{"id":439590,"date":"2010-03-17T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/03\/17\/once-and-for-all-lutz-text-message-reportedly-confirms-cadillac\/"},"modified":"2010-03-17T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:31:00","slug":"once-and-for-all-lutz-text-message-reportedly-confirms-cadillac-converj-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/439590","title":{"rendered":"Once and For All? Lutz text message reportedly confirms Cadillac Converj is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Concept Cars<\/a>, Detroit Auto Show<\/a>, Coupe<\/a>, Technology<\/a>, Cadillac<\/a>, GM<\/a>, Design\/Style<\/a><\/p>\n

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2009 Cadillac Converj Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

Although previously the subject of some early obituaries<\/a>, it appears that the future of the Cadillac Converj<\/a> showcar is indeed at a dead-end. According to Automotive News<\/em>, a production future for the rakish extended-range coupe has been scuttled due to “priorities and the conviction that the Volt and Ampera will use all available capacity for years to come” – that’s according to a text message from General Motors<\/a> vice chairman Bob Lutz.<\/p>\n

Lutz, who is himself retiring on May 1<\/a>, openly championed the Converj, including telling members of the Society of Automotive Analysts that the car would be built after 2012. Prevailing logic also had the well-received 2009 Detroit Auto Show<\/a> concept getting the green light, if only because affixing a higher-margin Cadillac badge to its flanks would presumably help GM recover some of its massive investment in the E-Rev technology it shared with the Chevrolet Volt<\/a> and Opel Ampera<\/a>. However, in a Bloomberg<\/em> report from earlier this month, some company managers apparently successfully argued that the business case for the Converj could not be made.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: Detroit 2009: Cadillac Converj<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photos by Drew Phillips \/ Frank Filliponio \/ <\/small><\/em>Copyright (C)2010<\/small><\/em> Weblogs, Inc.<\/small><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[Source: Automotive News<\/a> – sub. req.]<\/p>\n

Once and For All? Lutz text message reportedly confirms Cadillac Converj is dead<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Concept Cars, Detroit Auto Show, Coupe, Technology, Cadillac, GM, Design\/Style 2009 Cadillac Converj Concept – Click above for high-res image gallery Although previously the subject of some early obituaries, it appears that the future of the Cadillac Converj showcar is indeed at a dead-end. According to Automotive News, a production future for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439590","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=439590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}