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Nobody knows Cadillac in Europe! If you say "I drive a Cadillac Seville" all people think you drive an 30 years old car.

Nobody knows a new Cadillac, there is no image, no dealer, no PR-work.

Then Cadillac had no station wagon and in Europe we like DIESEL !
You cannot pay gasoline in Europe, the price is about 7 $ per gallon.

Then especally in Germany we drive very fast on highways; 150 mph is a usuall speed and we like to drive much faster as that! American engines and transmissons are not buildet for this (so they are speed limeted) and cannot live longer than 100000 miles. A german car do this without bigger problems.

The BLS is a german OPEL VECTRA buildet in Sweden by SAAB. But the Vectra is much cheaper and there is a station wagon! If you want to resell a Cadillac you will loose about 60 % of new price in 4 years!

Cadillac needs a big DIESEL as BMW or Mercedes and a station wagon and a good public relation, then it works!

The CTS is the same plattform as the OPEL OMEGA you know it as Catera, but in Europe we have a station wagon. So the CTS is to expensive compared to OPEL.