Cadillac XTS Receives Final Execution Date

It's been nearly two years since we learned theCadillac XTS was living on borrowed time. GM's luxury division is currently rebalancing its entire lineup, and the XTS isn't the only casualty. TheATS sedan is already gone和它的车我同行sn't far behind. The CTS also doesn't have much time left. Fortunately, Cadillac isn't giving up on sedans entirely, proven by the all-newCT5and upcoming CT4. TheCT6 will stick around (for now).

As for the XTS,Automotive News Canadahas come across a bulletin posted by Unifor Local 222, the union that represents GM workers at the soon to close Oshawa Assembly plant where the XTS is built. It says the production line will officially shut down this October.

Oshawa also produces the Chevrolet Impala, which will also soon meet its maker. However, the Impala will continue to be built alongside the CT6 at the Detroit-Hamtramck facility, which won't close its doors until January 2020. The full-size XTS first made its appearance in 2012 as a 2013 model, and shares a platform with the Impala. It was given a facelift for 2018 but by that time sales had tanked. It's not that the facelift came too little too late, but it did little to revive sales.

The XTS' best year was 2013 with 32,559 units sold. Last year, that figure dipped to 17,727 (though it was 8.9 percent higher than 2017). So far this year, sales have dropped nearly 24 percent compared to the same time in 2018.