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You did a good job with the video content and footage. I heard that comment or joke about the Cadillacs having their own zip code. The Ninety Eight was just as long in that era too. I heard your Tom Bodette joke and your other comments as well. Cadillac had the digital gauges as you said and Ford started using them in 1980 on several cars( Ford. Lincoln and Mercury). Chrysler did in 1981 on Imperial. You covered the different generations nicely as well. You were too kind to the downsized 1986-1991 model. We all know it looked like a N Body sedan. You did say it looked like other GM cars. I caught all the Oldsmobile references from the engines( the diesel 350 and the Northstar), the platforms( E Body and G Car) used as well. You did your homework and it shows. I enjoyed the video. I liked the 1980-1985 with digital gauges. I liked the 1992-1997 model with digital gauges before Northstar V8. I recall Cadillac Iran too. The 1975-1979 Seville look was copied by all GM brands well into the 1980's. The Cutlass Supreme 4 door and 1982-1986 Bonneville G Body among others had that look. GM called it the "shear look". I liked the fact you showed the concept car and what they were thinking. I recall they almost used the Opel Diplomat, but decided against it. Years later the use the Opel Omega. They did not decide against that. Excellent video.

The first generation ('76-'79) "shear look" Seville was the best IMO - the ones that followed, not so much (especially the '86)! I remember what a sensation they caused when first introduced and they carried a lot of "esteem" with the general public at the time. Within a couple years, it seemed like every car had the Sevilles vertical back glass. The only other luxury car that had the same impact at introduction was probably the '69 Continental MKIII.

I KNEW your voice sounded a little like someone else but I couldn’t place it until you shared today! 🤣. Love your content, keep it up! ❤

The Seville looks 1980s because everyone copied its upright rear window styling I remember the bookkeeper at work had a silver one silver vinyl top and silver interior that car was Nice!

the Seville was meant to compete with the BMW 3 Series and the like first attempt at a small car for a premium price $12,479 before shipping options taxes title registration etc. and it would go on to be the 2nd best selling nameplate in Cadillac history with 1.1 million units sold between Seville and SLS/STS between 1976-2011

I believe the first gens were based on Malibu not Nova.

At the time the Seville was Cadillac's most expensive model.

"ElegantE". You have to pronounce the last E.

The first generation Seville and the Lincoln Versailles are two cars that I definitely want. Both cars are worth having as first cars right now.

To be fair, for anyone from europe, asia...just basically not in the US: saying an american car in the seventies looks like an eighties car is sort of a moot comparison when most of the styling by the mid to late eighties was still more or less the same with american cars. What I will say, is that the first gen Seville looks much crisper, more balanced and thus fresher than the bustleback that replaced it...that design really wasn't progress.

I had a '92 Seville for about a year. It was the biggest piece of junk I'd ever owned up to that point. Turned me off GM for years.

The 2003 STS chrome wheels (with a special center cap) were also used on the 2003 Final 500 Oldsmobile Aurora.

“Not Tom”. Great one to come back to! Haven’t heard that in ages, another great vid as usual! Edit: I don’t know if its possible or the info exists, but can you imagine how many of these GM wheel styles were machined or made? GM used such similar yet slightly varied designs in the 80-90s. I bet those numbers and that story would be interesting for boring people like me.

Subtitle this one "How to alienate many of your best customers" ☹ The 'bustle-back' look was off-putting to many people, especially Caddy traditionalists who preferred the squared-off 'land yacht' look. Their abandonment of Cadillac for European cars proved to be a wise move when GM couldn't make a decent engine for these cars. Caddy screwed up trying to compete with the European cars while keeping these cars plushy and slow; they should have continued a 'land yacht' type of car for their older buyers alongside the Seville. By the early to mid 90's Buick had upped it's luxury game and many buyers were opting for Roadmasters and Park Avenues which were better cars and equally nice or the short-lived Olds Aurora which was a great car in it's own right. Had Cadillac started off without trying to include it's traditional demographic and built the Sevile base model as something like the STS they could have gained a new younger generation of loyal customers, but once those people shifted to European cars there was no getting them back. With how good those cars were compared to American ones of the time that might not have been possible but they should have tried. In the end some buyers remained doggedly loyal to Cadillac because of it's perceived prestige and others came aboard when the STS finally emerged as a real Euro competitor, but overall this was the end of Cadillac's dominance of the American luxury market for decades to come and the end of land yachts in general. "You may not have a great big Cadillac, gangster whitewalls TV antenna in the back"... 😎

Ah the Sunday morning front row of the church parking lot car. Along with the Oldsmobile 88, Lincoln Towncar, and the inevitable conversion vans for those grandparents lucky enough to have more than one grandkid.

Friend of mines had the first new small Seville it still had the Factory CB radio in it. The mic had the Cadillac crest on it. This was in the late 2010’s

What could have been…..if the arrogant design team didn’t push for that awful bustle-back design that lost for the Gen1. Imagine if the Gen1 lived an other year or so and instead became a 4 door Camaro (underneath) and more of a performance contender. Even if Gen2 was a 4-door Eldo design with fwd it would have been better. How to kill a brand re-definition for literally a generation, if not forever.

The first generation Seville is my favorite Caddy

I love the 1998-2004 Seville. The Bose 4.0 sound system was awesome. Although it shared the platform with the DeVille, the Seville felt more tighter than the DeVille.

