Cadillac to support Apple CarPlay on 'majority' of upcoming 2016 cars
General Motors' Cadillac division on Tuesday announced that it will add support for Apple CarPlay to most of its 2016 vehicles, the first group of which will launch later this summer.
Shoppers should in fact be able to get CarPlay on any model with an 8-inch multi-touch screen, the one exception being the SRX Crossover. Cadillac is also promising to add Android Auto support, but only further into the 2016 production run.
To access either CarPlay or Android Auto, drivers will have to tap on a "Projection" icon on their screens. Apart from touch controls, people will also be able to trigger Siri or Android voice commands by hitting a button on their steering wheel.
During Monday's WWDC 2015 keynote, Apple announced several ehancements to CarPlay such as wireless connections, support for new screen sizes, and automaker-made apps capable of controlling in-car functions such as heating and air conditioning. Cadillac did not say how many of those improvements will be implemented into its lineup.
GM is making a major push into CarPlay and Android Auto this year. In May it announced plans to put the platforms on 14 Chevrolet models.
Shoppers should in fact be able to get CarPlay on any model with an 8-inch multi-touch screen, the one exception being the SRX Crossover. Cadillac is also promising to add Android Auto support, but only further into the 2016 production run.
To access either CarPlay or Android Auto, drivers will have to tap on a "Projection" icon on their screens. Apart from touch controls, people will also be able to trigger Siri or Android voice commands by hitting a button on their steering wheel.
During Monday's WWDC 2015 keynote, Apple announced several ehancements to CarPlay such as wireless connections, support for new screen sizes, and automaker-made apps capable of controlling in-car functions such as heating and air conditioning. Cadillac did not say how many of those improvements will be implemented into its lineup.
GM is making a major push into CarPlay and Android Auto this year. In May it announced plans to put the platforms on 14 Chevrolet models.
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Now that is one ugly, cheap, plastic-laden looking dash if I ever saw one... Just reinforces my view of domestic cars as complete trash.
Most of, wow, all six models. Great work Cadillac, you've really outdone yourself this time. And it's not going to make it on the most popular model. Genius.
Most of, wow, all six models. Great work Cadillac, you've really outdone yourself this time. And it's not going to make it on the most popular model. Genius.
And it's still the wired version that you have to connect via USB. Maybe we'll see the wireless CarPlay in 2017 or 2018 models.
Wireless carplay was announced only yesterday. So, yes, it won't be before mid-2016 until you start seeing wireless CarPlay options
Cadillac has been great the last 10 years and the latest models are awesome!!! Who ever said the dash is cheap plastic laden is just biased against domestic cars to justify buying some foreign brand. Gotta see it in person and is on par with German luxury cars. Also of course good to see GM adding latest tech but seems like the options will be either Car Play or Android head units. Will Cadi's with Car Play have better resale value? heh
Hideous! No wonder Jony is moving to the UK.
Also of course good to see GM adding latest tech but seems like the options will be either Car Play or Android head units. Will Cadi's with Car Play have better resale value? heh
Pretty sure the one system will support both CarPlay and Android Auto. The way I read it is that CarPlay support will come first, but Android Auto support will be added (to the same system) later in the year. Hopefully the owner can upgrade that themselves.
Cadillac has been great the last 10 years and the latest models are awesome!!! Who ever said the dash is cheap plastic laden is just biased against domestic cars to justify buying some foreign brand. Gotta see it in person and is on par with German luxury cars. Also of course good to see GM adding latest tech but seems like the options will be either Car Play or Android head units. Will Cadi's with Car Play have better resale value? heh
Ditto, former STS & current SRX owner here with no complaints at all.
I recently rented a Malibu for two weeks.
It's dash sure looked like the one shown,
but the center panel display looked very different and messy. Must be MS's !
Kudos to cadillac!
I wish more models from more European automakers offered CarPlay for 2016 US models. The only one I am aware of that is fully committed is Volvo's new XC90. Audi's website says that "Audi has indicated that CarPlay will be available on some all-new Audi models arriving in U.S. showrooms by 2016." BMW has nothing in its 2016 lineup, afaik. I've been unable to find any concrete information in either the Jaguar or Mercedes websites.
The rollout is a bit disappointing, frankly.
sort of. Apple announced wireless last year when they announced CarPlay in iOS 8, but they revoked it. so surely it's been in the works...so hopefully it wont take aftermarket head units much time to implement it.
Kudos to cadillac!
I wish more models from more European automakers offered CarPlay for 2016 US models. The only one I am aware of that is fully committed is Volvo's new XC90. Audi's website says that "Audi has indicated that CarPlay will be available on some all-new Audi models arriving in U.S. showrooms by 2016." BMW has nothing in its 2016 lineup, afaik. I've been unable to find any concrete information in either the Jaguar or Mercedes websites.
The rollout is a bit disappointing, frankly.
Although some European cars interest me and are great highway driving cars, they have a problem in their lack of full sized spare capability. Run flats and compact spares are not suitable for our long distance highway driving, particularly after prime time and on week ends when there is no tire service available. OK for urban driving only, where their great highway capability is not used.
Regarding spare tires, many cars are now being delivered with patch kits, which are next to useless. Many highway flats, particularly are at night, are from running over junk and the tires become not patchable junk. Patch Kits should be outlawed !!!
* So be sure you know what is in that spare tire well. A few of my friends have been quite surprised and spent hours waiting on the highway at night to be picked up.
If only they would make compact spares strong enough for 100/1,000 metric (60/600 imperial) with an all weather tread,
they would be passable. At least they now are close to the outside diameter of the mounted tires.
Interestingly a German make which started the use of compact spares, now has full sized spare capability. I wonder what happens to all those compact spares that are removed.
That German company makes many cars in the SE USA, as do BMW and Mercedes.
Although some European cars interest me and are great highway driving cars, they have a problem in their lack of full sized spare capability. Run flats and compact spares are not suitable for our long distance highway driving, particularly after prime time and on week ends when there is no tire service available. OK for urban driving only, where their great highway capability is not used.
Regarding spare tires, many cars are now being delivered with patch kits, which are next to useless. Many highway flats, particularly are at night, are from running over junk and the tires become not patchable junk. Patch Kits should be outlawed !!!
* So be sure you know what is in that spare tire well. A few of my friends have been quite surprised and spent hours waiting on the highway at night to be picked up.
If only they would make compact spares strong enough for 100/1,000 metric (60/600 imperial) with an all weather tread,
they would be passable. At least they now are close to the outside diameter of the mounted tires.
Interestingly a German make which started the use of compact spares, now has full sized spare capability. I wonder what happens to all those compact spares that are removed.
That German company makes many cars in the SE USA, as do BMW and Mercedes.
Your experience with run-flats is somewhat anecdotal. For instance, the last two cars I've owned are BMWs with run-flats. Never had an issue, and pretty much every tire service fixes run flats.
In the last three decades of car ownership, I've had a flat exactly once. So it is most certainly not a reason to not choose a European vehicle (btw, many of which are now made in the US).
But all that's anecdotal too.