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Test Drive Cadillac CTS Coupe: Eldorado Heir
The portal Kolesa.ru from the heartbaushaded on a 300-heavy coupe, enjoying the Cadillakov Balance between the power and comfort, and watching the fuel level arrow in his eyes. Cadillac ... This legendary car mark, who received a name in honor of the French colonizer and the 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 Deville models, Seville or Fleetwood no longer needed to tell those surrounding their financial well-being. For them, it did their Cadillac. And the pearl model collection was luxurious Eldorado. For half a century, the giant coupe from the Golden Country was a clear embodiment of the American Dream.
Times have changed. Cadillac too. Mighting V8 engines in huge bodies are no longer in fashion, and the aristocratic names were changed by pieces of three-letter designations. And yet, cars with crowned coat of arms on a falseradiator lattice still inspire respect, especially now, when a two-door Caddy appeared in the model row, without a small five-meter length.
Will the family values \u200b\u200bbe able to defend and become a worthy successor of traditions Eldorado new Cadillac CTS Coupe?
It is very difficult to choose adjectives for the description of the appearance of the Cadillakovo coupe. Say banal handsome and elegant, the same thing that does not 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 the body seeks infinity. And the abundance of chrome details gives a coupe of the noble kitsch. Only the hatch of the gas tank Caddy, for some unknown reasons, remained perfectly round.
Opening the huge door of Cadillac, immediately pay attention to two unusual things for the coupe. The unusualness lies in their practicality, which is for a car of a similar class, you agree, rarity. First, door handles are hidden flush with the body, noticeably reducing the opportunity to stain their hands. And secondly, the doors themselves are located high above the threshold, excluding the opportunity to hit them about the border when opening.
Price Cadillac CTS Coupe 2011
In our country, Cadillac CTS Coupe comes with a single six-cylinder engine of 3.6 liters and a capacity of 304 horsepower (although in the documents of the tested car there was a number 311 hp). Automatic box and richest package of granted. You can choose between rear and complete 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, so it is in the cabin. Cream leather, wood and analog clock in chrome edging. Mandatory attribute of the car class Luxury. All that should move in the cabin, moves only with the help of electric drives: seats, steering column, information display, even the doors are devoid of familiar handles, buttons replace them.
Electrified front chairs Cadillac CTS Coupe with heating and ventilation are clearly designed for lovers of immense eating hamburgers and other fast food. Even my filthy body could not reach the side support rollers. But in general, landing in a spacious front part of the coupe is convenient: huge doors, a wide interior and a good range of adjustments, allow you to easily place people any growth and a set. Suffers the salon only a meager set of various departments for small things. Yes, and those that are, it is not possible to boast of size: in the glove box with a creak, a folder with documents twisted into the tube, and a small bowl.
Calling the seating formula CTS Coupe 2 + 2, Cadillacs clearly embarrassed. Built on the platform of the eponymous sedan, the coupe has a base of 2.88 meters, which made it possible to leave enough space for the feet of the rear passengers. Given the considerable width of the car, to sign the elbows of each other. Gallery also will not be. They will sign the ceiling, resting with the painter, in the rolled almost horizontally, rear window. But this is still Polbie. The main task is to get on passenger places, and then get back. And although the front armchairs persistently moves the electric drive, he does it indefinitely. Standing under a torrential rain, such melancholy begins to annoy. The main obstacle to the penetration of the rear armchairs has become the front seat belts. It would seem that American automakers who have eaten the dog on the attachment of the belts directly to the front seats housing, it was in the Cadillakovo coupe that the phints of the ears decided to make the belts with one end to the central racks, turning them, in fact, in the rear passenger barriers.
Chief Cadillac CTS Coupe - Driver Soothes only that CTS Coupe's philosophy will assign a major role to a man behind the wheel. And playing this role is damn nice: 304 horsepower and 369 Newton meters of thrust transmitted to the rear wheels of the rattling mixture, especially on the rain-filled road. Only the fleeting thought of the machine and the 1.5 centimeter of the empty stroke of the gas pedal separated Cadillac from a powerful jump forward. The absorption of the kilometers of the roadbed under the noble roar of the V-shaped (alas, six) is as quickly as far as excitement. A wide range of torque, especially when manually controlled by transmission, allows overtaking from any speeds, without any calculation of the trajectory. The main thing is that the tachometer arrow is not lower than 3000 revolutions.
In turns, you need to manage a gentleter. The powerful rear-wheel drive coupe, passing under the gas, the next turn, especially in the wet road, it strives to wilt the feed. Not the most experienced drivers in such a situation will force the stabilizing electronics, which can be completely disconnected if necessary.
And yet, Driver Azart is not the most basic advantage of the coupe. Comfort This is what always distinguished cars of this brand. And Cadillac CTS Coupe has not exceeded. At first, I could not even believe, with what indifference this sports car on 19-inch wheels, drowning in low-profile rubber, belongs to the quality of the roadbed. Colds, potholes and other delights of Russian roads literally disappeared in the depths of independent pendants of Caddy. And excellent noise insulation and excavated the inhabitants of the American coupe from the outside world.
But in what CTS Coupe remains true Cadillac, so it is in the ability to mercinely absorb gasoline. Even with an oh-a-very calm driving manner, which for a 300-heavy coupe, rather similar to mockery, the average fuel consumption in urban conditions falling below 17.5 liters was not even going to the hundred.
Now, having spent on the wheel of the new Cadillac CTS Coupe all day, you can no remorse of conscience to say that the ancestors would be proud of them. Firmly changed outwardly, modern Cadillac retained the main dignity of the premium brand in the breed!
We liked in Cadillac CTS Coupe
Appearance and Interior, Dynamics, Comfort
We did not like in Cadillac CTS Coupe
High fuel consumption, close rear seats, lacking compartments for trifles
Competitors Cadillac CTS 2011 Coupe on the Russian market:
Audi A5 Coupe
MERCEDES-BENZ E-CLASS COUPE
Cadillac CTS Coupe is provided to the Test by Atlant-M Laht, the official Cadillac dealer.
Posted by: Ilya Ogorodnikov
Photo: Roman Stunnin
Source: Magazine "Wheel" [August 2011]
