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Art and science: prime 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe

- New CTS Coupe combines design with V-Series Performance
- 556-hp (415 kW) 6.2L V-8 supercharged
- Controlled six-speed manual or six-speed automatic with paddle shift on steering wheel
- Magnetic Ride Control and Brembo brakes
- New Saffron color interior accents
- For sale in early summer

DETROIT – Cadillac announced today its 2011 CTS-V Coupe, which debuted in North America Show 2010 at the Detroit International Auto. It combines the new CTS coupe with dramatic design of the 556 horsepower – (415 kW) supercharged V-8 engine from the CTS-V sedan. The result is a luxury sports coupe aimed at driving enthusiasts.

“CTS-V Coupe married with our most powerful technology and sophisticated design with our dramatic production,” Bryan Nesbitt, said Cadillac general manager. “This combination of visual and technical features designed to make a very attractive option for consumers the luxury sports car.”

CTS-V Coupe begins production this summer. Collection of technical elements and performance, including Magnetic Ride Control, a race-bred Brembo brakes and automatic transmissions are available with paddle-shift control.

V-Series coupe features a unique front grille of a car air volume, a key enabler for high performance with the ability of two-fold. It is also visually enhanced by the middle of the hood, space for the compressor, as well as specific front and rear bumpers provide identified. Like the CTS Coupe is the exhaust system at the rear, center, but with a unique twin socket. The car rolls on 19-inch cast aluminum wheels, available in painted or polished surfaces, and the Michelin Pilot Sport 2 tire performance.

CTS-V Coupe rear track is wider than about one inch from the CTS-V Sport Sedan and added to the car an aggressive stance and thus an extra measure of resilience. CTS-V sedan is currently Sports has quickly established among the world’s most powerful sedan for a break as the first production four-door cars on the road, tires with 8-minute barrier on the legendary famous Nurburgring in Germany. V-Series Coupe elongated shape and a slightly smaller mass gives the same performance level.

The interior combines the 2 +2 cabin service and luxury. Saffron, a new interior colors are available, with microfiber seat inserts and contrasting stitching on the upper fairing. Via

Cadillac DTS – 2011

Cadillac DTS luxury extended heritage of advanced technology and security by the year 2011, including DTS Platinum Edition, premium features and special finished crafts enhance their elegance.

Among the DTS “advanced safety features include Lane Departure Warning and Blind Zone Alert Side Lane Departure Warning uses a camera to provide visual and audible warning in case of unintended lane change .. Side Blind Zone Alert increase driver visibility, with radar sensors, objects in in addition to the traditional car detects the driver’s “blind spot”.

Like all models of Cadillac, Cadillac DTS Premium Maintenance Care now provides a standard, to cover oil changes, tire rotation, replacement of the engine and cabin air filters and multi-point vehicle inspection for four years or 50,000 miles. 2011 DTS also debut the ninth generation of OnStar technology, which includes voice recognition capabilities are significantly enhanced.

DTS Platinum

DTS Platinum inventory for the year 2011 and offers a much higher premium plush, with shiny chrome details including 18-inch chrome wheels, chrome grille, chrome inserts on the handle bar exterior elevator doors and exclusive Platinum badge. It has a 4.6L Northstar V-8 engine at 292 hp (218 kW) rated *, and the relocation of the performance-oriented features such as Magnetic Ride Control and Performance Algorithm.

DTS interior is distinguished by subtle details that complement each other to create a luxurious and inviting environment. A choice of two unique interiors, Light Linen over Cocoa or all-Ebony, is a light ash burl wood with decorative inlay, Tuscany leather seats full, the French cut the stitches in the door panel inserts and leather hand-stitched instrument panel comes on the top panel, console and door panels.

Large luxury package extends even to the legs and trunk, with unique floor mats and trunk mats rich material updated. A sunroof and DVD navigation system is standard, such as lighting LED interior ambient footwell. Via

CADILLAC CTS 2011 Sport Sedan

Cadillac CTS is the cornerstone of Cadillac’s product line and continue to play an important role in the rise of the brand. BMW 5 Series and Mercedes-Benz E-Class is the main rival for the CTS.

