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Cadillac Will Still Make Sedan-Like Vehicles In The Future

The Cadillac brand was built on the back of luxurious passenger sedans, but the traditional four-door is no longer very popular, with most consumers seeking out crossovers and SUVs instead. However even as much of the industry abandons sedans in favor of other vehicle types, Cadillac is still interested in making four-door passenger vehicles going forward.

GM Authority has learned that Cadillac will still produce so-called “low hip-point,” or low H-point vehicles going forward. In GM terms, a crossover like the Cadillac Lyriq has a “regular H point,” that allows passengers to easily get in and out of them while also featuring a higher ride height expected of a crossover. A low H point vehicle, by comparison, is a sedan that sits lower than a crossover like the Lyriq.

Future Cadillac four doors will feature a low H point, but that doesn’t mean they will be traditional three-box sedans. Instead, these vehicles will be sportbacks similar to the Cadillac Escala concept, offering up a similar package to a low-slung sedan but with a sportback-style rear end that may offer up more cargo space.

The Cadillac Celestiq is a good example of a low H point vehicle that Cadillac has in the works. However with an expected price tag of $300,000, this vehicle will be inaccessible to the vast majority of Americans. That said, our sources indicate there will be at least one more low H point Cadillac vehicle beyond the Celestiq, which will be smaller and less expensive. GM referred to this model as the “Lux Low Roof,” in its BEV3 product presentation that it delivered back in 2020. The American luxury automaker is also said to be considering a third low H point vehicle of some sort, but it’s unclear if this model has been given the green light for production.

All of these future low H point Cadillac vehicles will be battery-electric and will not feature internal combustion engines. The luxury brand will transition to a complete battery-electric vehicle portfolio by 2030 and is therefore not expected to introduce many new internal combustion engine vehicles or variants in the future.

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  1. From your article, “Future Cadillac four doors will feature a low H point, but that doesn’t mean they will be traditional three-box sedans. Instead, these vehicles will be sportbacks similar to the Cadillac Escalade…”

    I think you meant to say “Escala,” not “Escalade”

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  2. Great news at least Cadillac still has some common sense… Now build a proper two door car like an Eldorado then I I will really be interested!

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    1. Amen!

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    2. I’ll second that Amen!

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      1. As of today, Cadillac has a two door coupe in the early stages of planning. Mark Reuss has teased it at least ne time, as has GM in a media presentation.

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  3. I love it, not everyone wants an SUV or crossover!

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    1. I think that the $300,000.00 price tag will case a stampede out the door rather than in the door! How much more will GM add to the other vehicles to make up the losses on this one ? Tomg

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      1. Have my first Cadillac; planned to have many more. Here comes the “however”:
        – It doesn’t appear a Cadillac EV will meet my range requirements, ever.
        – GM has gone woke with the EV crowd.
        – Dig down deep & range forecasts appear to ignore what happens if one wants heat in the winter, AC in the summer, & load it down with family & gear.
        Wonder who the GM desk jockies included in the focus groups? Apparently they didn’t bother to ask past, loyal Cadillac sedan owners fir their opinion.

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        1. What is your range requirement? GM’s nect generation battery with 50% more energy density is due in 3-4 years.

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    2. Never mind, it’s an EV, not interested.

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  4. With FMC abandoning the sedan market and Stelantis not making a sedan that lasts after the warranty expires, one would think Cadillac would pour their resources and run with it. However, not at the current price point.

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    1. Karrpilot: Seriously, where are you getting that a Chrysler product not lasting past the warranty? That’s just a lie and you need to be called out on it.

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  5. I think saying that 4 door sedans are not popular isn’t exactly true. I understand that the market is trending towards SUVs and Crossovers, but I believe a well designed and engineered Sedan like the Cadillac CT6 would sell in the US with appropriate marketing support. BMW, Mercedes, Audi and even Lexus (Ugly as they are) sell luxury sedans in the US. The difference is that those companies ADVERTISE their products, Cadillac doesn’t ! It ain’t ROCKET SCIENCE, its common sense. You can’t sell a product if buyers aren’t aware of it…any product.

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    1. Seems that the buyers are aware of the Cadillac sedans. This past 2nd quarter, CT4/5 volume had increased but the volume is not where it use to be compared to the second generation CTS but it is a start.

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      1. Johnls_39: That may be true. Now just imagine if Cadillac actually promoted those same sedans and how much more they may sell.

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      2. The CT4 and CT5 don’t compare to the 2nd and 3rd gen CTS or the CT6. In my opinion they are Cadillacs in name only. Sorry after buying 18 or 19 new Cadillacs, I wouldn’t considerer owning either one of those “Faux Cadillacs”.

