Ping.
Doesn’t matter. Musk has said there isn’t near enough electricity in the grid to support too many electric cars anyway.
Too bad GM just didn’t allow them to stick one EV Caddy in the back corner of the lot for the occasional customer who wanted to look at one. They could dust it off every month or two.
They are ramming this EV crap down our throats just like the “debunked” crap about the massive election fraud. If Biden gets in, it will be pedal to the metal to stop making gasoline powered cars and scrap all the machinery and tooling that makes internal combustion engines.
Cadillac has > 900 stores in the US and Lexus about 250.
They have to rationalize the numbers to make enough money at each location.
Dealers probably remember the Cadillac diesel engine fiasco years ago .... probably don’t want to get screwed again.
My Dad dreamed all of his life about one day owning a Cadillac. He finally bought one in his 70s. Turned out to be a glorified Chevy, constantly beset by steering problems, A/C problems, and faulty sensors. I said “Dad, a car that expensive should not require such frequent repairs.” He would just shrug.
In my Dad’s day owning a Cadillac meant you had arrived. Sadly, today it’s just another car and mostly unremarkable.
I don’t know about that.. sounds like it’s mostly dealerships tied to multiple GM brands who sell a very low volume of Cadillacs. Which is the case with a lot of GM brands.. dealers are tied to multiple GM brands.
If I had a dealership that sold GMC, BuIck, Chevy and Cadillac. And GM said spend 200k on upgrades to keep selling Cadillac and my Cadillac volume was a handful or two of Cadillacs a month, I’d take the buyout.. why would I spend 1-5 years of a brands income to my dealership just to keep selling that brand?!? Would be a fool to.
I am sure the dedicated Cadillac dealers will shell out the 200k, but the multi brand dealers where Cadillac is a small volume brand for them, take the buyout.
guess it’s time to get that CTS-V now while I still can huh? My DTS is really comfy to drive
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$200K is not a business killing amount of money for a dealership. They must have been on the fence about Cadillac anyway. Bet they would do it for a Tesla Dealership.
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Dealers starting to Go Galt.
Cadillac quality is so abysmal now, it is far worse than even the bad 70’s. There are some real morons working at Cadillac. The Northstar engine disaster really started the avalanching downhill quality issues.
I expect to see big motion towards Lexus and Acura. The other luxury brands, Cadillac, Mercedes, Rover, Audi, etc will only be able to keep selling overly complex junk with atrocious resale for so long. I already know people who will never buy another VW or BMW after the huge maintenance costs when they get 60K miles and then take a bath trying to trade it in or sell it. Another two people I know just dumped their Range Rover Money Pits for Lexuses.
“Even though EV’s are the wave of the future,”
like in the early 1980s when “everyone knew” oil prices would skyrocket ?
These meatheads are several decades late on this observation...
There hasn't been a "Cadillac" built since 1970... Since that time, environmentalist communists cut off the Cadillac's testicles and it rapidly degenerated into a mislabeled Chevy, Olds, Buick, or Pontiac...
My wife & I owned a 59 Cadillac (used: 61->64), a 62 Cadillac (used: 64-68), a 68 Cadillac (new: 68->76), a 1970 Cadillac (new: 70->75), and a 75 Cadillac (new: 75-80)...
Most people who are looking to buy a Cadillac are one of two demographics, older upper middle class whites (sedan) and lower class black males (SUV).
Both are trouble if they do not feel they got the quality they wanted and paid for.
And electric cars are problems waiting to happen.
Other than the occasional Escalade, Cadillac has been a dead brand for years.
Many of these are coal-fired cars.