10.30.2005
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$60K and doesn't go...
...but according to the car guys at Car and Driver, "Growing pains taint, but do not despoil, our affection for this two-time 5Best winner." The "two-time 5Best winner" is a Caddy SRX costing northwards of $60 thousand dollars. For that price, you could buy three reliable, durable, economical Honda Civics, or, if you really needed a luxo, all-wheel drive ride, two Subaru Tribecas -- and have all the luxury you might think you need. Or, just buy one, and have $30K change to put to more useful pursuits.
In a long-term review of the SRX, the tale is of a car that decided it wasn't going to put up with this stopping and then actually starting again. This after not much more than 4K miles on the odometer.
Three thoughts on reading this review. The first is that C&D writers are so enamored with cars that they are blind to what should be considered a fatal flaw in the design. The second is that it is no wonder why the Big-3 Detroit automakers are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, serving up such mediocrity. Expensive mediocrity.
The last thought is that it is a wonder, indeed, why anyone would want to buy a Cadillac, given that for $60K you could buy a luxury car (or two) that actually went. Without having to disconnect and reconnect the battery.
Of course, you wouldn't have that wonderful prestige of owning a POS hunk of Detroit iron from the doddering General.
In a long-term review of the SRX, the tale is of a car that decided it wasn't going to put up with this stopping and then actually starting again. This after not much more than 4K miles on the odometer.
Three thoughts on reading this review. The first is that C&D writers are so enamored with cars that they are blind to what should be considered a fatal flaw in the design. The second is that it is no wonder why the Big-3 Detroit automakers are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, serving up such mediocrity. Expensive mediocrity.
The last thought is that it is a wonder, indeed, why anyone would want to buy a Cadillac, given that for $60K you could buy a luxury car (or two) that actually went. Without having to disconnect and reconnect the battery.
Of course, you wouldn't have that wonderful prestige of owning a POS hunk of Detroit iron from the doddering General.
posted by Jack Rich at 12:50 PM
I was born, grew up, and went to school in the Bronx, New York -- on the wrong side of the
tracks. Got the chance to go to college, so instead of joining the NYPD (the obvious career choice at
that time and place), I became an engineer. Spent
some years designing things that go boom (or things that take things that go boom to their destinations...), principally for our military.
Also took an interesting career turn and for some years was in charge of counter-terrorism for my agency...so I learned something about guns. And when to use them.
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