A Tour of the Cadillac ELR Will Leave you More and More Confused at Every Step

If you take one look at just about any auto manufacturer, you’ll probably find a couple of black eyes along the path to success. Even for these companies that seem to be pretty good at picking and choosing exactly what people like and being able to supply the vehicles that match can have a hard time every once in a while. However, in any successful formula, there is definitely some trial and error and at times, companies will push the norm to try and come out with something a little bit different. Sometimes it could be a big hit and other times, well, not so much.

One car that comes to mind when you think about trial and error out of the General Motors wheelhouse is the Cadillac ELR. If you’ve never heard of this particular Cadillac, well, it’s probably for good reason. The production numbers were rather limited at only a couple thousand units total and with the $70,000 price tag, if you take a really close look at what such a large chunk of change would end up getting you, I’m not sure you’d be chomping at the bit, either. If you ask Doug DeMuro,it was pretty much a really low bang for your buck and that’s putting it nicely. He adds that there wasn’t much about the vehicle outside of the way that it looks that really would facilitate the price tag.

If you follow along with the video below, you’ll learn about everything that the ELR brings to the table. I guess that, in the long run, GM would decide that an expensive hybrid electric vehicle that only made 200 hp that lasted for 39 miles, only to be backed up by a whopping 83 hp just wasn’t something that consumers were interested in and the ELR would be discontinued in 2016, just three years after its debut.