You’d love to be wrong about the Cadillac STS. I’m certain you’d be delighted to hear it was a credible rival to cars like the BMW 5 Series and the Audi A6. Instead, you’re expecting a story about big power, interior quality that can only be described as lamentable and the sporting nature of Colin Montgomerie with one foot in an Indonesian bunker. If that’s the case, the latest STS may well raise one or two eyebrows.
The old Seville STS was never really a contender. Ranged against it were some of the tautest, sleekest cars £35,000 could buy, and faced with this barrage of excellence, this front-wheel drive transatlantic oddball smacked of Elvis Presley in his latter days – overweight, clumsy and trading on former glories. Is the launch of the latest STS like The King’s ’68 Comeback Special?
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