We have one of these and the voice activation for addresses works quite well for address strings. The only key is that you have to make sure you speak distinctly and separate words (not unnaturally separated, but clearly as if you were dictating the address to another person over a telephone). The way he said "Van Ness" sort of blurred the "N's" together so that is why it didn't work. The XTS is an amazing car with tech that is far above and beyond their competition.
Humorous, yet great review. I personally think this is the best sedan GM has ever produced in terms of luxury, but not performance. Real leather and wood everywhere! Perhaps a first for Cadillac. But the CUE system, while intuitive, is rather undefined and can be downright frustrating to use, especially if you're not patient with it. I also wish it had the same level of performance technology found in the new ATS, which is MUCH more fun to drive. But this is a great Cadillac!
What clown manages the CNETTV youtube videos? Why is this AWESOME video not in the cartech playlist? Get it together CNET, you have a high quality product being delivered in a brown sack.
The A6 is FWD based and it gets along fine so why not? Also the Eclass and 5 series both have higher base prices and their volume models have less power, even if it is only by 2hp in the E's case. The XTS isn't supposed to be a German executive sedan alternative anyway, so none of this really matters.
Yeah but this isn't Caddy's flagship. Mainly it's supposed to retain older DTS customers. And it makes more HP than the last Northstar DTS that was available, torque isn't that far off either.
was confused with the CUE review on this model. Is the CUE system different on the XTS than on the 2013 ATS? In his review of the 2013 ATS, he said the CUE system is way too slow and performed too poorly to be compared to the cheapest of tablets. He also said in the ATS review the voice command navigation worked great.Yet it seems he's saying almost the exact opposite here...
I would try to avoid all the cars with those touch interface for at least few more years, they are slloow. Or at least for me since I expect the touch tech to be as responsive as my phone.
The FWD doesn't bother me so much. I mean the older cadillac deville concours was FWD too. But they could have at least made a V8 an option. Like the camaro or the 300C. If you're driving a flagship cadillac sedan I dought fuel economy is a priority to you.
V6 and frontwheel drive that only gets 304hp at the crank?? Oh yeah that will definately compete with a 5 series or an E class. What the fuck is GM thingking??
