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. The boob doctors drove Porsches and Meraks - and wore turtlenecks under their sport coats. No, it was the stodgy Marcus Welby types with their Sansabelt slacks and belt-clipped beepers that owned the Caddys.The CTS was intended to change all that.
Introduced in 2002 as an '03 model, the CTS deviated from the standard Cadillac septum in a few ways. First off, it was the smallest Caddy since the company's unfortunate dalliance with Opel a few years prior. GM's luxury leader never had much luck applying the shrink ray to any of their product with the exception of the actually quite large initial Seville. The Cimarron proved fatally flawed by being the Cimarron, and the aforementioned former Opel Omega became literally a joke as the writers for TV's Chicago Hope created a character named Lisa Catera after an ad campaign for the be-wreathed import.
The third time's a charm, although the CTS proved less charming and more jarring as its Art and Science styling - which is yet another detour from tradition - arrived with more angles than a Vegas grifter. Still, that fresh look, greatly improved quality of materials, and an ad campaign that featured Led Zeppelin rather than TV parody fodder solidified both the CTS and Cadillac's direction for the new millennia.
The last non-standard deviation from the norm for GM's builder of luxury cars was to reclaim the title of Luxury Performance from Mercedes Benz and BMW - two German makes that had first usurped Caddy's preferred position as the you've arrived car back in the seventies. To do that, they needed to borrow something from their bow tie-wearing cousins - a honkin' big, 400-bhp, eight cylinder, nut sack.
This 2004 Cadillac CTS-V, in good guys wear black, sports that hefty sack - as noted by the engine bay cross-bar which boldly wears the LS6 badge. That Chevy party starter came from the Corvette, which is sort of like getting your liver from Dwayne Johnson. Backing up the LS6 here, as in all the first generation CTS-Vs, is a Tremec T56, while power gets doled out in back by a Getrag LSD and independent rear suspension. The '04 and '05 Vs have the 5.7-litre version of the aluminum mill, while the later cars get a displacement bump to a full 6.0. That doesn't make a huge difference, and even with the smaller V8, this car should be good for a calm to bomb zero to sixty runs under 4.6 seconds, and on to a top speed of 163 miles per hour. Halle-freakin'-lujah.
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Still, that fresh look, greatly improved quality of materials, and an ad campaign that featured Led Zeppelin rather than TV parody fodder solidified both the CTS and Cadillac's direction for the new millennia. The last non-standard deviation from the
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In 1852, the French engineer, Henri Giffard, flew seventeen miles in the first powered airship. For the next fifty years other powered airships flew but each with the same limitation: size. This restriction was because non-rigid airships (or blimps) maintain their shape through the pressure of the gases within the envelope. Towards the end of the century various engineers began to work on designs for rigid airships, which could be much larger and have a far greater range. Foremost among these visionaries was the German Count, Ferdinand von Zeppelin. In 1899, von Zeppelin started to manufacture a rigid airship based on the design of David Schwarz, a Croatian wood merchant. The design was used by the German entrepreneur Carl Berg to procure a contract to build an airship for the Prussian Government. After Schwarz died in 1897, Berg teamed up with von Zeppelin, who had seen the potential in rigid airships during the 1870s and could raise the capital required to fund the venture, and the German designer Theodor Kober who completed the design. Berg, von Zeppelin and a third investor, formed the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Luftschiffart (Society for the Promotion of Airships). At a little after 8pm on 2nd July 1900, the Zeppelin LZ1 left its floating hanger on Lake Constance in southern Germany, and took to the skies: the first successful untethered rigid airship flight. The LZ1 was made from aluminium (supplied by Berg) covered in cotton cloth. It was over 400 feet long, nearly 40 feet wide, and was powered by two 15-horsepower Daimler internal combustion engines, which each turned a pair of propellers. The flight lasted seventeen minutes in which time the five passengers travelled 3.7 miles reaching a maximum altitude of 1,300 feet before landing back on the Lake In spite of problems with the design and mechanics the LZ1 flew twice more before being scrapped. Nevertheless, the Society attracted no further investment and the three partners liquidated it. Undaunted, von Zeppelin continued to develop airships financed from his own pocket, as well as a lottery and private donations - which, somewhat perversely, flooded in following a well publicised crash landing of one of his airships. Within ten years of the first flight of the LZ1, his company was producing commercial airships, which were so popular that they became synonymous with him.
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