Pitched as a "diver's auto", the CT6 is based on a brand new GM platform named Omega and features aluminium body panels and metal die castings in its lower-body, which Cadillac claims offers the big rear-drive four-door nimble handling along with a comfortable ride.
Significantly, the CT6 also comes with an on demand all-wheel-drive program - standard on V-6 models - that uses a continuously varying clutch to distribute power.
It features 13 "high-pressure aluminum casts" that Cadillac claims produce a lighter, stiffer structure as well as a "bank vault" silent cabin, and also a five-link independent rear suspension system applying several outer ball joints and cross braces.
Riding on an 3106mm wheelbase, it measures 5184mm long, 1879millimeter wide and 1472millimeter high, and Cadillac claims the kerb weight of the CT6 is going to be less than 1700kg.
Expected on sale in The United States in 2016 Cadillac's new-top-shelf sedan is actually an opportunity for Australia if General Motors' luxury brand comes great on its promise to go international with an assortment of right hand drive models by the end of the decade.
It also features GM's magnetic damping and active rear-steer methods to produce what Cadillac promises will be "section-greatest ride, management and [cabin] isolation". Wheel sizes range between 18- and 20-inch.
Powertrain options include turbo-charged 198kW 2.0-re, four-cylinder and naturally aspirated 250kW 3.6-litre V6 petrol motors.
Additionally coordinated with a brand new GM ten-speed automatic transmission is a new, exceptional-to-Cadillac twinturbo 298kW/543Nm 3.0-litre V 6 offering the first V 6 use of displacement-on-demand technology, which shuts down two cylinders under light loads.
"It's a daring try with unparalleled dynamism that re-ignites a passion for driving in large luxury vehicles. In summary, it is stature luxury pictured."
Nevertheless, according to Car information, North America's luxurious limousine sales section has halved to 108,627 last yr, since the GFC of six years back
"The CT6 is not anything less than an entirely new method of superior extravagance - and a method only Cadillac may provide," said Cadillac president Johan de Nysschen.
The CT6's tech-packaged cottage contains a claimed sector-first environment-view video recording program that records front and back sights while driving, as well as nightvision, 10.2-inch colour touch-screen with Cadillac CUE infotainment system, a 3-4-speaker Bose sound-system, wifi hot spot, quad-zone climate control and lashings of leather, wood and carbon-fibre trim.
GM states the CT6 marks Cadillac's long-awaited return to the international prestige luxury segment, and is one of eight -new automobiles the brand may launch within a $US12 million expense from the end-of the decade.
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Thus far, GM has affirmed the CT6, which is constructed from late this year in Detroit, is going to be sold in the Middle East and the US, China, Europe, Korea, Japan.
