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CADILLAC CTS-V BLACK DIAMOND LIMITED EDITION

CADILLAC CTS-V BLACK DIAMOND EDITION

General Motors has unveiled its new take on the powerful Cadillac CTS-V called the Black Diamond Edition. Available on all iterations of the supercharged beast (sedan, coupe and station wagon), dips appearance package for its fleet of new luxury muscular SPECTRAFLAIR painting exclusively. The final product is obtained by a three layers including aluminum flakes coated with magnesium fluoride. The result is a painting that is so beautiful that it will probably be impossible to repair.

CADILLAC CTS-V BLACK DIAMOND LIMITED EDITION

CADILLAC CTS-V BLACK DIAMOND EDITION SEAT DESIGN

CADILLAC CTS-V BLACK DIAMOND EDITION INTERIOR DESIGN

CADILLAC CTS-V BLACK DIAMOND EDITION WALLPAPER

The painting joins a collection of satin graphite wheels 19-inch Brembo brake calipers yellow on the outside. Slip inside and meet with an interior that features microfiber suede Recaro seats and Sapele wood accents throughout the cabin filled midnight. GM says the whole package is intended to invoke images of a tuxedo for the people.

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RACE CAR CADILLAC CTS-V COUPE SCCA DESIGN

RACE CAR CADILLAC CTS-V COUPE SCCA

CADILLAC CTS-V COUPE SCCA RACE DESIGN

CADILLAC CTS-V COUPE SCCA WALLPAPER

CADILLAC CTS-V COUPE SCCA

CADILLAC CTS-V COUPE SCCA DESIGN

CADILLAC CTS-V COUPE SCCA

That CTS-V Coupe competition car or truck obtained it has the very first sampling regarding trail moment from Sebring Global Raceway within Sebring, Bradenton before this specific few days. Motorists Johnny O'Connell in addition to Andy Pilgrim procured moment guiding that tiller for any car's very first actual protein shake along because the car or truck in addition to crew preparation for any very first competition in the Racecar Membership regarding The united states Universe Concern GT. That collection kicks off within St. Petersburg, Bradenton from 03 25 to 30.

Because remember, the right way to a good longer even though because Crest continue acceptable around visit fender-to-fender. The business continue competed on the earth Concern GT collection within 2007. Regarded as, Cadillac experienced campaigned any CTS-V sedan with regard to several conditions. General Generators is actually expecting which consuming into the trail once more will assist set up that CTS-V Coupe to be a legitimate efficiency rival able to dealing with the most beneficial which Australia provides. Struck that bounce for any complete touch fun time.

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2012 CADILLAC CTS-V COUPE

2011 CADILLAC CTS-V COUPE INTERIOR

2012 CADILLAC CTS-V COUPE INTERIOR

2011 CADILLAC CTS-V COUPE GPS

2011 CADILLAC CTS-V COUPE

Cadillac has by no means created something including the CTS-V Coupe, your $63, 000 monster that may be 50 % hedonist plus 50 % hot-rod. Not just that, Cadillac's by no means retaliated on this part of sales prior to. The particular make had monster engines in it's early days, however they were constantly tugging monster barges that wallowed just as much as, very well, barges. Right here we've got your coupe encouraging that will reduce upwards the particular driveways like a kind of Languages like german kitchen knives, however we now have heard that stay away numerous times prior to. Now, then again, it may be genuine.

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CADILLAC CTS-V SCCA COUPE LIMITED EDITION

CADILLAC CTS-V SCCA COUPE

CADILLAC CTS-V SCCA COUPE DESIGN

CADILLAC CTS-V SCCA COUPE WALLPAPER

CADILLAC CTS-V SCCA COUPE BACK VIEW

General Motors is showing its CTS-V Coupe SCCA Race Car at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show today, and we dutifully pointed our camera lenses in its general direction. Naturally, it sits just a few millimeters off the ground, is painted up in an eye-catching paint scheme and covered in a serious set of ducts, flares and massive wings. Par for the course, really, but pretty glorious all the same.

If there were an awards category here in Detroit for the vehicle most likely to be turned into a radio-controlled parking lot racer – and really, why isn't there? – the CTS-V Coupe racer would be at the very top of that list. See for yourself in our high-res image gallery below, and feel free to review the official press release after the break.

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Cadillac CTS Coupe First Drive 2011

Our equation for calculating the desirability of a two-door coupe based on a sedan platform is pretty simple: Does the two-door version offer enough additional visual appeal to offset the loss in practicality that is the inevitable result of the loss of two doors, rear-seat space and trunk capacity? This is the basic question we sought to answer in our first opportunity to drive the 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe.

But first, let us give you a couple examples of how this math works, one on each end of the practicality-versus-beauty scale.

Despite using many of the same building blocks, there's a world of difference between the desirability of an Audi A4 sedan and an Audi A5 coupe. Safe to say that in the minds and eyes of those around our office, the A5's beauty more than offsets its loss of capacity.

Once upon a time, when two-door versions of sedans were more commonplace, there were both four-door and two-door versions of the Dodge Aries K-car. Now, the decision between those two might be just as easy as between the Audis, but the result would be different.

