Thinking that maybe OnStar could wake up the fatigued Caddy, VanderWerp pushed the magic blue button and was instructed by an unsurprised operator to leave the key (which was stuck in the column) in the "on" position for 20 minutes and then the "off" position for five seconds. They fired up the engine, but on exiting the parking lot, it stalled, as if to say, "No! Enough for one day!" All attempts to restart failed. Cruising cross country couldn't come any better, or so Dave and Marie thought.Īt a rest stop off a New York toll road, our travelers returned from visits to the lav, only to discover that the SRX viewed the idea of rest stops literally. Plus, it had $9815 worth of pampering options: all-wheel drive, a navigation system, a third-row power seat, magnetic ride control, HID headlamps, a DVD player with an LCD screen and wireless headphones ("Sorry, sweetie, did you say something?"), and a Bose stereo with XM satellite radio and an in-dash six-CD changer. It was a perfectly sensible choice, not only because the $60,645 Caddy needed to accrue miles, but also because it was an ideal long-tripper-after all, for a starting price of $50,830, it was equipped with a gutsy 320-hp Northstar V-8 and leather front bucket seats with heat and eight-way power adjustments. Less than a month into its stay here, and with a little over 4000 miles on the odometer, our long-term Cadillac SRX V-8 sport-ute was deemed the carriage of choice for a round-trip run from Ann Arbor to Boston, with tech editor and recent hire Dave VanderWerp at the wheel, and his then fiancée, Marie, riding shotgun.
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