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The Cadillac CT5 was unveiled at the Cadillac Center in Beijing on October 20. the medium and large luxury car starts at less than 300000 yuan, carries 20 standard features, and will be delivered to customers across the country this year.

The Cadillac CT5 has launched two versions: the fashion version and the sports version, which uses the design language of the ESCALA concept car in appearance, in which the forward air grille in the fashion version adopts dot matrix, and the sports version uses honeycomb type. Compared with the previous generation products, the new car design is more fashionable and softer. In terms of size, the new car offers a total of six colors, with 4924/1883/1453mm in length, width and height and 2947mm in wheelbase.

In terms of configuration, the Cadillac CT5 uses a 10-inch floating central touch display screen for the first time and retains a large number of physical buttons, and the front seat 12-to-electric adjustment has both heating, ventilation and the unique waist massage functions of the same class; as well as a number of luxurious configurations such as surround LED atmosphere lights, Bose ®Performance Zhi Zhen series sound system, Bose ®ANC active noise reduction technology and so on.

In terms of power, the new car is equipped with a 2.0T turbocharged engine, matched with a 10-speed gearbox, with a maximum power of 241 horsepower, a peak torque of 350 Nm and an acceleration of only 7.3 seconds. In addition, the top model is also equipped with MRC active electromagnetic induction suspension, mLSD mechanical limited slip differential, ESE engine sound wave optimization system, Brembo braking system and so on.

In addition, the new Cadillac sedan CT4 was also unveiled at the press conference, and the new car will be launched next year. At this point, the layout of Cadillac's SUV camp composed of XT4, XT5 and XT6 continues to expand the segment of luxury SUV, while CT4 will build a luxury car family with CT5 and a new generation of CT6.

On the day the new car was unveiled, Wang Yongqing, general manager of SAIC General Motors, said, "Cadillac is committed to bringing a unique new American luxury experience to China's luxury car market. It has entered the Chinese market for 16 years, and its cumulative sales have exceeded 1 million." successfully ranked among the mainstream and strong brands of luxury cars in China. "

Among them, annual sales increased from 80, 000 in 2015 to more than 100000 in 2016 and 170000 in 2017. Cadillac has made brilliant achievements in the market over the past four years. In 2018, the Cadillac brand doubled its annual sales and market share, becoming the fourth luxury brand with annual sales of more than 200000 vehicles.

Judging from this year's sales, due to the implementation of the sixth national standard and the grim car market, Cadillac sales showed a downward trend compared with last year, but with the arrival of "Golden Nine and Silver Ten", Cadillac sales also gradually picked up. Cadillac sales in September were 18350, down 8.3 per cent from a year earlier and up 11.9 per cent from a month earlier, while sales in the first three quarters totaled 164048, up 0.9 per cent from a year earlier.

In addition, Cadillac will complete a new layout of a new round of product camp in 2020, covering all mainstream luxury market segments. In the future, Cadillac will lead GM's new generation electrification strategy and launch a number of pure electric models equipped with GM's new generation electric vehicle platform.

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