Archive for the 'STS / SLS' category
October 15, 2007 - 1:39 pm
Cars.com’s Kicking Tires blog has recently reviewed the 2008 STS – focusing on some of the cool technology that made it into the STS’ mid-cycle refresh.
Enjoy.
Categories: News, STS / SLS, Reviews
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September 17, 2007 - 3:04 pm
Jim Taylor, Cadillac General Manager, in a recent interview with Automotive News, has confirmed that GM is looking strongly at a few products that have been rumored for some time.
First of all, in response to what they are terming ‘shrinkage’ in the segments occupied by the current STS and DTS, Taylor admitted that “we don’t need two entries there anymore”. This pretty much confirms along with his later confirmation that, in AN’s words “the idea of a flagship sedan for Cadillac is still alive.”
So, expect a 7-series/S-Class competitor from Cadillac in a few years.
Also confirmed was that Cadillac is seriously looking at a sub-CTS model since the brand image of Cadillac is sufficiently strong enough now to survive a 28k+ product slotted below the CTS. This all but confirms previous rumors that a rear-drive ‘alpha’ chassis based sedan is in the works to better compete head-to-head with the 3-series BMW (leaving the CTS to go up-market toward the 5-series that it better matches, size-wise).
I, personally, would be all over a smaller Cadillac with a sportier angle than the current CTS. How about a coupe version as well?
Expect an Alpha-based car to debut early in the next decade (as a 2011-12 model).
Categories: News, BLS, CTS, STS / SLS, DTS, Rumored Models
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September 8, 2007 - 9:12 am
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
Categories: News, STS / SLS, Reviews, Awards
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August 10, 2007 - 1:19 pm
Automotive 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.
Categories: News, BLS, CTS, STS / SLS, SRX, DTS, BRX / BTX, Rumored Models
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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.
