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GM Design Team Releases Sketch Of Futuristic Cadillac Coupe Concept

Although there’s no question that crossovers and SUVs are the dominant body styles these days, there’s still something to be said for a low-slung two-door coupe, doubly so when that two-door is rocking a Cadillac badge. Now, we’re getting a look at a futuristic Cadillac coupe concept that has us wishing for the two-door’s return to the fold.

Coming to us from the official General Motors Design Instagram feed (@generalmotorsdesign), this concept was created by Cadillac Lead Creative Designer Zhou Fang, and looks like it was delivered straight out of a sci-fi movie. The body panels are a mix of smoothed-out curves and sharp angles, with hard creases and pointed edges offsetting the pointed, geometric forms.

The front end includes a beak-like nose section above panel-like lower aero elements, leading back into octagonal fenders housing oversized wheels wrapped in paper-thin tires. The roofline stretches back at an exceedingly low angle, with a roof-mounted fin running down the spine. Further right angles are used for the tail lamps.

Although it’s far from an exact match, looking at this futuristic Cadillac coupe concept reminds us of the Cadillac Cien concept, which GM Authority recently captured at the newly reopened Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.

As GM Authority covered back in 2019, the Cadillac coupe is sadly no longer with us, exiting with the departure of the Cadillac ATS. Although the brand still has quite a bit of excitement in its lineup (the recently debuted 2022 Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing and CT5-Blackwing certainly come to mind), the same company that brought us the Cadillac Coupe de Ville and Eldorado currently only offers four-door sedans, crossovers, and SUVs.

That said, there’s still hope that a Cadillac coupe could be made sometime in the future, perhaps with an all-electric powertrain, per statements made by Cadillac president Steve Carlisle.

 

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Comments

  1. Vomit.

    just build that leaked patent photo coupe.

    Nobody needs this “futuristic” fugly bs.

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    1. Nobody is ever going to build it either, so don’t worry.

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  2. The only thing I like is what I thought they should have done with the ATS/CTS: extending the front light pipes back near the A pillar so the hood looks longer–the actual pipes broke up the hood length.

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  3. Fire them all! The lego models in the earlier post had more curb appeal

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  4. I like the look of it. It does look amazingly like the “Chevrolet-FNR concept” car that was released 6 years ago. Search for the article titled “Chevy Shows Off Futuristic Self-Driving EV at Shanghai Auto Show by Chris Bibey April 21, 2015. Except I like the “Chevrolet-FNR concept” car better. But why put your employee’s efforts into somthing that has already been done and will never come about. Instead super charge your efforts and get that Cadillac Lyriq out FASTER!!!!!

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    1. Many designs are never tossed out and get a rehash now and then.

      This is just a drawing of elements that may play a part of a design in the future.
      But as a whole it will never make production.

      Remember the Silver Arrow Buick show car was originally a Cadillac and ended up a Buick Riviera.

      The 1990 Fiero GT was reused as the 4th gen F body when it was canceled. They redesigned it to be front engine vs mid engine. But they used the dash pod for the gauges just as they were in the Fiero.

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      1. Point well taken.

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  5. That drawing is the winner…. of the contest for ugliest concept car ever.

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  6. Maybe they’ll put in on a Chevy Bolt platform. Call it ELR II.

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  7. Pleas, your talking about Cadillac and GM, they only build old ideas and you will NEVER SEE THIS UGLY THING for sure. Just like all the other show cars they show and have never built because they may actually sell. Mary (Yogi’s daughter) Barra must have designed this pile of crap.

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  8. Is it a ev? Design doesn’t seem to be a real world effort. 1988? Where does GM go post
    covid pandemic? Electric/magnetic propulsion?

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  9. IT WOULD BE NEAT AND IF IT HIT THE STREETS NOW AS A XLR AND CADILLAC WOULD BE THE LEADER OF THE PACK, BUT GM WILL STALL AROUND AND OTHER CAR MANUFACTURES WILL PICK UP ON SOME OF THE STYLING CLUES AND PUT THEM ON THE ROAD. ABOUT 10 YEARS FROM NOW CADILLAC WILL COME OUT WITH SOMETHING LIKE THIS AND IT WILL LOOK OLD BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE HAS HIT THE STREETS WITH PIECES OF IT. CADILLAC IS DOING SO BAD THAT IT IS NOT LISTED WITH THE LUXURY VEHICLES OR THE MEDIUM LUXURY VEHICLES. IT IN SOME CASES IS NOT EVEN LISTED IN THE TOP 5 OF THE INEXPENSIVE CARS. I HAVE HAD 2 CADILLAC’S IN MY GARAGE SINCE 1954 AND HAVE A XLR AND A XTS NOW, BUT I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED IN CADILLAC. THEY CANCELLED THE CT6 BEFORE I COULD GET IT.

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  10. It looks a heck of a lot better than the Tesla Cyber Truck! Talk about UGLY, the Cyber Truck wins for ugliest ! Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder.

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  11. AWFUL AND UGLY

    NO VISIBILITY

    JUST NO

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  12. I like it!! I’m MOSTLY a GM person since my teenage years & think we’ve got them to thank for most of the innovations we take for granted today.

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    1. I AGREE!

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  13. If produced, I see this as a hyper-exotic halo based on the looks of it.

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  14. Why do they waste time on stuff that will never happen???????????

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