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Easy to hindsight (just watch me!) but you shoulda bailed on that dealer/got on multiple dealer lists a year ago. Not just a Caddy thing, folks do it with every in demand sporty car, that works on an allocation basis. Yes their 'system' is not great, but you have to mitigate against the only...

If you drag & drop it can be wonky. If you want to use 'Attach files > Insert entire image' I would resize them to 80% and then attach them. That works 100% of the time for me, if I forget it won't allow me to insert the image, I assume because of a file size limit (no error message displays...

Here you go Kan ;) Having to shutdown my flying lap before the end kind of put a damper on it, but now I can aim to shed 10 seconds in the Spring and do it, lol

^Speaking of Google maps, it looks like they change around the AutoX? Ours was over by the Michelin bridge.

Oh sure. I knew the difference and was expecting the equivalent of a 1 day M School and it was spot on in that regard. As I said above it was fun! And I'm sure glad I went as it definitely served to hold me over till the Spring :)

That's no rant (not even a tizzy) that's just level-headed bemusement! You've got a great attitude towards things in fairness. And that's really all you can do. Caddy/GM should absolutely proactively be stepping up with some efforts at goodwill. That they haven't already is a bit shit, but...

Yup that is what we ran. Hopefully that is what they'll have for us when I do the V Academy proper. Shame it's a ways away, as I'd love to be able to do HPDEs on it.

IDK TBH. Poor? Lol. My 1 big complaint is they didn't do a good job of grouping by experience. When they divided us (24 folks) into 3 groups of 8, I assume they did it that way, but nah. Now I'm no fast driver, I'm like advanced novice, with ~15 track days/HPDEs spread over the past 15yrs, but...

We ran a longer version of one of the usual V Academy tracks. On the site it's called Villenueve, but I guess it is effectively North+. It was really fun:

Did that today. Very impressive facility and the track config we had was really good fun. Few pics from that neck of the woods:

Wash it today. Effing trees + a half day of on/off rain and this is the result :confused: Reckon I am going to break down and get a cover. I'll take the cover 'damage' over this.

How long can the BW (4BW in my case) sit? I'm out of town a few times coming up and thought I could end up going 3 weeks between driving it. Obviously a different use case to setting them up for winter hibernation, but still wondered. Thanks!

What is insane to me (unless they are all car rentals/fleet purchases) is that there is a market for their other large sedan and GM can do the following, yet struggles to build 1500-2000 5BWs in a year. Apples to oranges sure, in regards to price, the engine and some other components, but...

Gravel?!!! I hope everyone knew the drill, no more than 5mph, no getting on the gas properly until all 4 wheels are confirmed to be back on tarmac :LOL:

^Yes. According to the quick guide it is only accessible when in Sport mode. I have not tried it, but my take from the guide is that it is effectively a bespoke PTM setting (or heck maybe just on Race 1) to pair with Sport mode. Edit: what Safridi just posted is the guide I was referring to...

That'd be a helluva trick if you didn't notice someone standing in front of you asking a question ;)

There's definitely got to be a P. Terry's in a better location ;-) But ya definitely don't accept anything less than a proper GM/Caddy windscreen. Could you contact your Caddy dealer and have them contact your insurance themselves (or the reverse) to ensure everything gets sorted.

I'm sure it's not, but cynical me thought the same, jokingly. I'm sure at worst maybe they had a bad vendor for a small batch of one part. Ofc, if the issues are all in different spots...

No. Mine was a spur of the moment (as much as a car can be) purchase from Corwin Cadillac in Reno. At the end of June no dealers around here were doing MSRP & I wasn't keen on waiting with South SF. So I found one in Reno that had ~$6K markup and they came down to sticker. Super fortunate timing.

Ya we need more mouth-breathing FB-dad memes. Awesome post 56! But I think you went OTT in one spot: no frickin way they ever paint the entire surface of a body panel. Suspension of disbelief only carries so far.