Look Out Audi: Teaser Indicates Cadillac XT4-V May Be In The Works

Thanks to a rogue sketch on the Cadillac website, the American luxury brand all-but confirmed its working to V-ify its XT4 subcompact crossover SUV. The sketch shows the crossover sporting a big driver-side exhaust pipe (presumably a second pipe also protrudes from the passenger side) and a stylized ‘V’ badge on the tailgate.

While the sketch only shows the vehicle’s rear, we expect the upcoming XT4 variant to also wear a more aggressive front fascia and model-specific wheels and tires. Whether the model will be dubbed XT4-V or XT4 V-Sport remains to be seen; however, we anticipate that Cadillac will welcome a milder XT4 V-Sport trim before possibly adding a wilder XT4-V model to the lineup.

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TomM - 10/19/2018 2:41:17 PM

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The market has moved to Crossovers - and FCA has shown with the Stelvio that you can make a reasonably well performing High vehicle - so I expect that will be the next area that the manufacturers are going to go for more profit.

As the "Performance" arm of Cadillac - the "V" series are like the AMG or M series - allowing the regular version to retain their luxury - yet offering something to the reviewers who want road race cars or nothing.

At some point - people learned how to ignore comments regarding various attributes of cars complained about by reviewers - that they personally have little interest in. That is why Consumers reports has an audience - they at least review the cars based on the real market they are supposed to satisfy.

zlives - 10/19/2018 6:25:55 PM

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thanks GM for coming late to the performance party especially since everyone has now moved onto electrifying for performance...

next thing you know gm will work on a rear engine corvette to debut with everyone's electronic performers...

MDarringer - 10/19/2018 8:14:28 PM

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#pointless

Dexter1 - 10/19/2018 11:19:52 PM

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Hey — no floating roof? WTF!

OneOfOne - 10/20/2018 11:55:22 AM

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to compete against which audi? NO audi buyer is cross shopping a gm vehicle.

cidflekken - 10/20/2018 4:08:11 PM

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Funny how "Audi" was never mentioned in the article. There is currently no SQ3 or RSQ3 fo which an XT4-V would compete. 009's obsession with Audi is uncomfortable.