Mdyar wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
a caddy is NOT supposed to be that loud and rough-riding. it sounded and looked just like a corvette from the inside. a real caddy should float serenely over the bumps, and never disturb the passengers with anything but muted hints of what is outside the car. just my old-fogie opinion.
Well, you have several options on that ride control:
-StabiliTrak Electronic Stability Control System, 4 driver selectable modes.
-Performance-Tuned Multi Mode MR Suspension.
She's stock with 556 horsepower, but they added that hi- performance exhaust to get it @ + 600 hp.
For 50
less hp you'd have a quiet ride until you got on it.
somehow i doubt that it would ride as well as anything else with good old-fashioned 70-series soft rubber, high-tech or not. where i live, that caddy would rattle itself to death over the frost-heaved and roughly rutted/pot-holed local roads, and short of the most uncomfortably stiff suspension setting would bottom-out on some wavy pavement, due to insufficient ground clearance. it needs at least 2 additional inches of ground clearance for such roads. my kind of luxury car would be able to smoothly and quietly drive such roads just as well as the glass-smooth stuff in that hot-rod caddy's natural upscale environs. i rode in an air-suspended lincoln towncar taxi that could handle the local rough stuff just fine, it felt like i was riding on a magic carpet.