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Title: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Parker on August 15, 2013, 11:14:13 PM
For  big boss Ron and company...the Elmiraj...could this be the next Eldorado?
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18x59s8fsivf9jpg/ku-bigpic.jpg)
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18x59t9xczhkajpg/ku-xlarge.jpg)
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Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: G_Thang on August 15, 2013, 11:17:04 PM
actually, it's sweeter looking than the CL.  when does it go  into street production?  i'd say Cadillac has come a long way.
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Parker on August 15, 2013, 11:20:36 PM
actually, it's sweeter looking than the CL.  when does it go  into street production?  i'd say Cadillac has come a long way.
Its based on a ongoing project...so they are working on a flagship sedan and or coupe...
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Parker on August 15, 2013, 11:23:41 PM
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18x59ws7g0d44jpg/ku-xlarge.jpg)
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18x59pvlij321png/ku-xlarge.png)
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Roger Bacon on August 15, 2013, 11:25:35 PM
Pretty cool for a change, I wish they would go a little bit more oldschool thought, especially with the interior.  Bigger and boxier...
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Parker on August 15, 2013, 11:34:44 PM
Pretty cool for a change, I wish they would go a little bit more oldschool thought, especially with the interior.  Bigger and boxier...
When the finished product comes out, you just may have your wish...'Merica is back in the game bisishes..
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Roger Bacon on August 15, 2013, 11:35:39 PM
When the finished product comes out, you just may have your wish...'Merica is back in the game bisishes..

 :D
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Parker on August 15, 2013, 11:45:39 PM
Dat ass..
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18x5kjzzkb3c8jpg/ku-xlarge.jpg)
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: G_Thang on August 16, 2013, 12:06:33 AM
Dat ass..
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18x5kjzzkb3c8jpg/ku-xlarge.jpg)

cts coupe is nice, and this one puts it to shame.

when i was a kid, i use to laugh at guys in the south with rag top caddies.

the company has stepped its' game up against bmw (700 and 1 series are shit) and mbenz.
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: O.Z. on August 16, 2013, 12:06:47 AM
nice car, what do you think the price range would be for something like this?
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Roger Bacon on August 16, 2013, 12:08:44 AM
Dat ass..
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18x5kjzzkb3c8jpg/ku-xlarge.jpg)

Parker,

Since around the 1950's, has it gone something like this... Mercedes designs and invents original stuff, BMW copies in their later models, and even later GM, Ford, etc... copy further down the road?

It seems like every other manufacturer has body designs, or parts inspired by something Mercedes was doing a decade before.

The rear end of the Caddy reminded me.
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: G_Thang on August 16, 2013, 12:12:19 AM
Parker,

Since around the 1950's, has it gone something like this... Mercedes designs and invents original stuff, BMW copies in their later models, and even later GM, Ford, etc... copy further down the road?

It seems like every other manufacturer has body designs, or parts inspired by something Mercedes was doing a decade before.

The rear end of the Caddy reminded me.


what are the cts and escalade designs based on?  to me it seems caddy is following those traditions.  those two don't remind me of anything mbenz.
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Nomad on August 16, 2013, 12:14:34 AM
Parker,

Since around the 1950's, has it gone something like this... Mercedes designs and invents original stuff, BMW copies in their later models, and even later GM, Ford, etc... copy further down the road?

It seems like every other manufacturer has body designs, or parts inspired by something Mercedes was doing a decade before.

The rear end of the Caddy reminded me.


Well that explains why BMW have so many reliability problems now. Once Mercedes took a turn for the worse and stopped worrying about reliability, BMW soon followed.
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Roger Bacon on August 16, 2013, 12:17:16 AM
Well that explains why BMW have so many reliability problems now. Once Mercedes took a turn for the worse and stopped worrying about reliability, BMW soon followed.

Yeah, 80's and 90's MB's are still driving around with 200,000 miles looking like new cars.  While the 2000 models are already sitting in junkyards.  :-X

Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Parker on August 16, 2013, 12:41:30 AM
Parker,

Since around the 1950's, has it gone something like this... Mercedes designs and invents original stuff, BMW copies in their later models, and even later GM, Ford, etc... copy further down the road?

It seems like every other manufacturer has body designs, or parts inspired by something Mercedes was doing a decade before.

The rear end of the Caddy reminded me.

