I have an original 1967 Deville convertible with 60,000 miles. It’s a dream to drive,you couldn’t give a new Cadillac today!!The engineering they did back then was amazing and with paper and pencil,these young people today wouldn’t know where to start!
Very true there. My uncle owned mostly Cadillacs in his adult life. He went all the way when it came to cars. He loved Cadillacs which was the main reason he owned them-a 1955 Fleetwood, 1961 Sedan De Ville, 1968 Sedan De Ville. I drove them for Avis Car rental in San Diego & Tucson in the 1990’s. The Seville was great & my favorite Cadillac.
My grandfather was the production control manager at the Cadillac Clark St assembly plant in Detroit in the 40s and 50s. I’ve always been a fan of Cadillacs.
Among those engineering firsts from Cadillac is the synchronized manual transmission. Before, gear shifting was a grinding experience, even with tricky double-clutching.
8:05 Yes, it is at this time one of my favorite historical figures is discussed: A.I. Capone. People think artificial intelligence is only a modern thing and still in its infancy, but it turns out it played a large role in coordinating crime during Prohibition. Not only was it already nefariously clever back then, but apparently it also had impeccable taste in automobiles!
Cadillac has always been GM"S Marquis Division for over One Hundred Years whe ather Gagsters drove them or not is there choice! What was significant was affordability in a Vehicle which came to be with the Ford V8 and the developing Middle Class!
Don't forget the awful Catera, a lightly disguised European Opel. GM execs have been killing their own company for decades. And the disaster that has been Mary Barra is the final nail in the coffin.
I've always wanted to own a Caddy since I was knee high to the coffee table! Now, I own a 2006 STS! I absolutely love it! I was looking for a Fleetwood Brougham but they've gotten more expensive. My next ride will be another Caddy not a new car but something with personality!
Cadillac lost its identity and place in the market after large luxury cars started going out of fashion, along with Lincoln Town Car etc. Those floaty luxury cars were great highway cruisers
My brother bought a '77 Coup DeVille for $950.00 in 2009, we drove that car for about 10 years, I've had the privilege of driving a couple of other newer models and have always enjoyed the ride... iconic for sure.
Neglected to mention the terrible problem of blown head gaskets on the early Northstar engines due to fine threaded bolts that were too small. Definitely contributed to their downward spiral
The Northstar came good in 2000 when the casting process changed from gravity to squeeze cast. I’ve had a lovely 2000 STS and often wonders if some of the head gasket problems were caused by casting porosity in the machined face of the block. Currently drive 2011 CTS and 1959 Eldorado. Can’t beat Detroit carcatecture👍
That wasn’t the problem at all ya botard. The used tty bolts and if the motor overheated the bolts stretched and voila blownhead gasket. Oh fyi I’ve owned 3 northstar powered cars and never. Had an issues or blow head gasket…
@@hottipmedia7191you have no clue what you are talking about. The early northstars and 2000 up aren’t related and can’t swap parts. There is also the Lh2 northstar that came out in 04 for the 05 my great motor. All motors have some problems, I done see you bringing up ford and the focus st etc and the head gasket issues, how about toyota and the sticking throttle pedal. Your a botard and you don’t know shite
@@robj2704 no it wasn’t as bad as you guys are trying to make it sound. cadillac used the old 307 in the early 80’s I’m it’s full size great motor. The ht4100 v8 wasn’t great but it eventually turned into a reliable motor in 4.5 and then 4.9.
I’ve had both Mercedes and BMW and both were extremely high maintenance and always in the shop. I got tired of constantly going to bed at night angry and upset about my cars not being in my garage and having a loaner that wasn’t I was paying for.
Would you take some advice from an old timer! sooner or later all cars break down if there not in a musium! And unless your rich, will cost a bucket of money to fix!
@@-oiiio-3993 Actually shrinkage began in 1977. Only ONE traditional fully full sized land yacht remained in '77 and that was the Eldorado which would continue for 2 years before a major downsizing for the 1979 model.
@@samgipson6404 Well, if you want to go by THAT size Cadillac, it was actually 1999 with the Deville. But the last rear wheel drive was 1996. Until the Escalade.
Rumor has it famed gangster A.I. Capone was actually an android from the future sent back in time to ensure its own creation. Once it had done so using money it earned during Prohibition, it is thought to have turned its interests to narrating RUclips documentaries in a fake British accent. It’s only a rumor, though.
Cadillac went back to Rear Wheel Drive in 2003 with the CTS and 2 years later with the Larger STS with the 3.6 Liter V6 as well as the STS V-8. The V-6 puts out 255 Horse Power which is adequate Power for this vehicle. I purchased it used and am still enjoying it
Other than the pictures not matching the car being talked about, very good and very sad. I am one of those senior citizens who refuses to accept a rough riding compact as a Cadillac, and refuses to accept them as luxury cars. To me, a luxury car is about grand indulgence, not fuel economy, not practicality, not functionalism, just GRAND INDULGENCE. After all, it is a car for those with money, not cheapskates.
My great uncle worked for the Fisher Body Works in Fleetwood Pa. & he always said thats were GM's got body by Fisher logo from & the Cadillac Fleetwood model name came from Fleetwood Pa. That was in the early sixty. He died in 75.
Yep, my 2024 Cadillac XT4 (0-60 in 7 sec) is quicker than my 2014 Toyota Highlander (0-60 in 7.6 sec) that I traded in. XT4 also handles better too. I upgraded from a 2014 Toyota Highlander to a 2024 Cadillac XT4 this past weekend (the 2024 highlander drove the same and is pretty much the same chasis and interior so it's boring). The Cadillac XT4 has no turbo lag that I can feel. Every other car that I test drove had turbo lag, whether short or long...Mercedes GLC300 (least turbo lag), BMW X3 (a little more turbo lag), Porsche Macan S (even more turbo lag), Honda (way too much turbo lag). The Cadillac has these features that RUclipsrs miss: - lighted logo behind the dashboard - pulsating safety seat (most cars only beep) - left behind child in the rear seat alert - capless fuel tank (like my 2017 Corvette C7 ) - umbrella storage in the doors (like Rolls Royce) - active noise cancellation (like my 2017 Corvette C7 with Bose) - power passenger seat with lumbar - free 5G hotspot - stop/start feature is the smoothest I’ve ever experienced that I don't even notice it. My other car is a 2017 Corvette Stingray in stickshift.
GM’s tragic end started in the 1970’s with weak management and then suffered under Roger Smith and finally trashed by Mary Barra when she and her group sold GM to China. Yup, GM is the largest auto manufacturer in China. Suggested reading: American Wheels, Chinese Roads.
