Cadillac Voyage Concept

[91 s-10baja]

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[MCGARRETT]

HA!

AWD

4 Zone a/c

Nav

LED illumination

Pretty much sums up either the CTS4 or STS4

[BigAls87Z28]

So it took 20 something years to get from that concept to production.
Wowzers.
So Caddy had all this YEARS AGO!! And nothing was done about it.
Looks like a 91-96 Caprice. Front fender skirts!! YEAHHH!

[FenwickHockey65]

WTF?!
They had all that way back then and they're just putting it into cars??
Kinda makes you wonder what GM's building now that won't be used for 20-some years...

[BigAls87Z28]

Cien...Sixteen...hell, they havent built a world class V8 powered midsized sedan in...um...ever?
Realize that Caddy is in uncharted territory.
In related news...I wish Caddy would put the LS3 in the CTS.

[FenwickHockey65]

Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28

Cien...Sixteen...hell, they havent built a world class V8 powered midsized sedan in...um...ever?
Realize that Caddy is in uncharted territory.
In related news...I wish Caddy would put the LS3 in the CTS.

They already put a detuned LS9 into the CTS-V...
Unless you mean a regular CTS. In which case it would be pretty sweet.

[MCGARRETT]

Cien...Sixteen...hell, they havent built a world class V8 powered midsized sedan in...um...ever?

Good point, except the Cien has 12 cylinders and the Sixteen has.....um.....hold it.......16.

So whats your point?


Concept cars that sit on a turntable are one thing, making something that is going to be used day in and day out every day by somtimes the lowest common denominator.

Or would you have rather have them rushed some more poorly planned ideas into production only to have to continue working on them while other manufacturers learn from GM's mistakes?

Hell GM has had a HUD on Pontiacs since 1989 an it was only until a couple of years ago that holy of holys BMW offered on, and then it was on the M5 and M6.

[Andonis]

more videos like this please!!!

[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.

[zete]

Unbelievable.

And they also had hybrid technology 20 years back.

GM seems to love sitting on the future, instead of just providing it.

Sigh.

[91 s-10baja]

Originally Posted by Andonis

more videos like this please!!!

haha, working on it! check out my youtube page (see sig below) pretty much daily as I put more up as fast as I can!

[megeebee]

The Voyage did have an effect on production Cadillacs. I see a lot of its influence in the '94 Deville.

[johnstarnes]

I wonder if there is a similar video about either the Cadillac Solitaire or Pontiac Pursuit?

[Mr. Burns]

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.

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.

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.

[Mr. Burns]

Originally Posted by 91 s-10baja

haha, working on it! check out my youtube page (see sig below) pretty much daily as I put more up as fast as I can!

Do you have any stand alone reviews for the 300zx?