By Rob
This photo looks on the surface like a bunch of cars just sitting.
In reality, we are measuring cold-start performance – things like idle quality – as it relates to the software in the computers that direct our engines.
This was a cold, rainy fall morning – good conditions for monitoring the smoothness of the engines at idle, something really critical for Cadillac. This trip continued to a town called Charlevoix, then 250 miles or so back to our proving ground in Milford, MI.
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I just found your blog and will be visiting often! It's good to find some plain, quick stories about car development from an engineering standpoint.
Posted by: Mike | March 14, 2007 11:29 PM
How can you call it winter with rain? How can you test a car on flat roads with plowed snow?
No wonder these cars can not get up a drive way in winter.
I hope that they corrected the over controlling traction control that they have given us for the last 3 years on the car.
I also hope that they had someone over 4 foot tall design the interior.
Room for 2 is fine, but any more than that is not possible.
Perhaps they should look at Mercedes and Volvo for how to get room on the inside of a car.
Posted by: Steve | March 15, 2007 3:42 PM
Steve, how can you tell how warm it is just by looking at the picture? Teach me please, I want to impress my friends.
You're 'can't get up the driveway' problem is probably just because it is a rear-drive car you are driving. They are bottom end when talking about winter driving. Give it a break. If you need a good winter car, get an awd one.
Posted by: Dylan | March 26, 2007 10:52 PM
I'm real happy to see a all wheel drive CTS for 2008. I live in the North east and it has been very hard trying to drive here in the winter with my 2004 CTS. And the redesign is great so I'm looking forward to purchasing one this fall.
Posted by: Marshall Johnson | April 1, 2007 10:29 PM