Thursday, October 8, 2009

Farewell to a Masterpiece

Farewell to the Cadillac XLR. The only and greatest Cadillac Sport street going car ever.





The Bowling Green Daily News reported that the Cadillac XLR has ceased production forever this past spring. Spawned from the eye-popping Evoq concept, the Corvette-derived (but Northstar-powered) hardtop convertible finds itself as General Motors' latest cost-cutting casualty. Its high price, low volume and decreasing sales do not make for a strong business case anymore, especially in an economic environment that is not conducive to new car sales in general. We've driven the XLR – the supercharged V-Series – and we like it a lot. Rare and stylish enough to still turn heads, fast enough to paste a wide, goofy grin on your face, and comfortable enough to let you cruise for hours on end – as good as it was, the XLR (and its V-Series counterpart) never quite got the formula perfected. It was doomed to perpetual also-ran status in its category compared to the benchmark set by the Mercedes-Benz SL. The Corvettes also had better engines, manual gearboxes and cost a lot less. The current CTS-V boasts a substantially better interior, is faster and costs less still. And so the XLR drives into the sunset this spring. Frankly, it's a pretty good ride to be making that drive in.





4 comments:

Francisco J.Pellegrino said...

Aqui no Brasil a gente nem tem idéia deste carro,como vc sabe o brasileiro bom de bolso compra os esportivos europeus, eu compraria meu Corvette se tivesse verba.

MoVilla said...

Pois é Francisco,
essa maravilha de carro, foi descontinuada em maio. Todo o luxo de um Cadillac em cima de uma plataforma Corvette.
Coisas da crise.
Eu tambem sou apaixonado por Corvettes, mas este Caddy XLR tem um lugar no meu coração.
Destina-se a ser um classico, e apesar de fora de linha ainda mantem um valor altíssimo.
Pra vc. ter uma idéia, um de 2007 ainda vale uns 60,000 dólares.
O 2009 zero estava na faixa de 87,000 para o XLR e 112,000 para o XLR-V.

De Gennaro Motors said...

Ola amigo ! tudo bem !

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De Gennaro Motors said...

Ola amigo ! tudo bem !

aqui é Fernando Gennaro editor do blog www.degennaromotors.blogspot.com

entre em contato comigo via email.

degennaromotors@bol.com.br