Cadillac Prepping XT4 Production on the Sly at Kansas City's Malibu Plant

They can be resurrected, el scotto, unlike people. I don't have to blame CAFE, EPA or leases on Euro cars, I can only blame the company that chose to cheap out and dodge the fines I'm quite sure the original Caddy owners would have gladly paid to keep their big cars coming. Pickup trucks with luxury doodads are nothing but the "poor man's Cadillac"; they're pretending to be what the Caddys were: pure luxury vehicles. I would rather go Type S than any existing Caddy and I would rather go Rolls or Bentley than any faux-lux pickup truck. I would rather drive my mother's old Sedan de Ville than drive ANY full sized pickup for its supposed luxury. Odds are I will be inheriting that car within the next few years. But I will NOT, ever, buy a modern, full sized pickup just to put on airs. The pickup truck I buy will be a working and sporting truck that makes no pretense towards luxury.

A long time friend recently retired his Towncar and bought an F150 Platinum 4dr 4x4. First time he took me for a ride in it, the electric running board extended automatically when I opened the passenger door and connected with my shin bone. That hurt! We owned a 1992 Towncar Executive from 1992 until July 2008, but don't want to go back to them these days because cars and trucks today are just so much nicer and better. My wife's 2016 Sequoia is just nicer and roomier than any Towncar ever could be.

@highdesertcat Town Cars are NOT all that...I had one as a rental in the late aughts and it was evident why the car died a few years later.

@FreedMike We had pretty good service from my wife's Towncar for the years she used it to show real estate properties. It had mechanical problems, but back then I was able to do most of the work myself with the exception of AC. I ended up selling that Towncar to a young Airman who left the Air Force and used it to move back to South Carolina, where he still uses the car as a daily driver after all these years. After he bought the Towncar from us he told us that his dad owns two, his brother owns two and that his family is always looking to buy another Towncar. So there still are people who prefer them, if the price is right -- or until parts can no longer be found.

The Cadillac ATS is a massive POS and pile of unrefined garbage in the context of a 40k to 50k (even 32k) premium vehicle, and has typical General/Guangzhou Motors awful build quality, NVH traits, epicly bad interior material and gauges and switchgear... ...but it could have been acceptable, given its good chassis - lending itself to good handling characteristics - and good steering feel (it's two, sole, virtuous qualities) - as a next gen $22,999 base price Pontiac Grand Am (there are credible rumors that it was thus destined to be such prior to Pontiac's murder, in the midst of General/Guangzhou Motors bankruptcy).

@DeadWeight No, it's not a massive POS. The one I drove was actually used, with almost 40,000 miles, and in many ways, it looked and felt almost new to me. This is NOT a poorly built car. Far from it. What it (and what every Cadillac aside from the Escalade) needs is a ton more polish in areas like the engine, and the interior. Like I said...they don't feel like money.

@FreedMike DW is nothing without froth mouthed hyperbole. GM spent money on all the wrong things. This is why Lincoln's quasi rebadges are outselling the whole Caddy Alpha lineup. A $50K Malibu based PHEV with swoopy styling and a high quality interior would have turned Caddy's fortunes around for a lot less money and would have been an offering much more relevant to the times.

@DeadWeight My 2013 ATS4 2.0T had over 87,000 miles and not even a stone chip on thr hood to be found. I thought it was repainted when I bought but it was just the best quality paint this side of Lexus. The ATS is quiet, solid like it was chisel from ingot and I really loved feeling the felt lined map holders in the door. Difficult to find any hard plastics as everything was padded. But it was a stiff ride with really high spring rates that would bounce your head to the roof. I loved tuning the stock, little turbo to 400 lb-ft of torque and with AWD it really would scoot from a stop.