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Cadillac peek on 60 Minutes turns out to be next CTS

Cadillac peek on 60 Minutes turns out to be next CTS

Posted Apr 24th 2006 8:03AM

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When Bob Lutz gave the television viewing audience of 60 minutes a sneak peek at an upcoming Caddy, the enthusiast community was abuzz at which model’s artfully designed headlight assembly and grille we were shown. The Car Connection has snapped a pic of the 2008 Cadillac CTS that would seem to confirm the sports sedan is the car under wraps in question. As was previewed on 60 minutes and is illustrated in TCC’s shots, Cadillac is taking “Art & Science” to a new level with the new CTS. Its signature design language has been turned up a notch yet translates into a simpler skin with less superfluous trim. And check those afterburner taillights out back… so much for fins.

[Thanks CoreyTheGent for the tip]

[Source: TheCarConnection]

Category: Spy Photos, Sedan, Cadillac

Tags: 60 minutes, 60Minutes, bob lutz, BobLutz, CTS, spy pics, SpyPics

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Alex

I also live in the same town where the next Gen CTS is being engineered, and I have the seen the car up close and personal (I have the seen the interior and exterior).

Its a big improvement over the current CTS that for sure, but it still falls short of the Lexus IS350, and the BMW 3 series. Sorry, Zach its the truth.

Also, the rear door on the car is tiny- Lutz needed to give a coupish look. They accomplished the look, but the door is miniscule. GM will get hammered hard in when this car goes into production for having such a tiny door on this car.

Also, the rear seat comfort is probably worst in class.

So I do have some inside info on this car, and its really not that great.

April 28 2006 at 11:26 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Zach

What is it with all these blogs - they are negative while all they have seen are spy photos , and a peek of a headlight on " 60 minutes " ? GM is doing there best to build Cadillac into what the name signified for years ! I have had the luck to see the actual car minus the camiflauge . Living in the same town in which they are built , I have seen a couple of them cruising the I-96 freeway , and it is a beautiful car !!! So before all you anti-American , Japanese JUNK buying folks slam GM , how about waiting till you can see the the new CTS for real . BUY AMERICAN !!!!!!

April 28 2006 at 10:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Be Oh Be

#28,
I agree, no ETC ever again! hahaha

Cadillac not only needs to restructure their pricing, but they need a truely awesome flagship sedan like the S-Class Benz. The DTS just doesn't cut the mustard for a big, full size Caddy. No way. Especially with the new LS Lexus coming out (the hybrid one) - the DTS can't hold a candle to that car. Stretch out the STS and give it a little nicer interior and it will work, I know it.

I wonder what Bob Lutz and Rick Wagoner think when they see their competition coming out with products like Toyota (Toyotas may have boring styling, but good drivetrains) speaking of the new LS Lexus Hybrid or 6 spd. 268 hp V6 Avalons that are the same price as your 190 hp V6 Lucerne, new IS350s with 305 hp vs. an old school CTS with only 255 hp., hybrid Camrys with 6 spd. autos that get 43 mpg vs. Impalas and G6s that still utilize older V6s with 4 spd. automatics). Are they worried? Do they care? I'd be rushing over to the product development/design house with a giant whip in my hand if I were a GM executive right now: faster, harder, faster, harder, now, now - we'll give you whatever you need - loads of Starbucks coffee, pizza (and good beer, hehehe) at night, overtime, whatever it takes - work, yah mule, yah!!!!!

Actually, they probably are doing something like that (minus the beer maybe). But c'mon GM, you can't be outdone by Toyota now - you have too much history riding on your backs to look like idiots right now. The new Aura looks okay. Perhaps that car will help. But they need to have the new multi-valve engines in *ALL* their mainstream sedans.

Okay, I"m ranting. I need to get back to work.

April 25 2006 at 12:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Summa

Bob Miller,
You hit it right on the head... I drove both a n/a STS V8 and an STS-V at a local dealer and, man, they drove wonderfully. That STS-V, in particular, was a car like I haven't driven (at least with 4-doors). 470hp? I guess... but, given the size of the car, I'd venture it feels even stronger (but, then again, I may be comparing these full-size "J1349"-certified horses with shetland ponies from other manufacturers...

