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Cadillac Flagship Sedan Gets Green Light: Report

 
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Cadillac XTS Platinum Concept

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Talk, rumors, and reports of a coming Cadillac flagship sedan have made the rounds for years now. But today, the story looks to be firming up a bit, with a report that the larger, more luxurious Caddy has received internal approval.

That means it could be on the road sometime between 2015 and 2017. The long lead time is necessary to develop a new platform built around the idea, which includes rear-wheel drive and lightweight materials.

If you thought the Cadillac XTS (pictured), itself recently approved for production, was the Cadillac flagship sedan, you were only half right, according to GM Inside News. The XTS will be the top Cadillac for the near-term, but it's seen only as a "stop-gap" by GM, whose current brass doesn't much like the car at all. The true flagship will replace the XTS after a brief run. We've heard rumors of a flagship beyond the XTS before.

As for the flagship's new platform, it's tentatively code-named Omega, and will grow out of the Zeta platform, with newer technology and materials.

For now, we're taking the news with a liberal dash of salt.

[GM Inside News]





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  1. WizardsLore avatar WizardsLore Posted: 7/12/2011 7:24pm PDT

    you mean that GM have finallyrealised that they can utilise the Holden Caprice and make a car that will appeal to the US market ?? no way !!!
    GMs stubborness and blindness to utilise Holdens expertise in large family and upermarket cars (Commodore, Calais, Caprice) is mind boggling and in a way almost borders on xenophobic in their belife that it can only be an American car they sell. this blindness will be the undoing of the marque yet again as double paying for the same thing will replicate was had gone on before with the badge sharing excercise
     
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  2. connectfour avatar connectfour Posted: 7/12/2011 10:27pm PDT

    calm yourself buddy. i don't think that gm has any plans to go under just yet. they seem to have learned from their mistakes. i'm glad this got the green light - the cts was the only non-suv offering from caddy for a while now that's been updated recently so it seems. this ought to change that
     
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  3. fb_1414234887 avatar Daniel Tishman Posted: 7/13/2011 3:57am PDT

    From what I just read the CTS and XTS will co exist as both front and rear wheel drive platforms, while the CTS will downsize using a revised platform from the GTO designed in Australia and the XTS will be the lead car using a lighten yet big car platform revised also created in Australia currently used as police platforms and cabs? Am I missing something? Caddy has done an outstanding job with the CTS current platform no doubt so I see no reason to believe they can continue to impress with both platforms going forward!
     
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