2020 Cadillac CT4-V & CT5-V In Depth Comparison - Blackwing Supercharged V8 Manual?! YES!

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] on URI I'm Jacob and we're going for a virtual drive 2020 Cadillac CTV and ct5 V and also a little bit of the black wing so we were actually supposed to drive these two but everything got cancelled because of the worldwide thingy going on so let's start with the horsepower torque starting with the CT for V we have 320 horsepower 369 pound-feet of torque from a 2.7 liter turbo four-cylinder then on the CT 5 v we have 360 horsepower 405 pound-feet of torque from a 3 liter twin turbo v6 and these are to replace the 80s and the CTS yeah and they are of CT 5 V just like the CTSV was a thing but it's not an actual true V model anymore yes if we are comparing this to the Audi's the non V would be the a the V would be the S and there's no RS yet which should be a real V so the real V is actually going to be called the black wing and they did release a little bit of information on it it will have a manual transmission and it should have a supercharged v8 so let's take a listen to that really quick [Music] [Applause] so right now you can only get both of these in a 10 speed automatic transmission correct yeah there is no manual option for these V's which are kind of like the old V sports but they're a little bit more than that it's really confusing I don't like what they did here so we haven't reviewed any of these yet but I did get to drive one of them on the track at the rodfellows school I drove the ats-v two-door manual and I really liked that but you got stuck with the automatic yes so after driving the ats-v automatic on the track after the first turn of me using the paddles to up shift I was so angry I put it back into automatic because it was so slow to upshift and actually had a wicked time in the manual transmission but back to these should we start with the looks yeah I actually really like the way this design language works especially on the 5 V and the reason we're covering both them in the same video is because they're so similar but the thing that I noticed to differentiate them the most the CT 4 has headlights that come all the way down in one piece and the CT 5 has headlights that come down and then split and then continue on that was the first thing I noticed as well I think they had to do that just to break up the line because apparently it might look a little bit too long and weird I really like how they've got different versions of the big vertical dr ELLs across the whole lineup they've probably done one of the best jobs of keeping that design language with dr ELLs from any company around and just speaking overall for a second I think the 5 V just looks better overall because of the proportions of the car it's just a little bit bigger than the floor and another thing I noticed with the friends to differentiate them the 5 has a black gap between the top part and the bottom it kind of looks like it has an overbite where the seat e4v is one solid thing and then speaking of the 4 V and the 5 v compared to the non V's the V's look 10 times better yeah the V's get dark exterior accents and V mesh series grilles a unique rear diffuser and quad exhaust tips alright since you said exhaust tips have you noticed that they've got really fake crappy exhausts at the back I did actually I'm really disappointed but there's still the black wing coming so there's that I guess and then if we look at the side views the CT 5 V is very smooth all the way across nothing really much going on but the CT 4 v has a really cool body panel shape at the bottom and I really like the wheels on the CT 5 v I don't like them as much on the 4 V however they both come with brim front brakes only not the rears and you get 19-inch wheels on the CT 5v but only 18s on the floor view you know what I really like about the CT 4v what's that sitting on some Conte's all right on and then if you look up at the front of the 5v there is a bunch of fake grille there and the 4v has some too which is kind of gross but from a distance it looks good yeah I mean I kind of expect that from the v+ series I don't even know what to call this yeah everyone's kind of letting us down like even Hyundai's got the endline and everyone's watering everything down it kind of sucks but at least the fast ones will be good right yeah I'm fine with them doing that as long as they differentiated enough like vsport made more sense than calling it a V I was going for a walk and I saw a BMW with a little AM badge on the fender and then I looked at the back and it was like a318 D I'm like but why you know what I mean yeah sometimes they have the M Sport appearance package or the M Sport brakes or the appearance package [Music] or whatever it's just it's too much sometimes then if we look at the colors that the press footage came in we've got a really cool orange and a really cool blue how much do you like this orange the orange kind of reminds me of Nissan's burnt orange kind of reminds me of your Raptor no my Raptor is slightly more red than that and then ending off the color stuff I really really like how the rear diffuser on the CT 5v is color matched so talking about the looks of the 5 V and the 4 V overall Yuri which one's your favorite 5 V is my favorite obviously there is no two-door version yet though yeah I don't think there will be ever okay the first ats-v that's that's what I'm talking about right that really triangle looking one you're talking about the cts-v coupe yeah that's that that's the the best one but this is pretty good for now but nothing's better than that and that's also the same generation where they had the v wagon which was also the sickest so I think that was probably Cadillacs prime yeah I kind of remember them winning a lot of races out of nowhere and I remember thinking like alright they were just in the matrix oh they're winning all these races like who is this Cadillac well they made a v8 supercharged manual wagon so like it's sedan and coupe stablemates the CTS vs dragon is powered by a supercharged 6.2 liter v8 did the coupe come in manual yeah I'd go honestly I go coupe over wagon I don't care like that coupe is just so cool I wouldn't that wagon so sick and then back to some more driving stuff these are going to be available in rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive yeah the all-wheel drive