Drew Dowdell

Not February, there is something else coming for that month.

Oh come on, you XTS haters are going to let Kia get away with this without comment? Those are some lovely RWD proportions there...

you watch your mouth!

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I must have missed something.

says who?

Shotgun?

I'll be passing by Hershey around 10am regardless..... so if you're there, I'll stop.

CPO Saturn Aura

Just remember my age old quote "GM could produce a fully working model of Christ himself and people would still complain about the water to wine function only dispensing Merlot" Just look at the CTS-V. It smacks around the M5 in every measurable way. It took a 20 year old driving a manual M3 against a 78 year old in an automatic CTS-V to only lose by a very small margin, it has an interior that anyone could be proud of..... and yet we still have people whining about pushrods, rear sunshades and the lack of 103 way power seats and bringing up the Cimarron in the very first sentence of reviews. When us "Cadillac Defenders" see people attacking what looks to be a very capable Cadillac for it's target audience, I hope you'll understand why we see the need to push back with... you know... facts and stuff. If this really were a warmed over G-body DTS refresh, and looked the part, I'd be releasing the dogs right there with you. But it's not....

It took the Camaro a week of me driving it before it would even make it to my "possibly if I won the lottery" list.

I have no problems with the XTS as is, but I'd love to see this just be a design study that ultimately ends up on Zeta so a whole bunch of you can drink a nice steaming cup of STFU and still not buy it. I mean really, this much vitriol for a car that 99.9% of you couldn't afford new anyway.

Congrats! uh... what are you doing on C&G!?

Chicken/Egg The engines that have the fair fuel economy deficit are the relatively low compression pushrod V6es. Ethanol is effectively over 100 octane which means you can dial up the boost on a turbo quite a bit. The new Regal's turbo is going to be flex fuel from the factory which can be exciting from a performance standpoint. Imagine a Taurus SHO or Ford F-150 3.7t running the stuff with the boost turned way up.

Please read the whole link.

The Haldex can split torque front to rear and side to side. Now that's just uncalled for.

Well, I actually like the looks of the Scion TC, but that doesn't change the fact that what Toyota did by creating a whole separate-but-not-really brand was dumb. Same as GM was dumb for building GEO and Saturn. The difference is that I've seen the XTS in person and none of the pictures, not even my own, do it justice. I'm not the only person at NAIAS who has said this. There are some certified GM haters out there that like the XTS once they see it in person. I wasn't too concerned about people bashing the CR-Z because I've seen it in person and it's even worse than in pictures. At this point, people are being nice relative to what their reaction will be when they first see one in person.

Wouldn't the bottom of this class be the Infiniti Q-ship or the VW Phaeton? Just askin.... I don't care what kind of platform any car rides on as long as it delivers the results I want.

I too am concerned with the willingness to bash a vehicle that maybe 4 of us have seen in person.

Correlation is not causation.

Ah... now we get to the truth.....

Tahoe. Actually, it's probably from the still born Saturn Vue hybrid.

4-fix ratios and 2 E-CVTs

Who buy's LSes, S-classes, and 7-series again? Usually people over 65 and rap stars.

The Lacrosse FWD is 58/42, the Lacrosse AWD is 57/43. With a longer rump and batteries in the trunk, the XTS could easily be 55/45. I've emailed a contact at Cadillac to see if they can shed any light on this. If I'm ignoring the transverse v. longitudinal layout it's because most of the buyers will too. If the balance of the A8 and XTS are the same 55/45, what does the orientation of the engine matter?