Chevy II Gasser Owner Pissed Off at Car and Driver

Car and Driver recently ran a feature article on the BMW X6 M where they took the new Bimmer off roading, road racing and drag racing. One photo in the article appears to show the Bimmer pulling ahead of an altered wheelbase 63 Chevy II at Milan Dragway. A close look at the photo shows that it is clearly Photoshopped. Well, the Chevy owner is pissed, and has posted on the H.A.M.B. and the Car and Driver forums. And he doesn’t mince words.

Buddy called a coupla days ago kinda laughing asking me when did you get your doors blown off by a suv,I thought he was kiddin me. I know this world is messed up but WHY try to decive the public? Alls I can say is the mag,editors and writers are LAIRS,CHEATERS and WANNA BE SCAMMERS.
Bring that ol bmw out,title fer title and write an artical bout that.
I’ll be driven around in a little red suv.
No wonder the only time i see that mag is in the doctors office,makes me sick.

Keep in mind that the Chevy runs the quarter in high 9s @ 135 mph while the Bimmer covers the quarter 12.8 seconds @ 110mph. A bit of a difference, huh? So does the Chevy owner deserve to be angry? Does Car and Driver owe him an apology for altering the photo? Thanks for the tip, Tim!

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(Hat tip to Mark!)

[Mobile.de translated from German (of course)]

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Cadillac CTS-V

U.S. automakers are such punching bags these days that it is hard not to root for them, all of them, to turn things around.  That’s why, despite it’s mellowed-out styling, I am a big fan of the Volt and the optimism that it will be GM’s savior.  So I was actually quite annoyed to catch one of the swarmy Brits snarkily tear down the Cadillac CTS-V on the otherwise excellent show from the BBC, Top Gear.  Deriding Americans for obesity, recklessness, stupidity and apparently our collective Southern accents is a common theme on Top Gear, but I can excuse all of that if ultimately their conclusions are sound.  Unfortunately Top Gear’s asinine evaluation is not. 

550 horsepower Beast

The fastest, most powerful American sedan in history produces 550 horsepower at 6200 rpm and 550 pound-feet of torque at 4000 rpm from a supercharged V-8 derived from the Corvette ZR1 and capable of 0-60 time of just 3.9 seconds.  The speedometer goes up to 300 mph for crying out loud.  Though realistically top speed is ONLY 191 MPH.  Whether you think that is necessary or not, that is insanely powerful. 

CTS-V Interior

But getting back to Top Gear’s review.  One thing I like about the show is the unspoken mantra that performance is king.  Not that style and build quality are unimportant but if my car is quicker than your car around the track, it wins in that situation.  In Top Gear’s own test the CTS-V obliterated the Audi S4 Quattro that it was pitted against.  So what did Top Gear not like about the CTS-V?  Its cost, styling, the perception that the interior appointments were cheap and quirky details like the lateral G meter included on the instrument cluster is at best, unusable in real world driving situations.   Most irritating is not that these details were included in their evaluation, but that other non-American vehicles are regularly given a pass on such things.  Top Gear driver Jeremy Clarkson, and tester of the CTS-V, speaks with great affection of his own Aston Martin which has essentially disentegrated over time and other Top Gear darling, Jaguar, has been plagued since before the Ford administration for quality and electrical system issues.  Also, at $60,000, the CTS-V is still considerably cheaper; at least 20 grand, than either the BMW M5 or Mercedes E63 AMG that Cadillac is competing against, while being significantly more powerful than either.  Whatever bone to pick Clarkson has for the U.S., he could have found a better target than the CTS-V. 

If you care to see Top Gear’s review, you can find it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhQb2wJVPTg.  Now pass me another Big Mac.

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