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Adding Style to the new CaddyInfo Forum

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One of the special features of our new CaddyInfo Cadillac Forum re-styling is that each Reader can pick their own header and footer imagery while reading the forum.
The animation gif below shows the forum sequencing through the 3 choices (unfortunately backwards from 3 to 1 but you can get the idea).

Only the header image is show for brevity; check out the CaddyInfo Cadillac Forum for the live version.

By selecting from Style 1 or Style 2 or newly added Style 3, the Reader can select from 3 sets of Header/Footer image combinations. All of them are Cadillacs of course, as this is CaddyInfo after all.

  • Style 1 has the XTS at the top and CTS Sport Wagon at the bottom.
  • Style 2 has a CTS at the top and Escalade at the bottom.
  • Style 3 has a 2003 DTS top and bottom a CTS-VR 1st Gen Racing Car at the bottom.

I added Style 3 today, and hope to have one or two more styles available so we have something that suits most any of our Readers.

I would also like to thank Sweetie of Shessothere.com for the unsolicited suggestion to rename this blog to “Cadillac Conversations”.

Also a big thanks for the rapid development of the new CaddyInfo Forum Skin by:

2ipb: Caddyinfo.com by =the-danzor on deviantART

CaddyInfo.com 12th Anniversary Make-Over

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CaddyInfo dates from Feb, 1998 when I first started some web pages about my 1992 Cadillac STS, and opened a free forum on the old beseen network to discuss.

To celebrate our upcoming 12th anniversary the Forum, Cadillac Conversations Blog, and Website are in the midst of a major make-over.  The Forum is up on new software, a new Server, and has a new professionally done skin to match the new functionality improvements.  The themes here on the Blog and on the Website have been updated to match, so that all three look to have been cut from one cloth (at least that is the intent).

Please visit the CaddyInfo Cadillac Discussion Forum and let me know you like the new look and operation (also constructive inputs welcome of course if you see things that can be improved!).

During February, 2010 we will be having Contests and Give-Aways to celebrate, so stay tuned.

Hopefully next we’ll celebrate our “V-16” in 4 years!

Of course for good measure our normally all up all the time Host/Server are bouncing this morning.  Stand by, we’ll return you to your normal CaddyInfo Goodness after this short [whatever it is they are doing to the host] break.

Re: 2012 Cadillac ATS Still in the Works

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Edmund’s InsideLine has an interesting news mention here: 2012 Cadillac ATS Still in the Works.  They show a picture of the BLS, but at least they put in a Cadillac pic.

The Cadillac ATS of course is the ‘Smaller-than-a-CTS’ BMW 3-Series Killer we are waiting for.  Hearing that it might come along as a 2012 model is startling, and seems unlikely, but would be exciting if it does.  A 2012 model of course would arrive in 2011.  Surely we would have a Concept car or rolling examples now if the ATS were really coming out next year.

Although the title of the Article mentions 2012 ATS, the text actually says “debut” in 2012, which might mean a 2013 model, or might mean a 2014 model (the XTS ‘debuted’ this year but is at least 2 years out).

No news on what chassis the ATS will arrive on.  My favorite is still the Alpha, which was to be an extended Kappa platform, or a mix of Kappa and Sigma.

Also possible is that the ATS will arrive as an AWD vehicle on the shortest Epsilon II platform.

ATS fast facts:

  • Alpha / ATS internally informally referred to as the “BMW fighter” [good]
  • small, rear-wheel drive luxury car for the Cadillac division [confirmed, good]
  • Compete head-on with the German carmaker’s 3-series sedan [yes]
  • “This car has to speak for itself,” Reuss said in a recent interview. “Before, it was all about playing defense instead of offense.” [good]
  • Now, the engineering and purchasing executives are meeting together with important suppliers to stress that GM will pay top dollar if it gets the most advanced technology before other automakers. [good; not sure what they have in mind for the ATS here, but interesting]

In terms of the debate between a folding soft-top or a folding hardtop (as found on the XLR), I would need to hear more about how much the folding hardtop compromises in terms of lost trunk space.   I assume the Cadillac Engineers are comparing how quiet they can make the soft top (a hard top would give more isolation) versus how much more compact the soft top is than the hard top.  The folding hard tops add complication, but they are becoming more and more standard on convertibles.  Convertible sales across the market as a whole are down somewhat, but I would like to see the ATS convertible arrive on schedule.

Great news that Cadillac is still planning Sedan, Coupe, and Convertible variants.  This car need to sell 100K + cars per year in order to compete with 3-Series Sales.

Read more about the Cadillac ATS in our ATS Category.