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  Love my XT5 - 2017 Cadillac XT5
  By Mary - December 13 - 1:23 am

  I love SUVs and this car has meant my expectations. I was chosing between the Lexus RX 350, Mercedes GLC and the Cadillac XT5. Very happy with my decision to get the XT5. I liked the look of the car outside and inside the best. The car rides and handles very well. I drive a 100 miles a day to and from work do wanted a comfortable and quiet car. The car is great looking and fun to drive.

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  Road test XT5 holly car Batman - 2017 Cadillac XT5
  By Mike F - December 10 - 4:54 pm

  I am the owner of a Acura MDX and other Japanese cars over the years. We are trying to buy an American SUV. Also drove the Lincoln MKX which as very good. This Cadillac XT5 was simply amazing. The comfort, ride, handling, visibility, power etc. I was quite surprised. I went to the Grand Prize Cadillac dealer in Nanuet. Linda was our salesperson. She is patient, wonderful and knowledgeable no pressure what so ever. The car was really great. The Lincoln was very good. Unsure how the reliability will be which is always an issue with American brands but we are going to lease. Also waiting for crash test information as well. We will consider this vehicle for sure expect to purchase within a few weeks Other vehicles driven/looked at BMW X5/3, Audi Q5, Highlander, Kia Sorrento, Murano. I realize some of these vehicles are not considered "luxury" but looked at them anyway. Criteria is a top safety pick or better and average or better reliability. Unsure if XT5 will meet safety whenever it is tested. hoping it will last for 3 LEASE YEARS. If anyone has any experience or thoughts please feel free. I called corporate Cadillac they are unsure if and when they vehicle will be tested. If I was them I would be making sure it gets tested.

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  Poor fuel economy. Very uncomfortable front seats. - 2018 Cadillac XT5
  By jjuwsnyc - October 19 - 8:00 pm

  So I discovered that the headrest does not adjust. This is now standard on Mercedes. glc, audi q5. The pain that i had in my neck extending down to my lower back was not bearable. I tried to sell the car privately and to lease swap it. But no good. The vehicle dropped 14K in value with less then 1500 miles. I finally got a dealer to up the price by 4K from the low ball offered even at Cadillac dealer that did not have any inventory. So I am thankfully finished with this car. It is beautiful, but for me the seat was so bad that I was willing to sacrifice over 11K to get rid of this car. As for GM financial. I have called 7 times to get a letter showing that the vehicle was paid off and purchased. i have been told so many different stories. All incorrect. The letter is not generated. It would be generated, It has been generated. Nothing. ON hold for hours. I will not ever walk into a GM dealership ever again.

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  Best SUV that Cadillac has ever built! - 2017 Cadillac XT5
  By jim w. - September 20 - 7:08 pm

  Wow - what a ride - Love how incredibly quiet the interior is. Often I cant tell if the engine is running form inside the car based on hearing. Mind you I bought the base model and its fully loaded. The Luxury has a sun roof and a lot of safety features but I felt the base model came with SO MUCH that it was perfect, and it is. Great fuel economy ( Dont love the stop feature when you are at a stoplight but its becoming a lot more common, I get it) Living in Florida, A/C is important and this system delivers in spades. Love hat we can remotely start the car and cool it off first. Sound system is insane! Inclusion of apple car play is seemless. The interior is really plush and again for a base model- Im so impressed.

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  The seats are Great for a 380 pound BodyGuard - 2017 Cadillac XT5
  By Big penny - August 21 - 8:54 am

  No Compaints Excellent SUV Cadilac did a Great Job Love the Tech

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  Oh You Cad. - 2017 Cadillac XT5
  By Fredrick Dobbs - July 26 - 2:04 pm

