{"id":158,"date":"2008-09-12T07:25:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T12:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=158"},"modified":"2008-09-12T07:26:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T12:26:11","slug":"cts-not-a-saab-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/cts-not-a-saab-story\/","title":{"rendered":"CTS not a Saab story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trollhattansaab.net\/archives\/author\/admin\/\">Swade <\/a>over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trollhattansaab.net\/archives\/2008\/09\/dancing-with-the-devil-i-drive-the-2009-cadillac-cts.html\">trollhattensaabnet.com<\/a> has a nice real-world, real-person driving report on a 2009 CTS with AWD posted.\u00a0 Getting driving and impression reports from real people as opposed to jounalists can be refreshing and informative.\u00a0 For example, I like to hear professional movie reviews, but I have to keep in mind that the reviewer is watching dozens of movies very closely together, and is concerned with issues I am not.\u00a0 A real person who has just seen a movie has a lot more context in common with my experience.<\/p>\n<p>The CTS Swade drove was a 1SA AWD 09 CTS in Canada.\u00a0 He has a very good conversational writing style, so please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trollhattansaab.net\/archives\/2008\/09\/dancing-with-the-devil-i-drive-the-2009-cadillac-cts.html\">click over and read the whole article<\/a>; here is a brief excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What I can say, though, is that the CTS is a smooth operator. Engine noise is minimal, as is disturbance from any inconsistencies in the road. Despite the isolation you get from the bad stuff, there\u2019s still plenty of feel and feedback from the car, so the engineers have managed to emulate the Europeans quite well in that respect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The base standard wheels are miles behind the optional sport wheels by the way.\u00a0 So if you do select the base model this is one item I would look to &#8216;upgrade&#8217; afterward.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 127px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Base CTS wheels\" src=\"http:\/\/eogld.ecomm.gm.com\/images\/lightduty\/wheels\/08cts_p61-17painted.jpg\" alt=\"Base CTS wheel\" width=\"117\" height=\"117\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Base P61  Wheels, 17&quot; x 8&quot; (43.2 cm x 20.3 cm) painted aluminum<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 127px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sport CTS wheels\" src=\"http:\/\/eogld.ecomm.gm.com\/images\/lightduty\/wheels\/08cts_p75-18painted.jpg\" alt=\"Base CTS wheel\" width=\"117\" height=\"117\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sport P75 Wheels, 18&quot; x 8&quot; (45.7 cm x 20.3 cm) aluminum with premium multi-coat painted finish<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Cadillac CTS, redesigned in 2008, continues to charm.\u00a0 In fact, the CTS is becoming the key player in the Cadillac line, which will soon consist of the CTS, CTS-V, CTS Coupe, CTS Sport Wagon, SRX, XLR, XLR-V and Escalade(s).<\/p>\n<p>Swade also took some very nice photos of the CTS, so don&#8217;t miss clicking on those for the larger versions also.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swade over at trollhattensaabnet.com has a nice real-world, real-person driving report on a 2009 CTS with AWD posted.\u00a0 Getting driving and impression reports from real people as opposed to jounalists can be refreshing and informative.\u00a0 For example, I like to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/cts-not-a-saab-story\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-158","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\/158","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=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}