Why does this Cadillac fob seem to be for a mid-engine roadster?

Is

GM

bringing back its Caddied-up

Corvette

sibling, the

Cadillac XLR

— only this time based on the mid-engine Corvette? That’s the question posed by photos of a wedge-shaped

Cadillac

key fob someone provided to

The Drive

.

The buttons show a trunk — and also a frunk. So, mid-engine, unless the fob goes with an

EV

that has its motors and other electrical bits scattered to the wheels and elsewhere. Also, there’s a button to operate a droptop. And the car profile on the fob is Corvette-like.

All of which makes for some pretty great speculation. Except that Cadillac’s way back from the failures of its sedan-centric lineup was thought to be through SUVs such as the new

XT4

compact

crossover

, the

XT5

and the somewhere-in-testing

three-row XT6

. Plus, the

XLR

, which was produced between 2003 and 2009, hit its sales peak in 2005 of just 3,730 cars, or about one-tenth the sales volume of the Corvette. So it’s hard to imagine there’s a vast untapped market out there for the luxury roadster — plus the XLR’s demographic of well-to-do grandpas is dying off,

or at least thinks it is

. So a resurrected XLR would seem to be an unlikely savior.

A lot’s happening with GM’s luxury brand — the

debut of the XT4

at long last, a

new boss

, a

thinning of the sedan herd

but

expansion of the V’s

, a backtrack to Detroit after its

New York sojourn

, the cash-cow

Escalade

under direct assault from the fine new

Lincoln Navigator

, and the impressive performance of its

Super Cruise

technology. But an XLR?

So what is this fob’s story? The Drive speculates it’s a universal test fob and the buttons don’t necessarily mean a thing, or that somebody stuck a

Caddy

emblem on it just to yank our chains. Who’s to say. What would you like it to mean?

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