Adding to the planet glut of numbers, Cadillac can name the XT6's engine "400" once the international newton-meter normal.
Cadillac proclaimed these days that, beginning with the 2020 model year, it's adopting a replacement engine-naming theme within which the powertrain designation are going to be supported its torsion variety. The auto manufacturer says that is to administer patrons "a clear understanding of the ability variations across the lineup."
The three-digit variety, which can show au fait exterior badging, comes from torsion measured in newton-meters, that the auto manufacturer points out is a world normal of activity that's recognized everyplace (we use pound-feet to live torsion within the U.S.). With the increasing use of turbocharging and electrification of future models, it's "all concerning the torsion," says Cadillac president Steve Carlisle, therefore finding the simplest way to quantify that within the engine name is what Cadillac set to try to to.
The first example of the new naming theme is that the four hundred badge seen here on the new XT6 crossover. That variety corresponds to the three.6-liter V-6's 271 lb-ft of torsion, that is 367 newton meters of torque; Cadillac munificently sphericals it up to four hundred and says it'll round every variety to the closest fifty. each2020 model-year and later Cadillac apart from the V-series can get the new engine badges, beginning with the XT6, Cadillac aforesaid. A "T" can denote turbocharging on some models.
This move is like Audi's confusing powertrain naming theme, that uses two-digit numbers that correspond with power output. These variety badges do not seem on any U.S.-market Audi models, however the Audi shopper web site will list models just like the A6 three.0T with a "55" designation.
