Comments on: GM may pull Cadillac from Euro markets

By: Cupid Stunt

Cupid Stunt — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:23:50 +0000

No diesels no sales simple ill-thought out plan by incompetant management overseas.
Take Subaru – they were not getting anywhere without diesel donks not they have one sales are picking up, same with Honda, Mazda, Suzuki. What an obvious error to make.
However the 1.9 Tdi engine in the BLS was good enough and IMO is better than Fords diesel in the Mondo.

By: Harley Stone

Harley Stone — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:06:33 +0000

The past decades GM has failed to offer they buyers something like reliability, a history, a proven performance. The throw cars on the markets, then they withdraw again, then they try others and again withdraw.
The biggest mistake however was to employ Kroymans who completely overprized the cars. The new Caddies are absolutely great, by the way.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:19:28 +0000

Phil, I’m talking from a marketing/sales point of view. Most cars sold in Europe are small cars. Not many people there drive large V8s or V6s. WHat I tried to say is, it woudl be a sales failure.

By: Phill

Phill — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:06:59 +0000

Dan – GM Corvette and the FORD GT,finished 1st and 2nd in 08 GT3 a European series full of European Exotics.Funny how people are quick to point out how crap american cars are but in 08 they beat all the Euros at there own game and on there own Turf.LONG LIVE U.S CAR MAKERS.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:51:08 +0000

Who’d want a yank tank in Europe anyway? Sounds like a stupid idea to begin with.

By: Wheelnut

Wheelnut — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:10:25 +0000

IMHO – Apart from the “Northstar” Quad-Cam 320Bhp V8 Engines [500 Bhp Supercharged] there really isn’t anything about Cadilac that warrants their survival

GM have said that as part of their restructure; they’re going to focus on designing and building cars that have a more “international” appeal – so they can be sold in more countries etc. If that’s the case then why not Keep Saab and ditch Cadillac [Caddie-Yuck]?

By: Myke

Myke — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:47:15 +0000

Richo, size-wise the CTS is more a 5-series/E-class competitor, it is just priced at the high end 3-series/C-class area. I know its a very good car but Cadillac need a vehicle much smaller (BLS sized) car with RWD and adding a diesel in the mix wouldn’t hurt either.

Also I don’t think GM can do a Toyota and create a brand out of no where, they are overcrowded enough with the amount of brands they currently have: Chevrolet, Pontiac, Buick, Cadillac, Hummer, Saab, GMC, Saturn and that is just in the US.

By: onepoppa

onepoppa — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:44:49 +0000

If anyone is interested, the 100 Cadillacs which were to be the launch stock for Australia were sold as a batch to a New Zealand purchaser.

By: Richo

Richo — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:17:25 +0000

Myke – you mean like the Cadillac CTS? Which in every review I have read has stated that it is every bit the 3 series / C class competitor…

Alex – I agree, the problem was the lack of diesel’s pure and simple

Personally I think there is too much stigma attached to the cadillac brand, GM would be much better off doing what Toyota did with Lexus and launch a brand new prestige brand that doesn’t have any pre-existing stigma’s and base the brand around the kind of state of the art technology that GM have proven every now and then they are actually capable of, just for some reason they keep taking the easy roads which really sh!ts me.

Problem is GM is years and years and years away from thinking about doing something like that because they have to drag themselfs out of the current mess they are in if they want to try and do that, which they won’t because in true GM / USA fasion, it will all just go into the “too hard” basket.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:08:47 +0000

Good riddance. Why on earth did Cadillac launch in Europe without good diesel engines? That’s what will have ruined it for them. And at the end of the day, the only one that had much chance in Europe was the BLS and that’s just a Saab 9-3 that looks worse and drives slightly worse as well. They never had a chance is what I’m trying to say. They could have, but like basically everything that’s going wrong at GM right now, it’s their own fault.