Sports Car Net

AutoBlog.com posted a “First Drive” of the new 2009 CTS-V and ran a 3.9 sec 0-60 and 3.9 191 Top Speed.

You read that right, we rode in it. Cadillac wasn’t quite ready to let us climb behind the wheel, but we did get to ride shotgun with some of GM’s top engineers. One of the three cars on hand for this event, the silver one, was the same car that John Heinricy drove to a 7:59.32 lap at the Nurburgring last month. All three cars had the same production level hardware. The only difference with the silver car was fire safety equipment, a pair of racing seats and a brace to which were attached the required five-point safety harness. Cadillac took three CTS-Vs to Germany for a final round of validation testing on the ‘Ring, as well as the autobahn. As the clock was running down on the team’s track rental, there was only time for one full hot lap. Since they didn’t have time to go all the way around the 12-mile circuit to cross the start/finish line at speed, Heinricy went back three corners to make a running start and then blistered the track as time ran out.

We are looking forward to getting our hands on this car for a REAL road test!