skepticman

I have an '05 CTS with the sport suspension. I test drove cars with both suspensions. The base model is bouncy over rough pavement and the steering is more numb. The sport suspension feels glued down to the road, has a slightly firmer ride, and the steering is more weighted, sharper and more precise. The 17" wheels also look much nicer than the tiny and cheap-looking 16" ones. I didn't think the base model was worth buying. You also get StabiliTrak with the sport package, which has saved me from the ditch or hitting other cars more than once. I think it was irresponsible of GM to not provide stability control as a standard feature on a powerful RWD car like the CTS. Unless your roads are incredibly beat up or you're a grandpa who values comfort over handling, you should get the sport suspension.

This looks like the original photo. The rear passenger tire looks a little low in both. The rear door looks awfully close to the read wheel opening in both, too. The STS photo shows a wider trunk and bumper, which I think looks better. http://gm.wieck.com/forms/gm/previewpage?025667

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It is a GMI guionM post from February 11th, which certainly doesn't deserve a front page link or much of any discussion now. http://www.gminsidenews.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26728

STS-V: http://www.cadillacforums.com/forums/cadil...v-series-forum/ XLR-V: http://www.cadillacforums.com/forums/cadil...v-series-forum/

Here are excerpts from my 2005 CTS Owner Manual. Traction control is not a first gen Stabilitrak. They are two separate systems that operate independently or could potentially work together. For 2005, Stabilitrak came on the sport package. I don't know how it is packaged for 2006/2007. I'm glad I have it, because it straightens my car out quickly if I am sliding in the winter. Stabilitrak® System Your vehicle may be equipped with a vehicle stability enhancement system called Stabilitrak®. It is an advanced computer controlled system that assists you with directional control of the vehicle in difficult driving conditions. Stabilitrak® activates when the computer senses a discrepancy between your intended path and the direction the vehicle is actually traveling. Stabilitrak® selectively applies braking pressure at any one of the vehicle’s brakes to help steer the vehicle in the direction which you are steering. Traction Control System (TCS) Your vehicle has a traction control system that limits wheel spin. This is especially useful in slippery road conditions. The system operates only if it senses that one or both of the rear wheels are spinning or beginning to lose traction. When this happens, the system brakes the spinning wheel(s) and/or reduces engine power to limit wheel spin.

For anyone who wants to save a local copy and has a stream dumper like mplayer, here are direct links to the videos. Preview video (38 seconds): rtsp://real.sportsline.com/cbsnews/2006/03/31/video1461002.rm Full video (1:34): rtsp://real.sportsline.com/cbsnews/2006/04/01/video1461829.rm Judging by the sloping rear roofline and the short overhang in back, this is almost certainly a coupe.

I haven't seen any official V sales numbers, but there were some posts on cadillacforums.com claiming - 2,401 in 2004 and 4,194 in 2005. That's about 6.5 and 11.5 per calendar day or about 9.2 and 16.1 per work day, ignoring holidays and vacation/sick days.

You're aware that the LS7 is a low volume engine that is built by hand? To completely replace the LS2 with the LS7 would require a big increase in volume and a big price increase for the V. Unless they make the LS7 an optional, special order engine, or if they mass produce it instead of hand building it, which would likely reduce the engine quality. LS7: The Largest, Most Powerful Small-Block Ever Built "Team members are engine-build specialists selected from GM's experimental engine lab, and they complete about 30 LS7 engines per day." LS7 Unplugged "Each engine is hand-assembled by a single technician who builds it from start to finish." "The engines are shipped to Johnson Matthey Testing in Taylor, Michigan, where they're subjected to a 20-minute "hot" test--10 minutes of no-load "break in" and 10 minutes of loaded operation. After this, the engines come back to the PBC and are ready to ship to the Corvette assembly facility in Bowling Green, Kentucky."

Some possibilities include: continuing with the LS2, the supercharged Northstar from the STS-V and XLR-V, the LS3 that is rumored to replace the LS2, the LS8, or the Ultra V-8 that is rumored to replace the Northstar. Of course, there is the possibility that the entire V series could be put on hiatus or dropped if GM's financial condition deteriorates too much.

The headline on the front page is incorrect. They registered a trademark, not a patent. They are two very different things that are govered by separate laws. It's also not exclusive to C&G. AH-HA posted on his site on 1/18 that they had registered the name and I verified it at that time by searching on the uspto.gov site. "In addition to several sources, GM also recently trademarked the Astra name under Saturn Corporation in the U.S. and Canada this past week." Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 06:33PM by Registered Commenter AH-HA

Pursuit: 180.3 long, 67.9 wide, 58 high Cobalt: 180.5 long, 67.9 wide, 55.5 high G6 coupe: 189.1 long, 70.4 wide, 56.4 high You call that much of a difference? They're close enough for the G5 coupe to be redundant.

It doesn't make sense to me for Pontiac have a rebadged Cobalt coupe when they already have the G6 coupe. It looks like the G5 coupe and the G6 coupe will be almost the same car, but on two different platforms, Epsilon and Delta. Are they even going to have a G5 GXP with the supercharged 2.0L engine and a G6 GXP coupe with the 3.9L engine?

Maybe the G5 is meant to utilize excess plant capacity after the new ION/EVOKE was killed off. Or maybe needing capacity for the G5 is the reason the ION replacement was killed off and replaced with the Opel Astra.

I was just checking the media.gm.com site and it said "Video Webcast: Buick Enclave Concept Vehicle at NAIAS, 2:10 p.m. Sunday, Jan 8, 2006." I went to the link and started the video stream under Buick. It says it's Eastern time, so that is 10 minutes from the time of this posting.