{"id":137,"date":"2008-09-11T08:09:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T15:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=137"},"modified":"2008-09-11T09:35:37","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T16:35:37","slug":"carscom-expert-cts-v-review-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/carscom-expert-cts-v-review-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars.com Expert CTS-V Review notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cars.com\/kickingtires\/2008\/09\/carscom-revie-4.html\" target=\"_blank\">blogs.cars.com<\/a> notes Joe Weisenfelder at Cars.com got to take a 2009 CTS-V out on the course at New York&#8217;s private Monticello Motor Club and wrote about it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cars.com\/go\/crp\/research.jsp?aff=national&amp;revid=53789&amp;makeid=8&amp;modelid=6128&amp;year=2009&amp;revlogtype=20&amp;section=reviews\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cars.com\/crp\/vp\/images\/09cadillac_cts-v\/grilletight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"CTS-V Grill\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cars.com\/crp\/vp\/images\/09cadillac_cts-v\/grilletight.jpg\" alt=\"CTS-V grill\" width=\"350\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">CTS-V grill<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A few notable notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<blockquote>\n<li>The CTS-V supercharger sound level is very subdued<\/li>\n<li>Reasonable mpg during the test drive<\/li>\n<li>Because the hardware can handle the torque, Cadillac uses no artificial torque management like low-gear throttle dialback<\/li>\n<li>Overall, you really feel like you&#8217;re driving the CTS-V, and that&#8217;s not necessarily true of some extremely capable performance cars<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The CTS-V continues a pattern of positive reviews.\u00a0 Cadillac has not formally announced pricing, but the whispered starting price of just under $60K seems to fit well within most people&#8217;s model for bang for the buck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The press is still in\u00a0the honeymoon phase with the new CTS-V, so we&#8217;ll see how it fares once the head-to-head comparisons are ready.\u00a0\u00a0 I have little doubt in the new Cadillac&#8217;s abilities, but little faith that it will always be judged on a fair playing field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>blogs.cars.com notes Joe Weisenfelder at Cars.com got to take a 2009 CTS-V out on the course at New York&#8217;s private Monticello Motor Club and wrote about it here. A few notable notes: The CTS-V supercharger sound level is very subdued &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/carscom-expert-cts-v-review-notes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[15,12,7,14,11,13,16],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cadillac-models","category-cadillac-news","tag-automotive","tag-caddyinfo","tag-cadillac","tag-carscom","tag-cts","tag-cts-v","tag-supercharger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}