{"id":9106,"date":"2011-01-07T07:40:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T13:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=9106"},"modified":"2011-01-07T07:40:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T13:40:12","slug":"are-station-wagons-cool-again-drivers-seat-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/are-station-wagons-cool-again-drivers-seat-wsj\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Station Wagons Cool Again? &#8211; Driver&#8217;s Seat &#8211; WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Welsh at The Wall Street Journal is driving a Cadillac CTS-V\u00a0 Wagon this week and has a short piece on it here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/drivers-seat\/2011\/01\/06\/are-station-wagons-cool-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">Are Station Wagons Cool Again? &#8211; Driver&#8217;s Seat &#8211; WSJ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of a powerful, great handling station wagon strikes a lot of people as &#8220;having your cake and eating it too&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>All automobile designs are compromises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Want to go fast?\u00a0 Get more power and\/or less weight.<\/li>\n<li>Want to carry a lot of stuff?\u00a0 Get more room (and so more weight) at the expense of better performance<\/li>\n<li>Want a car that handles great?\u00a0 Get a tight suspension at the expense of a smooth ride; in some cases forego the better powerplant for better balance and lighter weight<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So what does the Cadillac CTS-V Wagon offer?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Huge power &#8212; it has a supercharged 6.2L V8 making 556hp.<\/li>\n<li>Great storage capacity \/ carrying capacity &#8212; it is a station wagon with the inherent easy to pack easy to pull out space<\/li>\n<li>Great handling &#8212; it has the V-Series magnetic suspension that makes for great handling AND smooth ride together at last<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where&#8217;s the compromise?\u00a0 Well, cash, since the CTS-V Wagon costs over US$60K.\u00a0 But if you can budget for an amazing vehicle, the Cadillac CTS-V Wagon has all the cards.\u00a0 And among people who <em>know <\/em>cars, Respect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Welsh at The Wall Street Journal is driving a Cadillac CTS-V\u00a0 Wagon this week and has a short piece on it here: Are Station Wagons Cool Again? &#8211; Driver&#8217;s Seat &#8211; WSJ. The idea of a powerful, great handling &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/are-station-wagons-cool-again-drivers-seat-wsj\/\">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":[233,144,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cts-sport-wagon","category-cts-v-cadillac-models","category-site-info-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106","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=9106"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9115,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106\/revisions\/9115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}