2010 Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon

Building and structuring a full line of vehicles is tough enough, but then you’ve got to make sure they don’t step on each other in terms of price. This month Cadillac fixed a conflict between its SRX crossover and the new 2010 Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon by chopping the wagon’s price by about $1,300.

The move is intended to make room for more differentiation between the models, which offer similar capacity and features, though the SRX’s taller seating position and soft-road capability draws a different buyer than the CTS Sport Wagon’s more handling-focused package. There’s still some overlap, however, and according to a report from USA Today, buyers were seeing the parity of price and quickly looking past the wagon to the SRX.

The 2010 CTS Sport Wagon starts at $39,150 now, reduced from $40,485, while the SRX starts at $34,155 in front-wheel drive trim. Both models can reach up into the lower-$50,000 range when the options boxes are ticked.

Read our first drive review for a close-up look at the details of the 2010 Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon. If you’d rather have the 2010 Cadillac SRX, we’ve driven that too.

Bob Lutz with the Cadillac CTS-V

Two months ago we brought you an early report that GM had approved the Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon for production, and today a new report has Bob Lutz stating outright that it will be built.

No official press announcement has yet emerged from GM on the matter, but it’s a logical extension of the V treatment to the nearly-identical CTS Sport Wagon. Lutz has also been the semi-official conduit of information for all things V since the CTS-V Coupe was confirmed and the Sport Wagon variant was first hinted at. So it’s all but sewed up.

The CTS-V Sport Wagon won’t get dumbed down to accommodate its more utilitarian layout, either, with a full 556 stomping horses under the hood and 3.9-second 0-60 mph time. In short, as Lutz put it, you’ll be able to purchase the CTS-V “any way you want.”

There’s a lot of potential for the CTS-V Sport Wagon to steal away buyers from Mercedes, Audi or BMW that wouldn’t go for the sedan. Audi’s fantastic RS6, Mercedes-Benz’s E63 AMG Estate and BMW’s M5 Touring are forbidden fruit Stateside, so those with a hunger for speed in a wagon package will be left with essentially no alternative.

For more on the CTS Sport Wagon the CTS-V will be based on, check out our first drive review.

Source:motorauthority.com