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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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I think only once did I ever see a CTS-V wagon on the road.
80% of the time I see a CTS-Wagon, it is a V-series.
Your proclamations are consistently ridiculous, and your statements often false and misleading. Stop trolling this site and go over to Jalopnik where you’ll get lots of +1’s.
Who are you talking to? I simply made a statement of my own personal observations. I’ve only ever seen one. That’s it. I made no comment about the car itself. Why does that offend you?
He must be talking to you Energetik9 cause I know damn sure he isn’t talking to me…
No, not you energetik!
Not surprisingly, when I see a CTS of any sort here in Maine, it is usually a wagon.
I was lucky enough to drive one. It did exist and the supercharged small block was sweet. The chassis was world class. Toughest part was bringing it back.
I have seen probably less than 10 of them on the road. I have seen only one CTS-V wagon, it had a license plate of “DARTH V” or something to that effect.
I’ve never seen a CTS-V wagon. It’s a unicorn.
While were on the topic, it would be interesting to see a similar breakdown for Jaguar, BMW, Mercedes, audi wagons as a percent of their US sales.
Nothing shocking with the Cadillac data.
If the ATS, CTS & ATS (and even the SRX) are rare in any area of the country outside of metro Detroit, excepting car rental agency lots, and are especially rare on the coasts, the CTS-V (and ATS-V) are more rare than Lamborghinis & Ferraris.
Cadillac is making ultra exotics now!
Johann De Nysschen & Melody Lee don’t oversee the production of vehicles, but the production of a “brand” with its synergies, social awareness, conceptualization that “pops,” and anti-counter-revolutionary-hipster-Millennial-confident-Don’tWant-YesIdo-ScratchThat-WhiskeyTangoFoxTrot ULTRAVIBE.
#What’s-A-Cadillac?
Hmmm…If the ATS, CTS & ATS (and even the SRX) are rare in any area of the country outside of metro Detroit, excepting car rental agency lots, and are especially rare on the coasts, the CTS-V (and ATS-V) are more rare than Lamborghinis & Ferraris.
Cadillac is making ultra exotics now!
Johann De Nysschen & Melody Lee don’t oversee the production of vehicles, but the production of a “brand” with its synergies, social awareness, conceptualization that “pops,” and anti-counter-revolutionary-hipster-Millennial-confident-Don’tWant-YesIdo-ScratchThat-WhiskeyTangoFoxTrot ULTRAVIBE.
#What’s-A-Cadillac?
Does that mean that Cadillac has given up its European aspirations? I rather liked the CTS wagon, shame it didn’t sell better but not surprising. It is also a shame that the new CTS-V is only offered with automatic, even if manual transmission sales would be low, you are building the car to appeal to enthusiast and the media, makes sense to have a manual in my opinion unless the development cost would be massive. That I am not sure about, seems to vary depending on complexity of vehicle and who you ask.
A recently moved neighbour had the CTS-V wagon, in black. That was a car that I would gladly have owned (if I had the disposable cash).
It was kept in his beautifully finished garage, with a rubberized floor, beside his prized 1956 T-bird.
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.
Most car people think everything is a stillborn effort.
Except for brown, manual diesel wagons.
Which as we all know are huge sellers with adp stickers and long dealer waits 😄
That is a very nice chart – readable and well done. Incorporates the V-colors perfectly!
Derek was a chart topper in Chart Graphic Arts in school
But this was made by a man called Juan Barnett…
Derek also cheated a lot
I don’t what Lie2me’s day job is, but he really needs to quit it and become a full time comedian. With his sidekick, Pete Zeiss.
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)…”
The switches on the drivers door look very poorly.
Dat chrome fuel door
Never mind, it’s shipping tape. I’m telling you that is not a bad deal…
DeadWeight can’t pass up a good deal. Hmm, I think DW just got himself a new Caddy
I wouldn’t buy it at 33k nor 25k.
The 2.0T is one sh!tty motor, gauges couldn’t be more Cutlass Ciera, I want a useable backseat, and the reliability on this is likely to be somewhere bad on the CR charts (especially long term).
#WhatISaCadillac?
Well, my dad likes it, he’s 88
I think I’m going to anoint you the Archbishop of Gauges.
“#WhatISaCadillac”
Indeed. I have no fracking idea and neither do the staffers or so it seems. One gentlemen believes its a idea, one lady doesn’t believe its a car, and a third gentlemen believes it to be a pen.
