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Fair enough... so a tiny moment of Caddy history....
That car that looks so horrible is Cadillac's attempt to rekindle a weird fandom that happened earlier on in the V and V-sport lines. The V and V-sport lines are basically making Cadillacs into new age muscle cars. The V did this traditionally by taking the top end Corvette power train and suspension and putting it in a 4 door sedan. They're beasts and there is a whole car culture around them. At one point they made a literal Cadillac station wagon and came out with a V edition. It was awkward looking but for some reason there was a crowd that fell in love with the idea of being able to carry people/stuff like an SUV but being close to the ground (like an El Camino), and having essentially fire breathing dragon horsepower. That pic you saw is them trying to recapture that , and IMHO failing miserably. Now a days due to laws in the US around fuel efficiency and other reasons they aren't putting the massive Corvette power trains into the V's but are still dropping in very formidable and powerful supercharged engines. They're still beasts, but no longer a corvette/wolf in 4dr sedan clothing... They're just super powerful sedans.
If you are a little more subtle (and have a more restrained sense of how much you want to spend) you get yourself a V-sport like I did. It's a 3.6l Twin Turbo with a performance suspension on it and still does 0-60 in around 4-4.1 seconds.
One of those CTS V wagons....
Now a days instead of calling them such they call them the CTS Blackhawk I believe, and no longer make a wagon option.
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