Great Cars: CADILLAC
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- One of Henry Ford's early suppliers, Henry Leland, took over from Ford and turned his first company into the maker of cars that came to symbolize the best and the excess of America. At the turn of the century many people were building cars. Most were unreliable toys for the rich - creations meant for short weekend excursions. Leland was convinced there was a better way. He borrowed precision manufacturing techniques from Colt Firearms and applied this knowledge to his cars. Soon the quality soared and his cars earned the title of the “Standard of the World.” It's a legacy Cadillac has been struggling to maintain ever since.
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I'm currently working on a 75 Coupe DeVille that my wife and I will be able to fire up on a Friday after work, run her 80mph for about 500 miles, in air conditioned comfort, to visit our daughter, son inlaw and twin grandsons on Saturday. Then, we'll get some sleep and after breakfast with them, head back home and be to work Monday morning. The car is in the paint shop now, she'll be a black beauty! We can't wait to take her for a quick shakedown run about 100 miles away to visit our son. I'll be following the wife in my pickup with tools and trailer just in case. I don't anticipate any problems though. DAMN THE GAS MILEAGE...FULL SPEED AHEAD!!!
I was born on Cadillac Blvd in Detroit and I own two Cadillac STS's (sort of a destiny deal, I guess). At least for me, they are perfect cars. I am old and don't want to unscrew caps and bend over and use a gauge to check tire pressure and in my Cadillacs I just need to push a button to do that. It gets very hot in the summer where I live and my cars have remote start so I can have the AC going before I get in. I love music and they have a 15 speaker Bose stereo system that sounds great. They ride smooth and handle great. And lastly, they are cool looking cars.
I would love to own a 1980s Cadillac Brougham. You just can't get over old Cadillacs ❤️
Sanjay Joshi so...you’re a velour fan?
Yeah, that isn't an old car. Its an old POS
Those other guys are assholes. If you want a 1980s Cadillac, damnit go get your favorite color! This is America!
Have fun!
Cadillacs are incredibly vehicles but the pre-war cars are especially beautiful.
Having Lawrence Fishbourne's voice on the commercials that say "We don't just build luxury cars. We build Cadillacs" certainly didn't hurt.
In your Post War segment, you show a 1948 Hudson. Hudson introduced the world to "step down" architecture but they didn't have fins. Cadillac did indeed have good quality until about 1971 when Cadillacs were no longer built-in a Cadillac exclusive factory and GM had created a monster in appeasing the UAW to gain an advantage over their smaller scale rivals.
Really enjoyed this. Thanks for posting. :)
Credit where it's due, placing 10th and 11th at LeMans against purpose-built racing cars is an incredible achievement!
Damn straight! And though Lincoln didn't do squat in the sales dept., they had no rivals in the International Standard Class taking top 5 places in '52, top 4 in '53, and 1st. & 2nd. in `54. Not only that, a taller rear end gearing enabled the stock engine to top 130. And the winning'52 Lincoln pounded to 200 mi grind nearly an hour ahead of Ferrari which won the year before. Clay Smith was the master mechanic that wrenched on the Lincolns then.
That was 1950. That was 69 years ago. Cadillac might have been great then. It is junk now.
@@Collateralcoffee They're ALL junk now compared to then.
@@Collateralcoffee I totally, if sadly, agree.
Placing 10th and 11th with purpose built aerodynamic one off car, and tuned coupe. It's not like they took 2 random cars from production line and raced them.
I am 64 now and when I was in my mid 20's I worked at a self service gas station, a younger customer basically STOLE a mid/late 60's Fleetwood series 60, all black with LOW miles and mint condition, that thing was a beast and pure class as it rolled in, in those days they were nearly given away regardless of condition or mileage
amazing how those gauge blocks changed everything for machinists, might want to wiki the man Elisha K Root, one of the guys maybe the guy who made Colt's operation work. Colt hired him away from the Collinsville Axe Co here in the town I live in and payed him a reported 5000 a year , Star money then for sure.
I'm nodding my head to the background music
Another truly informative and interesting video
Own a 2015 ATS coupe. Love the heritage! Hope Cadillac can compete and win in more motor sports.
What a stupid thing to say. Next is gonna be "internationally".... The US are dead, the cars are crap... what do you want?
Collateralcoffee shut up
@@Collateralcoffee To put a sock in it or get out of Dodge. Your choice.
Good video and I gave you a thumbs up.
Just being picky...but the 56 Continental Mark II was never badged or sold as a Lincoln...it was a "Continental Mark II" built by the Continental Division of the Ford Motor company...
Cadillac should build a flagship big car with the new 6.6 v8.
ich liebe cqdillac.aber die alten..mit flügeln.einfach fantastisch
Cadillac has dropped the ball badly by failing to build some of the amazing concepts they've shown. The El Miraj, for example, would have owned that segment of the market. Shoot the bean counters!