I sent this past quote of mine to Johann’s email this morning & he un-friended me (just kidding; I don’t have a Farcebook account):
2015 VW Golf TSI Gauges (not even GTI, either) – a 20k vehicle:
http://www.cnet.com/pictures/2015-volkswagen-golf-tsi-tdi-pictures/21/
2015 Hyundai Sonata Gauges – a 20kish vehicle:
http://www.auto-classics.com/the-design-and-appearance-of-hyundai-sonata-sport/2015-hyundai-sonata-sport-gauge-cluster
2006 Pontiac G6 Gauges – a 16k vehicle?:
http://dealerrevs.com/gallery/46939005.html
2015 Cadillac ATS/CTS Gauges – a 36k to ??? (65k) vehicle?:
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2013-Cadillac-ATS-3.6-AWD-010.jpg
Even the 2006 Pontiac G6 Gauges are better.
“I think I’m going to anoint you the Archbishop of Gauges.”
What!? He’s Lucifer Prince of Darkness, Ruler of the Underworld, King of the DeadWeight the Anti-Cadillac himself…
… and Rosemary’s Baby-Daddy
Cadillac itself has been seduced by the Dark One and lost its way. We pray it finds its way home to its roots of Four Hundred Seventy Two. Let us pray.
I’m being honest here (and I’ve driven this car): A 27k Chrysler 300 (post haggle price) is 3x as comfortable, plush & luxurious.
A 20k base GLS whatever Hyundai Slants (2015) is just as quiet, solid, roomier, has better interior design, the motor is as refined, and it will be more reliable/durable.
A 18k VW Golf (2015) rides nicer, has as much interior room, has way better switchgear & gauges, is just as quiet, and has a more refined chassis, more refined 1.8T motor, and all around more refined demeanor.
Cadillac has a crisis on its hands that no Johann can fix (assuming Johann ever fixed anything in his life).
#WhatISaCadillac?
” base GLS whatever Hyundai Slants (2015)” above is supposed to be “base GLS whatever Hyundai SONATA (2015)”
I swear spellchecker automatically always changes Sonata to “Slants” on my tablet.
I don’t even believe with the proper leadership it can be fixed, it will certainly never be fixed with the current group of foreign clowns they have running the brand. The only hope the brand has is innovation mixed with a return to its roots – but neither will occur.
Paging danio
What happened to the “highest transaction prices in the segment”
Seems to be a disconnect
Yes I take pleasure in watching Cadillac fail…. every failure brings them closer to the success they deserve and are capable of achieving
This “we hate, because we love” angle is quite fascinating…
Welll….not so fast:
“Comments: SAVE $15,000 – MUST QUALIFY FOR ALL INCENTIVES”
Did we miss that part? Probably so.
I’ve seen plenty of this posted before, the dealer takes EVERY single discount available and says that this is the new price. Military Discount? Check. Current Owner Discount? Check. Recent College Grad? Check.
Say what!!!???
Cadillac employing Kia* like sleazeball marketing tactics out of sheer desperation ot move the metal?
*Apologies to Kia, who now can engineer a durable vehicle with modern gauges and instrument panels.
#WhatISaCadillac?
#TellUsMelodyLee
That’s a misleading link, Deadwight. I was hoping that dealer discounted its CTS’s by 33% as you claimed, but it appears to be a unicorn that you found. Probably a high mileage demo unicorn.
Dealers aren’t going to give such a steep discount on their floorplan unless GM will reimburse them. Dealers will rather focus on products they can sell to a wider audience (SRX) than overpriced cars the avg buyer wants to pay a premium for, hence the poor resale and me’h sales figures.
I had an SRX overnight last week in VA. It was TERRIBLE. Wobbly suspension, kinda cramped, and my God, those non-button touchpad buttons are just terrible.
I sure hope the Saab version had better suspension tuning and real buttons.
Just looked up the incentives on Edmunds. That model is discounted the way it is because it’s a 2014. So it’s a blowout sale on last year’s model. And, yes, GM is providing lots of incentives.
Incentives on the equivalent 2015 model: $750 lease loyalty.
Makes sense to me.
i get the feeling that a Cadillac picked on poor Deadweight when he was a kid. That would explain it, I think…
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!