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Sure... But..as @riviera74 and @dfelt have stated. And like you also have made a comparison with Mercedes Benz and the GLA... Cadillac, should NOT enter Buick and Chevrolet air space. The Yukon Denali enters Cadillac airspace and THAT is OK for Buick. Buick NEEDS cars in the upper echelon that touch Cadillac prestige to retain Buick luxury status. Chevrolet could enter Buick airspace to attract buyers in the Chevy showrooms. Halo cars like the Corvette and high speed Camaros (ZL1s and the like) were always expensive and entered Cadillac airspace. And those cars helped sell the rest of the Chevrolet line-up of Biscaynes and Bel Airs and Chevelles which also made Chevrolet introduce a new niche. The "SS" muscle car trims of their family grocery getters. And those "SS" trims entered Pontiac and Oldsmobile airspace. And the same thing happened over at Pontiac with their GTO and Trans Am offerings, but Pontiac also had personal luxury coupes to sell. And the same thing over at Oldsmobile and so forth and so forth... Zoom over to 2020. Same thing. Only that Pontiac and Oldsmobile do not exists anymore. Cadillac has been cheapened to sell more cars. That would be a 1980s mistake. The dealership network has to understand that Cadillac at one time, sold cars on the merit of LUXURY, PRESTIGE and QUALITY. By down pricing and selling Cadillac, LUXURY, PRESTIGE and QUALITY also goes DOWN. THAT is the nature marketing. And its done NATURALLY. When cars being sold at the SAME price level and NICHE MARKETS as even your OWN entry level, family haulin' brands, your own pricing DICTATES what MARKET you are gonna be playing in. What airspace you are filling... You (GM/Cadillac) is DEFINING that space... Mercedes is lucky and unlucky at the same time as M-B for a time now, has to do all that on ONE brand. Its a curse but a blessing. A curse because their marketing AND engineering has to be top notch. A blessing because if their marketing AND engineering is top notch, their luxury cars are the best, and THAT sells their lower end cars. If they sputter on one of the two, then both luxury and entry level go to hell. Cadillac does NOT NEED that headache... All Cadillac needs to do is just be...CADILLAC. The rest follows ON ITS OWN. Mercedes had to INVENT slogans like: "Engineered like no other" or 'Nothing but the best" Mercedes had to CONVINCE buyers that that is true. But they also had to deliver on that promise. Cadillac ONLY has to deliver on the goods. Cadillac invented only ONE slogan. "The Standard of the world" after they won the Dewar award almost 100 years ago. After that, Cadillac ONLY played in Cadillac airspace and "engineered their cars like no other" and were truly "nothing but the best" and the PEOPLE came up with this slogan "Its the Cadillac of..." By occupying high priced Chevrolet airspace, and low to mid-level Buick airspace...do you (CCAP) actually think that the Cadillac version will be at Cadillac levels of prestige, LUXURY and especially QUALITY? I personally dont think so.... The Cadillac Escalade is NOT at a Chevrolet Tahoe level or Yukon Denali level...but the Yukon Denali is at Escalade levels of luxury, prestige and quality. But for Cadillac playing in Buick and especially Chevrolet airspace...one gets the OPPOSITE reaction towards Cadillac. Ive said this before.... When a Cadillac ATS is sold SIDE BY SIDE, PRICE FOR PRICE, (more or less) with a Chevrolet Impala, with the Impala getting a more powerful engine than the entry level ATS and the SAME engine with a mid level ATS, with the IMPALA seemingly getting a NICER interior than the CADILLAC ATS...than its no bueno for Cadillac and its image.... But lets not fool ourselves. The Escalade truly is a Cadillac. The Chevrolet Tahoe is no where NEAR the Escalade... BUT...the Tahoe is probably gonna be a MORE luxurious, better quality vehicle than a possible Cadillac XT3... And THAT leads to PRESTIGE...which shoots Cadillac in the foot by trying to sell vehicles it has NO BUSINESS selling in the first place. Let Buick handle that niche. If Cadillac "needs" a small CUV like a XT3, then the XT3 NEEDS to have a PRICE TAG, that BEFITS a CADILLAC which in turns needs to have the ENGINEERING, TECH, LUXURY that BEFITS a Cadillac... Which means it needs to be EXPENSIVE as HELL...to support all that!!! And maybe a small CUV that is expensive as hell might not sell in high numbers enough for Cadillac to invest in...which means Cadillac might cheapen all those qulaities and THAT is no bueno... And if Cadillac wont do that, and if Cadillac might NOT sell enough expensive as hell XT3s, then either way...Cadillac needs to stay the hell out of that market. Mercedes on the other hand...has that luxury to play with. Produce and sell luxury vehicles and produce and sell entry level stuff. The luxury stuff is celebrated by folk just because and that alone sells the entry level stuff. GM has Buick. Different brands, Mercedes and Cadillac. Mercedes and Cadillac were a force in the luxury market pre 1940s. 2 World Wars forced Mercedes to be what it is today. Entry level, luxury and trucks. Military and commercial. GM was that too. But GM had other brands... GREED and STUPIDITY made Cadillac be what they are today. It works for Mercedes because war and the fight to survive made Mercedes re-invent itself. GREED and STUPIDITY ultimately made Cadillac fight for survival and the now need to survive...and be more like Mercedes. Mercedes might have copied Cadillac in the 1960s and 1970s to regain their place in the luxury world, Cadillac did not need to sell more lower priced cars like Mercedes did... and THAT is what is STILL killing Cadillac. That DUMB ideology that Cadillac needs to be in EVERY garage in all facets of North American life. It does NOT. Cadillac only needs to sell to the stupidly, filthy rich!!! Great rant? Stupid rant? Give me a break. Im still sick (but getting better) and I havent talk cars for a while...

