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By JASON STEIN WHEELBASE COMMUNICATIONS
ust when you were W" getting used to the idea
two seat roadster and a
400-horsepower CTSV sedan, along comes the company with another surprise: a mid-sized sport-utility vehicle.
The Caddy of today is hardly the Caddy you knew.
The new-for-2004 SRX is a vehicle that defies definition and invites interpretation. As one of first of the Sseries of models, the SRX foreshadows and shares the automotive DNA of future Cadillac vehicles, such as the 2005 STS sedan that replaces the current Seville.
If the SRX is any indication, the future looks utilitarian — 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 Motors as a “medium luxury utility vehicle,” Cadillac has aimed the SRX at the Lexus RX300, Acura MDX, BMW X5, Lincoln Aviator and Infiniti’s FX45, all radical interpretations of the familywaeon theme. Like much of
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