Cadillac Ats-v M3 – C63 – is F 2014

Llittle package with Big power. That’s what the industry is touting for the 2014 Cadillac ATS-V bunched affluence achievement sedan. Despite the success of the big brother CTS-V supercharged V8 sourced from the Corvette ZR1 program, industry rumors are overextension of a new twin-turbocharged V6 blame almost 400 horses beneath the appropriate bottom of aboriginal adopters – although we anticipate that amount is bourgeois now that the 3.6L DI V6 advantage was accepted at 318hp for the accepted ATS.

Based on the GM ‘Alpha’ platform, the ATS will be a accustomed front-engine/rear-drive design, with an AWD option. Manual and automated transmissions are offered in the plain-jane ATS, and we’re academic the ATS-V will chase the CTS-V with a able driver’s gearbox. It is absurd that Cadillac will accept an AWD arrangement able of administration the V’s ability in time, but don’t calculation it out entirely. After all, GM has alien affluence of cars with tire-melting ability and acquiescent rear ends through the years.

The bright ambition is the BMW M3 which weighs about the aforementioned and outputs 420hp from its high-revving V8. The ATS-V has the befalling to advance its accounted turbochargers for added torque at a lower aiguille RPM and backpack it best than the Bavarian competition. The aftereffect would be a abundant seat-of-the-pants advance and should put the 0-60 dispatch in the mid-4s.

According to online sources, Cadillac advised abacus a base wagon and convertible to the ATS range. However, for the time being, those affairs arise to accept been put on ice. Luckily, the ATS Coupe is still on track, and we apprehend the assembly adaptation to arise after this year at the L.A. Auto Show, or aboriginal next year in Detroit. An ATS-V Coupe powered by a turbocharged V-6, carrying about in the arena of 400 to 450 bhp (latest rumor puts it 470hp), is aswell acceptable and could be appear at the aforementioned time. But let’s not aphorism out a small-displacement V8 with affected consecration just yet.

If the new ATS-V can amalgamate acceptable ability with a accurate suspension, like the magneto-rheological arrangement begin on the CTS-V, all for about $55,000, it could be a huge success. For allegory (USD): the M3 starts at $60,000; the C63 at $58,930; IS F $61,300.