2009 Cadillac SRX V6 (Maumee, OH)

2009 Cadillac SRX V6

CAR FAX GUARANTEED NO ACCIDENTS BEAUTIFUL COLOR COMBINATION Essentially a tallish wagon with SUV-inspired styling the 2009 Cadillac SRX has the road manners of a sport sedan. A four-wheeled example of having one s cake and eating it too the SRX can seat seven and haul up to 70 cubic feet of cargo. Yet it s actually fun to drive behaving more like the previous-generation CTS sedan (upon which it s based) than some sort of shrunken Escalade. The V6 includes 17-inch alloy wheels rear parking assist leather seating a power driver seat OnStar dual-zone automatic climate control an auto-dimming rearview mirror and an eight-speaker Bose audio system with satellite radio and an auxiliary audio jack. On the open road the 2009 Cadillac SRX glides serenely without veer or vagueness. Some SUV suspensions don t deal particularly well with curvy roads but not that of the SRX which negotiates corners without giving the impression it has a somewhat higher center of gravity even when loaded down with people and cargo. The steering feel is light at first but quickly firms up as the speed rises and it operates with commendable precision with dead-on straight-line tracking and confident predictability when turning into corners. On the whole the SRX easily rivals the handling characteristics of the Volvo XC90 and may be just slightly short of matching the BMW X5. When fitted with the V6 the SRX s acceleration feels strong.