2012 Cadillac CTS Coupe Performance Algorithm Shifting

The award-winning 2012 Cadillac CTS Coupe blends stunning design, driving dynamics and technology in a way that delights enthusiasts and luxury-seekers alike. Inside the carefully crafted cabin, it’s all about details, with cut and-sewn accents and available ambient lighting, Sapele wood trim like that used in the finest guitars, and heated and ventilated seats. There’s even an available heated steering wheel. What’s more, you can tailor the Cadillac CTS Coupe to your personal taste by selecting either the available Luxury, Performance or Premium Collection. And when it comes to performance, CTS delivers. The 2012 Cadillac CTS Coupe performance-oriented rear or available All Wheel Drive is complemented by a suspension tuned on Germany’s famed Nürburgring racetrack to help ensure precise handling. Power comes from a 270 HP 3.0L direct injection V6 engine, or available 304 HP 3.6L direct injection V6. Both offer more power with reduced emissions compared to engines without direct injection technology. CTS Coupe with A 6-speed manual or available 6-speed automatic transmission emphasizes performance driving.

2012 Cadillac CTS Coupe

The 2012 Cadillac CTS Coupe is Power and fuel efficiency come together in the 318 HP 3.6L V6 engine. Direct-injection technology helps CTS Coupe offer more power while maintaining economy. It delivers fuel more precisely to increase the efficiency of combustion. This means less fuel is consumed and lower emissions created. Another advantage: The 3.6L V6 engine use less expensive regular (87 octane) unleaded fuel, unlike other luxury competitive cars that require premium fuel. Variable Valve Timing (VVT) allows the cam timing to change, which helps with greater efficiency and power over a wider range of engine RPMs. Cadillac CTS Coupe with A 6-speed automatic transmission that includes Performance Algorithm Shifting (PAS). PAS lets the electronic transmission controller override the automatic gear selection during closed-throttle, high-lateral acceleration maneuvers. This minimizes transmission upshifts during closed-throttle driving and cornering to maintain the correct gear. This helps eliminate transmission “busyness".

2012 Cadillac CTS Coupe Dasboard/Interior

The Cadillac CTS performance-oriented rear-wheel drive (RWD) chassis is carefully balanced for precise handling and control, and is designed with A wider rear track with wheels pushed farther out to the corners give the CTS Coupe performance handling and an aggressive stance. A short- and long-arm (SLA) 4-wheel independent Sport suspension tuned on Germany’s famed Nürburgring track to ensure the optimum balance of ride quality and performance handling. Cadillac CTS with 4-Mode Stabili Trak Electronic Stability Control System that uses sensors to detect the difference between the steering wheel angle and the direction the vehicle is turning. It can then apply quick, precise force to the appropriate brakes to help the driver control the vehicle's direction to help keep it on course. Limited-slip differential during cornering, this feature allows the rear wheels to turn at different speeds, but varies torque from left to right for optimum traction at the rear corners. Available performance-tuned All-Wheel Drive (AWD) that offers driving confidence in less-than-ideal weather conditions. AWD can transfer torque to some or all wheels, depending upon conditions. This allows the system to maximize fuel economy or traction, or to choose the appropriate combination of the two.

2012 Cadillac CTS Coupe

The Cadillac CTS available navigation system features An 8" diagonal screen that retracts into the dash, but leaves the top inch visible as the touch-screen display for the audio system. A 40 GB hard drive with 10 GB that can store approximately 2,000 songs. Pause-and-play radio much like a built-in DVR for your car stereo lets you pause live radio (including XM Radio), record up to 20 minutes of audio, then play it back at a later time. This capability remains even when the vehicle is turned off. For example, you can listen to a game on XM Radio, pause the live broadcast, then turn off the car to refuel. When you get back in, resume from where you left off. Cadillac CTS is Available Destination Download that helps you get directions from an OnStar advisor who can send the destination to the nav system. Available OnStar eNav that enables you to send Google Maps or MapQuest destinations to your nav and access them anytime. A10-speaker Bose 5.1 surround sound system Centerpoint signal processing. XM Radio with three-month trial that features exclusive entertainment, commercial-free music channels and a lot more.

This 2012 Cadillac CTS Coupe technology is combined with available Xenon High-Intensity Discharge (HID) headlamps. Adaptive Forward Lighting uses sensors to read speed and steering angle and to swivel the HID headlamps up to 15 degrees to follow the direction of travel, enhancing nighttime vision. HID headlamps, with their signature bluish light, last longer and can offer better nighttime vision. Jeweled headlamp design integrates Cadillac’s signature light-pipe technology for dramatic nighttime presence. Cadillac CTS with a unique, wide stance, sweeping roofline and chiseled bodywork, this is a sport coupe like no other. A unique “frameless” door design and keyless, auto-touch door releases that are flush-mounted combine to accentuate the Coupe’s clean lines. Vertical LED taillamps with signature light-pipe technology and a chevron-shaped stop lamp design are unmistakably Cadillac. Chromed, dual-exhaust outlets are center-mounted and are the final, dramatic touches to the rear-end styling.

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