They don't want to own the market. I believe there must be money in being lackluster. Cadillac has all the same research and tech the Germans have. I owned a 2015 ats. It was a nice car. It wasn't excellent, but it was nice. I would not buy another one. I love Buicks. I wanted them to build the concept car called avista and aviner. They wud gave owned the Market. They won't do it. GM keeps building cars that a nice but not wonderful. I can't imagine ever buying another one new. I came from a GM family. But I cannot defend the brand any longer.
ENJOYING YOUR VIDEO IAM TRYING TO COLLECT CADILLAC MODELS .LOOKING FORWARD TO MORE
The Mark II was of course not a Lincoln, but a brand unto itself, the Continental!
Continental was a Lincoln sub-brand.. But it didn't really last long. Eventually they were all Lincoln Continentals.
Cadillac also made some nice professional vehicles, like the 1959 hearse which was pure art and powerful
Wouldn’t mind being dead
Those were done by after market coach builders like Meteor.
More of a packard man myself, but i like caddy’s.
The standard of the world!
Packard would like a word with you...
Jake Kaywell
Packard died. Cadillac is immortal.
@@Samuelfish2k People once thought that Packard was immortal too, as it had delivered them through WWII in an exemplary manner and built peerless cars to boot. Look what happened. Cadillac's day will come as well.
@@jakekaywell5972 I guess we are just gonna let the Germans rule the world when it comes to luxury cars. 😑
@@joshuaheaton9153 My comments were not meant to be taken as anti-American bashing. It's just reality. There will come a day when all of the existing big names, whether it be American, German, or otherwise, will be no more. It's not because they're bad either. It's just how the world works.
This video stopped being interesting when it got to the late 70's!
so did modern cars
I agree.
19:45 This video must be old because today you would add a zero to that. Eldorado Brougham in great original condition is more in the range of 200k to 300k. You can find complete beaters for 40k.
The bar and vanity kit alone is 12,000
It's got to be from the late 70s or 80s. This is where YT falls down quite often...they dated this at 2017. Ya right !
I love the history of Saab en Volvo 😜could u do. Scania
I really like the 5th generation Cadillac de Ville
Mahinda Githaiga
What year would those be?
@@Samuelfish2k between 1977 to 1984
Mahinda Githaiga
Aight, but there’s a change in generation between 79’ to the next gen in 1980. Just sayin.
I like it
Cadillac was a great car. What's rolling down the road these days is beyond me. They might have a Cadillac badge but they're not Cadillacs.
I Want to see the Episode on Citroen.Do you have it ?
I do have some Citroen segments I will be posting in the near future. Thanks for asking.
Please do and let me know when you do.I love The Citroen DS & SM & CX and others =)
Will do.
In olden days it was indeed the Standard of the World. Then slowly it became a joke, where Caddy would throw anything out there to see if suckers would buy. Forget the Cimarron, look at the engines that made entire generations of Cadillacs worthless. V-8-6-4? HT-4100? Northstar? Those impossibly bad diesels? Buyers learned that Cadillac didn’t back their lousy products and saw their resale values nosedive. The Cadillac dealer experience used to be special but now you can’t tell a Cadillac store from a Kia store. Cadillac doesn’t care, hasn’t cared for a very long time, and it shows. I’ve owned Cadillac but I’ve upped my game and will never go back.
Incredibly horrible management decisions those years.. Cadillac was disastrously mismanaged.
The '99 Deville was the last of the real Cadillacs for me.
Have had 5 Cadillacs. '58, '59, 2 '61s, '63 hearse, and a '65. The most serviceable, reliable, best built were '61-'66.
And I know it's a French word, but it's not Cad-de-lac, it's Caddle-ac, almost a silent middle syllable.Or worse as pronounced by the British guy the way British sometimes do, @8:20 is slur the "L" into a "W" "Cad-dew-ac. Ugh! :-)
The red swoopy rig made for the wealthy Swiss playboy hadda been built at the Delahey carrozzeria.
Close, but not quite. It looks like a Figoni et Falaschi body, F & F also built bodies for Delahaye and Talbot-Lago among others.
@@Palifiox Ah yes. This has been nagging me since I commented. Thank you!!!
I'm 72 and drive a CTS. It's too small. Oh I long for those old boats of yest a year!
Got a CTS. Not roomy enough
I am 39 and the Escalade is a cool suv still in the fall of 2017 but it is because it is uniquely Cadillac in looks (even if it really is just a fancy tahoe/suburban truck. Cadillac cars on the other hand are just wannabe BMWs, they may perform outstanding but not all of us want to feel the road and have shitty small cars, some of us wouldn't mind a return to big rear wheel drive two door coupes and sedans that actually seat six that drive like you are on a cloud.