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    2. Yes Frank, Mary B. does not seem to understand the power of marketing, with one exception. Walter, and I truly doubt that was her idea.

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    3. Sedans aren’t popular anymore because they aren’t worth the price. When I could get a traverse the same price as an Impala, course I’m taking the heavier roomier, but with the same dash and seats SUV. Ditto with say a Malibu vs a equinox. Granted the current Malibu has been cheapened down to an affordable people mover, but why would I shortchange myself? The Buick Regal wagon to me was one of the most gorgeous modern people movers, but for its price tag, no way

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      1. Most SUVs and crossovers are ugly. You still can’t dismiss the slick presence of a sedan or coupe.

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  6. “ Future Cadillac four doors will feature a low H point, but that doesn’t mean they will be traditional three-box sedans. Instead, these vehicles will be sportbacks similar to the Cadillac Escalade,”

    I don’t consider the Escalade to be a sport back. Perhaps the article should’ve said Escala.

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    1. I think he meant Escala

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    2. Yes, it was supposed to read Escala. Thank you for the heads up. Fixed 🙂

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  7. What many miss with the move to EV platforms basing many models it will be cheaper to adapt more body styles to the and still be able to sell them at lower volumes and make money.

    I would not be shocked to see even sone coupes arrive somewhere at GM other than the Camaro.

    These platforms are flexible so they will make use of it.

    Another thing Cadillac pricing also helps allow lower volumes too.

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    1. Well said. You took the words right out of my mouth.

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  8. Bring us the 2nd generation CT6 that is being developed and tested in the US, unfortunately for the Cina market. Cadillac sedan owners don’t want the CT5 or CT4 as they don’t offer the ride or size that we have grown accustomed to.

    I have owned an SRX and a XT5 cross over from Cadillac and went back to a sedan (XTS and a CT6) in less than a year. I now have 2 CT6’s and I will continue to own them as long as I can get parts for them if they need repairs in the future.

    We looked at a Tesla before ordering our 2020 CT6 AWD Super Cruise Premium Luxury and as we found out about adding a charging station to our house, the cost of the semi-automatous driving feature, the limited range (we drive more than 400 miles a day when traveling) in winter or summer due to keeping batteries warm or cooled, charging station availability and charging speeds, comfort of passengers, fit, finish and materials we knew it wasn’t for us.

    Bring us the ICE CT6, with the V6 and not the turbo 4, and when the infrastructure is ready to support all the EV’s and they get a decent range maybe we’ll break down and get one, but I’ll keep and ICE CT6 as backup!

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    1. Not the v6, preferably a V8, such as the 6.2 or the 5.3 if it’s a transverse AWD vehicle. I do believe it’s longitudinally mounted so the 6.2 should fit. A proper engine is needed for a proper sedan.

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      1. I was worried about the V-6 when I traded in my 2008 DTS for a 2017 CT6. Turns out I don’t miss the V-8, the Six has plenty of grunt. Of course, having a choice between the Six or Eight is always good,

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  9. It’s still hard to believe GM has staked Cadillac’s entire future on EVs. The company has never successfully marketed an EV despite 26 years of trying and EVs are still only about five percent of the US market. With the current administration in Washington, conditions have been made artificially favorable for EVs but that will likely change before these EV Cadillacs come to market.

    I think the approach of BMW with the new 7 Series available with six cylinder power, a V8, or in EV form is much wiser. The Munich-based carmaker is prepared no matter what consumers ultimately decide. Cadillac will have all their eggs in the proverbial one basket. A future US President who reopens the oil industry, brings gasoline prices down, and fails to put in place the hefty EV subsidies Barra is counting on will have created a more neutral climate in which these new generation Cadillacs will be sold in. Who knows then how the ICE/EV mix will shake out. If it’s 50:50, Cadillac automatically is off the consideration list for half the buyers. That’s not good.

    The only product that’s truly successful for Cadillac is the Escalade which, although a high H-point vehicle, is also a traditional Cadillac in many ways. The archetypal Cadillac was a big, flashy BOF, V8 with RWD, four doors and a smooth comfortable ride. Escalade is all of those things although less distinctive than in days gone by. Even with the Escalade though and it’s traditionally Cadillac form, GM couldn’t sell it in the hybrid version. They couldn’t sell the ELR either so why go all-in on something that’s never worked and abandon the formula that’s proven successful for most of your history.

    I would take a more cautioned measured approach offering a variety of powertrains and let consumers decide. I personally think gasoline is going to be around for a very long time. Vehicles powered by it won’t be 100 percent of the new vehicle market to be sure but it’s not going away by 2030 no matter what some politician and the CEO of GM hath decreed.

