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Thats pretty damn hot.
08-23-2005, 01:01 PM
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it will definitely sell 
08-23-2005, 01:09 PM
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Originally Posted by ali.ahmed
is there a market for this? i understand bringing the brand upscale, but isnt v16 jumping a few cylinders?
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08-23-2005, 01:15 PM
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yes there's a market -> celebrities.
08-23-2005, 02:10 PM
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Dayum...! That's a nice one!
08-23-2005, 03:16 PM
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stangg172004 and I go to the same school; his autos teacher (senior engineer at GM) told me that GM would be producing a 1,000 HP+ car in the near future. maybe this is it.
08-23-2005, 05:34 PM
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I should also note that the supplied pic there is quite possibly the worst attempt at a scan. Evar.
08-23-2005, 06:15 PM
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I should also note that the supplied pic there is quite possibly the worst attempt at a scan. Evar.
and its ever not evar 
08-23-2005, 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by gocubsgo55
stangg172004 and I go to the same school; his autos teacher (senior engineer at GM) told me that GM would be producing a 1,000 HP+ car in the near future. maybe this is it.
The caddy sixteen concept had a v16 w/1000hp.
08-25-2005, 10:16 PM
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i thought so too, i saw this car and a writeup in magazines at least 1 year ago, probably more.
edit: http://caddyedge.com/Models/Concepts/Sixteen/
there you go, released in 03
edit: http://caddyedge.com/Models/Concepts/Sixteen/
there you go, released in 03
09-30-2005, 02:27 PM
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Cadillac Unleashes New Technologies
Originally Posted by WorldCarFans
http://www.worldcarfans.com/news.cfm/newsid/2050930.003
Innovations Enhance Safety, Entertainment and Convenience
This fall Cadillac delivers several innovative new technologies to consumers, as the brand continues its renaissance of new vehicles with dramatic designs and useful, intuitive new features. These new technologies range from important safety innovations to the pure enjoyment of enhanced in-vehicle entertainment and driving performance.
“Cadillac has a long heritage as a technology flagship for GM and the entire industry,” said Jim Taylor, Cadillac general manager. “Our philosophy is to continue to deliver purposeful technology in a way that adds safety and pleasure, not complexity, to the experience of driving a luxury vehicle.”
Safety: Smarter airbags and headlamps
The all-new Cadillac DTS full-size luxury sedan features a new technology taking air bags to a new level of precision, the industry’s first Dual Depth Air Bags. This GM co-patented technology enables an air bag to deploy in either of two sizes, depending upon the severity of the crash, seat belt usage and occupant seat position. When small air bag deployment is necessary, a tether is used to hold the air bag back to the smaller size, and gas is vented from the inflation canister. For large air bag deployment, the tether is released, the canister vent is shut off and the air bag is allowed to expand to its full size. The new DTS is in dealerships now.
Cadillac’s XLR roadster is a high-performance machine enabling drivers to carve up twisty roads, day or night. The 2006 XLR includes Adaptive Forward Lighting, a system allowing the headlamps to better illuminate the car’s path. This advanced technology moves the lighting pattern in synch with vehicle steering, enhancing driver visibility in corners and on twisty road sections. The system allows an industry-best maximum of 15 degrees of movement.
The new DTS and the STS luxury sport sedan employ another form of “smart” headlamps, called IntelliBeam. This system automatically switches high-beam headlamps back to the normal low-beam setting when a vehicle’s headlamps or taillamps appear in front of the car. It also will switch the high-beams back on again automatically when the road is clear in front of the car. The system operates via a light-sensing metal oxide semiconductor, mounted onto a tiny camera that peers through the windshield searching for light sources in front of the car.
Entertainment: Stealth antennae, digital tunes
Most 2006 Cadillacs include the acclaimed XM Satellite Radio service (NASDAQ:XMSR) as standard equipment (not including subscription fees). The rapid expansion of satellite radio has made the plastic roof antennae a fixture on top of millions of vehicles on U.S. roads today. Cadillac is changing that with the industry-first “stealth” antennae for XM Radio on the XLR. The tiny antennae are cleverly concealed within the outside rear view mirrors, an industry-first. XLR includes a network of more than one dozen antennae throughout the car, all concealed under its striking exterior. These antennae power features such as the car’s AM/FM/XM radio, OnStar communication, GPS-powered navigation system, Keyless Access system for entry and exit, push-button start and tire pressure monitoring.
