Poll: Should GM Bring The All-New Cadillac CT6 Sedan To America?
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General Motors launched the all-new 2024 Cadillac CT6 this past May, showing off a fresh second-generation for the full-size luxury sedan. Unfortunately, the 2024 Cadillac CT6 will be sold exclusively in the Chinese market, and as far as we know, there are no plans to offer it in any North American market, including the U.S. The question then becomes this – should GM bring the all-new Cadillac CT6 sedan to America?
For those readers who may be unaware, the Cadillac CT6 first rolled off the line for the 2016 model year following a debut at the 2015 New York International Auto Show. Built on the new-for-2016 GM Omega platform, the first-generation Cadillac CT6 was available in North America and China, serving as the brand’s flagship sedan to take on the likes the BMW 7 Series, Mercedes-Benz S-Class, Audi A8, and Lexus LS.
Unfortunately, the Cadillac CT6 was discontinued in North America following the conclusion of the 2020 model year. However, GM continued to sell the CT6 in China, with a second-generation model launched for the 2024 model year.
Introducing revised styling following the latest evolution of the Art & Science design language, the second-gen 2024 Cadillac CT6 is offered to Chinese buyers in four distinct trim levels, including Base, Luxury, Premium Luxury, and Platinum, with a Sport trim expected at a later date. The cabin features a 33-inch 9K OLED display, a high-fidelity AKG stereo, and enhanced GM Super Cruise driver assist tech.
Under the skin, the 2024 Cadillac CT6 rides on an updated variant of the GM Omega platform, while motivation is derived from the turbocharged 2.0L I4 LSY gasoline engine, rated at 233 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque.
So then, dear readers – what do you think? Should GM bring the all-new Cadillac CT6 sedan to America? Let us know your thoughts by voting in the poll below, and remember to subscribe to GM Authority for more Cadillac CT6 news, Cadillac news, and around-the-clock GM news coverage.
YES to making a Cadillac sedan… NO to “bringing in one” from China… and NO to this particular CT6, which just basically looks like the last Impala. They need a STUNNING 4-door sedan with futuristic styling and presence.
And give it a V8. The LT6 comes to mind
It’s a nice looking rear wheel drive Impala. Thankfully Chevy helped Cadillac out with the rear window so you don’t end up with a piece of black plastic like the CT5. If you can’t produce this car in the United States don’t bother.
Bring the CT6 back here and sell it at what you were selling it in China.
You could ship it overseas just like you do the Buick envision
Yes, GM should bring back the CT6, it’s a american car. American love large cars. Please bring it back!
I would love the CT6 to come back and when you do bring back the beautiful Siera cream interior with tan carpet instead of black that looks like crap. Bring it back like in 2020. It was a beautiful interior, they don’t even have a pretty cream-colored interior now in any vehicle. I had to pick black for an interior in my 2023 white XT6.
Yes, bring it here, build it here and give it more torque! Ditch the Celestiq and make the CT6 the custom built $300,000 Halo Cadillac.
Peace
This car is not long enough to make a $300K Caddy.
No. This is a 50k to 75k traditional Cadillac luxury sedan, nothing more more nothing less.
I want to say yes, but this CT6 is just uncompetitive. What segment is it targeting? It’s too big for a 5/E/A6 competitor, and it’s not nice enough to compete with the S-Class and 7-Series. It looks pretty good, but it doesn’t seem like it would mount a serious challenge.
It can compete with the S-Class and 7-Series when equipped with the 4.2L V8 Blackwing. A 4-inch stretch is wheelbase and length will help.
I don’t think that’s enough. The bigger engine is great, but par for the course in this segment. It’s table stakes. A few tenths of a second to 60 is a check mark in its column, but acceleration and speed are lower down on the list of what makes these cars successful.
The increase in wheelbase would be a more significant factor in my opinion. Really an overall increase in size is warranted in all dimensions. It has to have the physical presence to dominate.
But that interior just isn’t cutting it. The Genesis G90 outdoes it, and it’s left in the dust by the S/7/A8/LS. And if it’s anything like the last CT6, it’s going to have cheap crappy plastics on the bottoms of the doors, B-pillar, and transmission tunnel. Not good enough.
Plus the ride needs to improved over the last one; isolating, but not floaty, smooth and gliding. Plus needs to be quieter and have better NVH performance to make it feel more substantial and solid.
Didnyou see the size of the CT6 while it was still stateside? It has the same wheelbase as the S class and is only 2” shorter then the current BMW7. Also, the interior is easy. This is the cheap copy paste interior for china. They can use the interior from the Escalade/CT5/XT6 easily. All of those outclass the germans if you’ve driven them recently.
Could work. If Cadillac has the will to upgrade the interior for a US-only version.