CTS-growing family in 2011 added to the CTS Coupe, Sport Wagon styles in addition to the body of CTS in 2010 – including the compressor V-Series variants for all models. Please see separate press release for detailed information about the CTS Coupe and CTS Sport Wagon.

Cadillac CTS Sport Sedan Signature exterior cues “light pipe” vertically oriented, horizontal spline lines and dihedral-shaped hood – characteristic elements of Art & Science of Cadillac design language, which helped create the brand into the 21st Century have.

Form of athletic CTS ‘marked by a statue fenders. You have side airbags extractors that recall styling element from Cadillac Sixteen concept car, and UltraView “includes double” sunroof both front and rear seats.

Seven-spoke, 17-inch wheels or available nine spoke, 18-inch wheels, high-performance CTS brake calipers and brake discs. Both painted and finished engines are available to provide a standard 17-inch wheels, the larger 18-inch wheels. available in premium multi layer coating or a very smooth surface.

In addition, the summer tire performance package for performance and a premium trim level of the CTS. Package includes 19-inch alloy wheels and polished Continental Conti SportContact2 summer tires, and unique performance suspension tuning and steering control shifts, if the vehicle is equipped with an automatic transmission.

CTS ’11 lineup includes the following new devices:

• New design with black detail fender vents in the fin
• Available rear-vision camera system with a screen in the rearview mirror or removed – if any – in navigation system
• Available heated steering wheel that comes with ventilated seats and leather steering wheel wood trim on the level of performance, if ordered with Luxury Performance Package and the Premium trim level
• Available 19-inch wheel and tire package with a new all-season tires on select rear wheel and all wheel drive model.

CTS-V Sport Sedan back to ’11, offers a combination of world demand high performance and luxury without compromise for serious driving enthusiasts. Via

2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe: New Sports Coupe Is Cadillac designs a dramatic

LOS ANGELES – Cadillac announced today that the CTS Coupe in 2011, the latest and most spectacular in a series of brand new designs to reach production. Scheduled to arrive in Cadillac dealerships in spring 2010, the CTS Coupe is a new luxury sports coupe designed for the core of the brand’s lineup has been revised.

“CTS Coupe is a new focus of the Cadillac and our ability to express both the creative and technical,” Bryan Nesbitt, said Cadillac general manager. “This should appeal to a new generation of car enthusiasts.”

Shares of CTS sport sedan coupe, 556-hp (415 kW) CTS-V and the CTS Sport Wagon The new Cadillac lineup as a basis. A high-performance V-Series Coupe this edition was also published in 2010.

Design CTS Coupe brought over almost unchanged from the concept car, introduced at the American International Auto Show in Detroit North in 2008.

2 +2 coupe has a classic layout with increasingly sophisticated technology, such as the rearview camera plus a performance-oriented suspension and rear wheel drive or all-wheel drive.

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CTS Coupe emerged as a proposal at the Cadillac design studio, where the designers design and develop the brand’s design philosophy of science and art.

“Cadillac has always been an emotional brand – it is about providing the technology regardless of the type of building,” said Max Wolff, director of exterior design for Cadillac. “CTS Coupe, it is about taking something very powerful – the CTS Sport Sedan and expands the potential of -.”

Coupe has the same wheelbase as the CTS, but the overall height of about two inches (51 mm) lower and the overall length of two inches (51 mm) shorter. Via

Cadillac Luxury Urban Concept

Cadillac introduced the concept of luxury Urban design studies to explore new types of vehicles, luxury experience in offering small size. Urban Luxury Cadillac approach complete with design features compact dimensions, and technology, Cadillac is known.

“The Cadillac Luxury Urban celebrates the concept of scale, with smart, innovative content that makes it unique, regardless of size,” said Clay Dean, director of GM Advanced Design of North American Champion and Cadillac brands. “It has a small footprint outside but inside the area.”

Developed in the Los Angeles area, where narrow, parking is limited to apartments, office buildings and even home-S is part of everyday driving, weaving, Cadillac concept iconic design elements in a way that a conventional car design avoided metropolitan areas answer the needs of motorists.

