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Well "Grumpy" official Cadillac isn't saying whether or not the ATS-V's under hood space was designed for a V8 or not. Personally, I don't think it was. Now, a Gen V8 may fit and Heinricy indeed told me in the discussion he and I had back on the 14th that, if a twin-turbocharged V6 fits, a Gen 4...

Hey...I just watched this video of Pilgrim in an ATS-V at Belle Isle. It's a street course, which I dearly hate, but it's a cool video. I love the sound of the V6. In fact, it sounds louder than I was expecting. I finally heard from Dave Caldwell at Cadillac on some of the questions I've been...

Heard from my pal Juan Miller at Bunnin Chevrolet/Cadillac. The plant which makes the ATS-V is supposed to start making 2016s on 1 June, i.e.: Monday Morning. He said he should hear soon from Cadillac when my car will be built. :rocker:

Actually, if you didn't pick it up in my earlier post, I'm highly skeptical of that increase. Either the dyno numbers have been inflated by fooling with the correction factors or test temperatures or the data is just bogus. I get that there will be a torque increase with a 4-psi increase in...

I suspect that I'm not on his Christmas Card list these days.

Wait a minute.... They're reporting 500-hp at the wheels with just an ECM calibration? Holy crap, that's about 580 at the flywheel or an increase of 160-hp? Is that uncorrected, STP-corrected or SAE-corrected? Also, on what kind of dyno were these tests run? Finally, to gain that much with just...

Last weekend, I was down in Bowling Green KY for a Corvette event at the National Corvette Museum. I ran into John Heinricy, the former GM Performance Division Chief Engineer and a 12-time SCCA Champion road racer. We were talking about the ATS-V and and it’s LF4. He wonders why Cadillac didn’t...

Wow. Looked at the calendar, today, and realized it's been a month since I put down my deposit and Cadillac still has not returned any information on my ATS-V order other than an order number. I've emailed Cadillac's media contact, David Caldwell, several times asking about both the ordering...

Well....(sigh)...not much to report on the Little V-Blog. I wrote the dealer a deposit check and placed my order but, as yet, Cadillac has not accepted the order. In the meantime, as you all can see elsewhere on the V-net the mainstream road test magazines and web sites are starting to test...

Dropped by Bunnin Cadillac today to see if GM accepted the order and I was told...no news.:frown:

Was at Bunnin Chevrolet/Cadillac yesterday afternoon and had Juan Miller put the order in. It's #SNMVWK. It will be a Crystal White ATS-V sedan with the 8-spd automatic, red brake calipers, Recaro seats, the navigation system and the 10-spkr sound system. Had one more problem with Cadillac's...

After emailing off-line with "Tuna", reading your post ~tc~ and talking more with my Wife about how she uses a GPS, I'm keeping Y26 on my list. 'Preciate the input, folks!

This week, the Fairest Sandra the Red and I are in NYC for a vacation/sightseeing trip. We visited the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. We had beers at O'Harra's the famed bar adjacent to the WTC site. We went to a Yankees game (they lost), we went to the Brooklyn Brewery (a great brown ale, they...

Ok...I done it. Put my moneys down on a 2016 ATS-V! Well, actually, I gave the dealer a deposit but we decided to not place the order until Cadillac releases all the pricing...just in case one of these options includes some late-introduction unobtanium muffler bearing as standard equipment and...

Ah...Ryan Newman drives the 31 Caterpillar Chevrolet for Richard Childress not a Ford for Penske. Childress is an long-time Cup owner and former driver. I betcha he knew what was going on. His team just got caught. oops.

No foolin'. Going to the dealer after lunch What annoys me about the "awareness package" is its cost. I'm not paying over a grand for a system which I just turn off. Actually, I'm not all about the bass. It may be because, for my age, I have very good hearing. Also, car audio at the OE level...

Well, all I have is a dumb phone. I tried to navigate with it one time and ended up back were I started. But...that was a bar, so I went in and had another beer. As I was working a nice chocolate stout, I realized the arrow on the screen of my flip phone was the cursor not an arrow telling me...

Well... (sigh) ...tomorrow's the big day. I'm going into Bunnin Cadillac to put down my deposit on an ATS-V.:biggrin: Based on my experience in that new Yukon last week in MI and reading what "Tuna" and "~tc~" had to say about the OE navigation system, I decided to upgrade to IO6 which adds the...

Yesterday, I interviewed Rick Bartlett, Assistant Chief Engineer for HFV6es and asked him that question. He said the 44-hp difference is all in the turbos, specifically the compressor wheels and the boost level which is higher because the turbos are more efficient at high engine rpm. Otherwise...

At Detroit Metro, I'm sitting at the gate for my Southwest flight home after spending a day with folks at GM Powertrain discussing the new Cadillac V6es and the LS7 V8 used in Corvettes and Camaros. For the time I was here, the GMC people were kind enough to loan me a spanking new Yukon. It's...