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Whereas the Chevrolet Volt boasts with the title of best-selling plug-in hybrid vehicle in the U.S. and the world if you take into account Opel, Vauxhall and Holden badged variants, its upmarket platform brother from Cadillac is not that successful. In addition to the very low sales volume, the ELR starts from a whopping $75,995, which is a tad prohibitive.
To put that into perspective, that kind of money buys you two brand spanking new 2015 Chevrolet Volts or an entry-level Tesla Model S 60 kWh. In an effort to bring new life to the ELR, Caddy has announced it's working on an updated model, but a new report hints the revised ELR will be marketed as a 2016 model year and will probably make its world debut as soon as November, at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show.
Caddy spokesman David Caldwell told Edmunds the 2016 model year Cadillac ELR will benefit from some "engineering enhancements" without detailing what those enhancements are. To boot, GM's Detroit-Hamtramck plant, the place where the ELR was made until recently, is now in the middle of retooling.
The Cadillac spokesman confirmed that "ELR builds will resume after the first of the year," some two weeks before the 2015 Detroit Auto Show opens its doors. Furthermore, 2015 NAIAS is the event where Chevy will debut the second-generation Volt plug-in hybrid electric vehicle.
But the real mystery here is whether the 2016 Cadillac ELR will incorporate updates that debuted on the 2015 Chevrolet Volt or if it will adopt all the new bits and bobs of the upcoming second-generation Volt. As such, it's anyone's guess what Cadillac will give the 2016 ELR in order to raise the nameplate's appeal.
Caddy spokesman David Caldwell told Edmunds the 2016 model year Cadillac ELR will benefit from some "engineering enhancements" without detailing what those enhancements are. To boot, GM's Detroit-Hamtramck plant, the place where the ELR was made until recently, is now in the middle of retooling.
The Cadillac spokesman confirmed that "ELR builds will resume after the first of the year," some two weeks before the 2015 Detroit Auto Show opens its doors. Furthermore, 2015 NAIAS is the event where Chevy will debut the second-generation Volt plug-in hybrid electric vehicle.
But the real mystery here is whether the 2016 Cadillac ELR will incorporate updates that debuted on the 2015 Chevrolet Volt or if it will adopt all the new bits and bobs of the upcoming second-generation Volt. As such, it's anyone's guess what Cadillac will give the 2016 ELR in order to raise the nameplate's appeal.
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