{"id":13679,"date":"2012-07-06T10:56:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=13679"},"modified":"2012-07-06T10:56:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T15:56:58","slug":"cadillac-xts-weekend-test-drive-pickup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/cadillac-xts-weekend-test-drive-pickup\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadillac XTS Weekend Test Drive – Pickup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cadillac XTS weekend test drive is my kind of topic.\u00a0 Crest Cadillac<\/a> of Plano, Texas was kind enough to provide a new Cadillac XTS for a weekend test drive.\u00a0 The Cadillac XTS<\/a> is the newest Cadillac, just reaching showrooms in June.<\/p>\n

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Cadillac XTS Weekend Test Drive – Pickup<\/p><\/div>\n

Crest Cadillac is a sponsor here on CaddyInfo and has been terrific about letting me get the new Cadillacs out on the road and review them.\u00a0 They were kind enough to call when the XTS first arrived for a photo shoot<\/a>, and agreed that once they had inventory to let one off the lot we could do a test drive.<\/p>\n

Here is a shot of my daily driver STS-V after arriving; still having a blast with the V …<\/p>\n

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Cadillac XTS Weekend Test Drive – Pickup<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cadillac XTS Weekend Test Drive – First Impressions<\/h2>\n

The new XTS looks right at home in my driveway.\u00a0 The first batch of XTS’s out of the factory appear to be heavily weighted to black.\u00a0 This is a good color for the XTS.<\/p>\n

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Cadillac XTS weekend test drive – Driveway<\/p><\/div>\n

There is no gas cap on the Cadillac XTS.\u00a0 Under the gas fill door one finds just a mechanism ready to receive the pump nozzle.\u00a0 It recognizes automatically when there is no nozzle inserted and closes.\u00a0 This works very well, and clearly is the way that all the cars should go in the future.<\/p>\n

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Cadillac XTS Weekend Test Drive – Gas Cap<\/p><\/div>\n

The Cadillac XTS features the new Cadillac User Experience, with touch sensitive center console and programmable dash display.<\/p>\n

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Cadillac XTS configurable dash<\/p><\/div>\n

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I’ll apologize to Cadillac and you the Reader in advance for the dash photos — I will have to study how to get good ones with no glare and flash washout.<\/p>\n

My first impressions are this will let you setup the Cadillac XTS so that it is perfect for the information you want to see.\u00a0 I was able to rapidly add tachometer output to the heads-up display, and re-configure the dash display to include speed limit (!) and heading information.\u00a0 The dash already had a very nice small navigation inset incorporated, although a full size nav display can be seen on the center console as normal.<\/p>\n

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Cadillac XTS weather forecast<\/p><\/div>\n

A interesting feature of the XTS is a weather forecast display. It is a selection off the main center console menu, and shows current weather and the near-term forecast.\u00a0 This is handy to know, and would help with planning your trip.<\/p>\n

Summary<\/h2>\n

Smooth pickup of the Cadillac XTS, and I am looking forward to getting to know this thoroughly modern Cadillac.\u00a0 Please post any questions you have in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cadillac XTS weekend test drive is my kind of topic.\u00a0 Crest Cadillac of Plano, Texas was kind enough to provide a new Cadillac XTS for a weekend test drive.\u00a0 The Cadillac XTS is the newest Cadillac, just reaching showrooms in … 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":[6,564,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-info-news","category-test-drive","category-xts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679","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=13679"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13706,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679\/revisions\/13706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}