Skip to main content

Review: 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe

Middling Cabin, Magnificent Handling, Marvelous Car 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe – Click above for high-res image gallery Cadillac has never made anything like the CTS-V Coupe, a $63,000 monster that's half hedonist and half hot-rod. Not only that, Cadillac's never fought in this part of the market before. The brand had monster engines back in its early days, but they were always pulling monster barges that wallowed as much as, well, barges. Here we have a coupe promising to cut up the roads like one of those German knives, but we've heard that refrain so many times before. This ... Read More

  • 0
    Cadillac CTS-V Coupe
    Official: Cadillac V-Series Academy comes to Las Vegas [w/video]
    1359638760

    General Motors has added another high-speed education course to the curriculum at the Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. The desert track already hosts the Ron Fellows Performance Driving School with Chevrolet Corvettes, including the ZR1, and they've just added the Cadillac V-Series Academy. Open now, the one- and two-day ...

  • 0
    Cadillac CTS-V Coupe
    Video: Watch Hennessey-tuned Cadillac CTS-V run over 220 mph on a Texas road
    1351183500

    Texas holds the excellent honor of playing host to the road with the highest speed limit in the US. It seems no coincidence, then, that the speed-hungry minds at Hennessey Performance call the Lone Star State home as well. Hennessey recently turned its attention to the freshly opened toll road SH130 for a quick sprint, and with the help of the Texas ...

  • 0
    Cadillac CTS-V Coupe
    Official: 2013 Hennessey VR1200 makes the CTS-V seem slow [w/video]
    1346973960

    There are a handful of vehicles on this blue Earth that can warp one's perception of speed. The Cadillac CTS-V holds a seat at that table of chieftains thanks to its brawny supercharged V8 engine. Now it looks as if the cats at Hennessey have decided to wring even more power from black sheep of the Crest's stable. The 2013 VR1200 Twin Turbo Coupe ditches ...

  • 0
    Cadillac CTS-V Coupe
    Video: Chevy Corvette Z06 Centennial goes head-to-head with Cadillac CTS-V Coupe in Burnout Super Test
    1327521600

    One rear-drive coupe with over 500 horsepower would be enough for most automakers. But not General Motors. The biggest of the Detroit automakers just couldn't get by with what some rivals would put on a showroom turntable with more flood-lights than an ATF raid. That's why it makes the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 and ZR1, the Camaro ZL1 and the Cadillac CTS-V. ...

  • 0
    Cadillac CTS-V Coupe
    Cadillac CTS-V Coupe collects first victory at Mid-Ohio [w/video]
    1312846020

    Cadillac Racing hadn't won a race since the finale of the 2007 World Challenge season when Andy Pilgrim took the checkered flag at Laguna Seca driving the team's previous-generation Cadillac CTS-V sedan. This past weekend, the Wreath and Crest's factory team finally won again since returning to the sport this season after a three-year absence, but this ...

  • 0
    Cadillac CTS-V Coupe
    Hennessey previews limited edition 1,000-horsepower CTS-V Coupe
    1311701520

    Last year, we sampled Hennessey's 700 horsepower version of the Cadillac CTS-V, and quite frankly, it frightened us. As Jonny Lieberman said at the time, "we simply weren't prepared for the fury of the V700." Of course, adding a little under 150 horsepower to the CTS-V is just getting started for Hennessey. The Texas tuner has just released a preview of ...

  • 0
    Cadillac CTS-V Coupe
    Poll: Should Cadillac make the CTS-V go "Supersonic"?
    1310490060

    Last month, following an IM conversation between myself and Autoblog's Test Fleet Manager, Steve Ewing, I tweeted this. I love the Supersonic Blue paint GM offers on the Chevrolet Corvette, you see, and I think it'd look killer on the Cadillac CTS-V. I hadn't given it much thought until yesterday, when I attended a Cadillac event at the Monticello Motor ...

  • 0
    Cadillac CTS-V Coupe
    Featured: Why Cadillac hasn't found success yet in World Challenge Series, and why it's not giving up
    1303930680

    The last time Cadillac lined up for the World Challenge Series from 2004 to 2007, it was competing with the CTS-V sedan. As put by an understated Jim Vurpillat, Cadillac's global head of marketing, "We've been here before and had some success." By "some success," he means that the four-door roared off with the championship in its second and fourth ...

  • 0
    Cadillac CTS-V Coupe
    Video: Watch the Cadillac CTS-V Coupe racecar go testing in Episode 4
    1301014680

    Cadillac has put together a series of clips that document its return to racing. The automaker will run a pair of CTS-V Coupe SCCA race cars in the World Challenge series, which kicks off March 25th, 2011 in St. Petersburg, Florida. Ahead of the green flag, Cadillac has released the fourth and final clip in its mini documentary. Titled Ready to Race, the ...

  • 0
    Cadillac CTS-V Coupe
    Videos: Cadillac documents return to racing with CTS-V Coupe race car
    1300928340

    Cadillac is pretty excited to head back to the race track. It's no simple task, however, to go from luxury sports coupe to competitive racer in a short amount of time. Thus, the automaker is spending plenty of time making sure its got the CTS-V Coupe race car completely dialed in before heading off to compete in various SCCA events. Cadillac is ...

Autoblog iPhone App