But it needs to be the one from the new Escalade IQ, Celestiq, or a version of the Lyriq. The CT5 is good enough for what it is, but not a car of this class. And the XT6…well, that was uncompetitive from the day it launched.
The new 7 is 212 inches long. Maybe that’s overkill, but I want a Cadillac to almost literally hide the S-Class it’s parked in front of.
In terms of driving dynamics, Cadillac is top of the game, but for performance, not luxury.
Yes. Build it in South Korea with a competitive engine (the turbo 4 in the 2024 Traverse comes to mind) and it will be an attractive sedan.
Build it in the United States since the brand is supposed to represent the best of what gm (an American company) has to offer.
SEB:
The turbo 4 was the base engine on the American CT6 during its entire run. Apparently not attractive enough.
I own 2-CT6’s and a 4-cylinder was never on the order sheets in the base car. It was always a V6 on my 2017 Premium and my 2020 Premium Luxury.
Not true. The 2.0 was discontinued for the last few years in the US
Yes l have a 2019 and would love a brand new CT 6. I one of many we want to keep driving a big American sedan. All other options are German or Korean.
Oh yes, Beautiful Vehicle…..”Nice”
I would love to see CT6 return to North America. Explain why? Well, it’s because I want to see this Cadillac car to come here to compete with the 7 series, S class, etc. I also want to see the new CT6 to have a twin turbo V6 and a 6.2L naturally aspirated V8. I would also love to see the North American version to borrow some of the Chinese counterparts. I could also see the re-debut of the new CT6 in Detroit Auto Show.
Well, correct me if I’m wrong fellow readers. But did the CT6 outsell all in the segment when it was available?
When debuted, this car did not outsell anyone. It was more of a tweener between two segments of E & F segments. This car was priced like the E Class while the size and interior came up short against the S Class.
It outsold all except the S-class.
YES but ONLY if it has a real Cadillac Blackwing V8!
Bring the WAGON back
GM should not only bring this to the US, but it should also bring the Chinese Regal and La Crosse
Even if they don’t want to give it to Buick they should give the La Crosse to Chevy and possibly the Regal as well
I used to buy Buick but my 2017 La Crosse Premium (totaled due to other driver) and my 2019 Buick La Crosse Avenir (replacement totaled La Crosse) will probably be my last Buick.
I am not sure that I will buy a Cadillac CT-5, as I still own my 2014 Buick Regal and 2004 Buick Le Sabre (best car I ever had yet – 170K miles – original motor). The CT-5 is more like a “bigger” Regal and not a full size like the La Crosse or Le Sabre. The CT-4 I don’t see as practical due to its limited rear room. If I did buy one it would be simply out of lack of choice at GM. The Malibu is off the list as the 2.0 liter is no longer offered as of 2023 and based on news coverage Barra is looking to kill the car after 2024.
So until GM decides to make either an EV sedan (not coming any time soon – Celestiq is more “Cadillac show car vapor”) or import from China the last of their ICE powered Sedans, I may be buying either Genesis, Audi, Mercedes or BMW next.
So much from Barra & Co getting the market. I know their results are strong right now but this is due to circumstance not business strategy
Mary Buick Envision Made in China-Barra’s policies are to eliminate budget models and replace them with more expensive models. The models that Mary Buick Envision Made in China-Barra has eliminated include the Chevy Cruze, Spark, Sonic, Bolt and Buick Verano, wouldn’t be surprised if the Malibu is next.
LeSabre was THE ride that the CT6 wishes it could have been. Full size, best trans, mileage and interior. With the new tech in place it would pretty damn sweet. Flint, MI could be BUICK CITY again!
A sedan is a flagship not an SUV (sorry not sorry escalade). To be taken seriously as a luxury auto maker to have to have a flagship that is luxe, rich looking, and embody the brand. The CT6 should come to the US but it needs more refinement. The celestiq is not attainable for most people. Please include a coupe too!
Laughable dear readers, absolutely laughable. Tell you what, go out, get 50-100K pre-orders with 10K non-refundable deposits and I’m sure gm would be delighted to do it. The reality is if gm brought it to the US, even with a bigger engine, they’d sell 20 and lose their shirts. The had a CT6 built in the US and no one bought them. I would love a CT6 with the new dash, but I know that I and the 19 other people who would buy them is not enough to make a biz case for it.
It was the 2nd best selling large luxury car after the S-Class, but GM loves to quit on anything that isn’t a Silverado….
First they should have never stop selling it
Second build it here NOW third build a V
But the CEO DON’T REALLY KNOW CARS
OR WHAT PEOPLE WANT
Yes, I want the CT 6 brought back to the US. You GM execs never thought about the senior citizens. It is time for us to turn our Cadillac in and I went to the dealership and tried to climb into the smallest SUV and I could not get in it because I have a hip problem. GM please bring back our full size Cadillac. You won’t be sorry. Think about your loyal Cadillac customers.
