Cadillac CTS-V Plus

[The359]

The M5 is a sports sedan pal.

The CTS-V is a sports sedan too. So what's your point?

Why would someone get an M5 when they could just get another 5-series for considerably less, unless of course you're racing with 3 kids with you

Why would someone buy a CTS-V when they could just get another CTS for considerably less, unless of course you're racing with 3 kids with you?

The steretype thing is quite true, American's (in general, with the car companies) assimilate horepower with quality and car sales. A model gets so much horsepower and then the people who don't know too much about cars go "OMG IT HAS 300HP THAT THINGS AMAZINGX0R" and then they get that one thinking its the most amazing thing ever.

So European or Japanese cars that have 300hp are automatically amazing? The stereotypes you are pushing are merely not true in the slightest. Americans have great cars with great horsepower and they have bad ones. Europeans have great cars with great horsepower and they have bad ones as well.

It is simply not a case of American manufacturers saying "Oh, well, let's throw a bigger engine in a change nothing else", because you'd be absolutely wrong in thinking that. The CTS-V has better suspension, better brakes, better aerodynamics from a better body kit, a better gear box, a better interior, EVERYTHING.

You know they have ways to test a car at a track without testing it at that particular track. Hint hint.

That made no effingham sense. Cadillac has been testing the CTS-V, CTS-V+, STS-V, and XLR-V at the Nurburgring. The real Nurburgring. Period.

 

[Giancarlo]

That thing is mean.

 

[super cirrus]

You know they have ways to test a car at a track without testing it at that particular track. Hint hint.

your right, they could. But the fact that they're testing it at what is considered one of the most difficult tracks in the world tells me they're concerned with more than just horsepower.

Hell, if they were really just adding power, they could test the thing at a drag strip.

 

[PublicSecrecy]

A car doesn't physically have to be at the Nurb to test it at the nurb. They have computer with the track course programed into it, and then they put the car on a platform with a moving bottom and simulate the car moving over the track, steering, braking, accelerating etc. It doesn't mean theyre actually testing it there, it can mean they're just pretending to be on it by making all the same moves.

 

[The359]

Um...no.

There is no such thing, and if there were, it wouldn't even come close to being like the real Nurburgring.

The Cadillacs are being tested at the real Nurburgring. You simply cannot argue that point since there are numerous pictures of all the V cars being tested there.

Not only that, but GM wouldn't need to built their own private test track with design cues taken from the real Nurburgring if they had this imaginary machine.

 

[///M-Spec]

To clarify the computer Ring test question. Such devices DO exist. However, they are used to simulate mechanical stress for durability testing, not fine tune handling. Only a human test driver and a team of suspension engineers looking at telemetry data and working closely with the driver at a real course can do that.


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[VIPFREAK]

Usually I'd say WTF is the point because they already have a CTS-V but that looks too good so I like it... That's saying a hell of a lot too because it's a gm.