Same chassis, same engine—how much extra horsepower can you unlock once racing rules no longer apply? Cadillac's answer with the V-One: 830 horsepower, a full 160 more than the race-spec version.
This single-seat concept made its debut at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, standing out as one of the more unconventional reveals during Monterey Car Week. It borrows directly from Cadillac's championship-winning endurance racer, the V-Series.R, sharing its Dallara carbon-fiber monocoque and pushrod suspension—essentially taking an existing race car skeleton and retuning it from scratch. The 5.5-liter naturally aspirated V8 hybrid powertrain, capped at 670 horsepower under LMDh regulations, is completely unleashed in the V-One, with output surging to 830 horsepower. Cadillac's goal is to keep lap times within roughly 10% of professional driver benchmarks, while tuning the dynamics to remain approachable for non-professional drivers.
The most eye-catching visual detail is a hand-sprayed gradient paint job that transitions from silver at the nose to deep navy blue at the tail, meant to evoke the passage from day into night during a 24-hour endurance race. Up front, the spot where racing decals would normally go is replaced with an illuminated, physical Cadillac emblem. The body also features newly designed V-Series wheels alongside a reworked dark badge layout.
