Cadillac SRX test drive since 2005 SUV

Cadillac SRX

Winter fights in the fall: either puddles, then ice. And outside the city is also snow. In general, we need an all -wheel drive machine. In addition, it is desirable that she looks rich - nevertheless, we will go to elite places. The option is clear: we take Cadillac.
Opening the door of Cadillac SRX and plunging into the world of light skin and polished tree, you hope that today nothing can break all this glead. And the long path that we had to have during this suburban dough was perceived as a pleasant walk.
After passing the first few meters, I wanted to immediately turn on the cruise control, but the red circles of road signs contained numbers much less desired, as if to say: we are still in the city, do not relax!.
And so I wanted! .. Sitting in a wide, moderately tough chair and having set up the climate in the cabin, involuntarily abstract from the outside world, with its rains-snags-lights, and you feel your head above the neighbors in the stream.
On the head does not mean at all that the landing in the SRX is high or the clearance of the machine allows you to brazenly driving into the curbs. Rather, on the contrary: outwardly, in the guise of Kaddy is more from the station wagon (a large station wagon!) Than from an SUV. But the calmness and confidence that this machine gives you, even in a dense street sag, allows you not to strain about the completely non -city dimensions of the car.
The smoothness of the stroke, the same as the SRX, boasts perhaps a ship. A large, powerful ship, which is unknown, neither transverse swing, no shaking, or at all that can break the peace of passengers. At least, coffee in an open glass, standing in one of the many cup holders dispersed along the Cadillac Salon, drove a dozen kilometers without loss.
But the comfort of the crew, who went on a trip to Cadillac, will also observe the driver himself. At least out of fear for his back of his head, which is in an inadmissible proximity to the handle above his chair. The rear passengers of such a problem are deprived of their place for plenty of place, and the seats have individual adjustment.
The car is license plate, snuggle up, stop!. Really exceeded speed? A fleeting look at the speedometer everything is fine, 90 km/h. But, I admit, on one of the sections of the road I could violate: on the other side the number of km/h recovered perceives the impassive radar, and not the driver, for whom to determine the speed by the eye, the task is not easy.
Here again, you recall the magnificent smoothness of the course and sound insulation, a good returns of a 4.0-liter V6 engine with a capacity of 255 liters. with. And a fairly clear operation of the automatic transmission (which, moreover, is ready to amuse pride by the opportunity to manually click the programs).
But this time everything worked out the chase of one of the radio stations selected on the receiver. As they say, without comment
The weather during our country trip gave a small holiday in the form of a clear sky and bright sun. He furious the curtain of the panoramic hatch in the roof, and the passengers were able to admire all this splendor, without leaving the car.
But the instrument shield, reflecting the sun's rays, desperately glanced, forcing me to peer into dials even more closely, which did not indulge in clarity. The joke on the radio made me be more attentive
Already in the parking lot, carefully studying the decoration of Cadillac SRX, I noticed that the luxurious wooden decor of the salon is adjacent to not always even lines of firmware of leather chairs. How is it American: to approach everything globally, not being distracted by the little things!
But, I admit, the SRX has much more European features than in many purebred Yankees. And this compliment did not lose his disarming charisma, Kaddy pleased with the sufficiently sharp control, and to the best of hard (not to the detriment of comfort) a configured suspension. And what is not enough for a long journey? Unless the economy: the fuel consumption indicator, despite our attempts to go calmly, did not sink below 20 liters.

 
The car was provided for the test Autocenter Atlant -M Lakhta - the official GM dealer
Text: Philip Berezin Alexander Mikhailov
Photo: Philip Berezin Alexander Mikhailov

 
 

A source: Wheel magazine [No. 123/2008]