Dissecting the ATS

[Bruce Nunnally]

Nice article by Csaba Csere for Car & Driver:

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/dissected-2013-cadillac-ats-feature

When you compare a CTS with an ATS, you see that every part—aluminum or steel—is carefully sculpted to be no thicker than necessary.  Aluminum webs are slim, steel stampings have large lightening holes and rolled edges to add stiffness, and most fasteners have been downsized. The manual-transmission housing, the strut towers, the brake booster, and the hood are ­aluminum. Leone promises that the base ATS will weigh less than 3400 pounds.