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what's up guys Lew here and right behind me is the brand new Cadillac ATS and as requested I'm going to give you guys a first look show you some of the technology inside because I know that's what you're interested in so without further ado let's go ahead and take a closer look at the 2013 Cadillac ATS so as you can see it's got the red coloring on this particular one you can get it in a number of different colors you have big 18-inch rims I believe they're 18-inch not all models come with the same rims this is the top-of-the-line model top trim line I believe it's around 50 grand spected start a lot lower than that in the high 30s so the first technology feature I want to mention is actually the handles you've got LED lights right inside the handles now besides being a feature to help you find your vehicle maybe in a crowded parking lot or something like that it's also a really good look and since the car features push-button start with keyless entry you don't actually even have to remove the key from your pocket you just press this little button here to lock or unlock the car assuming that the key fob is close by now the car is running right now so I don't I don't have to lock or unlock it obviously I don't even think you can lock it when the car is running so go ahead and walk around the exterior just quickly before taking a look on the inside another technology feature here is the adaptive headlights these headlights here actually going to move as you turn to help illuminate the bend as you turn around it's off there's I don't know an animal or another vehicle or something you're going to see it before you make your turn here's a closer look at the front end as you can see sharp lines in the design carrying forward the Cadillac look if you will from previous Cadillacs you have the emblem there as well I'll move around to the other side and I guess we should go ahead and jump in maybe I should talk about the engine we'll jump in the car first it's actually a little chilly outside right now this morning it's pretty early so this one is the four-cylinder model there are actually three different engines you can get in here you can get two different four cylinders this is probably the one most of you're going to be interested in if you're interested in this vehicle it's got the turbocharged 272 horse power engine to go with it you've got four-wheel drive so this is going to be a good choice I guess for those that are in northern climates and have to use this vehicle when the weather is not so nice so looking around the interior here you can see you've got all your normal controls in the normal sort of locations you've got controls on your steering wheel we've got a big display over here and everything in the center - center console here is touch screen touch enabled I should say including haptic feedback which is kind of interesting it takes a little little bit to get used to I have to admit but after you do you start to get the feel for it so everything in here responds to your touch with a little buzz much like your smartphone does and as you can see you've got your normal controls like volume here I can control volume just by swiping like this you can see volume goes up volume goes down and on top of that you've got just normal controls that aren't swipeable but will turn on you know your fans or things like that climate control you can see it's it's sort of reflected up in the screen as you touch things down here heated seats obviously are there as well I should turn off the fan actually so you guys can hear me better instead of the fed the screen also has a proximity sensor so if your hand is not near it if it doesn't sense that you want to input a press or something like that then it will have this more sleek interface where you're just seeing the song playing and you know whether you're listening to radio or you have nav on and then as I come closer like this you'll see the controls pop up so that's a kind of cool feature because you know these can look a little bit cluttered when you're not using them and not as elegant as the ride itself is now I guess we should just dive right into the technology might as well there's a push button start of course put your foot on the brake start up and and you're ready to go that's beautiful this of course has satellite radio that's what you're looking at right now but as I come closer you'll see you've also got voice activation or I should say voice controls that can control a number of different elements within the interface for media you've got a lot to choose from actually you can use USB SD card slot there's an SD card slot in the in this section over here actually I'm gonna jump right in here quickly before we continue on in here in the center console that's what this is called you've got auxilary two USBs they're tough to make out you're going to have to trust me on that there's an SD card reader and there's also a little slot over here worth mentioning where you can put your key fob in if it runs out of battery and the car won't start you can insert your fob right there as an emergency sort of protocol getting back to the dash over here so you do have SD for media as well as USB you can put a USB thumb drive in here you've also got bluetooth of course I got my Nexus 4 paired up right now so you can stream Bluetooth audio phone calls all that good stuff next what do we have next auxiliary which I mentioned before and you can just cycle through your media options there's also traditional CD and the CD player is in the glove box over here it's not actually in the dash the funny thing here is that's because the dash has a really cool feature if I touch down on the bottom right here you'll see it lifts up which is damn cool in my opinion to reveal a nice compartment nice sized compartment here which also features