The Cadillac CT6 will have a 3-liter twin turbo engine

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GMSilverado

Discussion Starter · Oct 2, 2014

New Cadillac CT6 will have plug-in electric option
Will have the most “powerful six-cylinder gas engine in the segment.”
The Detroit News

General Motors Co.’s new Cadillac CT6 will have a plug-in electric option that offers “industry-leading fuel economy upwards of 70 mpg equivalent,” plus tons of new technology, GM’s top product chief said Wednesday.

“We will create with the CT6, the world’s most advanced body structure,” Mark Reuss, GM’s, executive vice president of global product development, purchasing and supply chain, told more than 200 investors and analysts gathered at GM’s Proving Ground for the company’s Global Business Conference. “And it’s not aluminum. It’s a stronger, smarter, safer premium luxury vehicle.” “So rather than try to copy someone, or do something that has already been done, we have created, we think the vehicle, in this timeframe, that will stand apart and make Cadillac again the standard of the world.”

He said the new CT6, which is expected to compete with the Mercedes-Benz S-Class and BMW 7 Series, will have stop-start technology and offer a 3-liter twin turbo engine combined with an eight-seed transmission to offer the most “powerful six-cylinder gas engine in the segment.”

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mgescuro

· #2 · Oct 2, 2014

OK. Nothing here is "new" in this segment.

The 3.0L engine is right where the competition is at right now. That's a very good thing.
If the CT6 is going to have class leading HP from it's 3.0L, then output is higher than 340HP. That's the base HP of the XJ, which also just happens to be the lightest car in this class.

Plug-In hybrid or some form of hybrid is available in most flagships already.

Things seem to be shaping up well.

GMSilverado

Discussion Starter · #3 · Oct 2, 2014

The rumor is confirmed:

We learned that it's arrival in the market in sedan form has been confirmed for 2016, with available powertrains to include a new 3.0-liter turbocharged V6 as well as the current 3.6-liter turbocharged V6, which produces 420hp in the CTS V-Sport.

Carscoops. September 18, 2013

A very good news! :tup::

sfbreh

· #4 · Oct 2, 2014

70mpg equivalent... I'm listening.

sfbreh

· #5 · Oct 2, 2014

The new CT6 is 53 pounds lighter than the CTS on the road today, but is eight inches longer, Reuss said.

I'll just leave this here.

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JimmyDiablo

· #6 · Oct 2, 2014

We learned that it's arrival in the market in sedan form

Anyone else think the wording of that quote is strange? Makes me wonder about the rumor in the other thread that the coupe (Elmiraj) is a go, might actually be true....

mchicha

· #7 · Oct 2, 2014

GM investment in nano steel and probably use of new materials technology. This should scare Ford.. because this technology is coming to trucks

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LetsRace

· #8 · Oct 2, 2014

Stop it Cadillac! Do you want me to have a heart attack?!:hyper:

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EJD1984

· #9 · Oct 2, 2014

Wow, just Wow!

It really does seem like we're in the midst of GM totally reinventing itself, and returning to its prominence as a technological powerhouse.

Some of us might be disappointed with the CT6 if the styling doesn't have a major Elmiraj influence, but innovations like this will more than make up for it.

The other promising aspect is that these new features and metals will start to proliferate throughout GM's future vehicles.

I could see this new 3.0TT winding up in an Alpha Buick Riviera (or GNX)

FenwickHockey65

· #10 · Oct 2, 2014

This all sounds very promising.

Dr.Show-Me

· #11 · Oct 2, 2014

Another GM-oriented website is reporting the car will carry the LT5 engine. Anybody know information on the LT5 engine?

mgescuro

· #12 · Oct 2, 2014

So... 203.5" puts it about 2" longer than the SWB XJ and SWB S-Class.
Lighter than CTS would make CT6 200 lbs lighter than XJ... assuming base CTS, that is...

Envoy4Life

· #13 · Oct 2, 2014

So all of this is great and all, but can we at least have a teaser shot of it or something about the interior?

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MyImpalaSS

· #14 · Oct 2, 2014

Envoy4Life said:
So all of this is great and all, but can we at least have a teaser shot of it or something about the interior?

Most teasers will come in the weeks leading up to the reveal. Both exterior and interior

Envoy4Life

· #15 · Oct 2, 2014

MyImpalaSS said:
Most teasers will come in the weeks leading up to the reveal. Both exterior and interior

Ugh... nothing from now until April?

Tone

· #16 · Oct 2, 2014

So, assuming the same power density at the 3.6TT, you'd have a 350 hp 3TT and some kind of electrification. WAG: maybe 450 system hp and truly luxurious amounts of torque.

That said, actual, real world fuel economy and electric only range would need to be noteworthy in this class. I'd be impressed by a large luxury car that actually returned 40 mpg in regular driving and could hit over 30 mpg on a sustained mostly highway trip. 40-50 miles of electric only range would be nice to see as well.

KingElvis

· #17 · Oct 2, 2014

Intriguing, but I fear they will abandon the radical ciel styling for something 'aerodynamically correct' and then it just becomes a wannabe S class.

johnstarnes

· #18 · Oct 2, 2014

Six cylinders?

dslay04

· #19 · Oct 2, 2014

mgescuro said:
So... 203.5" puts it about 2" longer than the SWB XJ and SWB S-Class.
Lighter than CTS would make CT6 200 lbs lighter than XJ... assuming base CTS, that is...

Even if it's the Vsport. 3900 lbs is a good base weight

sfbreh

· #20 · Oct 2, 2014

Envoy4Life said:
Ugh... nothing from now until April?

MyImpalaSS said:
weeks leading up to the reveal

March.

Tone said:
So, assuming the same power density at the 3.6TT, you'd have a 350 hp 3TT and some kind of electrification. WAG: maybe 450 system hp and truly luxurious amounts of torque.

That said, actual, real world fuel economy and electric only range would need to be noteworthy in this class. I'd be impressed by a large luxury car that actually returned 40 mpg in regular driving and could hit over 30 mpg on a sustained mostly highway trip. 40-50 miles of electric only range would be nice to see as well.

Honestly? With no V8 of which to speak besides apparently LT4, I'm most interested in the plugin hybrid setup.

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