Well yeah. CTS-Vs dont do well on the (race) track because of heat soak issues. It's also just a giant car and there are more fun cars to fling around Road Atlanta. Even a few drag passes induce quite a bit of heat stroke. Throw $10K at a CTS-V2 and you easily have a 10 second car.

You always see a zillion old…

Yeah! it is very useful, I brought home a bunch of 2x4x8s recently from Lowes (although this scuffed up the dash a bit). Another annoyance is the hatch opening isn't as big as you would think. In order to give the car that cool profile, the roof slopes down quite a bit in the back. Load entrance is barely over 20…

Very cool!

In fact it is. People running the CTS V sport (new body style CTS with same motor as ATS-V) can easily beat a stock CTS-V2 with a tune and some minor upgrades. Biggest problem, however, is that the motor runs into real reliability issues once you push it much past factory (unlike the CTS-V which is good for a…

V drives like a dream on the open road. Tons of passing power, even in 6th. Main problem with car is miniature gas tank. Laughably small. In ideal conditions on freeway with cruise at 70MPH for entire tank returns 21.5 MPG with a range of around 350 miles. Around town at 09-12 MPG you're lucky to get 200 miles out of…

If you wait long enough, you can find the perfect car for you. Took me better part of a year to find a blue V wagon MT, but I'm glad I waited until car (and finances) were right

That's why I married her!!

Very low price on a V wagon, ESPECIALLY for a stick.

I fail to see how you equate an article explaining how something works with plagiarism. I promise you that SVT forum post wasn't the world's first article on how a flat-plan crank works.

Well explained!

Excellent article! Don't your think giant/awkward Doug should do a follow up video attempting to sleep in the 360?

Oh my godddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd!

But what is a FalconPunch??

Doug, it was a GORILLA.

Interesting. Down in Atlanta, the average Vette will get more attention than the average 911. But both are pretty similar in the end.

And things did not start well for me even when I got on the track. I followed my coworker Travis in a Camaro Z/28 down the front stretch and nearly plowed into his back bumper going into turn one. I copied his braking point, but he had carbon ceramics and I... didn't.

We need sedan (and wagon/hatch) version, stat!

V sport owners tune these engines pretty easily to outrun a stock CTS-V, but reliability is very much an issue.

It's very early on in your trip, but if you decided to stop in Atlanta, let me know! Pcleez and I will show you where DeMuro used to live and we can all roll his old house together as tribute. We can also three-way 0-35 drag race the 228, V Wagon, and Miata in Atlanta traffic!

HA. Excellent. I always love the Torch-graphics (bright exclamations pasted on top of pictures). Hilarious.