NEW YORK: Cadillac has revealed a single shot of its big new CT6 flagship sedan ahead of a New York Auto Show debut this week.
First revealed in late February as it rolled through the final frame of a Superbowl commercial, the CT6’s debut marks the next stage in GM’s plan to assert Cadillac as a genuine prestige brand.
As a rival to the Lexus LS, BMW 7 Series, Mercedes S-Class, Audi A8 and Jaguar XJ, the CT6 enters the Cadillac range as an all-new and significantly more premium alternative to the existing XTS sedan.
And while the XTS is built on the older and widely utilised front-wheel-drive Epsilon II platform, the CT6 boasts a new aluminium-rich rear-wheel-drive architecture whose design is expected to lead to four new lightweight platforms for the GM family.
Full details of the new flagship ‘Caddy’ are still to come, although it is clear from this image that GM has looked to an evolved version of the angular styling that has set the brand apart since the first CTS debuted in 2003.
That look has since evolved into the third-generation CTS and the first-ever ATS midsizer, along with the XTS, the Escalade and SRX SUVs and the Volt-based ELR.
Power in the CT6 will come from a new 3.0 litre twin-turbo petrol V6, producing around 300kW and 542Nm in its base form.
Watch for the CT6 to make its full debut in the hours ahead, and catch TMR’s continuing coverage at the links below.
