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KeymasterWelcome to the forum!
That’s awesome you’re enjoying your XT4. How do you like the transmission?
KeymasterFolks, production of the CT6 will continue. Cadillac President Steve Carlisle (along with his boss, GM President Mark Reuss), confirmed that in the recent months. It seems that plans are being made to move production of the CT6 outside the Detroit-Hamtramck plant to a different plant, most likely Lansing Grand River (where the ATS, CTS, CT4, and CT5 are made).
All in, rumors of the death of the CT6 are untrue, though said rumors are Cadillac’s own fault since it grossly mishandled communicating its plans about the future of the vehicle.
KeymasterJon,
I’m afraid that the answer to your question is more complicated than a simple date.
There is no concrete date about when the XT4 (or any model) will come out, because it depends on so many factors, including:
– where you are in the country
– whether your dealer ordered the XT4
– what trim level the dealer ordered and whether there will be any manufacturing constraints associated with the particular configuration ordered
– the shipping/transport from the plant to the dealer (which sometimes gets held up by rail and trucks)So because of all these factors, Cadillac gives us the (rather wide) availability window of “fall 2018″.
A few weeks ago, we were unofficially told that job one (series production of the first XT4) will take place at the end of September, around September 28.
That’s the best I can do at this point. Other that that, I would recommend reaching out to your local dealer to check on the order status of the XT4 unit(s) they have incoming.
KeymasterHi @Marland and welcome to the Cadillac Society forum.
Have you checked the setting in your XT5 that liftgate mode is set to on?
You can check this via a rotary setting on the bottom of the driver-side door. It has these 3 settings:
– Max
– 3/4
– OffLet me know 🙂
KeymasterYeah, I know what you mean. That’s actually one of the biggest reasons I started Cadillac Society in the first place… to unite owners of modern Cadillac vehicles. Here’s to hoping we can get many more of us on here.
KeymasterBrian – our forum is still in its growth stages, so it seems like you didn’t get an answer yet.
I’d love to meet up, but I’m out in Colorado.
KeymasterOne of the bigger questions about the upcoming CT5 is its size, as brought up by reader Felix here…
Cadillac South Korea Sales Increase 78 Percent To 146 Units In February 2018
To answer this: I believe that the CT5 will be exactly in between the current ATS and current (third-gen) CTS from a size standpoint.
In other words, I think it will be around 189-190 inches in length on a rear-drive chassis.The car will essentially be what I call a “compact plus” – slightly larger in size than the C-segment (compact) luxury cars such as the Mercedes-Benz C-Class, BMW 3 Series, Audi A4, etc, but priced like those vehicles.
KeymasterI’m personally interested in the XT4 not only from a product standpoint, but also in the direction of Cadillac as a whole.
From a product standpoint, I believe that they did the best they could with what they had. Specifically, they couldn’t use Alpha as did not support a crossover… so they took the second-to-next best thing – the E2 architecture (Omega would have been second best) and used it instead. E2 is as capable as they come as far as front-drive architectures go. That said, I do believe that the XT4 will be the quickest vehicle to be brought to market in the history of the “modern” Cadillac by the time it launches. And in that regard, I have to wonder if any corners were cut during the program’s development.
From the standpoint of direction of Cadillac as a brand, I do look forward to the XT4 for various reasons. Now, I don’t believe that a front-drive-based chassis is the ultimate direction that Cadillac wants to go in for reasons mentioned above… hence, this XT4 might be the only one of its kind before switching to a rear-drive architecture for the next-generation (the VSS-R vehicle set). But besides the topic of its foundation/platform, the XT4 should introduce items that we will see across many a Cadillac in the future, including the interior, in-vehicle design, the human-machine interaction (HMI) between the driver/passenger and the infotainment system, as well as the revised Art & Science design language foreshadowed by the Escala concept.
As for the hybrid system: I wonder if the XT4 will take what the Malibu has one step further, and offer a plug-in hybrid solution instead. In other words, a powertrain, like the CT6 PHEV, rather than the Malibu.
Overall, I believe we have a lot to look forward to with the XT4, though I know I won’t be buying one as I prefer a more sporty experience provided by a sedan.
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