General Motors announced pricing for the 2020 Cadillac XT6 yesterday, with the XT6 Premium Luxury FWD starting at $53,690 including destination. The XT6 Sport, meanwhile, will start at $58,090 including destination.
Powering the new Cadillac XT6 will be GM’s 310 hp 3.6-liter V6 engine, which has active fuel management and start/stop. The entry-level model comes with standard FWD (AWD is available at extra cost) while the XT6 Sport has GM’s Sport Control AWD system standard.
Two options packages are available for the crossover, an Enhanced Visibility and Technology Package and a Driver Assist Package, although GM has yet to say how much either of these equipment groups will cost.
The Enhanced Visibility and Technology Package adds an 8-inch-digital gauge cluster display, a color head-up display, a rear camera mirror, and automatic parking assist with auto brake, while the Driver Assist package adds semi-autonomous safety features like adaptive cruise control and enhanced automatic emergency braking, along with seatbelt pre-tensioners. A Night Vision system is offered as well.
The 2020 Cadillac XT6 is more expensive than the 2020 Lincoln Aviator, which starts at $52,195 including destination. The Aviator comes standard with RWD and a 400 hp 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged V6 engine. The Audi Q7 with a 329 hp 3.0-liter twin-turbo V6 and Quattro AWD, starts at $56,900. The BMW X5 is quite a bit more expensive, coming in at $61,695 for the xDrive40i with AWD and a 335 hp 3.0-liter twin-turbo inline-six.
So, what’s your opinion, readers? Has the automaker priced the 2020 Cadillac XT6 Volt too high, or just right?  Let us know in the poll and, as always, feel free to explain why you voted the way you did in the comments down below.
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Once again Cadillac has an inferior CUV at a superior price. I’m sure they’ll sell a bunch of these, just like the XT4 and XT5 but they are truly mediocre product offerings.
Board owner take note. This is the voice of the consumer on here, and many biased to GM. Does it look well for GM? Trust me, GM execs have similar data even if they try to put on a smiley face.
I think there’s a very real chance that this won’t sell well without heavy incentives.
I firmly believe that, contrary to popular belief, people DO care about FWD/AWD vs. RWD/AWD; those people just start showing up at a higher price point. They’re willing to pay more to get that layout.
There’s a reason why everything starting above $60k (conservatively speaking) is RWD/AWD. Anything with a FWD/AWD layout starting around that much is in trouble.
Even if 80 percent of car buyers DIDN’T care what the primary driving wheels are, for $60k+, I think everyone agrees that the vehicle better:
1. Be powerful.
2. Be attractive/bad@ss/sexy/cool.
3. Be a status symbol.
4. Drive differently.
5. Sound great.
6. Have features not offered on lower-priced vehicles.
7. Be capable.
Whether a vehicle does these, and how well, is directly determined by the core layout of the drivetrain.
I’m no crossover fanboy, but I’d say Lincoln’s Aviator is priced more competitively than the XT6, plus “Coming from an auto enthusiast who prefers full-size BOF SUVs.”, it comes with RWD just like its platform mate the 2020 Ford Explorer. I also understand that CUVs just sell regardless on whether they’re all that good or not, but I don’t think they spark the same level of excitement and personality that a BOF SUV provides. The XT6 is not bad, but I much prefer waiting for the new 2020 Suburban, Tahoe, Yukon/XL, and Escalade/ESV coming this year.
My guess is that they will rebate this heavily so it can sell
The V6 Q7 is $59.950, the 2.0 is $53.550.
Anyway, The base XT6 is priced way too high. Even if the base XT6 is better equipped than the base Q7, the Audi name holds more weight than Cadillac’s & the Q7 is about to get a major facelift that’ll bring it more in line with the Q8, both inside & out.
Then, there’s the new GLE 2.0 at 56k & i6 48v at 61k. And the Volvo XC90 which starts $48k
This is the gen3 CTS situation all over again, 75% good enough at a 100% excellent price, they never learn.
Unfortunately the XT6 will sell & GM will think that the same formula still works.
Well GM got the price where it needs to be.
Now all they need is a vehicle good enough to compete at the price.
None of the GM products is positioned right. New Silverado is a shame, as the HD. GM will continue to lose market by insisting on ATP and shareholders until no one else will remember the company. I’ve loved GM cars all my life, but today it’s a dumb company with no vision.
I agree with you!
The new Silverado was crap in my eyes art launch, but the design grew on me and while on paper it is not competetive, most of the automotive press has said otherwise.
The new HD trucks look awful, and I;m sure that without the weight of the Allison trans in the diesel, most buyers will look to Cummins. I love GM vehicles, and I think that GM has amazing engines; but almost all in-house GM trannys are crap. Especially when you get to the higher gear count.
The XT4 was truly great! People knocked it from the start, yet everyone was surprised by it.
GM had us all expecting to be blown away by the XT6 after being so surprised by the 4, and it was such a let down. The 3.6 is a great engine, and it moves the XT5 pretty well; but the XT5 is smaller and lighter.
Sorry GM, but you win some; and you obviously lose some. :/
Henry,
Would you be willing to give me who ” most ” of the automotive press is that has said otherwise on the new Silverado.
Everyday I watch just another REAL PERSON reviewing the new Silverado and ” most ” I watch still rate it second to the new RAM.
There are so many that I actually had to go see this new RAM for myself. It is pretty great .
I will never buy a RAM the same as I will never buy a FORD, but they are better at this point.
The XT4 truly great, yet everyone was surprised, some, not everyone. I would not say great but the same GM blah.
