Water cooling? Transverse engine spinning the wheels in front? And your conventional wisdom of needing at least a mid-sized sedan for a family of four? Nay, Jason can fit it all into his Yugo. Mercedes Streeter just wrote an excellent redemption piece on this car , and Jason brands himself as a fan of this much-maligned Cadillac as well. Sadly, a final magnum opus from a person who started his career nearly forty years before might be a bit out of touch with the current market.
Or, in the case of the Seville, aimed at exactly the market Cadillac was trying to move away from. The design inspiration for these designs comes from luxury cars of yore. Of course, those old Buicks were long, low cars with flowing lines that were quite dissimilar from the tighter-proportioned vehicles of the late seventies and eighties. It did not work with the new generations. Chrysler and Ford offered competitors for this controversial Seville in and With their release dates so close to the Cadillac, there is no way that the Lincoln and Chrysler entries could have been started after What do you do?
You or I would likely predict that this thing might be a white elephant that only the early-bird dinner crowd if anyone would like and respond by bringing over the European Ford Granada with its near-BMWseries-specs on paper as a new small Lincoln; it was really an underrated car.
Or, he might have just put fake SLC Mercedes panels onto a Cordoba chassis to woo those under fifty years old:. Neither company took these possibly more prudent paths. The new-for Fox-based Lincoln Continental sported a shape remarkably similar to the controversial Seville as well. But what if they had done just that? With gas prices at nearly five bucks a gallon adjusted for inflation and interest rates on car loans hovering at close to 16 percent, the small car was having a heyday in the States back then.
The little Castilian might have a bustle like its bigger Seville brother, but on this car that bustle is part of a hatchback for extra versatility.