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100% yes. They can do a Blackwing version (with the real BW engine) and the V-6. America needs a large American sedan!!!
you in the called america have all cars of world why u need more ?
You must not live in America, for sedan loyalists, the number of sedans available are shrinking. Sedan owners like me have no use for SUVs/CUVs or P/Us.
Yes I think the car should come to US Cadillac is an American staple of luxury why not being it to the states,but please do a better job at supporting the car and make it competitive. It should be well equipped with all of the extras and some of them should be standard .
Yes, I want the CT 6 brought back to the US. You GM execs never thought about the senior citizens. It is time for us to turn our Cadillac in and I went to the dealership and tried to climb into the smallest SUV and I could not get in it because I have a hip problem. GM please bring back our full size Cadillac. You won’t be sorry. Think about your loyal Cadillac customers.
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Yes. USA needs this sedan in a huge way. Ditch the stupid CT6 “name” and give it a real name that give buyers something special. Offer with the 2.0 turbo and the upgrade V8 and (hopefully) in an EV as the 3rd choice.
Build it here and offer Buick a version as well with a great Buick name.
Dan B:
What makes you think the US “needs” the CT6? Our Countrymen didn’t buy them even when they could.
And there’s no way to install a BEV powertrain in an ICE vehicle. The platform underpinning the CT6 was developed over 10 years ago. There’s nowhere to put the batteries!
Megeebee: I say that because FMC/Lincoln doesn’t offer any sedans. Chrysler barely offers anything. Just because something doesn’t sell over 100K a year doesn’t mean that people don’t want them. We have so many SUV’s for sale on the market today that there are many that never break the 100K mark. So should they stop selling those? Cadillac and Buick need sedan’s to stay relevant and people do want them.
BTW, the CT6 was actually offered in PHEV just in case you didn’t know that. So that car was able to accommodate some form of EV and would make a fantastic PHEV again today.
Dan B
Those others you mention don’t sell sedans for the same reasons the CT6 is gone. Cadillac is the only domestic make still offering sedans. Selling sedans does not make an automaker “relevamt”.
And yes, I did know about the CT6 PHEV. It was offered for ONE year. No one, and I mean no one, bought them. There’s an article on this site somewhere, and I have seen it at a local dealer myself, 3 year old CT6 hybrids still awaiting buyers as late as 2021.
Oh man, there are used CT6 plug-ins in the low $30k’s w/under 30k miles out there. But they are mostly west coast and then so rare, can the be repaired easily?
They were made in China, which couldn’t have helped sales. Who buys a $60k car for the gas mileage? EVs are about status, not saving $ or CO2.
I vote for the Cadillac “Summer Breeze”…smooth, sleek, uh, I give up….
Call it deVille and offer a longer wheelbase called Fleetwood.
The only place in the US where the CT6 is popular is on this and similar forums.
If it was so great why were sales so low when it was available here? Does anyone REALLY think there’s a sizeable market for a scaled up, more expensive CT5?
Setting up production would cost hundreds of millions and sales would number less than 10k a year (just like the first one). Probably much lower. The market simply isn’t big enough, if it exists at all. The only reason GM would do that is because it wants to lose huge sums of money.
Import it from China? Do-able, I suppose. But even those of you here that could actually buy one, wouldn’t.
Face it. The time for such things has passed. The CT6 was too late even when it came to market. If there is a similar Cadillac in the future (and I think there will be one eventually) it will be electric.
Again, it outsold the 7 series, XJ, LS, Genesis and et all except for the S-class.
I’m not sure what GM was expecting, that Mercedes would close up shop when the 1st CT6 rolled off the line? This is typical of GM spend billions and if it doesn’t sell 950,000,000 units on the first day, then cancel the car.
Imagine if Toyota would have quit the US market when the first Toyopets didn’t sell in 1958, of if Honda would have quit after the first 600’s were sold?
GM is company of losers that make terrible decisions, all they do is cut and run cut and run wash rinse repeat, this is why they have gone from the largest car company in the world to like a pitiful 4 or 5th largest and shrinking.
If GM could make only make extended cab Silverados in Mexico from 100% Chinese parts they would, they are passionless car company that I have 0 enthusiasm for.
MrR: Not sure if you and I agree on much and if I recall, I think you seem to be right there chastising me on many things. But no matter what, I need to say that you just hit the nail on the head.
Well said.
I had a Platinum CT6 and loved it, and should have kept it. I’ve seen photos or the CHINESE model and not too impressed with its generic style ( glorified Chevy). Bring back the FLEETWOOD but give it some distinctive “Cadillac:” design. Would love a Fleetwood with coach doors. Give it some distyinguisment and resume production in OUR country, not China.
Yes.. bring it back and improve it!!!
Not if you only offer a 4cyl.