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  • 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS

    Yesterday’s grim news that General Motors had decided to pull the plug on its High Performance Vehicle Operations (HPVO) caused shockwaves around performance circles, with many believing some of the company’s top sports cars, both current and future, could meet their demise. The HPVO is responsible for the Cadillac ‘V-series’ of cars and Chevrolet ‘SS’ models, and this lead many to believe that the upcoming 2010 Camaro SS could be canceled. Nothing could be further from the truth as GM spokesman Vince Muniga has revealed to Edmunds. This is because cars...

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    GM disbands High Performance Vehicle Operations

    In what may come as a surprise to many, General Motors has decided to disband its High Performance Vehicle Operations (HPVO) as it seeks to reduce costs and focus on mainstream products. The go-fast center consisted of a small skunk works of GM engineers who worked in the company’s suburban...

  • 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe
    GM reveals production CTS Coupe in viability presentation

    Just as Chrysler previewed its next-gen 300 sedan and Jeep Grand Cherokee in its viability plan submitted to the U.S. Treasury today, General Motors, too, in its own plan, revealed the final design of the upcoming Cadillac CTS Coupe. Apart from this official image, the only other details revealed...

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    GM delays CTS Coupe launch until mid-2010

    General Motors' Cadillac brand has long aspired to be 'The Standard of the World,' and for a period, it was. Over the last four decades, however, innovation, consistency and quality haven't been hallmarks of the brand. Now, as the auto industry faces some of its bleakest times ever, Cadillac is...

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    GM delays Australian Cadillac launch indefinitely

    General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] today announced that the introduction of Cadillac into the Australia market had been delayed indefinitely. Confirming the bad news was the boss of GM’s Holden subsidiary, Mark Reuss, who said the downturn in the local automotive market plus the broader global...

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    GM Performance Division executive John Heinricy retires

    The face of General Motors' widely-lauded Performance Division would be a different sight if it weren't for John Heinricy. An executive and development driver, Heinricy started his career with GM nearly 40 years ago, and along the way he's had a hand in developing the Citation X11, the original CTS...

  • 2011 Chevrolet Cruze

    General Motors will reportedly postpone spending on product development in all of 2009 and 2010 in an effort to cut costs. The spending cuts will affect engineering, research and design, and is expected to lead to delays in the introduction of crucial models such as the Chevrolet Cruze compact sedan. The information comes from an inside source, who told Automotive News that no actual models planned for those two years has been canceled. This is contrary to previous reports that claimed GM had canceled plans for its next-generation Cadillac Escalade and Chevrolet Tahoe full-size SUVs. It does...

  • 2009 Cadillac CTS-V
    Cadillac prices the CTS-V at $59,995, sales start Nov. 1

    Launching a come-back to sit among the world's best luxury sport sedans is no easy task, especially with the level of competition there is today from companies like Mercedes-Benz, Audi, BMW and Lexus. But Cadillac appears to have done just that with its CTS, and now the CTS-V is poised to take the...

  • Report: Cadillac may fit turbodiesel V8 to CTS
    Report: Cadillac may fit turbodiesel V8 to CTS

    The American car buyer is reputed to be warming to the idea of diesel power after several decades of disinterest, though few carmakers have dared to test the strength of that demand. So far the primary candidates have been luxury and sedans, but now Cadillac is rumored to be working on a fitment...

  • Cadillac reveals 2010 CTS 'Sport Wagon' at Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, confirms diesel o
    Cadillac reveals 2010 CTS 'Sport Wagon' at Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, confirms diesel option

    Cadillac has used this week’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance in California to give a preview of its new 2010 CTS wagon, which is set to go on sale in the first half of next year. Based on the CTS sedan, the new wagon features several unique elements and will be available with a new...

  • Update: Left-hand-drive only Cadillac CTS-V planned for Europe
    Update: Left-hand-drive only Cadillac CTS-V planned for Europe

    Update: Despite reports from Top Gear claiming the CTS's brawny force-fed brother - the CTS-V - won't be sold in Europe, a rival publication has word from a senior GM official that the high-performance saloon will make it to Europe in left-hand-only drive and will even be sold in the UK. Autocar...

  • Cadillac CTS coupe & wagon due next year, SRX SUV coming in 2010
    Cadillac CTS coupe & wagon due next year, SRX SUV coming in 2010

    The Cadillac SRX has been officially revealed. Click here to view the story. Cadillac has three major model introductions planned for the next two years with the first new model, the CTS wagon, set to enter production early next year before going on sale in global markets by the end of the first...

