CTS-V Challege results: Yanks deliver!

By | October 29, 2009

CTS-V

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Today, Twitter was on fire following the  Cadillac CTS-V Challenge in hopes that GM would successfully defend the performance abilities of American cars.  And how did us crazy colonists do when stacked up against some of Europe and Japan’s best competition?

In short, very well. Here’s how the CTS-V stacked up against BMW, Mitsubishi, Audi, and Jaguar:

CTS-V (John Heinricy): 2:46:560
CTS-V (Brian Redman): 2:49:183
CTS-V (Aaron Link): 2:48:902
CTS-V (Lawrence Ulrich): 2:53:026
BMW M3 (Michael Cooper): 2.50:424
CTS-V (Jack Baruth): 2:51:153
CTS-V (Bob Lutz): 2:56:321
Evo (Wes Siler): 3:08.126
BMW M5 (Michael Mainwald): 3:08:989
CTS-V (Chris Fairman.): 3:14:292
Audi RS4 (Tom Loder): 3:15:702
Jaguar XF (Archan Basu): 3:16.670

You may notice that the middle entry was driven by the Chairman of the Board himself, Mr. Bob Lutz, the current CEO of GM.

So here’s to the CTS-V for proving that, despite what Top Gear says, American cars can handle those scary bends in the road.

[via AutoBlog]

  • http://www.facebook.com/JaredABarton Jared Barton

    Anyone know why the RS6 wasn’t out there?

  • Chad

    Good questions. It was completely up to the manufacturer on what models were submitted to this. I am assuming the RS4 was probably a bit better in the corners.

  • http://www.facebook.com/bkowalk Britton Kowalk

    Who is Chris Fairman and why is he so bad at driving Cadillacs? And I wish they would have raced an even number of the other cars instead of Caddy getting 37 tried and the M3 getting one…

  • Chad

    Britton I was kinda thinking the same thing. If you have 1200 tries at something, eventually you are going to get first place.