I was thinking about this today; this car might have too much horsepower for too little $$. You always hear about guys wrapping Ferraris and Lambos around trees - too much power, too little time behind the wheel. Now, we have access to a supercar for under $70k - my guess is that we'll see a lot more of this. Having this kind of power out of the box, within reach to the masses [relatively speaking], is going to be interesting.
Lots of guys have wrecked their 1st Gen V's with only 400hp. Everyone calls their 04-07's beasts, but those cars are relatively tame compared to the '09's.
That being said, if I get an '09, I will certainly be modding the hell out of it
2000 Seville STS Air Hog, Sirius Stiletto 100 bracketed by the radio. Looking to do exhaust and some visual custom work. Cadillacs in my family : 2004 CTS (brother's), 2002 Escalade (Dad's), 1989 Allante (Dad's),
Just dont let Urby buy one right away! BWHAHAHAAHAHAH!!
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Mod list: 18" Sport CTS wheels, Dunlop Direzza Z1 Sport 245/45/zr18 Tires, Eibach lowering kit, FE4 Shocks, V sway bars, STB, Modified Volant CAI, Goerlich high flow cats, 2.5" pipes, Magnaflow X pipe, Magnaflow mufflers, Big 3 Performance tune, Sirius SIR-GM1, HID Fog lights, clear fog lenses, clear sidemarkers, CTS Sport Grill, V bumper
Point well taken - I also am a HP addict. However, I think there are going to be some rookies that buy this thing and are going to be out of their league
Haven't seen much of this with the Z06. Low $ + High Performance = magnified mistakes. Reminds me of what my instructor told me day 1 at VIR.
"OK Chris. Your car is extremely fast. Your car is extremely heavy. Those are two very bad things to have together. We will go 'off' this weekend and when we do, we aren't going to stop for a very long time. So let's make sure that we're very careful with where we decide to go 'off'. OK?"
We did go off. Twice as a matter of fact. Once in the hog pen when I tried in vain to make up time on a GT3. Bad decision. Once again as we explored how late we could brake at the end of the front straight. We found out. Roughly 20 feet less than we thought.
Great fun on a track where you have run-off room and everyone (well most) respects the speed that we're traveling at. On a public street though, potentially deadly and definitely stupid.
Most sold will be autos and the ECU will upshift if you start getting into trouble. With all the driver's aids, the auto version of this car will be a lot easier to handle than the gen I. Picture something just as docile as an STS-V in terms of driveability, but better than CTS-V gen I limits and performance.
