geetee500
08-27-2008, 10:11 AM
What surprises me is not the V's blistering 1/4 time, but the fantastic interior with a steering wheel that is a cross between the CTSs and a BMW E46 competition package's
http://www.roadandtrack.com/assets/image/2008/W31/073020081942149255.jpg
Un-precedented. That is the only way to describe this showdown between BMW's legendary M5 and Cadillac's all-new CTS-V. That Cadillac and BMW accepted our invitation to pick the drivers and pit their cars against each other at a neutral site for hot laps and winner-takes-all bragging rights speaks volumes to where these companies are in the sports-sedan hierarchy.
Cadillac is the hungry challenger, making no secret that it has benchmarked the M5 in producing its new 556-bhp CTS-V, right down to specifying the same Michelin PS2 tires. So hungry, in fact, that it agreed to the face*off three weeks before it would allow any journalists (including us) to drive the car.
http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?section_id=31&article_id=6963&cid=85
http://www.roadandtrack.com/assets/image/2008/W31/073020081942149255.jpg
Un-precedented. That is the only way to describe this showdown between BMW's legendary M5 and Cadillac's all-new CTS-V. That Cadillac and BMW accepted our invitation to pick the drivers and pit their cars against each other at a neutral site for hot laps and winner-takes-all bragging rights speaks volumes to where these companies are in the sports-sedan hierarchy.
Cadillac is the hungry challenger, making no secret that it has benchmarked the M5 in producing its new 556-bhp CTS-V, right down to specifying the same Michelin PS2 tires. So hungry, in fact, that it agreed to the face*off three weeks before it would allow any journalists (including us) to drive the car.
http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?section_id=31&article_id=6963&cid=85