I wouldn’t make it a Chevelle...Black it out, square up the styling, add a Buick badge and call it the grand national

Dude, forget Chevelle. Turbo 6? Sports handling? This has Grand National written all over it.

That is an EXTREMELY L.A. human. And like everyone in LA, he somehow has an ungodly amount of money to spend despite looking like he surfs for a living.

If they would’ve called this a Chevelle they would’ve rioted in the streets for it not having a V8. At least with it being a Cadillac it has the great used market and what I would describe as a solid interior.

as a Polish guy I appreciate the 'PIEROGY' plate

"He's a Saab guy at heart, but there's no future in that" **crying cat meme**

I disagree on one thing... Not Chevelle but Monte Carlo. I need a new Monte Carlo in my life.

Poor guy drove all the way from LA just to have his car clowned on. Lol.

Ryan, the Cadillac's owner, looks like Jesus on Vacation.

It’s really an attractive car.

GM is gonna let this car go unnoticed like they did with the SS

If this were called a Chevelle, it'd be criticized for not being a "real" Chevelle because it would have lacked a V8; not been as big as the older cars; and lacked retro styling reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s cars. In many ways, a new Chevelle like the one described in the video could have experienced the same cold reception as the 2004-06 Pontiac GTO.

Honestly didn't know Cadillac still made manual cars. Interesting.

The owner looks like he's fresh off the fear and loathing movie set

Don't care. I like sporty Cadillacs and I like this.

Official car of the 72 month finance.

Owner of the car be looking like Tame Impala

The shots of this cadi on the freeway looks so good. I personally think this car is gorgeous.

This is NOT your father’s Cadillac.

I want to eat at home, dawg. It's a pandemic. Frozen waffles, breakfast sausage, and whiskey for dinner.

I remember working for GM when this was developed...it was a quagmire but fun as hell to drive.

Realistically the nova makes more sense considering they're both the same size and are entry level cars

It's a weird car, and it was way too expensive, and the interior is awful, and it's a dumb name, and holy shit these are fun to drive though. Wow they are a handful. What a fun ass car.

Kind of ironic that your entire position on this car is that "DERP, THIS ISN'T A REAL CADILLAC". It's ironic because that's exactly the position of the Boomers you always make fun of (and did in this very video).

Imagine if Pontiac stayed in business and just made good sports cars like this, not trying to beat the Corvette, rather just compete with the M3, etc. To hell with the infighting :(

Maybe that’s the problem, Cadillac was never for the youth, it was always for middle to late age people who could afford American luxury and comfort. They were never about performance.

"He's a SAAB guy at heart" Oof Why cry when you can SAAB?

wow those gauges look like they came out of a dihatsu. GM still going to GM even when you pay 60k.

That Blink-182 joke fell flatter than tornado alley

the problem with chevelle is that it isn’t a muscle car name. chevelle was just the name of the mid size car for chevy. yes the ss was a muscle car but the chevelle itself wasn’t. But i think the malibu name has gotten a little tired and renaming chevy’s midsize car back to chevelle could harken back to the 60’s. I think it makes sense to have this car as a cadillac. they know it wouldn’t sell very well as a chevy because want stereotypical american is going go want a twin turbo v6 with a small trunk. most people just want something that gets them and their friends there without hassle. So put it with a brand that has lower sale volume to make it look better and at the same time put a “luxury” interior and make a bunch of profit. on each car instead of less money as a chevy

Major respect for the owner being a Saab guy at heart. We’re cut from the same cloth

I have this car in phantom grey in la also for the same reasons as this dude Ryan. I think the people that complain about the instrument cluster have never driven it it’s fine once you turn the damn car on and drive it. The touch panel console is super easy once you figure it out. This car is a sleeper beast

This man has Pierogi as his license plate. Thank you

It's a very good looking car and being a manual Cadillac, I have to respect this thing.

I'm glad Riff Raff let you borrow his Cadillac.

So funny story, I own one of these and my tuner and I were going through the ECU the other night... No matter how fast you're going, no matter what gear you're in; if you're anywhere under 4000 revs... it will NOT give you full throttle. You can mash that gas pedal all the way to the floor and it won't give a goddamn. It's got such a nanny state style electric throttle that it will wait until 4k before it even gives you over 60% throttle input. Thank god it can be tuned out lol

The Chevelle name on that would be a huge mistake.

