New York Auto Show, 2014 - Cadillac ATS Coupe
In the 1990s, car companies from the former Axis Powers competed with each other for dominance in America's luxury car segment with fast, sleek, sporty products while Cadillac, besotted with an image of overstuffed, underperforming, garish land yachts (and still making cars that fit that stereotype) sat in a corner and cried wah-wah. No more. In case you haven't noticed, Cadillac, the "Standard Of the World," has the cars and the moxie to go against the best of Germany, Italy and Japan.
The 2015 Cadillac ATS coupe is the latest weapon in Cadillac's arsenal, a stylish coupe that is taking over from the larger CTS coupe (the CTS is now just a four-door sedan) with a 3.6-liter V-6 under the hood, an automatic transmission shifting the gears, and a 0-60 time of 5.6 seconds. An optional two-liter turbo four offers the chance to get six-speed stick as well.
Not every car Cadillac has produced in its "art and science" period has been a hit - sadly, the Corvette-based XLR was a miss - but no one will confuse today's Cadillacs with the 1940s-inspired land yachts of the early postwar decades.
New York Auto Show, 2014 - Cadillac ATS Coupe
In the 1990s, car companies from the former Axis Powers competed with each other for dominance in America's luxury car segment with fast, sleek, sporty products while Cadillac, besotted with an image of overstuffed, underperforming, garish land yachts (and still making cars that fit that stereotype) sat in a corner and cried wah-wah. No more. In case you haven't noticed, Cadillac, the "Standard Of the World," has the cars and the moxie to go against the best of Germany, Italy and Japan.
The 2015 Cadillac ATS coupe is the latest weapon in Cadillac's arsenal, a stylish coupe that is taking over from the larger CTS coupe (the CTS is now just a four-door sedan) with a 3.6-liter V-6 under the hood, an automatic transmission shifting the gears, and a 0-60 time of 5.6 seconds. An optional two-liter turbo four offers the chance to get six-speed stick as well.
Not every car Cadillac has produced in its "art and science" period has been a hit - sadly, the Corvette-based XLR was a miss - but no one will confuse today's Cadillacs with the 1940s-inspired land yachts of the early postwar decades.