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Cadillac's CTS V-Series performance lineup has enthralled critics and enthusiasts alike. The standard CTS is a capable performer, but the V-Series designation takes things to a whole new level. The model that has gotten the most attention out of the CTS lineup has no doubt been the stunning CTS-V Coupe. Cadillac's recent advertising has featured the car prominently. Last month, Cadillac announced that it would be using the CTS-V coupe as a part of a reentry into the Sports Car Club of America World Challenge (SCCA). The brand competed in the category previously with the CTS-V Sedan, winning the Manufacturer’s Championship in 2005 and 2007, as well as the Driver’s Championship in 2005. Cadillac's new entry will be a two-vehicle team using the CTS-V exclusively. The car has

While the Cadillac V-Series lineup is smaller than ever, it is also better than ever too. The CTS lineup is no doubt Cadillac's star product, and the V-Series lineup has taken center stage with enthusiasts. It has been spread across the model range, offered in sedan, coupe and wagon iterations. Cadillac has taken to advertising them heavily, as the effect is a positive one for the entire lineup. Two new commercials have debuted as part of Cadillac's new advertising campaign. They feature the voice of Laurence Fishburne and Cadillac's recent "The new Standard of the World" tagline. The first is a 30-second spot for the CTS-V Coupe dubbed "Arrows." The second spot, checking in at two-minutes, is dubbed "Red-Blooded Luxury" and focuses its fire on

Cadillac and competitive racing are perhaps not two words that are normally associated with one another. However, the brand has participated in the Sports Car Club of America World Challenge in the past. And it did so quite successfully in fact, winning the Manufacturer's Championship in 2005 and 2007, along with the Driver's Championship in 2005. The brand's current CTS-V series lineup has been critically lauded for its performance chops. While the V-Series has been phased out on the outgoing STS, for the CTS it is alive and well with a full lineup that includes CTS-V Sedan, Coupe and Wagon variants. The CTS-V billed as the world's fastest production sedan. How's that for a performance Cadillac? With these capable performance vehicles, Cadillac announced a

The whole marketing department at General Motors (and indeed the whole company) has gone through a lot of shakeups in a small period of time. Marketing perhaps has been given the biggest leeway for immediate change after Joel Ewanick took over. Ewanick directed GM to drop Publicis after its work with Chevrolet and the "Excellence for All" campaign. Cadillac has also gone through a shakeup as well, switching companies and dumping the short-lived (thankfully) "Mark of Leadership" tagline. In its place? "The New Standard of the World." The advertisement below is the first advertisement to debut under the new campaign, and needless to say it is good - very good. Check it out below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YcVhlE5DMY&feature=player_embedded

The joys of being an automotive journalist at an established print magazine? Spending your days testing vehicles like these for the rest of the world to pore over. Ironically, this test incorporates three of our most favorite vehicles from Audi, BMW and Cadillac all into one test - imagine that! One of which, the RS5, was just announced as coming over to the United States. There is no loser here - each one of these is fantastic high-end, high-tech machinery that we would love to have in our drive way. But what is the best of the bunch? Both Car and Driver and Motor Trend undertook similar tests, and produced video footage to prove it. C&D's footage-only video is first, while MT with its video review is second.

Cadillac's stunning CTS Coupe was introduced in concept form at the 2008 North American International Auto Show and was quickly approved for production. For the current generation of the CTS, Cadillac is doing it right with multiple variants - sedan, coupe and wagon. Not only that, the highly regarded V performance series is available on each of the three model variations as well. With the Coupe on its way to showrooms in August, it was time to release pricing. The standard car comes in at $38,990, and the performance V model at $62,990. Do want. While the Cadillac lineup is a bit of a mess in terms of product positioning and focus, there is no doubt the allure of the CTS Coupe (and sedan as well) remains strong. The

The automotive world seems to be abuzz with news about wagons lately. The CTS Sportwagon is getting a lot of attention, along with the recently introduced Acura TSX Sportwagon and potential rumors about a wagon model for the new Buick Regal. The OPC model coming over as the Regal GNX has been a particular focus. This news from Bob Lutz is a good sign we could get one. One thing Cadillac has fixed with the CTS in this generation has been new model variants. Unlike the last car, both a coupe and wagon model have been introduced to complement the sedan. The CTS-V sedan has gotten a lot of good press, but many wondered if the other variants would get the same treatment. A CTS-V coupe seemed

After much fanfare, the Cadillac CTS-V Challenge was completed last week. The coverage in the automotive media has been so intense, proving that the event did its job for Cadillac, but also making people a bit worn out hearing about it. Cadillac recently released this video as a summary of the event. The final results were overwhelmingly in favor of the CTS-V, albeit when driven by GM's professional drivers. Mr. Lutz scored a great time but Michael Cooper, one of the private drivers invited, beat that score on the track. What the CTS-V Challenge did was generate a lot of buzz for Cadillac and prove that the car was capable of doing track time (and insanely quick times). As the other automakers proved, having a car with

Nonstop news has surrounded Cadillac and the CTS-V ever since Lutz challenged all comers to beat him in the CTS-V.  The CTS-V Challenge was born out of this and is set to take place this Thursday, October 29th at the Monticello Motor Club in New York. In past articles on the CTS-V Challenge, we have reported various automakers turning down requests by journalists to attend the event.Jalopnik's Wes Siler originally planned to attend the event in a Mercedes, but was turned down. Jaguar was the only one to accept the challenge by offering a vehicle, the Jaguar XFR. Now, they are pulling out, and that leaves no manufacturer representation of any kind at the event that we are aware of. In other words, there really is

The Cadillac CTS-V is already billed as the world's fastest production sedan by General Motors (hence the CTS-V Challenge). Hennessey, a traditional performance tuning stalwart, has taken things even further with the Cadillac CTS-V700. It is the "4-door ZR1" says the company. This is what the aftermarket is all about right? The performance specifications on the Hennessey CTS-V700 are pretty amazing. 700 horsepower at 6,300 rpm and 701 pound feet of torque at 3,400 rpm - CTS-V700 indeed. 0-60 clocks in at 3.1 seconds - yes, you did read that right and the car is good for a 1/4 mile in 10.9 seconds at 129 mph. Top speed? 211 mph! You can see all that on video as it runs through a 11-second, 128-mph quarter mile. That