Having caught the next-gen Cadillac CT6 undisguised on U.S. roads earlier this week, GM Authority has just learned that the all-new Cadillac CT6 will debut in China very soon.
Sources familiar with SAIC-GM’s product plans have reported that the next-gen Cadillac CT6 will be officially unveiled in the coming days in China, and will go on sale in the local market before the end of the second quarter of the year. As such, the main General Motors joint venture in that country is making the final adjustments to start mass production and shipments of the vehicle to the brand’s dealer network.
In fact, the automaker has completed the testing period of its prototypes, and has begun creating marketing content using fully undisguised units of the next-gen Cadillac CT6 that have been captured in public areas. In particular, a CT6 unit dressed in gray paint and the Premium Luxury trim level has emerged on Chinese social networks.
Aesthetically, the second-generation Cadillac CT6 presents the latest evolution of the brand’s design language, characterized by an imposing front end comprised of a large shield-shaped grille and more stylized light clusters – which are now physically divided – as well as organic body lines that accentuate the vehicle’s large proportions. The interior will adopt a massive 33-inch curved screen similar to the one in the Cadillac Lyriq.
As we first reported in November, the upcoming Cadillac CT6 will continue to be based on the current model’s Omega platform and will retain the familiar 2.0L I4 LSY engine rated at 233 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque, mated to the GM 10-speed automatic transmission. Although it is not official, range-topping finishes could add hybrid assist with an increased output.
The next-gen Cadillac CT6 will officially debut in the coming days and will go on sale in the second quarter of the year in China, the only country in the world where Cadillac’s large sedan is currently manufactured and marketed. At least as of this writing, there are no plans to market the new Cadillac CT6 in the North American market.
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It is BEAUTIFUL ! But tell me PLEASE why we Americans cannot have this car for us ?
Why does Cadillac think they can sell the CT4 & CT5 & not this , much more appealing Cadillac.?
I just cannot believe GMs decisions today ?
Import it , if they must .
We buy Chinese Goods 90% anyway !
Cadillac, give us this car , please!
US import tariffs on Chinese cars is 27.5%
That doesn’t stop Buick from manufacturing the Envision in China.
That’s a small SUV with general appeal. Americans aren’t buying large sedans, so fewer are built every year.
So few would be purchased that it would be a guaranteed money loser that wouldn’t even cover the required overhead in dealerships and parts availability to support it.
On the other hand, Chinese are still buying sedans of all sizes.
It is funny that a US luxury car future has been determined by foreign culture. I bet BMW Mercedes Bentley and other brands won’t DARE do the same. People who are running the company don’t care about what they do to the brand because if they did, we would NEVER stop making the full size vehicle that outlast everyone else’s. US is a innovative country and we started making really nice cutting edge cars before everyone else. You guys need to fire whoever are making these decisions like that and get back to what made the brand what it is. Bring it back home! Bring that real Cadillac logo back too. Instead of try to go all electric go hybrid. That is the LOGICAL decision. At least they last longer and more dependable. We don’t need a compact car engine in our full size luxury car either!
The Germans own the high end segment of the market. That’s what Americans perceive as luxury, cutting edge and desirable. Once you lose that, you can’t get it back. Even Tesla can’t compete with the X and S. The X and S now only represent 2% of Tesla sales and are being discontinued around the world and maybe soon in the US.
Where do you get your numbers, DenMor?
Remove the XX in front of the link.
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Cadillac Man, that Chinese CT6 is a Chevy. Look at the green house. If you want the last close to decent Cadillac in terms of what a Cadillac used to be, find yourself a good CTS twin turbo.
Funny how Chevy has no vehicle that rides on a platform that is event remotely similar to this one… but okay.
Yes the Impala, Lacrosse & XTS shared chassic, the CT6 was a bigger car.
The Impala was discontinued…, that’s why.
To be more complete, the Impala was dropped years in advance knowing that a shrunk top Cadillac was coming. Most businesses are doing it. Prepackaged foods, books, etc. Pretty much all in the profit game except foe the responsible businessmen.
Cadillac Man, that Chinese CT6 is a Chevy. Look at the green house. If you want the last close to decent Cadillac in terms of what a Cadillac used to be, find yourself a good CTS twin turbo.
Yeah, it may not share a platform with a Chevrolet but it doesn’t look like a premium vehicle. Upon first look, I thought ‘hmm, that could be a RWD replacement for the Impala’.
NO slave-labor-built imported “American” luxury cars. If your charging $70k+ a pop for these, they can be built in the US for a profit. If I wanted an Asian import sedan I would buy a Lexus or Genisis.
