Cadillac ruled out for Oz this decade - Motoring

General Motors luxury brand Cadillac has revealed right-hand drive production and therefore a return to Australia will be delayed into next decade. At the same time it has detailed a dramatic $12 billion overhaul of its brand by 2020. Speaking to analysts in New York this week, brand president John de Nysschen said the company’s focus was on developing left-hand drive markets. The news means that speculation a Cadillac is the basis of Holden’s future sports car looks off beam. Currently Cadillac offers only the SRX large crossover and the bling-laden Escalade heavy-duty body-on-frame SUV, alongside a line-up of luxury passenger sedans and coupes that starts with the ATS and climbs through the CTS to the newly-launched... That’s because the brand is delaying its attack on the Western European market, for which diesel engines and right-hand drive models for the United Kingdom are crucial. But de Nysschen told analysts that developing LHD markets such as China, the Middle East and Russia will get preference over Western Europe, which it won’t focus on until “beyond 2020”. “We’ll go to that market (Western Europe) when we have the... Source: www.motoring.com.au