Comments on: GM Leaks News of Volt-Style Cadillac

By: Shines

Shines — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:17:12 +0000

I was paraphrasing the New York Times article about the Converj in the show…

By: Bryce

Bryce — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:08:49 +0000

The CTS base engine is a V6…..not a V8……

You are thinking of the CTS-V. Which is, by the way, an amazing driving machine. Just watch Top Gear.

By: Frank Smith

Frank Smith — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:05:11 +0000

Great Move this is going to be amazing

By: Shines

Shines — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:17:18 +0000

If GM delivers the Chevy Volt and then follows shortly with the Cadillac Converj they are making an intelligent decision. In stead of making the (what is it CTS?) coupe with a 550 HP gas sucking V8, make a quick beautiful gas unneeded sport coupe. If GM can get this concept to market faster than they’ve taken for the new Camaro (is the new Camaro even available yet?) they’ll have a winner.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:10:42 +0000

I have to admit….the folks in GM’s pr department must be on crack cocaine 24/7 given the debacles they have gotten the company at large into. However, I have seen Toyota get themselves into a few good ones themselves….such as when they tried removing images of their vehicles from an image holding website because they were not copy righted properly…..even though they were all fn boys………they stopped being fan boys fast after the lawsuit….and the subsequent pictures of burning little Toyotas. lol…..it was hilarious!

By: AP

AP — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:21:50 +0000

It would have made more sense to come out with the Caddie first, if the business case were all that mattered. But Toyota has given many the impression that hybrids, etc., are somehow “cheap to make,” by subsidizing their Priuses with profits from their Tundras and Sequoias (well, until recently, anyway – funny how their Mississippi Prius plant got canned when trucks became unprofitable). They could have made the Prius a Lexus, but making it a Toyota gives the halo effect to their mainstream brand – and they had the money to burn for the PR.

Instead of criticizing GM for an irrational response to an irrational market, how about making the market for hybrids and electric cars more viable? See the posts on the hybridcars.com story “Bush Passhes Final CAFE Decision to Obama.”

By: vcorcl

vcorcl — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:13:07 +0000

May be GM should deliver Volt first before considering the Cadidie version. Another public stunt from GM.

By: Ross Nicholson

Ross Nicholson — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:20:03 +0000

Yeah, forget Chevy, hello Caddie! Somebody woke up, looks like. Maybe...

Now if they will only make it small enough, close all those absurd open wheel wells, & use flat stickers instead of draggy decorations, they may be getting somewhere. But they won't do it right, they'll do it committee. They'll do it wrong.

By: RUOK2

RUOK2 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 03:40:42 +0000

Is GM Kidding us !!!!
The U.S. Government Rescues GM from the Abyss (with taxpayer’s money)...And the only thing that GM can come up with is High End Over Priced Vehicles ...While we ( globally) are in the middle of the worst economic recession that most living people have ever experienced.
Meanwhile, vehicle loans, leases, or any form of Bank Lending....has been “cut off” at the pass....since the Banks & Financial institutions aren't even sure if they are going to survive...
Good Going GM !!!!!

Want to gain credibility, market share, and consumer respect, Make an "affordable" & “reliable” plug-in hybrid for the "masses", the majority, the people.
The U.S. consumer controls 2/3 rds of the economy....if the 2/3 rds do not have an affordable option …GM then has no future…

By: ex-EV1 driver

ex-EV1 driver — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:22:00 +0000

Sounds like they can't get the Volt cost down low enough so they're doing a bait-and-switch. We may see the Volt disappear and this Caddy come out at about $60K.
It doesn't surprise me and I still believe that once in production, battery costs will come down so they can eventually make an affordable car.
This is probably more realistic of an approach for GM since initially, it will require a lot less up-front costs for GM to make a $60K car than a $30K car like they promised with the Volt.