"What's that rattle?" Thats the GMC in Cadillac.

That looks neat, however that dude has a neat shirt and he looks FULL BLOWN L.A.

There is nothing more Pennsylvania than a California license plate that reads "PIEROGY".

The official car of: I own 3 subways, one in Fond Du Lac, one in Waupun, and in Ripon.

I wanna eat at Bob Evans Where I can get a plate of H O T B R O W N

I’m so glad GM did not call this a Chevelle

I got a "Febreeze bathroom odors" ad right after "OH, SHUT UP". KZfaq is making the fart jokes for you now.

LOL. Nothing's ever good enough for Mr. Regular,

I'm European and I absolutely love the way this thing looks and want one so baaaad

As a resident of the commonwealth of north east Pennsylvania, I’ve never seen anything like this before

So it was supposed to be a Pontiac when in development, but that ended when the brand ended.

Fun fact- one of the most powerful cars ever made by GM, with the exception of the corvette z06, was the Cadillac STS V, a supercharged northstar

Hey there, Studio City, LA resident here, about a third of all guys here look like the owner.

On a long enough time line...Even Mr. Regular will find his "Soap Opera Twin." Seriously though, am I the only one who sees it?!

"...and in a cynical era, effort is too often equated with desperation." The best indictment of everything wrong with grunge music.

The new gen Pontiac’s were literally gonna be built on this platform. This literally could’ve been the sunfire GXP and the CTS V would’ve been the Grand Am GXP and and and and and and

I love the way these Cadillac V cars look so much. Just absolutely gorgeous.

At one point in time in the 20th century, Cadillac was a top notch luxury brand right up there with Rolls Royce. What the hell happened

One Of the things that drew Ryan to this car was his time spent nailed to the cross, that really changed his outlook on what cars he drives.

Better car than that new CT4. If only Caddy put a decent instrument gauge in this car...

I may be biased because I sell Cadillac but I’ve driven this car quite a bit and it way more fun to drive than an M3 or M4. Extremely underrated car. Awesome preowned bargain. You can get a nice one in the mid $30ks

"PIEROGY" I love this licence plate almost as much as I love to eat pierogy.

As a big fan of both Cadillacs (as in 6 meter coupes) and sporty cars I really like the fact that this exists, might get one when they get cheap. After all the Caddy badge lost it's REAL meaning in the late seventies when they started putting other marques' engines in their cars so why not go all out and make some sporty fun ones

I feel like there was a slight punch at Ellen DeGeneres at around 11:00

Remember when Cadillac actually meant "Quality?"

This would make a better Buick Grand National than a Chevelle.

It's the Caprice. This is what the Caprice would have looked like as a two-door, Chevy just didn't want to import to Holden and the Caprices.

“Fail at capturing the youth market?” Well... ...it would help if that market had the disposable income to purchase/lease a brand new car, let alone a “high end” model.

A Cadillac made it from California to PA? Im kinda impressed

"Where do you want to eat?", "WHERE do you want to EAT!?" That whole thing gave me flashbacks.

Roman’s intro and outro to this were really well done! His voice is getter better and more defined.

"He's a SAAB guy at heart but, there's no future in that." T_T

I’ve always been attracted to this car, would want to own one

"effort is too often equated with desperation" that was deep and very true.

Its a great car for the right person. I bought it to hoon and it does it wonderfully. I don't care what Cadillac stands for or stood for or is supposed to stand for. I don't care if its a Cadillac or a Nissan or a Kia. I bought it for the driving experience that it provides while hauling our family of four and a mid size dog (though slower with the pup onboard). The interior? Don't care. Oh, and I didn't pay 70k for it, or 60k or 50k.

I love the styling on this car. I think it's a solid look for Cadillac.

Oh sweet I just bought an atsv just like this. I also just drove from DC to sf with it, and I fit my entire home gym (barbell, 500 pounds of plates, folded up bench, squat stands) and 2 carry on suitcases of clothes. It is functional!!

Interestingly, a mechanic I know told me the car this felt the most like to him was a GTR.

“This should’ve been a Chevelle!”.....it should have. IT SHOULD HAVE! If GM had imported the SS as a Chevelle and offered all the body levels, then it would’ve sold more

Or...instead of the Chevelle, GM could have used the Grand National name.