    I consider Cadillac to be on a very dangerous, ill-advised course with a $300,000 EV sedan planned and only battery power for their future. Consumers have not yet embraced EVs en masse and the Cadillac brand is so badly damaged that a product that expensive will be a completely out of line with Cadillac’s Tier 2 positioning in the luxury field. I hope they succeed but it’s hard to make sense of it other than to say it’s a huge gamble and sometimes when one bets it all, they do win. Mary’s got the dice in her hands. BMW isn’t even in the casino.

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  10. How about GM bringing back these type vehicles across the range, from Chevrolet to Buick, as in the case of the Impala and LaCrosse AND FOR ONCE, PLEASE, PLEASE , PLEASE advertize them in a way younger people would want one unlike those goofy Buick comercials with that ridiculous jingle they have now. I have the last year Buick Lacrosse and I can’t tell you how many 20 and 30 year olds come up to me and ask me what that car is and comment on how nice it is. When I tell them its a Buick they look at me like I just introduced to them a new word becuse they never hear f a Buick before and certainly never saw a BUick like my LaCrosse.

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    1. The Buick LaCrosse is very good looking car, it just was not marketed properly.

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    2. Very welcomed news from Cadillac.

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  11. For the US market I think we will get one sedan that’s a tweener much like the first two generations of the CTS. A smaller Model 3 competitor should come from Buick for the US market and a ID3 competitor coming from the redesigned Bolt. The Malibu should soldier on and growing in size. It would be nice to see a Lucid Air competitor but I don’t think it’s necessary in the US market where SUVs dominate the space.

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  12. I’ve been looking at older cars recently and I realized how high their hip point was back in the day even though they were cars. Something like a 1940s Cadillac Sixty Special or a Series 72. Cadillac could make a lot of people happy if they took styling elements from those older models. It would still be a sedan, but it would have a higher hip point and could have a hatch like an SUV. Those older designers had the right idea before later models lowered the hip point to make them sporty.

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    1. Richard P: You are 100% correct. I talked about how the older cars (referring to the 40’s, 50’s) were more SUV like but in a sedan style. Yes, the hip points were higher because the roof-line was higher so they could do that. We can thank the import brands and the automotive magazine for constantly pushing for the “sports car” look and feel and the import “buyers” wanting the bucket seats and low to the ground feel for the claimed better “road feel”. I am using quotes because I’m attempting to show a pattern and how we lost our American style sedans to the push to be more like imports when they would have been better off letting Pontiac be the true import fighter. So what do (and what did) Americans do? They began to purchase SUV/CUV’s for the higher H-point. However, it wasn’t talked about as the H-point but that people just wanted to sit higher up.

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  13. And that Folks is why Mary Barra receives at least $20 Million in Bonus money…

    When you are Cadillac, it’s what you do. You make luxury sedans.

    Now, if you are GM, that owns Cadillac, well that’s a whole different strategy, and another story completely. Keep in mind that any brand that dares to have any product that even might compete with GM’s darly golden child Chevrolet, GM will absolutely stomp the other out of business as it did to so many other brands already.

    Hopefully Cadillac will choose to build a quality stylish luxury sedan. That should be far enough away from Chevrolet so that GM doesn’t murder it too.

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  14. Sounds like half of Cadillac lineup will be ICE with the $100k + models EV..

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  15. Sedans are not going away. EVs are providing a second wind and new possibilities for packaging and layouts. And as said above, the new architectures make different bodies easier to develop and drop on the Ultium platform.

    Looking at Cadillac, I argue that CT5 should be the basis for a family of low roof EVs – very similar to the second generation CTS. It competes in just the right market in terms of price (3 Series) and size (5 Series). You could have a four-door sportback and two-door coupe. There really is no need for CT4. I have seen countless reviews say that for a few thousand more, your better purchase is the CT5. I’d even argue you could attract more interested customers by offering a four-door sportback and two-door coupe than Cadillac does now with two sedans that are so similar (CT4 and CT5).

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    1. Unfortunately, the CT5 is not a full-sized car like what many Cadillac owners are accustomed too. We have had a CT5 as a loaner when one of our CT6’s were in for routine service. The CT5 has limited back seat area and really isn’t comfortable for an adult. The comfort just isn’t there sorry to say. I cannot imagine taking it on a road trip and arriving without being completely worn out and being able to get out of it without falling over.

      Just give us the 2nd generation CT6 that is being tested and developed for China. I think GM has forgotten the US market and just want us to buy whatever they market in the forms of CUV, SUV and mall crawling pickups. This is why there are so many former GM full sized cars buyers driving the fugly Toyota, Lexus, Infiniti and Nissans. GM…bring us a full-sized Cadillac, Chevrolet and Buick

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  16. Let’s hope that this also trickles down to Buick and Chevrolet. If Buick or Chevrolet sold an EV sedan today, I’d buy it.