Compared with the size of the popular city car in Paris, Shanghai and London, Urban Concept show departure from the traditional luxury car design. It has space for four, with easy access to all available seats on a pair of scissors doors, which extend out and around to the front when opened. The design promotes a wide cabin that is trimmed beautiful materials and features the next generation of interactive technology. Touch pad and display projection screens where the most traditional teachings and serve as the audio and climate control systems – design features that help opening the interior for more passenger space.

“Despite its small size is the exploration of the concept of what Cadillac could in the future, as a brand to continue to focus on defining industry standards for vehicle design and integrates advanced technology,” said Don Butler, vice president of Marketing Cadillac.

Engineers have developed a concept hybrid Urban Concept to luxurious Cadillacs that the 1.0L three-cylinder turbocharged technology was developed using electrical assistance, turn on the machine / quit working, brake energy regeneration and dry dual-clutch transmission included. Based on extensive experience prototyping and production technology can be a combination of fuel economy 56 mpg in town and offers 65 mpg in highway projects, inside the luxurious vehicle size and configuration of Urban Concepts.

Cadillac SRX is a complete success for General Motors since last year’s redesigned best-selling car in the class of fast-growing luxury compact crossover. No doubt, the buyer has been wearing them attractive styling, distinctive Cadillac and a long list of equipment available. However, there are some important issues related to the 2011 Cadillac SRX, which will be broken, must be before the masses.

First, fat SRX. Weighs 200-300 pounds more than most competitors. This is even more difficult than the Lexus RX 350 bigger Thus, SRX-265-horsepower V6, the line with the other machine on paper, overwhelmed by the luxury crossover, the excessive weight. It also suffers from a conservative transmission tuning and lack of torque, the SRX feels faint when passing through or away from the stop.

Optional 300-hp V6 Turbo engine also has a bulge battle. It offers the least snorted seen as a basic machine, but the SRX is fully Turbo performance or Premium trim, at a cost of about $ 50,000. It is OK if you are interested, the Cadillac SRX offers all the features of this, but if you want something a little more modest price, you have to pay for a basic machine overwhelmed.

Another question concerns the back seat. While legroom is generous, head room, especially for passengers, because the average height of the panoramic roof is standard on all but the base SRX closely. It is a shame because if you do not have one SRX, comfortable and inviting car detailed in the classroom. Seats more comfortable than the Cadillac CTS sport sedan, and there are some features, such as ventilated front seats, which are not available to its competitors.

Overall, the 2011 Cadillac SRX is an attractive compact luxury crossover, as long as you live with poor performance and impaired rear seat. But that seems like a lot to give up. The Audi Q5, BMW X3, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo XC60 GLK350 better in many ways, and they are usually not with the punishment price when similarly equipped. SRX has managed sales order, although its leaders have joined the “Biggest Loser”. When will fall only a few hundred pounds, that’s a good chance to become a true leader of the class may be also.

NEW YORK – Today Cadillac CTS V Sport Wagon car shows, described the upcoming addition to the V-Series Performance Line. It combines performance and luxury sedan landmark CTS-V sport with dramatic design of the CTS Sport Wagon.

“The CTS-V Sport Wagon is a natural extension of both the V-Series and CTS ranks and without compromise to give car enthusiasts who want the extra space performance car,” said Don Butler, vice president of marketing Cadillac. “V-Series Sport Wagon is typical of the dramatic presence and power of Cadillac vehicles.”

The exterior is finished in Midnight Black, first seen in the Cadillac Sixteen concept, and emphasized by Liquid Silver wheels so bright and a touch of black chrome on the grille of the mesh used. Bumper spoiler, rear and center of the high-mount stop lamp are also unique for the show car.

