Ride forth as we yield a aboriginal drive in the Cadillac CTS-V at the Monticello Raceway in New York. The 2009 CTS-V represents the a lot of able American auto anytime made, with a 6.2-liter supercharged V8 engine, bearing 556 application at 6,200 rpm and 551 lb-ft of torque at 4,000 rpm. Base amount for the CTS-V, that can exhausted the BMW M5 about the track, starts at $59,995, compared to the M5 that starts at $83,900.
Watch our video of the 2009 Cadillac CTS-V on the clue to apprehend the supercharged engine and to apprentice added about the achievement features.

While the Cadillacs of yore were alone hardly removed from their abyssal counterparts – both from a activating and aeronautics standpoint – the CTS-V stands in abrupt contrast. In accepted guise, the CTS is adventurous and handsome, absolutely avant-garde and instantly recognizable. This is even added so in V trim.
To authorize as a V-Series model, the CTS had to accept both the moves and the looks to accompany the badge. So Cadillac's Clay Dean-led architecture aggregation congenital the aforementioned cobweb grille apparent on beforehand Vs, forth with a abysmal foreground fascia that diverts air about the car rather than beneath it. This adds to the beheld address as able-bodied as acceptable adherence at animated speeds.
Extensions forth the flanks and rear bodywork visually lower the CTS-V and backpack the basal bend of the foreground air dam to the back. The alone added exoteric change is the awning appendage appropriate to bright the astonishing LSA V8. Like the LS9 in the Corvette ZR1, the LSA is a supercharged 6.2-liter V8. And like its big brother, it proves that a simple, bunched pushrod V8 can do amazing things in the 21st century.