Cadillac Ultimate Luxury Concept

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Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
19 Nov 2010
2 min read

Welcome to 2010 because that's wrong on both counts.  Shown at the LA Auto Show is Cadillac's Ultimate Luxury Concept.

Designed in California, the baby hybrid competes in size with the Toyota iQ and yet - says Cadillac - has a cabin with all the company's renown luxury and space parameters.

The four-seater ULC is 3835mm long, 1730mm wide and 1446 high and sits on a 2467mm wheelbase that really puts the wheels at each corner. It is shown with a pair of scissor doors which, if production becomes reality as is being mooted, would be replaced with conventionally-hinged doors.

The cabin's dash features computer LCD screens and projected readouts instead of conventional gauges. Cadillac cabin trim includes wood and leather.

"While small in size, this concept is an exploration of what Cadillac could be in the future, as the brand continues to focus on redefining industry standards for advanced vehicle design and integrated technology,” says Don Butler, vice president for Cadillac marketing.

The ULC has a hybrid powertrain with a 1-litre turbocharged three-cylinder petrol engine - with stop start - and an electric motor to assist propulsion in the same mannr as the Honda Insight/Civic/CR-Z model. It has a twin-clutch gearbox and is claimed to be capable of 3.6 litres/100km on the highway and 4.2 l/100km in the city.

Neil Dowling
Contributing Journalist
GoAutoMedia Cars have been the corner stone to Neil’s passion, beginning at pre-school age, through school but then pushed sideways while he studied accounting. It was rekindled when he started contributing to magazines including Bushdriver and then when he started a motoring section in Perth’s The Western Mail. He was then appointed as a finance writer for the evening Daily News, supplemented by writing its motoring column. He moved to The Sunday Times as finance editor and after a nine-year term, finally drove back into motoring when in 1998 he was asked to rebrand and restyle the newspaper’s motoring section, expanding it over 12 years from a two-page section to a 36-page lift-out. In 2010 he was selected to join News Ltd’s national motoring group Carsguide and covered national and international events, launches, news conferences and Car of the Year awards until November 2014 when he moved into freelancing, working for GoAuto, The West Australian, Western 4WDriver magazine, Bauer Media and as an online content writer for one of Australia’s biggest car groups. He has involved himself in all aspects including motorsport where he has competed in everything from motocross to motorkhanas and rallies including Targa West and the ARC Forest Rally. He loves all facets of the car industry, from design, manufacture, testing, marketing and even business structures and believes cars are one of the few high-volume consumables to combine a very high degree of engineering enlivened with an even higher degree of emotion from its consumers.
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