2016 Cadillac ATS-V Faces 2016 Mercedes AMG C63 S In Latest Head 2 Head: Video - GM Authority (blog)

Not to mention its world class interior and seductive V8 sound. Like MT pointed out, I too favor the Benz’s woodgrain interior over everyone else’s heavy carbon fiber trimming. To me, carbon fiber trimming looks better in exotics and non luxury high performance cars. It’s awesome to see this Caddy not only hang with the Germans, but beat them in the performance metric. Now that GM has successfully conquered their most hated rival, BMW, in the performance metric, hopefully they’ll turn their sights on Mercedes Benz and benchmark them for interior quality and refinement. The Cadillac is clearly the better track car, whilst the AMG, with it’s lovely V8 and world class interior, is the better and more liveable car as a daily driver. It’s just a matter of what is more important to the buyer, and unfortunately for Cadillac, majority of people shopping in this segment are not taking their cars to the track, at least not regularly. The key to the Cadillac is they have the mechanics right but there is still some work to do in some areas. The key is not to just be close or beat them in some areas but to make a car that is undisputed superior. They got it damn close but the car was short changed in areas buy the board. Now with the independent people running the company and away from the Detroit meddling we shall see some even greater cars. Source: gmauthority.com