Thursday, 9 June 2011

700-hp Lingenfelter CTS-V Coupe Tested: A Study in Physics and “Holy Crap!”

700-hp Lingenfelter CTS-V Coupe Tested: A Study in Physics and “Holy Crap!”: "

2011 Lingenfelter Cadillac CTS-V coupe


Lingenfelter’s 700-hp Cadillac CTS-V is a study in physics and “holy crap!”


Like Red Bull–quaffing preteens laying waste to digital innocents by the dozen in Grand Theft Auto, we’re being desensitized. It isn’t graphic violence we’re being hardened against, though; it’s gratuitous horsepower. Outputs that once stopped us in our tracks and slackened our jaws now merit an entitled shrug. Well, good. A Cadillac needs 556 horsepower to, you know, feel like a Cadillac. But 700 is one of those numbers that still widens our eyes and brings a silent “wow” to our lips. Seven hundred horsepower is a reality check.


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