I agree with the poster that said there HAS to be room in the stable for a large Caddy – it just won’t be everything we know it could be (stretched CTS, or the stillborn new RWD platform) due to GM being strapped for money right now.

I’ve really liked the DTS since its re-skin for 2006. It looks big, sharp, and luxurious. It is too bad that the car comes with 291hp, tops, FWD, and a 4AT.

GM needs to stretch the Sigma and give us a car of similar size to the DTS, but with 350+hp, Direct Injection, RWD, and a 6AT.

The Town Car? PLEASE! It’s 30 years old, it’s ugly, slow, handles badly, has a cheap instrument panel, cheap body hardware, and isn’t selling to anyone BUT fleets anymore, practically. Which is why Lincoln only sold 12,642 Town Cars for all of MY2008.

Cadillac sold 40,610 DTSes in the same period.

Maybe American’s like having a Seville or Deville instead of a STS or DTS, which is lame since it just means the Seville or Deville Touring Sedan.

What’s the CTS, the Caddy Touring sedan? How lame. Calling your vehicles by letters isn’t what makes BMW awesome, though at least the CTS-V is a worthy competitor.

And in the nick picking department, it was even lamer how the DTS had HID as an option 2 gens ago, then dropped it on the next gen, to return back on the current gen.

But then again Lincoln has been successful soldiering on with the traditional Town Car, although the idiots on this website will have snyde remarks about that…… but there IS a REASON that the Town Car OWNS the commercial car service industry. ’nuff said.

The only thing that is uncertain is wht, if anything, will take their places.

A car that actually looked like a car should with a real name and many color choices other than grey, silver and grey.

Still, the core of the business must be seen to first. If GM can be made healthy then more costly, lower volume product can be planned. But I am sad indeed to hear of this. It seems almost too reactionary. I’m afraid GM/ Cadillac will be caught with its britches down once more when, as in the 80’s, the initial shock of gas/energy prices wear off and they were caught with only one very old large sedan. Ford and their Town Car cleaned up, albeit with heavy fleet sales.

sickofgarbagemotors- What are you talking about? These vehicles were competitive on a scale that Mercedes Benz and BMW never had. They don’t have all the bells and whistles that they have, but a magnetic suspension system, HUD display, etc.. Not a bunch of major things, but it was never intended to compete with 7-series, S-class, etc.