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Quick, what’s the a lot of badass auto on the planet? If you said the Cadillac CTS-V, move to the foreground of the line. If you said the BMW M3, we absolve you. But you’re wrong. If you said annihilation else, you’re dismissed.

The high-performance copy of Cadillac’s CTS midsize auto is a monster added audacious and cool than even BMW’s quickest sedan, with a 556-horsepower supercharged engine stronger than even the one Porsche builds into the Panamera. But the CTS-V, as barbarous as it is, has something abounding humans acquisition accidental – four doors. Couldn’t we lighten that affair up, Cadillac engineers wondered, if we just accepted already and for all that CTS-V owners don’t allotment their aroused ride with actual abounding people? Enter the 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Auto – Detroit’s two-door monster.

Motor Trend reports, “You don’t change a blueprint if it works. And the Cadillac CTS-V auto did formed abuse well. So with the 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe, which enters assembly this summer afterwards its admission at the 2010 Detroit show, General Motors isn’t abnormality far from its accurate modus operandi.” It’s two inches shorter. It’s an inch wider. It’s just 18 pounds lighter, but then, it jettisons the accidental weight of rear cartage – the apartment in the aback are too baby for adults to be adequate for long.

If anything, it offers a purer, added able-bodied yield on Cadillac’s angular architecture language. Autoblog calls it a “sleek, yet thick-of-beltline new suit.” Narrow, aperture windows and steeply raked foreground and rear windshields accomplish it attending as admitting it were formed from a solid block of attitude.

Mechanically, it differs little from the CTS-V auto that has won Cadillac acclaim from automotive enthusiasts. Jalopnik reports, “It has the aforementioned 6.2-liter LSA V8 as the auto packing 556 HP and 551 lb-ft of torque, the aforementioned 3.9 additional 0-60 MPH time, the aforementioned alluring ride system, the aforementioned chiral manual and paddle confused auto.”

Is there a bazaar for it? Kicking Tires notes, “It may assume like Cadillac is alms too abounding activating variants these days, [but] BMW makes abiding its M3 archetypal is offered in sedan, auto and convertible physique styles.”

Did they just say convertible? Don’t get your hopes up. Cadillac has said there will acceptable be no convertible CTS, and no convertible CTS-V. There is, however, a CTS Wagon on the way for 2011.

Hmm…

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