.. Mr. Lutz said Mr. de Nysschen had done critical dirty work by breaking Cadillac's habit of dumping production into rental fleets to plump sales numbers, a practice that marred the brand's image, retail prices and resale values.
.. Cadillac's semiautonomous Super Cruise technology — which allows full hands-free driving on most major highways — is being hailed by some critics as superior to Tesla's vaunted Autopilot, particularly for its emphasis on safe operation.
.. Mr. Lutz suspected that de Nysschen's physical separation from Detroit made it harder to win allies and arguments alike.
.. Mr. Brauer, the Kelley Blue Book publisher, panned Cadillac's move to New York as window-dressing. It might have made sense, he said, if the brand had set up design studios or engineering in New York, but those linchpins of auto creativity remained in Detroit.