  This is a second shot at a review after 2000 miles and a fairly long trip of all day driving. First of all. The acceleration is wonderful. The handing is not Lazy boy Cadillac, its sporty handling corners like a sporty SUV which I guess it is from the performance. Love the handling. Love the silence on the road. I have residual hearing problems from big guns in the military and even with my dodgy hearing I can easily hear my music and audio books on trips, not to mention the helpful musings of my spouse. Braking is excellent if not a tad touchy. You do not have to stomp on these brakes. I love the safety features like lane change warnings, rear crossing warnings and the back up camera although I have never got the need for the digital track in the rear camera to bend its my turning. I know Im turning. I am very gratified that an American company is making a car of this apparent quality. It gives nothing to the off shore imports. This car is a stand out in a city where you cant swing a dead possum without hitting a BMW and Mercedes. It seems to be some kind of cultural imperative but Ive had my share of complements even though I doubt many people look carefully enough to distinguish it from a SRX. The overall appearance of the exterior and mechanicals is stunning and the color I selected, Silver Coast is a stealth car wash avoidance feature. It hides the dirt wonderfully when I am negligent on washing the car. one last small gripe. I dont like the design of the 18 inch wheels. Kind of seventies looking. Cadillac could do better. Look on the web to get some ideas. My single annoyance with this part of the car and it is a BIG one, is the inability to turn off the stop/start mechanism. You can off foot it and you get lurches. It is not as clever as the propeller hat engineers who designed it think it is. I hate it and would not buy the car again. I can find just about any other car that allows you to disable this dubious feature including other Cadillac models. It works off the brake and you can fool it. If you are at a signal and the engine turns off, just lift your foot off the brake and it will start again. Depressing the brake again while you are waiting will not shut it off a second time. I am not thrilled with the XT two step. I want to get this all praise out because I think this is a Dr. Jeckel and Mr. Hide car. Mr Hide designed the interior. The dash lights adjust automatically and are too dim in day light for me. I can not manually adjust them higher. They brighten in a parking structure and at night and you can dim them down with the dimmer switch but that switch does nothing to brighten the dash lights in the day. This forces me to use the window with a large numeral for speed determination. This is a problem because of the propensity for the dash to reflect overhead sun at certain times of the day. In fact, same said genius engineer also probably designed the center information center with insufficient shading and helpfully tilted the screen toward to windshield at the top just to make sure that you dont miss getting the screen compromised by the sun reflection. You can play CSI and count your finger prints on it for lack of seeing other information. The seat is my biggest interior problem. My wifes RX350 has wonderful seats. She is looking for a new car and ruled out the XT5 because of the hard seats and the uncomfortable lumbar support. I have the same complaint. Hard seating not good for long drives. bothers my leg. I had to get a piece of memory foam which my spouse sewed up in a cover to put on the seat. This is a sport seat and not suitable for a SUV in my opinion. All the SUVs I have ridden in and owned have had more comfortable seats. Again. Live with this car before you buy. Rent one and see if the seat suits your back side. I hate them which makes it awkward for a car I now own. As I said, I am tall and large. When I sit with the seat back, it is obvious they thought to put in a long seat track for tall people but then failed to accommodate any other interior feature to this seating position. The center console is difficult if not nearly impossible to get into. The dash information center is way too far away. The door panels bow out near the front of the car then conveniently bow back in to crowd your arm. Another thing that escapes me is the logic of the seat memory. In any other car you press the memory button and number one for example to set your seat and in the future you just tap the button to make the seat move. In the XT, you have to lean on the button for the entire trip and if you stop pressing, the seat stops moving. To have the seat work automatically you have to turn on a feature in settings. After you do that the car resists any further changes. You have to turn it off to reset memory. In my case that is far too frequently because the seat does not seem to hold the back rest angle and must be readjusted periodically. Brilliant outside, not inside.

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  Huge improvement over SRX but... - 2017 Cadillac XT5
  By Tomonthebeach - July 3 - 4:45 am

  We waited to get the XT5 because of review promises that the CUE system would be greatly improved. After 12,000 miles, I would say CUE is still crap. A huge problem is that the touch screen requires far too many submenus to achieve even simple commands. The navigation system relies on out-dated maps which reflected incorrect speeds easily half the time on our 40 state trip. It got lost about once every thousand miles on interstate segments that had been changed at least 2 years earlier. It had no detour option and will not reroute even after driving 50 miles on a different highway! Traffic warnings were unreliable. Fortunately if you have a mobile phone supporting Android Auto (AA), that functions like you would expect a luxury car nav system to function. AA understands my Bulgarian spouses accent every time. When driving, handling is fantastic. This car and turn inside many sedans with a far shorter radius than our SRX. Pickup is quite peppy. Mileage is very good for a car of this class. The gearshift is counter intuitive, and the transmission sometime hunts for the right gear in stop-n-go traffic. The fit and finish is good, cargo space excellent, and it has lots of nice feature like ample door storage.