Mark Reuss on CT6: 3.0L TT, Plug-in, 70MPG, 75 EV miles..

[Cmicasa the Great]

 

General Motors Co.’s new Cadillac CT6 will have a plug-in electric option that offers “industry-leading fuel economy upwards of 70 mpg equivalent,” plus tons of new technology, GM’s top product chief said Wednesday.

 

Cadillac and GM have said the top-of-the-range CT6 will be built at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant beginning late next year.

“We will create with the CT6, the world’s most advanced body structure,” Mark Reuss, GM’s, executive vice president of global product development, purchasing and supply chain, told more than 200 investors and analysts gathered at GM’s Proving Ground for the company’s Global Business Conference. “And it’s not aluminum. It’s a stronger, smarter, safer premium luxury vehicle.”

“So rather than try to copy someone, or do something that has already been done, we have created, we think the vehicle, in this timeframe, that will stand apart and make Cadillac again the standard of the world.”

The automaker said it has developed a mixed material body structure that combines use of the company’s patented welding technology with high-strength steel, aluminum and steel stampings and castings to help create a lightweight vehicle that uses 20 percent fewer parts.   http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2014/10/01/new-cadillac-ct-plug-electric-option/16566555/

 

[Cmicasa the Great]

 

CT6, which is expected to compete with the Mercedes-Benz S-Class and BMW 7 Series, will have stop-start technology and offer a 3-liter twin turbo engine combined with an eight-seed transmission to offer the most “powerful six-cylinder gas engine in the segment.”

The new CT6 is 53 pounds lighter than the CTS on the road today, but is eight inches longer, Reuss said.

 

 

Already loving this car. The news is abound. The 3.0L TT is interesting and I'm wondering if it will be a Cadillac exclusive. "Most powerful in segment?" IS he talking about the TT3.0L or another N/A 6Cycl. Is it a V6 or the I6 they were working on? 

[KevinW]

I saw "75 EV miles" on another site, but this wouldn't be consistent with 70 MPGe.  Is it possible this was a misinterpretation of a Tweet that suggested the ability of operating at speeds of up to 75 MPH on electrical power alone?

[Cmicasa the Great]

^^^ Tell U the truth I don't even care as long as it makes the S500 Hybrid look like the die hure it is.

[smk4565]

The S500 plug in hybrid has 436 HP, 479 lb-ft and does 0-60 in 5.2 seconds. It can do 20 miles on electric and top speed on electric is 87 mph. It gets 84 mpg on the Euro cycle that will probably be like 70 here. What Cadillac is planning has pretty much already been done, but better late than never. And better than that awful 7-series hybrid BMW was trying to sell.

[Z-06]

SMK, take some time off the site to have a Dulcolax to release all the Mercedes garbage you have been eating.

 

How do you know pretty much everything has been done? When you have seen nothing about the car?

[David]

The S500 plug in hybrid has 436 HP, 479 lb-ft and does 0-60 in 5.2 seconds. It can do 20 miles on electric and top speed on electric is 87 mph. It gets 84 mpg on the Euro cycle that will probably be like 70 here. What Cadillac is planning has pretty much already been done, but better late than never. And better than that awful 7-series hybrid BMW was trying to sell.

So since no real driver can ever reproduce the actual states given for a car, guess this can at best in real world driving get 10 miles of pure electric driving. What a joke.

[Cmicasa the Great]

 

The S500 plug in hybrid has 436 HP, 479 lb-ft and does 0-60 in 5.2 seconds. It can do 20 miles on electric and top speed on electric is 87 mph. It gets 84 mpg on the Euro cycle that will probably be like 70 here. What Cadillac is planning has pretty much already been done, but better late than never. And better than that awful 7-series hybrid BMW was trying to sell.

So since no real driver can ever reproduce the actual states given for a car, guess this can at best in real world driving get 10 miles of pure electric driving. What a joke.

