Monday, March 22, 2010

Hot Chocolate’s Sexy Thing: Cadillac XTS Platinum Concept

I believe in miracles;
Where’re you from,
You sexy thing?
I believe in miracles
Since you came along
You sexy thing…

Yes, this song was written about 2 decades ago exclusively for Cadillac XTS Platinum, this stylish luxury sedan. The beauty is powered by a  3.6-liter V6 Direct Injection gas engine paired with a “plug-in hybrid system”. Your eyes’re flipping? Well…A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is a hybrid vehicle with batteries that can be recharged by connecting a plug to an external electric power source. It shares the characteristics of both traditional hybrid electric vehicles (also called charge-maintaining hybrid electric vehicles), having an electric motor and an internal combustion engine; and of battery electric vehicles, also having a plug to connect to the electrical grid (it is a plug-in vehicle). Eyes stopped flipping? Good!

The concept previews a new integration philosophy guiding the development of future wreath-and-shield models’ in-car electronics. The intent is to progress Cadillac’s intuitive in- car electronics systems from deployable touch-screen navigation systems in the CTS and SRX product lines to a minimization of traditional buttons and switches. Designers blended the display screens into a flowing instrument panel they call a “dead front” design, because the panels appear black until the car is turned on and the screens illuminate.

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