Cadillac STS-V Series ForumForum specifically for Cadillac STS-V series discussions. With 469 horsepower, this is the most powerful production Cadillac ever made.
Well, OK. E&G supplies a replacement mesh grill with an STS-like hole for the ACC radar.
(Please excuse the following rant.) The next question has to be, "Who wants this poorly-executed, counter-intuitive ACC?" I have it in my 2006. It took me six days of ownership to call Cadillac and complain about it. I engage it only to impress people with how the car drives itself. Most disliked feature: it slows the car just when I want to set up a pass on the slow-poke in front of me. Next-most-disliked feature: it attaches a virtual rigid bar between the throttle pedal in the car in front of me and my car's throttle pedal--my car follows every speed change in lock step.
Now, if Cadillac would (1) connect the lane departure warning and Nav system guidance to the steering wheel; (2) implement enhanced ACC that will bring my car to a complete stop if necessary and operate at speeds down to zero; (3) reprogram the Intellibeam camera to detect and react to Stop signs, traffic lights, speed limit signs, and pedestrians; (4) implement Lexus' automatic parking assist; and (5) design in some throttle hysteresis; they'd really have something. I could get in, fire it up, set my destination into the Nav system, back out of my garage, put it in Drive, and sleep all the way. Or shave with impunity and read a novel, or watch a DVD movie en route. They could call it the Driver Unawareness Package, or in affirmative terms, the Driver Obliviousness Package.
Come to think of it, Mercedes Benz must offer something like the DOP. So many MB drivers are blissfully unaware of everything going on around them, yet they seldom hit anything.
Well, OK. E&G supplies a replacement mesh grill with an STS-like hole for the ACC radar.
(Please excuse the following rant.) The next question has to be, "Who wants this poorly-executed, counter-intuitive ACC?" I have it in my 2006. It took me six days of ownership to call Cadillac and complain about it. I engage it only to impress people with how the car drives itself. Most disliked feature: it slows the car just when I want to set up a pass on the slow-poke in front of me. Next-most-disliked feature: it attaches a virtual rigid bar between the throttle pedal in the car in front of me and my car's throttle pedal--my car follows every speed change in lock step.
Now, if Cadillac would (1) connect the lane departure warning and Nav system guidance to the steering wheel; (2) implement enhanced ACC that will bring my car to a complete stop if necessary and operate at speeds down to zero; (3) reprogram the Intellibeam camera to detect and react to Stop signs, traffic lights, speed limit signs, and pedestrians; (4) implement Lexus' automatic parking assist; and (5) design in some throttle hysteresis; they'd really have something. I could get in, fire it up, set my destination into the Nav system, back out of my garage, put it in Drive, and sleep all the way. Or shave with impunity and read a novel, or watch a DVD movie en route. They could call it the Driver Unawareness Package, or in affirmative terms, the Driver Obliviousness Package.
Come to think of it, Mercedes Benz must offer something like the DOP. So many MB drivers are blissfully unaware of everything going on around them, yet they seldom hit anything.
It must be like the STS bluetooth. Having the feature sounds great on the surface, but when you actually try to use it, it doesn't work as smoothly as you would like/expect it to. It seems that all of the creature comfort technological features have been made by a first grade monkey and they are rushing them to market instead of fully working out the kinks...
Harry, personally I would go for the 07. I agree with F in that I don't care for the fender vents, plus is HUD really that important, even over in Germany?
Caddy has done so many right things with this car, you would be silly not to pick one up now and enjoy it!
Harry, personally I would go for the 07. I agree with F in that I don't care for the fender vents, plus is HUD really that important, even over in Germany?
Caddy has done so many right things with this car, you would be silly not to pick one up now and enjoy it!
Kadonny, for one case it is important because my XLR analog stops at exactly 260 kph while HUD goes up further to 282 kph I`ve had it.
My STS analog goes to 265-270 kph while HUD goes to 276 kph.
I`m pretty sure if the export STS V is also not speed governed it`ll do something around 290 - 300 kph ( 180 -186 mph) so if the analog stops at 260 kph I have no control how fast it really runs.
I hope they`ll have a demonstrator very soon so I can check this out on the Autbahn.
Here`s a picture of my XLR speedo stops at 260 kph ( 162 mph) while I was doing by HUD 282 kph.
the TP light was on because I`ve just put the XLR V wheels on and the TP-Valves didn`t match the XLR`s board computer. I had to change the TP valves!!!!!!
