The Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing won’t go on sale until next year, but we already have a very good idea of what this new super sedan will look like thanks to a new batch of photos that were recently sent over by GM Authority spy photographers.
The Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing has been caught in prototype form on countless occasions (General Motors even paraded a one out itself at the 2019 Belle Isle Grand Prix) but this new photo set shows a prototype with a little less camouflage draped over it than others. For this reason, it’s now quite easy to envision how the CT5-V Blackwing’s more aggressive front fascia will look, incorporating a larger front grille and lower intake opening, along with additional vertical side vents located on the inside of the vertical LED daytime running lights.
This prototype looks a lot like a regular Cadillac CT5-V from the back, utilizing the same rear lower diffuser, trapezoidal quad exhaust tips and subtle lip spoiler. The widened track and fender flares are almost impossible to miss, though, and will give the CT5-V Blackwing a much more muscular, poised stance on the road than the four-door on which it’s based.
As we reported previously, the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing will feature the GM 6.2L V8 LT4 engine, which produces 650 horsepower and 650 pound-feet of torque in the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. A six-speed manual transmission will be standard, while the GM 10-speed automatic transmission will be on offer, too. V-Series fans can also expect track-tuned suspension, dedicated performance drive modes with adjustable settings, a more robust braking system, wider front and rear wheels shod in stickier tires and other go-fast add ons.
GM has been slowly releasing its own official images of the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing in recent months. The automaker has already released photos of the carbon-fiber trimmed performance steering wheel and carbon-fiber racing seats that will be on offer in the sedan, with more teaser images likely to drop between now and the sedan’s arrival in the summer of 2021. The CT5-V Blackwing will also arrive alongside the smaller Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing performance sedan, which will have slightly less power on tap from its twin-turbocharged GM 3.6L V6 LF4 engine, but will follow the same hardcore, track-focused ethos.
We’ll have full official details on the 2022 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing and CT4-V Blackwing as soon as they become available, but for now, be sure to subscribe to GM Authority for more Cadillac CT5 news, Cadillac news, and around the-clock GM news coverage.
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When reading this article, the first thing that popped into my head was Joe Cocker’s song from yesteryear, Feels Like Forever, as there has been chatter about the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing forever and General Motors CEO Mary Barra needs to know that the market is dying.. as what might be more popular is a XT5-V Blackwing CUV and not a sedan.
lol. Cadillac still has many buyers who want RWD (AWD in the future?) performance sedans. So why would they leave money on the table? Also the FWD CUV lineup presently from Cadillac needs better platforms before they could consider a proper V. Think of the BMW X3M or X5M. The performance sedan market is very strong actually. Just look at the stats from BMW’s M division, AMG, and RS. BMW is very successful because they continue to improve their lineup by touching as many niche’s as possible. If GM were BMW they would have shut down the 7 series because it does not sell enough in the USA for the bean counters. Just like they did with the CT6 which sold very well for its class truly. GM would be foolish to not have luxury sedans indefinitely.
“Bean counters”?
CT6 sales were so poor in the US there were no “Beans” to count.
The Germans and Japanese build their biggest sedans in one place to supply the whole world. They sell in small numbers here but total global sales keep them in the black. Over its entire 4 year life span in Norrh America the CT6 managed less than 40k sales. Not enough to keep a factory going profitably. If the CT6 shared a platform with other higher volume products it might still be around. But then, of course, everyone would deride it as a “rebadge”.
Sales in China for 2019 ALONE were over 22K! It seems the Chinese like big American Cadillacs. Americans don’t.
Instead of blaming GM management for NOT building unprofitable, barely selling products, blame the real culprit. The US auto buyer.
Your reasoning is faulty. The full size luxury segment isn’t about sales volume but image and the halo effect it creates for the brand and sub-models.
Is 40K in sales somehow a minimum requirement to validate the existences of a vehicle?
While the Mercedes Benz S Class dominates the segment, it garnered less than 63K in total sales from 2016-2019. BMW 7 Series didn’t hit 40K in sales for the same period. Yet both models remain relevant and we can look forward to their future replacements.
