Most likely testing a crate motor install of some sort.

The only reason the current crop of GM pickups looks bad is because people complained that they didn’t look daring enough. GM has never done daring with its trucks, and tends to overreact when attempting to do stuff it has never done before.

Tl;dr it’s the press’ fault. Again.

You DO realize that we were all perfectly fine with NOT seeing it, right?

You can generally glean what kind of engine a car has by listening to it.  I highly doubt that these were one-offs built just for the unveiling.

And that’s what concerns me. Blackwing is a cool motor and all (from an engineering perspective) but these Hot V engines don’t seem like they’re worth the trouble from a maintenance perspective.

See, if this had a Chevy badge on it, the NVH from the large displacement wouldn’t be completely out of place. But this is a Cadillac, and the rank-and-file luxury car buyer expects very low amounts of NVH from the engine. You and I might put up with it, but they won’t.

They DID give us an Escala (albeit without the liftback), but I agree, the C-pillar treatment is a bit out of place.

Here’s a question: what did they sound like? V6s? V8s?

That’s what I would think as well, but I’m still concerned about NVH.

I realized that after re-reading the C&D article, so my bad.

“...but I find the CT4-V to be an attractive car and a 320 horsepower rear-wheel drive car that could be excellent competition for a BMW M2 or Audi S3.”

I’m really thinking the 2.7L is a placeholder engine. Car and Driver said it was relatively smooth in the Silverado, but that segment is dominated by 6-cylinders. Unless there’s something I’m missing, GM just brought a knife to a gunfight.

“Nissan’s agenda for capturing market share at all costs has ruined the resale value of the product, attracted the worst creditworthy customers to the brand, destroyed the morale of the dealer body and hurt dealer profitability, all for some very short-term achievements.”

What you said.

The Versa would’ve had to have been a good car to begin with for you to have found a good one.

“...Nissan isn’t interested in a scenario that pursues car sales for the sake of volume, the sources said...”

Sounds more like they got butthurt about the jokes being made at their expense.

Proper F, lads.

I really like touchscreens, so this move by Audi to ditch the so-called ‘grand German control knob’ (a term coined by Car and Driver) gets applause from me.