Walking around the CTS reveals a festival of sharp junctions and angles, the first production car in Cadillac's new design vocabulary that started several years ago with the Evoq show car, a style called Art & Science.First thing you notice are the big headlamps. The lighting elements fore and aft are huge, especially for a medium-sized car, and each of the lamp units is full of complex reflectors and shapes that add overall interest to the design.
The eggcrate grille is about all that's left of traditional Cadillac exterior design. The new look of the body shape and details takes some getting used to, especially with a short overhang in the front and a longer one at the rear that makes the 3500-pound sedan look tail heavy. Oddly enough, the big rear end houses a trunk that only opens up to 12.8 cubic feet.
Any way you look at it, the CTS looks better than the rounded, nebbish Catera in either early or late vintage. The CTS design is brawny, more muscular, and should attract equal numbers of men and women. Next Page