As you may know, every week me an the lady go out and test drive cars to see if the RL can be replaced with something else. So far nothing has touched to RL for us. Today, just for the heck of it, we stopped by the Cadillac dealer to try out the new all wheel drive CTS. I have to say, I was shocked. I have never liked American cars, but this 2008 CTS is a good car. The car was very quiet with not a hint of a rattle. The ride and handling was better than the RL. The transmission was so smooth I could not dectect a shift in normal driving. The audio system seemed to come right from the RL but played DVDs and had a hard drive. The Navi was superior. There is no disk to load but the maps are downloaded and always up to date. To switch from nav, to radio controls you just touch the radio tap on the screen. The interior was very nice, although I would give the edge to the RL. The CTS had 305HP, and it moved that car! AT WOT, the RL is more refined. The seats were awesome and kept you planted. The cooled seats were great. GM did a suburb job of dialing in a sport ride, with luxury comfort. The speedo showed both compass, digital speed as well as analog speed read out.(cool) Best part, the CTS uses regular gas!

My dislike were the accelerator being too close to the brake pedal. Everytime I took my foot off the accelerator it would hit the brake. The interior space is less than the RL. I hated the shape of the outside mirrors.

We are not quite ready to jump ship, but Honda has its hands full and needs to step up to the plate with the next RL. The only issue I may have with the Caddy it the reliability issue. The warranty is 5 years 100K miles, but I hate warranty work as its always atleast a two trip affair. I hope some of you take a test drive in the CTS, I would like to know what you think.