{"id":162772,"date":"2010-01-10T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/10\/spy-shots-mystery-small-cadillac-spotted-ats-or-converj\/"},"modified":"2010-01-10T15:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T20:07:00","slug":"spy-shots-mystery-small-cadillac-spotted-ats-or-converj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/162772","title":{"rendered":"Spy Shots: Mystery small Cadillac spotted &#8211; ATS or Converj?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/spyphotos\/\" rel=\"tag\">Spy Photos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/hatchbacks\/\" rel=\"tag\">Hatchback<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/cadillac\/\" rel=\"tag\">Cadillac<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlappcars.com\/2010\/01\/2012-cadillac-ats.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/01\/burlapp-mystery-caddy-mule-250.jpg\"  alt=\"\" \/><\/a>A previously unseen prototype has been spotted wearing surprisingly light camouflage. Given the visible details at the back of the car, this appears to quite clearly be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/cadillac\/\">Cadillac<\/a> of some sort, as the vertical taillamps and the horizontal spoiler\/high-mounted stop lamp are dead giveaways. The confusion lies with the rest of the car. While Burlapp Cars is speculating that this may be a prototype of the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/08\/10\/from-the-twitterverse-gm-shows-cadillac-3-series-fighting-ats\/\">ATS<\/a> that will slot in below the CTS, we have our doubts. The styling buck we saw at GM&#8217;s design center last summer was a notchback two-door, and we would expect a four-door sedan to follow a similar layout. <\/p>\n<p>A more likely scenario is that this is a prototype of a four-door <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/01\/11\/detroit-2009-cadillac-converj-with-video\/\">Converj<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2008\/09\/16\/officially-official-2011-chevrolet-volt-finally-revealed\/\">Chevrolet Volt<\/a>-based Converj appeared at last year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/Detroit-Auto-Show\/\">Detroit Auto Show<\/a> as a two-door coupe with a similar profile to this car. The car in the photos appears to offer similar proportions to the Volt.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly possible that Cadillac has shifted design directions for the ATS to go with this fastback look. It&#8217;s also possible that Cadillac is developing a five-door hatch based on the ATS for the European market to go up against the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/a5\">Audi A5 Sportback<\/a> and the Gran Turismo version of the next generation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/3+series\">BMW 3 series<\/a> that was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/08\/spy-shots-bmw-3-series-gran-turismo-caught-swirling-around\/\">recently spotted testing<\/a>. <em>Thanks to Ed for the tip!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlappcars.com\/2010\/01\/2012-cadillac-ats.html\">Burlapp Cars<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/10\/spy-shots-mystery-small-cadillac-spotted-ats-or-converj\/\">Spy Shots: Mystery small Cadillac spotted &#8211; ATS or Converj?<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:07:00 EST.  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Given the visible details at the back of the car, this appears to quite clearly be a Cadillac of some sort, as the vertical taillamps and the horizontal spoiler\/high-mounted stop lamp are dead giveaways. The confusion lies with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}