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Automotive News & Views Can GM make Cadillac the standard of the world Again?
6098 messages, Last post on Aug 14, 2009 at 4:43 PM
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Replying to: sls002 (Sep 18, 2007 6:32 am) After years of being criticized for its slapdash interior designs, General Motors has consistently improved the quality, fit and finish inside its vehicles, including the Cadillac CTS. The leather trim for components like the instrument panel, center console and the insides of the doors is now cut, wrapped and sewn entirely by hand and includes decorative French stitching found on much more expensive European luxury cars. Gauges and controls are fairly straightforward and ergonomically correct. And from folks who actually were in one: http://autos.yahoo.com/cadillac_cts-reviews_user/ Comfortable and handsomely trimmed interior Possibly the most dramatic improvement to the CTS is the upscale and coherently flowing interior, complete with classy materials and top-notch fit and finish. Cadillac’s least-expensive car certainly doesn’t feel that way, and it upstages the ’08 Mercedes C-class. It also doesn’t hurt that even with a steeply raked rear window, the CTS offers a much larger and usable back seat (the smallest Caddy is similar in size to a 5-series BMW) than those in the smaller luxury sedans it competes with price-wise.
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Replying to: 62vetteefp (Sep 18, 2007 7:07 am)
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Replying to: sls002 (Sep 17, 2007 6:57 am) S-class consumers are also needing a car that has an elan or panache. It must be very exclusive. Cadillac has not had any offerings to meet that characterization. Has it ever had?
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Replying to: xrunner2 (Sep 18, 2007 8:17 am) I think Cadillac had something in the thirties with the V16, but they have never had anything quite like that since. Cadillac has generally wanted a profitable model, not really an icon.
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Replying to: sls002 (Sep 18, 2007 7:18 am) thanks
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Replying to: 62vetteefp (Sep 18, 2007 8:31 am) A point to consider: since Cadillac has been marketing the CTS as an entry level (3-series) car, moving it upmarket needs to be done with the 2008 model on the basis that it is all new. Of course this brings up the problem of where does the STS fit then. Sure it can be put up against the 7-series, but it has not done well in comparison tests with the E-class or 5-series. I will say this, if a CTS wagon were going to be available for the 2008 model year (it won't), I would most likely have waited for it.
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Replying to: sls002 (Sep 18, 2007 1:51 pm) I do not get the mag but I can probably get one.
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I think I just saw the new CTS in Burn Notice. Not bad looking and pretty good product placement it wasn't that blatant.
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| I have noticed new CTS advertising inserts in some car magazines, kind of made to look like an article. I can't say I care for this form of advertising. | |
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