CAR GARAGE | Cadillac SRX Hybrid (2013) | A plug-in hybrid version-caught here by our covert-photos should join the lineup soon enough. The 2013 year models will also bring a mild interior updates with touch-sensitive controls. These fresh spy shots show a pretty plain-looking exterior SRX with one major difference: a second fuel door stitched into the left rear quarter panel. Proof positive. The system Likely Will be an evolution of the plug-in system almost Offered on the Saturn Vue Green Line two-mode hybrid, the brand was killed before Ute That Could see the light of a showroom. The trap-door grilles Offered in the Buick Lacrosse e Assist as well as the upcoming Chevy Malibu Eco may be applied here to aid aerodynamics.
Aside from the engineer's computer cluttering up the cabin, this prototype interior show some other updates coming to all SRXs. Chief Among them is a static center touch-screen display, the which replaces the pop-up-toaster-style units on the current car. Below that, you may notice a complete lack of controls.
GM has already gone this route on the Volt, and it's similar to Ford's My Ford Touch and My Lincoln Touch systems, use the which-touch capacitive sensors and sliders in place of buttons and knobs. Whereas the Volt gets its functions silk screened onto the respective button-Replacing areas, Cadillac Appears to be going the route backbit, That functions can possibly be so changed depending on what's being controlled.
The 2013 Cadillac SRT to come will be armed with a 3.6 liter V6 engine that is being done development of total output of 308 horsepower and peak torque of 265 lb-ft (358 Nm), the engine is mated to a six-speed automatic transmission. The touch-sensitive infotainment controls will probably spread throughout the Cadillac lineup. As for the plug-in model, we're Hopeful Cadillac can get acceptably large rocker-panel decals to announce its hybridity, they've worked so well to move hybrid Escalades.
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