In the new STS and DTS sedans, Cadillac drivers can effortlessly add their digital music player to their vehicle’s entertainment system. The standard audio system of the DTS includes an audio input jack in the radio system expressly for digital music (mp3) players such as the Apple IPod. The all-new 2007 Escalade, in dealerships in early-2006, will also include an input for digital music players.
Convenience: The demise of the windshield ice scraper
Drivers of the all-new DTS have a reason to look forward to winter snow and ice. DTS includes a new heated windshield wash system. The system heats washer fluid to approximately 176 degrees in 40 seconds, then applies the hot fluid to the windshield in four shots over a span of 90 seconds. Working with the wipers, the system clears snow, ice and just about anything else, off the windshield – with the driver comfortably seated inside. Even in warmer weather the system is helpful, as the heated fluid more effectively clears debris such as bugs from the windshield.
09-30-2005, 03:47 PM
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This advanced technology moves the lighting pattern in synch with vehicle steering, enhancing driver visibility in corners and on twisty road sections. The system allows an industry-best maximum of 15 degrees of movement. ???
Acura-RL
This system swivels and aims the Xenon High-Intensity Discharge (HID) headlights up to 20 degrees into the direction of the turn that the RL is steered, keeping the beam focused on the road. The system is initiated when the RL travels over 66 feet at a sustained speed over 12 miles per hour. When moving through a curve, the inside headlight pivots up to 20 degrees in that direction, while the other headlight remains stationary. AFS works automatically without buttons to push or settings to configure. However, the driver may manually turn it off, if desired.
Acura-RL
This system swivels and aims the Xenon High-Intensity Discharge (HID) headlights up to 20 degrees into the direction of the turn that the RL is steered, keeping the beam focused on the road. The system is initiated when the RL travels over 66 feet at a sustained speed over 12 miles per hour. When moving through a curve, the inside headlight pivots up to 20 degrees in that direction, while the other headlight remains stationary. AFS works automatically without buttons to push or settings to configure. However, the driver may manually turn it off, if desired.
09-30-2005, 04:26 PM
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Taken from Cadillacs website -
2006 XLR
In Adaptive Forward Lighting’s first Cadillac application ever, sensors within the headlamps calculate speed and steering-wheel angle against internal software algorithms. These careful mathematical determinations become the basis for pivoting headlamps twenty degrees in tandem, enhancing illumination in the headed direction when turning.
2006 XLR
In Adaptive Forward Lighting’s first Cadillac application ever, sensors within the headlamps calculate speed and steering-wheel angle against internal software algorithms. These careful mathematical determinations become the basis for pivoting headlamps twenty degrees in tandem, enhancing illumination in the headed direction when turning.
09-30-2005, 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by heyitsme
Cadillac's system angles both headlights into the turn while Acura's angles only one headlight into the turn.
09-30-2005, 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by phile
The reason for that was not because of lack of technology but because Acura did not want oncoming drivers to be blinded by the swiveling headlight on the opposite side of the turn (ie if you make a left, the right headlight wouldn't swivel in tandem with the left to blind opposite traffic). It was explained somewhere in the mounds and mounds of PR when the RL debuted.
The cadillac will have both lights on the road. The left headlight is on the road, the same as the RL, the right light at 20 degrees is no further pointed into traffic than the left light at 20 degrees- they are parallel- unpossible for the right light to point further into traffic than the left light, they are at the same angle, the right light into a left turn however covers more of the road because it is set at the right most side of the road and vice virsa..
09-30-2005, 10:55 PM
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Originally Posted by heyitsme
I don't agree with that at all. Lets say both an rl and xlr go around a left handed bend. The rl's one headlight will expose the highway while the other displays the features of the trees in the woods over the guard rail, I've been on this type of turn with standard headlights all the time and a straight headlight is not helpful or safe to other drivers by any standard because its off into the freaking woods.
The cadillac will have both lights on the road. The left headlight is on the road, the same as the RL, the right light at 20 degrees is no further pointed into traffic than the left light at 20 degrees- they are parallel- unpossible for the right light to point further into traffic than the left light, they are at the same angle, the right light into a left turn however covers more of the road because it is set at the right most side of the road and vice virsa..
