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Cadillac Returns To Australia
Marton Pettendy
9 October 2008
www.goauto.com.au
GM relaunches historic US brand Down Under, but without the CTS sedan to sell.
Holden subsidiary GM Premium Brands (GMPB) may have delayed the retail release of its brash new Cadillac CTS sedan from September to early 2009, but that did not stop it from relaunching the 106-year-old American luxury marque in Australia at today’s opening of the 2008 Australian International Motor Show in Sydney.
Aided by the debut Australian appearance of the two-door CTS Coupe concept – which debuted at the Detroit motor show in January, was recently confirmed for production by General Motors chief Rick Wagoner and has now been locked in for Australian sales from late 2009 – the Australian Cadillac brand launch will be spearheaded by the four-door CTS, which appeared at Darling Harbour in Australian-specification, right-hand drive guise for the first time.
Pricing and equipment details will not be divulged until nearer to next year’s launch, but the rear-drive CTS sedan will come powered by a direct-injection, variable valve timing-equipped version of the Commodore’s 3.6-litre global V6, which in this case will deliver vastly improved outputs of 227kW and 370Nm of torque on regular unleaded petrol.
The premium-spec petrol V6 will be mated exclusively to an electronically controlled Hydra-Matic 6L50 six-speed automatic transmission with Driver Shift Control manual mode, but there was no mention of GM’s cylinder-deactivating Active Fuel Management system, the availability of the CTS Coupe’s 2.9-litre turbo-diesel engine or the V8 that powers the V-Spec CTS sedan in the US. A wagon is also expected to eventually join the CTS model range.
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Marton Pettendy
9 October 2008
www.goauto.com.au
GM relaunches historic US brand Down Under, but without the CTS sedan to sell.
Holden subsidiary GM Premium Brands (GMPB) may have delayed the retail release of its brash new Cadillac CTS sedan from September to early 2009, but that did not stop it from relaunching the 106-year-old American luxury marque in Australia at today’s opening of the 2008 Australian International Motor Show in Sydney.
Aided by the debut Australian appearance of the two-door CTS Coupe concept – which debuted at the Detroit motor show in January, was recently confirmed for production by General Motors chief Rick Wagoner and has now been locked in for Australian sales from late 2009 – the Australian Cadillac brand launch will be spearheaded by the four-door CTS, which appeared at Darling Harbour in Australian-specification, right-hand drive guise for the first time.
Pricing and equipment details will not be divulged until nearer to next year’s launch, but the rear-drive CTS sedan will come powered by a direct-injection, variable valve timing-equipped version of the Commodore’s 3.6-litre global V6, which in this case will deliver vastly improved outputs of 227kW and 370Nm of torque on regular unleaded petrol.
The premium-spec petrol V6 will be mated exclusively to an electronically controlled Hydra-Matic 6L50 six-speed automatic transmission with Driver Shift Control manual mode, but there was no mention of GM’s cylinder-deactivating Active Fuel Management system, the availability of the CTS Coupe’s 2.9-litre turbo-diesel engine or the V8 that powers the V-Spec CTS sedan in the US. A wagon is also expected to eventually join the CTS model range.
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