Vantablack exterior, mirror chrome interior?

It’s one color option on one trim of three models. Their other 17 cars will still be available in beige, gold, and sand.

You should check out hand scraping and hand lapping. Lathes whose precision goes into the ten-thousandths are typically riding on hand-scraped ways, and hand lappers can get surfaces into the nanometers.

And it’s worse for Cadillac since the V-series isn’t nearly as established.  I could understand (but not agree with) BMW marketer’s cashing in on (and diluting) the M’s brand equity.  In Cadillac’s case, they were still building its pedigree, so this move undercuts it without even getting that much value out of it.

Their federal nominal rate may not be 30%, but if they have a full time job, once you stack federal, state, SS/Medicare/Medicaid, they’re paying that. The 22% federal bracket is like 35k.

“Corrupt union officials drinking $440 bottles of champagne created for a Russian Tsar who was assassinated by a left-wing revolutionary paid for by a union slush fund is just too much irony”

This is all true and points to this being a perfectly competent standard edition car. Slapping the top-tier monster power badge on it is the issue, and saying they’re going to add more tiers above that isn’t a fix, it’s just confusing inflation like theater popcorn sizes.

There’s nothing wrong with this being the standard model.  But slapping their ///M AMG SS Xtreme edition badging on it is unnecessary and dilutes the “V”.  “V Sport” and “V+” are already confusing, it’s fine not to have every trim model have a string of letter.  Just do base, sport, and V.

The RWD/AWD and better driving dynamics justify it being a Cadillac sports sedan instead of a beige Camry. They don’t justify slapping the top-tier, roided-out performance badging. Ratchet this one down to the standard or “V Sport” as suggested, and make a real V.

If you’ve done seals, valves, cooling, hoses, plugs, etc, it sounds like you have a stout, balanced engine in pretty good condition short of a full rebuild...do these engines have bearing/rod/other lower end issues? I’ve seen e30 builds from mild to 6-900 horse big turbo, so I’d think ~300 would be doable without…

After all that work, seems a shame to leave it stock.  Adding a small turbo ought to be a breeze...

And what makes it a Fruit Wagon anyway??

Then they could add the same gear to the TT V6 as the S7e, maybe an RS7e, nice and consistent.

This is good content.  More of this content pls.

Dwight “It’s 50 degrees out!” Schruting

The only real Ferraris have a Flat 12.

Because we need to see the same Drumphf Cheeto joke of the week in every comment section of every unrelated story across the internet...I don’t understand the fixation, there’s life outside of him

Toyota should really switch to the much safer Helium for fuel

Which is actually FWD, because “the 4 has really always represented a philosophy of enhanced grip rather than any specific drive configuration”...

Couldn’t make it through an article about Porsche’s electric car huh...I suggest a break from social media