My second highlight In as many days!!! I love you guys. Finally A Forum where my people ALL know Cadillac!! ‘CADILLAC LE MOTHE ‘ STANDARD OF THE WORLD FOREVER !
Meanwhile, back on the round Earth, GM is still a very American company in a global economy. Their success in China has enabled them to continue to survive as a global company. China is the largest auto market on the planet so to ignore it is to sign your death warrant as a manufacturer. Why should GM be criticized for having success there David??
Oil leaks, water leaks, steering gear failures, transmission problems, ac compressor failures, head bolts pulling out of blocks, the list goes on, I made good money, but many people were turned off to American cars during my career because of the crap they sold people.
Cadillac tried to re-invent themselves to attract a younger customer base and compete with high end imports but the young people in this country care as much about Cadillac as they do about this country, the just don’t and never will. When originally saw the glorified Chevy Nova called a Seville, and then when Cadillac offered the other ridiculously small cars, it was clear Cadillacs best days were behind her. Really sad to see how Cadillac, the standard of the world, is no more. 🦅🗽🇺🇸
Cadillac tragedy was not putting reliability into the design. The Northstar has plenty of power but completely unreliable, count on replacing the head gasket at some point which in turn made resale value plummet. There are other common problems but the major one is the head gasket repair$$$. It is sad.
True. And the design in the 2006 to 2011 DTS is so bad that you have to drop the engine from the bottom of the car to get to that gasket which makes replacement cost somewhere between $4 and $5K!
The HT 4100 was the first lemon of a design. Cadillac should have went after the younger rich by offering high-performance options on it's luxury cars, not by trying to make small foreign-style things.
Correct. Ford had the 'Lifeguard Package' with seat belts, padded dash, and visors, deep dish steering wheel, and other features for 1956. Seat belts had been offered by Ford in 1955.
the founding father, how he formed the company after parting ways with HENRY FORD and then later left the company in 1917, to found yet another company. i didnt go into detail about it though
@@-oiiio-3993 That's actually true. After Leland sold Cadillac to GM he stayed on but had a bad fight with Durant over war production and quit. That's when he founded Lincoln. It worked out well too. If you know the history, Henry Ford's backers basically stole his engine, put Leland in charge and formed Cadillac. Henry Ford almost in a grudge move bought Lincoln. But he put his son Edsel in charge. Henry was not a visionary in the sense that automotive technology should advance. He had the Model T and was happy with it and was against newer more modern models. Edsel, however, was a visionary and excellent at engineering and he partnered well with Leland who stayed with the company.
@@retroguy9494 Leland was a tinkerer and innovator with the structure of companies more than with automobiles themselves. He excelled at bringing unsuccessful operations into order, then selling them before the corporate bean counters took over.
So many mistakes in this video, but the worst one was saying the Blues Brothers car was a Cadillac. It was a 1974 Dodge Monaco. Wow, doesn't anyone proof-watch these videos before they are uploaded?
Cadillac lost the wreath in 2014 and the badge was elongated and thinned out. Oldsmobile also aided the war effort by providing automatic transmissions, which consequently found their way into the late 40's Lincoln Continentals. I have a first year 2013 XTS which I think is an outstanding automobile.
@@wakocars I hope I didn't sound rude. I love all kinds of little facts about all makes and models of American automobiles. But Oldsmobiles are my second favorite brand. I've held on to a '47 Olds with an inline 8 and Hydra-Matic transmission and a '74 Delta 88 Royale Convertible. Only a little over 1300 made in 74 and only about 700 with the 455 Rocket and an anti-slip rear differential. More commonly known as a posi-trac. It will leave 20 feet of dual rubber strips when accelerating rapidly.
Before Cadillac all car controls were different. Some cars had tillers. Some had steering wheels. Some had stick shift transmissions. The Model T shifted with your foot when you depressed the clutch. Some cars had a throttle lever, some a gas pedal. The pedals on each car was wherever the builder chose, there was no conventions. It was like each builder would go 'Well, lets try a little of this'. But Cadillac was the first to put the gas on the right, brake pedal middle & clutch on the left and transmissions all used a stick. By & by this became the standard convention & all builders followed suit even to this day. !
Much of the computerized dialogue is correct, but much is left out, Early on, describing Cadillac at Brooklands and picturing Lincoln at the Carrera Panamericana years later was hilarious.
Standardization of parts *1904, not 1984. Fine voice and clear speaking! (Cool to hear a UK narrator for this famed American car company.) Btw: 8:05 AL Capone, not A. I.
Cadillacs were gorgeous and eyecatching until the GM ban counters said make them all look like Spam cans. The front wheel drive one was gorgeous but not much since then.
i don’t see anyone else talking about it in the comments, so i gotta ask… where is the documentation of cadillac manufacturing the first 4 cylinder engine? everywhere i looked it says it was Lancia or Benz Maybach?
Cadillac's ownership continued to explode after the war. Well the whole point of a luxury car is that it's a little exclusive, and not every man in the neighbourhood is driving one. Rolls Royce on the other hand never lost the exclusivity of their product line by avoiding that mistake.
It's the Cadillac of automobiles, however my dad's Northstar did blow it's heads and my 1978 deville was a thirsty dinosaur. In the 60s or 70s I would have chosen a Lincoln, brand new.
I always liked Cadillac for installing a DOHC 32 valve v8. I hated they put it in a front wheel drive car. I bought a 2001 Deville 5 years ago. I’ve had overheating issues from day one. I hope to one day afford to have a new engine put in it.
Yes, they were known for that. As well as head gasket issues. In fact, the 2006 to 2011 DTS engineering is so bad, that when the gasket goes its inaccessible from the hood necessitating dropping the engine out from the bottom. It can cost close to $5K to replace a $20 gasket!
Ford guys think they are the 1st brand to bring OHC to market lol... You had Chevy/Lotus designed LT5 in the '88 Zr1 and then Oldsmobile Aurora and Caddy doing the 32v after that. Well before Ford doing it in the lowly mustang.
Try having the radiator recorred with a thicker core. That's what I do with cronic hot runners that do not have any faults like a cracked head, leaking
CAddys and olds used to own the road, then came the ford hot rods in the 50s. Then Chevy knocked ford out. Caddys may have been stylish all the way into the 70s but the ground pounder appeal died years before. Same with olds.
