It's been a big week for surprise Cadillac CT6 news. Sunday night, the luxury automaker gave the world its first glimpse at the big sedan in a commercial aired uring the Academy Awards. Monday, brand president Johan de Nysschen revealed in an online Q&A that the CT6 will eventually feature an all-new twin-turbo V-8. Now? Well, now de Nysschen has laid bare plans for a new family of V-6 engines that will also debut in the car.
In a last-minute addition to yesterday's Q&A on Jalopnik, it was revealed that GM's luxury brand has a new six-banger up its sleeve: "We have an entirely new family of V-6 engines coming soon, premiering in CT6," de Nysschen said. "We will release technical details of this next month." The latest Cadillac models embrace forced induction to a degree never before seen from the brand—witness the turbo four-cylinder in the ATS and CTS, the twin-turbocharged V-6 in the muscular ATS-V and the CTS Vsport, and the confirmed twin-turbo V-8—so it's possible that the new V-6 will feature the technology, too, although we'll have to wait for the details to be sure.
As always, Cadillac's boss was quite candid in his Q&A chat. What else did he reveal? The CT6 will debut Cadillac's new interior design language, featuring "simplified, horizontal-theme expression to convey openness and a sense of wide space, maybe less brightwork, and a lot of emphasis on instrument-cluster design to convey them as precision instruments of functional and aesthetic beauty." The much-maligned CUE infotainment system will get a hardware update in model-year 2016 and a full redesign "a few years into the future." And the slow-selling ELR will receive "significant technical updates soon," perhaps in line with the redesigned Chevy Volt.
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We'll learn everything about the new CT6 at its world debut at the New York International Auto Show in April. Until then, Johan's tidbits should be just enough to have Cadillac fans on the edges of their seats.
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