2006 CTS Sport Pics

[mjdart]

Well I can't help showing off my new CTS. I'm a new member as well to this forum. I handed down my IS300 to my son and bought this CTS. After 3500 miles I'm very pleased. CTS Sport 18" Wheel Appearance Package, Luxury Package, Bose Stereo, Sunroof.

[Northstar]

Looks great! Did you go with the manual or auto?

[ocnblu]

mjdart, welcome aboard! I don't want to seem forward or anything, but may I borrow the keys? :AH-HA_wink:

[Croc]

The new grille really suits the car! I love it!

[Paolino]

It's beautiful--lots of luck!

[mjdart]

Thanks, for the replies and welcomes. Its an auto - with a really great manual shifting capability that I find myself using quite frequently. The car has very good performance and I find it better than the Lexus on fuel economy!

How bout another pic or two.........I tracked her down searching dealer inventories and this is how I first saw her.

Nice looking rear

Edited September 26, 2006 by mjdart

[balthazar]

As popular as the CTS has become, it sure has aged gracefully and beautifully. Congrats!

[sciguy_0504]

Beautiful! Good luck with it.

[XM DUDE]

I just love the CTS series, they just look good!

[regfootball]

i have big time envy. cts sport is an awesome car. congrats!

[FAPTurbo]

That's a beauty!

[NOS2006]

Nice choice.. beautiful car!

[ToniCipriani]

Keep your plates, when GM makes a Sixteen you can put them on.

Nice car!

[mjdart]

Keep your plates, when GM makes a Sixteen you can put them on.

Ohhh......that a good idea !!!

Edited September 26, 2006 by mjdart

[DetroitNut90]

Oooh...CTS Sports are very nice.

[Paolino]

How about some interior shots?

[mjdart]

I need to take some interior shots here's a couple I do have. Kinda fuzzy. the manual shifting automatic I like a lot. Push shifter to right pull back for down shifts and push up for upshifts very quick and responsive and it hold till redline.

Edited September 30, 2006 by mjdart

[Cadillacfan]

Congratulations on the purchase! The CTS is still an attractive/unique vehicle and it's four years old! With the visual enhancements, it adds just enough flair to allow it to stick out in a good way.

Edited September 30, 2006 by Cadillacfan

[Sixty8panther]

Damn, only thing cooler than owning that CTS is haivng

the state of Florida give you a license plate that starts

with "V16".... I'd take that as a sign from God and trade

that 2006 in on a 1932 Dual Cowl Phaeton with a twin-8.

[Cory Wolfe]

Well I can't help showing off my new CTS. I'm a new member as well to this forum. I handed down my IS300 to my son and bought this CTS. After 3500 miles I'm very pleased. CTS Sport 18" Wheel Appearance Package, Luxury Package, Bose Stereo, Sunroof.

197584[/snapback]

Damn, I wish I was your son. I got a crappy Grand Am.

197999[/snapback]

Cool pic.

[ocnblu]

Hey, and thanks for folding in the mirrors so they'd fit in the picture.

[mjdart]

Dang those guys at work, messing around folding the mirrors in. I never noticed that in the pic before

Edited September 30, 2006 by mjdart

[Flybrian]

This is one of those designs that will look good in twenty years.

Beautiful car and welcome from another Florida C&Ger!

[mjdart]

One more going away pic

[gmcbob]

Nice car - I love the color!

[The O.C.]

DAMN I need to "brag" too......I need to get some of my pics up on here.

Congrats on the Sport.....looks good in lighter colors too.....

I got a black one with black interior.....my only difference being a 6-speed MANUAL tranny. I LOVE the wood-topped shifter and it's a true joy to row through the gears with a wonderfully-intuitive clutch and a fingertip-light shifter.

Everyone thinks my Sport is a v-Series.....I just have to be selective on my stoplight drag races.....LOL.....although recent victims include a previous-generation 528i and a new IS250.

Truth being told (and many on here won't EVER believe I said this) the CTS 6-speed is an easier car to drive smoothly than even my manual 330Ci convertible BMW I used to have. It has a lighter, more positive shifter and a smoother clutch.

That being said.....what kills it versus the BMW is the way the engine "hangs on" to revs when you run it up and dip the clutch in to shift. I've been told this is an "emissions" thing. In the BMW, hard runs through the gears WERE smoother because when you dipped the clutch, the revs dropped right down in an INSTANT.

So....around town, the CTS is one smooth operator for a "luxury" stick-shift car. But pound it hard like you are road-racing, and the BMW shows it's true heritage.....