I love my 2014 CTS-V coupe. Only a few bolt on mods and I get 540 Wheel Horsepower, magnetic ride suspension with Stabilitrack that really handles the road at speed and big Brembo brakes. All while sitting in Recaro heated/cooled seats, every option you could want and it rides and drives in style. Had it to 165 before physics started to get a bit scary but they are speed limited to 199 MPH and I still had a lot of tach to go. I call it my "werewolf in a Tuxedo". Sure the Hellcat is faster in a straight line but not on a twisty road and it certainly doesn't have the build quality or style. My only regret is that they stopped making the coupe in 2015 and that kept me from buying a Gen 3 CTS-V.
Well, that is exactly the problem with what Cadillac has become. It had always been a luxury car up until the rebrand in 2000. Plush comfortable seating. A floaty ride like a cloud. Over assisted steering which could be done with your pinky. Sadly, it became a kind of 'euro sport' brand where performance and technology took the place of comfort and luxury. As someone who loved traditional Cadillac's since I was 8, it broke my heart that by the time I was old enough to afford to buy a brand new one, it was no longer the model it had been pretty much since its inception. I always said if I wanted a sports car, I would BUY a sports car!
@@retroguy9494 Not true. In the 1930s through 50s Cadillac engines were widely sought after for hot rodders and racing. My grandfather worked at Buick all his life and his father was chief chassis engineer for Buick and worked on Buick's first car. He knew a lot of those people mentioned in this story and Chevrolet worked together in racing in the 1930s. In the early years Cadillac was known just as much for its performance engines as it was for the luxury side. Cadillac engines were used in street/road racers, boats, track cars, even aircraft. Maybe not the whole car but the engines for sure. The CTS-V is a very refined road car, a perfect blend of power, handling and comfort. I drove many cars before buying my V (including corvettes and Porsches) and I chose the V because it doesn't just get the job done, it does it without sacrificing any of the comforts you want in a daily driver. The V is NOT a "sports car" it is a "Road car". There is a difference. You would not do with a sports car what you would do with a road car. If you drove a sports car daily you would quickly get tired of the way it rides and how uncomfortable it is. Trust me, Been there, done that.
I have a 2012 CTS & I love it but I’ve always wanted a CTS-V. But right now I don’t wanna go to the gas station frequently because I know that supercharged V8 drinks gas😅
@@lebronechilds3512 No bad meaning intended but honestly, if you have to worry about the cost of gas you really should not own a car like that. Seriously. Gas is just the start of it. Insurance is outrageous, parts are incredibly expensive and just about everything for it costs more, much more, than a regular car does. Cars like this require an owner who can afford to spend money to drive and maintain them and when they get older, the costs go up, not down as parts get harder to obtain. I had to replace the Hood on my V. It is aluminum and is only an OEM part... $4000.... for a hood.
@@kl0wnkiller912 Well, I won't argue with you on the engines because you're right. It was the choice of gangsters back in the '30's too. As well as the Ford V-8 depending on how high up the gangster was on the chain. Cadillac was always innovative with their engines. However, I was speaking more of the ride itself and not how much power the engine had. I said 'sports car' but not in the literal sense but more in the overall sense. Cadillac was always known as what might be called either a boulevard ride or highway cruiser. Between the roomy interior, plush seats like ones living room chair, the suspension that make you feel like you were floating down the road and the over assisted steering where you basically had no road feel at all, it was a true luxury automobile. In 2000, things changed. The seating became more ergonomic. You sat lower to the ground. The steering became tighter and you had all this 'road feel.' The suspension also made you feel every pebble you hit. This has gotten worse over the years. Now, you are literally pinned into the cockpit between the door and console. The seats are hard like a board. I have severe muscle issues and can't sit in them for more than 5 minutes without great pain. I knew this college guy who used to be a mechanic before deciding to pursue a degree. I hired him to do some basic work on 2 of my classic Cadillacs. I let him drive my 1976 Fleetwood Series 60 Special Brougham D'Elegance. He was literally awe struck. We went over these railroad tracks and he said 'dude......did you feel that?' I said I didn't feel a thing! And he said 'that's what I mean....we went over those tracks and it felt like they weren't even there!' I laughed and told him that was exactly they way old luxury Cadillacs were SUPPOSED to ride. That it was all in the suspension. He said he didn't even feel it in the wheel. I said ...Yeppers! He also told me he never sat in such comfortable seats and they were like a big overstuffed recliner. THIS is they type of car I liked since I was a kid and you can no longer get in an American car. So let me ask you a question. Why can't that take that awesome CTS-V engine and drop in into a body like the 1980 Fleetwood Brougham? It sounds like it would be an AWESOME car!
One of the biggest mistakes Caddilac did was to use the Northstar engine. It was plagued with problems due to headbolts and gaskets even so it didn't stop them from using it year after year. Don't think they ever really recovered from that very stupid of them.
To me a Cadillac is/suppose to be the ultimate American product. Its suppose to represent the American image in the world. Large, Powerful and Luxury that is more affordable than foreign brands. The CTS-V, ATS-V, XLR-V, gimmeeeeeeee.
Lots of inaccuracies here. Here are just three of the more obvious ones..Parts standardisation was in in 1908 not 1984. Film of side valve V8 being built. Cadillac didnt build sidevalve engines. A I capone ?
When Cadillac started making FWD cars in the '80s that's when their designs and rep all went downhill. The '93-'96 Fleetwood was the last true Cadillac with stylish full length, smooth V8, and RWD. No more traditional RWD American luxury cars after that. Sad!
A LOT of the information in this video is inaccurate, or is overgeneralized. Seat belts were mandated by law in 1964. Lots of cars had them as an option in the late 50s and early 60s, it wasn't just Cadillac. Also Cadillac did not pioneer airbags. The Oldsmobile division of GM did the engineering on them. They were offered on some full sized Olds 98s, Delta 88s, and on Buick Electras and LeSabres in 1974, but other GM cars did not offer them. So much stuff was glossed over in this video.
8:04 A missprint that only a computer can get wrong was mistaking the letter "L" for a capital letter "i" as there is no such thing as an Ai Capone. Unless he was an android from the future all along.
If someone asked me to create a video that looked like a half decent AI produced and narrated it, the video would be quite similar to this. Holy crap I finished watching this and the video is ratting itself out. At 8:06 the 'narrator' says "A.I. Capone", instead of Al Capone.
Oh dear, the Cadillac tailfin came out in *1948, not '41. Photos of cars are sometimes a decade off the accompanying narrative. Careful research please!
