Cadillac's ATS-V is a BMW M3 fighter on paper but not the pavement

If you had told me five years ago that General Motors — more specifically, Cadillac— was going to make a car like the ATS-V, I would have callously laughed at you in disbelief.

That's because nothing in the carmaker's history would suggest it could go from making woefully outdated, quasi-luxury geriatric land-barges into producing a rear-wheel drive sports sedan capable of stepping into the realm of BMW's M division or Mercedes' AMG — all in the span of a single car's development cycle.

And yet here we are. With a 464-horsepower twin-turbocharged V6, 8-speed automatic transmission, electronically adjustable suspension and cushy sport seats, the ATS-V is a Cadillac for the 21st century and one that should have the Germans nervously looking in their rearview mirror. Read more...