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100% - the first dealer I contacted strung me along and gave wildly inconsistent and occasionally fishy information about things like deposit and ADM, and would never directly answer the question about how many allocations they were expecting. I was perennially 'next in line', and it became...

FWIW... https://gmauthority.com/blog/2022/10/2023-cadillac-ct5-v-blackwing-no-longer-available-to-order/ Looks like there will be '24s, just not a lot of them. I don't think it's strictly emissions - I think Cadillac figured out what other car brands playing in this market have figured out, if...

I'm not an industry insider or a manufacturing guy but 1 out of every 706 sounds like a lot.

This is the first I'm hearing of any delivery issues.... :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

If your GTI is a Mk7 and especially with a PP, keep it - I regret getting rid of mine as an 'errand car' daily. If it's a Mk8 then dump it, just for the haptic controls and infotainment alone :ROFLMAO: In all seriousness the Lexus is the right car to switch out in that garage (awesome lineup...

In Europe it was pretty common for owners of M and AMG cars to debadge. Not sure how it is now, considering the over-the-top design elements on those cars! That's one of the things I love about the BW, it can be a track monster that looks like an Uber (depending on exhaust setting)...

I wouldn't call it a hiss but I can hear a very high-frequency rattle/vibration that I initially thought was something to do with the speaker. Someone else posted that a similar noise was something to do with door hinges/alignment. If the dealer sorts it, let us know what the fix was - it'll...

LOL - possibly a correlation but 'cock' roughly translates to 'a-hole' in my UK-US English dictionary In the UK they don't have Infiniti G35/G37s (ducks, with apologies)

Oof. It's hard because we don't have the data, but this isn't the first engine issue on this thread, not even counting the C&D issue, and this is not a high-volume car. Going into this purchase, I assumed that the engine would be the most reliable part (the LT4 being used in other applications...

I get what Cammisa and others are saying, winding out a 200-300hp straight/flat six to redline can be an integral part of the joy of road driving in the canyons... and I'm also sympathetic to the idea that if you put a 667HP small block V8 into a car like this, the power becomes almost the whole...

Yup, I noticed that on the configuration, chuckled "GM gonna GM", and removed that option. EDIT: I stand corrected. I can't puzzle out why this would be a deliberate choice other than cost savings. Maybe some strange regulation?

Early renders from the Zuckerberg's Metaverse were leaked decades ago

You can kind of tell the design department has been given the brief to design something that looks at home driving through a hyper-futuristic neon cityscape like Shanghai in the year 2035 while the TRON soundtrack plays in the background. Not my deal but I'm sure they'll sell. :)

I think with an American publication (C&D, R&T, etc), the Blackwing will win; how could it not when they have been championing "save the manuals" for the better part of a decade? In European publications (Evo, etc), the BMW will win for being a better daily driving proposition, better 'quality'...

Don't know if it's a coincidence or not, but myCadillac app stopped synching with the car until I installed the update. I wonder if this is a security patch.

I haven't tried to play the Corvette allocation game but I'll say that I was able to get my Blackwing within months, with zero prior purchase history. I've owned 5 Porsches including CPO GT cars and the idea of being allocated a new touring is so absurd as to be laughable. A kindly dealer may...

My $0.02 on PCH - 1. Especially between LA and San Francisco, it can be a bear when it comes to traffic unless you hit it at the right time (early mornings or evenings) so I would approach it from the mindset of a nice scenic drive. 2. If you can time it right, the stretch through Big Sur is...

I'm planning a more ambitious drive from the SF Bay Area to the V Academy in Pahrump with a Grand Canyon detour next year... So far my longest road trip has been ~884mi Napa-> Paso Robles -> Malibu + Canyons -> Monterey(Car Week) -> Napa

While 'transportation' (including planes, trains and trucks) makes up the largest share of emissions, infrequently driven enthusiast vehicles like ours must make up such a minimal fraction of emissions as to be basically nothing? Few of us are using these as daily drivers.