A brieg introduction of Cadillac Seville!
by habits on Sep.28, 2009, under investment
The Cadillac Seville was a line of mid-sized luxury sedans that were developed by the Cadillac company to be a departure from the full-sized luxury cars of previous eras. The Seville’s air suspension was the result of pressure from foreign car markets, particularly Mercedes Benz, as well as rising old costs in the mid-1970s. The result was a line of cars that were among the first to take advantage of computerized engines while in the process slowing down the incursion of Mercedes and other imported luxury cars into the American market.
Long before Cadillac introduced the Seville as it’s own line of automobile, the name was attached to another line of Cadillacs, the Eldorado. In 1953 the Eldorado was introduced as the company’s top-of-the line model. But due to the price, only 532 of the cars were sold. The next year, Cadillac reintroduced the Eldorado in a leaner verison–as a convertible with a sticker price that was $2,000 less. The result was successful enough that in 1955, the company came out with a hard-top version of the Eldorado. To distinguish between the two, the convertible became known as the Eldorado Biarritz, and the hard top version was the Eldorado Seville and suspension parts.
By 1975, the economic landscape of the United States was a very different place for Luxury Cars. An Oil Embargo by Arab nations had made the price of fueling large luxury cars like the Cadillac a costly prospect. Adding to the economic hard times for luxury car companies, it was now more affordable to import cars from Europe. European luxury cars such as those offered by Mercedes Benz and BMW were increasingly crowding out American Luxury cars due to their smaller size.
As a result, in 1976 Cadillac introduced a mid-sized sedan that was to be the second tier line behind their flagship DeVille. Because of budgetary and time restrictions that General Motors placed on designers, the Cadillac Seville shocks were designed on the same rear-wheel drive platform as the Chevy Nova. Although the 76 model resembled the Nova, within a year it was given a very stylized appearance to help it to stand out as a new creation. It also boasted a fuel injected engine, which increased engine performance and handling. The vehicle was well received by consumers, and despite the high sticker price it sold well.
