{"id":9265,"date":"2011-04-23T11:09:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T16:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=9265"},"modified":"2011-04-23T11:09:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T16:09:59","slug":"quickdrive-2011-cadillac-dts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/quickdrive-2011-cadillac-dts\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickDrive: 2011 Cadillac DTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dropped my 2005 Cadillac CTS over to Crest Cadillac<\/a> in Plano for a few minor items — replace the bulb for the front blinker, oil change, chase a squeak down.\u00a0\u00a0 I grabbed a coupon off their website before I arrived.\u00a0 I know, I know — change a bulb?\u00a0 But keep in mind the front lights are buried behind layers of trim secured with bayonet clips, so I’d rather just let the Dealer handle it.<\/p>\n

The drop-off was quick and easy, and I was off in a rental \/ loaner 2011 Cadillac DTS 1SD in 20-30 minutes from when I arrived.<\/p>\n

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2011 Cadillac DTS 1SD <\/p><\/div>\n

The DTS is a handsome car, probably on its last year of production in this 2011 model.\u00a0 Front wheel drive, with a transverse Northstar V8 engine and loaded with options, it is an all-weather luxury sedan.<\/p>\n

Ran by Sam’s Club for my normal weekend commodities.\u00a0 After I got everything into the trunk it was clear that I needed more groceries.<\/p>\n

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Today's groceries don't come close to filling the trunk<\/p><\/div>\n

Love the sunroof in the DTS.\u00a0 It has a manual pull-cover, which is fine.\u00a0 The roof can either open fully, or the rear of the roof will tilt up for just the right amount of fresh-air access.\u00a0 I like the fully-open sun in my hair fresh air approach today, but I like to have options.<\/p>\n

The Loaner appears to have nav but no nav disk; odd.\u00a0 It has XM radio of course but the subscription is not turned on darn it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Overall it is a very interesting Cadillac to have for the day or weekend or however it works out, and I totally get the continued allure of this model for DTS fans.<\/p>\n

The 1SD as this example is the DTS Premium Collection, which is a fully loaded example.\u00a0 Only the 1SE Platinum Edition would have more features. Those are 17×7″ Chrometech Aluminum wheels.<\/p>\n

I am looking forward to enjoying the DTS for the rest of my weekend errands.<\/p>\n

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Dropped my 2005 Cadillac CTS over to Crest Cadillac in Plano for a few minor items — replace the bulb for the front blinker, oil change, chase a squeak down.\u00a0\u00a0 I grabbed a coupon off their website before I arrived.\u00a0 … 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":[232,6,564,189,251],"tags":[675,872],"class_list":["post-9265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dts-cadillac-models","category-site-info-news","category-test-drive","category-test-info","category-trip-report","tag-cadillac-dts","tag-test-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265","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=9265"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9282,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9265\/revisions\/9282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}