Motor Trend has driven the new Cadillac ATS 2.0 Turbo manual transmission and compared it against the 4-cylinder, turbo, manual version of its arch nemesis the BMW 328i.

Overall, the ATS is the better driver’s car than the BMW (when could you ever say that with a straight face about any competitor to the all-powerful BMW).

Even more telling is that the Mr Lieberman comes out and says that he’s own the ATS over the BMW…except for one obvious flaw that may not matter to most buyers of either car.

Enjoy:

Categories: ATS, News, Reviews, Video
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Brian Cooley, CNet.com’s car tech guru, gives his take on Cadillac’s new XTS and its included CUE system.

Until tCE gets our hands on the XTS next month, this will have to do as a critical eye at Cadillac’s new, tablet-inspired, electronics suite.

Enjoy.

Source: CNet.com

Categories: News, Reviews, XTS
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At the 2009 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, Cadillac previewed their vision of what an electric car should be. Based on the platform and technology that underpins the Chevrolet Volt, the Converj was a stylish coupé that showed that a range-extended electric didn’t have to be frumpy.

Later on, Cadillac announced that they would be bringing the concept to the street with its name changed to ELR (a nice 3-letter Cadillac-esque name that suggests its ELectRic power train.

We haven’t seen anything other than press photos of the car since – until now. It is encouraging that practically none of the show-car glitz of the Converj has been lost in translation (something we would have hoped after Cadillac brought the show-car styling of the CTS coupé to the masses). It is unknown what changes to battery capacity and engine specifications we will see in the production car – but those details are sure to emerge over the course of the next year.

We have heard from GM that the production ELR will debut at next year’s Pebble Beach show going on-sale shortly afterwards (in conjunction with a set of expected upgrades to its Volt platform-mate.)

Note: We will be running a review of the 2012 Chevrolet Volt soon discussing what we can learn about the ELR through it. There is a thread in our forums that ask for any areas that you would like to see addressed. Post your ideas to the thread here. You can also remind yourself of the styling of the car in our ELR photo gallery.

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Source: Autoblog.com

Categories: ELR, Spy photos
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Esquire magazine will be featuring the new Cadillac ATS as their 2012 car of the year.  The award will appear in their October issue, available in print and online at Esquire.com beginning September 18, 2012.

Chalk up another win for Cadillac’s new ATS.

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Categories: ATS, Awards
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Autoline After Hours spent some quality time with the Executive Chief Engineer of GM’s Rear-drive and Luxury models (ATS, next CTS, next Chevy Camaro, as well as Holden’s rear drive models).

He goes on at length about many of the decisions that went into engineering and building the ATS.

The interview starts at 22:20

Enjoy

Categories: ATS, Video
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As part of our recent forum relaunch, tCE would like to announce that we are also partnering with the good folks at Tapatalk.com to offer mobile access to the CaddyEdge forums.

Tapatalk is an application for your iOS (Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), Android, Blackberry, or even Google Chrome browser that gives you quick and easy access to your discussions while away from your computer.

A few of the really fun features you’ll see are an ability to look at just the discussions you take part in, discussions that with updates since your last visit, as well as viewing the individual boards in new ways that make discovering the conversations you most want to participate in easy.

Find out more at Tapatalk.com

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After a 2-year hiatus, the CaddyEdge forums are back.

You likely noticed over the last couple months a ‘Discussion‘ link below the site header – it took you to a page telling you the forums were coming back soon. Well, it turned out that ’soon’ was optimistic – but here they are. Expect changes to the look and feel in the coming days and weeks as we dial things back in.

Posts from years gone by are still there. You will likely need to ask for a password reset due to changes in the forum software.

Feel free to request new discussion categories and make as many suggestions as you can think of – we want to make these forums the premier place on the Internet for Cadillac fans…but it will take all of your advice and participation to make it happen.

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