Topic: Preview: 2020 Cadillac XT6

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[dkaz]

Is Cadillac back to its simple rebadging days? Just looks like a Traverse in front. This is the first thing that came to mind, little effort, no signature headlights. At least the interior is decent.

[OliverD]

Is Cadillac back to its simple rebadging days? Just looks like a Traverse in front. This is the first thing that came to mind, little effort, no signature headlights. At least the interior is decent.

Doesn't sound like the interior is actually decent at all.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a25861430/2020-cadillac-xt6-three-row-photos-info/

It's just too bad that, luxury of space aside, occupants in every row of seating inside the XT6 must touch and interact with decidedly non-luxurious materials and design. Cadillac has had a problem with subpar interior quality for years, and the XT6 doesn't solve it. The car simply doesn't feel very premium inside, even the top Platinum trim level. For the most part, everything plastic below elbow level on the door panels and dashboard is hard and poorly grained. The sliding cupholder cover in the center console and the useful storage drawer that deploys between the rear seats both operate with an audibly plasticky, low-rent action. That's fine in a bubble, but Cadillac says the XT6 will go up against the likes of Acura's MDX, Audi's Q7, BMW's X5, and Volvo's XC90—all of which are vastly nicer-feeling inside and sweat the details better. Frankly, a high-spec Mazda CX-9 Signature's cabin gives the XT6's a run for its money—and that three-row costs less than $50,000 fully loaded.

[whaddaiknow]

Looks like a Traverse and Santa Fe drunken love child. Interior is fugly.
I hope, after the closing of the GM Oshawa plant, Canadians boycott GM products altogether. Let them build in Mexico and sell in China.

[ArticSteve]

^^^

For a company that has had so much free money injected into it they make some really non class leading vehicles.  That german dude they recently fired just DESTROYED Cadillac.  The brand will never be more than overpriced rebadged Chevys.

[lebowski]

Did someone say XT6?

[Golly]

The 3.6 with 310 hp and 271 lb-ft is a fine engine in a Traverse but totally inappropriate in a Cadillac.  The Lincoln Aviator with the turbo 3.0 generates 400 hp and 400 lb-ft.  No comparison.

[KD]

Did someone say XT6?

Haha, good one!    Subaru sure made some quirky and interesting cars back then. 
Love the wide open greenhouse.

[EV-Light]

This is...well....underwhelming. Not sure if people buying these will actually care though.


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[chignectohead]

^^^

For a company that has had so much free money injected into it they make some really non class leading vehicles.  That german dude they recently fired just DESTROYED Cadillac.  The brand will never be more than overpriced rebadged Chevys.

South African not German. With a four year lead time to develop a new car and de Nysschen only there for three, what do you think he could have done when pressed up against the might of dullard GM lifers eager to torpedo him? That $12 billion myth? Never had time to spend it on independent vehicles. Until he could get that going, he was stuck making  versions of standard GM Marshmallow with a Cadillac front. The CT6 was designed before he got there.

As Autoextremist says, GM has no Marketing VP, and their lousy ads like happy shiny people discovering an Equinox deep in the asphalt jungle are awful. What GM was really hoping was that de Nysschen would be a super salesman and move the barely restyled lard GM already had in the pipeline. If he turned out to be a rah rah supersalesman then nobody gave a damn about the promises he had been given. After all, the GM Brains Trust figured, he sold hell out of Audi in the USA for seven years bringing their numbers up by leaps and bounds.

Engaging their Standard Cognitive Dissonance Drive, GM figured their dross was as nice as Audis and priced them that way retail. De Nysschen tried to work on the promises he'd been given on being hired instead of flogging second rate stuff, but those plans for really separate vehicles got nowhere; he had a prickly demeanour from what l've read, and thus was not eligible to join the GM Boardroom Golf Club when ATS's etc.didn't suddenly fly off the lot like Tim Horton's fake hotcakes. He lacked street smarts and didn't understand that all GM cared about was sales this month.

Then you come along, all p*ss and vinegar, get his national origin wrong, display zero understanding of the design and planning process and deliver a boot to the rear for good measure. You have an ideal job awaiting you. GM needs folk like you.  Well done.