A $5,000 cut in the price of a car can cover a lot of sins. A name change can help, too, especially if the original one conjured images of old guys wearing fedoras and smoking big cigars.
Those two changes, plus a whole bunch of smaller ones, are what Cadillac is offering for 2006 in the DTS, an improved version of the car formerly known as the De- Ville.
Prospective buyers will have to overlook its front-wheel-drive layout - rapidly fading from fashion in luxury and performance cars - and other shortcomings compared to competitors, such as a transmission with only four speeds at a time when five and six are the norms and one carmaker, Mercedes, is offering seven.
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