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Driven: 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe

 
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2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe

HI-RES GALLERY: 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe

I've had several encounters with the 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe before, including the press launch in California. But this past week with the most visually striking member of the standard CTS lineup shed new light on the car.

Living with a car in the real world is a different experience from driving it during an event. The first few hours don't always match up with what it's like to deal with a car and all its features and faults over a longer haul. So how does the CTS Coupe hold up to the rigors of the daily grind? Very well, actually.

Performance and Handling
Being a two-door, the Coupe projects a sportier image than its sedan and wagon counterparts. Despite being very similar, it gets its own tweaks to suspension, track, and tire width that make it a bit of a different creature.

First off, it handles very well for a car its size. It tends toward understeer when pushed very hard--a predictable and safe dynamic most people can deal with. But you have to push it very hard indeed to get there. Driven normally, or even with some spirit, the CTS Coupe just feels planted.

Steering weight is still a bit odd and unpredictable--at low speeds, it's almost floaty, but at highway speeds it grows rather heavy. Knowing how the wheel is going to react to inputs in any given scenario is a matter of conditioning rather than intuition.

The 306-horsepower, 3.6-liter direct-injected six-cylinder is eager to please, handled respectably by the six-speed automatic transmission, and offers plenty of oomph for freeway maneuvers. As always we could use a little more than plenty, but that's what the CTS-V is for.






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  1. By williamldavis Posted: 10/17/2010 11:22am PDT

    it looks like somthing that was designed in china
     
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