Cadillac XTS Concept Car Review

CNET's Brian Cooley says that the XTS is the last step in flushing the blue hair cars out of Cadillac's lineup.

Cadillac XTS Concept Car Review Now there’s no denying Cadillac is GM’s success story over the last handful of years. No two ways about it. Part of it is a very sharp, very focused redesign of their cars. Now here’s a very large car getting that same Cadillac treatment. Bear in mind, currently you got the DTS still at the top of the line for largeness. It doesn’t look like any other Cadillac like it's got a different mother or something. Now to my mind, this is a great DTS replacement. Cadillac’s not talking their way. They’re thinking more like we’ll think what it would do with to seven-series and S-class. Well either way, how ever this is aimed, it's a vehicle that’s got a big presence, but not all that much enormousness in its dimension. For example, it's got a four-inch shorter overall length then four-inch shorter wheelbase than the current DTS, but still in the same basic size and volume package. You can see a lot of the cues of current Cadillac going on here with the bladed headlights, the sharp creases, almost got one of those four-door coupe roof lines going on here as well. In terms of the interior packaging, Cadillac says think of it not so much as a rolling country club, but a rolling executive office. So they’ve got a really sharp finely tuned look inside and just about everything is touch panel OLED. There are very few dedicated buttons in this concept, but look at that OLED instrument panel in the front. We've seen that on Jag and Land Rover, but it's still pretty cutting edge stuff, same thing would go for the center console. And here in the rear, you can see a real Cadillac signature carried over. Those motorize pop-up screens for the rear seat entertainment. We've seen that before on current production front console navigation systems. Now power for this guy, you can see right here, it's a hybrid, 3.6 liter direct injection gas V6 coupled with electric motor, all-wheel drive by the way. They’re figuring maybe 350 horsepower and about 300 foot pounds of torque. Not crazy over the top numbers, even though it's a car that is definitely a big statement car. But they believe by the time this vehicle comes to market, maybe in the few years, who knows. The costumer that it's aimed, that is going to be looking for a less ostentatious and smarter statement about a car in this category.