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By JASON STEIN ■ WHEELBASE COMMUNICATIONS

I ust when you were

J getting used to the idea

of a Cadillac truck, a

two seat roadster and a

400-horsepower CTSI V sedan, along comes the I company with another surI prise: a mid-sized sport-utiliI ty vehicle. I The Caddy of today is I hardly the Caddy you knew. I The new-for-2004 SRX is I a vehicle that defies definiI tion and invites interpretaI tion. As one of first of the SI series of models, the SRX I foreshadows and shares the I automotive DNA of future • Cadillac vehicles, such as the I 2005 STS sedan that replaces • the current Seville. . If the SRX is any indica. tion, the future looks utilitar. ian — as useful as your , mother’s station wagon, but . nothing like anything that ! ever hauled groceries or the ! family dog. That’s Cadillac’s ! intention: Keep breaking with ! convention.

! Marketed by General ! Morors as a “medium luxury

J utility vehicle,” Cadillac has 1 aimed the SRX at the Lexus 1 RX300, Acura MDX, BMW 1 X5, Lincoln Aviator and * Infiniti’s FX45, all radical * interpretations of the family1 wagon theme. Like much of

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