How Cadillac Advances Driving Tech

Cadillac stands out as an artisan of luxurious automobiles that envelop their passengers in premium materials and comfortable amenities. The manufacturer’s commitment to indulging driver desires transforms your road experience with multiple breakthrough technologies.

Eyes on the Road, Hand Off the Wheel

Cadillac Super Cruise™ makes your trips safer by delivering smart assists that encourage hands-free driving on compatible highways. It relies on services like precision LiDAR mapping, radar sensors, in-vehicle, cameras, GPS, and OnStar® to monitor your surroundings.

The technology centers the car in your lane, so you maintain a steady path. It then uses Advanced Adaptive Cruise Control to maintain the following gap between you and the next vehicle by automatically adjusting your speed as traffic conditions change.

Enjoying Infotainment

The Cadillac User Experience (CUE) offers convenient access to information, communications, and entertainment through the following:

• Personal Home Page. Customize the home page to save the apps that you prefer, show saved navigation locations, and keep track of your favorite radio stations.

• Voice Command. If you want a break from tapping and swiping on the dashboard screen, speak your commands to play music, make phone calls, or find destinations. This technology relies on dual microphones to clearly discern your commands and can recognize the differences among multiple voices.

• Smartphone Integration. By supporting Apple CarPlay™ and Android Auto™, CUE integrates your compatible smartphone, enabling you to use the infotainment system to activate selected apps, answer calls, listen to dictated text messages, and stream your music files. You can also access your phone contact list and save new contacts to the list located in the vehicle.

• Navigation. You can search for points of interest or addresses using Natural Voice Recognition and re-route your trips on the go if you discover interesting places on the way. Use natural gestures to zoom and wipe on the colorful 3D map, which can integrate available Doppler weather reports.

• Custom Settings. User profiles, which are saved in the cloud, can customize settings to whoever takes the wheel. Up to 60 of your favorite songs, places of interest, Pandora channels, and more can be stored. It learns your behaviors, such as the routes you like to take and your favorite destinations, to suggest turn-by-turn directions adjusted for traffic. It can also personalize the driving alerts that appear on your Head-Up Display.

• Convenient Updates. Your CUE system will always have the latest features. It automatically informs you of any available software updates, which you can then download and install using the available built-in hotspot.

More Tech

Among the additional innovations are the following:

• The MyCadillac App that prompts you to remotely control your vehicle from any place that you can use your smartphone. It lets you lock or unlock doors, start the engine, check vehicle diagnostics, set parking reminders, and send directions to the on-board navigation system.

• You can forget about wires and ports when powering up your compatible smartphone. Just lay it on the Wireless Charging pad, which juices up your device whenever your vehicle is running.

• The available built-in 4G LTE Wi-Fi® hotspot allows simultaneous connections for up to seven devices from up to 50 feet away.

• Exciting your musical appreciation is the Bose® Panaray sound system that produces 360-degree audio from 34 speakers strategically positioned to take advantage of cabin acoustics.

Enhancing Performance

The innovations available with your Cadillac extend to more than fascinating interfaces and gadgets. They also include the following advances that are felt rather than seen.

• Magnetic Ride Control: By checking your driving conditions up to 1,000 a second, it can almost instantly adapt the suspension to changes in road and weather conditions, so that you always get the smoothest ride.

• Responsive Braking: To provide superior stopping power, your vehicle can contain fixed-caliper Brembo® brakes and vented rotors with six pistons for the front and four pistons for the rear.

• All-Wheel Drive with Active Torque Technology: This feature intelligently stabilizes handling and optimizes traction to maximize your control under all driving conditions.

• Electronic: Limited Slip Differential: When you corner, power automatically diverts to the rear wheel with the most grip on the road to give you the most control and the fastest exit speeds

• Fusion Frame: By fusing 13 high-strength steel and aluminum castings into a single lightweight form, your vehicle benefits from a rigid frame that enhances quiet without the added weight of sound-insulating materials.

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This is our first look at Cadillac’s smallest sedan, the 2020 CT4, and it breaks cover in the best way possible: by wearing a V-Series badge. That is because its power comes from a 2.7-liter turbo-four engine that generates 320 horsepower and 369 lb-ft of torque.

The high-output engine, which is likely related to the four-cylinder option in the Chevrolet Silverado, features a unique three-step sliding camshaft that helps optimize performance at all speeds. It is mated to a 10-speed automatic transmission. No manual option, but you do get paddle shifters.

The CT4 slots below the also-new CT5 sedan, which in turn replaces the ATS and CTS. On the eve of the Detroit Grand Prix, Cadillac decided to blow some high-octane by revealing the V-Series versions of both the CT4 and CT5.

Although we have seen the regular CT5 before, this was our first look at the smaller, more nimble car. Details of the base CT4 are promised in about a month.

And there will also be a track version of the CT4-V with details to come soon. This will be a V-Series strategy going forward, an affordable V and a track V. The first two vehicles to adopt this strategy are the CT5-V and CT4-V. The CT6-V has only one level, but it’s a doozy with the new 550-hp, 627-lb-ft Blackwing V-8 engine.

(Source: Motortrend)

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General Motors’ Spring Hill, Tennessee plant rolled the first 2020 Cadillac XT6 off of the assembly line on Thursday. It is predicted to share a platform with the new XT5, as well as the C1 architecture. 

The 2020 Cadillac XT6 finally begins to fill out Cadillac’s crossover lineup, which has long been only the XT5 mid-size crossover and the full-size Escalade SUV. The XT4 arrived last year as the brand’s first entry into the compact-ish segment (the XT4 is a bit of an in-betweener size wise), and the XT6 represents a mid-size-plus offering to bridge the gap between the XT5 and Escalade.

