Interesting car to say the least, but again far from my kind of car. It seems it was designed at a time when aero trumped all. It looks like the Cadillac of priuses.
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Originally Posted by johnstarnes
Thanks much! The year it came out I was blown away and even now I find the profile stunning...am using that as my wallpaper after someone here recently shared a link to a site with concept pics. That fall, a front view was on the cover of Auto Week with the bold title "The Car Cadillac MUST Build"...the guy who owns Dominos pizza tried to write Roger Smith a check for something like $20 million to pay back all the development costs right there on the Detroit Auto Show floor. Roger Smith declined the check AND killed both the Voyage and sister car Solitaire before negotiating for himself a sickeningly huge retirement package (after having ravaged GM and laying off thousands of workers) and leaving GM. At one point this car WAS to have been launched as a 1991 model....I am convinced that had it and the Solitaire been built, Cadillac would have not begun to sink in sales and prestige. Even today, both cars would look awesome on the road or in a parking lot. Sadly, GM's penchant for NOT putting into production its best concepts, including those by Cadillac (Cien, Sixteen) continues...and they wonder why they languish as others leap frog past them year after year.
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You have to keep in mind that going from concept car to production is a very difficult task indeed, especially when the concept car is so radical like caddy's have been. With the industry being so risky, and development costs high, putting a radical car on the road could ultimately be a loss. I'm sure the boys at GM can figure out when and if producing some of these cars will be worth it.