Category Archives: Cadillac Models

Cadillac XTS arrives in North Texas

Posted on by
1

The Cadillac XTS’s are on the showroom and in the lot at Crest Cadillac in Plano, Texas.  Darin Partin was nice enough to email me that they had arrived, and Crest Cadillac Sales Manager Danny Gomez was on hand to point them out.  Thanks Guys!

Here is a gallery of shots of two of the Cadillac XTS models at Crest today:

Please click on any of the images in the gallery to see it full size.

The Cadillac XTS is a brand new Cadillac, just out this week.  It is an excellent mix of proven components.  The Cadillac XTS brings the new Cadillac User Experience, or CUE interior with haptic feedback.  That means that not only does the center console react as easily as using a tablet touch screen, you actually get feedback through the screen as if you had touched a physical button instead of an area of a touch screen.  Very nice touch.

The Cadillac XTS looks good in person.  There is lots of room —  I had plenty of leg room in the front or the back at 6’2″.  It looks very good in person.

The trunk is cavernous, with plenty of room for luggage, groceries for a month, or small countries.

The only nit I could see to pick at is the rear brake calipers.  The front brake calipers are beautiful and artistic and say Cadillac by Brembo.  The rear brake calipers are this sort of rough finished clamshell.


I expected rear Brembo clipers as found on my STS-V. I did note that other models of non-V Cadillacs also have this sort of plain rear caliper. So not an XTS exclusive fault.

Summary

The Cadillac XTS looks like a very good Cadillac to me.   It is the perfect car for people who want a full size yet economical, high-tech luxury car.

I would like to thank Crest Cadillac for letting me know the Cadillac XTS had arrived, and hosting my photoshoot.  Crest Cadillac is a sponsor here on CaddyInfo.com

Cadillac ATS brakes how quickly?

Posted on by
Reply

The Cadillac ATS brakes should be great — proven Brembo brakes and light weight make for good braking dynamics.  Cadillac issued a nice release featuring the Brembo performance braking system on the upcoming Cadillac ATS.  Good, makes sense to keep the chatter going until the ATS gets to the showrooms.

Cadillac ATS Brakes

When equipped with Brembo brakes, ATS’s estimated stopping distance from 60-0 mph of 129 feet [sic] is among the best in the class

But the photo caption of the article mentions:  “When equipped with Brembo brakes, ATS’s estimated stopping distance from 60-0 mph of 129 feet is among the best in the class,”

It is? No.  The Cadillac ATS brakes take 109 feet to stop from 60-0, just like the BMW 335i.

Looks like the press release needs an update; the Cadillac ATS brakes are better than advertised.  Go figure.

Brembo brakes are preferred because they are multi-piston caliper brakes.  What that means is you can enjoy more even and predictable braking.  It also means that the brakes can be more effective — leading to shorter braking distances.

Why do the Cadillac ATS brakes come from Brembo?

Brembo brakes were first used on the Cadillac V-Series, or high performance products.  In fact, the Current Cadillac XTS and Cadillac ATS have a lot of V series characteristics — performance suspensions, performance brakes.   So although an XTS-V is not planned, the premium model of XTS brings everything a traditional V series would except the power plant.

Now that the Cadillac ATS brakes, bring on that V-power

Cadillac does plan to bring out an ATS-V, perhaps as soon as next year.  The ATS-V hopefully will bring the performance power and we’ll have another race car in the V-stable.

 

Cadillac Detailing — Preparation

Posted on by
Reply

Working on some Cadillac detailing on my 2008 Cadillac STS-V.  I spend a lot of time on mods and tinkering and don’t spend enough time on grooming so I am trying to get my shine on.

Click on the thumbnails for fullsize images, then hit back to return.

Started with the wheels before dinner, since they can be hit with the sun up.  I used a wheel brush, water, and some spray-on wheel cleaner.  Even with some hard scrubbing the wheels could be cleaned up from here, and I’ll need to revisit them again.

Once the sun was behind the houses I rinsed, then used the 2-bucket method with car shampoo to quickly get enough dirt off so you can tell there is a Cadillac under there.  In the two bucket method, one bucket is clean water and one bucket is the mitt or microfiber rinse bucket.  Pull water/shampoo from the clean bucket, apply to Cadillac, rinse the mitt or microfiber out in the rinse bucket, wring it dry, repeat.  The rinse bucket gets dirty quickly, which confirms that you are pulling dirt off the car and into the rinse bucket and not into the clean bucket.

Hopefully if the weather holds I will be out before breakfast in the morning light and get more cleanup and waxing done.  I should have planned ahead and invited @berrylowman to give a master’s class in quick detailing.