Cadillac XT3 Prototype Surfaces Yet Again
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Update: Cadillac has confirmed this next crossover will, in fact, be called the Cadillac XT4. Additional information has not been made official. You can read the XT4 announcement here.
It hasn’t even been a week since we first saw the 2018 Cadillac XT3 and the upcoming compact crossover has been spotted once more as it performs cold weather testing.
The Cadillac XT3 is still wearing loads of camouflage to hide the crossover’s final design from peering eyes, but the same elements we saw in last week’s spy shots are very much present. Those include what seem to be Escalade-style taillamps at the rear and the potential for the XT3 to wear an Escala-inspired fascia up front. Unless the camo is that good, the front doesn’t seem to mirror what we’ve seen from the usual Cadillac corporate face.
The XT3 will be the first all-new product for Cadillac in years and is expected to launch during the second half of 2018. And the Cadillac XT3 can’t come quick enough amid a boom for crossovers and utility sales; Cadillac’s current lineup is heavy on sedans and light on crossovers.
We think we’ll begin to see much more of Cadillac’s new CUV in the coming months as it continues to venture out from engineering labs and into the camera’s eye during testing.
Spy shots: Autoblog
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It’s so tough to see what’s going on beneath the camo. Most of the lighting is all preproduction, circular cluster units. I’m sure the two circular LED units below the headlights will be replaced by the familiar light blade from current Cadillacs and Escala. The tail light circular clusters will most likely be replaced by an Escalade-like light blade as well. As for the headlight units, the LEDs are tough to judge. The shape reminds me of CT6 headlights, but I doubt Cadillac would keep that design. I’m hoping for a headlight design more in line with Escala. Overall body design looks great. Reminds me a lot of the Jaguar F-Pace in the rear window slope, which is welcome. Can’t wait to start seeing the camo come off.
Ahhaaaa led you see, really. This car comes halogen lamps ahhaaaa
Maybe it’s just me, but it’d seem to make sense for the XT3 to be a smaller Escalade. I’ve been wrong before (!), but it’s worked for BMW (X5/X3), and Porsche (Cayenne/Macan).
I’d wager (small amount) that a smaller Escalade would sell. Either way, I suspect it’ll do well.
For it to really capture the flair of the Escalade, it would need to be based on a modular RWD platform, which GM doesn’t have unfortunately. The Escalade’s badass look is in the proportions as much as it’s in the lighting and line weighting. It’ll look like a mini XT5, I guarantee it.
Well, I can’t guarantee it, but yeah – the lines don’t look Escalade-like. So, we’ll see…
The Escalade does not represent the design of Cadillac’s future styling direction. The current Escalade will receive a refresh in 2018/2019 and will be replaced sometime after 2020 with the XT8 on the Omega-mod platform.
The XT4 will :
Have the latest technologies from Cadillac/GM
Be available with AWD
Offer 2 powertrains from GM’s new engine lineup
Have some styling cues from Escala
Offer V2V, and Supercruise as well as CUE2 and may be built on the Alpha-mod platform….
what I see from the beltline and roofline….its not a mini Escalade.
With cold weather testing it means they are getting very close to get their suppliers on board to start building parts for the vehicle . All the camo sure makes it difficult to even guess what is underneath .
The Escala was introduced as the future of Cadillac design so I am not suprised if the XT3 has design cues utilized in a new model . I don’t think that this would be the ” baby Escalade ” that would be more in line with the new mid-size built off the new architecture that the new Traverse and GMC’s Acadia are built on . If Cadillac could build such an SUV it would sell extremely well . But it won’t be cheap , but that should be expected .
yup just more of the same.
Will be a Smaller XT5 with soft lines
I hate this new naming structure, its so unoriginal. When Cadillac had names like SRX, ELR, and XLR, you wondered what they meant (sometimes), most of the names were so random, but they also sounded somewhat cool to say. Putting a number after XT or CT sounds so boring, it seems like the people in charge of naming at Cadillac, stopped giving a sh*t and just decided to start numbering the cars based on size.
Even if they were to use this naming, or should I say numbering structure on all the cars (which they eventually will), the least they could have done was to give the CT6 an actual name. After all it is their flagship model.
XT3 crossover E2xx chassis( ETUL) Compact, XT7 crossover E2xx chassis LWB( Cyxx) Large.