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• Recap: The CTS-V Challenge

  Banovsky on November 4, 2009

  Sure, it's been almost a week since GM's Bob Lutz squared off in the Cadillac CTS-V against other amateur drivers at the race track. But what happened? How did the whole thing go down? Who won? Well, some people, including yours truly has an opinion, but why not check out the tweets from the event to see how things unfolded?

  

  2009 Cadillac CTS-V

  That's exactly what we have for you after the jump: all of the tweets surrounding the CTS-V Challenge. Click through for the discussion!

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• The Cadillac CTS Wagon (and why we don’t need it)

  Banovsky on June 9, 2009

  Make no mistake about it, wagons are the red-headed stepchildren of any car range. Probably conceived in a dank corner of an automaker’s R & D lab, complete with trollish engineers, clip boards, and antiques. Lots of antiques.

  

  2010 Cadillac CTS Wagon

  As such, only terminally crazy and socially-inept Northeastern Birkenstock-shod buyers drive them. I swear, on my last trip through Maine (one never stops, for fear of being consumed by Cliff Bar-chewing, Apple-using hillbillies), there were dozens of stores selling “Sports Antiquities.” All, natch, with Saab, Volvo XC, or Subaru wagons badly parked out front.

  You know what? I love wagons. But I also live in the Northeast. You know what else? I have enough money to feed my belly and cat, but not at the same time. Therefore, I am not in the market for a luxury Cadillac CTS Wagon.

  The problem? Nobody will be in the market for a Cadillac CTS Wagon.

  Read on…

  Read full article | Comments (2) | Filed under GM, General Motors, Luxury, Future, Wagon, Humor, Detroit, 2010, Cadillac, opinion, CTS