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1. None 2. If they make an escalade hybrid in platinum trim, maybe, otherwise I'm waiting to see the DT7, (I hope they don't name it that though and also offer a small block).

The woman who wrote this article sounds a lot like the one who wrote the original article for Automotive News. They both refer to the Northstar in the base model DTS for some reason and also seem to ignore the fact that Cadillacs will still be offered with numerous V8s. Even in this same article she mentions how Mr. Read has yet to determine how CAFE will effect GM and then soon after tells us that Cadillac buyers will have to get used to the idea of a "hot V6 instead of a hot V8". I don't think they're putting much thought into what they are actually saying here.

The above link isn't working, try this instead, go to page 51: http://www.soldiersofsolidarity.com/delphi_contract_all.pdf

Our answer has been in this document all along which we have all known about for some time. Look a page 52. Looks like a 6.2L DOHC is on its way. Even better than a 4.X Northstar replacement if you ask me. Most large sedan buyers like myself (S550) would prefer the torque of a 6.2 over the mileage of a 4.X any day. I wonder if is going to be a 24 or 32 valve? http://www.futureoftheunion.com/docs/delph...rder149pages.pd

Both Cadillac and GM's top brass know their full-size buying customers waaay to well these days to not offer at least a V-8 in their new flagship sedan. If we could assume that a V-12 based on two DI V6s was on its way for this car and that it could achieve non CAFE penalizing emissions based on it's (forgiving) LWB footprint what would it's price be and what powertrain variations would be offered below this? Would the cost of a reworked DOHC Northstar be worthwhile for a lower priced less publicized version? How would a DI LS motor with Active Fuel Management be received buy their customers? If using a LS V-8 allows them to offer this car for under $70K loaded I'd say the world would still buy them up. Though don't get me wrong, I'd still much prefer a DOHC.

The following is out of the most recent Automotive News however I don't think the author knows much about what she's talking about, one example would be how she refers to the 275hp Northstar when she should have mentioned the 320hp version in the STS/XLR/SRX. I doubt Kevin Smith's comments she refers to were a direct response to this news as well. DETROIT -- General Motors has canceled plans to build a new advanced double overhead-cam V-8 for its luxury cars. The move means the future for Cadillac’s V-8 car engines is unclear. In January 2007, GM said it would invest $300 million in its Tonawanda, N.Y., engine plant for the new V-8 engine, which was scheduled to start production in 2009 and be used in luxury cars. GM Powertrain spokesman Tom Read said Thursday that the project is dead. That engine likely would have replaced Cadillac’s long-running Northstar V-8, which is scheduled to end production in 2010. Cadillac could switch to high-powered V-6s in its cars, except for the Corvette-based XLR. The new direct-injected V-6 in the 2008 CTS develops 304 hp, while the current Northstar V-8 makes 275 hp in the 2008 DTS. Cadillac spokesman Kevin Smith said, “We’ve really seen the V-6 become the predominant engine in sales on the (2008) STS because it’s so close in power to the V-8.” He added that the V-6 is about 150 to 200 pounds lighter. The cancellation of the new V-8 comes just days after President Bush signed into law new fuel economy standards that call for a 40 percent fuel economy improvement by 2020. The new standards start phasing in in 2011. The Tonawanda plant still gets at least one new engine, an all-new 4.5-liter diesel V-8 engine that starts production in 2010. That engine, GM said earlier, will be used in light pickups and SUVs.

Perhaps GM figures their enthusiast customers will order their Cadillac XTS(?) with an upcoming DOHC V12? Did they discover a way to bring one of their pushrod V8s noise, vibration and harshness levels down to where the next Northstar would have been? If so will this be offered as the base motor for the XTS or will it be the DI V6? If the V6 is the base motor and they do introduce a V12 will they offer a LS V8? Will the V12 with Active Fuel Management get close enough to a V8's fuel economy to make offering it wasteful? What do you guys think?

The Hybrid emblems on the front fenders are GOD AWFUL!!!