2025 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing cuts lap times with sharp new package [Video]

• The 2025 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing gets refreshed with the rest of the CT5 lineup

• A new $18,000 Precision Package upgrades the CT5-V Blackwing’s handling

• The 2025 CT5-V Blackwing arrives by the end of the year, Precision Package cars arrive in 2025

“I’m going to make a CT5-V Blackwing drive like a CT4-V Blackwing.” That was the sales pitch Cadillac’s executive chief engineer Brandon Vivian gave GM management.

Given Cadillac’s original goal of becoming an all-electric brand by 2030, we should presume Vivian’s one heck of a salesperson to get GM’s management to green light even a small engineering budget for this project.

But Vivian did. The result of that engineering effort is a new $18,000 Precision Package available on the refreshed 2025 CT5-V Blackwing. While the Blackwing will be available before the end of this year, the new package will arrive in early 2025.

The question I sought to answer on the twisting roads in northern Georgia and at Atlanta Motorsports Park is …