Some time ago, brands such as Ford and Mercedes-Benz issued announcements saying that they canceled the comprehensive electric planning of the previous brand, and many ** began to render that the leaders of these world car companies are not engaged in trams, and some people with ulterior motives directly said that "only China is still playing trams in the future", these voices are intensifying, forcing Mercedes-Benz to stand up directly in recent days to refute rumors, saying that Mercedes-Benz is only canceling full electrification, and following the policy of double entry of trams and gasoline cars in a short period of time, rather than directly abandoning trams.
In fact, "petrol and electricity parallelism" has become a long-term strategy for many foreign brands, and they will never ignore trams and let Tesla and a large number of Chinese tram companies continue to grow. Cadillac, as a traditional luxury brand, will also continue to make efforts in trams in 2024.
From the point of view of **, Cadillac has prepared a total of four new cars this year, which are: the new OptiQ, the facelifted XT5, the new six-seater new energy, and the facelifted XT6. Among them, there are exactly two oil cars and two trams, which shows that Cadillac still maintains an attitude of not giving up on trams.
Cadillac IQ Proud Song.
The new Optiq Chinese name should be Aoge, and its big brother "Lyriq" (Lyriq) is the same as the Aoteneng intelligent electric platform, as Cadillac's second pure electric model, Aoge actually carries Cadillac's hope to open the tram market.
Judging from last year's performance, Ruige has to say that it is a relatively failure, the more it sold in the first half of last year, it even came up with 42 units in June, even if Cadillac carried out a wave of 60,000 **, Ruige's overall situation in the second half of the year was relatively average, and it also took out 686 units in September, and then declined rapidly, and returned to more than 100 units in November, and in 2023, the cumulative sales of Ruige are less than 7000 units.
Although Aoge is a medium and large SUV, but the overall positioning is lower than the Ruige model, the new car length, width and height are 4822 1912 1643mm, wheelbase 2954mm, slightly larger than Tesla Model Y, the overall appearance and interior design is similar to Ruige, almost a smaller version, of course, Aoge will also be the smallest model in the Cadillac pure electric series.
In addition, the single motor is divided into high and low power, with 150kw and 180kw, and the four-wheel drive version is equipped with 143kw + 68kw front and rear dual motor combination, at the same time, there are three kinds of mileage in the endurance, respectively615km, 536km and 600km, corresponding to 797kwh、68.4kwh & 797kwh battery pack. It is expected that the price will be controlled at about 300,000 yuan, and China will meet us at the Beijing Auto Show in April.
The all-new XT5 has been sold for eight years, and this new generation is actually very necessary and an important step for Cadillac to continue to expand sales. The new generation of XT5 has been reported by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, let's take a look at the changes made by the new XT5.
In terms of appearance, the XT5 uses Cadillac's latest design language, including the shield-shaped large-mouth grille on the front face, and the split headlights that are staggered horizontally and vertically, making the XT5 more recognizable. In addition to the appearance, the new generation XT5 has a lot of changes in size, the length, width and height (4888 1957 1694mm) have increased compared with the old model, and the wheelbase of 2863mm has also increased by 6mm, and the new car is a full circle larger than the old car.
As for the power, there is little change, and it is still equipped with the model number LXH 2The 0T engine has a maximum power of 230 horsepower, and the transmission is matched with a 9AT gearbox. However, the price of the new car will definitely be more than 300,000, but considering the offline discount, the new generation XT5 will soon be able to achieve about 270,000, and the cost performance is still relatively high.
XT6 with a new six-seater tram.
Because the release time of these two cars is still relatively far away, there is not much information to talk about. Last year, there were many sources that the XT6 was clearing the inventory, and even the two-wheel drive version was only left with the luxury version to buy, and many people thought that Cadillac would stop updating the XT6 and instead make the XT6 an electric car.
Subsequently, foreign media revealed that the pure electric version of Cadillac XT6 has been photographed as a camouflage car, and it is confirmed that Cadillac will discontinue the news of XT6, but now from the planning point of view, XT6 will not be discontinued, and will be updated in 2024, and the pure electric version of XT6 that has been rendered before is actually another new six-seater tram of Cadillac, and it is likely to be VISTIQ.
VISTIQ as Cadillac's pure electric SUV, positioning higher than LYRIQ Ruige, can be seen as a three-row seat version of Ruige, of course, in terms of size data must be stronger than Ruige, but because this car will be released in the second half of the year, so there is really not much information, we can only speculate from the "600 E4" badge on the rear that it will use the same dual-motor four-wheel drive system as the American version of Ruige four-wheel drive model, with a maximum horsepower of 610 Nm.
This year, Cadillac's four new cars have gasoline and electricity, which can be described as a heavy blow, but I don't know if these two trams can turn over the hurdle of Ruige, if there are still dozens of units per month, maybe Cadillac will overturn the existing established tram plan like Mercedes-Benz Ford.