2016 Cadillac CT6: Car Seat Check
CARS.COM — The all-new 2016 Cadillac CT6 is a nearly full-size sedan that wraps its passengers in luxury and caters to families with a roomy backseat featuring 40.4 inches of legroom. That’s plenty of space for big rear-facing car seats or gangly teenage legs. The five-seat CT6 performed well in our Car Seat Check except in the booster seat category. We tested the Luxury trim with leather seats.
How many car seats fit in the second row? Two
What We Like
- The CT6 has two sets of lower Latch anchors in the outboard rear seats; they sit more than an inch into the seat bight, where the back and bottom cushions meet. Thankfully, the anchors were easy to access because the leather cushions move out of the way. The three tether anchors on the rear shelf behind the head restraints also were easy to use.
- The rear-facing infant seat with its narrow, hooklike anchors installed easily into the CT6. There was no need to move the front passenger seat forward to accommodate it.
- Our rear-facing convertible’s wide base made it a little difficult to connect to the CT6’s inboard Latch anchor but we managed to attach the rigid Latch connector to the anchor after a few attempts. The car seat fit well; there was plenty of room.
- In forward mode, the convertible installed easily. The rear head restraints can be raised, but doing so doesn’t create an open path for routing the tether strap. When using the tether anchor, Cadillac recommends routing a dual-strap tether around the head restraint, which is what we did with our convertible’s dual tethers. For car seats with a single tether strap, the CT6’s owner’s manual says to route the tether strap around the inboard side of the head restraint, which is closer to the middle seat. Cadillac doesn’t recommend routing the strap over the top of the head restraint.
What We Don’t
- Because of large bolsters, the outboard seat position was a little narrow for our high-back booster. We had to tug it away from the seat belt buckle for better access to it, and the buckle is recessed into the seat cushion, making it difficult for younger kids to use.
Grading Scale
A: Plenty of room for the car seat and the child; doesn’t impact driver or front-passenger legroom. Easy to find and connect to Latch and tether anchors. No fit issues involving head restraint or seat contouring. Easy access to the third row.
B: Plenty of room. One fit or connection issue. Some problems accessing third row when available.
C: Marginal room. Two fit or connection issues. Difficult to access third row when available.
D: Insufficient room. Two or more fit or connection issues.
F: Does not fit or is unsafe.
About Cars.com’s Car Seat Checks
Editors Jennifer Geiger, Jennifer Newman and Matt Schmitz are certified child safety seat installation technicians.
For the Car Seat Check, we use a Graco SnugRide Classic Connect 30 infant-safety seat, a Britax Marathon convertible seat and Graco TurboBooster seat. The front seats are adjusted for a 6-foot driver and a shorter passenger. The three child seats are installed in the second row. The booster seat sits behind the driver’s seat, and the infant and convertible seats are installed behind the front passenger seat.
We also install the forward-facing convertible in the second row’s middle seat with the booster and infant seat in the outboard seats to see if three car seats will fit; a child sitting in the booster seat must be able to reach the seat belt buckle. If there’s a third row, we install the booster seat and a forward-facing convertible. To learn more about how we conduct our Car Seat Checks, go here.
Parents should also remember that they can use the Latch system or a seat belt to install a car seat, and that Latch anchors have a weight limit of 65 pounds, including the weight of the child and the weight of the seat itself.