But hey what do I know I drive a 1973 Lincoln Continental for a grocery getter and when I need a truck to tow my car trailer I get in my 2006 Lincoln Navigator.
How can Cadillac be a BMW wannabe when Cadillac went into business before BMW? You should do some research before you make idiotic statements.
Chuck Wagon, the Cadillac name plate has been out longer thier models especially in the car segment are all relatively new. Going by your rational, you are telling me that a CTS isn't trying to capture the 5 series market? So I ask Which one has been out longer? So your telling me a Cadillac ATS isn't trying to be a 3 series? it sure preforms like it and has the same basic size. Again which was out longer? The CT6 sure has performance and size similar to a 7 series... again which was out longer. The XTS is the newest member of the Cadillac line up and its competition is the E class benz and Audi a6 granted not BMWs but still over priced German shit boxes, from what I read it has a "XTS is a large luxury sedan that tries to please old-school land-yacht captains and new-age Germanophile drivers... Cadillac had this already years ago it was called a rear wheel drive Sedan DeVille and rear wheel drive Fleetwood. But hell, what do I know? Could it be GM turned those iconic nameplates into front wheel drive piles of fuck that nobody would drive and literally handed Germany the keys to the American Luxury car market? Meanwhile Cadillac was literally gutted and rebuilt about 12 years ago now to compete with the cars from Germany.
My point was above is Cadillac used to be an innovative brand as this video stated with styling and engineering and that everyone else had to play catch up to. Then all of a sudden they started to look and act like everyone else.
BTW, just to let you know I have owned a 1939 LaSalle, a 1952 Sedan DeVille (I wish I still had it). 1963 "6 window" Sedan DeVille, a 1969 coupe DeVille, a 1986 4.1 Seville (broke the camshaft with only 46xxx miles and I still trying to figure out whybut GM and Cadillac weren't known for good cars back then) I have had a 1999 NorthStar DeVille, that was a really nice car but it ate head gaskets... from what I have read this is common on all North star Caddie's. So I think it is safe to assume that while I may not be an expert I know my Cadillac brand.
It would also be safe to say that I like Cadillac's but not a Singl one is really innovative, yeah they may be fast and safer then they ever have been but honestly who cares?
New Cadillacs don't have anything atracting on theyr look, like the old ones did.
Cadilac Museum
Cadillac has street cred? Not on planet earth!
I'll take a 1957 Coupe DeVille...
make mine a 1981 "Cadillac" Cimarron with an 1800cc 4-banger and a 4-speed. hahahahahahahaha
gojoe283 1957 best Caddy styling ever.
I'll actually take a 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham with the 365 c.i. engine with 2 four barrel carbs developing 325 horsepower.
I've only seen one 57 Eldo Brougham in my life, unrestored, paint faded, but it was still a sweet little number.
Well, I only said I'd take it, not that there was one for sale. hahahahahahaha, I know they are super rare, but I;ve always admired that 365 engine with the carbs and the dual air cleaners.
New Cadillacs are definitely NOT Cadillacs!
It’s about time!
No they’re not I wish Cadillac and Chevrolet would leave GM. Just develop their own company and improve the quality all together
24:00. The escalade was successful, but looking back, it is seen as a joke among today's youth because it was nothing more than a fancy, badge-engineered GMC Yukon. Add some cheap luxury trim, some gimmicks, and have a rapper with gold chains promote the product, and now you can add tens of thousands more to the sticker price. Pretty much the same thing as they did with that joke called the Cimarron, minus paying a popular musician to promote an otherwise poor product. Also, the release of the second-gen escalade and hummer came in bad taste, because the events of 9/11/01 and invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq made many Americans call into question our gross consumption of material goods and fossil fuels, and rat race in general. I was in Long Beach in 2003 when an entire Hummer dealership was burned to the ground by activists. As this episode aired, the price of gasoline would soon double then triple, then GM would go through bankruptcy in 2008. All because they kept ignoring the import wave of smaller, fuel efficient cars that were both practical and people could actually afford to buy.
So nobody could get a good hummer any more ?? Damn
Does MW&Mercedes&Jaguar build not so wonderful cars?
Why talk about Cadillac while showing a Hudson?
Concept cars. Cadillac was using ideas for a new design. The car companies always borrow something from a competitor. There was more to that film
@@RADIUMGLASS I agree with the Rev. 15:08-15:20 shoes a mass produced Hudson (and 1 other concept car very briefly) but makes no mention of the name. I don't think Harley Earl designed the Hudson, so no GM link there.
@@randalmontgomery4595 The first car is definitely a Hudson, but the manufacturers use examples from other cars for brain storming.
Now cadillac NOW is just a Chevy with a few more options
Yeah, better off buying a Chevy
now made in China/Communist China,wtf?