  • GM unlikely to build Cadillac CTS convertible

    While the Cadillac CTS coupe is confirmed for production in June of next year a convertible version of the svelte two-door is shaping up to be just a dream as latest reports claim GM has dropped plans for such a model. Despite the positive reception received by the CTS Coupe Concept at January’s Detroit Auto Show, according to an inside source a convertible CTS won’t be heading for production. Just this week Nissan revealed it would launch a convertible version of its premium Infiniti G37 coupe and next year Mercedes-Benz is expected to launch its next-generation CLK. Lexus has...

  • Update: Cadillac CTS-V 7m 59s Nurburging video
    Update: Cadillac CTS-V 7m 59s Nurburging video

    Updated with official video. With the GT-R's recently lowered Nordschleife lap time set at 7m 29s, a drop of nine seconds from its previous 7m 38s lap, General Motors responded with speculation that the ZR-1 would handily take the production car lap record at any track in the world. While we have...

  • Cadillac CTS D3 styling kit
    Cadillac CTS D3 styling kit

    Improving on the sharp lines of the all-new Cadillac CTS is no easy task but American tuner D3 has managed to design a new performance exterior package for the car that doesn’t mess up the edgy styling of the original. The parts have been designed to be functional as well, increasing...

  • Consumer Reports ranks Cadillac CTS ahead of BMW, Mercedes
    Consumer Reports ranks Cadillac CTS ahead of BMW, Mercedes

    Influential magazine Consumer Reports has ranked the 2008 CTS ahead of BMW’s 328i and Mercedes’ C300 by a significant margin in its latest list of upscale sports sedans. Better still, the CTS was the only model to be rated as ‘Excellent,’ while the best the German’s...

  • Cadillac drops the CTS Coupe Concept in Detroit
    Cadillac drops the CTS Coupe Concept in Detroit

    Cadillac has confirmed the new CTS sedan will spawn several other body styles including a coupe and wagon-crossover, and now we have the first tangible evidence that GM’s product planners are working on at least one of these new variants. GM used this week’s Detroit Auto Show to roll...

  • Cadillac CTS Sport starring at SEMA
    Cadillac CTS Sport starring at SEMA

    Cadillac will present a modified version of its still-new CTS saloon at this week’s SEMA Auto Show in Las Vegas, developed to emphasize the car’s performance character. For their latest work, Cadillac’s designers have kept the chrome to a minimum and have instead gone with a...

  • GM to take CTS global with right hand drive edition

    The 2008 Cadillac CTS is being hailed as the best American car in 40 years by automotive journalists across the nation. Now GM is looking to take that success overseas. This week's UAW strike threatened to cut into production of the new right-hand drive CTS, which is being built at GM's plant in Lansing, Michigan. Domestic models had already met production targets the week before the walkout. Now that workers have returned, GM expects to meet its goal of selling 60,000 CTS sedans worldwide in the next year, and has capacity to build more. Markets being targeted for the right-hand drive Caddy...

  • Cadillac to sell diesel CTS sedan in Europe
    Cadillac to sell diesel CTS sedan in Europe

    Cadillac will be launching a diesel powered version of the all-new CTS sedan aimed at European markets. Automotive News is reporting that the engine will be sourced from Italy's VM Motori, with the diesel variant appearing in showrooms several months after the gasoline version. "We expect at least...

  • All-new 2008 Cadillac CTS
    All-new 2008 Cadillac CTS

    Cadillac’s next generation CTS sedan doesn’t break any boundaries in its design and why should it? The luxury car brand’s new rear-wheel drive sedan is two inches wider than its predecessor thanks to an optional all-wheel drive system that is expected to debut later this year. The...

  • Teaser image for the new Cadillac CTS
    Teaser image for the new Cadillac CTS

    About a month and a half ago, Cadillac released a teaser-to-a-teaser, telling us that the new CTS would debut at the upcoming Detroit Show. Well, they’ve now released an image to go along with the announcement, which you can see above. As you can see, it’s nothing new in terms of...

  • Possible rendering of CTS coupe
    Possible rendering of CTS coupe

    Cadillac has confirmed that its next-generation CTS sedan will spawn several other body styles including a coupe and wagon-crossover, and now we have a possible rendering of what the CTS coupe may look like. Picking up the tag CTC, short for Cadillac touring coupe, a concept version is expected to...

  • New Cadillac CTS headed for UK
    New Cadillac CTS headed for UK

    Cadillac will build right-hand drive versions of its upcoming CTS executive saloon that it plans to export to the UK. The new CTS will be debuted at January’s Detroit Motor Show, but UK motorists won’t be seeing the car in showrooms until the end of 2007 at the earliest. What Car? Is...

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