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Less than a week after the New General Motors emerged from the scrapyard of Chapter 11, Section 363 Bankruptcy, three programs among the Cadillac and Buick divisions are back on the road.

First and foremost, the program to converge the DTS and STS into a new, rear-drive flagship Cadillac sedan is back on track after a one-year hold. The program has been renamed, however (we don’t have the new

The plan to merge the Cadillac STS, above, and the DTS into a rear-drive flagship is back on.

name, yet), and the DT7 program designation has been shelved. That suggests Cadillac also has shelved plans to build the converged DTS/STS off Australian Brand Holden’s Zeta RWD platform (Commodore/Statesman, Pontiac G8 and Chinese Buick Park Avenue). Cadillac will likely use its own Sigma (CTS) platform instead, which can be stretched long enough for a large, Mercedes S-Class competitor.

Before the project hiatus,

the DT7 was set to premier some time next year as a 2011 model. It now looks like the new Cadillac flagship will be MY12, although the one-year off doesn’t necessarily translate to a full one-year delay. It depends on how much design and engineering work can be translated to a probable shift from Zeta to Sigma.

source: motortrend