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Long-serving automotive journalist Phil Berg joins regulars Chris, Sam, and Dan to chew over some recent items. Starting us off, the car we all want in our driveways, the Cadillac CTS-V Sportwagon continues to be grist for the rumormill. Staying with GM, we move on to the debut of the Buick R...
Tue, Nov 17 | from Autoblog
Cadillac, by way of Bob "Too Cool to Live, Too Young to Die" Lutz, just confirmed that the already-kinda-confirmed Cadillac CTS-V wagon will see production. In other news, our heads just exploded. 556 supercharged horsepower, five doors, and rear-wheel drive. And it's actually going to h...
Mon, Nov 16 | from Jalopnik
Former Car and Driver Editor-in-Chief Csaba Csere came out to verify the cars were indeed stock sedans and keep an eye out for any potential cheating in the pits. A few moments ago Csaba delivered the results and Michael Cooper of Long Island, New York posted a 2:50.424 in his BMW M3 sedan -- ve...
Thu, Oct 29 | from Automobile Magazine
It appears GM, even a just-emerged-from-bankruptcy GM, still has the power to beat a blogger. Our Wes Siler, in a $41,000 Mitsubishi EVO, has fallen to "Maximum" Bob Lutz driving a $60,000+ Cadillac CTS-V. Still, there is the issue of that BMW M3 to deal with...
Thu, Oct 29 | from Jalopnik
The plain-jane Specter Werks Corvette GTR is a pretty sweet ride on it's own, but even with the tuned Z06 mill kicking out 535 HP and 530 lb-ft of torque, it fell short of the embolism-inducing 638 HP and 604 lb-ft of torque in the ZR1. Quickest way to address that is to talk to Lingenfelter and d...
Wed, Oct 28 | from Jalopnik
The taillamps alone are worth the price of admission.Now that General Motors is back from the brink, Cadillac must roll up its monogrammed sleeves to move more semiprecious metal. Toward that end, the new SRX gets the brand's first turbo engine, the stunning CTS coupe is scheduled to arriv...
Thu, Oct 8 | from Automobile Magazine
Fong's/Fiat's strategy raises several problems. First, even Cadillac has struggled to move back upmarket. How will Chrysler pull it off? Cadillac's rear-drive combined STS/DTS replacement has been shelved in favor of the front-drive based XTS, and the brand's Western European assa...
Fri, Sep 25 | from Motor Trend Blog
The base 3.0-liter V6 makes 270HP and our optional 304 HP direct injection 3.6-liter V6 balanced power and smoothness; there's significant thrust underneath the grown-up physique. Sadly, the manual transmission won't be available in the Sport Wagon, but the automatic transmission is w...
Sun, Aug 16 | from Jalopnik
The fact that GM went through these tumultuous times without a leasing program made matters even worse, but that's about to be rectified. GM is teaming up with US Bank on a pilot leasing program in Michigan, Ohio, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. Already underway and set to run through A...
Mon, Aug 3 | from Autoblog
Where the old car skewed more towards tall wagon, this new SRX is more SUV. That's thanks to the forthcoming 2010 Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon, which covers the wagon bases, leaving the SRX free to focus on competing more directly with established SUVs while still giving Cadillac an offering i...
Mon, Jun 29 | from Jalopnik
2009 Infiniti G37 Review press release) Other models, such as the Audi A4/A5, Cadillac CTS and Mercedes-Benz C-Class, have their own particular strengths and are well worth taking for a spin. But the G37 is definitely worthy of your consideration. Its unification of performance, ...
Sun, Jun 7 | from Autochannel
The multi-port fuel-injected 3.6-liter V-6 departs the CTS line for 2010, replaced by the standard 3.0-liter gas direct-injection V-6, and it's rated 270 horsepower (+5 horsepower versus the SRX) and 223 pound-feet in the CTS wagon and sedan. The 304-horsepower 3.6-liter direct-inject...
Wed, May 27 | from Motor Trend Blog
DETROIT - When General Motors announced last year it was canceling its "Ultra V-8" project, the high-tech engine designed to replace the aged Cadillac Northstar engine, an insider assured me Cadillac would have a V-8 going forth. There's the supercharged 6.2-liter supercharged small b...
Wed, Mar 11 | from Motor Trend Blog
Whata s new, highlights, and safety info for the 2009 Cadillac CTS. January 2009 Introduction Arguably the best GM car available in North America, the Cadillac CTS is proof that Cadillac can build a world-class ...
Sat, Jan 24 | from topix.com
Voice of America MI - The new version of the Cadillac SRX is being moved from the Lansing Grand River plant to Mexico, and the Cadillac CTS Coupe that was to have gone into ... Video: Your Money: Detroit Auto Show AssociatedPress DETROIT AUTO SHOW: WHAT'S NEW? Niagara Falls Review
Wed, Jan 14 | from Lansing State Journal
If I were to tell you GM is the new BMW you’d probably laugh at me. But driving the 2009 Pontiac G8 GXP just a couple of months after the 2009 Cadillac CTS-V and Corvette ZR1, that’s exactly what I’m thinking. Equipped with a 6.3-liter, LS3 V8 making 415 HP and 415 lb-ft of torque, the G8 GXP isn’t ju...
Thu, Nov 20 | from Jalopnik
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