SRX More Stylish, Focused

[Bruce Nunnally]

Despite the marketing rhetoric, the automotive industry is a place of evolutionary, not revolutionary, change. The upheaval that alternative fuel strategies are causing notwithstanding, vehicle redesigns tend to be about a few millimetres here, a tuck there and a horsepower or litre per 100 kilometres improved. It is the nature of the business, with radical leaps forward punished as often as they are rewarded.

So, the second-generation Cadillac SRX breaks the mould not for any radical technology but quite literally for completely abandoning whatever market niche its predecessor was attempting to play in for a more traditional segment occupied by the Audi Q5, Mercedes GLK and BMW X3.

Where the previous SRX tried to be all things to all people, offering seven seats to accommodate the minivan crowd, a V-8 to please the performance-oriented and avant-garde styling for the trendy, the new model is much more focused. Sure, it's still wrapped up in the latest Art & Science, sharp-edged Cadillac garb, but the new SRX makes do with six cylinders and five seats, both typical of the mid-sized luxury sport-ute.

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