Johan de Nysschen is talking smack on Facebook again, and this time, he insists it’s only to help his old pals at Infiniti.
The Cadillac CEO, after bragging that the 2016 CTS-V “eats buzzy little German motors for breakfast,” taunted Infiniti vice president Noboru Tateishi for supposedly canceling the Q50 Eau Rouge. According to the Daily Kanban ‘s Bertel Schmidt, who went back and forth with de Nysschen on Facebook, the newly minted Caddy exec said that Tateishi was the “bottleneck” in approving the GT-R-powered four-door that might compete with the 640-hp CTS-V.
“I’m trying to help my old team by provoking,” he wrote. “They really want, need and deserve that car. But one guy is a bottleneck ….”
That guy, according to de Nysschen, is set on scrapping the project since the ex-Infiniti CEO is “not there to pressure him.”
“I heard a rumor that Noboru Tateishi is going to cop-out and shelve the Eau Rouge project now that I’m not there to pressure him,” he wrote. “Tell any Cadillac or Audi engineer ‘build me a 560hp sports sedan’ and you have to reign them in. At Infiniti, it seems easier to push water uphill. More enthusiasm for ‘driver’s aids’, apparently, than ‘driver’s cars’, in some quarters, it would seem.”
We’ve driven the Eau Rouge prototype and similarly incited Infiniti, albeit with a finer touch, to build the damn thing. Many other outlets have done the same, but so far, there’s no official indication that the car has been shelved or not.
- Johan de Nysschen: Cadillac Diesels in 2019, Possible 911 Fighter in a Decade
- 2016 Cadillac CTS-V: The Four-Door, 200-mph, 640-hp Super Caddy!
- Belgians Want Royalties if Infiniti Builds the Q50 Eau Rouge
While de Nysschen only shares his Facebook posts with a handful of people, clearly, he knows the automotive media will forward his grievances—which General Motors PR certainly won’t approve—to everyone on the Internet. In September, responding to criticism of his model renaming scheme and moving Cadillac headquarters to New York, de Nysschen wrote a Facebook diatribe that included the catchy phrase “don’t mess with me.”
Somebody friend him on Snapchat, please. And save the pics.
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