{"id":2186,"date":"2009-11-19T07:58:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2009-11-19T07:58:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:58:35","slug":"re-cadillac-plans-three-high-performance-models-the-globe-and-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/re-cadillac-plans-three-high-performance-models-the-globe-and-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: Cadillac plans three high-performance models &#8211; The Globe and Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/globe-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\">Globe and Mail section Globe Drive<\/a> has a good summary of upcoming Cadillacs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The highlight is a reported production version of the hot-looking Converj plug-in hybrid electric vehicle that wowed onlookers at the Detroit auto show early this year. The others will be CTS-V variants of the Sport Wagon and upcoming CTS Coupe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>All three will offer<\/strong> <strong>versions of the 556-horsepower<\/strong>, supercharged V-8 currently in the Cadillac CTS-V sedan. This 6.2-litre monster engine is based on the one in the 638-hp Corvette ZR1.<\/p>\n<p>GM&#8217;s outspoken vice chairman Bob Lutz told Car and Driver magazine that you&#8217;ll be able to get a CTS-V wagon after the CTS-V coupe&#8217;s debut next summer, and that the CTS-V wagon is expected to help make wagons cool again in North America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Only one correction &#8212; the upcoming Cadillac Converj will of course use the Voltec extended range electric powertrain, and will <strong>not <\/strong>be available in a V series model with a 6.2L supercharged V8.\u00a0 That would kind of defeat the point of the new Electric Eldorado, as I like to call it.<\/p>\n<p>Full Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/globe-drive\/new-cars\/auto-news\/cadillac-plans-three-high-performance-models\/article1368749\/\">Cadillac plans three high-performance models &#8211; The Globe and Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Globe and Mail section Globe Drive has a good summary of upcoming Cadillacs: The highlight is a reported production version of the hot-looking Converj plug-in hybrid electric vehicle that wowed onlookers at the Detroit auto show early this year. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/re-cadillac-plans-three-high-performance-models-the-globe-and-mail\/\">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":[170,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-converj","category-cts-v-cadillac-models"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","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=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}