{"id":1222,"date":"2009-04-10T10:52:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T15:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2009-04-10T10:52:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T15:52:50","slug":"smaller-than-a-cts-due-in-24-to-28-months-so-2012-or-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/smaller-than-a-cts-due-in-24-to-28-months-so-2012-or-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Smaller-than-a-CTS due in 24 to 28 months?  So 2012 or 2013?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/2009\/04\/caddy-betting-big-on-planned-%E2%80%9Csub-cts%E2%80%9D\/\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Bureau<\/a> blog has this quote from Steve Shannon (GM Premium Channel Marketing) about the upcoming Cadillac model that will slot below the CTS (<a href=\"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?cat=30\">Background on &#8220;Alpha&#8221; Cadillac<\/a>) :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The project is well underway, he hints, and could reach market \u201cprobably in 24 to 30 months.\u201d\u00a0 Beyond that, Shannon goes mum, though he concedes a variety of body styles are under study, including the requisite sedan, and alternatives including a 3-door hatchback, a 5-door wagon and a convertible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>hmm.\u00a0 That appears to make the Alpha Cadillac a 2012 or 2013 model.\u00a0 This is disappointingly slow from my point of view, but may be &#8216;rapid&#8217; development for GM.<\/p>\n<p>Here was the Motor Trend concept drawing for what the Alpha might look like:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Alpha Cadillac\" src=\"http:\/\/image.motortrend.com\/f\/10938477\/112_0811_01l+alpha_cadillac+illustration.jpg\" alt=\"Alpha Cadillac\" width=\"440\" height=\"200\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alpha Cadillac<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So we got the new CTS-V and Sport Wagon in 2009, the SRX in 2010.\u00a0 2011 perhaps will bring the CTS Coupe, then if 2012 the Alpha Cadillac premiers I suppose that keeps the product release momentum rolling along.<\/p>\n<p>We have more parts in place for the Alpha now, with the new DI 3.0 V6 engine released at 260hp, and a nice 2.8L Turbo V6 on the way at 300hp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Bureau blog has this quote from Steve Shannon (GM Premium Channel Marketing) about the upcoming Cadillac model that will slot below the CTS (Background on &#8220;Alpha&#8221; Cadillac) : The project is well underway, he hints, and could reach &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/smaller-than-a-cts-due-in-24-to-28-months-so-2012-or-2013\/\">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":[30,18,19],"tags":[856,11],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpha","category-gm-news","category-new-technology","tag-alpha","tag-cts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","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=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}