Cadillac announced today it will returnracing in 2011 with a race-prepared version of its CTS-V Coupe competing in the Sports Car Club of America World Challenge, North America's top production-based racecar series.

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Cadillac announced today it will return to racing in 2011 with a race-prepared version of its CTS-V Coupe competing in the Sports Car Club of America World Challenge, North America’s top production-based racecar series.

The move returns Cadillac to a series where it competed from 2004 to 2007. Competing in the GT Class with the CTS-V Sport Sedan, Cadillac captured the Manufacturer’s Championship in 2005 and 2007 and the Driver’s Championship in 2005.

Cadillac will field two teams in the upcoming SCCA World Challenge GT Class with a racecar based on the CTS-V Coupe. The CTS-V line, which also includes the CTS-V Sedan and CTS-V Wagon, was recently named to Car and Driver magazine’s 10 Best list for 2011.

“Returning to racing in the SCCA World Challenge is a great way to demonstrate the performance and capability of the CTS-V Coupe,” said Don Butler, vice president for Cadillac marketing. “The racecars in this series are production based, which allows us to validate our performance against the best of our competitors on the track, and not just the showroom.”

Cadillac is working with Pratt & Miller, a New Hudson, Mich., engineering firm which specializes in motorsports, to develop the CTS-V Coupe racecar. While some of the production CTS-V components will be modified due to the unique demands of racing or to meet the SCCA series’ technical rules, every effort is taken to maintain as much production content as possible.

“The SCCA World Challenge lends itself well to a natural transfer of knowledge,” said Jim Campbell, GM vice president for Performance Vehicles and Motorsports. “The series will become a key test-bed for Cadillac. We anticipate using what we learn on the racetrack to ensure the V-Series stays on the cutting-edge of performance.”

The first event in the SCCA World Challenge is March 25-27 in St. Petersburg, Fla. Johnny O’Connell, a three-time GT1 champion in the America Le Mans Series, and Andy Pilgrim, who won the 2005 SCCA World Challenge GT class in a Cadillac, will be behind the wheel of the CTS-V racecars.

Introduced for the 2003 model year, the CTS-V has quickly earned a reputation among luxury sports car buyers. For the 2011 model year, Cadillac added the CTS-V Coupe and the CTS-V Sport Wagon to the CTS-V Sport Sedan, creating an impressive family of performance vehicles. The CTS-Vs feature Brembo brakes, a supercharged 6.2L V8 delivering 556 horsepower and a Magnetic Ride Control suspension system that can read and react to the road 1,000 times a second.

Started in 1944, the SCCA organizes and supports racing at all levels from amateur to professional. The World Challenge series is designed to provide teams, manufacturers and aftermarket suppliers a competitive production-based race series in which to prove their products. The races follow a 50-minute maximum time limit, with the number of laps and total distance determined by track configuration, lap times and race conditions.

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19 November 2010

By Robby Tyler

Cadillac has introduced what it describes as an 'urban luxury concept' - aka a posh supermini to rival the MINI. The small Cadillac was one of the surprises at the 2010 Los Angeles auto show and our reporters on the ground are calling it one of the hits of the show.

Clay Dean, director of GM North America, said the stood comparison with Europe's finest city cars. At just under 4 metres long and 1.7 metres wide, he has a point. The Caddy supermini is slap bang in the middle of MINI territory.

It's powered by a tiny 1.0-litre three-cylinder petrol engine, but boosted by an electric rear axle. Like the PSA system, it's enough to make it 4wd.

Is the Cadillac supermini a designer's doodle, or a pre-production Tinseltown special?

Cadillac has been watching non-US rivals' success in the US small car market, and wants a slice of the pie. Strip away the usual concept car adornments and the Urban Luxury Concept doesn't look light years away from becoming production reality.

Don't go expecting a Caddy supermini to sport Lambo-style scissor doors, however. We can't see any reason why the umbrella in the door, presumably plagiarised from Rolls-Royce, couldn't survive.

It was designed by a 37-year-old British designer, Niki Smart. They've translated the Art & Science design motif well to such a small package.

Will Europe see a small Cadillac any time soon?

Whilst this could be viewed as just the type of car that Europeans would lap up, Cadillac has yet to make any significant in-roads in the EU. In its best year to date, it's sold no more than 2500 cars in Europe.

Cadillac has just relaunched in Europe; if a small car were to be launched in America, it would undoubtedly enhance its European offering.

What differentiates the Cadillac supermini from, say, a MINI?

Just look at it! Looking like the lovechild of a (squashed) Tata Nano and a Cadillac CTS, there is nothing that looks like it.

The one-box design seemingly gives 'big car' space and inside, in concept trim at least, it seems more opulent than most small cars we've seen.

We can't think of many better ways for Cadillac to catch up with the zeitgeist and grow its appeal to a downsizing public. 

What do you think of this little car? Reckon it can be as cool as the MINI and the Fiat 500?

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