Cadillac actually went hog wild with the CT6-V, and the top consequence set the muse for the present period of unimaginable Blackwings. Solely obtainable in 2019 and 2020, the CT6-V with its bespoke 4.2-liter Blackwing twin-turbocharged V8 was produced in tiny numbers at a significantly excessive price. You would get 550 horsepower and 640 lb-ft of torque at 20 kilos of increase, and customary all-wheel drive, however it price an astonishing-for-the-time $92,790 earlier than any choices had been tacked on. Only a handful of years later and this magnificence popped up on eBay with a buy-it-now value of $53,900. You’d be foolish to not purchase that, proper?
This superb hot-vee turbo setup on a high-complexity engine with 4 camshafts was imagined to announce Cadillac as a correct competitor for the Mercedeses and Lexuses of the world. It was a clean and domesticated technique to ship gobs of energy, not like the uncouth methods GM had constructed energy previously. It was the halo motor of the Cadillac model because it continued its upward trajectory to re-take its laurels as Commonplace Of The World. Along with the CT6-V, the Blackwing engine could possibly be had within the detuned CT6 Platinum, however neither mannequin bought in massive numbers.
Allegedly simply 600 CT6-V had been constructed, and the Platinum bought in even smaller numbers. Possibly fewer than 1,000 of those engines had been in-built whole, making the engineering efforts put into it a whole write-off for Normal Motors. Right here’s one in all these Blackwing engines on the market on eBay, in case you want a spare one. GM most likely spent a number of hundred thousand {dollars} per engine to construct these, and you may have one for simply ten grand. A discount!
Finally this engineering train was a useless finish. The engine died with the CT6, and was by no means put in every other Normal Motors vehicles. Cadillac determined it couldn’t sustain with zee Germans, and went again to its roots with a supercharged LS within the CT5-V Blackwing, which turned out to be a reasonably rattling good automobile.
So with simply 600 of those machines on the market, would you be keen to accept one with a Salvage Florida title at half the unique value? In accordance with the itemizing “this CT6-V had minor injury to the driving force rear door solely!! Nothing critical, no body injury!! OEM components was changed from supplier!!” however everyone knows what statements like which can be price.
Is it price taking a chance for such a uncommon piece of GM historical past? Do you even care?