2020 Cadillac CT6-V Blackwing V8 Review // The $100,000 Unicorn

Thomas, what did we say? I just dropped my phone. I think of the side of the sea. Now I can see it in your pocket. No, no, I have to get a pay phone, no, no, I want to stay, no, tell us you can't stay. the car you're looking at nonsense I'm Thomas and I'm James and this is the Cadillac ct-6 the black wing no, no black wing only the engine is called the black wing black wing zt6 friend Thomas insists on calling this black, quick, it's not a Blackwing, the engine is a platform and it's a hand built 4.2 liter twin turbo v8 and it's built into the corvette assembly in Kentucky and this one today has actually been built by a lady named Kathy who has a letter beautiful. true Blackwing, let's spit a Burnout, now Thomas is going to call our Blackwing a million damn times and I'm only going to give him amnesty on this one because no matter what you call it, it's phenomenal the reason I'm calling this

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is because Well, Cadillac's naming system is confusing and stupid, and Black Wing is one of the coolest names associated with any car and has its own logo.

Plus, this black wing v8 is special because Cadillac claims to have made it exclusively. For this car and like the AMG engines, it has a hot V setup which helps with thermal pack control and essentially eliminates turbo lag, so the black wing makes 550 horsepower and 640 lbs. foot of torque with ease and efficiency, so in theory this car requires a lot of boxes from the start, a powerful v8 engine with a badass name, check all-wheel drive, but here's the sad part, this ct6 v with the black wing v8 will be a very limited production as US production is as close as Much that just started is already coming to an end which in some ways makes this a rare bird so when the Owner of this car took delivery from a dealer only to discover the black paint on his new Cadillacs was covered in swirls, he took it to a ceramic professional in Vaughan. for a full paint correction and pro ceramic application which means today it looks immaculate and if you're new to the throttle world we do car

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s, track tests and a whole host of other complicated things so please subscribe, Ring the bell, we're in track mode. everything is off, this digital gauge cluster is customizable and I made it look like the best version of itself so I have a white center V gauge that we are changing manually and I can already tell you that this is one of the best driving modes .

The large sedans I've been in is a 7 Series they feel like a Lexus versus more performance than a 750li, more performance than an S 560 and those cars cost 30 or 40 grand more than this one. This touches on the power of the s63, it has 640. pound-feet of torque just to put that in proportion, it's like talking at the Corvette zo6 level, it's incredible, this thing hits 60 miles per hour in 3.8 seconds, come on, oh that's so good, the rear end goes so easy, it's a riot, I'm not kidding when I say you want to lose the rear end, I mean yes it's a long wheelbase executive sedan and it has all the good things like steering active on the rear wheels, so it turns very tight in parking lots and is stable at high speeds, but the best thing for me is that in the different modes it changes the bias of where the power goes from front to rear, so In Touring mode it puts 60% of the torque in the rear and 40% in the front, in Sport mode it puts 80% of the torque in the rear and 20% in the front, but the only one that What I really care about is the track mode and it puts 95% of the torque in the rear and 5% in the front.

I can't believe this, but I'm

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ing this. Car as if it were an M3. I can't help it. It turns so well and the rear accelerates so easily. In reality, it doesn't even accelerate. Naturally, it oversteers when entering a corner. You just turn in and feel the mass of the car start to move and since the wheelbase is very long, obviously because it's a big, long executive sedan, nothing happens too quickly at the limit and it's very well communicated through the chassis and through the direction, the sound changes in each mode. I'm in sport mode right now and you get the V8 below.

There are other modes, Tour Sport and Track, there is also snow. I'm hoping for sound and snow modes, like rattles or something that's probably just a muted V8, and well, the shifts themselves are quick. the delay between the moment I select the next gear and the moment it actually happens is quite long, the paddle shifting experience isn't perfect because obviously under a hundred grand and just under a hundred grand you expect a few things , but having this level of performance, this has magneruro, so not only does it adjust things like sound and throttle response and steering weight in different modes, the correct shifts vary significantly and you wouldn't think that an executive sedan like This one would ever see the track, but driving it today I feel the same frustration and need to take it to the track as when we tested a Supra on the road.

GM has some of the best steering in cars right now and although it does have a bit of a soft section on the right. in the Center it's still amazing the really very positive communication of those front tires, natural weight, construction, this is one of the most fun vehicles I've driven this year, we can't say bad words on YouTube, but I'm going to have a truck. In due time in this car I am nurturing a connection with this car that I did not expect. There are some things it's doing to me that I didn't expect either.

One of the things is a warning system and you almost feel like it wants to hit you in the side of the head but can't. Instead it vibrates the seat if it detects a hazard while parking and moving in small spaces when it first happens it is very unpleasant but after the first time it is very welcome too unless you have everything turned off and start to lose the rear a bit, the seat belt tightens aggressively and pulls you back and I feel like I shouldn't tell you how comfortable it is and how good the ride is. but I can't help but review it as a race car, it's so fast it has a mechanical limited slip differential in the rear and drives like a sports car.

I don't know how else to say it, however, I'll force myself to do it. do it, we'll put it in Touring mode silences the exhaust becomes quieter the steering becomes lighter it's easy to drive it's not as smooth and pleasant as a 7 Series or an S-Class but it strikes a very good balance there's no way it could be an executive sedan To drive this fine, but looking ahead and driving this, I would think I was driving this competition m3. Only when I look back and put all of our lives on the line do I realize how long this car is the only crime Cadillac has ever committed.

With this car being discontinued, we'll talk about the interior in a minute, when you get to this level of performance for under 100 grand the car has to make some sacrifices, so if we take it apart we may or may not know it. which really doesn't matter well it drives fantastic yes yes ooh you see it doesn't look at this area of ​​the mirror I know it doesn't even encourage me to close it slowly because there are no soft clothes there are no soft clothes I didn't realize that yes style no I don't know, I really don't They've changed their design language a lot since Matrix Reloaded, no, but it's a sure thing if people love this design, right?

