BLS stands for...

[BeelzeBob]

B-Segment Luxury Sedan

[fleetwood76]

Oooh, i thought it stod for, "a BuLShit car"

[megeebee]

Originally Posted by fleetwood76

Oooh, i thought it stod for, "a BuLShit car"

I'm curious, why do you feel this way?

[airbalancer]

How about Basement Luxury Sedan

[fleetwood76]

Hello Megeebee.
Well, i live in sweden and likes, and drive a car that is 6 meters long, and are surronded with "european sized cars" for example the saab 9-3.
So the last thing i want is that the caddys shrink even more.
I also think that cadillac schouldn have "remake" the wonderful emblem they had pre 2002.
The new sharp bodylines of cadillac does not look to bad, it's just that in my word, do real cadillacs not look like that, but as i have wrote before, I'm stuck in the seventees cars.

[69CDV]

So it doesn't stand for Brougham Luxury Sedan?

On another note: How come Cadillac is going from the good old names to these cryptic letters? I never really liked how BMW, Porsche, Mercedes, etc. used letters and numbers to designate their cars. I mean... How much visual character can you pull from 328i, 944S, or CLK230? You hear "deVille", you think "Classy, yet casual." You read "Brougham", you think "Comfortable land yacht."

[Jesda]

Britain's Lesser Sedan

[Rauf]

B-Series Luxury Sedan

[adam_mcd]

ill be honest with you, i dont know any mercedes because of all the damn numbers and letters. is it that i dont enjoy mercedes or am i just too american? doesnt the C in CTS stand for catera? what a crappy car.

[Rauf]

doesnt the C in CTS stand for catera?

I've sent a letter to a Cadillac official a year ago and received the following answer:


Hello,

Thank you for your interest in learning what our abbreviations mean. As you will notice, there is a strategy behind the structure...

Our nomenclature breaks down as follows:
XLR: X-series luxury roadster
CTS: C-series touring sedan
SRX: S-series reconfigurable crossover
STS: S-series touring sedan
DeVille DHS: DeVille high-luxury sedan
DeVille DTS: DeVille touring sedan
Escalade SUV: Sport utility vehicle
Escalade ESV: Escalade stretch vehicle
Escalade EXT: Escalade crossover truck
V-Series: High performance vehicles

I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Nekeidra Shegog
Cadillac Communications
313.667.8985
313.268.8371 cell

So, the BLS stands for B-series Luxury Sedan.