Nine months ago, on April 19, 2015, SAIC GM's "Creating 2020 - SAIC GM Night" was held in this factory. On the same day, SAIC Motor announced its strategic plan for the next five years. The plan points out that in 2020, Cadillac will achieve a market share of 10% in the luxury car market. With the launch of the Cadillac plant and the upcoming CT6 launch, the SAIC-GM Cadillac brand seems ready to go.

It is understood that the Cadillac plant is the most advanced factory of SAIC GM in Shanghai. It includes a body shop, a paint shop, a final assembly shop, a high-speed test lane, and a joint station. The total investment of the first phase is 8 billion yuan, and the planned annual production capacity is 160,000 sets. The investment in each 10,000 sets of production capacity is up to 500 million yuan, which is much higher than the Beijing Benz NGCC plant and the BMW Brilliance Tiexi plant.

In April 2015, the Beijing Benz NGCC plant went into operation with a total investment of 720 million Euros (approximately 5.1 billion Renminbi), and the total vehicle production capacity will reach 250,000 vehicles. The average investment per 10,000 units will be 200 million Yuan; May 2012 , BMW Brilliance West Tiexi plant officially opened, with a total investment of 1.5 billion euros (about 10.7 billion yuan), the production capacity of up to 400,000, an average of 270 million units of investment in investment. The Cadillac plant has invested up to 500 million yuan per 10,000 units of capacity, making it the "most expensive luxury car factory."

An R&D staff from a car company commented on this, “This investment is actually quite high in the industry. Now when auto companies build new factories, they increasingly value automation levels. The increase in automation is more costly. However, it can bring huge profits to the company. On the one hand, it can save manpower costs. On the other hand, it can increase the yield rate and reduce the number of defective products and waste."

As the R&D personnel said, the biggest “exceeding place” of “the most expensive factory” is its automation level. It is understood that the Cadillac factory has the first body shop with aluminum body manufacturing capabilities in China. There are two fully automated production lines for steel and aluminum in the workshop. There are 386 robots that can automate 100% of the body connection technology. This figure is much higher than the 307 robots at the Chery Jaguar Land Rover Changshu plant and the automation rate of 85%.

In addition, in the welding shop, the Cadillac factory has also introduced aluminum laser brazing technology for the first time in the country, and has also applied large-scale application of industry-leading body cold connection technology such as self-tapping screwing and self-piercing riveting. The paint shop is the most proud workshop in the Cadillac factory. The entire paint shop does not have a concrete high chimney, which is the first in the country. It is understood that 100% of the paint and glue are processed by robots. At the same time, the factory also uses a series of global leading membrane pretreatments, high-throughput electrophoresis, second-color paints, colored varnish, and liquid sprayable soundproof mats. Coating process.

Cadillac's final assembly shop fully embodies the advanced nature of modern automobile factories integrating flexibility and intelligence. Here not only can support flexible assembly of 7 models, but also through intelligent IoT system, can trace the torque information of each key fastening point, build a world-class digital assembly system.

As the first product of the “most expensive factory” offline, the Cadillac CT6 is the highest-level luxury sedan currently used by SAIC-GM.

It is understood that Cadillac CT6 uses the industry's leading high-strength, lightweight body design: body material is a blend of 11 different lightweight materials, of which aluminum accounted for more than 57%; with a variety of space-class body technology, a comprehensive upgrade The strength, performance and performance of the body ensure that the body is sturdy while its own weight is greatly reduced; in addition, the Cadillac factory is also the first in the country to apply the world's two leading paint processes, two-color paint and colored varnish.

Cadillac CT6 uses a new Omega rear drive platform to build, its length and height are 5184/1879/1472mm, wheelbase of 3109mm, is a standard large car size, is currently the only domestic luxury car Cadillac. CT6 has adopted Cadillac's latest design concept in terms of appearance. The shield front grille and the downwardly extending daytime running light make the vehicle look very atmospheric and scientific. The interior of the Cadillac CT6 uses wooden materials, high-grade leather, and carbon fiber plaques to create a uniquely luxurious atmosphere.

Power, CT6 will provide 2.0T turbocharged and 3.0T twin turbocharged two direct injection engines, of which the former maximum power of 203kW, the maximum torque of 400Nm, using rear-wheel drive system; the latter's maximum power of 298kW, the largest Torque is 543Nm, equipped with intelligent full-time four-wheel drive system. Matching these two engines is the 8-speed automatic transmission. Under the support of the high-performance powertrain, the Cadillac CT6 accelerates by 100 kilometers in 5.7 seconds, which is in the same level as the Mercedes-Benz S-Class and the BMW 7 Series.

On October 24, 2015, the entire new generation of BMW 7 Series was officially listed. The official guidance prices of the 740Li and 750Li listed in advance were 1.188 million to 1.98 million yuan. It is predicted that compared to the BMW 7 Series and Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the configuration of the Cadillac CT6 will be more abundant after the listing and the price will be lower.

On April 19, 2015, SAIC Motor announced its five-year strategic plan for the future. According to the plan, by 2020 Cadillac will achieve a market share of 10% in the luxury car market and become a mainstream brand in the luxury car market, which means that Cadillac will have sales of more than 200,000 units by 2020. The forthcoming Cadillac CT6 is expected to become an important "weapon" for SAIC GM to achieve this goal.