Gadgetory

Cadillac is pushed and pulled and stretched the CTS every direction it possibly can sedan coupe wagon v of all the above now they've got to work on the other end of the business the five series or e class competitor and that's what they're putting a bullet in the head of the STS and the DTS and bringing out this guy the XTS they talk about it having a lot of room for grandpas let's face it there still is an older demo that loves Cadillacs in fact the cars this is replacing we're almost a third of their sales up until 2008-2009 the automotive washout so it's not a sector they can just walk away from this guy's got exceptional rear seat legroom they say good space all around but notice how it doesn't print big it just prints more substantial instead of the cars it's replacing now under the hood Zaki story we've got a 3.6 liter direct-injected v6 giving you 300 horsepower and 1727 or 1728 depending on the drive line as your EPA MPG the technology is interesting here they have cast in the exhaust manifold as part of the head that does two things it lets them say about 12 pounds on the engine and in a v6 it's aluminum that's a significant savings it also lets them optimize the exhaust flow to get more power and better scavenging out of the thing more efficiency and it's going to lead them to fewer places with a thinking break if you don't have a manifold bolted anywhere that place where it bolts up can't leak around the bolts in the gasket and all of that so they say they get several wins out of that design notice this is going to be the biggest Cadillac passenger car in the line yet without a v8 option though I'm sure that'll come later in the v-series this car is also going to boast the new Cadillac cue system the new Cadillac user experience it's got a screen that no longer pops up needlessly like it does on current Cadillacs it's much bigger it has a ribbon at the bottom and a ribbon at the top that steel from both smart phone and personal computer practice also it's got a proximity sensor so what's on the screen will change as your hand gets near it readying itself for control input same thing goes for the instrument panel about 12 inches across all LCD on a dial in the stack this guy hits the market in the spring of 2012