I haven't had to deal with such trash as that, maybe you should try a different gas station next time you fill up the giant gas powered station wagon you just bought. I do like your Flex if I haven't already said.

My birthday was yesterday. Saturday, got home from work tired and greasy and in pain (chest and muscles hurt from cleaning the restaurant and from a cold). Took a shower and I took the family out to dinner to celebrate. We had a nice time. We saw Venom the movie when we got home. Yesterday, my actual birthday, came home from work tired and greasy and in pain (chest and muscles hurt from cleaning the restaurant and from a cold). Took a shower. We saw Alien and Aliens. My wife hates those movies so she went to bed early. My kids, twas the first time they saw it. Today. Sweet phoque all! Its Spring Break for them, and Im actually staying away from all members. Im being anti-social as I want some needed "me" time. Im feeling much better physically, but I need some alone time. Nothing to do with me aging one more year LOL. Ive just had a very very rough...month at work and with this cold...I just need to unwind. But tomorrow...we are going skating!!! Yeah...I was supposed to go into work but BECAUSE Im feeling better, but Im also feeling a little remorse for being anti-social...I will go skating with my kids!!! The wife could come too...but she dont skate. She could stay home and cook if anything.

Yeah it just sucks when you have the convenience of refilling your car at home while you sleep and not have to deal tweeters and crackheads while you spend five minutes pumping that flammable liquid.

You have just answered your own question as to why Cadillac does not have an XT3. NO NEED since Buick has this covered and Luxury buyers are not interested in such a small micro auto. Only posers who care about a badge more than luxury comfort would buy this and while BMW and MB do not have other brands to sell, they have gone from a Luxury only to covering from cheap entry level to luxury to compete with GM Chevrolet/Buick-GMC/Cadillac. Nothing Else needs to be said.

I have a very bad chest cold the last 2-3 days. Also, We decided to majorly de-grease and clean the restaurant the last couple of days, while I was sick, so that hasnt been too pleasant on every account. And on my birthday, we as a family did not do anything special, but my wife and kids love me and I am the luckiest guy around because of it...so yeah...thanx for asking my American brotha from anothah mothah. @USA-1

Most of toyoters ‘going places’ is to the Service Department for recall & TSB repairs.