Would rather have this than the equivalent beemer, you see them everywhere and theyre always damn automatics. Plus, Cadillac is like the US's Rover.

No kidding, the hippie- haired guy wearing too-short shorts, shaved spray-tanned legs and a pink shirt is from LA? Shocker.

That intro... wasn't thinking it was true then by the end of it was spot on.

Wheels "too big?" Aren't all standard ATS-Vs fitted with (gasp!) eighteen-inch wheels? Blasphemy in this day and age of nineteen-inch standard wheels and twenty-one-inch optional wheels (at an added $3,200 on the website configurator).

Even when this car was announced I argued with a bunch of people saying that this car should have got the LS7. And I still feel that way to this very day.

It's GM, the same company that has 74 trim variants of a Camaro instead of 3

God I want one of these. My in laws have the 4 door ATS 2.0 Turbo and it's one of my favorite cars I've ever driven.

I'd love to see Mr. Regular review a Reliant Robin

12:11 "C'mon man, *don’t let a Subaru beat you!" Owner takes off!*

Mr. Regular is the Hunter S. Thompson of the car review world. Sans the alcohol and drug consumption, of course. Every video release is our own "Fear And Loathing In Pennsylvania".

I don't love the car in general, but I'm glad there exists another manual out there. For me, the old manual CTS-V sedans (and wagons) are what I absolutely love. As a 28 year old with a family, the new CT5-V Blackwing with a manual is the car I want more than any other.

GM would never bring the Chevelle back like this. The Chevelle would come back as a shitty econobox to go along with the "Blazer"

But look at it this way: after trying for 40 years, they finally made a small Cadillac that does not suck. Seville, Cimarron, Catera, the BLS, all failed as small entry level Cadillacs. It even has a sporty version which does not suck. Too bad it has to compete with BMW who has not been failing with their entry level car for 40 years and thus has gained brand recognition. No way Cadillac could match that out of the gate. Even the CTS took three generations across a dozen years to get good.

It's so crazy when the intro song is just like...kind of a nice song. No edgy jokes, no clever punchlines. Just a nice song.

The whole opening statement described the complete lack of direction that Cadillac currently has. They want to compete with the germans, still have an american muscle feel, but still have the build quality of a nissan.

"I guess Cadillac did it.... but at what cost?" This single quote hit me. Cadillac, the once glorious brand of Deville, Fleetwood, and Eldorado's, has been beaten to death. Replaced by an American brand with a sense of shame amid an identity crisis. I want my American land yacht, I want my V8 engine and bench seat, and I have a fist full of money. No, I'm not 65yrs old, just an Italian-American millennial that remembers when owning a Cadillac was not only a sign that you made it but a welcome card to the middle class, it was a big deal. Something you took pride in handwashing every Sunday. Sadly it seems those days are long past. So the world is left with a $70k+ Sports Cars to drive on the lunar surface that is the *average* American roadway.

Regardless of the image, this is one very capable car even in stock form.

the issues with most cars today is its NOT because SUVs have taken off, the issue is cost. Most people 18 to 30 cant afford 70k, even the cheap muscle cars are out of peoples price range. I've talked to a ton of young people fresh out of high school and most of them simply cant afford newer cars, which is why affordable cars like the accord, civic, carmy, and corolla are still going strong. you can get a 2018 version of any of those cars for less than 20k, and brand new they are under 30k

I remember reading the car and driver take on this car, they couldn’t stop singing praises about it, definitely a future classic!

These new Cadillacs all look like a noname Chinese brand, another Qoros or something

As an EXTREMELY proud owner of a 2019 ATS-V..... I'm also proud to have seen this roast because you guys are hilarious... The car is amazing, I have the Wave Blue 8 speed and get ALOT of compliments... I'm really glad I got this car🤟

One of the only Cadillac coupes I love to look at, and that chassis is the same as the 6th gen camaro, so exceptionally well handling car, engine is basically just a turbo version of the 336hp v6 in the camaro as well. Still well deserved criticism lol

You definitely see these at car meets. They are rare enough to be noticeable, but ubiquitous enough to be recognizable. "Oh there's a CTS-V!" I appreciate these cars for the simple fact that their development gave us the 6th gen Camaro.