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With the recent leak from OnStar, we now have a good amount of certainty that the Cadillac ELR, a gas-electric hybrid that Cadillac teased back in 2011, is nearly a certainty to arrive for the 2014 model year. Its impeding release will mark the first time the luxury automaker will dive into the hybrid realm with a vehicle not named ?Escalade.?
However, this is not the first time in Caddy?s long history that it?s tread into the economy car world. The first one was the laughably Cavalier-like Cimarron. If you recall, Cadillac was so embarrassed by the Cimarron that the automaker refused to call it a Cadillac and instead dubbed it the ?Cimarron by Cadillac? originally. GM later forced a name change to ?Cadillac Cimarron.?
Needless to say Caddy does not want to relive those days, so there is certainly some understanding in this release taking so long. With this newfound evidence of its release, it is about time we take a closer look at the 2014 Cadillac ELR and see how it stacks up against others luxury hybrids.
Click past the jump to read the entire review to see if the ELR will end up on TIME?s ?50 Worst Cars of All Time? list alongside the Cimarron.
Cadillac ELR originally appeared on topspeed.com on Friday, 27 April 2012 16:00 EST.
Source: http://www.topspeed.com/cars/cadillac/2014-cadillac-elr-ar128653.html
Vittorio Brambilla Toni Branca Gianfranco Brancatelli Eric Brandon
