And thus:
CTS originally stood for Catera Touring Sedan.

Heck, I’ll even concede and say that very possibly when it launched in 2002, it officially didn’t stand for anything, that the retcon to claim that it didn’t stand for Catera Touring Sedan might have happened before the car even launched.

But when the name was…

In 2002, when the CTS launched, it absolutely did mean “Catera Touring Sedan”, fitting perfectly with the nomenclature of the rest of the Cadillac lineup.

They might try to claim that, but they’re... Well, wrong. It did originally mean Catera Touring Sedan
If you notice:

Far more a direct lineage than you’d think.

Cadillac CTS:

Catera
Touring
Sedan

I see them on the road all the time. Mostly the second and third generation models, though.

I don’t see why everyone is hating on the car, I mean, the Catera Touring Sedan won a lot of awards, like Motor Trend CotY in 08, as well as extremely high praise from everyone who reviewed it.

This just strikes me as a cop out. Ferrari was very happy to tout the numbers when they were the undisputed spoiled millionaire track day king, due to the fact nobody bothered to make a supercar that was neither race nor street legal.

Now that other companies are making track-day-only supercars that are actually faster…

And this, kids, is why you also upgrade the suspension and aero if you’re going to push a car well beyond the limits it was designed for. Brakes, too, even if that didn’t come into play with this crash.

Also, though I couldn’t find a lap time for it, I was able to do some digging. At that time, the lap record was done at an average of 70mph.

Couple that with the fact that at that time, the track was 2.65 miles long, it looks like the lap record was about 2:16 or so.

At that long of a lap, 3 seconds is indeed very…

We’re talking 3 seconds on a 50cc motorcycle, not 3 seconds on an MotoGP or 1000cc Superbike.

If a 15 year old is the “perp”, he’s a “man”.

If a 19 year old is the “victim”, he’s a “teen”.

“Only in America can an admitted criminal (VW) be allowed to set the repayment back to the victim of the crime. ‘MERICA!”

Um...

Wat?

You do realize that the reason that it took this long is because they had to come up with a settlement that made the impartial judge happy?

They’ve been going back and forth for almost a…

You’d be shocked and appalled if you knew what your state motor vehicle department did with your personal information.

Don’t worry about your insurance company, or your dealership, or your maintenance facility selling your personal info to advertisers.

Worry about your government doing it.

Because they do.

5th Gear: European VW Owners Are Screwed:

Er, it’s actually quite the remarkable thing that the C7 Z06 had no non-functioning aesthetic items.

Every vent is functional, every fin has an aerodynamic purpose.

Okay, so... You said in your first post: “If the there is an actual “2-minute rule”, and that time is exceeded, then the car should coast down and pull off the road.”

Then Probenja showed you that that is exactly what happens, and then you go and say “But if the car behaves in a way that panics the driver, THAT is…

Sontar-HA! Sontar-HA!

The big reason why most of Jay’s cars don’t get driven is because he’s one man who owns hundreds of cars.

He could take different car every day, and still each car would only be driven once or twice a year.

Not at all.

If you notice, he crosses the start at 0:26, and the finish at roughly 9:18

That’s roughly 8 minutes, 52 seconds of video of him racing.

His posted time was 8:51.455

That video is real time. Those jounces and bumps and rattles were just that violent.

I’d be willing to bet that it’s in the Frisco area.

You’ve got Sonoma Raceway just to the north, and Laguna Seca just to the south.

Best spot in Cali to host a traveling car show that showcases exciting cars.

Typical of the stance crowd, they spend way too much on the car, and the wheels, and the setup to stance it, and then they put the cheapest, worst tires they can on there.

Kinforest tires. Cheap Chinese Junk tires.