If you think this looks like a CTS-V that's completed grad school, Cadillac won't mind a bit. The day we were on hand Caddy penman Kip Wasenko was giving Overhaulin' host and hot rod guru Chip Foose a personal tour of the Big Daddy Caddy. Cool.
Visually, the factory hot rod version of the cooking STS sedan is distinguished by a larger stainless steel wire mesh front grille inspired by V-16 Cadillacs from the 1930s, a front splitter, a taller rear lip spoiler to counteract lift, and the hood is sculpted to leave room for the engine's supercharger.
Supercharger? Yup. How else do you achieve world-class lap times at the Nürburgring and a 160-plus-mph top speed? Seville? We don't need no
steenking Seville!
The Cadillac STS-V goes on sale late in 2005 at about US$70,000 (a mere £37,000), hoping to compete against the likes of:
BMW M5,
Jaguar S-Type R and Mercedes-Benz E55 AMG.
John LeBlanc - 19 Jan 2005