The death of Cadillac’s planned “halo” car has been exaggerated. There’ve been several widely discussed stories over the past few days suggesting that Cadillac
has given up on a planned $100,000 “show-stopper,” possibly based on the Cadillac Ciel concept vehicle because General Motors bean-counters couldn’t pencil in an appropriate business
case to justify the necessary investment. TheDetroitBureau.com has been advised that, indeed, a “large luxury” model has been scrapped from the Cadillac plan. But several sources have
stressed that the decision had more to do with the potential for that specific design than anything else.
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