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eb110americana · 09-30-2007, 08:04 PM

I love the CTS-V front bumper cap. The more horizontal grill looks better to me than the tall vertical one on the regular CTS. I also expect a hood with a nice angular power bulge to package the supercharger, a-la the STS-V.

It's cool that it will (allegedly) have a regular production engine. I like the LS7, but the fact that it had to be hand built kind of killed the "power for the everyman" that is the Chevy smallblock hallmark. It's crazy to think that the difference in regular production vs. hand building will potentially cost the engine 100-200 HP though. Or maybe that's intentional tuning to get it on the market without dismal milage and/or a gas guzzler tax (though if a manual G8 GT V8 can't squeak past with 361 HP, how would a bigger engine with a SC do so on a heavier car?). Dealers here said the gas guzzler tax made the last CTS-V hard to move off lots.

My guess is this engine will be the same one going into the top Camaro SS (or whatever they decide to call it) a year or two after the regular model goes on the market. This bodes well for having that car available for less than the $50,000+ it would have cost had it had the hand built ZR1 engine.

So much (for now anyway) for all those people predicting a 700 HP CTS-V.

09-30-2007, 08:04 PM	#3 (permalink)
eb110americana 3.0 Liter SIDI V6 Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Pasadena, CA Drives: 1998 Pontiac Trans Am WS6 Posts: 659	Re: Spy photos of the 2009 Cadillac CTS-V I love the CTS-V front bumper cap. The more horizontal grill looks better to me than the tall vertical one on the regular CTS. I also expect a hood with a nice angular power bulge to package the supercharger, a-la the STS-V. It's cool that it will (allegedly) have a regular production engine. I like the LS7, but the fact that it had to be hand built kind of killed the "power for the everyman" that is the Chevy smallblock hallmark. It's crazy to think that the difference in regular production vs. hand building will potentially cost the engine 100-200 HP though. Or maybe that's intentional tuning to get it on the market without dismal milage and/or a gas guzzler tax (though if a manual G8 GT V8 can't squeak past with 361 HP, how would a bigger engine with a SC do so on a heavier car?). Dealers here said the gas guzzler tax made the last CTS-V hard to move off lots. My guess is this engine will be the same one going into the top Camaro SS (or whatever they decide to call it) a year or two after the regular model goes on the market. This bodes well for having that car available for less than the $50,000+ it would have cost had it had the hand built ZR1 engine. So much (for now anyway) for all those people predicting a 700 HP CTS-V.