2020 Cadillac CT4-V First Drive – Balanced on the Edge

With the arrival of the 2020 Cadillac CT4-V, membership in the automaker’s “V” club has never been more attainable. Promising to take the new entry-luxury sedan and give it not only an entertaining jolt of performance but a distinct personality from its German rivals, the CT4-V also gets the spoils of Cadillac’s latest architecture gadgetry – and flagship GM tech like MagneRide 4.0. That’s a lot for not so much money: could this newest “V” simply be trying too much at once?

Cadillac has been using the “V” badge for its performance cars for years now, though with this latest generation it’s juggling the exact nomenclature. This CT4-V isn’t the ATS-V‘s successor; instead, it’s more like the hotter-but-not-outrageous variants that used to get “V-Sport” badging. For maximum performance we’ll need to wait for the CT4-V Blackwing, itself misleadingly-named because it’s not actually expected to use the Blackwing V8 engine briefly offered on the CT6, just repurpose its branding.

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