Becuase the ct6 was offered here and nobody bought them. Everybody wants crossovers and SUV’s true car enthusiasts are rarely catered to by large automotive companies.
I agree with you, the 2nd Gen CT6 is just an amazing extebsion of the winner that was last made in USA in the 2020 model year.
GM-Cadillac has totally lost its way in North America. Peopoe do not want those EV’s they want good old muscle, luxury, styling, and technological firward thinking while having a link with the most beautiful legacy Cadillacs of yesteryear.
I will join with you ( I own a beautiful 2018 CT6 BITURBO PLATINUM) IF you know how to get to the right Cadilkac Executives, so we can tell them they MUST KET NORTH ANERICANS HAVEBTHE ABILITY TO IMPORT THIS CAR, OR THEY OPEN A PLANT IN NORTH AMERICA DEDICATED TO BUILDING THE HIGH END & HIGH POWERED CT6TT mideks fkr Americans to own & enjoy. I do not fit well in the smaller CT5 OR CT4 at my heart, but I do in the CT6!!!
I agree with you, the 2nd Gen CT6 is just an amazing extension of the winner that was last made in USA in the 2020 model year.
GM-Cadillac has totally lost its way in North America. USA People do not want those EV’s!! They want good old muscle, luxury, styling, and technological forward thinking, while having a link with the most beautiful legacy Cadillacs of yesteryear.
I will join with you ( I own a beautiful 2018 CT6 BITURBO PLATINUM V6) “IF” you know how to get to the right Cadillac Executives, so we can tell them they MUST LET NORTH ANERICANS HAVE THE ABILITY TO BUY & PP IMPORT THIS CAR, OR THEY OPEN A PLANT IN NORTH AMERICA DEDICATED TO BUILDING THE HIGH END & HIGH POWERED CT6TT mideks fkr Americans to own & enjoy. I do not fit well in the smaller CT5 OR CT4 at my height of 76″, but I do fit oerfectly in the 2st & 2nd Generation CT6!!!
Somehow an independent importer in Los Angeles has the ability to legally import the new CT6 Cadillacs, one by one. Can you find out more about this independent importer??
Thank you Barton: I do like EVs .They are truly excellent, and the future . No transmissions, fluids, instant torque, and aren’t going to be stopped : People own them love them ! ……but a choice can be offered for awhile, and certainly SEDANS!
Only offering SUVS & Crossovers, to maximize profit per vehicle is ridiculous!
And to just offer two small Cadillacs, shows a total lack of Cadillacs understanding today.
They are going to make no profit, as people walk out of the showroom.
Everyone I know does& out to the foreign ones they go !
” A car for every taste , and purse ” . Was GMs legendary slogan & it made them.a giant.
With there capacity , they can still do it .
Its pure ignorance, and greed .
Forcing people to like what they really don’t….giving these cars only to China is nuts !
EVs also chew up tires twice as fast as an ICE vehicle, and costs tens of thousands of dollars when the battery or motor needs replacement.
Otherwise I’m keeping my XTS. No suv for me or electric. CT5 cargo space too small.
And for the rest of the World, when? For China and nothing, is exactly the same. Not everybody likes boring SUV’s or crossovers or is willing to buy one no matter what. ICE or EV, but sell this car out of China also.
I have a 2017 CT6 Premium AWD Super Cruise and a 2020 Premium Luxury AWD AWS Super Cruise and love them. I get compliments all of the time on them. We still have our 2002 Cadillac DHS with just over 100K miles on it. We owned a 2012 Platinum Premium SRX and traded it in less than a year for a 2013 XTS Platinum Premium to get back to a sedan.
Cadillac and GM have lost their way and only care about the Chinese market, too bad. Wait until the China says, well we’ve gotten all we need from you, so get out. What will Mary do then?
Not everybody wants a boring CUV, SUV, EV or pick-up. Bring us a full-sized luxury sedan and stop trying to pawn off the CT4/CT5 as luxury cars. I have had the chance to drive both for a few days and they are a rough riding, fuel gulping compact cars.
It sucks that the 2nd gen CT6 ain’t going to be available in the US. I hate the fact that Cadillac is walking away from its traditional loyal customer base. I have a feeling it will bite them on the ASS in the future !!!
The Cadillac has the style I would want in a sedan model. I always wanted a Caddy. Never could afford one. One day.
Cadillac’s design studio is out of touch, without a sense of history and generally becoming more tasteless after having started regaining its footing during the decade before last. I would like to have he opportunity to take a look at who they are and what they are.
You would need to go to China, as they make all gm decisions now. New vehicle announcements most of the time come from China gm.
