True enough. I just received my XLR 2 days ago (black on black). After driving it for a while I truely enjoy the car and am glad I bought it. However, I sold my 2000 triple black vette convertible and don't understand why cadillac decided to use the northstar engine. While the engine in the vete is not nearly as sophisticated, it has better power, better torque, sounds better and is a lot cheaper. Oh, yeah, as a bonus my vette got 27 MPG at the same time. (less when pushing it hard on country roads). I really wished Cadillac would have kept the engine. Plus, there are already a ton of after market parts available. If they had, you could order a aftermarket Super Charger and be cranking out 550HP today. Had one on the vette and it was great!! OH well. Overall, I bought the Caddy because I wanted something that I could drive more often. The vette was a toy for Saturday afternoons. I am very please with the car.