Sep

More Driving in the new 2008 Cadillac CTS

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Kelsey Mays has already given the CTS the full review treatment, but every individual writer at the GM event final week was lined up waiting to take on that new player in the entry-level luxury segment:

The original CTS was the first sign that GM had a clue and the commitment to compete with the stalwart sport sedans from Germany. I thought the styling was the right notion but clunky in execution, in ways that years of tweaks could only alleviate so much. that one is cohesive and bold and precisely what Cadillac should be doing. Ditto for the interior and particularly the driving experience. It’s genteel on the street, and on the track it nearly drove itself. Considering that a manual wasn’t available and the automatic’s gearing wasn’t fairly right for the track we were on, I was knocked out. A little increasingly backseat room would be nice, but in general the CTS is a winner. — Joe Wiesenfelder, senior editor

This new CTS is simply amazing. As much as the exterior won fans in the first-generation car, the interior in that latest model will win by the nonbelievers. The materials

are all top-notch and the center stack is a thing of beauty, particularly the optional rising nav screen.

On the road, the CTS was quiet with plenty of capability in the 3.6-liter V-6 version I tested. Acceleration from a dead stop was plenty exhilarating, and on the track the car was planted and the steering was extremely responsive. that one will be fought by when it arrives in the Cars.com fleet. — David Thomas, KickingTires editor

The CTS handled magnificently on the track with its optional performance suspension and summer tires. While hitting the corners at 60 mph, it felt just as quiet inside as whether I were putting along at 10 mph. — Joe Bruzek, Ask.cars.com