# 7 It could use a marketing push
Assembled a Cadillac’s plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee, the XT6 was first unveiled in world premiere at the 2019 Detroit auto show – the last one to be held in January, as it happens. The Canadian premiere came the next month, in Toronto. Its position in the GM lineup is between the XT5 compact SUV and the Escalade mastodon.
Over the last six months of 2019 the XT6 was available to consumers, and it sold… not very much. In Quebec, for example, Cadillac moved 46 units; this is far, far behind the two peloton leaders in the midsize luxury SUV segment, the Lexus RX (940 units sold) and the Mercedes-Benz GLE (885). Fortunately little brother the XT5 was on hand to lap up any spilled milk at GM’s luxury division. It attracted 788 buyers in La Belle Province over that period.
# 8 It has borrowed innerds
Don’t go thinking the 310-hp 3.6L V6 under the hood of the XT6 is exclusive to the model. In fact, open up the hood of an XT5, a Colorado or Canyon pickup, one of the Traverse/Acadia/Enclave trio of SUVs (same platform as the Caddy) or even a Camaro LS or LT, and you’ll find it there also.
At least here the powertrain idles two cylinders when V6 power is not required, for example when highway cruising (at a reasonable speed). Add to that welcome initiative the competent 9-speed automatic transmission and four possible drive modes, and you get fuel consumption that’s quite acceptable. For me it varied between 9.0 and 12.0L/100 km.