Archive for July, 2007
Today’s news about future Cadillac product
July 30, 2007 - 9:25 amAutomotive News has managed to get a lot of auto blogs buzzing about the future of Cadillac.
They are repeating what has been said for a while that a new small, rear-drive sedan is on the way, a small SUV is coming too (BRX), that the SRX is likely to be dropped, the DTS/STS are going to be merged.
However, they really botch their projected new lineup by saying the STS/DTS replacement will compete against the 5-series. This doesn’t make a lick of sense since rumors up to this point all point to the CTS moving up-market, the alpha-based BLS taking the CTS’ place as the 3-series competitor, and the STS/DTS replacement going after the BMW 7-series/Mercedes S-Class.
At this point, I think the only real question is if the SRX will get a more SUV-esque replacement with the CTS wagon taking the car-like, mid-sized utility segment or if the SRX will just go away altogether.
We should start to get some more concrete news out of Cadillac in the next year or so (since the rumored product should debut as 2010-2012 model year.
Autoweek’s first drive of the 2008 CTS
July 27, 2007 - 2:15 pmYep, yet another magazine that got flown to Germany to test the new CTS. Not that I’m sore about it or anything. 
They start out giving the historical significance for the original CTS and how it actually, at its peak, outsold all its competition except the BMW 3-series (a pretty significant tidbit I didn’t know until now) and how the new car is significantly better than before and easily the equal of all the competition.
Yet more confirmation of what we already knew – the new CTS rocks!
Autoweek.com: 2008 Cadillac CTS
Edmunds Inside Line first drive of the 2008 CTS
July 27, 2007 - 10:41 amThis is starting to get repetitive…
Edmunds was also invited to Germany to try out the new CTS and walked away impressed.
They found the steering to be touch light and the manual transmission’s shift throws a bit long, but otherwise thought the car was a large step forward and certainly capable on the Nürburgring.
Check out their review at:
Inside Line: First Drive – 2008 Cadillac CTS
Car and Driver first drive of the 2008 CTS
July 27, 2007 - 6:34 amDespite CnD’s failure in their earlier article about the future plans of Cadillac…they do have some very nice things to say about the latest addition to the Cadillac stable.
There were specifically impressed by GM’s choice to put high-end sportscar grade tires on the new CTS (at least with the summer tire sport package), its 5.8 second 0-60 time, and the overall integration of the package that points to GM and Cadillac finally being ready to play in big leagues with no apologies needed.
Is anyone else starting to feel that new car fever taking hold?
Car and Driver: 2008 Cadillac CTS
