Test Drive Cadillac CTS Coupe since 2011

Cadillac CTS Coupe. He is back

Cadillac CTS Coupe. Price: 2 052 000 r. On sale: since 2011

The last Cadillac with the body coupe was the legendary Eldorado. Six years, six long-year Cadillac did not return to the idea of \u200b\u200bthe coupe. And only in 2008 the concept car was shown on the CTS basis. The concept caused a storm of emotions, and after three years he, practically without changing, materialized in the show figures of official dealers

Test pilot
Oleg Kalaushin, 42 years old, car journalist, driving experience 23 years old, personal car - Renault Logan

Looks like. In the FAS, it really is very similar to his single-platform CTS-sedan. However, the rest is a completely different car. And let you do not embarrass the same radiator grille, head optics or front wings. These are the only elements that come from one machine to another. Having conceived his coupe, Cadillac sought to make it as far as possible not only from a technical point of view, but also visually. As a result, with the same wheelbase as the CTS-sedan, the coupe is shorter and below. In order to use the same aspiring of the image, the angle of the windshield was changed. And the visual lack of a central rack only enhances the overall perception. You will not refuse the car in the dynamicity and when it is inspected from behind. Some trapezoid detachment of exhaust pipes located in the center of the lower part of the bumper, which is worth. But if you look closely, you can see that the exhaust pipes themselves are a little further and have a traditional round cross-section, and the fact that no more than the designer is exhibited. The third stop signal looks spectacularly. Made in the form of Chevron, it not only works for improving security (such a try not to notice), but also organically fits into the overall wedge.

Fire the appearance and interior of the car. However, the coupe panel is practically no different from the sedan. Here everything is the same in the same place. Well, or almost everything. Doors This is what distinguishes these two cars. And it is not only about their quantity. We are talking about the way they are discovered. There are no pens on the CTS-compartment doors, and there is not both outside and from the inside. There are buttons. The outer hides on the reverse side in the excavation, and to open it, it is only required to touch the latter slightly. The inner is on the top of the handle, for which the door closes. That is, there is no usual handles in the car, and the opening and closing of the locks is completely entrusted with an electrician. However, the question arises immediately: how to open the door if the electrician suddenly refuses? In this case, the cabin has an emergency opening knobs located along the floor thresholds. Rug for such, and the door opens. But in order to get into the salon, the corresponding mechanical drive is also in the trunk, which can be opened by an emergency key extracting from the car keyfob.

In general, everything is thought out. By the way, if everything is in order with the electrician, then it is not necessary to extract the key from the pocket. All and all in the CTS coupe operates free hands. As not surprising, because almost everything in the car is equipped with servo drives. Is that the backs of the front and rear seats are manually folded. The first for the time to skip passengers to the second row. The second to increase the volume of the trunk. The latter, by the way, is 298 liters, which is quite acceptable for the coupe. True, there is no spawning in the car. And in the case of which they will have content with only a regular compressor.

Well, how about the back? To admit, neither to climb there, neither to get away from there pleasure does not deliver, even though the back of the front seats leans at a fairly large angle. The reason is that the head of the front armor moves forward not enough. As a result, the opening turns out to be small, and it can neither a child or a child or a sufficiently subtitle adult can be trapped into it. But it is Polwy. Much more difficult to sit here for more than an hour. It is not enough that there are practically no place for the feet and pull them out diagonally, so there is no place above the head. It is possible to attach about the glass frame or the glass itself even on a slight bone. In general, a quadruple CTS coupe can only be called with a large stretch.

On our market, this car comes with a 3.6 liter engine with a capacity of 304 liters. With. But the drive can be both rear and complete. In our case, the car was rear-wheel drive. Perhaps it is better not to think up, especially if you want to be cloudy. And although this motor is not the most powerful of those that put on CTS, still it allows you to cheer the rear wheels. True, only if you disable the thrust control system. Like the CTS-sedan, the CTS coupe suspension was set up on the famous Nürburgring highway. We did not know the car in such conditions. However, it was enough to understand on the roads of general use, it was enough to understand that the engineers managed to find the golden middle, in which the car's handling does not go into a context. Yes, CTS is not as soft, as you expect from Cadillac, but not so cruel to make the vertebra on the vertebra. Plus, thanks to a clear steering driver, the driver feels literally at the level of tactile sensations. No less informative and brakes. Well, the car dynamics, of course, deserves praise. From the slippers during the start it does not take out, but also those 6.3 seconds that are required by the car to gain 100 km / h, fly imperceptibly. As imperceptibly ended and the day we spent at Cadillac CTS Coupe Machines as interesting, so and specific. Well, what about beauty, then everyone has her own. In any case, opinions about the appearance of this car were divided.

A little story
1967 for Cadillac became an epochal. The new Eldorado Coupe not only had a drive on the front wheels, but also was built by the filling of the updated chassis. The prototype for this model was Buick Riviera and OldSmobile Toronado. Under the hood, an 8.2 liter engine was placed with a modified turbocharger, a torque converter installed next to the planetary gearbox. The TRACK MASTER transistor brake system appears, providing control over slippage (analogue of thrust control). Cadillac's journal reviews are called the most convenient and easy-to-drive car among expensive brands of German, British and American production.
 
Love not love
The mechanical door opening handle will be useful if the electrician refuses. Thoughtful
The button on the back of the front seat allows it to move it to the passenger of the second row. Busy
 
Driving
It's nice to control the machine, while the car can be both insanely daring and unquestionable obedient.
   
Salon
It is thought out to the smallest detail and very convenient, but only for the driver and front passenger.
   
Comfort
What is the long road along the highway that the short race somewhere on the closed track will be held with high comfort.
   
Safety
6 airbags, ESP, ABS.
   
Price
Copiness with competitist prices.
 
Advantages and disadvantages
+ Dynamics, brake efficiency, manageability, number of active and passive safety systems. comfort. Audio system, quality of interior materials
- Wooden steering wheel, interior assembly quality
 
Specifications
Dimensions - 4788x1883x1422 mm
Engine - gasoline, V6, 3564 cm3, 304 l.c. / 6400 min-1, 368 nm / 3400 min-1
Transmission - automatic, 6-speed
Dynamics - 241 km / h, 6.3 s to 100 km / h
Fuel consumption - 10.9 l / 100 km in mix. Cycle
Competitors - BMW 3-Series Coupe, Mercedes-Benz E-Class Coupe
 
Our opinion
Cadillac CTS Coupe Undoubtedly the car is very interesting, both from the point of view of design, and in its running characteristics, however, it seems to us, it will not be a bright future in our market, in any case, while it is present on it, like BMW and Mercedes. Their authority is undoubtedly higher.


Author: Oleg Kalaushin
Photo: Igor Kuznetsov

A source: Magazine 5 Wheel [August 2011]