[tweeter81]

The reason why I stated my guess to be 525-530 HP/500-505 TQ is because I believe GM will use a factory supercharged LS3 (without forced induction is rated at 430 HP). Add a nice supercharger and a fairly conservative stock tune and you get another 100 horses out of the motor, which could easily be increased with a pulley swap or more aggressive tune.

If I were to hazard a guess (totally to be taken with a grain of salt as I have absolutely no inside info to back this up) for the sake of interesting discussion/speculation I would say that the price point will probably be around $60,000 fully loaded. I believe GM will try to stay somewhat close to what the previous generation's price point was (about $6,000-$7,000 increase from previous). This would also be supported by the fact that superchargers for our current cars are about $6,000 and they add between 100-130 horses. That is exactly how much HP they would be adding to the stock LS3.

On the other hand, GM could be figuring that since the CTS-V is a relatively low-selling, limited-production run, car they may just add gobs of HP and also up the price at an equivalent rate. Maybe 550-600 HP @ $65,000. I hope this is not the case, because that makes the car just a little more out of reach for us young guys who are still trying to make the big bucks. I believe that the possibility to achieve much more HP will be there even if the engine stock, has a MERE 500 horsepower, haha.

But, back to the original statement. I think GM is trying to selling a lot more of these cars than the previous generation, hence most likely making an automatic available as stock, and a 6 MT as an option. Therefore, my original engine/price guess still stands. Damn, I hope I am right after all this...