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Cadillac...the brand that can do no wrong!...lol
I've come to believe that no matter what happens at GM/gm they have plenty of previous statements and plans that will validate any circumstance as if "that's what we've said all along"...."All EV by _____!". Well, no, that was just an aspiration! (if it doesn't happen) and we did just as we said! If it does, or comes close.
So, I don't put much stock into anything much they say will or won't happen. In Cadillac's case, what an odyssey...Move the hq to NY., oops, well move it back....Let's market model names after neuton weights or whatever the hell...lol...Let's bring back the old legacy names, let's not!...etc.
I always argued that Cadillac needed the Camaro more than the other way around to keep that assembly line viable. But Camaro (which sold more, gone!) and Caddys from that same line, still going!
I think gm realized finally that some sales are better than none. Experts at ending existing lines like Impala, Cruz, Bolt, Camaro....but not so much at starting up new ones. What I used to believe that these decisions took years of planning and were written in stone on what to build and discontinue, now it seems like gm's plans are month-to-month on what to build. Ev-ICE_..now Hy-brid!! Although perhaps we are witnessing more aspirational lip-service again "just in case".
The rationale for ending the Camaro was more applicable to Cadillac, yet it's always Cadillac that soldiers on unfettered.
I think Cadillac is gm's Mustang. It will continue regardless of sales or popularity, or cash bleeding.
Mary and gm can't end everything that is currently in production. They have to sell something.
My $.02.
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