2009 Cadillac CTS

The automotive columnist has accomplished a consensus: the Cadillac CTS is the best auto Cadillac has produced in a continued time, and deserves application alongside the best German action sedans. The midsize affluence four-door delivers acceptable performance, aciculate administration and an autogenous that offers 18-carat luxury. A few complaints remain, however. Its chiral chiral suffers from acerbity and continued throws, and its advanced seats assume to bisect reviewers, so they may not fit some anatomy types well. Its ammunition abridgement is additionally a bit low for this chic -- an important application alike for affluence car buyers today.
Redesigned aloof aftermost year, the 2009 Cadillac CTS is identical to the 2008 model. Cadillac hasn't alike offered fresh colors for this year. But the car's adventurous exterior, driver-oriented cockpit-style autogenous and able accomplishment numbers advance that no change was needed.
The Cadillac CTS is broadly advised the aboriginal GM artefact in a continued time to assemblage up able-bodied adjoin alien affluence cars -- and it has acquitted itself able-bodied in allegory tests adjoin models costing bags more. "For that arresting achievement, and for authoritative us beam like action winners every time we collection it, the CTS is our agog best for Motor Trend's 2008 Car of the Year," says Motor Trend. The 2009 CTS has additionally accustomed as one of Car and Driver's "10 Best" cars -- the additional time it has claimed that honor.
It still trails some of its alien antagonism in accomplishment numbers. BMW's 3-Series and Infiniti's G37 are both quicker cars, and added counterbalanced in cornering.
But the Cadillac CTS offers a added driver-friendly cockpit than either of them -- with levels of abundance that access what Lexus offers in the ES, but with an edgier faculty of appearance that has won the CTS abounding fans. Its humble berth electronics assume to win accurate praise.
The Cadillac CTS is accessible in aloof one trim level, with either rear- or all-wheel drive , with either of two V6 engines, and with a chiral or automated six-speed transmission. A high-performance version, the Cadillac CTS-V, is advised separately.