Big Daddy Caddy Coupe

[Parker]

For  big boss Ron and company...the Elmiraj...could this be the next Eldorado?

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[G_Thang]

actually, it's sweeter looking than the CL.  when does it go  into street production?  i'd say Cadillac has come a long way.

[Parker]

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...

[Parker]

[Roger Bacon]

Pretty cool for a change, I wish they would go a little bit more oldschool thought, especially with the interior.  Bigger and boxier...

[Parker]

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..

[Roger Bacon]

When the finished product comes out, you just may have your wish...'Merica is back in the game bisishes..

 

[Parker]

Dat ass..

[G_Thang]

Dat ass..

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.

[O.Z.]

nice car, what do you think the price range would be for something like this?

[Roger Bacon]

Dat ass..

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.

[G_Thang]

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.

[Nomad]

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.

[Roger Bacon]

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. 

[Parker]

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


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..

[Parker]

nice car, what do you think the price range would be for something like this?

$100+, I'd say 150 max, 80k low end

[BDsauce]

Nice Camaro

[Parker]

Nice Camaro

Somebody on jalopnik had noticed the similar proportions

[Parker]

[Mr Nobody]

The pimps are going to love this one.

[ESFitness]

from the front it looks like a Rolls Royce... from the back it looks like a Continental GT.

[Parker]

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?

[Parker]

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".

[epic_alien]

so making a caddy look like a camero  is the new cool innovative thing?

i thought you car guys noticed all the little details?

[Parker]

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?