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Derm 81 sent us this report:
I took this shot from the GM Tech Center the other day. I couldn’t get more than one photo because the engineer got pissed that I was snapping pictures. It is a Cadillac with right hand steering. What was odd was that it had several “ports” which looked like extra gas tank openings, which were in the same location as the plug/outlet on the the Volt. You can see the reflection of my goofy-assed PT on the Caddy.You cant see it in the picture BUT there was this huge “unit” or black box on the back seat. Didn’t look as if there even was a rear seat bench. Battery pack? Standard testing device?
Maybe before he loses his job he’s building his own out of whatever parts are still available?
“Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.”
“Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.”
Which makes the huge black unit in the back seem like overkill.
Looks like a photo of a regular CTS taken at a gas station to me. Without a photo of the described features, it seems suspect to me.
If it is true, maybe a plug in hybrid CTS? Why not, other makes are working on the same.
“One piece at a time, and it didn’t cost me a dime…you’ll know it’s me when I roll thru your town.”
I wonder about the right-hand drive part. That has limited application. England. Australia. Japan.
A Hybrid CTS would be most excellent, though I wouldn’t be able to afford that any time soon I bet. I’m camping the new gen off a lease as it is.
A hybrid CTS? Maybe they’re making a more powerful version of the Volt system for the CTS.
Hmmm….suspicious indeed.
Might the extra outlet provide access to a urea tank, as is all the rage with newer diesel models?
@tced2
“I wonder about the right-hand drive part. That has limited application. England. Australia. Japan.”
Errrr I believe you may have forgotten the small markets of Japan, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa who also drive on the right side of the road?!!
I’d get it one piece at a time
And it wouldn’t cost me a dime
You’ll know it’s me when I come through your town
I’m gonna ride around in style
I’m gonna drive everybody wild
‘Cause I’ll have the only one there is a round.
So the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
Now, I never considered myself a thief
GM wouldn’t miss just one little piece
Especially if I strung it out over several years.
Yup, just as Johnny sung it, that’s the only explanation. ;P
there was a plan to sell the CTS in Australia/New Zealand which I believe has been since cancelled (in NZ anyway) – GM is probably using a left over RHD car as mule.
@sutski
I didn’t forget Japan. I mentioned it in my comment.
Cadillac has never been a big seller in Japan. Probably never will be. As far as I know, there hasn’t been a right hand drive version of the CTS.
I don’t know much about Cadillac in India but I suspect the sales are non-existent.
I’ve been to Japan. They drive on the left side of the road using vehicles with the steering wheel on the right.
HEATHROI is probably right – a right hand drive mule never used for a production vehicle. But why fit experimental drive equipment into an oddball vehicle? When doing engineering and development, you choose a platform closest to what you are developing. Why not just take a standard production CTS off the lot?
I am skeptical of this. It just looks like a pic of a CTS at a gas station. I believe this is a fake.
it’s very common to have test equipment in the back seat of a car for calibration or other testing. nothing surprising there.
as others have noted, it’s likely an old (or new if a RHD program is still active) test car which is being used for something. if the car is already paid for, why take a new car off the line ?
the gas port/connections are likely to allow running different fuel directly into the car when testing on dyno or similar. easier than draining the tank & filling with something else. could indeed also be for urea filling, but if it wasn’t at the diesel pumps, that’s not part of the equation.