1942
Stop the music under narration !
Older cadillacs are stunningly beautiful but the company was doomed to fail eventually. Luxury cars now have more conservatively refined body styles. Cadillac was more of an in your face I'm a big deal kind of car. It was an amazing time in automotive history for sure.
"...doomed to fail... Cadillac was... automotive history..." You're aware that Cadillac is still very much in business? [eye roll]
Cadillac isn't pronounced "Cadillac" it is actually pronounced "cad-ee-yack". It derived from a French name
It doesn't use Spanish pronuciation.
the Imperial had a better ride and was faster at the same time
James Anagnos
But they looked like shit...
@@Samuelfish2k I dont agree
James Anagnos
Imperial, like that car from around 1970 where the front looks like the back? Can’t even tell if the damn thing is coming or going... Yea that’s quite a turd mobile how can you defend that styling?
@@Samuelfish2k yes but the early years they were very good looking cars, just as nice as cady
@@Samuelfish2k superior suspention better brakes more horse power and all around handling ,whats not to like , did you ever see how they corner ? very flat comparred to Cady or Lincoln witch both lean heavy when turning also going over or coming off a steep hill they stayed level , much better ride , i have owned 4 Cadys but facts are facts
I have street "cred" yet do not drive a Cadillac. Word.
Give me a vintage 1960`s or 70`s land cruiser over the cheap ass ,overpriced throwaways they are selling now!!
great cars series seems to be all cars? they can;t all be great.,
We used the term rather loosely but did try and pick the ones out of the millions that have been built that deserved some recognition for any number of reasons. An inexact science, at best.
robdbzgt07 Yugo & Lada are missing from the group! No Yugos were great.
The brothers four
Cars were great in their own realm.
Fun Fact: GM does not stand for Gross Mismanagement. No, indeed it does not, because that would imply ineptness. GM stands for Gruesome Murderer for Killing Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn, SAAB, Holden, Daewoo and the EV1 Electric Car. Gruesome Murderer gave it their all in their efforts to Kill Opel and Lotus, but thankfully failed. But that's when GM took Killing to another level, by Killing Americans with their Special Killing Ignitions. GM earned it's name - Gruesome Murderer - by Killing brands and Americans.
I'll buy a new Cadillac the same day the Catholic church makes Judas Iscariot a saint.
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Today's Cadillac is NOT a Cadillac! Cadillac aka "The Land Yacht", is supposed to be a large, superior ride, luxury car, NOT a compact or sports car. The name Cadillac should NEVER, EVER have been placed on a TRUCK! My 1st Cadillac was a 1956, then I had 2 1973's, 1978, 1979, 1980, and a 1980 stretched limousine. Since that time Cadillac has not interested me. Contrary to popular belief, there are some people who would still appreciate a TRUE full sized luxury car, Cadillac. BTW I still believe 1956 & 1973 produced the prettiest Cadillac designs. This documentary was poorly edited and inaccurate.
Rev Thomas L. Goodwin III, ULC
How did the 2000-2005 Devilles not interest you?
My dad bought a 1956 Cadillac pick up truck in Montreal. It was a very nice truck something like an El Camino.
Cadillac Cowboy
Get a burgundy 1
Cadillac Cowboy
My 2002 Cadillac DTS looks quite stately just the way it came from the factory, 17” chrome wheels, clean black tires, tinted glass, 300hp under the hood, more interior room than any other sedan of the era and it’s so quiet and comfortable, along with leather seats that heat and massage... If you can’t dig that then that’s a you problem.
Cadillac Cowboy
Right on. I like the older Cadillacs, I’ve owned many from 1982-2002. The new ones after 2011 are the least attractive ones I’ve ever seen. It’s a shame.
Sorry. If I wanted a boat I would buy a Chris Craft.
Joe Rock
Yea but you can’t float the comfort of that boat on a cross country trip.
R E V O L T I N G
Where'd the ducks go? What? In the winter. Does someone come along with a truck and pick them up? What? Or do they just stay there?
Nature takes care of them. They're like the fish. The fish absorb nutrients thru their skin.
Surely this is ridiculous. But where did the ducks go? There used to be ducks.
They all 'ducked' out the back door and went to the bar...
General Motors is a company that has heard the word "reliability" but has never attempted to implement it. The Escalades are junk, as are so many other GM vehicles.
You got that right ! Caddys now are just junky chevys with different name badges and a few extra trinkets added here and there. Junk and glorified junk....
Cadillac ain't so reliable.
way more reliable than anything coming out of europes money pits
The brothers four
The brothers four brother
bmw cooling systems are a grenade
@@rodg011 nope it's not.
Cadillac is dead
peter455sd
Stick a Fork in IT, DEAD !!