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Cars that make your jaw drop.
- Thread starter Dubbington
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tuxumino
Purrfect
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- Menlo Park, Ca.
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Never seen that before. Pretty nuts little car.
Abacinator
Unholy Blasphemies
Yeah, but the red car is a Lexus too
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Fffuuuuu.....I know what's worth the most, but still; the 300 and 959 come a close a second.
tuxumino
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Talk me out of this.
2026 CT5-V Blackwing.
An inheritance has me thinking hard. I think I would sell my current 2011 CTS-V to lower the pain. I actually like the looks of the Old girl better though so...
2026 CT5-V Blackwing.
An inheritance has me thinking hard. I think I would sell my current 2011 CTS-V to lower the pain. I actually like the looks of the Old girl better though so...
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- San Jose, bottom of dirty 130
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- ‘18 Alta EX006, ‘17 Alta MX019, 06R6, 05TM530, 01TM250 2T, ‘24 Yam Tenere 700, Lightning Spark
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- Butch
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I can buy your CTS-V, or the ZX7 or whatever. I can help you with your pain
Lonster
GaMMa RaNGeR
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- The Emerald Triangle
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- 1986 RG500 Gamma, 2020 KTM 890 Duke R, 1975 RD400 AHRMA Special, 1975 CB350f, 1977 CB550four
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- Lonster
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The CTS-V is definitely sexier, but I bet that CT-5 is fun to drive.
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- Budman
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The Blackwing is good. Really good. I've had the Gen 2 and Gen 3 Bud. I liked the brakes on the Gen 2 best, but the Gen 3 is superior in every way. I'm gonna trade up at some point to a BW, but not yet...maybe. I'm watching a well loaded 11K mile BW at auction coming up. Not as clean as I'd like, but it may go cheap. Black/ black. Want to look at it for yourself?
OldGuy
Been there, done that
Except for that missing third pedal!
TheRobSJ
May lose 10mm sockets if distracted
The V coupe even today still looks like a spaceship, which is just so immediately recognizable in such an awesome way. But I’d still trade up for the new BW. Now, if you had the V wagon…well that’s another story. I’d never let one of those go.
The CT5-V BW is the last of its kind. And I’m not talking the manual transmission part either. It’s the last super sedan that actually sounds good, handles good, and has no hybrid gimmickry. All the rest, are turbo engines which kills exhaust noise, and are heavier than shit because of all the electrification. All the German derived ones are hybrid turbo V8s now. All of them. And most if not all have to augment the exhaust and pump in fake noise to make them sound like anything.
The CT5-V BW is the last of its kind. And I’m not talking the manual transmission part either. It’s the last super sedan that actually sounds good, handles good, and has no hybrid gimmickry. All the rest, are turbo engines which kills exhaust noise, and are heavier than shit because of all the electrification. All the German derived ones are hybrid turbo V8s now. All of them. And most if not all have to augment the exhaust and pump in fake noise to make them sound like anything.
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My old V is loved for sure. Purchased before they blacked out wheels and grills for the real cool. I had to order the manual transmission and when I told them to do the murdering before pick up the sales guy thought I was nuts.
Felt like buying white custom boots when I was racing in the 80's and nobody had them. My friends thought I was nuts.
A couple years later the black murder and white boots were the rage and common.
Keeping it means looking at motor work one day (95K) and some nit items for sure along the way, but I do love how it looks and how unique it is. On the outside is it perfect really. The new paint and badges made it look new. With the Corsa exhaust it sounds as sexy as it looks.
Very torn, but I assume if one day I was to do a full motor and suspension rebuild I would be saving a lot of $$.
The drivers side finger pad is being replaced next week as it is tempermental. As in when it is hot it works and when not... NOT!
Cadillac is not making those any more and I do fear sourcing parts for future nits will be a pain.
Felt like buying white custom boots when I was racing in the 80's and nobody had them. My friends thought I was nuts.
A couple years later the black murder and white boots were the rage and common.
Keeping it means looking at motor work one day (95K) and some nit items for sure along the way, but I do love how it looks and how unique it is. On the outside is it perfect really. The new paint and badges made it look new. With the Corsa exhaust it sounds as sexy as it looks.
Very torn, but I assume if one day I was to do a full motor and suspension rebuild I would be saving a lot of $$.
The drivers side finger pad is being replaced next week as it is tempermental. As in when it is hot it works and when not... NOT!
Cadillac is not making those any more and I do fear sourcing parts for future nits will be a pain.
FLH03RIDER
Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!
Tough decision, been thinking about that for some time. Sell the Coupe and get a the new Blackwing? The Coupes are such a unique piece of design history for Cadillac, but the CT5 V Blackwing cars are just unreal !!! 
Sophisticated but with a super crazy, wickedly wild side. A Wolf in Sheeps clothing kinda thing. Was back at Spring Mountain last November and drove both the auto and the stick. That's another hard decision, stick or auto. Both are superb, but there's just that certain "something" about driving a stick. Now for that little something extra there's the "Precision Package" that you'll probably want!
Sophisticated but with a super crazy, wickedly wild side. A Wolf in Sheeps clothing kinda thing. Was back at Spring Mountain last November and drove both the auto and the stick. That's another hard decision, stick or auto. Both are superb, but there's just that certain "something" about driving a stick. Now for that little something extra there's the "Precision Package" that you'll probably want!
FLH03RIDER
Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!
YES ON BOTH ACCOUNTS!!!
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This will be a bit of an issue coming; enchanter knows well too: ELR parts are hard to come by, hence the reason to divest. IMO: a 6-speed loaded (literally everything) is a car that be worth good money a decade or so from now....but I doubt you care about that. Given that; order what you want Bud. As FLH wrote: both tranny's are great. The Precision package is pricey, but it's the track setup for the car.