This article brings up some telling stats...

I think it may be Cadillac.

http://www.motortrend.com/features/news/112_news34/

 

Speaking of movement, Cadillac might re-enter racing. It last competed with a prototype car in the American Le Mans series in '02.

"We'll have an announcement about that in the fourth quarter. If we do, I can tell you we'd race what we sell," he said.

This makes Chuck giddy

 

Cadillac should race in F1

 

 

Race what we sell, Hmm...what do they sell CTS's, XLRs, SRXs, STS's, DTS's, and Escalades.

So we will either see CTS's racing in something like the V8 supercars of Australia or I could see Super modified XLRs in some sort of corner carving road course cars with HIGH output N*s. But that might take on the C5R/C6R . Ohh yeah they could simply race the SRXs' and Escalades offroad.

We shall see won't we?

 

Maybe they'll build Cien... and race that!!

 

Race what they sell, Im not taking it to mean they have to race their cars. Remember them running a Northstar in ALMS? They sell that

 

Amazing that Caddy can outsell Acura, what with all the cheap Integras that have been running around

Its hard for me to picture Acura as being a true luxury brand when they sold a 3 door hatchback forever that all the kids have. Glad to hear Caddy will not water down their image, but expand upon it

'Bout time!

 

That Northstar engine was a flat-8 which had not much in common with the production engine. I think they actually mean that you'll see a product taking on the Le Mans series, not a 'technology' or brand name.

 

Interesting...

Should Cadillac end up in LeMans, what class would they run?

Same as before?

They surely don't want Corvette and CTSv or XLR going head to head.

 

Don't they already run in the LMP 900 class in LeMans? Are you talking about them expanding to other classes?

Jason E, i never viewed Acura as a "true" luxury brand too. Most are FWD (which i could live with) except the NSX, and the largest engine in the lineup is a 3.5L v-6. Even their flagship sedan has this 3.5L v-6 where as other manufacturers have v-8's and/or v-12's.

It should be noted though: Acura doesn't exist outside of the North American borders. In other parts, they're badged Honda's and are in fact rebadged Honda's here in the states. That may explain why.

Personally, i think Porsche as the top luxury brand.

 

The statistic I like best in that article is that Chevrolet sells more $30,000+ vehicles than any other marque. Part of that is because they're the second best selling marque behind Ford in total sales, but it's still pretty impressive nonetheless.

 

Or the Sixteen and race it in NHRA!

 

They would probaly race in the same LeMans class the C6R does...using a rebodied C6R chassis XLR...

Seems obvious enough to me

 

Yeah but what color .

I hope everyone remembers this line.

Seriously what engine would they use??? Would it be a N* based motor or would they use an LSx based motor?