By Zachary Filtz for "The Blog of that Filtz Guy"
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Cadillac has for a number of years made some very good decisions (cylinder shutoff) and some very bad decisions (the mediocre, small and plain Catera of the 1990s), and now they have upgraded the recipe for what could be their most important car ever: the midsize almost large luxury rear-and all-wheel-drive CTS sedan.
Subjectively, this is truly Mr. Mojo Risin himself, of course without the rock and roll and drugs: the CTS appears to have the wow-ness factor that Jim Morrison, the ill-fated singer of the 1960s group "The Doors" once possessed. Oh, and I am not the first to compare the Caddy to Morrison: Car and Driver already did.
But that is OK, because this could be the car to help Caddy get off its feet. As of now, Cadillac still is owned and operated by the General Motors corporation, and has been since the early 1900s. My point is, Cadillac has expressed interest in becoming much more independent of its mommy and daddy--that is, some rumors have suggested that it will become its own entity. Thus could mean no more big-cruiser XTS, as that it is based off an already existing GM car.
Loaded with tech that I do not even fully understand yet, it has very low gears in the upper realm of the first-for-Cadillac 8-speed automatic. A 3.6-liter V-6 appears to remain optional, while the new turbo 4-cylinder is standard.
If Cadillac has engineered this car to be as good as other critics who have actually driven the car to be, then Caddy will have no problem running its own field, and hopefully, more luxury cars that are as handsome as this is.
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