2009 Cadillac CTS-V Blisters Nurburgring

FROM: http://www.gmeurope.tv

In testing at Germany's Nurburgring, Cadillac's upcoming new 2009 CTS-V completed a lap of the legendary Nordschleife in 7:59.32. This blistering time appears to be the fastest ever publicly documented for a production sedan.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• cadillac
• cts
• gm
• cars
• general motors
• europe
• Nurburgring

[wendelgyutb]

and when you'll make something better than the porsches?

[sspope]

It actually works inside out. Opel sends all their profits to USA, which means they don't pay taxes in Germany and that's why German government hate them.

[ProjectCerebrus]

That's a patheic joke. Kinda like their are WOMD's in Iraq huh? American cars are still shit and they will never handle as well as Jap or Euro cars. Cry about it or ask for a bailout.

[smrt1000]

right! porsches ferraries bmw audis even vw!

[wendelgyutb]

that's not all guys... there's a long road ahead. It's just one victory. A best lap by a sedan with original tires. It's good, but it's a little part of all te context. Porsche have magnetic suspensio to hold the engine too, and at all, european cars have smaller engines, more efficient.

In other words, the GM won 1 fight, but still far away on the war. Efficient cars atill a dream for americans.

[AbasiTv]

MRC, magnetic ride control was deleoped in Michigan by a company called Delphi. Both Delphi, and GM engineers develpoed the tech together. Sorry Europe, we have better handling cars now.

[69ergoodtimer]

actually im american and i was just going by when gm said they decided to use for there c5 Z06 edition, i know it wasnt invented in the states. from what i read about it they used the same technology that was in the farraris suspension. but yeah i read jay lenos deal. but lets just shut up, arguing about something pety. Us guys and our car addictions. we'll argue the simplest of things.

[coolerdude44]

actually, i think i was wrong. if you look on jay leno's review of the corvette zr1, he claims that gm invented it and ferrari copied it. i'm guessing you're european, and i know that you hate it whenever we invent something that's better than a european technology.

but in this case, whether gm invented it or not, it was invented in america, so live with it.

[69ergoodtimer]

no ur not getting how i said it. yeah american companies used them after farrai has used them. thats where the idea of magnetic suspension came from. Italy than U.S. decided to use them and then brought it to michigan to used on american sports cars.

[coolerdude44]

ferrari didn't call up an american company and demanded magnetic suspension to be invented, they developed it, and tried to sell it to companies. gm, ferrari, and audi bought it.

[coolerdude44]

idk, cuz i saw a video in which the engineer said the manual probably would have been faster, but he'd gotten used to the automatic around the nurburgring, so he didn't bother with the manual when he broke the record.

for such a driver's car like this, though, you'd want the manual even if it is .0001 slower.