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Cadillac BLS Wagon; Wagon may not be good enough to bring Brits back to GM's luxury marque.(News)
Byline: JULIAN RENDELL
General Motors hopes the third time will be the charm when it relaunches Cadillac in the United Kingdom next year. Critical pieces of that plan are the new CTS, which we also get in America, and the BLS wagon, which is not sold here.
Despite its global ambitions, Cadillac's impact on the British market (Europe's second-largest luxury market) since 2005 has been negligible. The GM luxury division has sold just 400 cars in the past two and a half years. That's disappointingly short of the 8000 sales forecast. Cadillac is faring slightly better in the rest of Europe, but the brand is still a hard sell in most countries.
With the Euro-styled CTS, there's a glimmer of hope. Less convincing is the BLS wagon. There's nothing wrong with the crisp styling or the 1.9-liter, 178-hp, 295-lb-ft twin-turbo diesel engine, which likely will be the sales leader. The engine pulls strongly, with turbo lag unnoticed as torque ...
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