Limousine Finder: 2015 at 12:23PM

Cadillac Looks To Be First In Vehicle-To-Vehicle Communication

Speaking at a J.D. Power’s Automotive Marketing Roundtable on Tuesday night, Cadillac CEO Johan de Nysschen said that his company will be the first brand to bring vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication technology to production with its 2017 CTS mid-size sedan.

Whether Cadillac will be the first or not is up for debate. Mercedes-Benz has already revealed that its 2017 E-Class, too, will offer V2V communication. Regardless, the tech is the next significant step toward fully functional autonomous cars — no matter what brand is first. V2V works by connecting cars via Wi-Fi signals, allowing them to share information about location and speed, as well as other driving and safety data.

Read the full story at mashable.com.

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Road Testing A 2015 Rolls Royce Ghost

Call it excess, call it over-the-top or simply call it sublime. Any of those adjectives could easily describe the 2015 Ghost from Rolls Royce, a company that has defined itself as an automaker for the affluent. This car oozes decadence from its “Spirit of Ecstasy” hood ornament to the way it pampers its occupants. There is no denying that this is a serious automobile.

Read the full review at www.commdiginews.com.

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A Look Back At The Mercedes-Benz S600

Today, Mercedes-Benz isn’t quite as far up in the ultra-luxury stratosphere it used to be. A well-optioned S-Class runs well into the six-figure range, and the company’s Maybach-badged S600 is one of the finest cars money can buy, but it just doesn’t have that rarefied cachet that it once did. Try as it might – and again, it is an astonishing car – the $190,000-plus range-topper came out with three strikes against it. The first is the Rolls-Royce Ghost Series II. The second is the Bentley Flying Spur. The final is the car’s namesake, an automotive masterpiece that was unlike anything the world has ever seen before, and is unlikely to ever see again.

Read the full story at www.cheatsheet.com.

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2015 Lincoln Navigator Packs Reliability, Lacks In Luxury

Can we stop trying to pass off SUVs as luxury cars? That was my thought as I drove the 2015 Lincoln Navigator, noting the thin veneer of civility it washes over what is essentially a truck frame. It is, essentially, a Ford Expedition sporting a Lincoln-styled grille, leather seating and niceties such as automatically lowering running boards.

Full review at www.cnet.com.