While most car manufacturers rushed to adopt electrobia, adding batteries and digital driving experiences, including in their high -performance models, Cadillac He chose to challenge the possibilities by continuing to build what is now the only Sedan V8 sedan that is still available with a manual transmission in 2025.
While many of its Germans and Japanese competitors have long been abandoned from this enthusiastic coordination, that is, the gym of the back wheel sedel with manual transmission and a large displacement engine, Cadillac has doubled on the formula, and raised it with a kind of interest in detail, is usually seized for limited duets. Cadillac Ct5-V Blackwing is the original most likely in the era when the art of participation is slowly fades to mystery.
Below the long hood, the 6.2 -liter V8 is located, high -charging. Manually designed in Bowling Green, Kentucky, the same place where Corvette Z06 engines come out, and the LT4 mill dates back to the first generation CTS-V from 2000s, but with more muscles. 668 hp and 659 pounds of torque are sent to the rear wheels either through either ten automatic speeds, decisively, a six -speed TREMEC guide that provides the active shift in incompatible matching.
In terms of design, last year, Cadillac offered some updates for 2025. The car received the updated external appearance with a more aggressive front roll, and the elements of the redesigned ground impact to improve the dynamic aerobic performance, and the semi -curved exhaust system will leave the spectators without any doubt that there are eight cylinders under the cover.
Three new colors to the paint, including Typhoon Metallic, Drift Metallic and Deep Space Metallic, add visual attention, while adding 33 -inch Cadillac digital Cadillac screen in the size without Sacrifice of physical controls and touch surfaces that fit a properly analog car. Many of these updates continue in 2026 style.
The interior, full of skin, is available in a set of finishes. Carbon -backed optional sport seats exceed a precise balance between luxury and purpose, providing 18 -way control capacity, along with real metal keys, and a good performance data registrar with Live LAP data tracking for those wishing to track this 4100 -pound Super Sedan on the race track.
Economy of fuel consumption, as one expects, is far from the party’s piece; We are talking about 20 miles in the gallon on the highway, but then, the exclusion was never the point or intent of any model in the series V over the past twenty years, not to mention the Blackwing model. With the start of the price that hovers about $ 100,000, it is hardly inexpensive. But when you think that there is no other manufacturer that offers a manual video of a V8 of any kind, not Mercedes AMG, not BMW M, not even Lexus, it becomes clear that Cadillac here is a racist and goalless thing.
How long will it remain for sale that is difficult to predict, as strict regulations continue to increase and change consumer tastes in tightening the window for three -circles preparation cars. Cadillac says she will continue to build Blackwing Ct5-V as long as there is a request. But to give you some context, out of 150 models or so on sale today, it offers less than 30 pedals, and this number is in one numbers if we are talking, in terms of high -performance models.
Fortunately now, and perhaps for the last time, you can still walk in a new rear -charging V8. Throwing in the fourth generation of the fourth generation of magnetic ride control, Brembo brakes, and four doors, you have a multi -use thing and consist that you can really enjoy the road or outside the right track, and reward you with a deep mechanical experience that may become soon.
Source: Cadillac