Cadillac CT5-V In Velocity Red: Live Photo Gallery
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GM Authority recently had a chance to get behind the wheel of the Cadillac CT5-V, and now, we’re bringing you a real-world photo gallery of the go-fast luxury sedan as it struts its stuff in a shearing shade of Velocity Red. Velocity Red is an optional hue offered for an additional $625, popping on the panels of the four-door thanks to a range of complementary dark accents.
Making its debut for the 2020 model year, the Cadillac CT5-V slots in above the Cadillac CT4-V in the luxury brand’s hot-to-trot sedan lineup. Cadillac is currently gearing up to release two new models, the CT5-V Blackwing and CT4-V Blackwing, which will offer even more performance, but for now, the CT5-V sits at the top of the Cadillac performance sedan lineup.
Outside, the Cadillac CT5-V makes its presence known with a dark grille treatment, which is also shared with the CT5 Sport trim level. The same is true for the lower fascia treatment, where both the Sport and V-Series model rock a sculpted style for the bumper.
In the profile, the Cadillac CT5-V has body-colored door handles, with an illuminating door handle feature offered via the optional Premium Package. The lower styling bits also include black rocker extensions, while higher up, the V-Series model is equipped with dark window surrounds (alternatively known as DLO treatment, or “Day Light Opening”). Wheel sizing is set at 19-inches as standard, while 20-inch units are an available extra.
The rear end completes the look with a standard rear trunk spoiler as well as a faux diffuser element placed between quad exhaust tips. The Cadillac CT5-V is also equipped with gray-tinted tail lamp lenses and a dark deck lid accent.
As for the interior, the go-fast CT5-V is equipped with a 10-inch diagonal multi-touch color screen and three USB ports, as well as Apple CarPlay and Android Auto compatibility. There’s also a nine-speaker Bose audio system as standard.
The interior of this particular model is finished in Jet Black with Jet Black accents.
Motivation is sourced from the turbocharged 3.0L V6 LGY gas engine, which produces 360 horsepower and 405 pound-feet of torque, and routes through a 10-speed automatic transmission to either the rear wheels, or all four wheels.
The Cadillac CT5-V also features an electronic limited slip differential and Magnetic Ride Control suspension.
Production for the North American market takes place at the Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant in Michigan.
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Nice communist red, but interior is too plastic.
the scary thing is that GM thinks this is good.
At first glance it looks like an Altima. The Chevy Malibu looks much better.
If not for the taillights and front badge, this car could be made by anybody. No way to know it’s a Cadillac if you’re not an aficionado.
At least the original CTS claimed vertical headlights for Cadillac, nobody else used them, nobody really does today. Why not Cadillac? “because we want to be like everybody else so people will buy us”.
Ok.
I agree with Mark…The CT5 doesn’t look like a Cadillac and doesn’t have the Class or Dignity of a Cadillac. To me its just a plain old ( generic) intermediate sized car with a Cadillac grill.
Too much fanfare and too much waiting for a V badged Cadillac with only 360 HP. The 2008 HHR or Solstice GXP had a 300HP (with the stage 2 kit). 13 years ago…..
GM needs more good designers of wheels that can give at least a much better agressive sport stance.
To me (and obviously others too) Cadillac has “lost its way” in this segment of the marketplace. First off, they’re competing with the likes of “The Experts” in this field…Mercedes Benz, BMW…and yes even some Asian vehicles are now more adept at building a vehicle in a field that is slowly but surely shrinking. Secondly, the price of these Caddy’s are just plain crazy, and they tend to depreciate a lot faster than say the same model of Mercedes Benz or BMW’s, and it’s not that these Caddys can’t compete physically, they ride and handle extremely well, but it’s a lot of small things that add up to some major issues when it comes to competing directly in this field.
Also, Cadillac honestly feels that they’ve got a real competitor here, every time they bring out a vehicle and they taunt it in a way that you think “maybe they’ve done it this time”…but then the various road test magazines and auto editors get a hold of these Caddy’s, test them with others in their price class and…to no one’s surprise these GM products usually come out somewhere in the lower end of the testing numbers.
