It seems not so long ago that the Cadillac brand was associated with white hair and slow, right-lane driving. Only ten years ago, the reliable but mundane DeVille still graced American streets, and America’s only true luxury brand seemed to be fading into oblivion. In recent years, however, the advent of the groundbreaking CTS and [...]
NAIAS 2013: Evolution is a precarious balancing act. In the case of the CTS, Cadillac had to be sure to walk that tightrope with the utmost care. After all, the CTS has been a hit for Cadillac and put the company in the thick of the sports sedan skirmish. Cadillac introduced the 2014 Cadillac CTS [...]
The 2013 Cadillac ATS is an all new vehicle and it already carries a heavy burden. It takes direct aim at the benchmark entry-level luxury sport sedan, the BMW 3-series. This was the price of entry into the segment. If you cannot challenge the leader, then is it even worth entering this competitive playing field? [...]
Perhaps it was climate change. Maybe a meteor hit and killed them off. Or maybe, just maybe they were wiped out by a superior species. The cars that I’ve liked over the years died out. Let’s look at some more of them. Gone to the Guillotine: CADILLAC XLR-V Badge-engineering at it’s finest. One the plus side, [...]
The new 2013 Cadillac ATS 2.0T and the BMW 335i are very similar cars. In fact both cars can be had with AWD, both cars are turbo-charged and both cars compete for the same buyer. However the BMW 335i X-Drive has two big advantages over the Cadillac ATS 2.0T. Can you guess what they are? [...]
Cadillac just put the world on notice today with the announcement of the new 3.6 liter twin-turbo V6 motor – good for 420 horses and 430 lb-ft of torque! Code name – LF3. This motor will debut in the all new 2014 Cadillac CTS later this month at the 2013 New York Auto Show. In [...]
The new 2013 Cadillac ATS can equal or match European sports sedan rivals. But, thanks to its mega-horsepower CTS-V, Cadillac is only mildly compared by some to prestigious sporty Euro nameplates such as Audi, Mercedes and BMW. After all, you can’t build mostly pure luxury cars for about 100 years, then suddenly get a sporty [...]
The winner of the North American Car of the Year is official and Cadillac nabs their first win for the 2013 Cadillac ATS. The award was announced this morning at the start of the 2013 Detroit Auto Show (NAIAS). A panel of 49 jurors from Canada and the United States whittled the possible North American [...]
The brand new 2013 Cadillac ATS is one of the most surprising cars that we’ve tested this year. Could it be that Cadillac ATS stands for “A Total Surprise”? The Cadillac ATS competes with some of the best and most popular small and sporty entry level luxury cars sold today and that includes the BWM [...]
General Motors has announced that they will be debuting the new Cadillac ELR extended range luxury coupe at next month’s North American International Auto Show on January 15th. They haven’t revealed much about this car yet, and they’re still pretty tight-lipped, but we do have this one shadowy image to whet our appetites until the [...]
The brand new 2013 Cadillac SRX and the new Lexus RX 350 F Sport are both luxury crossovers that seat 5 people and come with all-wheel-drive. In terms of price, performance and market segment the two vehicles are direct competitors. So this mashup is also a direct matchup review. And while the crossovers directly compete [...]
The all-new 2013 Cadillac XTS is a big front- or all-wheel-drive sedan based on the Buick LaCrosse and upcoming Chevrolet Impala. It replaces Cadillac’s DTS and STS models and is arguably the best Cadillac sedan ever. The XTS is handsome, despite a stubby hood. Its clean, elegant design doesn’t have the many sharp angles and [...]
General Motors isn’t screwing around when it comes to their bread and butter cars. The 2014 Chevrolet Impala is one of their more contemporary updates when it comes to completely rethinking what a large sedan is. While Chrysler is set on rear drive architecture and Ford’s Taurus is still a hefty proposition based on an older platform, [...]
I’m not the first to say it- on paper, the 2013 Cadillac ATS is a car worthy of competing against the 2013 BMW 3-series. But what’s 500 miles in an ATS like to someone who has owned two BMWs? What if you’re one who prefers German apple strudel to American apple pie, and you’re suddenly [...]
