Drew Dowdell

I would agree. In the 1980s the threat of the Germans was there, then with Lexus in 1990. Cadillac did the Cimmaron and Allante which were jokes. Then fumbled about for 10 years with big front drivers, before 2003 finally doing a rear drive CTS. They started to get serious about competing with the imports in 2003-2005, but they never committed enough to it, and then they just sort of let things stay stagnant, while the rest of the market improved. For 25 years Cadillac has lacked the guts to pull the trigger and really go for it, and they always resort back to trying to build a import clone of a Chevy or Buick platform and it fails. And I agree, GM had plenty of money in the 1980s and management only cared about short term profit, and didn't care if they made crap and had no long term thinking. And then the 20 years of bad decisions that we all know about that led to bankruptcy. The XTS reminds me of "old GM" thinking and product planning. It's like the late 80s when the Deville and Fleetwood, Buick Electra/Park Ave and Olds 98 were on the same platform, but at least then the Cadillac had a V8 to make it a little different. There was never a year when Cadillac didn't have a RWD car. (The Catera picks up when the Fleetwood died, the 2003 CTS was early intro in 2002)

I thought that was Celine Dion

lol! my only big question is visibility. i sat in the CTS and CTSv coupes at th autoshow this week and honestly you can't see out of the fking thing. how bad is the visibility in real world driving? I really don't have a problem and I honestly use the mirrors and turn my neck to back out of parking spaces more than the rear camera. The rear camera is only really needed for parallel parking maneuvers. I haven't had a single issue with visibility while driving so far. If someone is in your blind spot, tap the pedal on the right... that should clear up the situation. I get stopped to talk about this car CONSTANTLY. Everyone from 18 year old kids to 90 year old coots want to talk to me about the car. I'm hoping this means you took more than one photo? All 3 of us got photos and video.

At least you didn't make a passenger sick!

A decision 25 years too late. Its apparent that GM was thinking of returning to large car RWD for some time, otherwise the Sixteen concept wouldn't have been developed... and the Seville-STS line would not have switched back to RWD. However, its sad they can't pull the trigger. Cadillac wants to compete with Mercedes and BMW, yet can't compete with Chrysler's 300C. Blah blah blah... GM had no money, will be the same old retort. Right. No money to right the ship since 1985? Money to develop the XTS, a Cadillac rebadge of a LWB LaCrosse but not a Cadillac rebadge of the LWB Commodore. 15 years. GM has still been struggling with it's bread and butter in that time. The Malibu only became class competitive in 2008, the Cruze in 2010, the Equinox in 2009, and the Impala still isn't. GM is just now selling cars that sell on their merits rather than on their rebates. The STS was a two-fer special using the hardware of the SRX and CTS to make a slightly larger than CTS sedan. It's not like GM dumped a bunch of money into the STS program relative to building one from scratch... and to be honest, it shows in the end result.

The SE option Sienna is supposed to have the best suspension out of all vans these days. The one I had clearly wasn't an SE then

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Make sure you add it to the C&G Garage too.

Well, this is all fine and well known. And I'm in agreement with the STS and the lineup left. As someone else mentioned, I would have liked to see a reskinned STS/SLS, without the quality problems. Rebuilding a completely new car is time intensive and expensive. Building the XTS the sell, what? 80K over 5 years? GM didn't even want to put a Pontiac nose on the Commodore wagon or Ute and GM could have moved 40-60K a year. Sure, the XTS has better unit profit, but GM could have avoided dumping G8s on the market and kept its profit up, had they tried. GM is a company that STILL likes putting the big bets in the wrong places sometimes. The longer it takes, the longer the turn around. GM needs to get the foot back in this door before the window of opportunity slams shut. The RWD Caddy was championed by Whitaker less than 12 months ago..... come on now.