another USB and something that's a nice touch is that this USB is illuminated so if it's late at night and you can't see in there you can sort of see you can obviously see at night because of that illumination and you press here on the front right here I believe am i pressing the right spot there we go and it'll lower back down so a real cool way to hide your media player your smart phone anything like that as well as keeping it connected to your system while it's hidden away let's go ahead and jump back to the home menu here within the home menu you can actually move these icons around kind of once again like your smart phone so say I press and hold on settings and you'll see that all of a sudden it becomes movable I can move it over here and it'll rearrange my dash if I want to have it that way I can also move things to different pages not sure why you'd want to I know that if the car is Pandora enabled or if you have Pandora where you live you might see a Pandora icon here as well you press the home button when your fin editing an agency I've changed around the location of the icons you've got audio is the first one I guess that we should talk about the radio has XM you can browse through all your different stations in this manner here now you can also scroll using the scroll bar if you want to speed things up so there is some availability there to speed up the process of inputting your channel if I exit from here we should go ahead and look into the phone phone is pretty straightforward you've got your phone book as well as an interface for inputting phone numbers if you just want to dial in the traditional manner there's nothing interesting on this particular vehicle is the nav the nav is actually multi-touch enabled actually this whole screen is multi-touch enabled so you can you know pinch and pull like this to get closer it does take a little bit to input the data takes a little while it's kind of load up a couple different things at once because they've got traffic enabled on there and I don't actually have a route enabled right now but you can also nudge left and right it does work but it's not the fastest if you're used to a smart phone you're probably not going to be all that impressed with the reactivity of this particular you know - here but it is a little better than some of the other stuff that's on the market it doesn't even offer pinch-to-zoom at all you can go and you can nudge it a little bit - but like I said before it does take a little bit to get used to the nav itself looks really good and there are a number of POS and our had no problems using the nav and you can also use your voice to input destinations and things like that so that's pretty standard fare in in that particular area and Department but as we move over here things get a little bit more interesting and a little bit more unusual you do have a HUD HUD if you guys don't know what that is that means that you're going to have displayed up on your windshield and and I'm pretty sure well actually you can kind of make that out let me see if I can zoom in here and give you guys a closer look see that they're just floating out there that's my HUD and right now it's set to show the speed I'm traveling at as well as my rev counter there because this vehicle does also include shifters we have shifters on the steering wheel as well as down here so if you choose to use a manual mode or if you want to switch gears you can do that even though this is an automatic ride so the HUD can be configured in a number of ways depending on the height that you are you're going to want to move it around which is totally possible you can see there I can move the HUD until it will vanish at some point but I can move the HUD around into the optimal location we'll keep it right there for now maybe that's a good spot yeah and then you can also change what it displays so you can have a speed limit warning you can have the radio station you're listening to you can have the direction you're traveling in and nav so that'll also update your turns and whatnot if you do have a destination set and you're traveling on a navigation route I don't know I kind of like the look of the rev counter I've been you know trying to drive this car you know get the most out of it so I've had the the rev counter that you can also just a brightness down here in this location everything is controlled in terms of the HUD right in this location here which might be tough to make out on them you've got a clear view there you can also control a couple of other cool features down here including your lane departure warning which is pretty cool I'll explain that right now there's so much technology on this car guys it's I've already been going ten minutes and I'm not even all the way in there but you've got lane departure warning and that is probably one of my favorite features because it's unusual it's not the way that most car companies do lane departure what it is is you actually get a buzz in your seat that's right at the bottom of your seat you're going to get a vibration that lets you know if you are departing your lane without signaling so it you know if you're doing it accidentally if you're swaying if you're sleepy you're going to get a vibration on the right hand side if you're swinging to the right and a vibration on the left hand side of your seat if you're swaying to the left so very cool little alert system without annoying everyone else on the car as well you know some of those beeps get crazy now on top of that you've got a blind spot warning over on the mirror it's going to illuminate right within the mirror to let you know if there's a vehicle in your blinds that you need to be worried about so you don't switch lanes when there's another vehicle there in terms of the interior I'm kind of jumping all over the place but I just noticed the interior one feature that I like