I believe it was Mercedes that was copying caddy's tail fins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Fintail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_Fintail)
(http://stwot.motortrend.com/files/2013/05/Mercedes-Benz-200-300-SE-tail-fin-studio-side-shot.jpg)

Caddy's rear end harks back tot he 60's and 70s caddy's...and if you really want to get technical, the 48 caddy was the one that kinda started the lights.
Take a look at the exhaust tips...look familiar? Well take a look at the 57 Olds..
(http://image.streetrodderweb.com/f/26296971+w750+st0/0908sr_06_z+1957_oldsmobile_rocket_88_hardtop+rear_angle.jpg)
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Parker on August 16, 2013, 12:42:41 AM
nice car, what do you think the price range would be for something like this?
$100+, I'd say 150 max, 80k low end
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: BDsauce on August 16, 2013, 01:11:45 AM
Nice Camaro
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Parker on August 16, 2013, 01:25:16 AM
Nice Camaro
Somebody on jalopnik had noticed the similar proportions
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Parker on August 16, 2013, 01:47:25 AM
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Mr Nobody on August 16, 2013, 02:07:49 AM
The pimps are going to love this one.
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: ESFitness on August 16, 2013, 04:23:28 AM
from the front it looks like a Rolls Royce... from the back it looks like a Continental GT.
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Parker on August 16, 2013, 04:42:45 AM
from the front it looks like a Rolls Royce... from the back it looks like a Continental GT.
back when Bob Lutz (Maximum Bob) was running the show, Cadillac had a full size clay model of  the ULS/ULC, which was a Bentley Continental Coupe competitor...it never came to fruition. Notice a similarity with the Bentley coupe and this Caddy in terms of side profile?
(http://image.motortrend.com/f/future/spied_vehicles/8328179+w798+h500+cr1+ar0/112_0505_future01_l.jpg)
(http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/4932/1120505future02lgc9.jpg)
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Parker on August 16, 2013, 04:53:04 AM
Still doesn't carry the same type of prestige as Audi, BMW, or MB, among the higher income demographic that Cadillac is aiming for.
take a look at the new CTS...
Thing is, if Cadillac didn't go thru it's malaise phase, you would say that. Because Cadillac and Lincoln at one time stood with the best of them...and Audi wasn't even really in the picture, just another arm of Auto Union...

This recalls the big coupes of the 60s-70s, where understated design language, and simplicity was key, yet had that  fat cat "presence".
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: epic_alien on August 16, 2013, 05:49:07 AM
so making a caddy look like a camero  is the new cool innovative thing?

i thought you car guys noticed all the little details?
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Parker on August 16, 2013, 05:53:42 AM
so making a caddy look like a camero  is the new cool innovative thing?

i thought you car guys noticed all the little details?
I don't see it, do you?
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18x59t9xczhkajpg/original.jpg)
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Akeelsolid on August 16, 2013, 09:14:19 AM
I don't see it, do you?
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18x59t9xczhkajpg/original.jpg)

I like the new concept from Cadillac, hope the company goes for it, but I wished they produced the one that was featured in "The Island" from Michael Bay, I would have picked that one up in a hurry!
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Bevo on August 16, 2013, 09:20:07 AM
take a look at the new CTS...
Thing is, if Cadillac didn't go thru it's malaise phase, you would say that. Because Cadillac and Lincoln at one time stood with the best of them...and Audi wasn't even really in the picture, just another arm of Auto Union...

This recalls the big coupes of the 60s-70s, where understated design language, and simplicity was key, yet had that  fat cat "presence".


Audi has got to be the gayest of all the German brands. Front biased all wheel drive cars...
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Z Father on August 16, 2013, 09:33:48 AM
I don't see it, do you?
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18x59t9xczhkajpg/original.jpg)

actually he makes a point.

it doesn't "look like a Camaro" but I see similiarities around the rear window and C-pillar, and the overall heft of the car.

It's a GM car at the end of the day, I would imagine some of the same desgners have input and they have their personal style.


But it's a great looking car, when GM gets it right they knock it out of the park
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Bevo on August 16, 2013, 09:35:18 AM
Will ford ever revive their Lincoln brand?
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: Parker on August 16, 2013, 09:48:17 AM
Will ford ever revive their Lincoln brand?
they are trying too...but I think we have to wait for the 2015 mustang chassis...to see what they will spin off.
Title: Re: Big Daddy Caddy Coupe
Post by: ESFitness on August 16, 2013, 10:52:22 AM
I don't see it, do you?
(http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18x59t9xczhkajpg/original.jpg)

I see a continental gt from the height of the door-sill from the rear quarterpanel to the front quarter panel.

If I was in the market for a 'lux coupe', i'd be tempted to go with a CL550, or even a pre-owned 6 series bmw or an audi S5.