This might come as a shock to Cadillac advertising executives, but it's pointless to pose the SRX sport-utility on top of some wildly fluted red-rock chimney out in Utah. You see, the SRX is not a truck.
This country's enthusiasm for sport-utilities is widely misunderstood. Americans still want the same things in a vehicle that they've always wanted: full-size roominess, all-around utility, and go-anywhere mobility. What's changed is the shape of the vehicles, not the intentions of the people who are driving them.
The SRX reinvents the sport-utility as an American automobile; this crossover sport-ute really feels like a touring sedan when it goes about its business. It is refined, composed, and quiet, yet it has a steely, high-performance character underneath.
All it took to create such a device were all the resources at Cadillac's command, part of a reported $4.5 billion being spent to remake the division's vehicle lineup. Everywhere you look, the SRX exhibits leading-edge technology and carefully crafted details, the kind of serious effort it takes to make a serious automobile. For example, just lift the hood. Instead of some great lump of a truck engine, there's the virtually all-new 4.6-liter Northstar V-8, Cadillac's most powerful car engine in thirty years.
There's some pretty sophisticated automotive technology underneath the SRX, too.... Read full article