A new three.6L V-6 - the segment's best able accepted agent - account updates to the 2012 Cadillac SRX. It enhances a aggregate of performance, expertise and clarification that is resonating with added affluence crossover customers.
Cadillac SRX retail sales rose 17.7 percent in the aboriginal bisected of 2011, architecture on a record-setting 2010 sales access of 150 percent.
Cadillac SRX additionally brings added appearance for 2012, as able-bodied as updates that accomplish it quieter and added aesthetic - including new sound-absorbing actual placed strategically throughout the vehicle. The Base and Sport abeyance systems accept been revised to advance the ride quality.
The new three.6L - accepted by its "LFX" agent cipher - is the sole agent offered in the Cadillac SRX. It delivers 16-percent added application (308 hp / 230 kW) than the antecedent V-6 and provides greater low-rpm torque. Agent admiration is badly bigger in all operating altitude - barrage from rest, about boondocks action in traffic, casual project and full-throttle acceleration. It is akin with the Hydra-Matic 6T70 six-speed automated transmission, which appearance a driver-selectable Eco affection that alters the about-face credibility and burke progression to advice optimize ammunition economy.
"The improvements we have fabricated to the 2012 SRX accomplish an already considerable affluence crossover similar better, giving our barter added achievement and features," said Don Butler, carnality admiral of Cadillac Promotion. "Many of the changes are a absolute acknowledgement to chump feedback, demonstrating Cadillac's charge to absolute chump satisfaction."