Cadillac SRX Crossover: GM Introduces New Look

General Motors Corp., on a mission to expand its lineup to include more fuel-efficient offerings, will introduce a new Cadillac crossover at the Detroit auto show next week. It replaces the SRX model, first launched in 2004.

To help compete with better-selling rivals like Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus RX, Honda Motor Co.'s Acura MDX and BMW AG's X3 and X5, the SRX's designers incorporated elements from other Cadillac models. The new SRX looks faster than its boxy predecessor, with a curving roofline and a more rounded nose that still retains an aggressive look.

The crossover, which melds the characteristics of a car and an SUV, will be powered by a six-cylinder engine new to the brand.

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Comments

[GerryS]

I can hardly wait to run out and buy 2 with my tax refund this year, NOT!

my 2003 honda accord is going to go for many more miles/ years before it gets replaced, and it will not get replaced with a piece of american heavy metal kr_ap-----­----------

[jerrypl]

WHY? What is wrong with GM? How many luxury gas hogs do they need to try and sell? 17 miles per gallon? So what!!! 25 mpg with a hybrid engine. So what! The executives at GM need to be fired and the company nationalized, restructured, and remade with a new vision of reform. How many of these new cars will sit on the dealer lots for a year?

http://eye-on-washington.blogspot.com

[Tom95134]

This is may be the single reason GM should be allowed to die. They are still out there pushing BIG cars and virtual SUVs into a market that simply isn't interested. Of course, they'll put some tiny little effort into hybrid but they're still not listening.

[Jackalheadedgod]

It is very American looking, which seems appropriate. It is most likely a terrific vehicle - not for everyone, mind you, but an expression of US manufacturing excellence available to those with the means. Let's not get all het yup because its not the new American Trabant, ferchrissakes.

Cheers,
Jack

[ObjectiveRealist]

I'd rather buy an EV2

[dandypuddin]

25 mpg highway. For Detroit, I guess that's progress.

This late in the game, we need all our cars to be around 50-60 mpg. We just won't give up our fat cars no matter what.

[RuthlessDictator]

As far as styling goes, I believe the Cadillac brand is one of the few things GM did right. Since the introduction of the CTS Cadillac finally has some smartly styled and unique looking products that I would actually be proud to own if I could afford one.

Too bad they still mostly rely on the V8 engine which is just overkill these days.

[GerryS]

buttugly--------

[jp5472]

You're kidding...­this is a joke, right? If maybe 65 or older! Those car's are butt ugly, and just how many Caddy's can grandma and granpa afford? What BS. Cadillac has been irrelevant just about my whole lifetime. So they sell a few Escalades to multi-millionaire hip hoppers and athletes.

[RuthlessDictator]

Perhaps I should have been more clear in my post...

I said SOME smartly styled and unique products. The Escalade is NOT one of those!

[MajorKong]

In the current economy I don't see that many people lining up to buy a $40,000+ station wagon.

[Teri]

wrong! this is exactly what i have been waiting for and can't wait to get my hands on it. i am buying american and helping to support detroit! thanks to barack obama! go america, go caddy!

[MajorKong]

Will you be getting the wood paneling on the side?

[MadamRoma]

Beautiful car, would love to have one, has class leading fuel economy...­..... Caddy does it again.

[JScott]

Call it for what it is a Cadillac Station Wagon.....­.next wood paneling on the side.....s­hades of the Country Squire!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KillTheMessenger]

:-)

[KillTheMessenger]

1) It's incredibly ugly.

2) For that kind of money one could buy a real car.

3) Who cares?

And that's about as much as this one is worth spending time on.

[tbirdalum]

But, does it park itself? I guess mpg is about 8? It better be big enough to live in.

[harriettubman]

To pay $46,000 for a car is ridiculous, especially these days.

[cayuse]

I underestand they are down 24% as is BMW, et al. The people have no money in their hands because of jobs, wages and over extention.

The rest of us all have fast cars that get 25 mpg or Big Trucks that haul and pull.

They need to drop their prices by 1/2 to sell something no one needs.

Otherwise give me speed and power with at least 30 mpg

[Viper]

Well if you want to work for 1.25 a day like in China, then they can cut the cost in half...

Regards

[cayuse]

More complicated than that. Wall Mart is subsidising the cheap merchandise with fuel consumption.

This equity means people not wearing cheap T-Shirts subsidise them every time the go to the pump. The result of manipulated and monopolied unfree MARKETS

[KillTheMessenger]

Please hire 100 EE and CS engineers for $1.25 a day in China for me. I want to start my own business.

Cheers.