2025 Cadillac CTS Coupe Dimensions, Engine, Price
2025 Cadillac CTS Coupe Dimensions, Engine, Price – When I first sat in my 2015 Cadillac CTS Coupe tester, SiriusXM radio station Backspin – home to classic hip-hop and rap – was playing a song called “My Hooptie” by Sir-Mix-A-Lot. He raps about a car with its “tailpipe draggin’” and with wheels that are “Vogues on the left, Uniroyals on the right”.
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Exterior and Interior
The touchpad flips up to reveal a storage bin, perfectly sized for wallets and cell phones. It’s a neat trick, if only it wasn’t such an exercise in trial and error to flip down once you’ve deployed it. You kind of have to swipe and push down on the bottom edge at the same time; I often felt like I was about to break it off. Which, thanks to the frustration it caused, I often felt like doing. Just another example why touch surfaces just aren’t the be all, end all.
In addition to the CUE screen is a modifiable digital gauge cluster, which lets you choose from three settings: Simple, Balanced, Enhanced and Performance. What’s displayed en majeur changes depending on which mode you select; Simple, for example, puts your speed right there the middle of the cluster, in big block numbers. Performance, meanwhile, provides digitized tach and speedometer dials. It’s slick-looking, even upstaging the likes of the Jaguar XJ, which was one of the pioneers of this type of tech. Perhaps most importantly, instead of seeming like tech for the sake of tech – as CUE can, it’s genuinely useful. 2025 Cadillac CTS Coupe Dimension
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At the outset of acceleration, the CTS Coupe pulls nice and strong, but as you do get up to highway speeds, acceleration does taper off a little more than I’d like when in the calmest of the three driving modes (Touring, Sport and Snow/Ice). Switching to manual transmission and using the paddle shifters helps, but I found myself reverting to Sport mode more than I would have imagined. It’s no big deal, but I do take issue with having to select a different mode during normal driving on the highway. Having said that, the six-speed automatic transmission is in keeping with the smoothness of the engine (Vsport models come with an eight-speed auto shared with the Corvette). Shifts are quick and smooth, making the use of the paddle shifters that much more enticing.
Engine and Performance
Cadillac’s Magnetic Ride Control dampers come as standard on the Premium. They adjust on-the-fly – 1,000 times a second – to respond to the conditions of the road below. They’re also modified when selecting the different drive modes. The result – in partnership with the CTS Coupe’s segment-leading 1,763 kilo curb weight – is a surprisingly agile car on one hand, and a smoother-riding car on the other, should you set the dampers and drive mode that way. It’s fantastic, and if the engine just had a little more oomph – which it does, in Vsport form – the CTS Coupe would be pretty darn close to the complete package in terms of driving dynamics and ride quality.
So the driving dynamics are there, but what about the other side of the CTS Coupe experience? This is a luxury mid-size sedan, so it’s gotta be able to cruise comfortably and without incident. A host of electronic driver aids also come as standard, including adaptive cruise control, active lane keep assist, blind sport warning system, collision warning system, and rear cross-traffic alert which is complimented by automatic braking. On top of all that and in addition to your digital gauge cluster, there’s also a configurable head-up display reflected off the windshield, whose height can be easily adjusted by flipping a toggle switch mounted (a little too low, I must say) to the left of the steering wheel. Unlike BMW’s HUD, you can clearly see Cadillac’s take on the tech with polarized sunglasses on. 2025 Cadillac CTS Coupe Dimension
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The only button on the dash is the engine start/stop button, and a prod of it brings to life an award-winning V6 that actually sounds just this side of ornery, the quality of which, of course, depends on what you’re looking for. Power is rated at 321 hp and 275 lb-ft. of torque, the former figure up 19, the latter down 25 on the BMW 535i xDrive. However, thanks to the CTS Coupe’s naturally-aspirated powerplant, power delivery is nice and linear without the peaks and valleys associated with turbo lag and boost. 2025 Cadillac CTS Coupe Dimension
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That blind-spot system is an important one, because the wing mirrors on the CTS Coupe are just too small. Not only are they small, but their shape is in keeping with the rest of the car’s edgy design, and they’re not especially practical. No amount of adjustment left me feeling comfortable with my field of view.
So, while the blind-spot system and most of the other aids are handy and well-implemented, I did find the active lane-keep assist – whereby the car will steer itself back on line – to be a little overly aggressive. It’s the opposite of CUE’s haptic feedback stuff in that you can really feel it, as opposed to it making itself subtly present and reverting back into the shadows. You can turn the system off with the touch of a button (that’s “touch” of a button; not “press” of a button) mounted just left of the CUE display. 2025 Cadillac CTS Coupe Dimension
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It’s not the case because while the RWD Vsport can be seen as a bit of a hot-rod version (well, hot-rod light once the CTS Coupe-V arrives later this year, the AWD car is more of an everyday sled, with a sporting bent when you need it. Having said that, for a savings of just over $5,000, you can select the Performance Collection model, which gets you 19-inch wheels as standard. You lose stuff like the Premium Collection’s standard adaptive cruise control and 12.3-inch digital gauge cluster, however.
For the everyday, a host of electronic doo-dads make life easier and more comfortable, for the most part. It starts with heated and ventilated (to three levels) seats, which Cadillac says can be adjusted 20 ways up front. That’s true, if you include the headrest adjustment and the bottom seat-cushion adjustment, which are both of the manual variety. The 14-way power adjustments includes the seatback, lumbar, and seat height.
Taller drivers shouldn’t have a problem thanks to an impressive 1,081 mm of front leg room (more than a 5 Series), and 1,026 mm of headroom (more than a Lexus GS 350). That’s even with the power sunroof, which comes as standard at this level. Indeed, I remember thinking on numerous occasions just how perfect the seating position was; just a little reclined, but not so much that you can’t see adequately or reach the power-adjustable steering wheel (which automatically telescopes back when you park, making it easier to get out). Back seat passengers get 899 mm and 952 mm, respectively, which is right on par with the competition. 2025 Cadillac CTS Coupe Dimension
