Caddy just announced that the upcoming 2022 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing performance sedan will come with “racing-inspired, carbon fiber seats.” The new composite seats will come with “a precision book-matched design and laser-etched V-Series logo,” as well as “other customer-centric innovations and features” that the automaker will announce at an unspecified later date.
The announcement included an image showing the back of the four-door’s new carbon seat, which appears to have a glossy weave and harness passthroughs over the left and right shoulders. The V-Series logo is also on prominent display around the back of the headrest.
Late last month, Cadillac teased us with an image of the new Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing and Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing steering wheel. The new steering wheel comes with a red 12 o’clock marker, carbon trim, and buttons for V-Mode and the Performance Traction Management system. What’s more, the image included a small coded message placed below the V-Series logo that seemed to indicate that at least one of the new high-performance Blackwing models would be capable of more than 200 mph in the top end – likely the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing.
Making that possible will be GM’s supercharged 6.2L V8 LT4 engine, which, when equipped in the 2020 Chevy Camaro ZL1, produces a stout 650 horsepower and 650 pound-feet of torque. Meanwhile, the CT5-V Blackwing’s little brother, the CT4-V Blackwing, will come with the twin-turbocharged 3.6L V6 LF4, which, when equipped in the Cadillac ATS-V, produced 464 horsepower and 445 pound-feet of torque. Both models will feature the GM 10-speed automatic transmission, but a six-speed manual will also be on the options list.
We also recently spotted the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing with a wild new satin bronze wheel package, which was equipped on a prototype model spied while undergoing some real-world testing.
Although the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing and CT4-V Blackwing were originally slated for a launch late in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic pushed that date back. As such, the 2022 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing will now be available starting the summer of 2021.
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Any ideas as to when this new super sedan will be unveiled???
Steering wheel looked good, so does this. Exciting!!
Save the carbon fiber for the doors, hood and trunk to drop the weight to the Cadillac CT5 and hopefully be able to get better performance and mileage.
2022??? By the time they release this BMW, MB, Audi will have revealed an EV sedan capable of the same performance
This is a Cadillac. What did u expect…
When they say 2022 they mean summer/early fall next year. The CT5 came out as a 2020 model year car.
So this is 2 years into the model…
This is how the Corvette does things too…
the Z06 will be coming out in 2021 for the 2022 model year.
I understand that completely, usually brands do the reveal 2 years before the model year it intends it for. But the CT5-V BW has been shown in public testing all last year in 2019! 2021 would have been the year to sell this, not 2-3 years while every other brand has an ultra high performance edition out continuing to build on it.
Looking very good! I know its petty but I really want a vented hood again! However it does not look like it will happen based off of the spy shots.
Nice Cadillac but will not help the lowly Cadillac market share. Too many foreign competitors have better mainstream luxury models that are well established. Just check resale values. Cadillac still paying for its many missteps.
Looks very promising but I honestly cannot understand why this is taking so long.
If rumors are true that the CT4 and CT5 Blackwing will use the same engines as the ATS-V and CTS-V then these should have been out by now. If they are using different engines then I am fine with waiting this long HAHA
It’s amazing to me how the General could claim to have “Carbon Fiber Seats” in their new Cadillac. I would have thought they would have claimed that either the seat frame or even the seat surround would be made of Carbon Fiber rather then the seat it’s self. From my understanding Carbon Fiber is extremely hard and to have a seating surface made from it seems a little strange, but that is their claim.
The other point that surprises me is why Cadillac uses Chev derived engines when they must have spend multi millions designing and building their own Blackwing engine, but then I suspect that based on their previously designed engines like the 1981 4-6-8 and the subsequent 1982 and even later designed engines with persistent head gasket failures that they had no confidence in their design prowess and that from a durability and longevity standpoint they had no alternative.
But then to call the model a Blackwing ….. what a misnomer.
READ THE WRITING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE LAST PHOTO.
” the 2022 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing will now be available starting the summer of 2021 “