I needed to get replacement for my vehicle that was wrecked courtesy of black ice, so I want to use car dealership outside Lancaster. He was trying to push the Cadillac with a Northstar engine. I did a quick look up while he was chatting my wife up about a variety of vehicles that he wanted to saddle me with. That Car had 112,000 miles. I found that the spark plugs were intended to be installed but not to be removed. Yes, you read that right. How many miles were the spark plugs intended to last? 114,000 miles. Other parts had similar Limited range capabilities. The body on the given vehicle is pretty good, and it had some wonderful luxury features. However... I looked up the problem with regard to replacing a Northstar engine. Every other year they changed something about each Northstar engine that was installed in the Cadillac. This made it so that you had to have the exact year of engine to transfer from one car to another. You could not take an engine from a car that was wrecked that happened to be the 2012 and put it in one that was a 1998. Some of the changes with things like engine mounts being so many inches wider with the bolt-holes so much farther out, or with the transmission case being this much narrower than the one of the year before, and of course, the corresponding change to the body of the vehicle in which that piece had to slide in. So the guy wanted to sell me a car that didn't even have any kind of guarantee of 2,000 miles, let alone another 50 or 60 thousand miles. The new ones and engine it's going to blow up and set your whole car on fire as you're driving down the road? So I could see readily why Cadillac is such a dead dog for anyone to want to buy anymore.
Wow.... No mention of the HORRIBLE V8 6 4, 4100 V8 OR the Cadillac Cavalier Cimarron. OR the Catara, The Caddy that Zigs!!! Not to mention the Allante!!!
Seat belts standard equipment as of *1968, not '62. Mandatory belt use by law was first set in New York 1984. Your spendid speaking deserves thorough research to back it up.
Cadillac came out of the Ford motor company with Lincoln but was later sold to GM! I wouldn’t just go on the limb and throw Cadillac under the bus! All of those big cars were caught by surprise and made some flops! Mercedes and BMW caught them by surprise. Lincoln don’t even build cars anymore!
The Cadillac Catera was a big failure. GM has already shut down its Oldsmobile and Pontiac brands leaving Chevy, Buick, and Cadillac. The future is unknown. GM's quality has fallen since its 2009 bankruptcy as they make cars cheaper to save money
Because that's the "option choice" selected by the video producer. This particular voice, narrating this video, is 100% computer generated; it's not real. The real question is: Why do so many producers choose these dialects?
@@12345682900 I don't know Johnny, but appreciate your info. That does help. Possibly a cost saving measure? Ideally I'd like an announcer that sounds like they're off of the network news like Lester Holt or David Muir!
@@Samuelfish2k Apparently. There is something computer-like about it; all of them. Music for years has been the shuffling of the same deck of cards, all gimmicky. I was in a store the other day and heard what I thought was a re-make of 'A Few of My Favorite Things' by Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music by a low-grade female singer. It turned out to be only part of some awful 'larger' song that helped drive me out of the store. Ugghk.
Greedy company leaders and greedy Unions were and are their demise.. the union is just like the government, whenever they're invovled you can count on productivy/efficiency/quality to go down but costs will rise significnatly while both squeeze any profits to line their pockets.
I have an original 1967 Deville convertible with 60,000 miles. It’s a dream to drive,you couldn’t give a new Cadillac today!!The engineering they did back then was amazing and with paper and pencil,these young people today wouldn’t know where to start!
The 429 was a fine engine.
Very true there. My uncle owned mostly Cadillacs in his adult life. He went all the way when it came to cars. He loved Cadillacs which was the main reason he owned them-a 1955 Fleetwood, 1961 Sedan De Ville, 1968 Sedan De Ville. I drove them for Avis Car rental in San Diego & Tucson in the 1990’s. The Seville was great & my favorite Cadillac.
My grandfather was the production control manager at the Cadillac Clark St assembly plant in Detroit in the 40s and 50s. I’ve always been a fan of Cadillacs.
no one cares in the least, this is not about you
Wow ,thank u for sharing this history ❤
Among those engineering firsts from Cadillac is the synchronized manual transmission. Before, gear shifting was a grinding experience, even with tricky double-clutching.
8:05 Yes, it is at this time one of my favorite historical figures is discussed: A.I. Capone. People think artificial intelligence is only a modern thing and still in its infancy, but it turns out it played a large role in coordinating crime during Prohibition. Not only was it already nefariously clever back then, but apparently it also had impeccable taste in automobiles!
Until the Virtual Reality Internal Revenue Service caught on.
David Pysnik LOL! Nice! Also, when Elvis, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra etc. wanted SLASH appeal, they bought Caddys. lol.
Lllllooollll!🤣
HAHA😂. I raised it too in my gripes at multi-errors in this post. Perhaps UK is too far culturally from USA for accurate research and understanding.
Cadillac has always been GM"S Marquis Division for over One Hundred Years whe ather Gagsters drove them or not is there choice! What was significant was affordability in a Vehicle which came to be with the Ford V8 and the developing Middle Class!
The tragedy occurred when the CIMMARON was built on the Chevy body chassis
The 1976 Cadillac Seville was built on a Chevy Nova chassis, and it did more than fine.
the real tragedy was when they discontinued the full size fleetwood brougham
Don't forget the awful Catera, a lightly disguised European Opel. GM execs have been killing their own company for decades. And the disaster that has been Mary Barra is the final nail in the coffin.
@@MSX98FMDnB you are correct As
Well sir brougham!
@@Samuelfish2k Nova was a more than decent car to begin with.
I've always wanted to own a Caddy since I was knee high to the coffee table! Now, I own a 2006 STS! I absolutely love it! I was looking for a Fleetwood Brougham but they've gotten more expensive. My next ride will be another Caddy not a new car but something with personality!
Good for you brother
Find an XTS. You'll enjoy it.
Cadillac has always been my ride in good & bad times it is by far the best looking car on the road still ❤
Cadillac lost its identity and place in the market after large luxury cars started going out of fashion, along with Lincoln Town Car etc. Those floaty luxury cars were great highway cruisers
My brother bought a '77 Coup DeVille for $950.00 in 2009, we drove that car for about 10 years, I've had the privilege of driving a couple of other newer models and have always enjoyed the ride... iconic for sure.
Neglected to mention the terrible problem of blown head gaskets on the early Northstar engines due to fine threaded bolts that were too small. Definitely contributed to their downward spiral
The Northstar came good in 2000 when the casting process changed from gravity to squeeze cast. I’ve had a lovely 2000 STS and often wonders if some of the head gasket problems were caused by casting porosity in the machined face of the block. Currently drive 2011 CTS and 1959 Eldorado. Can’t beat Detroit carcatecture👍
Head gasket failure started back in the mid-eighties. Had to run them with stopleak that Caddy called something else.
