Cadillac XT5

Among the 128 Cadillac entries in the MotorJury library, the Cadillac XT5 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2016. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Cadillac XT5 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Chevrolet Chevrolet Bolt, the Ferrari Ferrari 488, the Tesla Tesla Model 3 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Cadillac XT5 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Gasoline: / 2.0 L GM Ecotec engine#LTG / LTG Turbocharger / turbo Straight-four engine / I4 (China) / 2.0 L GM Ecotec engine#LSY / LSY I4 / 3.6 L GM High Feature en; kerb weight is recorded at 3985-4113 lb (FWD) / 4257-4356 lb (AWD); drive goes through AF50-8 (8-speed) (2017–2019) / GM 9-speed Hydramatic 9T65 (2020–); the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel drive / all-wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Cadillac story

Within Cadillac's own catalogue the Cadillac XT5 sits alongside the Cadillac 353, the Cadillac ATS, the Cadillac ATS-L, the Cadillac ATS-V. The record names the Cadillac SRX as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Bob Boniface. Assembly is recorded at United States: Spring Hill, Tennessee (Spring Hill Manufacturing) / China: Shanghai (SAIC-GM).

On the record

For the years the United States federal record covers, EPA-rated economy comes in at 22 mpg combined, which works out near $2,800 a year in fuel at current prices.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Cadillac XT5 was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.