithium ion battery. In the CT6 Hybrid application, the engine makes 265 horses (198 kW) and 295 pound-feet of torque (400 Nm), the electric motor is rated at 45 kW, and the lithium-ion battery has a rating of 18.4 kWh. All power is sent via a 4-mode transmission exclusively to the rear wheels.
Based on material released by Cadillac for the Chinese market, the powertrain combination furnishes the car with over 60 km (37 miles) of all-electric range, netting a fuel economy rating of 1.7 liters of gasoline per 100 kilometers (0.45 gallons per 62 miles), or 138 MPGe.
As far as features and equipment are concerned, the electrified CT6 comes in a single Premium Luxury trim level. This means that it offers a significant amount of standard equipment given that the Premium Luxury trim level slots just below the range-topping Platinum model.
Look for the CT6 PHEV to start arriving in limited volumes at Cadillac dealers across North America by the end of 2016. The vehicle will be manufactured in China for all markets, while the gasoline-only variants of the CT6 are manufactured at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck plant.
The only things we’re itching to find out now are pricing and official range and fuel economy figures. We expect both figures to be announced in the near future. In the meantime, download the order guide at the link below.
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Obviously there’s a failure to understand what is necessary to conduct business in China, foreign manufacturers either build their cars in China or are severely taxed and this is why nearly all major European brands build their cars in China; Cadillac is building their CT6 Hybrid in China and exporting them to the United States because General Motors does not think they will sell very many Cadillac CT6 Hybrid cars in the US based on other GM Hybrid models sold in the US and thinks it will be a niche market product.
Omegatalon, that’s a failure of American trade policy to accept allowing China to effectively ban auto imports and force foreign companies to build in China and share technology with them. The US allows imports of Chinese made goods with barely any tariff, despite China’s own policies against imports of US goods, and despite China’s violation of US copyright laws and lack of respect for US owned property, both intellectual and tangible. On top of that, China does not abide by US pollution and safety standards, which further puts US manufacturers at a disadvantage. It’s not the “currency manipulation” that Trump keeps harping about that is the problem, but these other issues. Cadillac my face something of a backlash among US consumers if it begins importing any Cadillac model from China, even in a minor way, due to the known unfairness of these trade issues (as well as real and perceived quality issues). And the backlash might not just beagainst that model but against all Cadillac models. It’s just not worth it. But once again, it shows that Johan de Nysschen simply doesn’t understand Americans or what Cadillac means to the US market.
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All I can say is Ci2Eye expressed the concerns of alot of us here . But I do think that the US consumer is getting tired of seeing Built in China on the tags of almost everything we buy . GM is now shipping Buicks to the homeland from China now and as long as consumers continue to buy those cars it just gives GM the incentive to keep doing it .
What we need to keep an eye on is as the Chinese learn more as to the latest manufacturing process for autos we will eventually see Chinese dealerships spring up here . Or Chinese vehicles being sold in GM dealerships .
The electric motor is only rated to 45kW? ELR was 174, and the Bolt is 150kW.
JDN people did not build these CT6 and XT5. JDN was not even with Cadillac went these car’s were build. This is only the first started for Cadillac’s PHEV system.
No, he should not.
I think it’s time people understand that there is the cheap image that China had generated and then what it has become in a market in which it intends to succeed.
In my time, I remember well the term “Jap-Crap” being applied to anything coming from Japan. It was so bad that rumor has it that Toyota paid off Motor Trend to make them “Car of the Year” so people would stand up and notice.
In addition, it took Japan a long time to make a motorcycle that anyone took seriously but they left the British racing kings sitting in their little broken down pools of oil in the darkness created by their Lucas electrical systems (Lucas, The Prince of Darkness). I seriously doubt that anyone would take a Triumph up against a Top Tier Japanese Crotch rocket yet inside of 50 years, the Japanese rose to the top of the heap from a dismal beginning. China has either the potential to succeed or fail. We will just have to wait and see.
I think it’s time people understand that there is the cheap image that China had generated and then what it has become in a market in which it intends to succeed.
In my time, I remember well the term “Jap-Crap” being applied to anything coming from Japan. It was so bad that rumor has it that Toyota paid off Motor Trend to make them “Car of the Year” so people would stand up and notice.
In addition, it took Japan a long time to make a motorcycle that anyone took seriously but they left the British racing kings sitting in their little broken down pools of oil in the darkness created by their Lucas electrical systems (Lucas, The Prince of Darkness). I seriously doubt that anyone would take a Triumph up against a Top Tier Japanese Crotch rocket yet inside of 50 years, the Japanese rose to the top of the heap from a dismal beginning. China has either the potential to succeed or fail. We will just have to wait and see.
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