A Cadillac CTS 3.6 Coupe, seen in central Beijing in 2019. And what a car it is! Cadillacs of this era were all about in-your-face bling, and the CTS has a lot of that, with the enormous grille shining like the sun. This example has proper bling colors too: silver with darkened windows and fitted with big silver alloy wheels.
The large Cadillac logo was itself surrounded by some extra shine.
The Cadillac CTS Coupe was a two-door variant of the second generation Cadillac CTS sedan. The CTS Coupe was made for only four years, from 2011 until 2014. The market just didn’t dig an expensive fat Cadillac coupe, and the market was wrong.
It was a masterful designed vehicle with a very strong stance and near-perfect proportions with frameless doors and a hidden door handle.
The interior was pretty cool too, with luxurious sport seats and a sporty instrument panel with three main dials. The center stack is a tad underwhelming, with a clock that seems way too large and an old-school CD tray prominent in the middle.
The Cadillac CTS Coupe was officially sold in China as an import. There were two variants: the 3.6 Coupe like we have here and the super fast 6.2L CTS-V Coupe. The 3.6 was priced at 648.000 yuan, which was crazy money already. But the 6.2 went totally mad with a price of 1.28 million yuan! They were both overpriced to the max and it wasn’t a wonder that it sold very poorly.
The 3.6 model was powered by a 3.6 liter V6 engine with an output of 322 hp and 373 Nm. Gearbox was a six-speed manual sending horses to the rear wheels. Top speed was 241 km/h and 0-100 was gone in 7.3 seconds. Serious power and serious speed!
The sharp-shaped rear with a single central exhaust pipe and brilliantly designed rear lights. Note the fake ‘V’ badge on the right. No need really, even in 3.6 form the CTS is cool enough. It actually looks better than the CTS-V, where spoilers and wings ruin the design, and the V doesn’t have the big bing bling grille. Too bad the CTS Coupe didn’t fare better, it was truly a great Cadillac.
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