Cadillac CTS-V faster the BMW M3 and M5 on Nurburgring track

14 May

Posted by Horatiu B. as Interesting

According to the guys at Car and Driver, the 2009 Cadillac CTS-V managed to beat the new BMW M3 and the M5 on a timed lap around the 'Ring. A Cadillac representative states that is actually the fastest documented lap time for a production sedan, just a little under 8 min.

Its german competitors, the BMW M3 and M5, had a timed lap of 8:15sec respectively 8:13sec. The Cadillac is finishing testing on its CTS-V, which the american automaker prepares to start producing in a limited-edition 2009 performance sedan in the fall.

The Cadillac CTS-V is packing under the hood a supercharged and intercooled 6.2-liter V-8 known as the LSA. Even though the official numbers have not been released, everyone is expecting 550 horsepower at 6200 rpm and 550 pound-feet of torque at 4000 rpm. Cadillac keeps the tradition of big engines and lots of ponies.

Could the CTS-V become a serious competitor for BMW's M division? Are you really surprised by the results? Could the 2009 CTS-V keep up with the rumored 5.5 liter 550 horsepower BMW M5?

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4 Responses

EuropaCar

May 14th, 2008 at 11:32 am
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I am actually fairly happy about this news - hopefully with this Cadillac and the nissan gtr time claims, BMW will be inspired to beat them
RawAutos

May 14th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
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I agree with EuropaCar. I actually just wrote my weekly RawAutos article about this topic for this week. I am happy to see that Cadillac makes a manual transmission car that is worthy to take on the M3 and M5. The new IS-F and the MB C63 AMG aren’t really cutting the mustard.

I would sit a CTS-V next to an M3/M5 in my garage any day…
Benny

May 15th, 2008 at 12:38 am
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I would not rate this news to high,
because the times known for the BMWs are driven from the German magazine “sport auto” and their driver “Horst von Saurma”, whereas the times posted by Nissan and Cadillac are driven by their professional drivers. BMW never posted laptimes driven by their own experts who are driving the Nordschleife every day and worked out the setup of the M-cars. I can imagine that they are some seconds quicker than Horst von Saurma, who is a good driver, but you can’t count him to the top of the crowd.
So maybe BMW also made faster laptops with M3 and M5, but just didn’t post them. There are definitely a lot of drivers who can drive the ring faster than Horst von Saurma, and if he does it in 8:05 and some Cadillac-Pro does it in 7:59, well, I think it depends more on the driver than on the car which is the faster one. Both cars are obviously very fast.

Greetings from Germany
Mark

May 16th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
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Yeppers, so what….unless Cadillac has learned to put a SERIOUS interior into their cars and not the usual plastic, chrome and cheap ass leather, it may be a great car in the end…..then again, the Big Three always seem to think that as long as they insert BIG engines and LOTS of torque, buyers will overlook their usually SUB PAR interiors…..not to mention that ANY Cadillac will loose roughly 50% of its value just 15′ from the dealer’s drive….HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Cheers,