The previous CT6 was 2nd in sales here in the US, second to the MB S which at the time had more models to offer including convertibles and coupes.
This 2nd gen CT6 would over take the current sedan- only MB S to be the #1 in the category.
communists decide from gm China, what they will allow for vehicles for North America. With gas prices on the rise, OPEC & Russia, the U.S.A. is headed for people being only fueling our vehicles (70’s again). A Man fueling his SUV saying he used to pay $80 to fill the tank and now $160, they had to stop taking family to restaurants, movies and general shopping/groceries.
China’s CT6? Really! They just took the Chevy Impala and dressed it somewhat, non-functionally. Same old same old.
Thats totally FALSE. The CT 6 is an exclusive Cadillac Chassis & drive train .
The first for Cadillac, chassis wise, since 1960 !
And during that time , Cadillac was NOT using Chevrolet on most of its underpinnings , or vastly improving the platform.
That’s not a Roger. The CT- was the last full framed vehicle, better yet. Drive one and you get the idea. You will think you are in a Sedan De.
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Cadillac has been stand alone for much of its line. It is the Chinese version of the new 6 to which I made and make reference. It isn’t. It’s a Chevy and a legacy of the Impala platform.
I love my CT6 the handling the sports style handling and the luxery . Caddy has a habit of discontinueing its models to often. I will purchase my Leased CT 6 untill I can find a compatable model. Not a Caddy
CADILLAC HAS LOST ITS WAY. PUTTING OVERPRICED ENGINES IN TINY CHEVROLET’S WITH A CADILLAC COVER IS NOT A LUXURY VEHICLE. LONG, LOW AND WIDE HAS ALWAYS BEEN LUXURY AND THAT HAS NOT CHANGED. THE COMPETITION KNOWS IT.
We should be able to get that CT6 and it should be built HERE!!! Most people I associate with consider vehicles like the Buick Envision to be pissy assed foreign tin cans with an American nameplate slapped on it, and won’t have it parked in their driveway. China is NOT a our friend, and we should not be importing vehicles from there. Flint Michigan once had 80,000 GM jobs but is now down to about 8,000. Support your American workers! Don’t buy a pissy @ssed foreign tin can!!
Then STOP buying from Walmart, Costco, Amazon, Home Depot… Otherwise, you’re just part of the problem just like everybody else.
Do you realize that your made in North America car is just an assembly of Chinese parts?
There are many products that are entirely no longer made in the US including consumer electronics and clothing. Try finding an American-made product in those categories. Furthermore, there is a big difference between a $50k+ vehicle and a $500 phone or TV
Styling is subjective of course. Personally, I’m not a fan of the vertical rear lights on their sedans. The vertical lights are more or less a Cadillac heritage thing but I just think it makes the car look visually narrower and not particularly upscale. Looks great on trucks though.
Like I said, just my personal opinion and obviously other people like the look.
I can’t afford a Cadillac, or I would have one. One of our vehicles is a Chevy Impala, fully loaded. That CT6 does look a lot like our Chevy, right down to the sunroof. The new CT6 is powered by a turbo four, and it’s down on power compared to my 3.6 liter V6. I bought this car from a Cadillac salesman, and he said there was no current Cadillac sedan that had as much room. I am over six feet tall and I have Grandsons who are bigger than me. Have the Cadillac design guys sit in a sixties or seventies Cadillac, back when they made real cars. Not everyone wants an Escalade. Build something that makes BMW and Mercedes engineers sweat, and put a real engine in there. Yes, there are the Blackwing cars, but the base models should have more than four cylinders.
It’s the Escala, or damn near identical. So why when everyone was begging for Escala to be released would we say this looks like the impala? Because as handsome as Escala was, it was still too conservative, like an Audi A7, it never moved the game along. And this CT6 facelift is already looking dated. It would be a step backward in the US. But CT6 will get an electric replacement, something more mainstream to slot under Celestiq, and that should be something impressive.
Bring this stateside and throw the real Blackwing engine in it!
Reading through all these comments, so many echo what I have said for years. Cadillac and GM for that matter, have totally lost their way. Hell, there is even talk of taking Corvette out of the competition with Ferrari and having them compete with Subaru. Cadillac should only produce high end Sedans, with a Coupe D’Ville and Convertible as in old. GMC should have the premier SUV’s and Pickups, Chevy should be producing cars for the masses, of all types. I’ve been, and still have three in my stable, a GM guy for close to 70 years of driving (my dad gave me the old ’41 Cad Fleatwood to redo for a high school car). It is a rotten shame that GM has sold out. If they were “Bud-Lite’d” or “Target’d” maybe they would get the message.