Moto Dreamerz: Cadillac Cien Concept

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The Cadillac Cien is equipped with scissor style doors that pivot at the base of the A-pillars upon opening. The body and chassis are made of lightweight carbon fiber composite. Interior toys, aCadillac specialty, include Night Vision, OnStar navigation, StabiliTrak, and Ultrasonic Rear Parking Assist, features all controlled by voice activation through cadillac’s futuristic sounding Communiport system.

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2003 Cadillac Cien Concept

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But, in the nuances of corporate lingo, the stunning Cadillac Cien concept car that was introduced at the ’02 Detroit auto show is, according to GM design honcho Wayne Cherry, a corporate communications tool. Cherry says flatly, “Most concepts reflect work we’re doing here, but the Cien does not. Don’t confuse it with things that we’ll produce.” Despite this, there are those within GM who are pushing hard to see a production Cadillac supercar.

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For now, though, the Cien remains just a tool—a carbon-fiber announcement that Cadillac is serious about performance. Cherry says Cadillac’s 100th anniversary this year—the event that inspired the car’s name, Spanish for “one hundred”—is also part of the justification for the car. Although Cadillac has no sports-car history, it certainly has been trying to acquire the beginnings of one. Success has eluded the team so far, but Cadillac continues to pursue its Le Mans racing program.

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Still, nothing speaks so clearly and forcefully to the psyche of a viewer as a sports car. Supercars are wonderfully impractical, theoretically attainable, and therefore powerfully desirable. A Cherry recruit to General Motors design, Simon Cox, did some of the styling work on the Evoq, the first of the pointy-snouted, tall-tailed “art and science” cars. Cadillac followed the Evoq with the Imaj (five-door sedan) and Vizón (crossover sport-ute) show cars. GM describes “art and science” as a “design vocabulary” that visually reflects the high technology and sporty attributes Cadillacwants as its defining image. The somewhat awkward-looking Cadillac CTS is the first production car to use these themes. Cadillac will sell the Evoq-inspired XLR hardtop roadster this fall—a more convincing interpretation than the CTS. Cherry tapped Cox for the Cien as well. In fact, alldesign work for this car was done in Cox’s studio near Birmingham, England. The full-size foam model pictured here (motivated not by a V-12 but by a golf-cart motor) was created in Warren, Michigan, by a computer-controlled milling machine fed with data from Cox’s studio in England. Once the foam model was complete, the running show car, powered by the V-12 and constructed of carbon fiber, was built in England.

Cox, who has worked on every one of the art-and-science cars (the Evoq, the Imaj, and the Vizón), was ready to evolve the look. “Wayne wants to keep the very tight edges,” he says. “I wanted something more curvaceous and sexy.”