C/D: Cadillac to get new range-topping rear-wheel drive flagship

Filed under: Sedan, Cadillac, GM, Rumormill

According to Car Driver’s Jens Meiners, Cadillac poised to get new full-size, rear-wheel drive sedan to slot above forthcoming XTS – a model that itself will sit above CTS when it bows to serve as combined replacement the STS and DTS.

To hear C/D’s moles tell it, the flagship sedan still the early planning stages, but the model being built at the directive none other than GM CEO Ed Whitacre. If the rumor accurate, the forthcoming model apparently likely to derived from stretched Sigma platform, the same architecture that underpins the CTS family. Meiners dismisses thoughts that the car could built the much-used Zeta platform that underpins the Chevrolet Camaro, suggesting that it’s too heavy and old support such vehicle.

With word that a Lambda-based three-row crossover the BMW 3-Series fighting ATS way for General Motors‘ Wreath and Crest division, it’s becoming increasingly clear that boys down at The Tubes have hit product accelerator pedal their luxury brand. We just hope that this mystery offering means that Cadillac is finally going cook up something that looks like 2003’s showstopping Sixteen concept (above), albeit likely scaled-down format.

[Source: Car and Driver]

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