It seems that the American car companies have been chasing the Germans and the Asians for forever and a day.
Product after product that is supposedly as good as or better than the competition but when you peel back the onion and really look close, you find out that the major car magazine has been indirectly paid off with a handsome ad campaign in exchange for a pass on the first review.
So you read the review, get all excited and run down to the dealer, test drive it and maybe even buy it.
2009 Cadillac CTS-V Photo Gallery
And then you realize THEY drove an entirely different car than you because what you're driving, is so far away from a BMW, Lexus or Mercedes, it isn't even funny.
I'm so tired of hearing the BS from the big three I could almost vomit blood about how they are truly world class and how their products are as good as or better than the leaders.
And coming to Sonoma, California as a guest of GM this week, I was expecting to hear the same old-same old and drive a car that isn't bad but not even near the world we eat, sleep and breathe in.
But today was DIFFERENT.
For the first time that I can remember, the car Cadillac put me in, was every bit as good as the M3's, M5's, AMG's, IS-F's, etc. and in some ways even BETTER.
This new CTS-V my friends (I sound like John McCain there..LOL!) is the authentic item, the real deal, the cats ass, badass motha (shut your mouth), the real McCoy...should I go on?
0-60 in 3.9 seconds, quarter mile in 12.
In a luxo-sedan!
And it will base price (not finalized but we're predicting it will) just under 60k!!!!
Let me translate that for you.
That's better than BMW M5 performance for $25k less!!!
I know what you're waiting for here...OK, 001, tell us everything was great if it just had a nice interior or if it just looked as cool as the competition.
Well NO ONE on earth is happier than me to tell you that they have done EVERYTHING right on this car, inside AND out!
GREAT JOB CADILLAC AND GM!!!!
THIS is the kind of car we have been waiting for!
Something we don't have tomake excuses for...
Acceleration is beyond awesome, handling perfectly balanced, almost ergonomically correct (yes, there are a couple little niggling mistakes ergonomically inside and I am grasping at straws here), because NO car is perfect.
You knee blocks the interior temp display and the trip computer buttons are behind the steering wheel and virtually impossible to see without turning the wheel left or right.
I can live with that but the only thing that I really didn't like was, like the regular CTS, there are no upper front seat grab handles in the roof.
Trust us, when this thing is in full rocketship mode, they are needed.
This car absolutely FLIES!!!!
And we predict it is going to FLY off dealership shelves...well, maybe not fly (only because of the price of gas), but this will be a car that will be sought after.
It is bloody fantastic!
Forget the Corvette, this is the ride for me.
And I'll take mine in Pewter, with suede wheel/shifter, 6-speed, Recaro package and nav.
VERDICT:
2009 Cadillac CTS-V.
NOT same as is ever was at GM.
Do you believe in miracles? YES!!!!!!!!
Here are the photos from the gallery:
2009 Cadillac CTS-V Photo Gallery
2009 Cadillac CTS-V Photo Gallery