That wasn’t the problem at all ya botard. The used tty bolts and if the motor overheated the bolts stretched and voila blownhead gasket. Oh fyi I’ve owned 3 northstar powered cars and never. Had an issues or blow head gasket…
@@hottipmedia7191you have no clue what you are talking about. The early northstars and 2000 up aren’t related and can’t swap parts. There is also the Lh2 northstar that came out in 04 for the 05 my great motor. All motors have some problems, I done see you bringing up ford and the focus st etc and the head gasket issues, how about toyota and the sticking throttle pedal. Your a botard and you don’t know shite
@@robj2704 no it wasn’t as bad as you guys are trying to make it sound. cadillac used the old 307 in the early 80’s I’m it’s full size great motor. The ht4100 v8 wasn’t great but it eventually turned into a reliable motor in 4.5 and then 4.9.
As a 23 y/o who owns a Chevy.. I would love to own a Cadillac over a Benz or bmw
I’ve had both Mercedes and BMW and both were extremely high maintenance and always in the shop. I got tired of constantly going to bed at night angry and upset about my cars not being in my garage and having a loaner that wasn’t I was paying for.
Would you take some advice from an old timer! sooner or later all cars break down if there not in a musium! And unless your rich, will cost a bucket of money to fix!
Cadillac, my number One favorite American Luxury car
To me cadillac died in 1978 when the last big cadillac was built before the downsizing.
Yeah i never cared for those 79-85 eldorados
1978 wasn’t the last big Cadillac, it was 1996
@@samgipson6404 Shrinkage began in 1979.
@@-oiiio-3993 Actually shrinkage began in 1977. Only ONE traditional fully full sized land yacht remained in '77 and that was the Eldorado which would continue for 2 years before a major downsizing for the 1979 model.
@@samgipson6404 Well, if you want to go by THAT size Cadillac, it was actually 1999 with the Deville. But the last rear wheel drive was 1996. Until the Escalade.
Very informative I did know that the man who started Cadillac also started Lincoln. History can teach us a lot if we would just pay attention.
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A. I. Capone? This is why computer generated voices are so horrible. READ YOUR OWN COPY!!!
Rumor has it famed gangster A.I. Capone was actually an android from the future sent back in time to ensure its own creation. Once it had done so using money it earned during Prohibition, it is thought to have turned its interests to narrating RUclips documentaries in a fake British accent. It’s only a rumor, though.
Lol I thought I was the only one that caught that
Cadillac went back to Rear Wheel Drive in 2003 with the CTS and 2 years later with the Larger STS with the 3.6 Liter V6 as well as the STS V-8. The V-6 puts out 255 Horse Power which is adequate Power for this vehicle. I purchased it used and am still enjoying it
Other than the pictures not matching the car being talked about, very good and very sad. I am one of those senior citizens who refuses to accept a rough riding compact as a Cadillac, and refuses to accept them as luxury cars. To me, a luxury car is about grand indulgence, not fuel economy, not practicality, not functionalism, just GRAND INDULGENCE. After all, it is a car for those with money, not cheapskates.
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My great uncle worked for the Fisher Body Works in Fleetwood Pa. & he always said thats were GM's got body by Fisher logo from & the Cadillac Fleetwood model name came from Fleetwood Pa. That was in the early sixty. He died in 75.
Today August 27th is 121st anniversary of Cadillac
Let's celebrate!
Yep, my 2024 Cadillac XT4 (0-60 in 7 sec) is quicker than my 2014 Toyota Highlander (0-60 in 7.6 sec) that I traded in. XT4 also handles better too.
I upgraded from a 2014 Toyota Highlander to a 2024 Cadillac XT4 this past weekend (the 2024 highlander drove the same and is pretty much the same chasis and interior so it's boring).
The Cadillac XT4 has no turbo lag that I can feel. Every other car that I test drove had turbo lag, whether short or long...Mercedes GLC300 (least turbo lag), BMW X3 (a little more turbo lag), Porsche Macan S (even more turbo lag), Honda (way too much turbo lag).
The Cadillac has these features that RUclipsrs miss:
- lighted logo behind the dashboard
- pulsating safety seat (most cars only beep)
- left behind child in the rear seat alert
- capless fuel tank (like my 2017 Corvette C7 )
- umbrella storage in the doors (like Rolls Royce)
- active noise cancellation (like my 2017 Corvette C7 with Bose)
- power passenger seat with lumbar
- free 5G hotspot
- stop/start feature is the smoothest I’ve ever experienced that I don't even notice it.
My other car is a 2017 Corvette Stingray in stickshift.
Great video man, I hope you do a similar one to Honda Motor Corp.
Thank you for appreciating, noted
GM’s tragic end started in the 1970’s with weak management and then suffered under Roger Smith and finally trashed by Mary Barra when she and her group sold GM to China. Yup, GM is the largest auto manufacturer in China. Suggested reading: American Wheels, Chinese Roads.
A big round of to
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My second highlight
In as many days!!! I love you guys. Finally
A Forum where my people ALL know Cadillac!!
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Meanwhile, back on the round Earth, GM is still a very American company in a global economy. Their success in China has enabled them to continue to survive as a global company. China is the largest auto market on the planet so to ignore it is to sign your death warrant as a manufacturer. Why should GM be criticized for having success there David??
General Motors is NOT owned by China. Period full stop.
Oil leaks, water leaks, steering gear failures, transmission problems, ac compressor failures, head bolts pulling out of blocks, the list goes on, I made good money, but many people were turned off to American cars during my career because of the crap they sold people.
Cadillac tried to re-invent themselves to attract a younger customer base and compete with high end imports but the young people in this country care as much about Cadillac as they do about this country, the just don’t and never will. When originally saw the glorified Chevy Nova called a Seville, and then when Cadillac offered the other ridiculously small cars, it was clear Cadillacs best days were behind her. Really sad to see how Cadillac, the standard of the world, is no more. 🦅🗽🇺🇸
The 1967-1970 El Dorado may have been one of the finest luxury cars ever built. Aesthetically and performance wise
The 1970 was the most powerful.
The 58 Eldorado Seville was pure class
Cadillac tragedy was not putting reliability into the design. The Northstar has plenty of power but completely unreliable, count on replacing the head gasket at some point which in turn made resale value plummet. There are other common problems but the major one is the head gasket repair$$$. It is sad.
True. And the design in the 2006 to 2011 DTS is so bad that you have to drop the engine from the bottom of the car to get to that gasket which makes replacement cost somewhere between $4 and $5K!
