Since driving them back in 2021, I’ve spent a lot of time configuring the Cadillac CT5-V Blackwings and CT4-V Blackwings on the Cadillac site. After the limited production “Dark Emerald Frost” cars were sold out, I vacillated between “Rift Metallic” and “electric blue,” but never really found a color I was 100% sold on. 2023 brought “Maverick Noir Frost” and a handful of other options, but I’d really like to see something like BMWs “Thundernight Metallic.”
For 2024, a new crop of colors have emerged, and while none of them are purple, and more than half of them are some kind of gray, there is now a yellow option, the “Cyber Yellow Metallic” pictured above on the CT4-V Blackwing.
It reminds me of another good BMW color, Phoenix Yellow but with a little more pop, and more importantly, it matches mine general theory of car paint, which boils down to “normal form factor cars get wilder colors and supercars and hypercars should be beige.” I probably wouldn’t make a yellow Ferrari, but a yellow sports sedan from an American manufacturer? Yes, I think that makes sense.
And while the CT5-V BW looks incredible saying “Summit White” (below), I’d have to do my part to combat the grayscale of the American car palette.
Check out the rest of the new options on the Cadillac site and tell me I’m wrong.