Very unfortunate for FMC as a storied multi-generational American family business in the automotive world. In the movie Ford vs. Ferrari you could really see the heart and soul that Henry Ford II "Hank the Deuce"/"HF2" poured into the company. You can tell that passion isn't there today with Bill Ford Jr. and Edsel Ford II on the board, they just don't have it in them, Bill Ford Sr., Edsel I youngest son and HF2's youngest brother didn't seemed to have it either. The real passion the original three, Henry I, Edsel and Henry II had hasn't really been there at FMC for at least 30 years, basically since "Hank the Deuce" died in 1987. I just watched a documentary on the history of Ford Motor Company just the other night, it was very interesting and educational. It showed how even Edsel Ford was very involved and tried to help his hard headed father Henry I with the business, he seemed to have a great business sense, but didn't get a chance to make his mark before succumbing to stomach cancer in an untimely death in 1943 at the age of 49. "Hank the Deuce" took over after Henry I started getting dementia and eventually died of a brain aneurysm in 1945. Synopsis of it for ya! Man how Henry I, Edsel I and HF2 must be rolling in their graves. Hopefully the Ford family with the help of Farley can right the ship before it's too late. They definitely need to get new launches organized, the Explorer/Aviator launch was a disaster and still are a QC nightmare. If they're going to just build trucks and SUV's now they've got to get them right!

And a transmission. And a ground-up redesign. And a price cut.

That is how GM ended up in BK back in 2008-10: too many cars in too many niches and the sales did NOT justify the investment. Cadillac should improve their USP and not chase every little niche.

Don't worry, Orange Man is very smart.

Hey @oldshurst442 Happy Birthday Canadian brother from another Mother!! Hope it was a good one man!!

Now we have attention whore little rocket man Kim launching unidentified projectiles in NoKo per Seoul reps, that's all the world needs right now is that dictator moron to deal with. We'll have to deal with him now too, Papa Trump needs to put him over his knee again as he's obviously feeling left out.

The Del Toro! Looks like a disaster waiting to happen. "Hey just make sure you don't get your foot down in the auger blades Grandpa!" Additional Regenerative Range Extender?

Un-identified B-O-P assembly plant, 1961 ~

are you sure you're not amish, that is directly out of the pennsylvania dutch vernacular once.

Cadillac might as well make an XT3 for the China market. China is Cadillac's biggest market, it sells more vehicles there than in the US, and they don't sell the Escalade there. There is no legacy of large cars (or desire for large cars) or sentimentality for old model names there. GM has been losing market share in China for a few years now, they might as well bring new models to try to attract buyers.

Considering in the past the Pleather versus leather differences, cloth differences, wood versus plastic wood, etc. I have to think there will be more of a difference than what MT has to say, there has been in the past. You also have that huge super screen dash which Yukon does not get. Be interesting to see them side by side and truly compare.

That is where you are wrong, there is more than a styling difference, there is also as SMK loves to talk about on the high end of MB, interior material differences between Cadillac and GMC. Far more differences than I will waste time listing here, but there is if you really have spent time looking at the two.

I appears I had the UX and the NX crossed up. It’s the equally hideous NX thats the RAV4 twin. So the CT4 will sell a tick less than the A Class did in 2019 (which only sold just over 17K units). Nice to know Cadillac won’t be the only ones struggling to move certain sedans.

10,000 upvotes, my friend!

Yes you could say that if you want to ignore the differences both externally and internally to the auto. That is where the rub lays, MB has to cover all versions from Eco entry level auto to uber luxury auto and tends to try and charge a premium for a plastic coated auto at the bottom level when there are far better auto options out there. SMK pushes an agenda ignoring why Cadillac DOES NOT need an auto like an XT3. So many here have stated with the other GM brands, you have the bottom end covered and Cadillac should focus on mid to full size luxury and not waste R&D resources on the bottom end served by Buick / GMC.

Need to Import the Coronavirus19 into the country and all will be ok. @oldshurst442 Belated Happy B-Day my friend. Rest and recover. The business can survive a few days without you. As smart as Bone Spurs on his feet.

I thought that the President made the phat phoque of a dictator promise with full pinky swears that he wont be testing and releasing anymore missiles into the air... I thought the President declared that he has achieved peace with that phat phoque. I wanna know what caused the phat phoque to go against that pinky swear that he had with the President? OK!!! I wanna know who released doves in North Korea's air space???!!! I want that man (or woman)...........FIRED!!!

‘90’s retro, Gen Y, spray-bomb look. ?

Just reading it phrased that way not only makes me nauseous, it nearly defines the problem. Cadillac does not have the budget room to bring to market something that ultimately will be a degrader of image for Cadillac. It would be FAR better to put that development money into the other existing lines, upgrades & packages, not a too-small me-too mini-CUV. This is a circa 160K unit brand, not 300,000. Pick & choose your segments and hit them as hard as possible. Big picture.