Inside, the CTS-V Sport Wagon car show in an exclusive black leather trimmed with Alcantara accents. The top of the instrument panel and upper door panels are in the same premium leather, with a midnight closing Sapele wood accents, while the microfiber material and stitching under applicable door trim, columns, console lid, headliner and steering wheel removed. Car show has smooth black leather-covered Recaro seats with Alcantara seat inserts Installation of seats are divided in the center and accented with dark gray stitching, while the V-Series logo laser engraved on the seatbacks. Obsidian Black accents graces the center console, console, steering wheel and door panels.

2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe is beautiful. This is a striking interpretation of Cadillac’s sharp styling, and it worked with their heads of raked roofline, flat slab or surface faceting and complicated. Paint it flat black and it is something like the F-117 Stealth Fighter pilots can drive to search. Styling is subjective, of course, but most of our employees agree that the CTS Coupe combines the beauty and aggression in a way few other cars do.

But as the old adage: “Beauty is only skin deep.” Under the square plate slightly modified chassis CTS sedan and 3.6-liter V6 uplevel. The interior is almost identical as well, but with less head room and rear passenger compartment is smaller. Rear visibility is even worse than the sedan, and even the trunk area is lost. Comfort and function, it seems, has a narrow back seat to the original style.

We usually combine the inconvenience and sacrifice with increased performance, but the 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe only midpack runners. Even with the optional sport suspension, making the coupe handling skills to not increase much and deal with suffering in particular. If you are not looking for the best performance, we recommend sticking with the basic suspension.

All this sets the CTS Coupe in losses in the arena of luxury coupe. This is easily defeated by models more sophisticated, such as the Audi A5 E350, BMW 335i, Infiniti G37 coupe and Mercedes, which are all more interesting and at the same price. In terms of style, the CTS coupe stand out from the crowd, but it would be difficult to declare that each competitor knows how to draw. So if the 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe really appeals to you to know that there are more for appearance than substance.

LOS ANGELES – Today the 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe, a new set of the latest and most dramatic brand of design to meet production. Scheduled to arrive in Cadillac showrooms in spring 2010, the CTS Coupe is a new luxury sports coupe designed for the core of the brand’s lineup has been revised.

“CTS Cadillac coupe is a new focus, with an expression of both our creative and technical skills,” said Bryan Nesbitt, general manager of Cadillac. “This should appeal to a new generation of car enthusiasts.”

Stocks CTS coupe Sport Sedan, which (415 kW) 556-hp CTS-V and the CTS Sport Wagon The new Cadillac as the basis of the lineup. A high performance V-Series Coupe edition will also be published in 2010.

CTS coupe design with almost no change from the concept car introduced at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in 2008.

In the last ten years, Cadillac has gone from a great brand, a mild old school luxury car for the old-school customers in something much more contemporary, built to compete with the best premium brands from Europe. Unfortunately for General Motors, this process is only partially successful. The Escalade has been a huge success for the brand and CTS sales have both critical and commercial acclaim. The STS and SRX, the first generation but never struck a chord with the market and DTS just old.

A new SRX debuted last year, but it is time to put meat on the rest of the cast. CTS sedan, coupe and sport wagon form is one of the favorites Autoblog. This is a good time to spread, both large and small sedan. Last August we have seen, the force of the second concept car, called ATS and XTS during a visit to GM’s design studio. GM does not publicly indicate size 3-series only ATS, but XTS that today’s debut at the Detroit Auto Show. XTS Platinum concept is a preview of the new ships Cadillac, which is expected to begin production in early 2012. Read after the jump, learn everything about them.

In XTS we finally found a full-size Cadillac interpretation of the “Art & Science” design language that has the same appearance of fat in realizing the CTS features. The STS is the most simplified example of typical design and Cadillac DTS is true only version of Ville de long heated. The face of the XTS, will replace the second, derived from the 2003 Sixteen concept, including the grille and headlights that extend a slender vertical to the edge of the fender.

From there, the emergence of the concept Sixteen again, discarded. In profile, XTS short hood to the bottom rises steeply raked windshield from near the rear edge of the front wheel arch. This very long greenhouse is proportional to the body diagonal with the back light back into the short rear deck where he met with a gentle rise waist. Below the fold belt is to undermine the new Echo on the SRX, but thankfully without the fake fender that crossover.