By Ed

As I mentioned here previously our ride trips give us a lot of real-world experience in the CTS-V. I wanted to give you a bit more of a feel for what that is like. And, also, nobody outside our team has had a chance to drive this upcoming car. So I grabbed a video camera. In the coming days we'll provide a lot of different clips attempting to provide a sense for what we're doing on the road with the car. This first clip features John Heinricy explaining some of the aspects of the car's ride and handling, particularly how the feel of the brakes was engineered.

John is my boss. But beyond that he's an SCCA champion driver and one of the industry's best-known performance experts, it's fair to say. What some folks might not realize is John's deep connection to Cadillac. He's the owner of a vintage Cadillac, has contributed engineering work on many production Cadillac cars, and has periodically been a "guest driver" in the CTS-V race car in SPEED World Challenge professional races.

Anyhow, we taped this clip and a few others while in the midst of driving the CTS-V in Arizona recently.