worlds fastest new cts v. video
 

So the other night at the track a guy on the local forums down here was out with his new ctsv. We must of lined up 2 or 3 times that night he whooped my ass every time. This is the vid of him and I when he makes his record setting 9.85 @ 139 pass. Kinda cool that I was part of it I guess. And yes he is spraying it too.
http://www.youtube.com/user/markoesc#p/u/54/yNTl38xi6Bg

*Drool*

Nasty!

that is crazy i mean its a sedan!!!

Yeah pretty badass

I smell a street race money maker :)
So cooool!!!!

that thing is sick as hell has to be throwen down close to 1k hp to pull that shit off

I found me a new grocery getter....

I bet its every bit of 850 though

Yeah I think 800-850 would be plenty, still incredible in a 4300 pound car, even nails the launch!

It sounds amazing in person.

I'm definitely impressed by how well it launches, all you hear about CTS's is wheel hop wheel hop wheel hop.

that car CANT have stock rear control arms and such.

Yup I do believe it does.

that thing moved out any one catch the 60 foot on that thing

I believe it was a 1.5

ya hell no on stock parts and low pros

Ya don't forget its a auto not a m6. And he was running a mt drag radial

ya and it would have bent the shit out of stock stuff It may have been stock stlye just beefed up or some thing

Yeah I can't image all the stock parts and the chassis taking that kind of punishment

Ya I can't be sure of what is done suspension wise.

when I ran a 1.53 60 with my third gen I bent the lCA the torque arm and broke the trans mout

The first generation CTS had serious wheelhop problems. They redesigned the whole rear suspension to eliminate wheelhop. I have heard it was much better and from looking at the way that car launches it seems to be!

This is the LSA powered V right?

ya

3rd gen vs $70,000 CTS-V, I am quite sure they have made improvement sin suspension technology since then. I believe they made MAJOR changes to the control arms after the last generations problems. Having not seen underneath in person though I don't know how beefy it actually is, supposedly the new rear suspension it VERY strong on the V

true but its also a lot easier to stabilize a SRA than IRS and it was more to just give an idea of the force applied to things

either way DAMN!

It looks pretty beefy to me :)
http://www.roadfly.com/new-cars/wp-c...on-chassis.jpg

WHY the fuck do you need all that extra weight. does it REALLLLY handle that much better then a properly setup SRA? i mean yeah it has benifits Obviously But worth all that weight???? i dunno.

that's why they are engineers and you are a bitch :P they know what they are doing stop questioning the design lol. also that car leaves softer on a 1.5 then my 1.7 60's

Well, it is a Cadillac. I'm sure they have pretty high standards for ride quality, even in a performance car. That skip when you hit a bump around corners with a SRA wouldn't cut it for them.

Those cars are a bit heavier than they should be- around 4200lbs? Not sure. Most cars nowadays are heavy due to the safety equipment the governmennt makes them put in. Look at the 2010 Camaro- that car is a way too heavy at 4000+ lbs!

I'll take the extra 600# compared to my old F-Body for the ride quality and handling, especially with the kind of power that car puts out. Probably close to half that weight isn't even in the suspension when you think how much stuff that car comes with. It adds up. When you consider that 4th Gen F-bodies strayed upward of 3600 pounds when you optioned them out and pretty much came with a bare cupboard of amenities, and the new ones weigh north of 3800, doesn't seem that bad IMO.