STS-V Ring time

[graywolf624]

Why they keep fumbling with that stupid Northstar piece of crap engine. It is full of useless technology and underperforms by a huge margin.

Wait a second!!! Doesn't that describe the ultra luxury department to a T. All it needs is to lose some reliability and change the badge to a 3 point start and you have mercedes!

actually the M5 will only come with the new 7-Speed SMG transmission.

The article I read from autoweek less then a month ago indicated thats still up in the air. Global wants just the smg, North America wants both.

[pharzo]

Well I can't be 100% certain about the tranny, but I read a few months ago in the Polish version of Auto Bild that the US will be a getting a manual version due to pressure from customers'

Originally Posted by T-Bird And with the C6 Z06 motor I have a feeling that the V would give the M5 one hell of a run for the money especially seeing how easy it would be to mod the living shit out of it.

Yeah until someone mods the M5

[nthfinity]

Originally Posted by pharzo Well I can't be 100% certain about the tranny, but I read a few months ago in the Polish version of Auto Bild that the US will be a getting a manual version due to pressure from customers' Originally Posted by T-Bird And with the C6 Z06 motor I have a feeling that the V would give the M5 one hell of a run for the money especially seeing how easy it would be to mod the living shit out of it. Yeah until someone mods the M5

~until someone mods the 7liter CTS-V (super-V anybody???)
again, power/weight advantage seems to edge to the caddy... and chassis tuning may edge to BMW, but only just... i would rather have the old M5 warrented by Dinnan @500+hp then the new one :roll:

[RC45]

^^^ Well there are a couple of 427ci CTS-V's running around Houston - and at least 1 427ci Twin Turbo CTS-V running around - I seem to remember it was either Mallet or LPE that did it up specially for some mad fucker with wads of cash.

[dangerously_cool]

Originally Posted by pharzo The M5's transmission is not a "slushbox", it's a manu-matic if you want to go for the american slang term... Plus in the US you can get an M5 with a manual tranny...

I was relating that to the STS-V, I don't find the SMG by any means a slushbox, recall that it's a computer controlled manual. No torque converter in the E60.

[gtx28]

is the sts-v supposed to be awd like the sts-4? or is it just your run o the mill supercharged northstar rwd?

[nthfinity]

Originally Posted by gtx28 is the sts-v supposed to be awd like the sts-4? or is it just your run o the mill supercharged northstar rwd?

RWD

by the way, XLR-V's are swarming out of the Milford Proving grounds today (3 sighted, 2 pictured... unsure of the quality yet)

[RC45]

XLR-V - could have been the next SL65 - but sadly not.

[nthfinity]

Originally Posted by RC45 XLR-V - could have been the next SL65 - but sadly not.

at least not in OEM form... unfortunately