Posted on 05/23/2014 6:54:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Cadillac ELR has been on sale for just five months, but General Motors is now offering dealers a $5,000 incentive to offer test drives in the Chevrolet Volt-based plug-in hybrid. To receive the incentive, dealers have until June 2 to designate ELRs in their current inventory as test vehicles, after which each test car has to log a minimum of 750 test-drive miles.
The incentives could be because 1,700 ELR coupes remained unsold in dealer inventories at the end of April. At current sales rates, that’s a 725-day supply, which is almost exactly two years’ worth of cars.
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
Can I see said Honda’s/Buicks? TIA...
its a 75,000 dollar car.. what did they expect?
If that’s the same car from the commercial with the business-y guy who was acting like a total jerk...well no wonder!
Granted, he was speaking about how great it is that Americans have (had?) this go-get-it attitude and the commercial was very pro-US. Still, they could’ve done it without the guy making Americans sound like egotistical so-and-so’s
N’est pas?
half the cost of the caddy..
Whatever possessed GM to rebrand a Volt with the Cadillac insignia? Do they really think the Prius owners will switch? That’s just stupid.
It’s a Volt with a higher luxury package. If they priced it in the 40s, it migjt move. At over 70,000 folks will just get a Tesla.
Actually the distinctive appearance of a cadillac is the only thing that sets it apart from the rest.
For that kind of cash a person could buy a BMW or a Audi.
If I had that kind of cash A FJ Cruiser would be in my parking spot.
It has the same engine and drive train as the Volt?
That’s how you interpreted that commercial? Ok...
If the company as a whole operated with that mentality I’d buy one of their vehicles yesterday. As it stands it was just a (very appealing) marketing ploy.
For less money they offer the 2014 CTS-V COUPE with 556 horse power.
Exact same. The only difference is what they set on top of the chassis and drivetrain.
etc
Sorry about the size ... I don't know how to reduce them ... not that they're already reduced
(good pun)
I disagree. I really, REALLY hate Government Motors, but that car looks really nice.
But art is subjective. :-)
Frankly, I’d like to have the Cadillac in the movie “The Island”.
Well, it is "the Cadillac of hybrids."
I don’t have TV, but someone on facebook had a post showing that commercial and the toyota response. After I watched both, I mentally imagined telling the granola cruncher in the Toyota commercial that works in “compost” that if it were not for guys like the guy in the Cadillac commercial, her hybrid Toyota would be a two wheeled cart pulled by an ox.
What did they expect?
SUBSIDIES.
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