December 22, 2014
Melissa Burden

General Motors Co.'s Cadillac brand on Monday revealed the most powerful vehicle in its 112-year history: the 2016 Cadillac CTS-V sedan, available in summer 2015.

The debut of the rear-wheel drive luxury sports sedan — packing 640 horsepower and 630 foot-pounds of torque — comes ahead of press days next month for the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Cadillac will show the new generation CTS-V during a press conference there Jan. 13.

The new CTS-V features a new 6.2-liter supercharged V-8 LT4 engine generating 15 percent more horsepower than its predecessor. The 2016 CTS-V also has a top speed of 200 miles per hour and can accelerate from zero to 60 miles per hour in just 3.7 seconds.

"A vehicle like the CTS-V, really the best way to describe it would be really as a brand accelerant because of what it represents — all of our engineering and technical capability and design kind of pushed to the limits," said Jim Vurpillat, director of global marketing for Cadillac. "So it really does represent the pinnacle of what a Cadillac is."

Source
The Detroit News