Spied: CTS Wagon interior

[Saturn69]

Originally Posted by SUPERBADD75

uhhh.... so it's a CTS inside? who would've thought that?!?!

hahahaha! I thought the same thing! Show us the cargo area, we can pretty much figure out what the front seats/IP look like. Oy vey. There's news and then there's post whoring.

[Ambalanche]

Originally Posted by b4z

Visibility is already an issue with the sedan.

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Says who? I owned one and never had any rear visibility issues. Personally, I like cars with thick C/D pillars it gives them presence! I remember all the cars from the 80's with thin rear pillars and always disliked them.

[GMfan1111]

Originally Posted by poncho1982

I highly doubt that. Have you looked on used car lots lately? SUV's are finally going the way of the dinosaur.

true SUV sales have plummeted in recent years but there will still be folks who will cling to their sport utilitys to the bitter end and won't readily embrace the wagon at first. However i feel once they see the positives of this car they will start buying them

[Bvonscott]

Wonderful car. Great interior. Too bad by the time it comes out GM will be in the midst of staving off a bankruptcy and will be in third place in the US market behind Honda and Toyota

[skylark68]

I'm guessing that a huge reason the G8 wagon isn't coming here is Cadillac doesn't want competition from a cheaper priced V-8 powered competitor.

Has anyone driven the G8 back to back with the CTS? Which one has superior driving dynamics?

[goatgary]

Originally Posted by GMfan1111

agreed but the chunky rear pillars are going to make rear visibility an issue.

Pictures I'm looking at shows it comes with exterior mirrors.

Seriously....please don't tell me that twisting around in the seat to look by the D pillar (taking your eyes off the road ahead) is safer than glancing at a mirror.

[HITMAN]

no center exhaust?

[momolos]

I thought that 2009 Caddy CTS was going to have padlle shifters behind the steering wheel?

[GMfan1111]

Originally Posted by goatgary

Pictures I'm looking at shows it comes with exterior mirrors.

Seriously....please don't tell me that twisting around in the seat to look by the D pillar (taking your eyes off the road ahead) is safer than glancing at a mirror.

goat when i brought up the issue of rear visibility I wasn't referring so much to typical driving situations (though many drivers ed classes will teach using the mirrors and then a glance to the rear before changing lanes) i was referring more so to parking situations like backing out of a driveway backing into a parking space, and of course parallel parking. the chunky D pillars do create several blindspots and i hope caddy addresses this issue with either a back up camera or some other form of parking assist to make parking easier.

[blaksabb]

It has button to turn off Ultra Sonic Rear Parking Assist. They must be engineering it w/ some tow capability in mind, which would be a good thing to make it a credible alternative to SUVs.

I hope necessary structural improvements don't increase weight too much (I mean a wagon body has got to weight about 300lbs more than the sedan already).

[GMfan1111]

Originally Posted by blaksabb

It has button to turn off Ultra Sonic Rear Parking Assist. They must be engineering it w/ some tow capability in mind, which would be a good thing to make it a credible alternative to SUVs.

I hope necessary structural improvements don't increase weight too much (I mean a wagon body has got to weight about 300lbs more than the sedan already).

I hope so too the sedan is already pretty chunky as it is and the wagon body will add at least another couple hundred pounds to its total weight. While it won't be as heavy as the leviathans GM produced in the early 90's some structural changes might be needed to address the extra weight

[ral1960]

If they want to make really useful wagons, they need to add a few inches to the rear overhang. But they don't want to compete with their more profitable crossovers and SUVs. The CTS wagon will have 25 cu ft with the seat up, 11 more than the sedan, but how much of that is above the top of the seat back, where things will hit passengers in the head in an accident?

[ScottS]

U.S. pricing will range from $37,500 to $42,500.

Ouch. I was hoping a base model in the low 30's would exist. It can't be that much more to produce than a regular CTS.

[Murrow]

The use of the sedan's rear doors ruins the whole look for me. Cadillac needs to do like Audi and redesign the doors for its wagons.

[F14CRAZY]

This had better offer a manual trans, otherwise by then I should have a decent amount of points racked up on my Subaru card