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Damn Nissan Isn't Messing Around This Year
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10-16-2010, 08:29 AM | #2 |
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For that price, I'd rather just get a CTS-V.
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I'm afraid that, by and large, the only people saying this are going to be those who don't actually need what the M56 offers and/or those GM diehards who would buy the GM product whether it offers what they needed or not. What am I talking about? I'm talking about a car which people older than the age of ten or eleven can ride in the back seat of without evoking five complaints per mile about how cramped they are.
Put simply, the Infiniti is a genuine mid size sedan with room in the back for actual adults to ride and be comfortable. The CTS-V is not. And realistically speaking that limits the CTS-V to a: those who either don't care what the folks in the back think b: people with relatively small children, and c: those would could make due with the coupe but just had to have those extra two doors. For everybody else M56 vs CTS-V is a non starter. Last edited by syr74; 10-16-2010 at 01:02 PM. |
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they really need to put that v8 in the next Z car.
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10-16-2010, 01:07 PM | #6 |
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while i would buy the CTS-V too, you cannot deny that Nissan is making the initiative when it comes with putting the most technology into the car.. GM's answer is to just get a bigger hammer..
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10-16-2010, 01:30 PM | #7 | |
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There is a CTS-V Sedan as well as a Coupe! The Sedan was what the poster was referring to? For that price, the CTS-V Sedan is a better car.
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In the case of the CTS-V, it just not the bigger hammer! The suspension/brakes are just too damn good.
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10-16-2010, 01:53 PM | #9 | |
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Put simply, the Cadillac is a genuine luxury sport sedan with room in the back for nearly anyone to sit in and be comfortable, yet with performance that surpasses practically every sedan in the world. The M56 is not. And realistically speaking that limits the M56 to: a: those who look down on Cadillac and GM b: people need 1/2" of extra headroom c: those who don't particularly care about the performance side of sports sedans
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The CTS-V in either coupe or sedan is only a better car than the M56 if you don't actually need a sedan that can comfortable seat adults in the back. Quote:
The Infiniti has 36.2 inches while the Cadillac has 35.9 inches. Sounds close, right? Ah, but wait....there's more. The Caddy only has 42.2 inches of front leg room compared to the Infiniti which has 44.4 inches. That might not mean much but for the fact that manipulating the seat track to allow the front seat to move ridiculously far forward is an age old trick car companies use to inflate their rear leg room numbers of cars with rear leg room issues. Put the seats in those two cars in the same position for the same driver (oddly makes sense, doesn't it), and the Infiniti will have about 2.5 inches more rear leg room. To put that into perspective, 6 inches of rear leg room turns a mid sized sedan into a virtual limo....2.5 inches is still a lot. Or put more simply, a rear seat passenger can get comfortable in the back of a CTS...so long as nobody is actually sitting in the front. The Infiniti also has four inches more shoulder room in back, and of course that smidge extra head room too. Even more, having worked in the auto industry.....specifically with interiors and for a time in prototyping....my time tells me the Caddy is playing the numbers game in the rear seat area because, to be blunt, it feels even more cramped than the difference in numbers indicate. And virtually every review I can find supports this notion with a search for cramped or tight rear seat on the CTS sedan bringing up hits from Car and Driver, Automobile, Auto.msn, and a few dozen others. On the new M I could not find a single complaint about rear seat room, but I did find comments like this.... Quote:
Worst of all, I don't even understand why GM or their enthusiasts are fighting this fight in the first place. The CTS is a G-Series competitor, not a M Series competitor. And in that segment the CTS shines as an ode to the fact that GM really can get it right. Oddly, neither GM nor their fans are content to leave well enough alone and, when somebody makes a post about a car that the CTS cannot hope to compete with in terms of rear seat comfort, some yahoo is going to chime in an say how they would rather have a CTS-V as though nobody actually buys a sedan to carry people in the back and, as such, segment doesn't matter. What you're really doing is setting up a good car to fail in a fight it shouldn't have been in to begin with. Honestly, I think I could throw a review of a Rolls Royce Ghost up on here and somebody would say "I would rather have a CTS-V", and most of the folks on here would just nod their heads. |
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It's a hot rod Maxima. *Yawn*.
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10-16-2010, 03:16 PM | #12 | |
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I've seen one of these Nissans in person..... I have a client who has one. The looks are no better than Bonnies Lexus...... NOT impressed at all with the styling. No sense of desire whatsoever. The interior is comperable, but I couldn't get over the generic look of the exterior. Looks like an afterthought. The paint was amazing though........ NO WAY this car attracts younger drivers. (I'm talking about 30 years and older when I say younger, After all, it is a 55k car) Quote:
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