Last week, a Reuters report dropped a bomb: General Motors is reportedly reviewing six passenger car nameplates for cancellation around the year 2020. One of the six cars mentioned was Cadillac’s range-topping luxury sedan, the CT6.
The information was attributed to insider sources, which meant a grain of salt was needed upon digesting the intel. However, Cadillac President Johan de Nysschen wants to be clear: the Cadillac CT6 will not head to the chopping block. de Nysschen spoke with Jalopnik and he was adamant the CT6 is here to stay. In fact, the CT6’s role will become more important, per the Cadillac chief.
“There is absolutely, if I could speak all capitals now, they’d be coming out of my mouth,” de Nysschen began. “There is absolutely no plan, at all, to cancel the CT6.” He also said the report “came as a surprise” to him and said he’s unsure where the information was sourced from.
On the surface, the basis for the report seems logical. Sedan sales are falling in the United States and abroad, while crossovers pick up steam. The CT6 has hardly been a hot seller, but de Nysschen expanded on what CT6 will represent in the future.
“The [CT6] forms a very important part of our product strategy going forward for the brand,” de Nysschen said. “The car also has a very major contribution to make to the shaping of brand perceptions, and the transformational process that Cadillac is undergoing as far as that is concerned.”
de Nysschen alluded the CT6 will become the brand’s outlet for many new and future technologies, including Super Cruise, which will launch this fall. Once again, he also confirmed a new engine on the horizon for the Cadillac CT6 as well— a “very sophisticated and modern internal combustion engine,” to use de Nysschen’s words. It’s likely the twin-turbo V8 we’ve been hearing about for two years.
There you have it; the CT6 is not going away anytime soon. In fact, it’s likely in for a substantial overhaul quite soon.
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Cadillac needs to kill off the 3.6L V6 that it currently offers.
Stick with an updated 2.0 T and the 3.0 TT and whatever the new V8 will be…4.2L allegedly.
Cadillac cannot keep offering Chevrolet engines right now. It’s image cannot sustain that.
Maybe in the future it will not matter just like it doesn’t matter fro Audi.
Acutally this 3.6L is a Cadillac engine, but GM has been stuffing it in everything, including the Colorado which it does not really belong in.
The 3.6L is not that great, very low on torque. They either need to fix the 3.6L or just start from scratch but GM’s V6 needs to at least put out at least 300 lbs of torque
Cadillac spent millions on the 3.0TT. Start utilizing it.
I think you will see this very soon.
That whole report was fake news. There is no way in hell an automaker would just dump newly developed product. Talking LaCrosse and CT6. If you expend on these two vehicles, especially the LaCrosse, you realize the Impala is all but developed. All they need to do is give it a “Chevy” look. It won’t take much effort and $ to bring next generation Impala out.
Yes, people are in love with CUVs but that doesn’t mean the sedans will all be gone soon. Automakers will just sell less of them. Just like years back they sold less CUVs, but they still made them and poured money into them.
As soon as the gas prices go up these sedans will look a lot more attractive to buyers. What the CUV can’t match the sedans in is mpgs. They’re bigger and heavier with bigger front fascia to push the air over.
What I think eventually will happen is today’s CUV will slowly morph into basically a station wagon. If you look at some of them out there already look like shortened station wagons. Automakers will have to chase those mpgs and the best way to achieve it is to lose weight and have less square footage to push the air out and over. In a case of a CUV is to become shorter. If you become shorter you loose inside volume. To gain it back is to become longer. At that point it’s a station wagon.
When the price of gas is selling for as low as under $2.00 is some place in the United States, it’s just insane not to develop a V variant of the CT6 and don’t put any artificial cap on the number of CT6-V cars can be built as Chevrolet doesn’t do this with the Corvette Z06.
Many of us have absolutely no concern about the price of gas. CT6 as it stands now is not what we want.