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Chart Of The Day: How The Last Cadillac CTS-V Fared
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Derek Kreindler
(IC: employee)
Published: December 22nd, 2014
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From the Twitter page of Juan Barnett comes a breakdown of sales of the last-gen Cadillac CTS. Including the CTS-V.
As expected, wagons were a bit player in the CTS lineup. The V wagon made up just half a percent of the total sales, while making up around 8 percent of V sales. But given the marginal costs required to build a CTS-V wagon, it presumably ended up making money for GM.
This time around, there will only be a sedan with an automatic gearbox. The Coupe and stick shift has gone to the ATS-V, while the wagon was lost to Cadillac’s aborted European foray, which necessitated the CTS wagon experiment.
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Published December 22nd, 2014 11:49 AM
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Any chance to get a GM interview on what they were thinking when they tried to make Cadillac a sellable item in Europe? Most car people could have told them it was a stillborn effort.
That is a very nice chart - readable and well done. Incorporates the V-colors perfectly!
Cadillac is blowing out otherwise unsellable AWD 48k new CTSs for 33k, no haggling required: http://www.herbchamberscadillaclynnfield.com/new/CADILLAC/2014-CADILLAC-CTS-Danvers-725ab4b40a0a00646b8974a33be6cd3f.htm Johann WILL NOT resort to discounting to move inventory. Just do a 33% across the board price cut off MSRP, Ms. Melody Lee! "My baby forceful in a brand new Cadillac (grumpy because terrible gauges, coarse engine, poor reliability, CUE, unrefined ride quality, small back seat)..."
Let's see, by my math that makes for a total of about 7620 wagons over 5 model years, an averaged of about 1524 per year, although I'll bet that the 2010 is the most common. Small change compared to the SRX. In three years of ownership, I've seen exactly three black CTS wagons on the street. I own a very rare beast!