A custom pink Cadillac CTS autographed by Aretha Franklin will be auctioned at the 2008 MusiCares Person of the Year Gala During GRAMMY Week. The live auction will be held in Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2008.
The "pink" hue was chosen in the spirit of Franklin’s memorable lyrics "Goin’ ridin’ on the freeway of love in my pink Cadillac" from her hit song "Freeway of Love" that earned her a GRAMMY Award in the "Best R&B Vocal Performance - Female" category at the 28th Annual GRAMMY Awards in 1985. The custom CTS will be hand-signed by Franklin.
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OK. Every magazine and website has said it. The CTS concept coupe is the car. It’s a car that makes women tame.
It is the one thing that General Motors has done that is worth the effort.
Perhaps, by accident.
But it is the car. The one we all want.
I want it.
There are a lot of Snavely cars out there. They’re called Porches. There are some perfect pretenders, too. Those would be the Lexus and
Toyota. Perfect copycats, but only (...
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The unexpected star of the Detroit Auto Show – technically named the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) wasn’t either the new
Ford F-150 or the new
Dodge Ram. Nor was it any of the concept cars brought by Chrysler or Ford. It wasn’t the six-cylinder
Hummer or even the ZR1 Corvet
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Cadillac was recognized with two EyesOn Design Awards for Design Excellence honors at the 2008 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). The 2009 CTS-V performance sedan captured the production car award and the concept car category honor went to the dramatic CTS Coupe Concept. It was the second straight year the CTS lineup was recognized by the EyesOn Design judges – the 2008 CTS sedan won the production car category at the ’07 NAIAS.
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The AutoWeek editorial staff announced this evening its Editors’ Choice Award winners for the 2008 Detroit Auto Show during the annual AutoWeek Design Forum, held in conjunction with the auto show.
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We met with Mark LaNeve on monday night at a diner organized by GM to promote their new concepts at the Detroit Auto Show. Mark confirmed the upcoming reveal of a small Hummer truck, a small Cadillac and a G8 based pick up. The first two vehicle will certainly be very close to the Hummer HX and CTS coupe jsut unveiled in Detroit earlier this week. It is just strange that the HX concept it so close to the hummer H3T concept from 2004, moreover we have the feeling that the new Hummer will not be a pickup only version. About the Cadillac, the 2 door concept pave the way for smaller Cadillac vehicle. Let’s just hope the smaller Cadi will not be a Malibu re-badged! God knows how much GM think the Malibu is the next best thing after their Volt concept of course.
about the G8 pickup, we already know what it will look like, as Holden, who build the G8, already have car pickup in their lineup. LaNeve just said that he is looking for a good name, anything aside of ’ElCamino’!
Wanna help Mark? Submit your baby names for the baby Cadillac and the G8 pickup. My personal take: Cadillac CTA and Pontiac Trucko!
Keep in mind that LaNeve is ’only’ head of Marketing, which means that even if he identified demand for those cars, other consideration such as engineering or budget might not allow those project to go through. Time will tell.
Having earned critical acclaim, industry awards and brisk sales,
Cadillac CTS has moved into the vanguard of contemporary design. In doing so, Cadillac designers faced the question of what to do next. Their answer celebrates that design legacy with the exhilarating Cadillac CT Coupe Concept, which premiered at the 2008 North American International Auto Show
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Cadillac’s new 2008 CTS sports sedan, already a hit with critics and luxury consumers, today earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Top Safety Pick for 2008.
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Car Magazine caught the upcoming Cadillac CTS-V testing fully undisguised. The American response for the BMW M5 will be unveiled in January at the Detroit Auto Show.
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“So here’s a new thought, worthy of defending: Cadillac makes a better car than
BMW or
Mercedes or
Lexus or
Infiniti, and that car is the 2008 CTS. No other car in the mass market, with so much at stake for its makers, dares so much as this expressive and audacious bit of automotive avant-gardism. In a segment that lives and dies by European benchmarks, the CTS sets fire to the bench and throws it through the shopkeepers’ window.”
That’s what Dan Neil has to say about the new (
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