{"id":23563,"date":"2019-03-20T16:33:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=23563"},"modified":"2019-03-20T16:41:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:41:03","slug":"cadillacs-cts-sedan-gets-a-refresh-and-new-name-the-ct5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/cadillacs-cts-sedan-gets-a-refresh-and-new-name-the-ct5","title":{"rendered":"Cadillac’s CTS sedan gets a refresh and new name \u2013 the CT5"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cadillac introduced a renamed and reskinned\u00a0mid-size\u00a0sedan Monday as the brand reboots under a new president, a new Warren headquarters and a youthful\u00a0marketing campaign.<\/p>\n

The car formerly known as the CTS now carries the CT5 badge, another step in Cadillac’s new\u00a0alphanumeric\u00a0system for cars beginning with the CT6 sedan. A CT4 replacing the ATS small sedan is expected\u00a0this year.<\/p>\n

The bones of the CT5 remain the same, but the sedan gets\u00a0a major cosmetic refresh inside and out. Exterior panels are all new as the CT5 adopts the design cues of the Escala concept car that has wowed auto show audiences. Inside, the plush CT5 adopts a monostable shifter now common in Cadillacs (and the Chevy Bolt EV), as well as a console-based rotary infotainment\u00a0controller first seen in the XT6.<\/p>\n

The rotary controller allows drivers the\u00a0ability to access the screen by touch or remote. It’s\u00a0a significant\u00a0shift away from the haptic-touch CUE\u00a0system that alienated some\u00a0customers in the last-generation\u00a0car.<\/p>\n

The CTS was a historic car for Cadillac in 2003\u00a0when it replaced the Catera mid-size sedan and signaled Caddy’s shift away from conventional nameplates and toward a more athletic brand competing head-on with German brands like BMW and Audi.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0striking appearance and ambitious technology of the third-generation CTS earned it the 2013 Detroit News Vehicle of the Year award. The performance\u00a0V-series trim of the current CTS has the same\u00a0640-horse 6.2-liter supercharged V-8 as the Corvette Z06 track monster.<\/p>\n

The 2020 CT5 will be available with a 2.0-liter turbo-4 or a twin-turbo\u00a03.0-liter V-6. A V-series performance variant\u00a0will likely follow.<\/p>\n

The CT5 follows the XT6 in\u00a0adopting Cadillac’s new nomenclature that highlights the car’s torque. (Torque is the low-end pulling power of a motor).<\/p>\n

Determined to familiarize a new generation<\/a>\u00a0of customers with the brand’s transition to electric cars \u2014 Cadillac is promising 20 EVs by 2023, and electric cars have\u00a0\u00a0prodigious torque under acceleration)\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the\u00a0rear of the CT5 will carry a badge with with the metric newton-meter measurement of torque.<\/p>\n

“We\u00a0have a foot in two worlds,” says Cadillac President Steve Carlisle, referring to the brand’s near-term push to sell more gas-powered SUVs while it develops a new, electrified platform for next decade.<\/p>\n

Once a leader in plug-in hybrid technology, GM is abandoning that strategy for an all-electric future paced by its first EV crossover targeted for 2022.<\/p>\n

The reveal of the CT5 comes\u00a0via Cadillac’s YouTube channel, a first for the brand as it\u00a0seeks to appeal to a younger demographic with technology, music, and electrification. A video series title the “Sensory Symphony” will tease the CT5 leading up to the vehicle’s coming out party at the New York Auto Show on April 17.<\/p>\n

The videos use so-called “autonomous sensory meridian response” or\u00a0ASMR technology\u00a0 \u2014 which causes the skin of some listeners to tingle \u2014 to bring the car’s sounds\u00a0to life. The videos\u00a0follow a series of Cadillac ads<\/a>\u00a0featuring Childish Gambino to introduce its XT6 SUV at the Oscars.<\/p>\n

“We’re going back to the musical part of our heritage that we feel resonates with females and youth,” said Carlisle.<\/p>\n

The CT5 comes to market as the brand’s sedan halo, the CT6, is apparently heading out to pasture. The CT6 is in production until next January, after which its Hamtramck production facility is scheduled to idle.<\/p>\n

The CT5 will be built at GM\u2019s Lansing Grand River facility, which recently received an infusion of $211 million.<\/p>\n

Caddy’s new sedan will be offered in a Premium or Sport trim, with the Sport distinguished by a black-out, mesh grille. More refinement\u00a0can be added through a Platinum package for both\u00a0models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cadillac introduced a renamed and reskinned\u00a0mid-size\u00a0sedan Monday as the brand reboots under a new president, a new Warren headquarters and a youthful\u00a0marketing campaign. The car formerly known as the CTS now carries the CT5 badge, another step in Cadillac’s new\u00a0alphanumeric\u00a0system for cars beginning with the CT6 sedan. A CT4 replacing the ATS small sedan is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}