The awards keep pouring in.

Not that many days ago, Motor Trend named the CTS their ‘Car of the Year’.

Now, Car and Driver has honored the new CTS as one of the 10 Best Cars.

From C&D’s criteria:

We judge each car in three general areas, the first being how well the vehicle performs its intended functions. We expect sports cars to be fast and exhilarating, whereas we presume a family sedan will be frugal and practical. Second, we show a preference for the more engaging cars in each category, be it athletic driving manners, a seductive look, or a powerful engine sure to induce a grin every time we climb behind the wheel. Finally, we are suckers for a good deal, so an inexpensive car that’s fast, fun, and practical will certainly rise to the top of our list.

Significantly, the BMW 3-Series, a perennial 10 best winner, is also on the list. So C&D felt good enough about both to let both on the list together.

Read all about it at:

Car and Driver: 2008 10Best Cars

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Motor Trend announced today that the new CTS is this year’s car of the year.

The new CTS is the latest of GM’s Sigma chassis and packs the latest direct injection V-6, 6-speed manual and automatic transmissions, available all-wheel drive, and the best interior ever in an American car.

Way to go, Cadillac!

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Cadillac has done quite well in the 2008 Technology Availability Index, created by Telematics Research Group.

The index measures the availability of 32 different technology features on various cars and bands and then ranks the cars and brands appropriately (the only oddity is that all tech features are worth 1 point each, no matter the significance of the feature).

In the 2008 index, Cadillac rated second only to BMW with 97.62 (vs BMW’s normalized 100 points).

Even more interesting is that the Cadillac STS took the 2nd place for individual models (with 22 points vs the first place BMW 5-series 23 points).

Read all about it:

ExtremeTech: Top Tech Car Brands – BMW, Cadillac, Jaguar

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JD Power and Associates has released their 2007 Dependability Study results. This, as you may recall, is a measure of problems over 3 years of vehicle ownership.

This year Cadillac has come in 3rd behind the tied-for-first-place Lexus and…are you sitting down?...Buick.

Industry Average problems per 100 vehicles in this study was 216.

Lexus and Buick came in with a score of 145.

Cadillac came in with 162.

The rest of the top 5 brands are:

Mercury – 168
Honda – 169

Individual Cadillac models of note are:

CTS – 2nd place Entry Premium Car
Deville/DTS – 3rd place Large Premium Car
Escalade EXT – 3rd place Large Premium MAV

Cadillac competitors didn’t fare too well this year with the following scores:

Mercedes – 212
BMW – 182
Audi – 234
Jaguar – 197
Lincoln – 182

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Over at the Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette, they are discussing the recent findings of a pair of luxury customer satisfaction surveys that have ranked Cadillac among the top names in keeping customers happy.

It turns out, GM has given dealers the authority to do things differently – especially when it comes to making the customer happy.

They’ve gotten the product down. Now it appears they are doing the sales and service portion right too.

Watch out…Cadillac is poised to become one of the big boys in the luxury market again.

Post Gazette: Cadillac sits atop survey for luxury brand satisfaction

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