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Report: Cadillac flagship sedan gets the green light

 
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The DTS/STS replacement has had a rocky road through GM's restructuring process

The DTS/STS replacement has had a rocky road through GM's restructuring process

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Rumors about what Cadillac is planning for its next-generation flagship sedan have been flying around the web for years now. Guesses have ranged from a Zeta-based vehicle sharing Pontiac G8 heritage to the most recent reports of a still-murky XTS-badged RWD sedan. Today, a new report confirms the program to build a new flagship Caddy is back underway.

The range-topping Cadillac had been derailed by the financial crisis and then bankruptcy General Motors has so famously dealt with over the last year, but now that the New GM is running the show, the DTS/STS replacement is go, reports Motor Trend.

The report indicates that the Zeta-based solution won't be used, however, and that instead the new flagship will ride on a lengthened version of the Sigma platform used for the CTS. How that stretching might affect dynamics is anyone's guess, but it's within reason that the extra wheelbase and rear-seat room necessary for a full-size executive sedan could change things from the familiar - and fantastic - CTS.

Rather than contradicting our report from earlier this month, the new report merely fleshes out what's to come for the next-gen car, presumably to be named the XTS.

Whatever is to come of the top-end Cadillac model, however, don't expect to see it on the road until very late in 2011, though it will likely make an auto show debut sometime before that. The plant where the car is expected to be built - GM's Oshawa, Ontario plant - isn't going to start on the XTS until December 2011.

The next-gen Buick Regal will also be built there, as will the next Chevrolet Impala. The 2010 Chevrolet Camaro is already being built there.

The Regal - which may be re-named Invicta for the U.S. - could end up being the most interesting car out of that rather attractive group, however, with a potential 2.0L four-cylinder turbo, a hybrid version and the 2.4L-3.6L range found in the 2010 Buick LaCrosse all gearing up for use.

We'll keep you on top of the details as they break, but in the mean time, you can read up on our experience with the 2010 LaCrosse if you haven't already.



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  1. ma_NoNameDenton avatar NoNameDenton Posted: 7/20/2009 2:12pm PDT

    Least it will be rwd and not on the Epsilon 2 platform. Too bad I do not see any engine bigger then a V8 going into it.
     
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  2. ma_ehaase avatar ehaase Posted: 7/20/2009 6:35pm PDT

    Motor Trend is a terrible source of information. We know that the XTS will be a FWD/AWD Epsilon II platform car just like the LaCrosse. I am tired of these rumors. Cadillac has no RWD flagship car. Cadillac's lineup will be the CTS, SRX, a Lambda Escalade, XTS, and hopefully the Alpha small car. We know this - so why keep up the silly rumors?
     
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  3. ma_NoNameDenton avatar NoNameDenton Posted: 7/20/2009 7:13pm PDT

    Motor Trend is a terrible source of information. We know that the XTS will be a FWD/AWD Epsilon II platform car just like the LaCrosse. I am tired of these rumors. Cadillac has no RWD flagship car. Cadillac's lineup will be the CTS, SRX, a Lambda Escalade, XTS, and hopefully the Alpha small car. We know this - so why keep up the silly rumors?

    That Epsilon thing was also a rumor and not verified, have to wait till the car is caught testing or a concept is shown to know for sure
     
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  4. ma_Mike avatar Mike Posted: 7/21/2009 9:22am PDT

    Would be nice if they put the Sixteen into production as a flagship. Not gonna happen but a boy can dream, right?
     
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  5. ma_Devigny avatar Devigny Posted: 7/27/2009 11:21pm PDT

    sixteeennnnnn =
     
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