Even with that, though, $75-large is quite a chunk of change; When you consider a non-V for pushing $60k, then it becomes even more difficult (I'd take an STS-V over a cooking STS, even with the premium, because there is STILL no Asian luxury sedan that will do what that car does).

The CTS (especially the 2.8) needs to be easily bought for $30K with a goodly amount of equipment. There are too many good Luxury cars out there just north of $30K...

April 24 2006 at 9:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John

Let us never hear the moniker ETC again!!!!
ETC????
ETC????
Would you buy a car named the Cadillac ETC?
Gimme a break, please!!!!!
Stop the nostalgia for the un-missed "Eldorado". It had no target market and was (thankfully) discontinued.
Cadillac needs to compete with the S-Class before it even THINKS about making an "ETC" (whatever the heck that is).

April 24 2006 at 7:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

iQuack

Cadillac is a good car again and the new styles look fine to me. But Caddy needs to improve its quality.

A friend's SRX drives fabulously but the car has needed too many repairs. First the rear hatch went out of line and bent the roof when it bound as it closed. There was also a plastic part on the inside that didn't fit properly.

The car was hard to start because it apparently needed some kind of cam adjustment (????), and there was an annoying hum from the rear end that required replacement of the differential gears. I remembered hearing the same sound when my '55 Chevy hit 60 MPH--and that was how many years ago?

The Cadillac dealer has been accommodating and repairs seem to have been made properly as required. But the SRX has needed too much follow-up work for a luxury vehicle that should have been a trouble-free new car.

The comments about the Caddy CTS interior are correct--the SRX has the same dashboard which looks cheap with crappy plastic on it. My Honda Accord's dash is FAR classier than the Cadillac's even though the Caddy cost over $14,000 more. Anyone buying a Cadillac wants to feel rich in it and that's not possible if you're sitting in front of a cheap dashboard.

Still, the SRX has great seats and can be driven comfortably for hours. Its ride and handling are first-rate, too.

The SRX's pricing was a joke with a sticker over $51,000 and final, pre-tax price of $37,000 after all the discounting.

April 24 2006 at 6:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Aki

"I remeber seeing spy shots of the skyline, and all it was, was a G35 with a huge shopping cart spoiler in the back. But they went ahead and redesigned the whole thing."

Err, that was a test mule and not the actual redesign.

April 24 2006 at 5:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Amir Sharifi

I actually liked the design of the CTS. I didn't really have a problem with the exterior nor the interior. Though I havn't driven one, I wouldn't mind having a Cadillac like that in my driveway. "BUT" in my opinion, i dont like the rear design of the so called "NEW CTS." You never know though, Cadillac can totally redesign the look of the car, much like Infiniti did with the new Skyline. I remeber seeing spy shots of the skyline, and all it was, was a G35 with a huge shopping cart spoiler in the back. But they went ahead and redesigned the whole thing. We'll see what the future of Cadillac holds for us.

April 24 2006 at 5:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Richard Warren

#7 "Why on 60 MInutes? Because Caddy still know it's target age group is the 60+ crowd. No one young watches 60 Mins."

Is that why they're so ill informed?

Catchy screen name, says everything.

April 24 2006 at 4:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Be Oh Be

A CTS Coupe would be awesome. I thought the same thing about the 60 minutes car under the tarp being a coupe of some kind.

As a sidenote, I wonder if it was a coupe if it would be called CTC as it looks like the logic in Cadillac's new naming scheme has the last letter of the three letter code being the type of body style.

XLR - Roadster
STS/CTS - Sedan
SRX - Crossover vehicle??? (I'm guessing)
The last Eldorado (a coupe) was the ETC I believe.

I wonder if knowing this much useless information about cars kept me out of all the really good schools? hehehehehe.

April 24 2006 at 3:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply