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'RACING TO THE DARK SIDE'

Taking a sheet as of more supposed a few German car manufacturers, Cadillac introduces a particular limited-edition 'Black Diamond' account of its awesome CTS-V lavishness super-high-performance sedan.

This new limited-edition 'Black Diamond' CTS-V sedan additional construct the V-Series sedan place out in a crowd of super-high-performing sedans.  For $4,850.00 additional to an by now ludicrous low cost of now $62,165.00 for the normal CTS-V sedan, Cadillac adds dramatic black tri-coat tradition paint embedded by means of SpectraFlair brilliant silver pigment, yellow Brembo brake calipers, 19X8.5 front and 19X9.5 inch back tradition satin graphite wheels, Recaro 14-way authority adjustable/heated/cooled front bucket seats, and Midnight Sapele wood center trim.

Already turning heads wherever the V-Series sedan recreation up since of its sole design, huge authority and torque figures, not to mention its hard to believe street investment ability, the V-Series sedan rapidly recognized itself in the center of the world's highest drama lavishness sedans by flattering the primary manufacture four-door on street tires to smash the legendary eight-minute barrier at Germany's famed Nurburgring.

The new 'Black Diamond' version extra the styling of the V-Series sedan an still additional dark, stealthy and menacing look. The sole seem of the V-Series sedan skin a extremely athletic shape characterized by sculpted and flared front fenders so as to characteristic lively warmth extractors so as to recall a styling constituent as of the Cadillac's Sixteen concept car, upright oriented LED front and back 'light pipes', horizontal spline lines, and a sole dual chrome mesh grille so as to doubles front-end airflow to assist enable the high-performance of the supercharger, an violent front fascia by means of Adaptive HID headlights, projector-beam foglamps, operational air-intakes after that to the foglamps so as to channel air directly to the front brakes for additional cooling, and a raised middle part of the aluminum hood so as to ,court case clearance for the supercharger.  The flared fenders are stuffed by means of 19X8.5 inch front and 19X9.5 inch graphite black, twin-prong, fake aluminum, five-spoke wheels so as to are wrapped by means of specially intended Michelin 255/40ZR19 front, and 285/35ZR19 inch rear, Pilot Sport PS2 low-profile high-performance summer tires.

The back skin the merely part of chrome on the car by means of the Cadillac scripted name, a centered Cadillac wreath, and inferior CTS and V-Series badges.  The end of the back stem lid skin the LED back high-mounted discontinue lamp so as to too adds downforce.  A specially intended diffuser monitor is cut eager on the back bumper to assist run back airflow.  Two, four inch broad polished stainless steel exhaust pipes are too cut eager on the inferior back bumper and sing out a muffled, growling sound at what time you mash by means of base on the throttle.

Under the skin is anywhere the genuine ,act of petroleum 'world-class' supercar place.  The 6.2 so as to supercharged and intercooled V8 engine powers the CTS-V and is rated at 556hp at 6,100rpm and 551lb.ft. of torque at now 3,800rpm.  The supercharger starts to power air eager on the engine at 2,300rpm to greater supposed before acceleration.  The engine's Eaton 1.9 liter, Twin Vortices Series supercharger plan employs twin four-lobe rotors, twisted 160-degrees.  Typical superchargers characteristic inquisitiveness lobes twisted 60-degrees.  The site lobe and additional twist, at what time joint by means of the sole air inlet and outlet ports, make smoother, additional well-organized airflow eager on the engine.  In adding to better overall efficiency, petroleum supercharger has better noise and vibration individuality better to additional normal design.

The potent V8 supercharged engine is matted to also a six-speed physical or six-speed automatic.  The smooth shifting, short-throw Tremec TR6060 six-speed physical by means of a dual-clutch is come again? I tested and it is a joy to use.  Shifts up or downward are rapid and smooth, authority moderator on rapidly on armed up or at what time you by means of require to decelerate the revs are beautifully matched.  The Hydra-Matic 6L90 six-speed routine moderator by means of steering wheel-mounted shift controls.  The steering wheel-mounted controls need no shift lever movement and let instant tap up/tap downward cog selection.  Performance Algorithm Shifting ,court case the routine broadcast by means of a performance-oriented shift pattern throughout sustained high-performance driving.  You merely contain to slide the shifter eager on the physical 'gate' to put the broadcast eager on a presentation model.

Torque is channeled from side to side the six-speed transmissions to a high-performance back axle so as to skin a limited-slip back differential by means of a shed iron accommodation for better thermal management and asymmetrical half-shafts to smoothly run the supercharged engine's hard to believe torque.  The sole plan luckily alternately sized half-shafts so as to too assist dynamically equilibrium the oscillation to torque as of surface to side, efficiently eliminating 'power hop'.  World-class armed up figures for petroleum magnificent Cadillac CTS-V are 0-60mph in beneath four-seconds, the ¼ supplies reached in now 12.3-seconds at 117.7mph by means of a top pace of additional supposed 190mph.

The V-Series Sedan achieves exceptional custom of road-holding performance, but too maintains the bearing of a lavishness car in 'regular' heavy conditions.  The technological enable of petroleum dual-mode heavy nature is Cadillac's landmark Magnetic Ride Control.  It is the world's fastest-reacting suspension technology.  It name shocks forbidden by higher magneto-rheological technology, rather supposed automatic valves, to greatly accelerate reply occasion and precision.  Electronic sensors at all four wheels literally 'read the road' each millisecond, creation steady difficult to damping to make virtually instantaneous and very exact manage of corpse motions.  The Magnetic Ride shocks too enable a broader variety of damping manage to optimize the ride and handling for all heavy conditions.  In the CTS-V, an additional measure of manage is offered, by means of two selectable modes (Tour and Sport), enabling you to tailor the suspension for impressive touring or additional forceful presentation driving.  You can alter the modes by just selecting one or the additional as of the easy-to-use computer readout in the middle of the instrument cluster.  The completely self-governing suspension too skin Short/Long arms, a 29mm hollow stabilizer bar, elastomeric handling and ride bushings, and 65 N/mm coil spring speed up front and Short/Long arms, a 25.4mm solid stabilizer bar, elastomeric trailing arm bushings, and 90 N/mm coil spring rate.  Increasing handling still additional is a direct-mount front cradle and rubber isolated back suspension cradle, and a wide, thick aluminum swagger tower brace in excess of the back of the V8 engine so as to too enhances the precision and quickness to by means of inputs as of the ZF Servotronic II power-assisted rack & pinion steering system.  On the skid pan the V-Series sedan pulls 0.93g's.  That far above the ground figure is too the consequence of the normal traction manage and StabiliTrak contemporary constancy manage system.  You can of route shut the scheme off to create it base to slide the back out throughout by means of challenges of steep curving rear roads.

Safely and rapidly slowing the Cadillac CTS-V sedan downward as of pace are huge brakes intended ,specially for the car by Brembo.  Up front are 15.1 inch vented discs by means of 14.7 inch vented discs in the rear.  The front rotors are clamped by means of six-piston calipers and the back discs are clamped by means of four-piston calipers.  The large, vented rotors enable physically powerful first braking power as,at the same time as optimizing warmth confrontation and eliminating fade.  The brake rotors as of Brembo are manufactured by means of 'dual-cast' skill so as to inexpensive shed iron and aluminum, resulting in better presentation and heaviness reduction.  Further enhancing braking authority and manage are normal ABS, BA and Rear Brake Force Distribution.

The sole plan is eye-opening; the authority and presentation wrap up is breathtaking and world-class in each category.   All so as to is absent is the at ease luxurious, technologically higher and sporty cabin.   Cadillac moderator from side to side on one occasion more by means of streamlined instrumentation, LED lighting, hand-cut-and-sewn accents, tradition wood trim, sporty cues and more.

You unlock the door and glance at the extended solid part of aluminum by means of the 'V' series emblem on the kick plate.  The custom, sole Recaro racing seats are superb over in leather by means of suede inserts.  These bucket seats are heated and cooled by means of authority adjustment for the seat bottom, seat back, rear and base surface bolstering after that to authority lumber adjustments.  These seats are wonderful at ease and grasp you and by means of front passenger snuggly in put throughout high-speed maneuvering.  The small, sporty, three-spoke steering wheel is enclosed in microfiber, now similar to a racecar so as to increases hold and keeps sweat as of creation by means of by means of no trouble slip as,at the same time as turning the wheel.  The attach shifter is too enclosed in microfiber and located perfectly for certain and simple shifting by means of the manual.  I appreciated by,by means of it!  Looking straight-ahead is the sole instrument approach together so as to is intended for easy, at-a-glance orientation throughout presentation driving.  A big 200mph speedometer, a big 8,000rpm tachometer contain bold readouts, counting an LED-lit 'tracer' function in the tachometer so as to flashes as the engine nears the redline.  The big dial to the correct obvious meters for the petroleum on board, engine coolant hotness and boost gauge.  You too get a lateral armed up show on the inferior middle dial so as to too obvious readouts for all of by means of individual heavy inputs, trip computer, engine operating systems, etc.

Obsidian Black and chrome accents grace the healthy intended dashboard and middle stack, console, steering wheel and base door panels, as,at the same time as Midnight Sapele wood trim wraps approximately the top of the doors from side to side the dashboard and approximately the outer edges of the middle stack. It is a luxurious and elegant look.  Sporty cues comprise the aluminum by means of rubber insert base pedals for additional hold as you alter gears, brake and accelerate by means of ease.

Standard gear not scarcity on top of in the Black Diamond Limited-Edition Cadillac CTS-V sedan luckily an contemporary parking brake, dual zone climate control, authority heated, authority remote-controlled sideview mirrors, self-dimming rearview mirror, back seat pass-thru by means of a pull-down armrest by means of dual cupholders, front middle console by means of dual cupholders, deep, two-tiered storage space box by means of padded top, bottomless and broad locking glove box, storage space slots in every door, navigation scheme by means of a Bose 5.1 surround sound audio system, knowledge speakers, and a rear-vision camera, a 40GB firm drive device by means of XM NavTraffic and satellite radio, anti-theft alarm, LED ambient lighting, cargo net, Bluetooth for phone, worldwide house remote 2-person reminiscence system, headlamp washers, authority tilt/telescope steering wheel, keyless access, ultra-sonic back park assist, integrated iPod/MP3 capability, authority windows by means of state up/down front and state downward back windows, authority door locks, grab handles on top of every back door, dual map lights, dual vanity mirrors by means of lights, thick cut-pile carpeting by means of front/rear ground mats.

Standard security skin comprise dual-stage intended front airbag, segment-first dual deepness front passenger airbag, intended and front-passenger surface seat-mounted pelvic/thorax surface airbags, roof-rail surface curtain airbags by means of industry-first rollover protection skill so as to covers front and back seating rows, 5-3-point security belts by means of front pretensioners/load limiters, tire force serving system, corpse arrangement by means of strategically located high-strength steel, lively skull restraints for the front seatbacks and of route OnStar, the ninth-generation, so as to moderator by means of routine collide response, turn-by-turn navigation and a additional flexible speech recognition system. This new limited-edition 'Black Diamond' account is spectacular to seem at and drive.

When the sun is shinning the SpectraFlair brilliant embedded silver pigment after that to the black paint attention similar to a starry nighttime sky, and at what time the clouds go,shift in (like at what time I photographed the car) or at night, the black paint on a seem of liquid black.

The car is just astonishing and the cost for petroleum particular account is still additional amazing, now $68,615.00 for all the huge styling, power, performance, luxury, high-technology and safety.  I motionless can't consider it since similar sedans as of additional procedure create in the high-hundreds of most important of dollars!  How can Cadillac do it?

COPYRIGHT:2011:HARVEY SCHWARTZ

SPECIFICATIONS

• Price: CTS-V Black Diamond Edition As-Tested $68,615
• Engine: 6.2-liter Supercharged V8 556 horsepower @ 6100 rpm / 551 ft-lbs. torque @ 3800 rpm
• Wheelbase: 113.4in.
• Total length: 191.6in.
• Total width: 72.5in.
• Total height: 58in.
• Track: f/r-61.8/62in.
• Turning circle: 38ft.
• Headroom: f/r-38.8/37.2in.
• Legroom: f/r-42.4/35.9in.
• Curb weight: 4,222lbs. manual/2,255-automatic
• Weight distribution: f/r-54/46%
• 0-60 mph: 3.9 seconds
• Fuel tank: 18 gallons
• EPA passenger volume: 98cu.ft.
• EPA cargo volume: 13.6cu.ft.
• EPA petroleum economy: 14mpg/city, 19mpg/highway manual/12mpg/city, 18mpg/highway automatic