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A mere two weeks after the General revealed the 2009 Cadillac CTS-V at the Detroit Auto Show, it's now been spotted for the first time in the wild at a CTS owners meet-up. Talk about drumming up some enthusiast support grass-roots style, right? The folks at Desert-Motors.com have the scoop with some shots of the Michigan manny-plated tester getting taken for a drive by a GM employee and showing off that big hump of a hood. That hump, as you'll remember from earlier this month, conceals that giant 6.2-liter supercharged V8 producing 550 horsepower and an equal amount of lb.-ft. of torque. We're waiting for our test unit to show up here at the Jalopnik Detroit HQ in the land of the ice and snow, where the midnight sun sets and hot springs flow just so we can see how the performance traction management works on the icy pavement out front. For now we'll just have to dream — and continue to ogle the shots below. (Hat tip to Patrick Ernzen and many thanks to the folks at Desert-Motors.com!)
[via Desert-Motors]
2009 Cadillac CTS-V Caught in the Wild
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8:15 AM on Mon Jan 28 2008
By Ray Wert
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I HATE beige interiors, otherwise awesome.
I saw the CTS-V on the stand in Detroit on Saturday and was mighty impressed. I just wish the car had mesh in the fender ports as well to complete the look, but I'm just grasping at straws for complaints here.
It also looks like Cadillac has switched to five-bolt hubs for the new CTS-V, down from six-bolts in the previous generation. Could this mean that -gasp- the new V-series is not only more powerful but also lighter than its predecessor?
@Steel_ETC: I don't think historically, Cadillac models ever get lighter in successive iterations, but I could be wrong about that.
Not that it matters in this case. What we have here is glorious luxo-cruising excess. When you wanna play Wagner on an American instrument, you can now at least count on Caddy to not wimp out on you. Maybe we can get Lincoln to wake up too, and realize that there is a market for performance oriented vehicles in this class.
@Steel_ETC: I think the new CTS-V is something like 100 lbs heavier than the previous version.
i think this is the first cadillac i have wanted to own since the 1959 Deville...
The switch to 5 lugs may have been to help the aftermarket side. Makes 5 spoke wheels much easier and a cleaner look.
They best be careful- that car show is in the Phoenix area (see Camelback Mountain in the background)... Per Google Maps it is dangerous to be driving anything down there.
Great looking car. A couple years and a used model for me??? Hey, I can dream can't I?
@Rick Astley: Thats okay considering the +150 hp and tq.
If you had driven that up to me even without the badge I would have thought, What a knockout! It's extremely sharp.
Nice to see at least a little boot lid--does a non-hunchback really create that much wind resistance??? Though they put a lot of attention on the rear, it still seems front end heavy without a little more substance back there.
The front grille on this car makes it look like the old model again. I was really confused when I first looked at it. I had to compare it to the new regular CTS to see that it is indeed based on the new car.
Very nice. Taken in great light like this, it looks like a Decepticon ready to transform.
"...The hammer of the gods will drive our Caddy to new land
To fight the horde and sing and cry, Valhalla, I am coming..."
If I had 50 or 60 large to drop on a superfast luxury saloon, I'd seriously consider one of these. Unfortunately its value will probably drop like a stone in the UK, but what the hey, it's cool and it's different.
Wow, I bet this could totally get another 50 feet past an M5 when driven at top-speed off a runway.
Cool to see these pics here, but I have to say, I'm a little upset. These are my pics and my watermark has been removed and replaced with the "CTowners.com" watermark. Not cool.
The original source, including most pics in 1920x1280.
[desert-motors.com]
This was not at a CTS owners' meet, it was at Scottsdale Pavilions, a weekly Saturday night car show here in Scottsdale, AZ where people just bring their cars out.
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