 

 

 

 

He regurgitates exactly what Benz wants him to. BTW.. what the point in the stating the IEuro Cycle in the United states other than to try and make it sound more impressive?

 

He Smokey.. I'm willing to be that Reuss wouldn;t have made his boast if they hadn't taken an S500 Hybrid out and bench-marked it before setting the goals.

[Drew Dowdell]

The EPA just told benz to reduce the MPG estimates for the E-class.

[smk4565]

I thought it was the C-class and it was the 2013-14 model that isn't even on sale anymore. 

 

Ruess said they aren't going to copy anybody, but the A8, 7-series, and XJ all have 3.0 turbo or supercharged engines and the S500 hybrid has a 3.0 turbo V6.  Two of those cars are aluminum body also, so Cadillac sort of is copying what has already been done.  I just think they are talking the CT6 up a lot and in theory it will sound good but the reality will fall short.  We shall see, maybe it will go 0-60 in 4.5 seconds, have better luxury than an Escalade and get 80 mpg.  Maybe they will shock us all and make it a Tesla Model S competitor with 0-60 time of 3.5 seconds and 400 mile range.   I just don't see how Cadillac will do anything that hasn't already been done by those that have been in the high end segment for 10, 20, 30 years already.

[balthazar]

Two of those cars are aluminum body also, so Cadillac sort of is copying what has already been done.

 

“And it’s not aluminum. It’s a stronger, smarter, safer premium luxury vehicle.”

[Cmicasa the Great]

I thought it was the C-class and it was the 2013-14 model that isn't even on sale anymore. 

 

Ruess said they aren't going to copy anybody, but the A8, 7-series, and XJ all have 3.0 turbo or supercharged engines and the S500 hybrid has a 3.0 turbo V6.  Two of those cars are aluminum body also, so Cadillac sort of is copying what has already been done.  I just think they are talking the CT6 up a lot and in theory it will sound good but the reality will fall short.  We shall see, maybe it will go 0-60 in 4.5 seconds, have better luxury than an Escalade and get 80 mpg.  Maybe they will shock us all and make it a Tesla Model S competitor with 0-60 time of 3.5 seconds and 400 mile range.   I just don't see how Cadillac will do anything that hasn't already been done by those that have been in the high end segment for 10, 20, 30 years already.

 

 

Cadillac isn't necessarily copying any of the makers in regards to what Reuss presented. He commented many times that the goal of this top tier luxury car would be also to be a driver's car. S-Class is not, 7series has veered away from that, LS460 never was, the A8 is FWD based. BTW the S500 doesn't have jack, because it isn't even on sale yet, and reviews are literal regurgitation of Mercedes press releases. I will add that luxury is more than 0-60 times, a metric that should be exclusively used for mainstream vehicles and is in reality only relevant to getting up to highway merging speeds. Lastly, what is it that Cadillac is attempting to mimic from  those who have been been in the high segment for 10, 20, 30 years already that they themselves didn;t purvey from Cadillac who had been in that segment some 80 years ago? My point is Cadillac helped create the luxury segment, and while many of it's co-creators disappeared, it maintained that segment for quite a while. I think U really need to look towards the history of automobiles. It was not that Cadillac was behind the other brands in terms of Cadillac's tech, but the inability of Smith and company to see the changing tide towards more hip Sport's geared Luxury. BMW, for instance, wasn't viewed as Luxury until the late 90s. Audi either. They were both viewed as high end Euro Sports Sedans/Coupes with youth appeal, while Cadillac, Jaguar, Lincoln, (Buick) and even Benz were looked upon as Stodgy, old people vehicles that in some cases were "highway floaters." Benz took the first step to compete with it's home-country rival, BMW, and came out squarely ahead of the rest I mentioned. Even Cadillac's sports car of the time, the Allante, had no real sporting capabilities. Had the Allante been based off the Corvette, instead of the same platform as the Eldorado and Riviera of the time, I think systematically Cadillac management would have seen the light.