Cadillac Is Switching to New Torque-Based Engine Badging
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Are the digits behind LS, 3 and C torque numbers? Or do they represent where in the model range those cars sit?
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So clearly with the move to smaller engines, the marketing departments don't like the image that reducing the numbers represents. So, just like Caddy's torque numbering system, it's more about marketing than anything else.
It's not deception; it's marketing. Whether it's smart or dumb--well, we can keep debating that.
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No more so than the Buick Lacrosse isn't built in Lacrosse, or that you can't really "scale a fortified walls using ladders, as a form of military attack" in an Escalade. It's a name.
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Just because the naming convention originally represented engine size, but no longer does across the board doesn't make it "misleading".
No more so than the Buick Lacrosse isn't built in Lacrosse, or that you can't really "scale a fortified walls using ladders, as a form of military attack" in an Escalade. It's a name.
No more so than the Buick Lacrosse isn't built in Lacrosse, or that you can't really "scale a fortified walls using ladders, as a form of military attack" in an Escalade. It's a name.
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It was the American system of mass-produced automobiles, using English measurements and developed by Henry Ford, that made mass-ownership of vehicles possible. The later European/Japanese systems, using metric measurements, were essentially copycats.
What we learned was that the American public did not want the change. Some things, though, were still forced on them, like the engine displacement in liters instead of the former cubic inches, and tire size in millimeters/inches combined. Nuts and bolts, scattered throughout the vehicles, became a hodgepodge combination of both English and metric sizes, often on the same vehicle. It was a mess that IMO should never have happened, as we should have kept the (former) all-English measurements.
What we learned was that the American public did not want the change. Some things, though, were still forced on them, like the engine displacement in liters instead of the former cubic inches, and tire size in millimeters/inches combined. Nuts and bolts, scattered throughout the vehicles, became a hodgepodge combination of both English and metric sizes, often on the same vehicle. It was a mess that IMO should never have happened, as we should have kept the (former) all-English measurements.
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Cute but not accurate, when it comes to the GMC Acadia: the XT6 is 5.2 inches longer, 1.9 inches wider, 2.9 inches taller, with a wheelbase that’s 0.2 inches longer. The XT6 has wider tracks – 1.9 inches in the front and 1.7 in the rear. And, Electric vehicles are coming much sooner than 25 yrs from now
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Before we get into the nitty gritty, let’s set a baseline to better understand what we’re dealing with here. All of the models that are part of this Dimensional Comparison are based on the GM C1 platform (pronounced “Chi”). However, there are three different versions of the C1 architecture. The first is the original, short-wheelbase version. This one has a wheelbase of 112.5 inches and underpins the Cadillac XT5 and the second-generation GMC Acadia. The second is the long-wheelbase version with a wheelbase of 120.9 inches. This one underpins the second iterations of the Chevrolet Traverse and Buick Enclave. And that brings us to the third C1 platform variant.The third version is based on the original, short-wheelbase version of C1, but with a few minor improvements, the most notable of which (on paper) is the addition of 0.2 inches to the wheelbase. It’s this platform that the Cadillac XT6 is based on.