Cadillac's revival from its eighties and nineties nadir continues apace, with rumours circulating about a production version of the fabulous 16 concept car (above).
Caddy has just shown its all-new CTS saloon at the Geneva motor show (see below, "New CTS will get diesel) and the brand is on a major revival in the US, with healthy sales and an ever-improving image. It's still early days in Europe and Ireland, but the current CTS and BLS are nice cars, and the potential for the brand to take on the German, Japanese and British luxury marques is obviously there.
But Caddy isn't stopping there it seems, and cigar-chomping GM product chief Bob Lutz (imagine General Patton with a set of car keys) is dropping big hints about a new super-Caddy using an all-new V12 engine and a stretched CTS platform.
In the US, you can buy an STS, essentially a bigger, S-Class-sized CTS but Cadillac apparently wants to do more than just compete size-wise, and it's known that Lutz is a big fan of the 16 concept, and has been pushing for a production version for some time now.
Unfortunately, rumour and innuendo are all we can bring you for now, but with the Paris Motor Show coming up in September, and the Detroit show in January '08, we wouldn't be surprised if Caddy tees something exciting up.
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