Damn, this is a sharp looking truck. New 1500 sport edition Ram.

Yeah olds, what he said!

Exciting battery tech is moving forward as RoadRunner, Tesla's dry anode in house battery design out of Canada seems to be making headway as they push to disrupt the Auto world with Auto's on price parity with no rebates by 2025. This is the big push that GM, FORD, BMW and others have all said would come by having $100 per kWh cost of denser batteries to allow the EV to equal ICE and in many ways exceed them. This super dense project will also allow Tesla to move far beyond the 200 to 300 mile battery pack with 400 to 500 mile battery packs at reduced size and weight. https://electrek.co/2020/02/26/tesla-secret-roadrunner-project-battery-production-massive-scale/

You must be driving one of those camo craptastic Prius with 52 mpg to get 400 miles in 5 min. @ocnblu forgets he is no different than an EV needing about 8hrs to recharge every day himself.

No, but if we do, it's great knowing how easy it is getting going again, fully replenished. 400 miles of new possibilities in five minutes.

Here's an idea for Corvette's baby brother...

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I saw a spy shot somewhere of a partially uncovered prototype of the upcoming Cadillac EV CUV. "Crap DuJour" was spelled out in a beautiful script on the quarter panel.

We don't know that, and we'll NEVER know that. Even if it is true the ChiComs will never admit it because everyone in the world and their own population will be lining up to pound them in the arse. Sure, the Chicom will survive such a scandal, but Xi Jinping is not invulnerable -- not to other aspiring power blocks within the Chicom at least. So, you'll never know because there is no way they'll let you.

There's no doubt that this coronavirus is both serious and depressing. What's odd is the random distribution of it - clusters in (1) east(ern) Asia: China, South Korea, Japan, (2) Iran, and (3) Italy (more northern). The first reported death occurred in the U.S. - in Washington state. Maybe we should focus on the people getting through it ... which is most people. I read this courageous account told by a Chinese 27 year-old who went through 3 difficult weeks fighting off the virus until it ran its course. You can read it here: https://news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-survivor-recounts-fear-confusion-040847300.html

You talking about the various Series models from ancient times? Series 70, Series 62, Series 61, etc? The only ones used the last 50+ years were Fleetwood Sixty Special and Fleetwood 75 and those haven't been used in decades.. I don't see the correlation between old, forgotten naming schemes and the modern acronyms... I really doubt if marketing resource units in the late 90s/early 00s that started the acronyms had any awareness of long gone naming schemes, they were trying to fit in w/ the Germans.

Except there’s zero business case for a teeny Cadillac SUV below the XT4. The 4 is in the sweet spot of the CUV segment, strong enough to pull from above & below it. Its nonsensical to propose duplicate SUVs separated by 4 inches in length- there’s no buyer who needs those less 4 inches, and the money is MUCH better spent making an existing entry better the 1,000 other CUVs out there.

Does Cadillac REALLY need a UX competitor when the XT4 does nicely? NOW, a GLS competitor (based on Omega or its successor) would do very nicely. Besides, a RWD crossover (not a BOF Escalade) would be a good complement to the Cadillac family of SUVs.

Neither the UX or NX compete very well against the XT4 : UX : 177", $32.3K, 169 HP, CVT NX : 182", $36.8K, 194 HP, 6-spd XT4 : 181", $35.7K, 237 HP, 9-spd

Well, they're far from hitting each segment as hard as possible so they might as well try and get into more segments.

Very true... but you have to become very suspect when China has such an aging population problem, much worse than the US. Either way, I have to be worried based on the fact I have asthma issues.... ? Part that worries me is my asthma. Seems to bulk of it gets stuck in the chest unlike the flu. Seems to be one of the main reasons why older ans sicker folks take a turn for the worst....

It won't cost a lot of money for GM to make a Cadillac XT3 out of existing parts. Cadillac could easily do an XT2 at 170" long and $29,990, and XT3 at 175" and $33,990 or something along those lines. Just like they could do an XT7 easily as well as either an Omega platform SUV, or a fastback roof, coupe style XT6. All this stuff is in the parts bin somewhere.