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  17. Make coups Cadillac CTS V, CT55 Blackwing should have a coupe version.

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  18. That’s the best news out of GM for a very long time. Do the photos of the Cadillac attached to this article suggest that GM might even produce these genuine passenger cars in 4 door pillarless hardtop form? How good would that be!

    A cars B pillar on any car, is without question the part that takes away most from styling and nothing improves styling better than its complete removal. This is particularly true in the case of 4 door body styles but its removal even improves the lesser more common 2 door body styles.

    In this day and age, I have to believe that ‘roll over’ protection can be achieved without the need for an ugly B pillar. Finishing B pillars in BLACK as most manufactures do in an attempt to hide the pillar is NOT the answer.

    Let’s hope we might one day see 4 door hardtops back in Cadillac showrooms.

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  19. When the Great Depression culled many a famous car company , their husks went onto to produce trucks only : Pierce Marmon , White , Issata Franchini , etc & they eventually died .
    The crossover , SUV & big pick up popularity has many fathers .
    The latter two is because of big , full frame size …some just availability.
    You cannot sell , what is not offered.
    I HATE SUVS & Crossovers …..I don’t need what they supposedly do , like how they look , or ride .
    I thought cornering was important in a vehicle ?
    There handling is downright dangerous !
    Remember when station wagons & mini vans where the height of uncool ?
    That’s how I ( and EVERYONE I know ) feel about SUVS & especially crossovers !
    GM needs cars …..the foreign brands are not dropping them for sure & they look GOOD !
    Buick especially needs some & if Cadillac does not offer a coupe & convertible , along with a sedan they are DONE as a luxury maker .
    Put them in the line of Pierce , Marmon , REO , Issatta Frashini . DEAD .
    The absurdity of an SUV only line up is appalling.
    Of note : Stellantis is very seriously considering an EV Imperial , based on the Wagoneer Chassis.
    It will walk right into the market Cadillac Buick & Lincoln trotted out of .

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  20. Only reason Cadillac will continue to sell sedans is because China still buys them.

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  21. OK I don’t know about you guys but people who buy S UV’s that seat 5 people and don’t buy Sedan really doesn’t sound too smart to me. The reason why I say that is because the sedans gets better gas mileage than the SUV that seats the same amount of people. So please someone correct me does that sound smart to you.

    Like my family I have a suburban that sits 8 when I need that 8 seats. I have a sedan that is a luxury car that seats 4 with a refrigerator in it that just for cruising around with me and my wife. My trunk can fit over 15 bags of groceries and yes the Equus can fit that much, I have tried it. Most SUV will crap mileage and seat the same amount . So why?

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  22. GM needs to develop and sell sedans and station wagons again, because this is the strength of the OEM importers. GM, Ford and Stellantis are giving away a lucrative market here.

    Therefore!
    The future of sedans and station wagons at Cadillac and GM will also affect future infrastructure repairs. I know a lot of people who buy SUVs supposedly because of the big wheels and long suspension travel to drive through holes in the road.
    It’s particularly weird with the pickups because you always have a trailer to drive around which is illogical and that’s why the pickups are longer than luxury cars – name the Cadillac CT6 here.

    It is interesting, since the company BMW was mentioned here, that this company will bring an M5 PHEV station wagon again. In Europe, politicians want to impose extremely high taxes on large and powerful SUVs and pickups so that private individuals no longer buy these monsters. Also applies to the EV that destroy extremely heavy and very high kWh of electricity. A 9,000 pounds weight Hummer EV will be subject to a truck toll in Germany if driven as a private car. Strange activities in Europe and Germany to the detriment of large SUVs, pickups and cars.

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  23. Cadillacman… you are facked in the head… take your dem loving attitude and walk off a cliff, ya retard…

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  24. I would like to see a car on the level of a Fleetwood Talisman with a 133″ wheelbase and a width to match. The size, if combined with today’s technology would much better on gas than the previous version.

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  25. that new Caddi sedan is beautiful, but it looks a lot like Genesis G80 and G90’s whichae
    great looking cars….

    OH. Please keep politics out of this pages. This is place is intended for cars and for the car guy’s and gal’s
    thanks and enjoy the vies of the cars o come.

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  26. I have been a GM/Caddy guy for years. I recently purchased a 2020 Continental. Like the prior writer who had young folks talking about his LaCrosse I’ve had lots of young folks commenting on the car…. My one wish … Caddy !!!! Get back in the game !! Please get rid of Mary Berra !!!!

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