my grandmas....



2006 Cadillac SRX

now...let me tell you...i only got to drive this by pure chance. see the tie bars in my moms 2005 Chrysler Town&Country were about to give when she took it in for a tune up. so they said they had to keep it or we risked loosing alignment and imminent accident. well my grandma is in naples florida for the winter/spring...so she said my mom could use this. fantastic! guess who got to drive it home after my mom picked me up from a jazz band practice? (my dad is using the jimmy until april...he doesnt like bringing out the RX7 for a while)

i know it looks like an SUV and its classified as one, but it drives like a car. and a friggen nice one at that. its so smooth i was up at 50 in a 35 and didnt even notice until i looked at the spedo. turning is a snap...accelerated around a right turn from a stop light and was at 35 before the wheels were straightened. a little bit of body roll...but WAAAY less than any SUV ive ever driven before. it was almost freaky how smooth it was...because after a while i realized i could get my speed up and not even notice. so i started worrying i was going to misjudge distances and stuff and wreck my grandmas new caddy (fortunately enough i didnt). as you would expect, its a slushbox transmission, but it has a Manumatic option (i didnt get to try it tho). there are, however, some downsides. you cant see the nose of the car AT ALL, which i really do not like. even if you streatch until your head is touching the cealing, you can barely see it. i dont like that but it might not bother any of you guys. also...the A and B pillars are very cumbersome. the A pillar actually sticks out in front of the windshield 2 or 3 inches. its really annoying. the B piller is more than 6 inches thick. that was the one thing i didnt like about this thing...the visibility. other than that it was great. id give it an 8.5 out of 10...it would have gotten a 9 if it was actually a little less smooth and it actually felt like a vehicle. it kinda felt like you were floating and it made for some really weird judgement. i'll post up some more pics.



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About your mom's car, bring it home and change the tie rods/bars yourself. I could try to get the procedure for changing the tie rods and tie bars.

 

not too shabby of a ride i must say

 

hell yeah man, nice! I was fairly impressed with cadillac's newest line-up. I want a CTS-V soooo bad