The Cadillac has gotten its first real winter workout in the past month, spending much of its time crisscrossing icy streets in Colorado Springs, Colo. So far feelings are mixed on how the Seville handles inclement weather, with some of our staff members thinking that it skates like Dino Ciccarelli, while others feel that it moves like, well, a big fat hog on ice.

John Davis, Edmund's senior media specialist, loves the way this car handles the snow, reasoning that the traction control and antilock brakes make him (a Colorado native) a candidate for winter rally driving. Our Caddy is outfitted with California license plates, so Davis takes great pleasure in terrorizing California-hating Coloradans by waiting until the last possible moment to hit the brakes when approaching an icy intersection. (Note to file: Someone should tell Davis that he is playing chicken in a $52,000 car.)

Greg Anderson, Edmund's senior features editor, feels entirely different about the Cadillac's cold-weather characteristics. His biggest gripe is about the brakes, which he finds difficult to modulate. Anderson complains that even in this mega-buck sedan, GM has failed to provide drivers with good brake pedal feel. Anderson also isn't crazy about the Seville's leather seats, not because they are uncomfortable, just because they are damn cold on sub-zero mornings and take a long time to heat up. (As mentioned last month, seat heaters were left off our Seville's option list. Oops.)

More kudos have rolled in about the Cadillac's Northstar engine, which anti-car guy Davis mistakenly referred to as a Norplant engine until someone thankfully corrected him, and more complaints have been filed about the complexity of the Caddy's interior controls. On a final note, Anderson and his wife Sabra think that the automatically adjusting front seats are spooky. Sabra felt like she was sitting on a living, breathing creature. She summed up the experience in one word, "Yuck!"

Best fuel economy: 18.6 mpg
Worst fuel economy: 12.5 mpg
Maintenance costs: $0
Problems: None