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Cadillac had been wanting in on the luxury sport sedan game for years. Cars like the Deville DTS, and he who shall not be named Cimmaron, were jokes compared to what brands like Audi, BMW and new players like Lexus and Acura were doing. Years before anything like it went into production, Cadillac was looking at prototypes of something called the Luxury Sports Sedan or LSS. Sources told MotorWeek that GM was looking at designing the sedan with components developed by Lotus and that the sedan would be powered by a 32-valve V8 engine.

While we did have the rebadged Opel Cadillac Catera in the late 1990s, it would be years before GM gave Cadillac a proper sports sedan in the CTS/ATS/CT5/CT4 sedans.