{"id":118,"date":"2008-09-09T21:03:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T04:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=118"},"modified":"2008-09-09T21:06:23","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T04:06:23","slug":"understanding-cadillac-news-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/understanding-cadillac-news-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Cadillac news coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately there have been several news \/ rumor articles on various general car sites that Cadillac may come out with a CTS Coupe V Series model (Likely), or perhaps a CTS Sport Wagon V Series model (unlikely). Certainly it is easy to see that if the new LSA 6.2L Supercharged V8 fits in the CTS-V sedan, the same wonder-powertrain can fit into the CTS Sport Wagon or CTS Coupe.
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But the 2009 Cadillac CTS-V is NOT just a CTS with a big engine option.\u00a0 It has specific suspension components, performance brakes, different hubs and wheels, and a variety of other performance related bits.\u00a0 Could Cadillac do all in and make a CTS Sport Wagon -V?\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 Does it make sense to do all that engineering work so they can see a few hundred of them?\u00a0 Nope.<\/p>\n

Now, the CTS Coupe V Series may be a different beast, as it may be the PREFERRED platform for the V-series driver.<\/p>\n

So I predict that we may see a V-series Coupe, but not a V-series Sport Wagon.\u00a0 I would be the first one to be happy for Sport Wagon fans if Cadillac does manage to produce a V-series version of every Cadillac model including the Sport Wagon.\u00a0 But I will be surprised if they do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lately there have been several news \/ rumor articles on various general car sites that Cadillac may come out with a CTS Coupe V Series model (Likely), or perhaps a CTS Sport Wagon V Series model (unlikely). Certainly it is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-info-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}