2021 Cadillac CT4

Jonny Lieberman

If you were the betting type, you might think that the odds-on favorite to win our 2021 Car of the Year award would be the Cadillac CT4. Why’s that? Pedigree. Twice this past decade, a car underpinned by General Motors’ excellent rear-drive Alpha platform has driven off with the Golden Calipers. The second-generation Cadillac CTS did so in 2014, followed two years later by the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro. Further, the Cadillac ATS, a car that in some ways the CT4 replaces, was a finalist in 2013. So Cadillac has been known to bring it. The new CT4 rides on an updated version of that chassis—unsurprisingly dubbed Alpha II, which it shares with the larger CT5. The CT4’s pedigree is certainly there, but how does it stack up against the criteria? “I’m pleasantly…

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