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  1. NorCal Blackwing

    Taking pictures of your car

    I am absolutely not a photographer but my favorite pictures are usually ones that minimize the side profile of the car. If I can, I try to shoot in soft light like 'Golden Hour' and if I'm using an iPhone camera, zooming in to 2x to take the picture does wonders too. Finally if the wheels are...
  2. NorCal Blackwing

    Norcal/Bay Area blackwing meetup

    Airline Hwy in your neighborhood is a great road; we should get a South Bay to Central drive going one day too!
  3. NorCal Blackwing

    Norcal/Bay Area blackwing meetup

    For a North Bay Drive - send me a PM and I believe I can create a 'North Bay Drive' group here. My suggestion - we meet for the Pre-Stage C&C at the Marin Civic Center at 7:50am on July 20th to get a Blackwing corral going, then drive this route: Pre-Stage Suggested Route - Google My Maps
  4. NorCal Blackwing

    SC Intercooler outlet line broke

    Probably the same place Porsche gets them :cautious:
  5. NorCal Blackwing

    Hard to sell looking like this!

    I lived in the Oakland Hills for a bit, and man I got daggers from all my neighbors for washing my V2 Wagon out in the street. So Hood. I'm supposed to "have a man for that" :ROFLMAO:
  6. NorCal Blackwing

    The Blackwing Spotting Thread

    LOL - Fair enough, maybe an UBER sticker in the front window, then
  7. NorCal Blackwing

    Norcal/Bay Area blackwing meetup

    Sounds interesting! Keep me posted, hopefully this turns into multiple drives on different weekends on different routes. I'm in the North Bay which is a real stretch for a lot of folks, but the roads up here are epic. I'm the sole Blackwing I'm aware of that's been to a Breakfast Club Rally...
  8. NorCal Blackwing

    The Blackwing Spotting Thread

    Not going to lie, I sometimes fantasize about replacing my V badge (I didn't get the Blackwing badge on my '22) with a "350 T"
  9. NorCal Blackwing

    Media dumps

    This all checks out... The lowest car insurance premium I ever had was with my V2 CTS-V Wagon. My premium dropped by hundreds of dollars a month. When I was in my 20's I had a bugeye WRX. I got 2 speeding tickets in the first week of ownership. I don't like to talk about the insurance on that...
  10. NorCal Blackwing

    Cadillac V Corral - Motul Course De Monterey FRIDAY, MAY 10 - SUNDAY, MAY 12

    Anyone going to this? I'm booked in! Be there as Cadillac Racing roars back into Laguna Seca. This is your chance to join us in the Cadillac V-Performance Car Corral and watch the Motul Course De Monterey from an exclusive trackside hospitality suite as we defend our GTP titles in IMSA’s top...
  11. NorCal Blackwing

    2025 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing Brougham Edition Sets Sail With Classic Caddy Cues

    OR maybe this is GENIUS. Imaging passing Porsche GT3s in this thing on a track day ... :ROFLMAO: A better april fools would have been the announcement of the CT5-V Blackwing Wagon; the car internet would have melted down.
  12. NorCal Blackwing

    Cadillac Smart Driver and Privacy Concerns

    That's a real shame. I see R&T and C&D getting thinner and thinner - and soon they will be gone, replaced entirely by paid automotive influencers. Journalists complain bitterly about this, but I dunno maybe do your job?
  13. NorCal Blackwing

    Cadillac Smart Driver and Privacy Concerns

    1) "Drivers who have realized what is happening are not happy. The Palm Beach Cadillac owner said he would never buy another car from G.M. He is planning to sell his Cadillac." Fellow Blackwing owner, I wonder? It's fairly ridiculous for GM to sell cars like Blackwings and Z06 Vette's with this...
  14. NorCal Blackwing

    CT5-V Opinions (Used car purchase)

    17K is not a lot if it's a '22, and it's possible the prior owner would have worked out any 'gremlins' by now. The exception is if this is a 'fleet' car. If so, the salesman will tell you it was the dealership manager's grandmother's car - but don't believe him!!!! :LOL:
  15. NorCal Blackwing

    I see a lot of people not liking the sunroof option

    I'm in the 'daily driver' club and I've got one as well. The negatives are all true, of course, but one thing in the plus column for the sunroof is that you can open it up and hear more of the exhaust sound :)
  16. NorCal Blackwing

    Media dumps

    100% not even trying. I think it was for entertainment value, to not show up the M3 too much (as there is no manual M5), and to play into existing prejudices. Europeans tend to be a bit snooty when it comes to American cars, if the 5BW had been made by Jaguar you can bet it would have been...
  17. NorCal Blackwing

    Media dumps

    I got the feeling they were, as we say in the UK, 'arsing about' instead of doing a proper review. Jethro has decent credentials as a journalist, can drive, and wrote a largely positive review of the 5BW in Evo magazine, although of course it just lost out to the M5 CS, because it's a European...
  18. NorCal Blackwing

    EV Thoughts Thread: cause the old farts did their usual thing

    LOL ... TBF those Hagerty Icons videos aren't described as an actual 'review'. Anything about the CT is a clicks/engagement machine, and I suspect Hagerty have to play nice (esp. when you factor in the legions of online trolls and Tesla's legal department). In those sorts of videos, any cons...
  19. NorCal Blackwing

    2nd gear hard to engage

    I'm really sorry guys
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