The cadillac will have both lights on the road. The left headlight is on the road, the same as the RL, the right light at 20 degrees is no further pointed into traffic than the left light at 20 degrees- they are parallel- unpossible for the right light to point further into traffic than the left light, they are at the same angle, the right light into a left turn however covers more of the road because it is set at the right most side of the road and vice virsa..
Of course a straight headlight is no better - you could've made the same argument for the left swiveling headlight too. You're going to blind oncoming drivers no matter what. But I think Acura was picking the lesser of two evils, so to speak when they made that decision.
Besides, do you think no one else besides Cadillac has already thought about having both headlights swing? Not Lexus, Infiniti, Audi and Acura, all of whom are pretty detail oriented in their respective ways? It's not a new concept - it was originally brought up in the Preston Tucker over 50 years ago.
03-23-2006, 10:28 AM
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Cadillac considering Super V series...
A la Brabus...?
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Cadillac wants to sell ultra-high-performance tuner versions of its CTS-V, STS-V and XLR-V models, according to a published report today. The cars could be modded by Brabus, McLaren, Lorinser or Dinan, according to Edmunds. Cadillac product director John Howell told the publication that his company was considering turning to a European tuning house for the project because it conveys a more sophisticated image. Another possible lineup — this one built in-house by Cadillac — could go under “Super V” moniker. These models would have slightly more power than the current “V” models, and would enable Cadillac to compete with Mercedes AMG models and the BMW M-Series. Cadillac has long been rumored to be testing a CTS model with the 505-horsepower, 7.0-liter LS7 V8 from the Corvette Z06. The model would allow the CTS to rival BMW’s new M5.
http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/03/...uper-v-series/
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Cadillac wants to sell ultra-high-performance tuner versions of its CTS-V, STS-V and XLR-V models, according to a published report today. The cars could be modded by Brabus, McLaren, Lorinser or Dinan, according to Edmunds. Cadillac product director John Howell told the publication that his company was considering turning to a European tuning house for the project because it conveys a more sophisticated image. Another possible lineup — this one built in-house by Cadillac — could go under “Super V” moniker. These models would have slightly more power than the current “V” models, and would enable Cadillac to compete with Mercedes AMG models and the BMW M-Series. Cadillac has long been rumored to be testing a CTS model with the 505-horsepower, 7.0-liter LS7 V8 from the Corvette Z06. The model would allow the CTS to rival BMW’s new M5.
http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/03/...uper-v-series/
03-23-2006, 10:56 AM
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WTF is the V-Series for then, if the "Super V" would "enable Cadillac to compete with Mercedes AMG models and the BMW M-Series?!" Damn that's stupid... Just get the HP levels comparable up for the V-Series! Don't create yet another layer.
03-23-2006, 11:10 AM
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Maybe the writer of the article meant Brabus...? Since the V-series prolly is meant to go against AMG and M...? 
03-23-2006, 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by titan
WTF is the V-Series for then, if the "Super V" would "enable Cadillac to compete with Mercedes AMG models and the BMW M-Series?!" Damn that's stupid... Just get the HP levels comparable up for the V-Series! Don't create yet another layer.
Just need to bump up the #'s, no need to alienate V car buyers by telling them their cars aren't quite up to par.
03-23-2006, 05:37 PM
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More GM genius
I'm gonna wait for the Super Super Super Super V
I'm gonna wait for the Super Super Super Super V
03-23-2006, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Moog-Type-S
More GM genius
I'm gonna wait for the Super Super Super Super V
I'm gonna wait for the Super Super Super Super V
03-26-2006, 10:44 PM
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Originally Posted by phile
You mean the W Series.
03-27-2006, 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by bigman
Just drop the LS7 in all the ve series cars and they will compete with everything in their classes.
The 400hp LS2 in the CTS-V is pretty potent but a 505hp LS7 would be downright S I C K!!!! I'd go so far as to state that GM should keep the LS2 in the lineup and just create an ultra performance pkg with the LS7. In this respect regarding BMW:
LS7 -- M5
LS2 -- 550i
3.5L -- 530i (535i?)
2.8L -- 525i
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03-27-2006, 04:11 PM
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They better do something with the sheet metal on the CTS if they want more hp. They cat fit a tire big enough to handle 400 hp let alone 505 hp