2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe: Badass, Minus Extraneous Doors
Posted: Jan. 05, 2010
Quick, what’s the most badass sedan on the planet? If you said the Cadillac CTS-V, move to the front of the line. If you said the BMW M3, we forgive you. But you’re wrong. If you said anything else, you’re dismissed.
The high-performance edition of Cadillac’s CTS midsize sedan is a monster more brash and absurd than even BMW’s quickest sedan, with a 556-horsepower supercharged engine stronger than even the one Porsche builds into the Panamera. But the CTS-V, as brutal as it is, has something many people find unnecessary – four doors. Couldn’t we lighten that thing up, Cadillac engineers wondered, if we just admitted once and for all that CTS-V owners don’t share their demonic ride with very many people? Enter the 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe – Detroit’s two-door monster.
Motor Trend reports, “You don't change a formula when it works. And the Cadillac CTS-V sedan did worked darn well. So with the 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe, which enters production this summer after its debut at the 2010 Detroit show, General Motors isn't straying far from its proven modus operandi.” It’s two inches shorter. It’s an inch wider. It’s just 18 pounds lighter, but then, it jettisons the unnecessary weight of rear passengers – the accommodations in the back are too small for adults to be comfortable for long.
If anything, it offers a purer, more muscular take on Cadillac’s angular design language. Autoblog calls it a “sleek, yet thick-of-beltline new suit.” Narrow, slit windows and steeply raked front and rear windshields make it look as though it were milled from a solid block of attitude.
Mechanically, it differs little from the CTS-V sedan that has won Cadillac raves from automotive enthusiasts. Jalopnik reports, “It has the same 6.2-liter LSA V8 as the sedan packing 556 HP and 551 lb-ft of torque, the same 3.9 second 0-60 MPH time, the same magnetic ride system, the same manual transmission and paddle shifted auto.”
Is there a market for it? Kicking Tires notes, “It may seem like Cadillac is offering too many high-powered variants these days, [but] BMW makes sure its M3 model is offered in sedan, coupe and convertible body styles.”
Did they just say convertible? Don’t get your hopes up. Cadillac has said there will likely be no convertible CTS, and no convertible CTS-V. There is, however, a CTS Wagon on the way for 2011.
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