5:39 I am serious, and don't call me Shirley 🤣🤣🤣

Have to say very clinical looking plastic.bet look crap when scratched up.but spose easy enough to replace.

Banger Chatter!! Question: what's your all time favorite car?

Great video! One thing though...it's not "Elegant package." It's "Elegante." EL ehhh gan te."

TIMELINE IS FIXED.

I'm from UK the 76 - 79 my all-time favourite caddy.even favourite American car.the shape your right doesn't scream 70s more 80s.to me.great shape even now looks modern.great motor tje black.looked well cool.wire wheels mmm yeah but probably not.if I was to have one

lol motel 6. What's hilarious! Love it!

I'll leave the headlights on for you.....that's it, that's your catch phrase. Well done.

Not a bustle back fan. Looks like it would open into a rumble seat.

I remember growing up we had a metro, I do not know the year. But I remember my dad driving that sucker basically to the ground. He used to throw newspapers out of it for a little while, and I remember seeing it loaded to the brim with newspapers at one point, he killed the driver side mirror with a newspaper and he continue to drive it like that until we sold it to one of his buddies. My dad has also never been a small person and the back of the driver seat gave out. The rest of the time we had it, he drove with a ceiling fan box behind his seat, so we really only have three seats in the car. But neither of my parents had been small people through most of my life, so all three of us squeezing into that little car was rather comedic. but I genuinely miss that car.

These were super cool, particularly after a few mods.

i’m telling you, all you have to do is “this has been my (Fill in the blank) chatter and, until next time, I’ll leave the light on for you.” still a great video, here’s to your next milestone, ten thousand subs Oh, after the little Motel 6 quip, you can still say “chatter out,” of course :-)

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I actually liked the Probe, but Ford was so dumb to try to use it to replace the Mustang. Taken on its own merits, though, it was a decent sporty coupe. I’ve always thought that the second gen Probe (GT, I mean) was a great looking car. And I still love the styling today! (The Cougar version though was not nearly as attractive.) And, yes, Probe was a dumb name for a car too.

That was interesting for a different vehicle. I was laughing at the GM comments about the Isuzu models. A rebadged Chevrolet Trailblazer that did not sell well and what the line up at the end. Isuzu was daring to be different. GM rebadged the Trooper and sold it as a Holden, Chevrolet and Opel. Speaking of rebadges: ruclips.net/video/LBz9O5S55dk/видео.html Thank you for the video.

I bought two L body cars, a 79 Horizon and an 88 Omni, which I drove until 1997 and my son drove 2 more years in college. He replaced the Omni, which was a stick and not easy to shift, with a 98 Saturn. My first car was a 68 Valiant, which I wish I had cared for better. They were all decent cars. Not flashy but mainly reliable.

27 years old design...!! Incredible..!!!

I have an 88 hatchback GTA I bought my first year in college back in 98. I loved that car so much it was black with a digital dash, real Knight rider vibes. I later bought an ls1 Firehawk. I still have both but the old GTA needs a full restoration at this point. Good video man!

GM had a lot on its plate during the 80s and 90s. They were making various engines for different vehicles with similar horsepower. For instance, in 88' or 89' , GM introduced a 3.3 liter V6 making 160hp for A Body FWD models, but did not install those engines in GM10s. Upon their 1988 introduction, GM10s had to make due with GM's 60 degree 2.8 liter V6 making only 135 horsepower. At the same time, before the 3.1 was released, the standard engine of 3rd generation F Body Camaro's was a 2.8. Moving up the food chain, F Body's could be optioned with a choice of two V8s, one of which was a 5.0 liter throttle body making 170HP, or a MPFI version making 190hp. According to a early 90 Motorweek episode, some GM10s were outfitted with Quad 4s.

Still love those Joe Isuzu commercials. David Leisure did a fantastic job with that role.

Thanks, some great informational content complimented by excellent staging of highly detailed and comprehensive shots of the vehicles from about every imaginable exterior angle. Yes definitely look forward to viewing videos on the 442 that follow

I agree in that if they actually released a four door version of this it might had sold much better. Think back to the blazer, even GM had to release a four door version of that and it sold much better when they did.

So so so ugly.

The Vehicross along with the Axiom were among my favorite vehicles when I was in high school. Still want one. 😊

Joe Isuzu was the best pitchman for any car company in the 80's and 90's. Like if you agree.

My 1st wife's first car was a Vega. We called it the Vejamatic because Popeel could've done a better job building it. It was a horrible car and it took a bunch of us to keep it running. You couldn't even buy an air filter for that car. You had to buy the whole air intakes steel assembly. To put a thermostat in it, that you could see right there, required half the engine to come apart. A maintenance nightmare like no other. Finally she slid the POS into a guardrail one winter and with all the hidden rust, it self destructed. A whole lot of people cheered that day. I won't even get into my sisters first car; a Ford Pinto.

Work near a guy who had one back in the day. I had a concern about black plastic not do well in TX sun turns out I guess correct.

Good video.

To me they were ugly now not so much The Aztec is still super ugly it has a face only a mother could love .....on pay day

Can you do a Chatter on the VW Bus?

Between these and the Axiom, I admired Isuzu for daring to maken edgy designs, especially considering their finances.