GM announced today that the production version of the new CTS coupe has been pushed from November’s LA auto show to the January Detroit auto show…apparently as a ‘cost cutting’ measure.
Given recent problems we’ve had getting responses from Cadillac’s press relations group – maybe they’ve cut enough that it is difficult to get their launches planned in time.
Despite what other sites are saying about this – we see no reason that the production of the coupe will be delayed.
Production of the 2009 CTS-V sedan starts this month with the first cars expected in dealer hands at the beginning of November (at a starting price in the US of $5 shy of $60,000).
Hmmm…now where is that winning lottery ticket.
Read on for the official press release from Cadillac:
If you follow the great automotive TV show from the BBC, Top Gear, then you know Jeremy Clarkson.
You also know that he has rarely, if ever, had a good word about any car from this side of the pond. Which is what makes this so unusual…
He actually wrote quite a nice review of the new CTS-V, noting it as superior to the BMW M5 and to Mercedes’ AMG products…saying that “you’d be mad to buy anything else”.
We’ve suspected this for quite some time, but we are hearing from a few sites that Cadillac has green-lighted the sub-CTS sedan based on their new rear-drive Alpha platform.
For the US market, this will be a brand new model. For Europe, this will replace the front-drive, Saab 9-3 based, BLS sedan and wagon.
Expect direct-injection (likely turbo-charged) 4-cylinders as base power, perhaps with a small V-6 as the top engine. If we’re lucky, a turbo V-6 might make for a sweet V-Series version of this car to compete in all ways with the BMW M3 and Audi S4/RS4.
Given rumors that the Kappa cars (Pontiac Solstice, Saturn Sky) will switch to Alpha in their re-design, this could suggest that a convertible version of the Alpha Cadillac could arrive, along with a coupe, early in the next decade.
Check out MotorTrend’s rendering of what the Alpha sedan might look like at:
GM announced today that the production version of the new CTS coupe has been pushed from November’s LA auto show to the January Detroit auto show…apparently as a ‘cost cutting’ measure.
Production of the 2009 CTS-V sedan starts this month with the first cars expected in dealer hands at the beginning of November (at a starting price in the US of $5 shy of $60,000).
