If I start a poll, I choose the ten luxury brand cars that are most worth buying. Believe me, Cadillac doesn't have five out of seven seats. CT4, CT5, CT6 are all capitalized justice, and XT6 and XT5 are not bad. But the question is, CT4 is great, is the same entry-level XT4 great?
Like the CT4, the specifications of the XT4 are also very high, although it is cadillac's entry-level SUV, but the size is not small, its length has reached 4 meters 6, the body width is also more than 1 meters 88, in layman's terms, and the size of the Car like Oncovi is similar.
But you must feel that something is wrong, after all, you have not seen the XT4, this car does not look big, I think the main reason is in the proportion design, deliberately make the XT4 appear relatively small, you can see from the side. The average SUV has an ABCD column, but the rear window of the XT4 is closed in advance, and only the ABC column.
But the data will not deceive people after all, so the XT4 is indeed a compact SUV, and it will have a dynamic texture that exceeds that of ordinary joint venture brands. So compared with other luxury brands of compact SUVs, such as Lincoln Adventurer, Mercedes-Benz GLB and other cars, where are the advantages and disadvantages of the XT4.
Enter the XT4 car, you will find that the 2022 XT4 is actually not very different from the old model, it is still a more opinionable interior design, materials, workmanship these are no problem. In terms of design, I personally think it would be better if the central control screen could better fit the lines of the interior.
One thing the XT4 does better than the BBA's competitors is that it comes standard with a 2.0T plus 9AT power combination, with a maximum power of 174 kW and a maximum torque of 350 Nm, matching a 9-speed automatic transmission. You see BBA what 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, one by one to the extreme.
However, this car is a bit heavy, such as the test drive of this four-wheel drive top with 1.8 tons has been. Therefore, when starting, you will not feel the surging torque brought by the high power 2.0T, which is not particularly flexible. But this is the top of the table, the top configuration has four-wheel drive, and other configurations are front-drive, less than 100kg, when starting should be more brisk.
However, this 2.0T still shows a very good output performance in the medium and high speed segments, and at the beginning, the engine speed will exceed 3000 rpm by stepping on the throttle a little deeper; and at high speed? 2000rpm is enough. This 2.0T is a high-power version, not a few tens of kilowatts less low power, so with the 9AT's downshift speed, the execution of driver's instructions is very fast.
Therefore, it is clear that the XT4's 2.0T+9AT power flashpoint is at medium speed and high speed. Such power performance is inseparable from the blessing of the 9AT gearbox, which is also the famous gearbox of the General Group, whether it is the smoothness, the robustness of the combination of power, responsiveness, the judgment of the timing of the upshift and downshift, this 9AT is impeccable, the only place that can be provoked may be when the speed is 20km/h, and the judgment of the gear will be somewhat tangled.
As a compact SUV with a transverse engine, the Cadillac XT4 is also rightfully equipped with a front McPherson, rear five-link suspension specification, but the style is surprising - it is biased toward comfort, like a small XT5.
When the suspension is in contact with the ground through the tires, you can feel the impact and bounce obviously suppressed, very obviously, but the body shakes and the feeling inside the car is like a capital "stability". I think this is most likely due to the heavy body and the 1.88-meter body width.
Naturally, the XT4 is also an SUV model that emphasizes comfort and advanced driving texture, which means that you can buy CT4, CT5 and other sports cars at a price of 200,000 to 300,000, and you can also buy a comfortable car with a sense of luxury such as the XT4.
But the XT4's driving texture is also in place, and I think this is mainly reflected in the steering system – it's very sensitive and precise. Fortunately, the steering wheel is still large enough to block the wheel, which allows the driver to operate in the corners with enough precision.
As for the short board, I think it mainly appears in the road noise control of bad roads, and it is still more obvious from the tire into the car. However, compared to the "bad" degree of Mercedes-Benz GLB, the road noise of the XT4 is also moderate.
epilogue:
In general, the biggest advantage of XT4 is actually compared with the same level of the same price model, what is its "peer"? The three-cylinder BMW X1, the price-flying Lexus UX, or the Jaguar E-PACE with a terrible space.
The Cadillac XT4 comes standard with a high-power 2.0T and the famous 9AT, and at the same time is very good in terms of configuration and driving quality, and it does have the characteristics of a luxury car, which I think is a point that most 300,000 or so SUVs are difficult to do. We also expect the small makeover XT4 to bring more brilliant colors to cadillacs.
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