Yup. What’s worse is that they constrain other divisions from doing cool things out of fear it’ll encroach on their belly-flop competition.

So was Cadillac bad for making desirable cars with pushrods or undesirable cars with overhead cams?

Yeah, you could be forgiven for that. One small issue is Cadillac never offered a Catera Touring Sedan when it was called Catera. Cadillac didn’t want its new baby associated with the failed Catera, either.

What “near past” were they pushrod heavy throwbacks? Except for the CTS-V and Escalade, Cadillac has been exclusively OHC since 1997.

Oh yeah... it’s a stupid acronym system and has been since it started. But you won’t find any “it stands for” information from GM. It doesn’t stand for anything. It’s a huge metaphor for the last 4 decades of the division itself.

I didn’t realize these had recycled Cruze C-pillar triangles. This is a motherfucking luxury car costing $50k+. WITAF do they think they’re doing?

Did you see the article where they’ll soon be adding numbers of Newton Meters of torque rounded to the nearest 50? It’ll actually be called something like “CT5 400.”

Nope. It never, ever stood for Catera Touring Sedan. Cadillac never, ever called it that or marketed it as that or told the press it stood for that. That was a post hoc ergo propter hoc inference made by folks. But it’s erroneous.

Already bored. It looks like a mainstream car with the odd Escala cue slapped on it.

CTS did not stand for Catera Touring Sedan. Some suspected that it meant Compact Touring Sedan since it was the smallest Cadillac competing with the German compact luxury models. Some suspected it meant Cadillac Touring Sedan, but that didn’t make sense when Cadillac sold 2 other Touring Sedans at the time.

BMW also encountered a problem when they offered a detuned 3.0L I6 alongside a higher-output 3.0L I6. They couldn’t call both a 330i.

They call it “murdered out” for a reason, don’t they?

FYI, the Aspire in your article is the facelifted 1997 model. The 1994-96 model (above) had amber turn signals, slightly different headlights and taillights, and different bumpers and slot grille.

I had a Buick Verano. Before that, I had a powder blue Fiat 500. Now I have a Honda Fit. I have just that much to prove.

I have long admired the Frua-penned looks of the too-obscure Glas 1500.

I assume that dick size is inversely proportional to things like pickup lift, spoiler height, blackout add-ons, insanely loud exhausts, etc. Whatever is designed to assert an image of total domination over everyone else.

I did read the comment, but I interpreted it to be that you were offering the Alpha platform as a counterpoint to the idea that GM is lost. I didn’t initially interpret it as a point of agreement, but I can see how that makes sense, too.

Torinos and Mustangs were offered with both the 351C and 351W simultaneously.

Cadillac is doing bigger number = better, too. If you read the article, you’d see that the numbers are secondary to the letters. So the. new SUV will be called an XT6 350 or 400 or so.

Who cares if nobody will ever reach that claimed top speed? Bigger is better.