The HT 4100 was the first lemon of a design. Cadillac should have went after the younger rich by offering high-performance options on it's luxury cars, not by trying to make small foreign-style things.
The 2023 Black Hawk V is pretty wild.
Will blow just about everything right off the road. $100.000 car.
Seatbelts were available on 1956 Ford, and other smaller American makes.
Correct.
Ford had the 'Lifeguard Package' with seat belts, padded dash,
and visors, deep dish steering wheel, and other features for 1956.
Seat belts had been offered by Ford in 1955.
@@-oiiio-3993 same with chevy. chevy had a shoulder harness option that virtually had like 10 sales.
@@georgewilson9121 Air bags available in 1973.
They were only off by twenty years on the Northstar engine as it didn’t come out until 1993
this was a video about innovation , success , accolades and leadership. Did I miss something? Wheres the tragedy?
the founding father, how he formed the company after parting ways with HENRY FORD and then later left the company in 1917, to found yet another company.
i didnt go into detail about it though
thank you for watching the video though, you could have come up with that question only if you had watched the video till the end
@@wakocars Leland also started Lincoln.
@@-oiiio-3993 That's actually true. After Leland sold Cadillac to GM he stayed on but had a bad fight with Durant over war production and quit. That's when he founded Lincoln. It worked out well too. If you know the history, Henry Ford's backers basically stole his engine, put Leland in charge and formed Cadillac. Henry Ford almost in a grudge move bought Lincoln. But he put his son Edsel in charge. Henry was not a visionary in the sense that automotive technology should advance. He had the Model T and was happy with it and was against newer more modern models. Edsel, however, was a visionary and excellent at engineering and he partnered well with Leland who stayed with the company.
@@retroguy9494 Leland was a tinkerer and innovator with the structure of companies more than with automobiles themselves.
He excelled at bringing unsuccessful operations into order, then selling them before the corporate bean counters took over.
So many mistakes in this video, but the worst one was saying the Blues Brothers car was a Cadillac. It was a 1974 Dodge Monaco. Wow, doesn't anyone proof-watch these videos before they are uploaded?
My apologies, I'll do better next time
Cadillac lost the wreath in 2014 and the badge was elongated and thinned out.
Oldsmobile also aided the war effort by providing automatic transmissions, which consequently found their way into the late 40's Lincoln Continentals.
I have a first year 2013 XTS which I think is an outstanding automobile.
Well said..
I guess i should make a video about Oldsmobile as well
@@wakocars I hope I didn't sound rude. I love all kinds of little facts about all makes and models of American automobiles.
But Oldsmobiles are my second favorite brand. I've held on to a '47 Olds with an inline 8 and Hydra-Matic transmission and a '74 Delta 88 Royale Convertible. Only a little over 1300 made in 74 and only about 700 with the 455 Rocket and an anti-slip rear differential. More commonly known as a posi-trac. It will leave 20 feet of dual rubber strips when accelerating rapidly.
Very nice video ! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼❤️💙🤍
Before Cadillac all car controls were different. Some cars had tillers. Some had steering wheels. Some had stick shift transmissions. The Model T shifted with your foot when
you depressed the clutch. Some cars had a throttle lever, some a gas pedal. The pedals
on each car was wherever the builder chose, there was no conventions. It was like
each builder would go 'Well, lets try a little of this'. But Cadillac was the first to put the gas
on the right, brake pedal middle & clutch on the left and transmissions all used a stick. By
& by this became the standard convention & all builders followed suit even to this day.
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Well said mate
Much of the computerized dialogue is correct, but much is left out, Early on, describing Cadillac at Brooklands and picturing Lincoln at the Carrera Panamericana years later was hilarious.
Standardization of parts *1904, not 1984. Fine voice and clear speaking! (Cool to hear a UK narrator for this famed American car company.) Btw: 8:05 AL Capone, not A. I.
Thanks for appreciating.
Well noted AL Capone not AI Capone👍
Don't recall seeing a Cadillac in the blues brothers. However,john belushi did ask after there old caddy.
Cadillacs were gorgeous and eyecatching until the GM ban counters said make them all look like Spam cans.
The front wheel drive one was gorgeous but not much since then.
i don’t see anyone else talking about it in the comments, so i gotta ask… where is the documentation of cadillac manufacturing the first 4 cylinder engine? everywhere i looked it says it was Lancia or Benz Maybach?
Cadillac's ownership continued to explode after the war. Well the whole point of a luxury car is that it's a little exclusive, and not every man in the neighbourhood is driving one. Rolls Royce on the other hand never lost the exclusivity of their product line by avoiding that mistake.
Well said
Thumbs down for the clickbait title. Otherwise, good video.
It's the Cadillac of automobiles, however my dad's Northstar did blow it's heads and my 1978 deville was a thirsty dinosaur. In the 60s or 70s I would have chosen a Lincoln, brand new.
It is unfortunate that Cadillac did not expand its line to conpact and midsize cars starting in 1950
It wasn’t the northstar engine project it was the northstar system and it included the active ride control abs traction control.
The tragedy was the computer brain.
I thought it was the dreaded HT4100 engine! LOL
you're a perfect exmple of the "Dunning Kruger effect"
I always liked Cadillac for installing a DOHC 32 valve v8. I hated they put it in a front wheel drive car. I bought a 2001 Deville 5 years ago. I’ve had overheating issues from day one. I hope to one day afford to have a new engine put in it.
Yes, they were known for that. As well as head gasket issues. In fact, the 2006 to 2011 DTS engineering is so bad, that when the gasket goes its inaccessible from the hood necessitating dropping the engine out from the bottom. It can cost close to $5K to replace a $20 gasket!
Ford guys think they are the 1st brand to bring OHC to market lol... You had Chevy/Lotus designed LT5 in the '88 Zr1 and then Oldsmobile Aurora and Caddy doing the 32v after that. Well before Ford doing it in the lowly mustang.
@@05EVORS I think Ford had a tank engine with 32 valve.
Try having the radiator recorred with a thicker core. That's what I do with cronic hot runners that do not have any faults like a cracked head, leaking
Headgasket, blocked water passages, etc. It will fix the problem.
Cadillac has a perfect opportunity to capitalize on the electric car market as long as they don’t fuck it up.
Did a computer do the voice over for this video?
Yes badly
CAddys and olds used to own the road, then came the ford hot rods in the 50s. Then Chevy knocked ford out. Caddys may have been stylish all the way into the 70s but the ground pounder appeal died years before. Same with olds.
which is the tragic bit?
