#Cadillac De ville

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1966 Cadillac De ville

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twas a '98 polo green de ville. its so pretty bro

See? Shows what I know!

I went and checked, by the way, because that seemed exactly like the right car in the right period of time, and indeed, all De Villes made from 1996 were equipped with the Northstar V8.

I made roughly this face.

To make a long story short, someone at Cadillac saw the legendarily good LS V8 they freely had available as part of General Motors and thought "You know what we should do? Spend an absolute fortune to develop a V8 of our own that fulfills exactly the same purpose". And apparently the people sensible enough to run the place were all on vacation, because lo and behold, we got the Northstar V8, a Cadillac-only V8 that was supposed to tell the world that Cadillac is still bangin', babey! We're not just throwing GM parts together here, we're putting in effort and making something serious, something unique, something Cadillac! Something whose together-keeping threads just shear off after a while. Woo, Cadillac. You were so brave for this one.

But since I don't wanna be all negative, let me tell you about what "98 polo green" made me think about!

In 1996, the Volkswagen Polo was coming out with new colors! And they were like "Let's show the motor show audiences our new colors in a fun, captivating way!" and so they made a Polo out of pieces of all the new colors!

And then they got a FLOOD of dealers shouting WE WANT THIS NOW and they were like "Oh all these new colors are coming in-" and they were like NO we want THIS and they were like "Ah Sheiße" (fuck) and so they begrudgingly took a set of four cars of four different colors off the production line, swapped their body panels around to create the color combinations you see below, and kept repeating the process until they got one entire thousand of Polo "Harlekin"s.

Which vaporized off the lot before they could say "That ought to be enough" in German (and in German it's just 5 syllables so that's saying something), so they upped the production to around 3800 total, which were sold over two years without letting the customers pick the color combination they got.

They also did this to the Golf for the US market (now spelling it 'Harlequin'), but they only made 264 and some of them had to be un-harlequin'd by reshuffling the different colored parts back into four uniformly colored cars (and sometimes just straight up repainted) to be moved off the lot. And they say it's Germans who lack sense of humor.

But I know what you are wondering - or at least, what you will react to with "fuck that's actually a very good question" upon reading: what the fuck do these cars' documents say under "color"? The answer is actually pretty logical (these are German cars after all): the car was one single color when it rolled off the production line, and while they bolted parts of different colors onto it, that color remains in the non-replaceable elements like roof, sills, rear pillar, and all the inside parts like door seams, engine bay, underside and what have you - so that is the color the car legally is.

So yeah man there's your fun facts about the Cadillac De Ville.

Links in blue are posts of mine explaining the words in question - if you liked this post, you might like those!

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Die Cast Car of the day: 1969 Cadillac De Ville (Boss Hogg's Car) from The Dukes of Hazzard by Ertl #toy #toys #cars #diecastcars #cadillac #cadillacdeville #1969cadillacdeville #BossHogg #TheDukesOfHazzard #ertl #80s

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1961 Cadillac Coupe DeVille

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1955 Cadillac Series 62 Coupe Deville

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1979 Cadillac Coupe de Ville

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1950 Cadillac Series 62 Coupé de Ville

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1962 Cadillac Coupe DeVille

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1983 Cadillac Coupe De Ville

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Perfect

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1953 Cadillac Coupe De Ville

Cadillac celebrated its Golden Anniversary in 1952 commemorating 50 years of automotive engineering excellence in a luxury brand. Cadillac began their second 50 years with the 1953 model year line-up offering some of the greatest achievements in automotive history. Cadillac was always the leader in automotive technology and engineering excellence…the “Standard of the World” in uncompromising luxury. The series 62 Coupe deVille was in its fifth year of splendor on the American highways.

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what do you know about the cadillac de ville? i saw one for sale in my area on autotrader and fell in love, but sadly i dont have my permit or license

Haha, which one?

Because the one on the left is from 1959, the one on the right from 2005, and the only thing the two don't have between them is a year in which the De Ville was not produced - so, as you can imagine, there's been quite the lot of different De Villes! Especially considering American automakers changed up their cars' styling every single year between late 50s and early 70s, so that your car's styling aged a lot sooner and so that 1 year used cars didn't look as fresh as the new ones.

Considering you tell me you fell in love with it, while the beauty of cars is every one of them is loved by someone, I consider it less likely you're talking about a post-1985, front-wheel-drive, arguably lost-the-plot De Ville...

...and considering you're bemoaning your lack of permit I will assume we're talking about an example at least affordable enough to dream of, so I'll assume not the 1950s "Coupe de Ville"s nor the first and second De Ville generations...

...could it be the third ('65-'70)? Possible. They start from around $15k, but hey, maybe that's within your reach (or at least your dreams').

Fourth and fifth one are cheaper still -plenty under $20k- so it could also be these.

So yeah, I fear I'll need the year to get deeper (I'll bet on '65-'75, but what the hell do I know) - but I can say they all have an imposing presence that goes beyond their truly gargantuan size, they are truly incredible to sit in (I rode in an Eldorado, which is a different model but not that far apart, so I can testify that personally :D) and they gobble up fuel at truly staggering rates, so be prepared for that ;)

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General Motors Corp, 1960

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1963 Cadillac Coupe deVille and Series 62 Convertible

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1975 Cadillac Coupe DeVille

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1976 Cadillac Coupe de Ville