I do however agree 100% on the GM in house transmission junk. That’s right you said crap !
I like the looks of both the XT4 and XT6, sorry but I think I like the XT6 looks better.
I also like the XT6 interior better, although personally think they both need to be better.
I also am a Duramax guy, but again the transmission does worry me. I am one who has had crap GM transmissions, plural.
Cadillac needs to offer the LF4 twin-turbo 3.6L V6 or new Blackwing twin-turbo V8 as an engine option or be left for dead in sales with buyers opting for the full size Escalade instead.
The 3.0TT and Blackwing 4.2TT are only engineered to be mounted longitudinally.
Nothing in GM’s FWD/AWD portfolio will have anything bigger or more powerful than the NA LFX & LGX 3.6 V6’s.
This is why having a RWD platform is important, even if commentators on here claim luxury car buyers don’t care about FWD vs. RWD.
In GM’s (especially Cadillac’s) case, if it’s going to be FWD, it’s almost a certainty that it’s going to be gutless. It’s become the first indication of how little effort is going to be put into the rest of the vehicle.
Other than the XTS VSport, how many other FWD/AWD vehicles has GM released post-bankruptcy that had a performance variant?
Nice, but I’ll wait for the new Chevy Tahoe/Suburban, GMC Yukon, and Cadillac Escalade. Not everyone wants FWD.
Same here.
I fee like it’s a bit close to a relatively equipped Enclave. Even the current Enclave is expensive
I think its priced right. In the end it doesn’t matter what the Lincoln competitor offers. Cadillac has more cache than Lincoln, and its products always sell more. The Escalade costs more than the all new Navigator, and its still #1 in its class. So the fact that XT6 comes in below the Germans, but still higher than Lincoln, makes complete sense.
Is TFLcars now always on here?
The only other site I frequent and I noticed a lot of similar stories and comments from writers on both lately.
Why not launch XT6 FWD w/2.0L LSY engine from XT4 (like is planned for China) and price it parry with Volvo XC90 at $48000 in USA?
Too much weight for only 237 HP. It would be a dog
One would wonder where all of the reasonable people have gone at GM. Oldsmobile and Pontiac were great automobiles, great reliability, at a very reasonable price range. Both have been scraped in the name of progress. Cadillac went from a Luxury Brand to a just another run-of-the-mill set of wheels on the road. Now comes the X6. Anyone who wants a SUV does so mostly for the AWD features plus the room and comfort it offers. Cadillac now offers a no frills stretched X5 with all reasonable options as an extra package, not to mention cost. Cadillac now has one of the worst reliability records out there and their prices are always at the top or close to the top. When Cadillac gets back to being a roomy, comfortable, luxury brand and not just another set of wheels-on-the-road, things will change and Cadillac once again will be the Top Dog.
Progress! Such a grossly misused word that really means loss, change and disappointment mixed in with occasional greatness. In the case of automobiles progress is a very double edged sword.
Cadillac always tries to fool the public and cut corners ,they think no one will notice! I notice ex; any trim part below hip level is raw plastic ,above , and eye level is soft touch materials ! Cadillac never completes job and leaves the car half finished thinking people don’t notice or care! WRONG! for the money asking ,FINISH the job already!! T.Y.Attention to details is very important in Cadillac’s price range!
Below hip level, Ha.
Went on a fishing trip with my brother in law and the button on is jeans , belt, or tool something left an unremovable mark on the hard shinny plastic on my Denali door panel .
So hip level, and others notice.
But its good enough !!
As I’m reading, there’s an ad for the Buick Envision at the bottom of the page indicating a current discount of $7,015, so i think it’s likely the Cadillac will get a similar or greater discount putting it at $47,000. With regular dealer negotiations the price will drop to $45,000 or lower making it much more competitive.
It’s sad that the discussion here about a Cadillac is whether or not it represents a sufficient value or not but unfortunately that’s where we are. When GM elected to do this product on the cheap, they need to expect buyers will only bite if they can get one at a good price.
GM does not get it. Price a new vehicle under the market, then after it takes off, raise prices. They used the Failed Roger Smith model, price it high and make it cheap. The people will buy it anyway.
Bean counters ruin every company they control.
The price is where it ought to be if the equipment roster were better and more on par with the competition.
All you need to do to realize it’s priced too high is go look at a Lincoln Nautilus… GM has to improve the Cadillac interiors.
Hello!!! Lets not forget the 2019 XT5 Premium FWD starts at $55,190 which is $1,500 higher than the XT6 Premium FWD!!!! The XT5 sells extremely well and the XT6 is way more “Bang for you Buck”. I can see Cadillac reducing the price on the 2020 XT5 to put it more in line price wise in the Lineup.
BW,
What is your opinion on who the XT5 sells extremely well to ?
GM loyalists who are moving from DTS — XTS – SRX ?
I would be curious to see how many sales are NEW to GM.
Just like the XT4, the XT6 will take sales from the XT5 and the Enclave, but will they draw from competition ?
I know that’s ok GM people still buying NEW GM keeps cashflow smooth as to more lost.
But I would think somewhere hear GM would try to steal more CUSTOMERS from outside of GM.
From what I see, the XT5 sells to SRX owners as an update. 100% of those customers HATE the shifter. But you don’t care about that.
BMW X5 owners, and they also hate the shifter.
Mercedes owners, Rare.
No DTS owners
XTS owners are willing to look at it.
Initially, customers who came in to look at the XT4 are moving over to the XT5. For nearly the same money, want the larger vehicle.
Young women, like the XT4, but there are not enough of them yet.