Did You Know The Cadillac CTS Is Motor Trend’s Car Of The Year?

Well, it has finally happened. General Motors has taken home the Golden Calipers as Motor Trend Magazine’s coveted Car of the Year for the first time since the Chevrolet Corvette won back in 1998. According to Motor Trend, “GM has leapt…into the inner sanctum marked ‘The World’s Finest Cars’. For that remarkable achievement, and for making us grin like lottery winners every time we drove it, the Cadillac CTS is our enthusiastic choice for 2008 Motor Trend Car of the Year. Not since Neil and Buzz spiked Old Glory into the lunar dust in 1969, have red, white, and blue ambition and technological prowess looked so good.”

Motor Trend Continues: “The CTS’s winning ways go far beyond its fetching façade. Not only is the CTS the star of a new GM revival, (including such standouts as the 2008 Chevy Malibu and Buick Enclave just to name two) it is a true world car, tested from the Nurburgring in Germany to China, and sold across the globe. Base price is just $32,990, including a 263 horsepower VVT V6, (a 304 horse direct injection version is optional), 8 speaker Bose Audio, 17 inch wheels, and dual zone climate control. By comparison you’ll pay over $33,000 for a base BMW 3 series sedan with just 230 horses, and north of $45,000 for the more comparably sized BMW 528i. GM’s naturally aspirated direct injection V6 enables more power than the twin turbo BMW 535i.”

Cadillac’s new CTS has a lot of things that make it stand out. A 40 Gigabyte hard drive that will play thousands of songs you have stored on it, is available. Or you could record programming directly from your Bose sound system. Ambient lighting offers the ultimate in interior lighting, making it easy to read gauges and find the controls you are looking for, while not compromising your view of the road. Adaptive forward lighting will provide the best possible view of the road ahead at night, giving you a visual lead into turns. An optional pop-up eight-inch, full screen VGA rises out of the center stack. There is also a two row, ultra view sun roof system, available infotainment system on par with the best in the world, and optional “pipe lights”, positioning lamps that deliver distinctive nighttime aesthetics. As well there is OnStar, which can save your life by calling emergency personnel and dispatching them to your location in case of an accident.

As the commercial says, “When you turn your car on, does it return the favor?” The CTS definitely does. I believe Motor Trend put it best when they said, “News flash to automakers in Germany and Japan: The Eagle has landed.”