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Test Drive: 2010 Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon – The Pickup

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Today I picked up a 2010 Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon from Crest Cadillac in Plano for a weekend test drive review. Tony Griggs of Crest met me at the front of the Dealership with the CTS Sport Wagon ready to go.

2010 Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon

This CTS Sport Wagon has a custom Vogue package with several upgrades:

  • Custom Vogue VT-371 20 inch Wheels & Vogue Tires
  • Vogue Front upper & lower mesh grill
  • Vogue Chrome door handles
  • Vogue Chrome fender slot with mesh grill

Here is the Crest Vogue Tyre Representative, Barry Rose:

Vogue Tyre Representative Barry Rose

Crest’s Delivery Expert Greg Vetrano was kind enough to describe the CTS Sport Wagon features to me. I especially like the thoughtful features in the cargo area with adjustable tie-downs, privacy screen, and the Pet Separator. More on these later.

This model is the CTS Sport Wagon Luxury Collection, with Navigation and Ultraview Sunroof as the main options.  It retails for $46,160.  The Vogue additions together are $6,673, bringing the as-reviewed total to $52,833.  This car has the efficient 3.0L Direct Injection V6 engine, for 270 hp.

I will be adding a number of articles about the Cadillac over the weekend, so stay tuned!

My Host for this test drive is Crest Cadillac of Plano, Texas.  They are located at 2701 North Central Expressway, Plano, Texas.  You can contact them by phone Toll-free at 1-866-697-9144 or locally at (972)578-7511, or on Twitter or Facebook

Who’s Who at Cadillac: Don Butler

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Don Butler of Cadillac

Name:  Don Butler

Title:  US Marketing Vice President, Cadillac (March 2010-Current)

Previous Recent Roles:

  • Vice President – Marketing and Product Planning Inrix (Privately Held; Computer Software industry) January 2010 — March 2010
  • Vice President – Global and OEM Business OnStar (Public Company; GM; Automotive industry) 2008 — January 2010 (2 years )
  • Executive Director – Truck Marketing Chevrolet Division of General Motors (Automotive industry) 2007 — 2008 (1 year )
  • Managing Director General Motors Egypt (Automotive industry) 2005 — 2007 (2 years )

Other Prior Positions: Design Engineer Corvette Electrical Systems Group, Zone Manager for Detroit Zone, Market Planner for Grand Am, Brand Planning Manager for Grand Am, Aztek Brand Manager

Education: BSEE GMI (Kettering), 1986; MBA Harvard Business School 1990

Best business advice:

It’s not how long you’ve been in the job, it’s not who you know, it’s not what you sound like when you’re presenting. Are you delivering the results? Are you accountable for what you said you would do? The people that deliver are the people who are going to be rewarded.

Posting Internationally and thinking Locally

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CaddyInfo is a Cadillac specific website focused on Cadillac automobiles.   Although a lot of my personal writing takes part in Texas, USA, certainly the website, forum, and this blog are not Texas specific, nor are they intended to be.  CaddyInfo is a web portal for the Cadillac Enthusiast anywhere.

That said, we have a nice following among Cadillac fans in a variety of places, but the best of both worlds would be to have a wide international  audience and an active local community of Cadillac fans.

Interestingly, thinking locally tends to drive back toward traditional media choices — newspaper and radio — as well as new media choices like Tweetups.

Cadillac Clubs and automobile clubs and get togethers of course span old and new.

Please comment and let me know if you have found great solutions for developing local impact and reach as well as reaching the www anytime anywhere audience.