kawasa
June 21, 2012, 8:44am
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bcpid:
Not loving it. The arched up waistline (?) sort of hurts it - seems like a generic Euro lux detail. I think they would have been better served to further accentuate the hard edges, keep those key lines a little more rigid. The ATS is dangerously close to losing some of the angular dynamism at play on the CTS coupe in particular. Although it is obviously of the same cloth as the Ciel, the extra scale of the Ciel makes it such that those soft curves read as straighter lines. On a smaller canvas the curves read more prominently as curves. As far as refinement level, I think it’s pretty top notch. When I see the BMW in earlier posts, I see a car wearing a lot of jewelry and a lot of unneeded bulges that don’t have an obvious reason for being - but that isn’t refinement, it’s just Rococo. The lack of those characteristics is a real Cadillac parts strength. Downside for the future is I can see this language being morphed into something a little softer, bulgier, and thus more generic luxury car and less Cadillac.
Others may want to see such cars wearing such jewelry but if it not added on one’s car performance and handling, why put it. But yeah, don’t like this as well.