CTS-V Challenge

Today at around 1:00pm, the CEO of GM, Bob Lutz, will be challenging any takers to a race against his stock Cadillac CTS-V in New York. The race will take place at the Monticello Motor Club. The whole idea came about with GM's new campaign, "may the best car win." He wants to prove to the world that Cadillac can compete and beat luxury imports in performance as well as style. The competitors include a lot of private owners and auto journalists with an extensive racing history that are stepping up to the plate. There should be a good range of import cars to compete against the Cadillac CTS-V. Check out Cadillac's facebook page to get all of the details at facebook.com/cadillac. I will update this blog post later this afternoon with the results of the race and some photos or links to the video.

Challengers will get 5 laps:  1 warm up, 1 cool down and 3 timed laps.
The best time out of the three time trials will be the official time for each challenger.

Also, you can get my twitter feeds at twitter.com/centralcadillac

By the way, we do have two Cadillac CTS-V's in our showroom...

Here are the final results:

Final laps John Heinricy in CTS-V: 2:46:560 Aaron Link in CTS-V: 2:48:902 Brian Redman in CTS-V: 2:49:596 Michael Cooper in BMW M3: 2:50:424 Jack Baruth in CTS-V: 2:51:153 Lawrence Ulrich in CTS-V: 2:53:157 Bob Lutz in CTS-V: 2:56:321 Michael Mainwald in BMW M5: 3:05:398 Wes Siler in Mitsubishi EVO: 3:08:126 Chris Fairman in CTS-V: 3:14:292 Archan Basu in Jaguar XF: 3:15:670 Tom Loder in Audi RS4: 3:15:702