I went up to San Francisco and Laguna Seca in the CTS this past weekend for the MotoGP race. I covered just over 1100 mi and got 25.0 mpg on the nose in a mix of highway, city, and curving road driving. It's a terrific highway cruiser and city car: great ride, decent handling, very good powertrain, and fantastic exterior / interior styling. I would choose the CTS over the ES and C-class, but not the 3-series and IS - they're better handlers. The CTS is a legitmate alternative to any of them. Several Edmunds/IL members were in MotoGP attendance, because they, like you, really love performance, whether on two wheels or four. You motobikers out there already know about that. Unless, of course, you ride a Harley...
Albert Austria, Senior Vehicle Evaluation Engineer @ 9298 mi
bemanix88 says:
04:37 PM, 07/21/08
Interesting that the IS gets a little credit. Usually people just resort to the words "bland" and "vanilla" when anything Lexus is talked about. Or, "smug", when referring to its hybrids.
dougtheeng says:
05:52 AM, 07/22/08
"Interesting that the IS gets a little credit. Usually people just resort to the words "bland" and "vanilla" when anything Lexus is talked about. Or, "smug", when referring to its hybrids."
Its true, in the CTS arguements, the IS gets little love. As far as looks go, I think its right up there.
blankfocus says:
06:48 AM, 07/22/08
wow, that was an awesome race between rossi and stoner! it's too bad michelin completely choked and screwed all their riders.
love the harley comment.
Albert Austria says:
11:27 AM, 07/22/08
blankfocus -
Quite a weekend & race - til Stoner fell! I left shortly thereafter. I still have to watch the recording - I missed a lot of it. See you there next year!
Regards,
Snake Doc
stingray454 says:
09:11 AM, 07/23/08
Well, at least the CTS got much better average fuel economy than Edmund's STi did. 25.0 versus 18.8 MPG. Let's see, the Caddy has 2 more cylinders, about 40% more displacement, 600 lbs. more weight, and about the same horsepower, yet it got more than 6 MPG BETTER fuel economy than the Subaru.
Fuji Heavy Industries needs to do some more homework on how to build an efficient engine. I've said it before and I'll say it again - turbocharged 4 cylinders are not the answer to better fuel economy for more than 200hp.