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Unless you happen to be viewing the coupe from the front, there's no mistaking it for the sedan with which it shares almost all of its mechanical systems. Sure, it shares a certain Cadillac-style angularity, but the coupe is a shocking thing to behold on the road. In the grand scheme of things, the greater the differentiation between the sedan and the coupe, the better. And to the eyes of most on our staff, the coupe is unusually handsome.

It does not follow the basic silhouette of the classic coupe — that smooth-and-sexy style executed so nicely on the A5 and the BMW 3 Series coupes. It looks, well, it must be said, like a hatchback of sorts. The angle of the backlight and trunk lid is so similar that from several paces away, it's not obvious that the CTS Coupe even has a trunk in the conventional sense.

The arrangement means that the rear flanks of the coupe cover an unusual amount of square footage. Some love it; some dislike it intensely, but everyone can agree that it's going to look its best when wearing very, very large wheels. Our pre-production test car wore the optional 19-inch wheels that come with the Summer Tire package. We wouldn't go any smaller. The base-level car wears 18s.

And for a brand that's still climbing out of the doldrums of its recent history, polarizing, unconventional styling isn't a bad thing. Then again, unconventional styling can be much less, um, attractive. We're looking directly at you, BMW 6 Series coupe.

We're buying wholeheartedly the shapes of the CTS Coupe's rear, yes, even the showy, chrome-rimmed exhaust outlets in the rear bumper cover. And we flat love the vertical taillights with their sharp peaks and the thorny-looking center brake light/spoiler. To offset all these vertical emphasis, Cadillac gave the coupe a wider rear track than the sedan (by about an inch).

Another uncommonly attractive detail is the inset touchpads that replace the sedan's conventional door handles. They allow for an uninterrupted flow along the car's flank, and their angular shape nicely suits this origami car.

For us, then, the CTS Coupe scores high on the design side of the coupe-vs.-sedan equation. And because it's American (built in Lansing, Michigan, it is), you can refer to it as a "coop," and not the pretentious European "coo-pay."

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2011 Cadillac CTS-V Wagon

Instead of getting suckered into the Wagon Queen Family Truckster, a pea green calamity with excessive wood paneling and eight sealed-beam headlamps, a wiser move for Clark Griswold would have been to hold off until the first wave of high-performance station wagons rolled into showrooms. As it happened, just a few years after Clark traded in his Oldsmobile, sedans like the Volvo 740 and BMW E34 spawned the enthusiast-targeted Volvo 740 Turbo Wagon and BMW M5 Touring.

2011 Cadillac CTS-V Wagon

2011 Cadillac CTS-V Wagon Wallpaper

2011 Cadillac CTS-V Wagon Engine Design

2011 Cadillac CTS-V Wagon Indicator

2011 Cadillac CTS-V Wagon Interior Design

Both five-doors would have given Christy Brinkley a serious run in her red Ferrari 308 GTSi.Those early gussied-up family haulers were the predecessors to the Audi RS6 Avant, Dodge SRT8 Wagon, BMW M5 Touring and Mercedes-Benz E63 Sport Wagon. None were intended to be volume models (in fact, two never made it to the States). Instead, each was fabricated to act as a flagship ambassador, a proof-of-concept to the performance capability of the five-door chassis and to deliver unchallenged bragging rights. Automakers didn't build fast wagons because they had to – they built them because they could.

Cadillac, a company no longer content with letting others lead segments it once dominated, wanted to get into the frothy action. The luxury automaker felt an obligation to do "the right thing" and push for its own very unique five-door. The vision was clear – Cadillac wanted to build a CTS-V Wagon – and the concept was simple, making it difficult for management to contest (at the time, the organization was functioning inside circled-wagons). Since the platform and powertrain were already in existence, the ceremonial mating would be accomplished at minimal cost and everything could be completed at breakneck speed.

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Cadillac Aera Concept

The focus at the LA Auto Show is on new production vehicles as well as concepts that hint at an automaker's direction for the very near future. One aspect of the show however, looks further into the distance and pushes designers to create their vision of a supplied theme.

Cadillac Aera Concept

Cadillac Aera Concept Car

Cadillac Aera Design Concept

Cadillac Aera Side View

Cadillac Aera Concept

The LA Auto Show Design Challenge has entered it's seventh year, and for 2010 the designers had to create a 1,000-pound car that was stylish and performance oriented yet also capable of carrying four passengers. The GM Advanced Design team stepped up to the plate and, with their Cadillac Aera Concept, took the top spot. The podium must have been crowded though because the Smart 454 also claimed a victory as the judges declared the competition a tie.

This marks the third time that the group from General Motors has won this challenge, giving them the most wins out of all automakers that enter. The Cadillac Aera Concept hit on all areas that the judges were looking for and, despite the futuristic styling, still carries some recognizable lines from Cadillacs of today.

The Smart 454 took a different approach to this contest, compared to the dark and dramatic Aera. The 454 refers to the weight of the vehicle in kilograms, and it is described as being constructed, or rather knitted out of carbon fiber, by "Smart Granny Robots." Those robots, or SGRs, can turn the carbon fiber into complex shapes, which allows for the varied forms created to be super strong. Even the wheels are carbon fiber, which would allow for less unsprung weight and a strong rolling platform for the 454 WWT to roll on.

You can read more about both the Cadillac Aera Conceptn and the Smart 454 by reading our preview of the design challenge, and you can see them for yourself in the galleries below.

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