Among the many automotive anniversaries this 12 months, Porsche celebrates its seventy fifth 12 months as a going concern, Ferrari celebrates its return to the highest class of endurance racing after 50 years, and Cadillac is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the V-Collection sub-brand. Technically, the china anniversary (as in pottery) does not come till subsequent 12 months. V made its entrance on the 2004 Sebring SCCA Professional Racing World Problem GT race within the type of a contest automobile known as the CTS-V.R paired with a street-legal CTS-V making 400 horsepower and 395 pound-feet of torque from a 5.7-liter V8 that shifted by way of a six-speed handbook. Since then, there have been 13 V-Collection street automobiles throughout 4 generations, culminating in at present’s lineup of 5 fashions that features, for the primary time, an SUV. Who again then would have thought Cadillac and BMW can be the final two automakers providing handbook transmissions in sport sedans?
Cadillac says it plans to have fun the trim’s endurance all through this 12 months, so we’re more likely to see some 2024-model-year choices bearing some commemorative swag. Celebrations are off to an excellent begin on the racing aspect already. Two Cadillac Racing V-LMDh racers will line up on the entrance row for this weekend’s 12 Hours of Sebring within the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. On high of that, the Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Collection.R that is operating in at present’s FIA World Endurance Championship race within the Hypercar class has been a stable fixture within the Prime 10. This June, the IMSA and FIA variations of the Ganassi automobile will compete at Le Mans, Cadillac’s first factory-backed entries within the French race since 2000.
We do not know what the “new options and merchandise commemorating the twentieth anniversary of V-Collection” will likely be. We have seen spy photographs of a CT5-V Blackwing with new headlights and an intricate decrease consumption, and a few stories say the Blackwing inside will take cues from the Lyriq for a bigtime spruce-up. We have additionally been warned Cadillac plans to indicate three new electrical fashions this 12 months, all of that are deliberate for manufacturing in 2024; we all know the model utilized to trademark the names Ascendiq, Lumistiq, Optiq, Symboliq, and Vistiq, and Escalade IQ and IQL badges have already been noticed. And if a goof on Cadillac’s equipment web site proves true, there may very well be a V-Collection model of the Lyriq in growth, too.