AI loves AI Capone 😂
I love my 2014 CTS-V coupe. Only a few bolt on mods and I get 540 Wheel Horsepower, magnetic ride suspension with Stabilitrack that really handles the road at speed and big Brembo brakes. All while sitting in Recaro heated/cooled seats, every option you could want and it rides and drives in style. Had it to 165 before physics started to get a bit scary but they are speed limited to 199 MPH and I still had a lot of tach to go. I call it my "werewolf in a Tuxedo". Sure the Hellcat is faster in a straight line but not on a twisty road and it certainly doesn't have the build quality or style. My only regret is that they stopped making the coupe in 2015 and that kept me from buying a Gen 3 CTS-V.
Well, that is exactly the problem with what Cadillac has become. It had always been a luxury car up until the rebrand in 2000. Plush comfortable seating. A floaty ride like a cloud. Over assisted steering which could be done with your pinky. Sadly, it became a kind of 'euro sport' brand where performance and technology took the place of comfort and luxury. As someone who loved traditional Cadillac's since I was 8, it broke my heart that by the time I was old enough to afford to buy a brand new one, it was no longer the model it had been pretty much since its inception. I always said if I wanted a sports car, I would BUY a sports car!
@@retroguy9494 Not true. In the 1930s through 50s Cadillac engines were widely sought after for hot rodders and racing. My grandfather worked at Buick all his life and his father was chief chassis engineer for Buick and worked on Buick's first car. He knew a lot of those people mentioned in this story and Chevrolet worked together in racing in the 1930s. In the early years Cadillac was known just as much for its performance engines as it was for the luxury side. Cadillac engines were used in street/road racers, boats, track cars, even aircraft. Maybe not the whole car but the engines for sure. The CTS-V is a very refined road car, a perfect blend of power, handling and comfort. I drove many cars before buying my V (including corvettes and Porsches) and I chose the V because it doesn't just get the job done, it does it without sacrificing any of the comforts you want in a daily driver. The V is NOT a "sports car" it is a "Road car". There is a difference. You would not do with a sports car what you would do with a road car. If you drove a sports car daily you would quickly get tired of the way it rides and how uncomfortable it is. Trust me, Been there, done that.
I have a 2012 CTS & I love it but I’ve always wanted a CTS-V. But right now I don’t wanna go to the gas station frequently because I know that supercharged V8 drinks gas😅
@@lebronechilds3512 No bad meaning intended but honestly, if you have to worry about the cost of gas you really should not own a car like that. Seriously. Gas is just the start of it. Insurance is outrageous, parts are incredibly expensive and just about everything for it costs more, much more, than a regular car does. Cars like this require an owner who can afford to spend money to drive and maintain them and when they get older, the costs go up, not down as parts get harder to obtain. I had to replace the Hood on my V. It is aluminum and is only an OEM part... $4000.... for a hood.
@@kl0wnkiller912 Well, I won't argue with you on the engines because you're right. It was the choice of gangsters back in the '30's too. As well as the Ford V-8 depending on how high up the gangster was on the chain. Cadillac was always innovative with their engines.
However, I was speaking more of the ride itself and not how much power the engine had. I said 'sports car' but not in the literal sense but more in the overall sense. Cadillac was always known as what might be called either a boulevard ride or highway cruiser. Between the roomy interior, plush seats like ones living room chair, the suspension that make you feel like you were floating down the road and the over assisted steering where you basically had no road feel at all, it was a true luxury automobile. In 2000, things changed. The seating became more ergonomic. You sat lower to the ground. The steering became tighter and you had all this 'road feel.' The suspension also made you feel every pebble you hit. This has gotten worse over the years. Now, you are literally pinned into the cockpit between the door and console. The seats are hard like a board. I have severe muscle issues and can't sit in them for more than 5 minutes without great pain.
I knew this college guy who used to be a mechanic before deciding to pursue a degree. I hired him to do some basic work on 2 of my classic Cadillacs. I let him drive my 1976 Fleetwood Series 60 Special Brougham D'Elegance. He was literally awe struck. We went over these railroad tracks and he said 'dude......did you feel that?' I said I didn't feel a thing! And he said 'that's what I mean....we went over those tracks and it felt like they weren't even there!' I laughed and told him that was exactly they way old luxury Cadillacs were SUPPOSED to ride. That it was all in the suspension. He said he didn't even feel it in the wheel. I said ...Yeppers! He also told me he never sat in such comfortable seats and they were like a big overstuffed recliner. THIS is they type of car I liked since I was a kid and you can no longer get in an American car.
So let me ask you a question. Why can't that take that awesome CTS-V engine and drop in into a body like the 1980 Fleetwood Brougham? It sounds like it would be an AWESOME car!
One of the biggest mistakes Caddilac did was to use the Northstar engine. It was plagued with problems due to headbolts and gaskets even so it didn't stop them from using it year after year. Don't think they ever really recovered from that very stupid of them.
To me a Cadillac is/suppose to be the ultimate American product. Its suppose to represent the American image in the world. Large, Powerful and Luxury that is more affordable than foreign brands. The CTS-V, ATS-V, XLR-V, gimmeeeeeeee.
‘First automobile (more specifically)with a floor mounted electric starter!!
Like all Legacy Jalopies in 2022, the gig is up, and it is Game Over for Cadillac and all the rest ...
Cadillac still has a couple more decades I reckon
Ai Capone? Natalie Cole’s pink Cadillac thought it was Aretha Franklin
Light-weight and superficial to say the least. Not all untrue, just cheaply explained.
I got a good laugh at work parking a modern white cts next to a 70s coupe In white
Al Capone, not A. I. Capone, the robot voice didn't pick up on it
Lots of inaccuracies here. Here are just three of the more obvious ones..Parts standardisation was in in 1908 not 1984.
Film of side valve V8 being built. Cadillac didnt build sidevalve engines. A I capone ?
What was it called in 1904 ?
It was called the 'Cadillac Automobile Company.'
2:15 That's the first Mercedes, not a Cadillac...
When Cadillac started making FWD cars in the '80s that's when their designs and rep all went downhill. The '93-'96 Fleetwood was the last true Cadillac with stylish full length, smooth V8, and RWD. No more traditional RWD American luxury cars after that. Sad!
A LOT of the information in this video is inaccurate, or is overgeneralized. Seat belts were mandated by law in 1964. Lots of cars had them as an option in the late 50s and early 60s, it wasn't just Cadillac. Also Cadillac did not pioneer airbags. The Oldsmobile division of GM did the engineering on them. They were offered on some full sized Olds 98s, Delta 88s, and on Buick Electras and LeSabres in 1974, but other GM cars did not offer them. So much stuff was glossed over in this video.
