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Archive for March, 2009

Economic collapse takes a bite out of Cadillac’s European strategy

March 26, 2009 - 7:42 pm

Due to the economic downturn, Cadillac is seeing a major setback in its efforts to sell product in Europe.

As you may know, Cadillacs along with Hummers and Corvettes were distributed in Europe by Kroymans Import Europe – which has just recently gone under.

This leaves Cadillac with little presence in Europe as they are now down to the GM-owned stores in Britian, Russia, and Switzerland.

Additionally, the reduced sales (already a fairly low number) has made GM re-think offering the 2.9l diesel in the CTS and STS – immediately limiting their future appeal in a region of the world where easily half of all cars are diesels.

Let’s hope this is a temporary setback and that GM and Cadillac come out of this soon so they can resume their push into international markets.


Cadillac announces in-car WiFi system for CTS

March 19, 2009 - 8:48 pm

Cadillac announced today an in-car wifi system for the CTS.

The system begins with a dealer installed cellular modem/AP combo that connects to a 3G data network and converts it to a standard wifi network with data speeds of up to 800kb/s.

Initial cost is $499 for the hardware and monthly service goes for $29.

This puts Cadillac in fairly exclusive company in offering wifi Internet access in moving cars – a trend that is likely to spread over time.


New video of the 2010 SRX

March 6, 2009 - 12:12 pm

Cadillac has released the below video talking about the new SRX.

Enjoy: