Cadillac replaces the CTS

"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
03/18/2019 at 09:28 • Filed to: Cadillac

With a CT S.... I mean CT 5.

There’s no way someone from a distance won’t read that as a CTS.

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Can we STOP making liftback lookalikes that aren’t liftbacks ?

RIP, Escala. You were beautiful and those morons at Cadillac butchered you.

DISCUSSION (29)

Arrivederci > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/18/2019 at 09:38

The Escala was too beautiful for this world.

random001 > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/18/2019 at 09:41

Isn’t that an ATS replacement, since it’s a 3-series fighter? I just don’t know anymore...

412GTI > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/18/2019 at 09:42

Kinja'd!!!

Dat C-Pillar doe. I’m not about it.

I think the Accord does a much smoother job of pulling that look off. The rest of the CT5 looks fine to me. Nothing super exciting, but a clean, slightly aggressive look. I was never a fan of the old Caddy styling line so this new direction is fine for me.

404 - User No Longer Available > random001
03/18/2019 at 09:54

T here’s a CT4 coming that replaces ATS.

shop-teacher > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/18/2019 at 09:55

This was my comment to the FP article.

“This naming thing is stupid, and switching the letter S to the nearly identical looking 5 highlights that perfectly. I first read the headline as the CT5 replaces the CT5. Which made no sense, so I reread it and saw that the CTS was replacing the CT5. Which still didn’t make sense. Upon the third reading I finally got it right.”

ranwhenparked > random001
03/18/2019 at 09:57

This is supposed to replace both ATS and CTS, and sort of overlap the 3-Series and 5-Series. Supposedly, there's a smaller car still on the way.

random001 > ranwhenparked
03/18/2019 at 09:58

I’m so confused....

Vicente Esteve > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/18/2019 at 10:00

Contrary to most of what I have read I love the looks on this. Discrete aggression with a hint of elegance, not overly chintzy.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > 412GTI
03/18/2019 at 10:02

The Accord at least has a rear window that aids in blind spot visibility. This is just black plastic trim.

fintail > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/18/2019 at 10:03

That C-pillar, Woof. Accord and Regal had some fun.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > random001
03/18/2019 at 10:04

Just like the XT4 -5-6 they’re making a CT 4-5-6.

They’re doing what Acura did with replacing the TSX and TL with an in-betweener TLX.

404 - User No Longer Available > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time
03/18/2019 at 10:09

Basically going back to what they were doing originally with the original CTS. Slotting in between the Germans.

merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/18/2019 at 10:15

I think it’s just the roof line being a bit too high. It screws with the proportions, that and the headlights and it still looks close to the Escala concept... but probably would look better as a wagon instead of the lift back shape it has now. It’s very reminiscent of the BMW whatever that is an uggo liftback, not enough sexy liftback like the A7.

Shift24 > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/18/2019 at 10:23

Im going to keep calling it CTS. Prove me wrong th at badge says something else.

I hope this is a 5 series fighter (though probably 3) because that will be the first thing people will ask.

“ct5? So it's like a 5 series?"

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/18/2019 at 10:35

Still think it’s a handsome car.

BahamaTodd > Arrivederci
03/18/2019 at 10:42

The Escala is a fullsize range topper. There’s still time to see something like it.

404 - User No Longer Available > merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc
03/18/2019 at 10:44

They should’ve just made it an actual liftback and compete with the 4 Gran Coupe instead.

404 - User No Longer Available > BahamaTodd
03/18/2019 at 10:47

It was more of a styling preview than an actual product. Concept wise, range topper would’ve been the Elmiraj and that got translated into the CT6 and XTS refresh.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/18/2019 at 11:18

Yup. Exactly what I said in my FP comment.

Gerry197 > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/18/2019 at 11:37

Wasn’t the Escala meant to be a flagship design? But unless your German or Japanese, no one wants your premium sedan. Premium SUV however is a different story.

404 - User No Longer Available > Gerry197
03/18/2019 at 11:57

Most of Cadillac’s concepts just simply don’t make it to production aside from a few styling tweaks.

The only 3 I remember that made it to production: Evoq/XLR , Provoq/FWD SRX, Converj/ELR.

404 - User No Longer Available > Shift24
03/18/2019 at 12:00

It’s a tweener, just like the TLX.

ZHP Sparky, the 5th > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/18/2019 at 12:02

If CTS = CT5, shouldn’t ATS = 4TS? Or 4T5?

404 - User No Longer Available > ZHP Sparky, the 5th
03/18/2019 at 12:05

Not sure... ask Audi or Infiniti. System came from there.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/18/2019 at 12:26

I like it. Like, really like it.

The one thing that keeps throwing me though, is the headlights. I keep looking and thinking it’s a Gen1 Cruze with the way they tail off into the fender.

Not that that’s a bad thing. I liked the styling on the Gen1 Cruze... a lot more than I like the current styling. But even though it looks good, it’s not great that I have to tell myself “ Caddy, not econobox Chevy” every time I look at the nose.

SHARPSPEED > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/18/2019 at 12:41

Looks alright, can’ t wait to see it top sales charts like everything else from Cadillac.

Brian McKay > 404 - User No Longer Available
03/18/2019 at 13:11

I thought that I read days ago that Cadillac will name its cars like CT400 — C for Cadillac, T for turbocharged, and 400 for Newton-meters of torque.

So ... CT 5 has five Newton-meters of torque?

ranwhenparked > random001
03/18/2019 at 19:32

Cadillac is again abandoning going head-to-head with BMW, so the CT5 is supposed to be sized more or less in between - bigger than a 3-Series, but smaller than a 5-Series, and priced closer to the 3.

The upcoming CT4 will presumably be smaller than a 3-Series /bigger than a 2-Series, and priced closer to the 2.

ranwhenparked > BahamaTodd
03/18/2019 at 19:40

They said the same thing about the Sixteen.