Cadillac CTS-V News

Once in a while, the sport-wagon version of a great-looking sedan looks even better.

The stands were a bit smaller, and there were fewer cars, but SEMA 2009 was a better show than anyone thought it might be twelve months ago.

Take a huge engine and drop it in a spartan chassis. The VSR follows the classic hot rod formula to a tee.

Tap the pulsating start button and the aluminum rotary gear-shifter rises from the center console.

It was age before beauty at Monticello Motor Club in New York, where 77-year-old Bob Lutz took Jalopnik's Wes Siler to school in a Cadillac CTS-V. A few weeks ago, GM's vice chairman and chief rabble-rouser challenged anyone, in any car, to a race so GM could show how good the 556-horsepower supercharged super Caddy is.

Automaker's sales czar pits his Cadillac against all comers in racing challenge and scores a marketing victory.

The Cadillac CTS-V lived up to the hype in a challenge hosted by GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz--though Lutz himself didn't quite come out on top.

MONTICELLO, New York -- "Hi, I'm Bob Lutz, and this is the Cadillac CTS-V Drive Challenge." Jonathan Schultz 'Maximum' Bob General Motors Corp.'s vice chairman dons his monogrammed helmet and puts Cadillac's 550-horsepower sedan through some warm-up laps at Monticello Motor Club, a gorgeously realized members-only track where, in what might've ...

GM's Bob Lutz offered to race a CTS-V against anyone with a production sedan and he found several takers.

General Motors ' septuagenarian marketing chief, Bob Lutz , will race a handful of high-priced, high-performance rivals at a New York track Thursday to put a fine point on GM's new slogan, "May the best car win." Lutz will pilot a Cadillac CTS-V with a 6.2-liter, supercharged V-8 rated 556 horsepower.

For a handful of car enthusiasts, automotive writers and a GM vice chairman, "May the best car win" is more than just an advertising slogan for the Detroit carmaker.

Bob Lutz swore the Cadillac CTS-V is the fastest four-door production sedan on the planet.

The authorization process for NAHB members to receive $500 towards the purchase or lease of most new GM passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs - whether for business or personal use -just got easier.

By Graeme Fletcher, National Post The CTS was born out of Cadillac's Art and Science design language, a move aimed at making this mid-sized luxury car stand out from its Teutonic competition.

Around 120 people applied for a chance to take on Bob Lutz in the CTS-V sedan later this month, but that doesn't mean we'll be seeing dozens of would-be contenders lining the Monticello Motor Club in New York on October 29.

When the summer of 2010 rolls around, Cadillac will have seriously fast two-door sports cars roaming the streets: the CTSv Coupe.

Bob Lutz says that, with the Cadillac CTS-V , "We believe we have achieved our goal of building the world's fastest sedan, but I look forward to putting that theory to the test...and may the best car win." The Cadillac CTS-V Challenge will pit the Cadillac against other four-door production stock sport sedans on the track.

The 1959 Eldorado was one of the classics that defined Cadillac. When General Motors' top executives were choosing this year which brands to keep and which to ditch, Cadillac was unquestionably deemed a valuable asset that should be part of the new GM.

It's also no secret that we're big fans of the CTS-V in the virtual Autoblog office.

Oh, Cadillac, why did you have to do it do it? Just when you finally managed to shake off your wiseguy reputation with the world-class CTS sedan, you went and turned the darn thing into a hearse.