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Cadillac Is Buying Out Dealers That Don’t Want To Modernize In Order To Compete With Tesla

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Last year, Cadillac started offering its dealers cash in return for giving up their franchise rights if they didn’t want to be a part of the new automotive industry that includes electric vehicles. In other words, invest the funds to modernize your dealerships or get out of the industry. Many chose to take the money […].

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GM Dealers Want Hybrids Instead of More EVs

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Cadillac and Buick dealers accepted buyouts in large numbers to avoid making investments to sell EVS, and now the automaker’s dealers are pushing it to develop more hybrids instead of releasing new electric models. The company understands its dealers’ concerns but has not detailed plans to offer such products.

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Junkyard Find: 1995 Cadillac Sedan DeVille St. Tropez Edition

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Tropez Edition Cadillacs shows that most originated with dealers in Florida. Cadillac would sell you a seventh-generation (1994-1999) DeVille with a full vinyl roof for $925 extra (about $1,888 in 2024 dollars), but this one is Full Floridian. What kind of loser would buy a Lincoln Town Car instead of a Sedan DeVille?

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Cadillac Lyriq AWD recalled for potential brake failure

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General Motors is recalling 2023-2024 Cadillac Lyriq electric SUVs over potential unexpected activation of anti-lock braking systems (ABS). 2023 Cadillac Lyriq GM opened an investigation into the issue in May following two reports of “minor accidents” alleged to be the result of brake failure.

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Cadillac Celestiq will start with hefty price tag of $340,000

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When General Motors unveiled the Cadillac Celestiq last year, we were told it would be 18 feet long, pack 300 miles of range, have an impressive 0-60 MPH acceleration rate of just 3.8 The post Cadillac Celestiq will start with hefty price tag of $340,000 appeared first on TESLARATI. seconds, and start at $300,000. I’d love to chat!

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Time To Buy? New Vehicle Inventories And Incentives Are Up

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After several years of swelling vehicle prices and tragically lean inventories, the market has reached a point where dealer lots are getting full and consumers are becoming disinclined to go into quite so much debt in order to purchase a new automobile. Everything is relative in the world of car buying.

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Abandoned History: Cadillac's Northstar V8, Head Bolts and Gaskets Aplenty (Part I)

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and bring Cadillac back into the luxury fray: Northstar. The Seventies and Eighties were not kind to the domestic luxury manufacturers, namely Cadillac and Lincoln (Chrysler ceased to be a luxury car maker after the full-size C-bodies of 1978.) The General had an all-new, much better V8 that would trounce the 4.9

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