The money spent on engineering and developing the Omega platform was a waste that was somehow written off or absorbed. So yes, blame it on GM management because they continue to flub on managing Cadillac as a luxury marque.
Don’t think so, as someone said above China moved 22k CT6 last year. The other major factors is the factory the CT6 was made is now for GMs EV products with Celestiq sedan coming online and VSS-R replacing all GM ICE rwd unibody vehicles including CT6. I hope to see CT6 between CT5 and Celestiq after the dust settle.
I wonder if they would make a AWD version of the Blackwings so that they can stick it to the germans. We all know that the gen 3 V’s handled better than the Germans when they first came out. I think they should have AWD options.
That’s a fair point dblezy, but the 3rd gen CTS-V also drove and handled far more purely than the German competition precisely because it was RWD only. All that extra AWD hardware will get you better times in the quarter and at Laguna Seca, but you also add weight that males the experience more dull and, to compensate for the weight, more synthetic. The pureness of RWD makes it so much more tossable and balanced, I’d prefer the RWD superior driver’s car over the AWD faster car, since I doubt they’d allow both configurations. Just my two cents.
Still seems a bit too subtle for the hardcore V…
Gm in its quest to be innovative and acting to predict the future fails with thier faithful followers. With the ilimination of its big cars reminds me of the mid eighties when they downsized and went front wheel drive on all of the vehicles across the board. Traditional GM Big car buyers were lost for ever…. Ford love it! As they continued for many many years with the V8 cars like the continental etc.
GM Has lost there way and there mind with Cadillac. The only real Cadillac is the Escalade.
The CT4 is to small and to under powered, the CT5 is just plain ugly design. Nothing Cadillac about either one of these. The same for the XT4 and the XT5. The XT6 could be a player but again not really much of a Cadillac in the design. The prices a far to high for what you get. I could buy a Buick Enclave and get more bang for the buck then the CT6. The Alphanumeric Soup of model names is also a complete failure. GM is trying to play in the Global Market with these names .at the same time the Japanese and the Koreans are eating there lunch. The younger buyers are buy them and former Cadillac buyers are looking elsewhere. Asking 6 figures for poorly designed products will not cut it anymore.
The last great v8 cadillac sedan.
Such meh
Today I saw a real Cadillac and no it was not new. It was a 1960 Flat-top Sedan Deville.
So damned superior to the crapware that they produce in 2020.
Looking at the spy shots it appears that GM has removed the LED door handles. The generation 3 CTS-V had led kit door handles. It would be a shame to go backwards.
Still hoping that the camo that remains is left for a REASON and that its hiding KEY aggressive styling cues/functional bits because from these photos this thing looks REALLY watered down, i dont see any front splitters’r anything. The fact that there’s no hood accents like vents or a hood bulge of any sort doesnt help the matter. I’m hoping there’s an accessory pkg for that although that should be frigen standard equipment. The engineers know this thing not only has to look intimidating but also has to perform like a monster so i still have faith the final product will look killer. I want this thing to make the european counterparts quake when it approaches in the rearview.
That camo is their for the sake of camo.
It’s my guess that most people in these comments have never driven a modern Cadillac sedan. Everyone has a right to an opinion but that doesn’t make you right.
Cadillac would be better served with a high end crew cab truck. Sedans are so last century. Revive the Fleetwood name and go for it.
It is truly sad that GM can’t sem to sell cars> These Caddy’s are likely world class in Chassis engineering, but they will in all likelyhood sell very poor? Which is a shame. You are right from a profitable stand point that they might as well revive the Escalade EXT when you look at high end truck sales.Nobody really needs them? But that is what sells.
Escalade EXT…..
I’m thinking we’re going to see it break cover in time for Petite’ in a couple of weeks.
An Alpha Pontiac with a stick for $45k CDN would have flown off the lots.
The Escalade for 2021 is overpriced and the quality isn’t there.