versions gonna cost you about $2,000 more but it's really cool to see them offering both versions of both of the five V and the four V for North America and then we can also get magnetic ride control otherwise known as magnetical which we really liked in the ct6 review which was like our third review ever yeah that suspension is really good and GM has been putting it in a lot of different cars including the Corvette we also get a limited slip differential but the one in the CT 5 v is actually electronic then there is also an option for super cruise in both which will be fun to test out one day I think yeah but the fact that it's not standard like come on Cadillac what are you doing but if you're getting a V version maybe you want to go fast and never use Lane keep so I kind of understand why they don't include it yeah but you're getting a V Sport don't forget that oh yeah yeah yo wait wait wait wait till Ford starts making a raptor sport Oh cus it's just gonna be the fake Raptor to the fake yeah yeah yeah it's just gonna be faker at your grills outdoor left or fifties oh no I'm okay in three years it'll be out remind remind me to check this video it's probably gonna come out with the Bronco it'll be the Bronco sport or whatever so that's it for the driving stuff let's bring it into the interior with one feature that we've seen on the new Corvette it now has vehicle control mode with customizable V mode so you can basically customize all your screens and all your infotainment and all your settings which is kind of like what we've seen in the Corvette which is really cool yeah it's got that little V button on the steering wheel it doesn't look too dramatic like the M buttons on the m5 but I guess it's a good start but what I really noticed that stood out if you look at the infotainment screen at the bottom left side it looks like there's a volume knob and a tuning knob right next to each other that's pretty crazy if that's what it is I complained in so many cars that my hand can't reach as far as the tuning knob you can't even reach and you're taller than me like why does it need to be symmetrical why can't both be in the right spot and if that is a tuning up I would be very very stoked the more hard buttons the better pretty much always especially for climate control but we also do get Android auto and apple carplay on the touchscreen then below that to control the touchscreen we do have the rotary knob like we have in the Escalade and the xt6 that we actually drove so that'll be a lot of fun to use because it is kind of distracting to touch stuff while driving and it's the same shifter that we've seen on the Escalade so there's no column shifter here then if we look at our gauges it is to analog tacs and in the middle it's a digital screen and if we look at the seats I think they actually look pretty nice yeah nothing too fancy we've got some color trim which is nice and since these RV versions or vsport or v ish whatever you want to call it we do have a lot more carbon fiber trim on the interior too I didn't see a 360 camera in any of the footage but I did see a big reverse camera but even if they put a 360 camera in it would probably look like something out of GTA san andreas like it did in the Escalade so maybe it doesn't need one so that's pretty much it for the whole car I think the interior is a pretty big improvement the exterior looks really good but let's talk about the black winged version for a second black-winged was an engine in the CT six which is no longer gonna be a thing but they're using the same name for their crazy V black wing series I think it's a really weird move and people are gonna be really confused but it's a really cool name so I don't blame them for sticking with it yeah it's just one of those things that adds to the confusion like f-sport versus real F and like M versus M sport and it's just a confusion that people didn't need and then how Genesis Coupe turned into the Hyundai Genesis which turned into its own brand yeah so there's a lot of companies that are guilty of doing this weird confusing thing I think it's just kind of to confuse the whole market to make people think that they're driving better cars than they are for the non-car people people who drive em sports and AMG badged cars really love their M sports and AMG badge cars but the only people that they're trying to fool are the ones that don't care about having those kind of cars because they're not car people and every car person knows that you're lying yeah but non car people fall for that like they see like the color red light blue and dark blue on and BMWs grille and they're probably like that must be fast then awesome were just like nah so that's pretty much it except the price hit me with it the CT for V rear-wheel drive starts at forty five thousand three hundred and ninety eight dollars Canadian 45419 US dollars and the CT v via rear-wheel drive starts at forty nine thousand seven hundred ninety eight dollars Canadian which is forty eight thousand six hundred ninety dollars u.s. so the real question is would you take this over its German counterparts like the CT for V over an s3 like an s4 isn't s4 to go with the five V I don't even know anymore it would be nice if everyone just uses the same numbers across the line kind of how like Audi is using the eight and then so is BMW for their top car yeah it's a little confusing trying to follow which number from which company competes with the other number or a letter from another company cuz it's all numbers and letters in the luxury space because technically an a8 lines up with a7 series even though there is a BMW eight you know what I mean yeah and it also kind of lines up with the CT six even though the six is a bit smaller but that's the biggest one that they currently make and then Mercedes is just using letters like the s-class is just there's a lot going on so back to the question do you think there's a reason for people to go for this instead of the German rivals well that's pretty much the price you seem to get a lot more for your dollar here that's pretty much it and it'd be pretty cool to drive something American that can take on the German rivals too so let us know what you guys think and in the meantime watch our Corvette c8 review because that was a lot of fun yes GM kind of like Cadillac and we did donuts and maybe even watch our Cadillac Escalade in depth look [Music]