2020 Cadillac XT4 To Gain Off-Road Mode
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As part of model-year updates, the 2020 Cadillac XT4 is in for an Off-Road mode.
Our sister publication, Cadillac Society, reported early Monday morning that the new driver-selectable mode will join the standard fray of options for the 2020 model year. The modes already include Tour, AWD, and Sport. According to the new information, the Off-Road mode tweaks the accelerator pedal’s response, enhances the all-wheel-drive system’s torque, and manages the Traction Control System differently. Selecting the new model also automatically engages the AWD system.
Drivers will notice a new icon in the instrument cluster to make drivers aware they’ve engaged Off-Road mode. Where 2020 Cadillac XT4 drivers are going that requires such a change, we don’t know.
The XT4 is hardly the off-roaders vehicle of choice. The front overhang, all-season tires, and overall low stance strike it from any serious off-road paths. Nevertheless, we’re sure some drivers will appreciate the option to flip on the AWD automatically and ensure it’s engaged for a tougher situation. Just make sure that situation is something like, damp grass or perhaps a gravel pit.
For those serious about going off-road, the 2019 Chevrolet Colorado ZR2 is, obviously, the proper choice. With a host of serious off-road gear onboard, the Colorado ZR2 is the right weapon to tackle the unbeaten path, and perhaps even forge new ones.
Look for the 2020 XT4 and its updates to be announced in the near future.
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Source: Cadillac Society
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One advantage over the Corsair..
This has to be a joke. All for the 3 people that will use it?
Came here to say this… can crossover and off road be used in the same sentence without destroying the space time continuum?
Loads of people will use it colder climates. Icy inclines, driveways and such, deep snow, wet boat launches or even greasy roads to cabin. The ability to launch in AWD without waiting for slippage makes for a more comfortable experience. While the name my be misleading, the functionality will be appreciated for the cost of a few lines of code.
Everything Cadillac wants to do with the CUV portfolio could be done better on a modular RWD/AWD platform.
This is no different. The closest relative to the XT4 is the Buick Regal TourX. Let’s not kid ourselves, nobody is talking that offroad.
When that BEV3 and/or VSS-R arrives, Cadillac better fix this.
Hahahaha, Hahahaha.
Thanks, I’ve now had my good laugh for the day! Slippery damp grass or a gravel pit! I love it. So just in case someone just has to park in the grass when they go to the outdoor movie or concert in the park.
Nothing screams ‘off-road’ like an XT4.
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Good thing they still have emblems……I miss the good old days, when Cadillacs looked like Cadillacs. Personally I think an AWD is a good idea if you drive in wintery conditions. As for off roading the XT4, well……(Gravel pit????? Really??).
Why ? Next the XT5 will be labeled will a trail rated button on the console .
Well GM/Cadillac has to try something to sell the XT4 to somebody new and not just existing Cadillac owners.
Add a button to try to make a 2.0T underpowered vehicle ” feel ” like it has more !!!
Maybe one more badge on the rear, maybe round up that torque to the next 1000, or something like that, it might work !!
Also for all you pavement drivers, its hard to drive a GM vehicle, at times, on gravel road ( not gravel pit ) with the traction control engaged.
Even my HD truck I have to take the traction control off in the winter to pull people out of the ditch in snow storms.
But again, GM can add all the buttons and badges to an average BLAH underpowered vehicle they want, its a 2.0T and does NOT belong in a Cadillac !!!!
And NOT any Cadillac, even the CT5 !! or the CT4 !!! And for sure NOT an ONLY engine choice !!
Hey Cadillac, want to know how to NOT sell more sedans, You know , all the people don’t want sedans anymore.
If you ONLY offer the LOWEST power engine option, I wonder WHY nobody wants your underpowered sedan, or your underpowered SUV.
Maybe this button will do it, just wait for the sales numbers next quarter I’m sure this button will fix the engine option.
You can’t make this stuff up —- its just hilarious !!!
What you have for Cadillac since your ideas are so bright?…
What underpowered sedan are you talking about? Also, Cadillac is on record saying customers prefer gas mileage over power in the xt5, why would that change on the xt4?
