Pure Chinese party
General Motors luxury brands are doing good business in China. So good, in fact, that the brands have developed various models especially for the Chinese market. One of these is the new Cadillac CT6, the successor to the CT6 that you could also buy in the Netherlands.
Wait a minute: could you buy a brand new CT6 in the Netherlands? Certainly. Cadillac delivered the CT6 within our borders between 2017 and 2019, although the number of Dutch people driving the CT6 appears to be on two hands. The CT6 appeared in 2015 and was the absolute top sedan within the Cadillac family. In 2020, the Americans in their own country already pulled the plug on the CT6, but the model is still for sale in China. He does relatively well there. In 2019, more than 22,500 units still found an owner, while the sedan only sold a few thousand units in its last years in the United States. Cadillac is trying to extend that Chinese success by presenting a thoroughly renewed model.
Chances are that the new Cadillac CT6 looks familiar to you. In November 2022, AutoWeek was able to show you the new CT6 well before its official unveiling. Cadillac has now pulled the curtain on the tightened model in China itself. The CT6 is not completely new, by the way, as it builds on the basis of the original model. Cadillac does fold an almost completely new carriage around the CT6 base. The 5.22 meter long sedan has thin and flat headlights and a bumper with vertical LED strips in a new large grille. Above it we find a slot. Also new is the kink in the shoulder line towards the D-pillar, which is reminiscent of the Hoffmeister kink that you know from various BMWs. We also see a completely new interior, containing a wall-to-wall 33-inch display that functions as an infotainment screen and digital instruments.
The Chinese new Cadillac CT6 only seems to come on the market with blown 2.0 four-cylinder engines. The original CT6 was not only available with four cylinders, but also with V6s and V8s, including a biturbo Blackwing V8 that made it to almost 560 hp. The CT6 story has certainly not been a successful one in most of the world, but it happily continues in China. The role of top sedan does not seem to fulfill the CT6 for much longer, as the electric Celestiq will take over that function in due course.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl