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I would enjoy seeing a face of a european in an M5 getting overtaken by the CTS-V
I would enjoy seeing a face of a european in an M5 getting overtaken by the CTS-V
:? Wat? That post was about as UnClarkson as it gets.
Well, short of a race track, where should that happen? If you have 550 HP or 507 HP, is absolutely irrelevant on a normal road.
If the Cadillac only wouldn't look like it was designed by Fred Flintstone, with a very big hammer and a very big chisel, it could be an astonishing car.
On an autobahn for instance?
If you had the road all for yourselves and if the Cadillac had the better aerodynamics for high speeds (which I doubt) and if both cars were without a limiter, yes... then maybe.
I'm sorry, but you are the one with the problem here. The point is not that you criticized the CTS-V, the point is that you did so by saying that they did not archieve the record as they claimed, using false logic and (deliberately?) ignoring information in the introductory article.No, what I did here, was dare to criticise an American car and upset the US flag wavers on the group. Had this been an Audi, BMW, etc that I had said the same about, it would have been OK. It was about the car, it always was about the car, but some people wanted to make it personal. Its about the car!
No, what I did here, was dare to criticise an American car and upset the US flag wavers on the group. Had this been an Audi, BMW, etc that I had said the same about, it would have been OK. It was about the car, it always was about the car, but some people wanted to make it personal. Its about the car!
I was expecting the "America's bigger than England" or "We helped you win WW2" to come up or to be corrected for using English spellings of words of something!
I'm sorry, but you've got to be able to accept criticism once in a while, not everything from America is great. OK theres Starbucks, McDonalds & Dr Pepper, I'll give you that, and thanks for helping us beat the Germans in WW2.
No, what I did here, was dare to criticise an American car and upset the US flag wavers on the group. Had this been an Audi, BMW, etc that I had said the same about, it would have been OK. It was about the car, it always was about the car, but some people wanted to make it personal. Its about the car!
I was expecting the "America's bigger than England" or "We helped you win WW2" to come up or to be corrected for using English spellings of words of something!
I'm sorry, but you've got to be able to accept criticism once in a while, not everything from America is great. OK theres Starbucks, McDonalds & Dr Pepper, I'll give you that, and thanks for helping us beat the Germans in WW2.
If anyone was flag waving, it was you. You were just going on blindly following the old adage of "European is always better than anything those uncultured Americans can make. See my Ferrari Mondail for instance!"
Also, McDonald's sucks, Starbucks is crap coffee, and RC Cola is better. And the CTS-V is still a world class car.
Even the legendary Italian sports car company whiffs once in a while, and the first Ferrari Mondial was a big red disaster. Based on the 308 chassis, this large and relatively heavy 2+2 coupe had a mere 214 hp on tap from its transversely mounted, mid-engine V8, and its transistor-based electronics had more bugs than a Barstow motel rollaway. Eventually, every single system would fail, not infrequently accompanied by the smell of burning wires. The factory-authorized service, meanwhile, was more like factory-authorized extortion. It hasn't helped the Mondial reputation that it was one of the "cheap" Ferraris, within reach of a reasonably successful orthodontist. Mondials eventually got much better. They could hardly get worse.
What I find annoying are the fanboys who can't give credit where credit is due because of the badge.
Because if you count two refillings in (which an M5 or especially the Cadillac will need)
You're right lets give credit where credit is due, the CTS-V handling was improved thanks to the Opel (GERMAN) tuned chassis and Brembo (ITALIAN) brakes.
You're a fucking idiot.No, what I did here, was dare to criticise an American car and upset the US flag wavers on the group. Had this been an Audi, BMW, etc that I had said the same about, it would have been OK. It was about the car, it always was about the car, but some people wanted to make it personal. Its about the car!
I was expecting the "America's bigger than England" or "We helped you win WW2" to come up or to be corrected for using English spellings of words of something!
I'm sorry, but you've got to be able to accept criticism once in a while, not everything from America is great. OK theres Starbucks, McDonalds & Dr Pepper, I'll give you that, and thanks for helping us beat the Germans in WW2.