Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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If you’re from the US, you might be saying, what was the Cadillac BLS? I don’t remember that! And you’d be right, the BLS has the distinction as being the only Cadillac that was never sold in the US, well until very recently, but more of that at the end. This is a story of General Motors’ attempt to turn around a brand that had lost its way. The BLS though is a good example of all that GM was doing wrong in the mid-2000s, and it was part of its downfall.

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