The Cadillac CTS-V is a very good super sedan. You can tell by just ogling the stats. The supercharged 6.2-liter LT4 engine creates 640 hp and 630 lb-ft of torque. Weighing in at about 4,100 pounds, the CTS-V weighs less then the fat, German competition. You’ve also got big Brembo brakes, Michelin Super Sport tires, GM’s exceptional Alpha platform, and the so-good-Ford’s-now-using-them Delphi magnetic dampers.
But even with all that kit, the CTS-V is not good enough.
Say huh? Yeah, you heard me right. The CTS-V as it stands is not good enough. Cadillac is close with this car. If you’re German, uncomfortably close. But Dave Leone and his team haven’t reached the Promised Land. Yet.
But they could. The answer is to reach higher. To grab the brass ring. To internalize the mantra that good enough is never good enough. To put your foot on the other guy’s throat and simply keep pressing. To put it in terminology Cadillac can totally understand, it’s time to dare greatly. Then call the solution VMax.
