Finally, Some Good News: Clarkson Gives CTS-V Favourable Review - Page 2

mbukukanyau · 10-12-2008, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by nadepalma

SO, let me get this straight:

After months and months of hearing how gasoline would never be below $3 a gallon again and oil would destroy the US -- we see gas and crude prices plummet in the last two months.

Ford is considering selling their stake in Mazda -- would would seem to be a HUGE mistake. Unless Ford is in desperate need of money, which would be even WORSE news.

GM and Chrysler are looking to possibly Merge - and there will undoubtedly be brands cut, egos bruised, and all around pain in the process.

The Stock Exchange dropped over 2000 points in three weeks over the mess in the market -- and American seniors who were just about to retire discovered that they now HAVE to work a few more years.

AND Clarkson loves an American car with no "IFs ANDs or BUTs" -- AND its a Cadillac?

That's it - that last is certainly confirmation that the Apocolypse is nigh!!!

you forgot one, Jaguar and Land Rover are Indian now.

GMusa · 10-12-2008, 01:19 PM

I love it.. American Muscle!

Stovebolt · 10-12-2008, 01:52 PM

I can't believe it. Check Clarkson for bolts, or panels, or electrodes....or SOMETHING.

I mean, I KNOW for a fact that Euro cars aren't superior as most Euros would like to believe...

I also know that the CTS stomps the crap out of German luxury cars, to such an extent that only a complete and utter buffoon, devoid of any intelligence whatsoever (or possibly so smugly nationalistic that his ears bleed when he hears the Star Spangled Banner) could deny it...

I just honestly believed Jeremy Clarkson was that buffoon.

marinerbc · 10-12-2008, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Stovebolt

I can't believe it. Check Clarkson for bolts, or panels, or electrodes....or SOMETHING.

I mean, I KNOW for a fact that Euro cars aren't superior as most Euros would like to believe...

I also know that the CTS stomps the crap out of German luxury cars, to such an extent that only a complete and utter buffoon, devoid of any intelligence whatsoever (or possibly so smugly nationalistic that his ears bleed when he hears the Star Spangled Banner) could deny it...

I just honestly believed Jeremy Clarkson was that buffoon.

Post of the quarter nominee.

jbernie · 10-12-2008, 02:05 PM

The BMW M5 is no doubt a nice car, but for me, way too much tech that takes you away from the primary purpose of the car.

In the CTS-V, sport or comfort? Press the button if you need to make a change and then go.

The M5 drive will be an hour behind you as they try to figure out what setting they need to be in.

Cadillac will love this review, Clarkson, for better or for worse is a harsh critic of the American cars, a review like this will do wonders for Cadillac in Europe.

Chaz_23 · 10-12-2008, 02:20 PM

Did he really drive it? It takes him a 20 paragraph introduction then to only write 9 parahraphs about the car.

stevecmh · 10-12-2008, 02:24 PM

wow impressive.. great to see him liking a GM product.. circle this day on the calender

Robert Ryan · 10-12-2008, 02:34 PM

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I mean, I KNOW for a fact that Euro cars aren't superior as most Euros would like to believe...

Well your "facts" are pretty irrelevant here. Clarkson lampoons Aussies as well, but he really loved the HSV Holdens sent over to England rebadged as Vauxhalls VXR's

Stovebolt · 10-12-2008, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Robert Ryan

Well your "facts" are pretty irrelevant here. Clarkson lampoons Aussies as well, but he really loved the HSV Holdens sent over to England rebadged as Vauxhalls VXR's

For one thing I should have said "from personal experience," not facts. Personal experience is just a opinion with extra backup, not actually a fact. So that was wrong, and I was wrong for saying it. Sorry.

The second is that I just meant that I'm not part of the group that sees everything Euro as superior. I really do like Alfas and Opel/Vauxhall. I way overstated it....almost like Clarkson. Except when I'm called out, I try not to be a douche, like he is in every review.

I just really really hate Clarkson.

mbukukanyau · 10-12-2008, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Stovebolt

I can't believe it. Check Clarkson for bolts, or panels, or electrodes....or SOMETHING.

I mean, I KNOW for a fact that Euro cars aren't superior as most Euros would like to believe...

I also know that the CTS stomps the crap out of German luxury cars, to such an extent that only a complete and utter buffoon, devoid of any intelligence whatsoever (or possibly so smugly nationalistic that his ears bleed when he hears the Star Spangled Banner) could deny it...

I just honestly believed Jeremy Clarkson was that buffoon.

I find it funny that you had to use " bolt" in your post

tgagneguam · 10-12-2008, 04:54 PM

England has no auto industry-Richards' Aston Martin really isn't an industry. They gave it up to the Americans, the Germans and even the Indians more recently.

Question to Clarkson: why do I care what you think about automobiles?

It's akin to asking a Jamaican to teach you how to ski. It's like asking France to fight a war. I think I'd rather have Putin teach me nation-building.

Perhaps Clarkson could stick with something more befitting his talents: British elocution, perhaps?

The American-engineered, American-designed, American-built Cadillac CTS-V is an awesome machine. And I don't need anyone to tell me that.

newclasshero · 10-12-2008, 04:54 PM

Did anybody else notice that he properly referred to this in the M5 class like many other Journalists failed to do for the first half of it's life as just the CTS.

Other than that, I am sure that this will do wonders for Cadillac in Europe. At least I hope it will.

Gm786 · 10-12-2008, 06:04 PM

WOW!!! I can't believe what I just read! And that's coming from MR. Jeremy Clarkson himself! This is the first time I've ever seen him give an Domestic car a completely favorable review! He must of been in love with it or something.

Seriously, I guess he was extremely pleased with the new Cadillac CTS-V. I can't wait to get inside of one or at least test drive one.

TKR · 10-12-2008, 07:18 PM

Imagine the review if Caddy had gone all the way and had built it in RHD?

BTW - Just see what happens when GM actually builds a good car - it gets good reviews.
And also remember that Clarkson reviews the cars in Europe where drivers needs and wants are sometimes different to those in the US. ie. people still drink coffee in a cafe' rather than in the car on the way to work.

**BBDOS CV8** · 10-12-2008, 08:03 PM