The 2020 XT6 will reach dealers later this year and orders will open this spring.

(Source: GM Authority)

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The 2019 Cadillac XT4 has officially launched, and Jessup Auto Plaza is the place to get yours today. 

Cadillac says it’s aiming the XT4 at the entry-luxury, compact crossover set, though it feels at least a half-size bigger than any of those vehicles. The Cadillac team says it focused on providing more usable interior volume than the competitive set, and indeed, the XT4’s 39.5 inches of rear seat legroom beats all the players mentioned here, and its 22.5 cu-ft of cargo space with rear seats up, 48.9 with them down is better than most. What Cadillac is doing is offering a C-segment crossover for the base MSRP of what other high-end brands are charging for noticeably smaller product.

The base Luxury model checks in at $35,790 to start and features aluminum-color interior accents, leatherette seats, and satin aluminum exterior trim. For $40,290, buyers can veer either to the with the Sport or Premium Luxury trims. Choose the Sport path, and you get carbon-fiber interior and gloss black exterior trim, body color door handles, leatherette seats with sport accents, carbon-fiber or wood interior trim, a thicker steering wheel and unique pedals, and gloss black roof rails among other features. Premium Luxury takers get leather seats, wood or aluminum interior trim, satin aluminum exterior trim and roof rails, and nickel-finish door handles. Both upscale trims also receive front and rear park assist, lane change and side blind zone alerts, and rear cross traffic systems. A power lift gate, driver’s seat memory, and an auto-dimming interior rear-view mirror are also part of the Premium Luxury package.

The XT4s are equipped with the optional all-wheel drive system. Switching between FWD and AWD is seamless, but it takes a few seconds to complete. In FWD mode on dry pavement, a firm boot of throttle from a stop led to a bit of wheel spin and light torque steer, while the XT4 moved out confidently under heavy acceleration in AWD mode.

(Source: GMAuthority, AutomobileMag)

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General Motors is investing $175 million in a mid-Michigan plant to build two of Cadillac’s next-generation sedans.

GM, according to a spokeswoman, has already begun installing new tooling and equipment at the Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant, which now builds the Cadillac ATS compact and CTS midsize cars and Chevrolet Camaro.
The new Cadillac sedans — expected to be named CT5 and CT4 — will eventually replace the ATS, CTS and XTS large sedan in Cadillac’s car lineup.
GM plans to discontinue Cadillac ATS sedan output after the 2018 model year.

Production of the CT5 is expected to begin in 2019, followed shortly after by the CT4. The two cars are part of an extensive overhaul of the brand’s lineup that will include a new vehicle, on average, every six months through 2021.
The latest investment comes two years after GM invested $211 million to support tooling and equipment and a 32,000-square-foot addition to the body shop for future Cadillac sedans.

GM has spent $464 million in manufacturing for Cadillac vehicles in the past two years. Other major investments have taken place to expand Cadillac Escalade capacity and build the first-ever Cadillac XT4 and XT5 crossovers.
The new crossovers are expected to boost Cadillac’s U.S. sales, which fell 8 percent in 2017. Globally, Cadillac sales — led by China — increased 16 percent to 356,467 last year.

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General Motors C.. is expanding the use of its high-tech Super Cruise system, which allows drivers to drive hands-free on the highway in the Cadillac CT6 to the brand’s entire lineup starting in 2020 and later to other GM brands. 

Super Cruise is “a feature that customers routinely come into dealerships asking about, shopping for, and specifically ordering,” Mark Reuss, GM’s product chief said, “making it available in every Cadillac on the showroom floor just makes sense.”

Cadillac is also rolling out V2X communication technology in a “high volume crossover” by 2023. Cadillac just revealed its first-ever compact SUV, the XT4, at the New York auto show in March. 

V2X is an industry term for “vehicle to everything” communication. It’s thought to be the next step in automotive safety systems, allowing a car to communicate with everything from infrastructure to the smart phone in a pedestrian’s pocket. 

“Cadillac is proud to be the leader for the company’s innovation, Steve Carlisle, Cadillac’s new president, said in a statement. “Groundbreaking technologies like these continue to provide unparalleled comfort and convenience for our customers.”

Super Cruise debuted on the 2018 Cadillac CT6, designed to fight Tesla’s Auto Pilot system and marking the first driver assist system to use precision LiADR map data and real-time cameras, sensors and GPS to guide the vehicle. 

The system is also more conservative than Tesla’s system, using facial recognition to monitors the driver’s attentiveness. If a driver is completely unresponsive, the CT6 will come to a controlled stop and OnStar will alert rescue personnel. Super Cruise requires an active OnStar service plan with emergency services.

GM Cruise has been developing self-driving Chevrolet Bolts, known as Cruise AVs, in San Francisco since 206. GM debuted its production ready Cruise AV without a steering wheel or pedals ahead of the Detroit show in January.

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Cadillac’s newest crossover, the XT4, will make its world debut in the Big Apple in March as part of the New York auto show.

Cadillac on Friday said the compact crossover will be introduced March 27 — ahead of press previews for the show — at Cadillac House, the brand’s global headquarters in Manhattan.

The XT4 will give Cadillac a second crossover in a U.S. market that is shifting away from the sedans that dominate the brand’s current lineup. It is also expected to boost Cadillac sales in China, the brand’s biggest market.

U.S. sales of compact luxury crossovers rose 5.6 percent to 379,711 units last year, making it one of the biggest luxury vehicle segments.

Cadillac’s U.S. sales slipped 8 percent to 156,440 cars and light trucks in 2017.

The XT4 is the first of five major vehicle introductions that Cadillac has planned through the end of 2020.

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