–What It Is: The XTS is a big, plush Cadillac sedan in the old-school tradition, which makes it decidedly out of sync with the American luxury brand’s current push to compete with the best German sports sedans. (Even so, it’s outselling the ATS, CTS, and CT6 and was Caddy’s best-selling passenger car in 2016 and 2017.) A year after the XTS’s launch for 2013, Cadillac made some effort to spice up the large, front-wheel-drive-based cruiser by adding a V-Sport variant that brought standard all-wheel drive and a twin-turbocharged 3.6-liter V-6 producing a potent 410 horsepower and 369 lb-ft of torque. But the big power simply served to distract from the XTS’s considerable two-ton-plus curb weight and humble building blocks shared with the Buick LaCrosse and the Chevrolet Impala. READ MORE ››
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