Name vs Acronym

[sosuzguy]

Wouldn't it be nice if the Cadillacs has actual names again instead of acronyms? To me "Eldorado" means much more than ETC or....

[TSS]

I like actual names too. Seville, Deville, Eldorado, Fleetwood all have nice rings to them. Only Caddy with a name currently is the Escalade, and ironically, I am not crazy about that name.

[sosuzguy]

I also would like WORDS on the controls instead of symbols. For me the word "CRUISE" is much more indicative of Cruise Control than a picture of a sprocket!

[TSS]

Also agree ^^

Heck, it does not even say "lights" on the headlight control anymore. But, this issue is not unique to Caddy, GM, or doestic makes for that matter.

[RightTurn]

Who cares? I name my cars myself. And what does TSS stand for anyhow?

[submariner409]

Kind of like the Toyota weirdness: a car named Mr.2 and a truck named TuRD.

STS now stands for nothing - it's a bastardized carryover of a good car name: Seville Touring Sedan.

Too bad the hood latch pull no longer says "BONNET"

[ewill3rd]

I absolutely hate this industry wide FAD of naming cars letters.
It's retarded. Car models should have names not initials. It was bad enough when some cars started having them but it seems like every carmaker on the planet wants to name their car a number or a letter or something, or the really cool car companies use numbers AND letters

If we are voting here, I say bring back car names.
Oh and for crying out loud try to be original. I'd rather have a car that had a stupid name as long as some other car company hadn't used it before.
Isn't it Mitsubishi that didn't seem to realize that Chrysler already used the name Lancer.... twice?

[TSS]

Originally Posted by RightTurn

Who cares? I name my cars myself. And what does TSS stand for anyhow?

My initials. Touche'.

[westons]

I find the letters to be very confusing and id be thrilled if all car dealers did away with them.

[Warren_R]

My vote is for using names, with the alphanumeric stuff nowhere in sight. Whoever thought up that goofy idea, anyhow?

[R6DTS]

Theyre copying the Germans since they use letters instead of names, cause they think it sounds cooler.

When people ask what car I have and I say DTS, sometimes they ask if thats the big or small one.

[gary88]

Originally Posted by sosuzguy

I also would like WORDS on the controls instead of symbols. For me the word "CRUISE" is much more indicative of Cruise Control than a picture of a sprocket!

Not everyone in the world speaks English you know.

[Stingroo]

That's true, but how would a sprocket be related to CC? That one, I can't figure out. Otherwise, I understand the reasoning for images, and I'm okay with that.

Just this particular case confuses me a bit. lol

[Vinsanity]

Originally Posted by gary88

Not everyone in the world speaks English you know.

+1. When the 1st gen CTS-V was reviewed in Top Gear, one of Jeremy's remarks was that a lot of the buttons on the dash were labeled in English words "because, of course, everyone in the world speaks English"

I can understand the switch to names, as it puts more emphasis on the Cadillac brand than the individual models, but I with they just made sense. They established the pattern with the CTS (C-segment Touring Sedan), but then decided to use carryover names like STS and DTS (although you could say that DTS stands for D-segment Touring Sedan) and names that don't follow any pattern like SRX and XLR (although I'm aware XLR does stand for eXperimental Luxury Roadster)