8:04 A missprint that only a computer can get wrong was mistaking the letter "L" for a capital letter "i" as there is no such thing as an Ai Capone. Unless he was an android from the future all along.
Cadillac is returning to its former glory - the Celestiq.
If someone asked me to create a video that looked like a half decent AI produced and narrated it, the video would be quite similar to this.
Holy crap I finished watching this and the video is ratting itself out. At 8:06 the 'narrator' says "A.I. Capone", instead of Al Capone.
"The cadillac of..."
Oh dear, the Cadillac tailfin came out in *1948, not '41. Photos of cars are sometimes a decade off the accompanying narrative. Careful research please!
Thanks for the info!
The Northstar is one of the worst engines ever made. It was junk and they knew it.
Like the HT 4100
My three kids first cars were cts s ….sporty yet luxurious….great crash rating and I’ve had minimal problems…..I love those cars
interesting
Thank you
Mary Barra is still screwing up GM.
I missed the part about tragedy.
0.22 1918 not 1984!!!!!!!!
Automated narration 🤡🤦
I needed to get replacement for my vehicle that was wrecked courtesy of black ice, so I want to use car dealership outside Lancaster. He was trying to push the Cadillac with a Northstar engine. I did a quick look up while he was chatting my wife up about a variety of vehicles that he wanted to saddle me with.
That Car had 112,000 miles. I found that the spark plugs were intended to be installed but not to be removed. Yes, you read that right. How many miles were the spark plugs intended to last? 114,000 miles.
Other parts had similar Limited range capabilities.
The body on the given vehicle is pretty good, and it had some wonderful luxury features.
However...
I looked up the problem with regard to replacing a Northstar engine.
Every other year they changed something about each Northstar engine that was installed in the Cadillac. This made it so that you had to have the exact year of engine to transfer from one car to another. You could not take an engine from a car that was wrecked that happened to be the 2012 and put it in one that was a 1998. Some of the changes with things like engine mounts being so many inches wider with the bolt-holes so much farther out, or with the transmission case being this much narrower than the one of the year before, and of course, the corresponding change to the body of the vehicle in which that piece had to slide in.
So the guy wanted to sell me a car that didn't even have any kind of guarantee of 2,000 miles, let alone another 50 or 60 thousand miles. The new ones and engine it's going to blow up and set your whole car on fire as you're driving down the road?
So I could see readily why Cadillac is such a dead dog for anyone to want to buy anymore.
Cadillac would already be gone had it not been for the Escalade
Wow.... No mention of the HORRIBLE V8 6 4, 4100 V8 OR the Cadillac Cavalier Cimarron. OR the Catara, The Caddy that Zigs!!! Not to mention the Allante!!!
Seat belts standard equipment as of *1968, not '62. Mandatory belt use by law was first set in New York 1984. Your spendid speaking deserves thorough research to back it up.
It isn’t A.I. Capone it’s Al Capone.
True mate
Is this another robot narrator. I thought the gangster was AI Capone....not A i Capone?
Yeah, the gangster was Al Capone not A i Capone
Sorry about that
Cadillac came out of the Ford motor company with Lincoln but was later sold to GM! I wouldn’t just go on the limb and throw Cadillac under the bus! All of those big cars were caught by surprise and made some flops! Mercedes and BMW caught them by surprise. Lincoln don’t even build cars anymore!
Nice robot voice! :-(
Shame about the CG voice over.
Sorry about that...now I use my real voice
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what British voice deserves to review Cadillac?
Prince Andrew? 🤣
Non-native language speakers, like a school assignment for a Thai kid
Nobody
The Cadillac Catera was a big failure. GM has already shut down its Oldsmobile and Pontiac brands leaving Chevy, Buick, and Cadillac. The future is unknown. GM's quality has fallen since its 2009 bankruptcy as they make cars cheaper to save money
Why does every video on RUclips have an announcer with a god damn Australian and/or low class British accent??!
Because that's the "option choice" selected by the video producer. This particular voice, narrating this video, is 100% computer generated; it's not real. The real question is: Why do so many producers choose these dialects?
@@12345682900 I don't know Johnny, but appreciate your info. That does help. Possibly a cost saving measure? Ideally I'd like an announcer that sounds like they're off of the network news like Lester Holt or David Muir!
@@bobpierce115 They think this accent sounds intelligent.
@@Samuelfish2k Apparently. There is something computer-like about it; all of them. Music for years has been the shuffling of the same deck of cards, all gimmicky. I was in a store the other day and heard what I thought was a re-make of 'A Few of My Favorite Things' by Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music by a low-grade female singer. It turned out to be only part of some awful 'larger' song that helped drive me out of the store. Ugghk.
@@Samuelfish2k So why not Swiss accent? Or Finnish? Or Swedish?
2016 CTS VSport. Love my Cadillac. Putting down about 500RWHP on E85.
1977 marked the beginning of the decline of Cadillac with the downsizing campaign. Cadillac started to lose its appeal, as well as quality...
So what's the tragedy ?
gas millage when the price of fuel went up in the 70's .
There r so many
What an insult on the front of this video. What a a picture of Charles Stewart Rolls doing on a video of a lowly Cadillac! How revolting!!
Wait that's Stewart Rolls
Had no idea
Jus liked the pic and thought it would look good on the thumbnail
Follow up question if u don't mind
Wat year were you born
I remember my dad’s 1969 Fleetwood Brougham. I am on my third Cadillac, a 2023 XT5. I couldn’t get my hands on a Lyriq.
Hopefully u will
I would love a lyric, but I have a slim chance of that living all the way down in New Zealand 😢
Packard was the car to have it was called the American Rolls Royce Cadillac made nice cars in there Day
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Pretty sure you mean "non-shatterable glass." No cars have shutters. Wouldn't make much sense, would it? 😃
Yes I do
I grew up hearing the term. Wow this car drives like a Cadillac. I bought a new Toyota Tundra and my dad said wow it ride smooth as a Cadillac.
They were the Gs them days
They used to be the standard of the world but GM kept the price high but lowered the quality
Greedy company leaders and greedy Unions were and are their demise.. the union is just like the government, whenever they're invovled you can count on productivy/efficiency/quality to go down but costs will rise significnatly while both squeeze any profits to line their pockets.
Ahh yes, A.I. Capone.
Al Capone
My apologies
@@wakocars I thought it was funny. It could be a character in a new Terminator movie.
@@fixyourautomobile 😂😂you think so?
@@wakocars the possibilities of cringe are endless!