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Tuesday, Nov 3
GM breaks 21 month losing streak; sales up 4% in October
In its first year-over-year sales increase since January 2008, GM posted a 4% increase in October, and estimates a 21% market share. The four core brands (Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Cadillac), which now account for 95% of GM sales, were up 11.6%. Year-to-date totals are down 34%. Cadillac led t...
Sunday, Nov 1
Have Your Really Thought This Through Edition: Onstar To Invade China
Nannification makes a big leap forward: OnStar services will be activated and fully operational in China in December 2009 on some Cadillac, Buick and Chevrolet vehicles, PRNewswire reports. The system will be operated by OnStar Telematics Company Limited, a joint venture between GM...
Friday, Oct 30
How I Won/Lost/Failed To Understand The Cadillac CTS-V Challenge
With apologies to Douglas Adams: Stress and nervous tension are now serious social problems in all parts of the Galaxy, and it is in order that this situation should not in any way be exacerbated that the following facts will now be revealed in advance. I took my privately-owned 2009 Audi S5...
Tuesday, Oct 27
Jaguar Pulls Out Of CTS-V Challenge
If we’re learning anything from the twists and turns leading into GM’s Cadillac V-Series Challenge, it’s that a good stunt is hard to stage these days [unless you have access to China's rich reserves of stunt drivers, as shown above]. Jaguar’s US PR boss Stuart Schorr has informed us that h...
Monday, Oct 26
Piston Slap: May The Best Car Lose, Mr. Lutz: Mehta challenges Cadillac’s HT4100
Yours truly, Sajeev Mehta writes: Hello Piston Slappers, this S.O.S. is for anyone GM-savvy enough to tango with a 4.1L Cadillac. And live to diagnose another day: are you up for the challenge? I acquired a 1986 Fleetwood 75 Formal Limousine (1 of 1000), which made me reconsider my stance on wro...
Sunday, Oct 25
The Downside of OnStar
We now know that OnStar is a PITA if you’re doing a quarter mile in a 700hp+ Hennessey-tuned Cadillac CTS-V (a.k.a. V700). The service doesn’t know the difference between a performance run and an accident. Har har. Even so, this incident raises some questions about GM’s Big Brother division. Fir...
Friday, Oct 16
Ten Concept Cars That Woulda Coulda Maybe Even Shoulda
1. The Cadillac V16 Concept – If GM had dared take the brand way up market, where it belongs, things would have been different for the “standard of the world.” But the nettle was not grasped, and the brand continued—and continues—its long march downmarket, into extinction. 2. The Lincoln Cont...
Wednesday, Oct 14
Mark LaNeve Says Goodbye to GM
Mark LaNeve’s career success at GM—moving from minor league Cadillac man to the head of S&M (Sales and Marketing)—is a text book example of GM’s obliviousness to the idea of accountability. Despite failing to resurrect Cadillac’s fortunes, despite helping Rick “Captain Queeg” Wa...
Tuesday, Oct 13
TTAC’s Jack Baruth To Take On GM’s Bob Lutz In Luxury Sedan Shootout
Cadillac has confirmed that TTAC’s very own Jack Baruth will be allowed to compete in Bob Lutz’s SuperSedan Shootout (also known as the Cadillac V Series Challenge). The race will consist of five hot laps in any production sedan, and will take place at the Monticello Motor Club in upstate N...
Congress Drags Cadillac’s Name Through the Mud. Or Not.
This is a tough call. But first, let’s play connect the dots . . . Twice upon a time, I touched upon the fact that the expression “The Cadillac of . . .” had all but disappeared from the popular lexicon. Joe Blow was no longer associating otherwise unrelated product excellence with GM’s luxury brand. [...]
Friday, Oct 9
Cadillac Cans Ad Agency Modernista: Legends of the Fall or Push It Good?
Yesterday, we learned that GM CEO Fritz Henderson was surprised by Marketing Maven Mark LaNeve’s departure. If true, it’s a revelation that puts paid to the theory that GM has finally learned how to fire someone for something. Make that anything. Today, we learn that Monster Mark LaNeve’s f...
Monday, Oct 5
Mark LaNeve is Insane
I have no idea why Mark LaNeve still works for General Motors. The former Cadillac man was serving Kool-Aid on the bridge when CEO Rick Wagoner was Richard Nixon channeling Captain Queeg. When Old GM sank into bankruptcy, LaNeve (and Bob Lutz and Fritz Henderson and the whole damn crew) shou...
Thursday, Oct 1
Full List of Culled Chevy and Cadillac Dealers
An anonymous TTAC Tipster has made it possible for me to fulfill my promise to our Best and Brightest. Click here for a pdf list of all Chevrolet and Cadillac dealers slated for closure. Our secret number cruncher created the document by using the information recently provided by another, l...
Wednesday, Sep 23
Quote Of The Day: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t Edition
I think the competitors like BMW have spent a fortune to pick up the market share they picked up (through leasing). … We’re not going to go in and offer giveaway leases with a premium brand. Cadillac sales boss Ed Peper in a Wall Street Journal piece detailing Cadillac’s inability to sell (and...
Tuesday, Sep 15
Cadillac PR OK’s TTAC CTS-V Showdown
I was completely prepared to leave this Bob Lutz’s CTS-V race thing to Jalopnik. And then Lutz went on the FastLane blog and said he’d welcome all comers: “One of the social media initiatives we’ve launched is a challenge with the Cadillac CTS-V, which we claim to be the fastest 4-dr product...
Curbside Classic: 1950 Cadillac Series 61 Coupe
Bob Lutz may well prove that the Cadillac's CTS-V is the fastest production sedan in the land, thanks to an engine transplant from the Corvette ZR-1. But what about a genuine all-Caddy production racer? Something you could take to Le Mans, and challenge Europe's finest exotics. Or just dow...
Monday, Mar 23
Nissan Bids For Worst Hybrid Strategy
You know that advertisement for the Cadillac Escalade Hybrid where a douchey fellow suggests that “they should hybrid (sic) this thing”? I would post the video, but it seems that Cadillac has pulled all trace of the spot from the interwebs, leaving only the marginally less insipid “cuph...
Aston One-77: I Know a Cat Named Way Out Willie
I thought that “hand built cars are better” thing disappeared on March 5, 1908. That’s when Cadillac won the Dewar Trophy, awarded by the Britain’s Royal Automobile Club for progress in automobile engineering and racing. Cadillac scrambled parts from three cars (720 × 3), reassembled th...
Sunday, Jan 4
Podcast: Rant: What Is A Cadillac?
Coming of age in the 70’s (lucky me), Cadillac represented everything I didn’t like about American cars. Like its lesser-priced sibs, it was an anti-sports car. With the possible exception of Lincoln’s Continental Mark My Words This Car is as Good as a Cadillac, a Caddy was THE anti-sports...
Saturday, Mar 15
Daily Podcast: Will Luxury Car Sales Suck?
Rising U.S. gas prices and the American mortgage meltdown has hit sales of new vehicles hard. In terms of the product mix, a lot of ink has been expended on the rapid, ongoing transition from gas-guzzling SUVs to more miserly models-- a change that's hurt the truck-heavy domestics particula...
Thursday, Feb 7
Daily Podcast: The Power of No
One of the nice things about having a tightly-focused brand-- complete with an explanatory tagline-- is that you know when to say "no." Pontiac: We Build Excitement. Minivan? No. Crappy coupe. Uh-uh. Mercedes: Engineered Like No Other Car in the World. Cheap shit downmarket decontented seda...
