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Originally Posted by johnstarnes
Bummer.....2014? Way to lead the industry! "Cadillac is Car" is right! I would LOVE to see the DT 7 design that was rejected!
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Cadillac, sad to say, no longer "leads" the industry. Not even close. The design and engineering teams made several proposals over the past couple of years to the GM brass on what it would take to bring Cadillac back to that level. They were comprehensive plans and ideas that might have allowed Cadillac to be competitive again. Unfortunately, because of the cash shortfall, all were rejected. For now, the future of Cadillac sedans resides squarely on the CTS and its variants as well as the small "alpha" sedan, which was originally conceived as just a supplement to the lineup. Now, it is being given a major role. The hope is that the car will live up to its expectations and not be another Cimarron.
If you took a look at the Holden Statesman/Caprice and then grafted on Cadillac vertical headlights/taillights and a "Sixteen" like front fender air extractor gill, you'd be pretty close to what the DT7 looked like. The designers went a little "wild" with the front grille and hood design and thats where some controversy developed.