Showing posts with label Cadillac. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cadillac. Show all posts

2014 Cadillac ELR Revealed @ 2013 Detroit Auto Show

Contributing Editor Csaba Csere gives an in-depth and comprehensive look at the 2014 Cadillac ELR from the 2013 Detroit auto show Show on the latest episode of Car and Driver: Tested.

Back in 2009, Cadillac revealed its Converj concept car here in Detroit. In the simplest terms, it was Caddy's version of the Chevy Volt. Four years later, they're about to unveil the production version and it's called the ELR.

Cadillac Urban Luxury Concept - American Cities

Cadillac Urban Luxury Concept
With the Cadillac Urban Luxury Concept, the
American manufacturer shows interest in
the niche of urban luxury
Cadillac is a name that evokes inevitably imposing sedans and 4x4. However, the Urban Luxury Concept study proves that the American manufacturer is also interested in niche urban trendy.

Despite countless attempts, Cadillac has never managed to win in Europe. His last attack was even resulted in a disaster, with the judgment of the distribution of the brand by the importer Kroymans, bankrupt.

Cadillac Escalade Hybrid Platinum - The Green Giant

Cadillac Escalade Hybrid Platinum
Cadillac Escalade Hybrid
Presented at Detroit in 2008, the Cadillac Escalade Hybrid gets under her white dress double electric motor. He can claim to be the most politically correct.

To satisfy an increasingly fond of eco products, giant Cadillac converted its flagship to electric.

2013 Luxury Sport Sedan Cadillac ATS - Back in Action

Cadillac ATS
With the ATS, Cadillac returns to the family segment,
after the dismal failure of BLS
Class family has not brought luck to Cadillac. But the American brand has not resigned: she returned to the niche with the BLS, a sedan that does not lack ambition.

You do not remember the BLS? No? Rest assured, your car culture is not necessarily failing. Sold between 2006 and 2009, the cousin of the Saab 9-3 has failed miserably.

2014 Cadillac ELR - Volt in Evening Dress

2014 Cadillac ELR
With this ELR, Cadillac adds a plug-in hybrid to its lineup
Despite their salt prices, Chevrolet Volt and Opel Ampera seem too plebeian? They now have a cousin in Cadillac ELR, both more luxurious and more efficient.

In France, the Cadillac brand remains the least confidence. But she spares no effort to block the way of the German premium manufacturers. If the network is still in its infancy, the range now extends family ATS juggernaut Escalade.

Test Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon: Sainte-Hypocrite

 Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon
With 564 hp and a six-speed manual ... break
the Cadillac CTS-V has no equivalent
With air break of good family and pristine dress, he would be given the right without confession. Yet it is a devil of acceleration, with 0-100km / h in 4 seconds.

Apart from the steering wheel back and skin enveloping seats, there is no sharp break imagine that hides under the hood a 6.2 V8 supercharged 564 hp, derived from that which drives the Corvette ZR1 (647 hp).

Test Cadillac STS 4.6 V8 Sport Luxury - Run Different

Cadillac STS 4.6 V8 Sport Luxury
Comfortable, but not agile, it also suffers from a
Cadillac perfectible traction on this version 4.6 V8
The STS large sedan at Cadillac features the typical baroque style of the brand. But the lack of diesel condemns confidentiality.

When we called Cadillac, one attached to her "Yankee" origins brand a strong visual identity is important. That said, if the STS proudly carries the style of the brand, in traffic, it can easily be confused with its sister, the CTS.

Cadillac BLS Wagon 1.9 D 150hp Elegance Against Mercedes C 200 CDI Break Classic - Authentic or Cosmopolitan?

Cadillac BLS Wagon 1.9 D 150hp Elegance Against Mercedes C 200 CDI Break Classic
Very bourgeois Mercedes C-Class and Cadillac
BLS themselves as worldly utilities ... as it should
For the sake of elegance, modern breaks often tend to overlook the practical aspects. They took refuge behind high-sounding names to justify their lack of safety. Without taking for movers, Cadillac BLS Wagon and Mercedes C-Class Estate exception to this mode.

No convoluted name in Cadillac or Mercedes: there is no shame in treating a vehicle break or wagon for the U.S.

Test Cadillac XLR-V - An Exclusive Recital

Cadillac XLR-V
Exotic, unusual, Cadillac XLR challenges passersby.
Especially in this "V", and even rarer
performance version
Not exotic enough XLR? So here is the "V" doped compressor. A gentle monster 448 hp, which sends you into the stratosphere with delight ... and you debt over twenty years.

Cross XLR, this original roadster, rival the Mercedes SL and other Lexus SC430 is a rare occurrence.