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Test drive Cadillac Cts Coupe: Eldorado heir
The portal kolesa.ru sincerely grabbed on a 300-horsepower coupe, enjoying the Cadillac balance between power and comfort, and watching the arrow of fuel levels in front of his eyes. Cadillac ... This legendary car brand, who received the name in honor of the French colonialist and founder of the city of Detroit, has been an integral symbol of America for more than a hundred years. In the second half of the twentieth century, the owners of models Deville, Seville or Fleetwood no longer had to tell others about their financial well -being. For them, Cadillac did it. And the pearl of the modeling collection was a luxurious Eldorado. For half a century, a gigantic compartment from the Golden Country was a visual embodiment of the American dream.
Times have changed. Cadillac too. Mighty V8 engines in huge bodies are no longer in fashion, and aristocratic names were replaced by mean three -letter designations. And yet, cars with the crowned coat of arms on the false radiator grille are still inspired by respect, especially now, when two -door Kaddy again appeared in the model row, nearly five -meter length.
Can the family values \u200b\u200bbe able to defend and become a worthy successor of Eldorado's traditions new Cadillac CTS Coupe?
It is very difficult to choose adjectives to describe the appearance of the Cadillakovo coupe. To say the banal is beautiful and elegant, the same as not to say anything, and these epithets do not reflect the features of the exterior of a two -door Cadillac. The new CTS Coupe is monumentally graceful. The number of sharp corners and chopped faces per square meter of body strives for infinity. And the abundance of chrome parts gives the compartment a fraction of a noble kitsch. Only the Kaddy gas tank hatch, for some unknown reasons, remained perfectly round.
Opening the huge door of Cadillac, you immediately pay attention to two things unusual for the compartment. Unusuality lies in their practicality, which for a car of this class, you must agree, is a rarity. Firstly, the door handles are hidden flush with the body, significantly reducing the ability to stain your hands. And secondly, the doors themselves are located high above the threshold, excluding the ability to hit them on the curb at the opening.
Price Cadillac CTS Coupe 2011
Cadillac CTS Coupe is supplied to our country with a single six -cylinder engine of 3.6 liters and a capacity of 304 horsepower (although 311 hp was listed in the documents of the tested car). Automatic box and richest equipment for granted. You can choose between the rear and all -wheel drive. The first option is offered for 2,089,000 rubles, the second for 2,124,000 rubles. The only option in the form of a hatch will add to the cost of 51,000 rubles.
Where the world of Cadillac is truly revealed is in the cabin. Creamy skin, wood and analog watches in a chrome edging mandatory attribute of the Luxury class car. Everything that should move in the cabin, moves only with the help of electric drives: seats, steering column, information display, even doors are deprived of the usual handles, they are replaced by buttons.
The electrified front seats Cadillac CTS Coupe with heating and ventilation are clearly designed for lovers of immense eating hamburgers and other fast foods. Even my well -fed body could not reach the rollers of lateral support. But in general, landing in a spacious front part of the compartment is convenient: huge doors, a wide interior and a good range of adjustments, allow people of any height and complexion easily. The salon sins only with a meager set of various departments for small things. Yes, and those that are, cannot boast of dimensions: a folder with documents with documents, and a small cupboard, got into the glove compartment with a creak, climbed into the glove compartment.
Calling the landing formula CTS Coupe 2+2, the Cadillacs clearly reproached. Built on the platform of the sedan of the same name, the compartment has a base of 2.88 meters, which allowed to leave the rear passengers for the legs of the space. Given the considerable width of the car, the inhabitants of the gallery will not support each other with the elbows of each other. They will support the ceiling, resting with the crown, into the litter almost horizontally, the rear window. But this is still half a worm. The main task of getting to passenger places, and then also get out. And although the front seats helpfully pushes the electric drive, he does it in American leisurely. Standing in pouring rain, such melancholy begins to annoy. The main obstacle to penetration on the rear seats was the front seat belts. It would seem that the American automakers who ate the dog at the fastening of the belts directly to the front seats’s body, it was in the Cadillakovo compartment that they decided to make a feint with ears and attached belts to the central racks, turning them, in fact, into barriers to the rear passengers.
The main in the cadillac CTS Coupe is the driver It only reassures that the philosophy of CTS Coupe assets the main role to a person behind the wheel. And playing this role is hellishly pleasant: 304 horsepower and 369 Newton meters of thrust transmitted to the rear wheels, an explosive mixture, especially in the road flooded with rain. Only the fleeting thought of the machine gun and 1.5 centimeters of the empty stroke of the gas pedal separate the cadillac from a powerful jump forward. The absorption of kilometers of the roadway to the noble roar of the V-shaped (alas, six) occurs as quickly as it is exciting. A wide range of torque, especially with manual transmission control, allows you to overtake from any speeds, without any calculation of the trajectory. The main thing is that the tachometer shooter is at least 3000 revolutions.
In corners, you need to control the traction accurately. A powerful rear -wheel drive compartment, passing under the gas, another turn, especially on a wet road, and strives to wag the stern. Not the most experienced drivers in such a situation will suffer stabilizing electronics, which, if necessary, can be completely turned off.
And yet, the Driversal excitement is not the most basic dignity of the coupe. Comfort is what always distinguished cars of this brand. And Cadillac CTS Coupe was no exception. At first, I could not even believe with what indifference this sports car on 19-inch wheels shod in low-profile rubber belongs to the quality of the roadway. Coldins, potholes and other charms of Russian roads literally disappeared into the bowels of the independent pendants of Kaddy. And excellent noise insulation even fenced off the inhabitants of the American compartment from the outside world.
And here is the CTS Coupe remains a true Cadillac is in the ability to mercilessly absorb gasoline. Even with a very calm driving manner, which for a 300-horsepower coupe was rather like a mockery, the average fuel consumption in urban conditions was not even going to fall below 17.5 liters per hundred.
Now, after spending a new Cadillac Cuts Coupe behind the wheel, you can say without remorse that the ancestors would be proud of them. Having greatly changed externally, the modern Cadillac has retained the main advantage of the premium brand breed!
We liked the Cadillac Cts Coupe
Appearance and interior, dynamics, comfort
We didn't like Cadillac Cts Coupe
High fuel consumption, close back row of seats, lacks separation for trifles
Competitors Cadillac CTS 2011 Coupe in the Russian market:
Audi A5 Coupe
Mercedes-Benz E-Class Coupe
CADILLAC CTS Coupe is provided for the Atlant-M Lakhta test, the official Cadillac dealer.
Author: Ilya Ogorodnikov
Photo: Roman Ostanin
Source: Wheel magazine [August 2011]