So, you’d think that GM would see these test results from almost every previous road test and evaluation and then, go to work to correct every flaw that is written about every year no matter what model of Cadillac they test…but no, they continue to do the same failing issue over and over!
Cheap plastics and poor interior design, small backs seats, limited leg room, less than stellar instrument panel design, drivetrain’s that are “just okay” but behind the competition in smoothness and horsepower, while the handling is usually at the top of the list of the best parts of these Caddy’s…not everyone goes blasting around a smoothly paved racetrack, mosty owners have to drive these cars on a daily basis…and sometimes these GM products can develope squeaks and “funny noises” after only a year or two of ownership!
I’ve talked to many neighbors and friends who have purchased various Cadillac products and they tend to “like them” the first and through the second year of ownership…but it’s usually after they’re “out of warranty” or the lease is up, that they go looking at other products to purchase or to lease for about 3 years. Again, this is but another area where these Caddy Sedans fail to impress enough to keep (except for a loyal few) those customers returning to Cadillac.
Every time I see a new Cadillac with a window sticker close to or more than a Mercedes or BMW or even a Porsche (I’m talking SUV’s here) I cringe thinking that except for maybe the high end Cadillac Escalades (which are scary at over 100K!) GM has the audacity to think that they can charge their customers the same MSRP per model as the German products and even some of the Asian products and get away with it!
Come on GM…you’ve got the capability of building an award winning product (think the new C8 Corvette for instance) in every class if you’ve only apply yourselves by honestly giving attention to even the smallest of details, find out what the experts have to say about your products “BEFORE” you actually bring that product to market, and if you knowingly keep doing the same negative things year after year, you can expect to have the same negative remarks made about your cars!
I truly don’t understand a big corporation like GM not being able to not just compete in any segment of the marketplace but excel at anything they want to excel at….they’ve got the capabilities, but at some point along the way to building a new product (again except for maybe the new C8 Corvette) they “lose their way” and make decisions that you’d think they’d know will not be taken kindly, and why keep making the same mistakes over and over…wake up, GM, you’ve got a lot of competition out there, and sadly when everything eventually goes “EV”…you’d better be ready for it of lose, bigtime!
Best comment on this thread!
Now they are taking the easy way out of performance, luxury and NVH by going electric LOL
Actually this is a good thing! Since GM can’t address roughness, lag and noise as well as competitors do, just leap frog them by dumping the whole ICE mess that causes it!
What they don’t realize is, once you’ve eliminated all the “traditional” roughness and noise caused by ICE, you’re going to hear EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF JUNK COMPONENT not properly made.
That is more annoying than partially masked junk component noise 🙂
They will be back to square one, customer complaints about little noises they can hear because gm STILL doesn’t want to handle the details!! LOL
I feel sorry for Mary. She’s trying, but doesn’t know what she’s in for. NOBODY at GM likes EVs. Nobody drives them around Detroit, nowhere to charge around Detroit, automakers aren’t interested in installing fast & slow chargers, making employees drive EVs and collecting local experiences.
And they don’t WANT to hear about problems, squeaks, rattles, etc from an EV because their marketing department said enviro hippies in Berkeley prioritize fuel economy over refinement. So the statistics collected would be invalidated anyway!
They would rather rely on “market research” from users in California who have smooth roads and weather that doesn’t bend and stress materials and cause noises the way 4 seasons do.
That’s the automotive cultural blind spot all big 3 automakers face if they want to change, if they want electric cadillacs to be taken seriously, etc.
My thoughts completely. I was going to buy a XT5 but after driving i did not cheap materials on the interior.
Rear taillights are UGLY but at least they are vertical mostly.
Front lights are from a Ford and should NEVER be horizontal.
Why do I think this EV push will fall on its face?
Is this a ct5 sport, ct5 v, or a ct5 v Black wing. All 3 look to much alike.
Velocity Red is EXACTLY the same color as Red Hot at Chevy and Cardinal Red at GMC…the EXACT SAME non-metallic red-orange hue that replaced the long-running, legendary Victory Red! Why are they gouging customers extra cost on this non-metallic color?? Moreover, why is this offered on a Caddy??