Old men and Cadillacs

Agreed, these things are killer! My buddy was at the track and saw the current CTS-V doing some hot laps, he said it was a phenomal, can't wait to see what this thing does!

the 04-07 400hp CTS-V is not to be takin lightly, low 13 sec times at 108+

I actually might purchase a CTS-V. There was a local 2004 the guy was asking below book on, and I was very tempted to go look at it. The Insurance, gas and other things are holding me off for now, but low 13s, navigation, 4 doors and the like are making me want one more and more.

If I find the right local Infrared/Black CTS-V. I will buy it, no worries on price.

Only thing I've noticed about Cadillacs is that old folks own them for the first 10 to 15 years, and then after that, the resale value on them absolutely crashes and the only people driving them are ghetto folk and white trash. As it is, I'm already seeing Caddy STS's with a Northstar in them going for $1,000 on Craigslist when they hit 100k or 150k and the old-fart owner dies off, then the family ditches the car for dirt-cheap because the car has a laundry list of issues that never got taken care of while the old folks had it.

Only problem is, a lot of these old folks never change the oil or tranny fluid in them, or drive them far/frequently enough, so there's so much sludge and crap in there, dried up seals, and other accumulated problems that it'll easily take another $1,000 or more to get it back up into decent condition. Sooooo, when a Caddy like an STS or SLS with a Northstar up and pukes, nobody in their right mind wants to dish out $3,000 for a new Northstar (or however much they're going for these days) on a car that Blue Books for less than $2,000.

I can only imagine how that's all going to work out when the days come that a 400- or 500-horse Caddy motor pukes and nobody can (or wants to) afford to pay out the wazoo for a rebuild job or a swapped-in motor that's worth more than the car, itself. And considering that every wrecked CTS-V that hits a salvage company is guaranteed to have its motor/tranny yanked out ASAP for a swap into something else, it'll be hell to find a replacement motor, anyhow...

Just something to consider for the long-term.

But the Caddy CTS-V doesn't have a Caddy Northstar... it's a Z06 motor more or less, so there WILL be ones out there if something happens. Just find a crate, or wrecked Z.

I'd rather have an XLR

Yeah, I would just toss some good snow tires on it...

You should buy my A4...

mustangjoe87 said:

I'd rather have an XLR

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Only 2 seats, there 75 grand and will lose to a CTS-V in a race!


Cadillac has definitely changed it's image!

GTOReturns said:

Only 2 seats, there 75 grand and will lose to a CTS-V in a race!


Cadillac has definitely changed it's image!

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My bad I meant XLR-V

http://www.cadillac.com/cadillacjsp/vseries/index.jsp?model=vseries

I drove my friends 99 Eldorado a handful of times and that thing is a beast 300hp Northstar.

Yeah the Lincoln's are nice but not like the Caddy's. My mom should be getting an AWD MKZ which is nice, comfy and everything, but they don't have any balls compared to the V series caddys.