Today the wraps were clearly removed from the 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe. The auto is the latest archetypal to accompany the beginning CTS lineup, which additionally includes the auto that started it all, the 556-hp CTS-V cool auto and the added contempo CTS Sport Wagon. The coupe, however, is by far the best visually audible CTS, administration alone its apparatus panel, console, headlamps, advanced fenders and grille with the sedan. Admitting its wheelbase is the aforementioned as the four-door's, the auto sits two inches lower and stretches two inches beneath from tip to tail. The best touches are the hidden B-pillar, even aperture handles, center-mounted bifold exhaust, and a windshield and aback bottle that are raked at impossibly abrupt angles.
While the exoteric screams excitement, the coupe's mechanicals are what we've appear to apprehend from the CTS, which ain't a bad thing. The accepted agent at barrage will be General Motors' absolute inject 3.6-liter V6 bearing 304 hp and 273 pound-feet of torque. Apprehend 17 mpg city/26 mpg artery back commutual with GM's alternative Hydra-Matic 6L50 six-speed automated and 17/25 with the accepted Aisin six-speed manual. Both rear- and all-wheel-drive are available, as are two administration packages: a Performance amalgamation with 18-inch auto and a Summer Tire Performance amalgamation with 19-inch wheels, summer tires and beyond brakes. Cadillac additionally accepted that a V-Series alternative will be awash ancient 2010.
Although times are absolutely actual boxy at General Motors, these spy photos prove Cadillac is still acute advanced with development of its new CTS Coupe. While it will access after than originally planned due to above cost-savings measures instituted at GM, the CTS Auto is currently on agenda for a bounce or summer barrage in 2010, as a 2011 model. It will be congenital at the Lansing bulb in Michigan.
Even admitting Cadillac is deficient on the car's specifics at this time, we're told the affection of the rear-drive CTS Auto will be a 304-bhp 3.6-liter direct-injected V-6, commutual with a 6-speed automatic. A chiral manual is offered on the CTS sedan, but a antecedent at Cadillac would alone say, "it's accessible we could additionally do so on the Coupe...too aboriginal to say for sure."
As you can see from the spy photos, the assembly CTS Coupe's administration backward appreciably agnate to the aboriginal auto abstraction aboriginal apparent at the 2008 Detroit auto show. The advanced of the CTS Auto is aggregate with the sedan, but aft of the firewall the anatomy panels are unique. Even the concept's about collapsed rear window, vertical taillamps and axial bankrupt will acquisition their way into production.
While we anxiously anticipate the CTS Coupe, Cadillac will be active ablution two added analytical new models in the meantime: The CTS Sport Wagon in backward May/early June and the all-new SRX crossover this summer.
The 2010 CTS Auto is actuality referred to by GM as the focal point of Cadillac activity forward, and it absolutely anchors an abundantly able and assorted CTS lineup. There are affluence of competitors out there, however, aloof cat-and-mouse for the CTS Auto to bandy its aboriginal punch, including the abundantly competent BMW 3-Series auto and Audi A5. From this aboriginal attending at things, they should brace themselves.