{"id":10563,"date":"2011-07-13T07:25:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T12:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=10563"},"modified":"2011-07-13T07:25:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T12:25:03","slug":"cadillac-goes-with-alpha-omega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/cadillac-goes-with-alpha-omega\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadillac goes with Alpha &#038; Omega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cadillac <a title=\"GM Insider News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gminsidenews.com\/forums\/f70\/cadillac-flagship-sedan-approved-104352\/\" target=\"_blank\">apparently <\/a>has internally approved development of a modified Zeta platform called Omega.\u00a0\u00a0 The Zeta platform is the GM Full-size Rear-wheel Drive platform.\u00a0 GM platforms lately have received greek letters for their internal references.\u00a0 The Zeta was originally designed as a replacement for the W, H, and K platforms, but was not used, instead becoming the underpinnings of the Chevrolet Camaro.\u00a0 The long wheel-base version of Zeta has also arrived in the form of the Chevrolet Caprice police vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Zeta has an independent suspension utilizing MacPherson struts coupled with a dual ball joint lower A-arm in front and a four link independent setup in back.\u00a0\u00a0 Holden is working on a variant of Zeta to make it lighter and more economical.\u00a0 One would suppose the new Cadillac Omega platform would be lighter and more premium &#8212; utilize more expensive components for the same platform in order to save more weight and improve performance.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10566\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gm-zeta-rwd-plaform_100200979_m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10566\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10566\" title=\"gm-zeta-rwd-plaform_100200979_m\" src=\"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gm-zeta-rwd-plaform_100200979_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gm-zeta-rwd-plaform_100200979_m.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/gm-zeta-rwd-plaform_100200979_m-500x270.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GM Zeta Rear Wheel Drive Platform<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The upcoming Gen V V-8 is the suggested powertrain for the new Top-Cadillac.\u00a0 This seems a good selection to me as it should give terrific power and relatively good fuel economy for what promises to be a heavier vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming ATS will be on the Alpha platform, and the refresh of the CTS will also go onto a long-wheelbase Alpha.\u00a0 Alpha was originally designed as a small rear-wheel drive program.\u00a0 The advantage of the new Omega platform perhaps is that it allows for a even longer wheelbase for the upcoming Top-Cadillac.\u00a0 Also, with the addition of the Omega platform for the larger Top-Cadillac (ULS?) Cadillac will have a nice mix of platforms to develop from.\u00a0 The upcoming XTS is on the Epsilon II Front-wheel drive platform, although it may be all-wheel drive with rear-wheel drive bias.\u00a0\u00a0 It will be interesting to see how the XTS, ATS, CTS, and SRX fare in the showroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cadillac apparently has internally approved development of a modified Zeta platform called Omega.\u00a0\u00a0 The Zeta platform is the GM Full-size Rear-wheel Drive platform.\u00a0 GM platforms lately have received greek letters for their internal references.\u00a0 The Zeta was originally designed as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/cadillac-goes-with-alpha-omega\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,192],"tags":[856,7,63,750,752,751],"class_list":["post-10563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cadillac-news","category-site-info-news","category-suspension","tag-alpha","tag-cadillac","tag-future-models","tag-omega","tag-platforms","tag-zeta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10563"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10579,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563\/revisions\/10579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}