2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe at Chicago

Cadillac spokesman Nick Twork dropped by our Chicago offices this morning to take us for a spin in an early production CTS coupe. The car hits dealerships this summer, and journalists won’t get to drive it until later this spring. So, coffee in hand, we hopped in the passenger seat and learned some new tidbits about the car.

With a standard direct-injection 3.6-liter V-6, Cadillac plans to position the CTS coupe slightly upmarket of the sedan. Pricing has yet to be announced, but the 3.6-liter CTS sedan starts at $41,565 for 2010, so the coupe could start somewhere in the mid-40s.

The CTS coupe won’t be offered with the sedan’s 3.0-liter base V-6, at least for now. Its nominally wider rear track and higher final drive ratio — with automatics, 3.73 versus 3.42 in the sedan — should make for a “more lively” driving experience, Twork said. Zero-to-60 mph acceleration times could be a few tenths quicker than the 3.6-liter sedan’s mid-6-second times, he estimated.

Inside, the coupe has a unique black headliner; it’s a lighter color in the sedan. As we noted during last December’s Los Angeles Auto Show, the coupe ditches the sedan’s traditional door handles for Corvette-like electronic, button-actuated ones.

Alicia Keys gifts black Cadillac to mom on 60th birthday

Singer Alicia Keys presented her mother Teresa a new Cadillac on her 60th birthday. Keys and her beau, Swizz Beatz, at Hudson Terrace on Saturday night, feted the singer’s mama. The staff at the bash brought out 12 bottles of Vision adorned with sparklers for Teresa and Keys' man sang a special rendition of 'Happy Birthday'.

The couple then took Teresa outside, where a brand new black Cadillac was waiting on the corner, reports The New York Daily News. "It was really very sweet, they very much seemed like a family," said one partygoer.

Cadillac XTS 2012

Information on the future of GM and are virtually public (about what will come in future years), but which is still in doubt is how will the XTS , the new model Cadillac to replace the DTS .

A rumor says that the new model as the basis of their design to Sixteen Concept , a prototype that has a lot of design and category that can be drawn, still, many things for the future models of the firm. < >

This model has the same platform

Epsilon of the group (shared with the future Buick Regal and Chevrolet Impala ). Even the data model of the future is a mystery, but certainly before January will have some more specific information from it.

The

Sixteen under its long hood is a V16 engine (which is very clear we will not see the XTS ), which is not the one with the new model. It is said that the XTS will have a V8 engine very efficient and performing, which are intended to deal with the German competition.

In the images we see fine lines and sensitive

Sixteen Concept , which highlights the large grill, the length of the front (back in the 20s), big tires and a luxury that invades inside.

For now is all we know about the

XTS , but as I said earlier, we will know more about it, long before January.a

Cadillac Reveals 550-Horsepower CTS-V Sport Wagon

Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon.

Cadillac revealed its mega-horsepower CTS-V Sport Wagon two days ahead of the New York auto show’s media days, which begin unofficially with a series of parties on Tuesday night and officially on Wednesday morning.

The Sport Wagon is a station wagon that follows a tradition that had been exclusive to Europe — high performance wagons that can rival sports cars or record boast-worthy Nürburgring lap times (see Audi RS6 Avant). Nick Twork, a Cadillac spokesman, said that the show-version CTS-V wagon was also built to convince company executives — successfully, it turns out — to put the car into limited production. “We just tweaked it for the show a little,” Mr. Twork said. “It’s a business, so we have to justify what we do. People who buy it will be part of a very small club, but it’s the ultimate insider’s car.”

2011 Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon Officially Announced

The 2010 Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon will soon be joined by its own V-Series performance edition. The 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon, long rumored to be in the works, will officially go on sale towards the end of 2010 according to General Motors. The announcement clears up months of speculation as to whether the wagon – which is the first ever to be built by GM’s premier luxury division – would join the Cadillac CTS sedan in receiving a serious injection of performance and power.

While the 2010 Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon is certainly no slouch itself, with an available 3.6-liter V-6 engine generating over 300 horsepower, the CTS-V edition takes things to an entirely new level. The most obvious difference between the two models can be found under the hood, where the CTS-V Sport Wagon features a 6.2-liter V-8 engine that makes use of a supercharger to generate a startling 556 horsepower and 551 lb-ft of torque. These numbers are good enough to make the vehicle the most powerful, and quickest wagon ever built by an American car company. Given that the wagon shares as much as 85 percent of its components with the 2010 Cadillac CTS-V sedan, the paltry 200 lb weight gain associated with the covered cargo compartment means that family hauler is also identically quick. Cadillac expects zero to 60 mile per hour times under four seconds. The vehicle offers a rear-wheel drive layout matched with either a six-speed manual or a six-speed automatic transmission, with the latter featuring shift controls mounted on the steering wheel.