“The Hollow Men,” one of T.S. Eliot’s most famous poems, closes with a major bummer of a line, one that still echoes through my head 16 years after reading it for the first time. Reflecting on the ravages of World War I, mankind’s propensity to sabotage itself with needless poverty, and the futility of life compared to the expanse of the universe, Eliot finishes his elegy with, “This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.”
Well, the folks at Cadillac apparently skipped Ms. Ferrill’s junior English literature class that day, because they’re sending internal combustion out with a fury courtesy of the 2022 CT4-V Blackwing and CT5-V Blackwing. From now on, every major debut from the company will be an electric vehicle, so it’s likely that these two sport sedans will be the famed luxury brand’s final outings in the world of high-performance internal combustion. And boy, is Cadillac marking the occasion – not with a whimper but a bang.
