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01-14-2006, 02:41 AM

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01-14-2006, 07:05 AM

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I ran a CTS-V for two years. Probably one of the nicest perf cars I had as it made a nice business car and was fast

The handling was outstanding. Look at it's record at SCCA. In 2004 it smoked everything, including Vipers, M3's you name it. Then they added weight to it and took out horsepower. It only has rr drive, some of the other mfg's need AWD to get thru the track and get the handling and performance. You can cross it up and let it hang and it is actually too easy to drive. I kicked a bunch of butt on the highway and loved the Navagation...nice business car in my opinion. You can get some pretty good deals on them as well.

01-14-2006, 07:13 AM

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I looked at that car hard for a year. They have a lot of problems with the rear end giving out if you are hard on the car.The CTS will be redesigned this year so be carefull on buying car that will be dated this fall. I instead bought a 2006 Chrysler 300 SRT-8. This car has a 6.1 425hp hemi in it. A couple of tweeks and my car has 450ish hp now. For the money nothing out there is going to touch it. I also looked at the S4 and the AMG C55 before I went with this. Good luck on your choice. Mike

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Need opinions. I want a 4 door performance sedan and I love horsepower (as we all do on this forum). I would love an M5 or AMG E55 however, I don't have $80k to dump. However, Cadillac has a nice rig that has a performance build for $50k - the CTS-V. It has the 6.0L vette engine and is a 12.5 second car. I drove it and it is a nice combination of luxury and performance.

In my house, my wife is included on every decision and even though I can do what I want, I like her support. I love this car and she can't get over the stigma of it being a cadillac which has the stereotype of an old persons car. She is down on the ehole thing and I can't convice her otherwise....however, she did agree to drive 1 tomorrow morning which I am hoping will change her mind.

What do you guys think?

http://www.cadillac.com/cadillacjsp/...jsp?model=ctsv

01-14-2006, 07:22 AM

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Cad is not set up to be a drag car. It is set up to be a track car and that is where it shines...just ask the Viper boys not to mention the 300 boys who don't even play in the same sand box. It's not difficult to get it to hook up and go straight, that is easy. But to design it to go fast through corners, well that is a different challenge that takes some good design work.

01-14-2006, 07:28 AM

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I agree the CTS-V has kicked butt in the hands of Andy racing it this year. But the 300 SRT-8 is no pig either. I have driven it at Homestead speedway at 140 and it was solid. It pulled a .91 on the skidpad in one of the magazine tests. What worried me about the V is I did not want to blow the rear end out racing someone off the line. If I bought that car I was going to supercharge it. They have had problems with cars with the stock hp.

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