It looks good. I don't worry, executive in black, it looks quite nice, yes, we have the V-Stuff, so we have the V badge on the black mesh grill, yes, and there is also a carbon fiber spoiler, not that too There are huge brakes, look at them, yes, these are the four-piston brakes that come standard, that's the, I mean, that's the box. about this car is that for the 98 thousand you pay whatever in American dollars, everything comes with it, there is a lot of customization, yes, yes, but you know that it is big, it doesn't seem that big, but it is big, this is the same. about the same wheelbase as a 7 Series, it's longer, yes it is, and at night it wakes up the executive, so it lights up the ground, of course, I like it, you have to have it, you have to have anything , leaks are real, yes, I know.

Yes, God, and this has that thing where you put your foot under it and the trunk opens. Many cars have that video that never seems to work. I just make sure nothing ever happens. Yes, my God, yes, he is so happy. I have to do it. He goes call my mom, okay, there are some things I love about this interior, yeah, some things I don't like so much. I also have a few that I like, I imagine it will be like when I have kids one day, so the first thing is comfort level. they are suitable quite rigid seats, it is exactly this type of goes against the G series 90 class seven, these are very hard, the seats are very rigid, it is not, also this headrest is not electric and it is definitely electric in the seventh series and aah, yes, no, don.

Don't forget how much this undermines them and, yes, I know it doesn't undermine the G 9090, but then it destroys performance greatly. Yeah, anyway, that's fine, I really like the carbon fiber everywhere and again, it's standard. This is the best answer for the piano. Have I ever seen Oh, instead of black piano, like many just throw a piano everywhere, yeah, and this is a nice perforated leather, there's almost nothing to leave fingerprints here except these little touch panels down here that By the way, yes. The cheapest thing is that I dive, no, yeah, kind of okay, so like it's streams and I like everything, it's not amazing, however, we have this mode here where I can select to have the heat on my back and my pump or Yes very. oh I like it, there are just a lot of bacon strips, that's not what's going on, yes the steering wheels are nice, yes I really like the steering wheel and unlike BMW this steering wheel is different on each Cadillac.

I checked the model range to make sure, yes, Escalade ct5. They are all different steering wheels, yes, and it has carbon fiber, yes, no, I like carbon fiber, there are many buttons like this, maybe like this, what are the buttons before, I am not anti buttons, well, it sounds like that. four buttons. I'm going to talk to Union's real aluminum shifter. Yes, they are a nice digital gauge cluster that can be customized slightly, not massively, but you can change it, so again, I like the combination of analog and digital gauges. I don't like. the foliage I like others like the physical game oh that cool animation when you shift yeah one thing I actually like is that they kept a lot of engine data that you can find in an SS file or something, correct oil temperature engine voltage battery brake pad life tire pressure that's really cool to see that like I don't need to know that stuff this, could you track down a CT 6v?

I would track anything if you let me track it, if it was your CT 6v, sure, why not? at least once at least once, so this has a 34 speaker Bo panorama or a sound system, I guess this comes from a - it's cool, this sounds seven guys, it's one thing that the more speakers you add, better, I guess, because I feel like it turns out that it may not be because we tried this sound system later and we weren't very impressed, yeah, because I've heard some sound systems that are just two really good speakers and that's all you need, it's well, you should buy one. car at some point there will be a speaker, it's just my back

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by dre, yeah i'm kidding please don't do that buddy yeah, but it's pretty easy to use, it responds pretty quick, it has teen driver mode, yeah, which is so. you can select buttons that don't work for your equipment for which equipment you are driving a CT 6 V.

America is a strange place, but one of my other favorite things too is that the wireless charging port is here, so just slide your money and if you want to attach it to things you just walk past there it's smart it's a good design usually it's like the new year has passed or it depends on your arm yes exactly this is really good, let's take a look at the back seat okay, I missed the closure. I feel a little cheap, you know, yes, I have to know how I am in relationships, but we have great control, yes, we do.

The cracks in the rear sunshade, oh yeah, that's automatic, but these are manual, the window ones, yeah, so it's spacious in here. However again it is not that soft, no the seats are not super comfortable and compared to the Series 7 in the G 90 which are very comfortable this is not really bad as they are nice and there is plenty of space to the knees. but like that, it's not as nice as the G 90 back here, yes, because even though it has a nice touch in the cabin with the carbon fiber, as if the interior roof wasn't Alcantara, yes, it was very economical, yes , dual sunroof, although that's nice, we do it.

They have screens that rise from the back of the seats and there is a remote control that controls them. You can also split what happens on each screen. Right touch screen. I'm not touch screens, no, no, they are not, but in general, the back of this car. is priced based on what we know is available for the right price asthe G 90 engine, slower obviously, but a much nicer interior, yeah, this doesn't feel, you know, it doesn't feel bad, it just doesn't feel new, no, no. I don't feel like 666 was brand new not too long ago, yeah, no, there's just a level of superficiality to this, it's a thing, superficiality, no, I just got it, he told us, although the inside may be a little superficial, apparently as if For me the car as a whole is much more than superficial, the CT 6v is a brilliant and brilliant driving vehicle, in fact the only faults are the transmission, which we found a little choppy and clunky to respond, and the red line which felt a bit restrictive. for such a strong power plant, but if you can get past that, the driving experience is almost perfect, so if you still can't tell, the vehicle impressed us and then some, it has its limitations, but with power numbers on the verge of the competition that cost almost twice as much, we think they can be overlooked in favor of their positive aspects, including what's hidden under the hood.

Yes, Thomas the black wing you