Cadillac ATS Hopes To Set The BMW 3 Series
And Cadillac’s most late-model new car, the front-wheel-drive XTS that shares a platform with the Buick LaCrosse, wasn’t positively the pint of O+ we wanted. So the ATS needs to be great, or else we’re gonna pop fang.Luckily for Cadillac (and for us, and quite, for everybody else), the ATS looks like it’s prevailing to be the sort of entry-level sports-sumptuousness sedan that keeps engineers at BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi up all ceaselessly. It’s built on an all-new RWD platform, it’s been tested on the Nürburgring, it offers nearly 50/50 weight distribution, weighs in at under 3,400 pounds in its lightest trig, and comes with not one but three engines. Oh, and there’s an available handbook gearbox.
Rental car fleets and grandmothers will establish for the base engine, a 202 horsepower, 195 lb-ft 2.5 liter inline-four. Rookie lawyers and critique supply company regional managers will brake the box for the biggest engine, the 320 horsepower, 267 lb-ft 3.5 liter V6 from the CTS. But enthusiasts will shortage the mid-level engine, the 2.0 liter turbocharged four-cylinder. It’s down a inconsiderable in the power department next to the V6, but with 270 horses, 260 lb-ft, and a torque curve that resembles Missouri between 1,500 and 5,800 rpm, it shouldn’t drop out of anyone wanting—and more importantly, it’ll be the only model readily obtainable with the six-speed manual. (All-wheel-drive will also be convenient on the ATS, in case you’re into that sort of thing.)