Race Car Talk

It should come as news to exactly none of you that we’re big fans of the second generation Cadillac CTS-V. With a 556hp supercharged V8, choice of an automatic or manual 6-speed tranny and the choice of sedan, coupe and – coming next year – wagon (*swoon*) wrappers, how could we not be in love with this Yankee Doodle dandy of a super sedan? Sadly, as the kids are supposedly fond of saying these days (We can’t say for sure because we have trouble hearing them as they walk past while we sit in our folding chair in the driveway.), “Haters gonna hate.” The Debbie Downers both here and across the seas are fond of jibing the Killer Caddy for things like needing forced induction to best its European rivals’ power figures (even as mounting pressure from Green Borg is now prompting them to follow suit), being porky for its size and being assembled with impact wrenches and rubber mallets by guys named Jerome and Bucky instead of with hex-head screwdrivers and tweezers by guys named Detlev and Heinrich. To that we (and now Cadillac’s marketing department, as evidenced by the new commercial after the jump titled simply “Competition”) say, “Numbers don’t lie.” read more

Source: sub5zero.com

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