Currently a 2014 ATS, and a 2004 CTS. My mom still has her 1999 Deville.
Underpowered sedan like our ATS for example, or a CT6 that used to have the 2.0T, or the new CT5 with the 2.0T.
I love that ” Cadillac is on record saying customers prefer gas mileage over power on the XT5 ”
Sure the 3.6 at around 3000 RPM ( when it has torque ) likes GAS. Where the 2.0T ( when it has torque ) is easier on gas. But when you need the torque of the 3.6 the 2.0T does NOT have it, and away goes the 3.6.
But the 2.7T you see has the fuel savings of the 2.0T and the torque of the 3.6 when needed !!!
In fact I would bet all the world that if the 2.7T was installed in EVERY GM midsized vehicle, on average the fuel mileage would go up tremendously !!
WHY you ask !!! Because it has the torque when needed and the smaller displacement when not.
Is that like the same 7000 people GM said loved the new truck dash and interior, because last I heard sales were down on both, trucks and XT5 !!
And not down ” market average down ” down at a much lower trend.
Again GM, you can NOT have it both ways, you cant ask only the customers who give you the answer you are looking for and disregard the rest !!
Do I believe you or GM when you are saying GM asked, maybe. But you would call it a TOTAL sales failure if you only sold as many vehicles as the customers you have asked !!!
I have driven GM for 39 years and I do not recall once receiving a GM questioner on anything !!!
OK say some XT5 owners prefer mileage over power, how many , and you said XT5 owners, NOT potential XT5 customers !!!
Do you really think the average Cadillac owner when making a decision to buy a Cadillac says, I really am concerned about mileage.
And even if so great, cater to them like you are, but what about the customers GM/Cadillac lost do to the underpowered vehicles in the lineup with no option to upgrade.
Your opinion is just that, an opinion, same as mine, and mine is this !!
GM/Cadillac is an average at best automobile company, as of late they are happy being average, blah.
If you want to be more than average and have more than the trend average in sale, you need better than average vehicles.
Again how can you ask any owner of a ” only one choice ” vehicle anything ?
We are serving eggs this morning only eggs, how did you like your eggs ?
What about the bacon, eaters ?
The pancake eaters ?
And on and on!!
And it would be easy if everyone in the automotive world only sold eggs, but some sell bacon, and some sell pancakes !!
Cadillac was also quoted saying, we are done following the Germans ( or others ), time to let Cadillac be Cadillac !!
With the same old German 2.0T ?
Isn’t that following the competition ? The competition offers a 2.0T so we follow with a lower powered 2.0T, WHAT !!!!
You win on the technical side. Let me give you an untechnical anecdotal response, my wife (we are millennials) wanted the xt5 because she thought it looked good compared to the Lexus and liked the gas mileage. I wanted a ct6 because it drives itself on the highway hands free. When you drive in the city or long distance to the mountains, engine size means nothing to us.
We were just in the mountains and that engine size will mean something to you guys there.
The 3.6 in our 2015 GMC Canyon, was at 5000 RPM trying to keep up but failed.
The Subaru stuff and the Jeep stuff were going around me like I was driving a snail.
You know ” SLOW TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT ” that’s right where I was !!!
And the mileage WOW !!!!! we drove 5 hours to the mountains and used less fuel than 1 hour in the mountains at 3000 to 5000 PRM, and were still among the slow traffic !!!
So I agree flat smooth pavement driving, never shifting, h*ll the 1.6 – 4 banger would do.
But passing up a grade, forget it, and then watch your mileage go by – by.
I am NOT looking for a V series race vehicle !!!
But if GM is trying to sell Cadillac as an ABOVE AVERAGE ANYTHING, it should be ABOVE AVERAGE !!
Not ” yeah my Cadillac can keep up with average traffic on a flat road to the mountains !!
I like the looks of most if not ALL the Cadillacs, LOVE the looks of our ATS, inside and out, GREAT LOOKING VEHICLE !!!
BUT the problems with this car were/are overwhelming !!! Just simply JUNK as far as ANYTHING working smoothly !!!