which is on the side on the doors on the side of the doors and the interior here you've got these brushed aluminum looking trim components which I think are really sweet look and you've also got really soft touch materials everywhere leather everywhere you've got the Cadillac little emblem there in the center of the seeds the seats are all leather trimmed as it as you'd expect you know a luxury vehicle all the way around I'm going to concentrate more on the technology in this particular little first look video because that's what you guys are probably most interested in on the steering wheel you've got controls for all kinds of things including volume up/down you can switch between radio stations this selector here controls this screen another screen another screen yet so this screen right here underneath the speedometer can be controlled and what you can do is if I press this here so I'm just pressing on this particular button between left and right right will access the screen towards the right now you can set that for speed I get set it for tire pressure I could set it for oil life distance to destination if I have one set travel time whoa check out this SWAT vehicle holy smokes sorry guys I had it I just had to interrupt that is a serious machine you want to mess with those guys I think they're going to Starbucks I think they need some coffee there they're up for a tough day today anyways um so as you can see here you can set it for a number of different things and then a timer fuel economy fuel range odometer and then if you want to shrink it you just press over so I press right one more time on this particular button and that will shrink it or make it larger and the same goes for the left hand side I can pick another piece of information that I choose to display on a regular basis and then I can also do the same in the center so ton tons of configuration options here and really you can set this thing up however it is that you want to use it and however it is that suits you on the left-hand side you've got your voice communication you've got this is another cool feature here worth mentioning but before I get into that heated steering wheel and a way to drop your phone calls if you choose to up here we have a distance warning for front in front of you to avoid front collisions and this is actually going to do the same thing it's going to buzz your seat if you get too close to vehicles in front of you and you can set it if it's annoying you to a couple of different methods so if I click on it you'll see the gap adjust is the way to adjust when it warns you you can set a medium gap a near gap or a far gap so depending on the way you like to drive if you like the tailgate a little more than others you can set the adjustment so you're not getting worn too often or you're getting warned just as often as you like it now as I mentioned before I didn't give you guys a look here but you do have paddle shifters not those are tough to make out yet you do have paddle shifters on there for driving slightly more aggressively if you choose to now I got to remember if I'm if I'm missing anything on this vehicle or if I hit everything oh you got a compartment down here I almost miss this little there's a cool little cubby hole there you've got your regular power outlet cigarette lighter style power outlet if you choose to charge maybe another device in this compartment here you've got a mode selector almost missed that this is more driving-related this mode selector will be reflected up on this screen and you can set between tour sport snow and ice and as I said before this is the four-wheel-drive model with the four-cylinder engine turbocharged four-cylinder engine and this particular engine puts out 272 horsepower so paired to four-wheel-drive is going to be a pretty decent vehicle to drive even you know in snowy conditions wintery conditions there is a rear-wheel drive also available which would obviously be a little bit less stable under those conditions up here you've got your standard GM stuff which let me see if I can bring it out yeah there you go you get your OnStar of course and controls for the sunroof and your lights they're pretty standard fare anyway that's a quick look I think I went over most of the technology if I forgot something well that's too bad I don't want this video to go on to too long one more thing that I almost forgot to mention is the wonderful Bose audio system inside of this vehicle not only does it sound good but it has a very cool technology feature it will automatically adjust volume levels depending on the amount of noise in the cabin so if your driving conditions change you're about to merge onto the highway and road noise goes up you're not going to have to reach for the volume buttons on your steering wheel it will automatically attempt to adjust the volume of what you're listening to so you could still hear it even as road noise increases now this feature is especially useful if you like listening at lower volumes obviously if you like to you know bump your music real loud you're still going to have to do that manually but it gives you a little bit of adjustment that happens automatically you really hardly even notice it a very smart and very cool feature that I haven't seen personally on an audio system before anyways I think that pretty much covers most of the awesome technology features on this particular ride if there's anything that I forgot let me know down in the comments section if you're familiar with this particular car if you guys enjoyed this video please remember to leave a thumbs up down below as it does help out a bunch and I'll see you guys on the next video remember I'm renovating my new office right now it'll be finished very soon and I'll be back to regular upload schedules very shortly thanks for your support as always I'll catch you guys on the next video later