LAST AUTO NEWS – GM CONFIRMS: CADILLAC CTS COUPE TO ARRIVE NEXT YEAR
Last Auto Account –
The Cadillac CTS is, by a lot of accounts, the best American-made action sedan. It’s been demography the action to the BMW 3-Series for several years now, and is accepting ground. It’s high-performance edition, the CTS-V, has even topped the allegorical M3 in some allegory tests. But to absolutely beating off the German baron of the entry-level affluence segment, Cadillac would charge a CTS Auto and a auto CTS convertible.
Check off addition box. The Auto is coming.
Edmunds Inside Line reports, “Cadillac today apparent its 2011 CTS Auto in assembly form, a anniversary above-mentioned to the car’s official admission at the 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show.” The two-door CTS “will access in dealerships in bounce of 2010, and Cadillac confirms a V-Series copy of the auto will be arise afterwards the aforementioned year.”
Journalists adulation the way it looks. Jalopnik comments, “Cadillac’s advised the CTS Auto to put the wreath-bedecked affluence brand’s best bottom advanced in a bound little two-door.”
The exterior, Autoblog says, “Screams excitement.” It is “by far the a lot of visually audible CTS, administration alone its apparatus panel, console, headlamps, foreground fenders and grille with the sedan.” A abandoned fastback roofline, a block that comes to a aciculate point in the aback and even aperture handles accomplish it attending like something accursed out of a spaceship’s cannon added than something you’d esplanade at work.
Under the hood, Motor Trend notes, “The alone engine accessible is the CTS sedan’s 3.6L V-6 with capricious valve timing and absolute injection. As in the sedan, it pumps out 304 hp and 273 lb-ft of torque and with barrier weights about identical to the sedan, achievement should be about identical as well.”
Except, that is, for one acute difference. The Coupe, accessible in rear- or all-wheel-drive, will address with a six-speed chiral manual as accepted equipment. “Check out the accessory ratios,” Jalopnik notes, “specifically the final accessory ratios — and you’ll apprehend the RWD version’ll get you a faster 0-to-60 time than the CTS Sedan.”
Drivers should acquisition the berth of the CTS Auto an agreeable abode to try that 0-to-60 run. Inside Line reports, “Interior comforts cover hand-sewn accents accoutrement the door, centermost accumulator animate and apparatus animate trim, 14-way adjustable Recaro action seats, a Bose 5.1 Berth Surround audio arrangement with chip iPod/MP3 adequacy and Bluetooth, a 40-gig harder drive that allows users to abeyance and epitomize reside radio, a pop-up aeronautics arrangement from OnStar, and a back rear camera.”
It looks like annealed antagonism for the Germans. But, Autoblog notes, “There are affluence of competitors out there…just cat-and-mouse for the CTS Auto to bandy its aboriginal punch, including the abundantly competent BMW 3-Series auto and Audi A5. From this aboriginal attending at things, they should brace themselves.”
Pricing has not been announced. We’ll accompany added if it’s available, apparently afterwards next week’s Los Angeles Auto Show.
Now, the alone affair that’s missing from the CTS calendar is a drop-top model. Are you listening, Cadillac?
If you’re in the bazaar for a new car, analysis out the U.S. Account rankings of this year’s best cars, as able-bodied as this month’s best car deals.
Find this adventure interesting? If so, amuse bang “Buzz up” to let us know.