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“Cadillac XTS, options in luxury.” That would be my title for the new Cadillac XTS brochure. I love the art and flourish of a good car brochure. In the brochure is where you get to hear from Design and Marketing. You get the unadulterated vision of what the car was meant to be, why it was made, and how you can best enjoy it.
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Cadillac has the new 2013 Cadillac XTS brochure available on the XTS site. You can download it here.
RED-BLOODED. DARING. ORIGINAL. These are the kinds of luxury vehicles we build. It takes tenacity, a refusal to leave well enough alone. That is the difference between good and great. That is the difference between just making luxury vehicles, and making Cadillacs. The New Standard of the World.
This is the art of automotive writing.
The brochure also gives useful details about the new Cadillac XTS of course — the difference between the Luxury model, and the Premium collection. What the new wheels actually look like in each size.
Cadillac XTS brochure: Wheel Choices
As well as the aspirational — here is the info on the Platinum Collection, which is the all-out optioned up Cadillac XTS:
We don’t play games when it comes to luxury.
Unless, of course, it’s leapfrog.
The XTS Platinum Collection takes all the innovation, design and especially the luxury of the XTS to an even higher level. Leather envelops the instrument panel and floor console, and even flows onto the door. Opus full-leather seats are not only exceptionally supple, but so meticulously detailed that even the inside edges of their cooling perforations reveal a subtle hint of contrasting color. The Lineate wood is exclusive to Platinum, and so richly grained, it takes on extra dimension. While overhead, a microfiber-sueded headliner surrounds an UltraView sunroof that opens to the heavens above.
We don’t get enough artistic, descriptive writing in our 140 character communications these days. While I am a fan of simplicity, the finest bloom can be wonderfully detailed without losing its core simplicity. Automobile brochures attempt to capture the spirit and vision of the automobile. I enjoy that.
Meziere 55 gpm intercooler pump sounds even more pumped up than the Jabsco 29 gpm pump. Torq has a kit for the Camaro ZL1 with the pump mounted to a bracket and ready to bolt in for that app. They have been doing test and just announced the kit on Camaro5.
Meziere 55 gpm pump with bracket and wiring
After getting my Jabsco pump experiment together I appreciate that Torq is offering a complete ready to install kit for the ZL1.
The Meziere 55 gpm intercooler pump would be a remote mounted 12v pump like the Meziere Enterprises WP365S.
Meziere WP365S
I have emailed Meziere to ask for a pump performance curve, not having found one on their website. The pump performance curve shows measured output of the pump at various system resistance points. Considering the curve versus the system resistance curve would let us estimate how the pump would flow in an actual intercooler system.
Assuming that the Meziere 55 gpm intercooler pump has a higher shutoff pressure than the Jabsco pump, and a similar pump curve, it should have higher flow. Lots too many ifs until we can get a pump performance curve, but if I had to guess I would say that it might do 8-9 gpm in a system. So with my 2 heat exchanger system, and an inline tank, the OEM 8 gpm pump does 3.5 gpm, the Jabsco 29 gpm pump does 4.5 gpm, and the Meziere 55 gpm intercooler pump might do 8-9 gpm.
Keep in mind that as the flow goes up, the pressure goes up more. These are centrifugal pumps, so as the pressure goes up they have less flow. By comparing the system curve and the pump curves we can predict the spot where the pump will work, once we have the pump curve. I’ll update if Meziere shares that spec.
Torq, in concert with Meziere, is offering an intercooler pump upgrade ready-to-install kit for the Camaro ZL1. In their bench tests the kit was advantageous. The kit could be modified to work with the Cadillac STS-V or CTS-V. I have not tested the Meziere 55 gpm intercooler pump to determine exactly how it would flow in our systems. This is a more expensive pump, although I have not seen a price quote from Torq yet.