[car fanatics]

Cadillac
Photo credit: Cadillac
June 28, 2012
By: CF staff

The all-new 2013 Cadillac ATS compact luxury sports sedan is the brand’s entry into the world’s most significant luxury car segment and is designed to challenge the world’s best premium cars. Its sophisticated driving experience is enhanced with Cadillac CUE, a comprehensive, in-vehicle user experience that merges intuitive design with industry-first controls and commands for information and media data.

Developed on an all-new, lightweight rear-drive architecture, the ATS reflects a new expression of Cadillac’s Art & Science execution philosophy, centered on a foundation of driving dynamics and mass efficiency. It is the most agile and lightweight Cadillac, with one of the lowest curb weights in the segment – less than 3,400 pounds (1,542 kg). All-wheel drive is available.

The ATS is offered as a well-equipped standard model and in Luxury, Performance and Premium collections. A broad lineup of engines – including two four-cylinders and a V-6 for North America – delivers strong power to the ATS and capitalizes on the car’s lightweight structure to complement its performance with efficiency. The optional engines include an all-new 2.0L turbocharged four-cylinder rated at 272 horsepower (203 kW) and Cadillac’s award-winning 3.6L V-6, estimated at 321 horsepower (239 kW).

A driver-focused interior with integrated technology and crafted materials complements the exterior elements and supports the ATS’s driving experience. Everything from the placement of the pedals to the position of the shifter is designed for effortless and intuitive performance driving. Available performance seats have power-adjustable bolsters to optimize lateral support during high-load cornering.

Contributing to the interior’s intuitive feel is an instrument panel that wraps into the doors and a center stack in the mid-instrument panel that flows into the center console. LED lighting for the bold gauge cluster enables clear, at-a-glance viewing in all lighting conditions, while ambient lighting accents functional elements of the console and doors.

Real wood, metal plating and carbon fiber trim and Cadillac’s cut-and-sew instrument panel, console and doors enhance the emotional connection to the ATS. Choices of many interior color themes, each with unique accent trim material, cover a wide range of flavors – from light, open and warm to black and serious, to bold, technical and sporty.

Interior color and trim choices include: Jet Black with Jet Black accents, Morello Red with Jet Black accents, Light Platinum with Brownstone accents, Caramel with Jet Black accents and Light Platinum with Jet Black accents.

[REVolution]

Nice.

[Gixser995]

It looks great in black. Also, it'll be easy to change the oil on it. Something many companies need to do lol.

I wonder if Wings knows whether this is the big, medium or small Caddy. He seems to have "trouble" with that.

[CTS-Vluvr]

Gixser995;214860 Wrote:It looks great in black. Also, it'll be easy to change the oil on it. Something many companies need to do lol.

I wonder if Wings knows whether this is the big, medium or small Caddy. He seems to have "trouble" with that.

Wings doesn't know...

[REVolution]

This car needs a dark blue. I can't believe they didn't offer a dark blue.