IN THE BEGINNING, there was Eldo versus Mark III and IV a recurring battle of personal luxobarges referred to as ‘King of the Hill” by Motor Trend in the 1970s. As the years went by, Lincoln departed Ford's Premier Automotive Group, and General Motors announced its intention to remake Cadillac the "standard of the world.” Other European brands have more sporting intentions, but none owns the fast German autobahns more than Mercedes's torque-rich AMG machines, the CLS55 being one of its newest—and sexiest. Its AMG-built 5.4-liter V-8 mit kompressor is good for 469 horsepower and a pavement-pounding 516 pound-feet of torque that pushes 4307 pounds of steel, aluminum, plastic, leather, and suede.
BUT CADILLAC is fighting back with its own 469 horses, complements of its new GM Performance Division-engineered Northstar V-8…
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MotorTrend (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2006