Cadillac v16 Mk1-Mk3 or Cadillac Eldorado Mk1-Mk20 or MK13/14!


The Cadillac V16 was the cream of the crop in luxury, even in the USA in the 1930s—and maybe the whole world ever! This car came with a V16 engine. Just think about it, an engine with 16 cylinders! Cadillac never made anything like it again. They only toyed with the idea with a prototype for a movie in the early 2000s, and that was it.

I should also mention that Cadillac has always been one of the coolest and most luxurious brands you could buy. Today, Cadillac is the only brand with a badass, sleek, and truly elegant logo.


The Cadillac V16 did have a few competitors like the Studebaker's President and Duesenberg in the early 1930s, but most of those have unfortunately gone bankrupt, unlike Cadillac.



The Cadillac Eldorado MK1-MK14 from 1915-1978 or the Cadillac Eldorado MK1-MK13/14 from 1930-1991/1996-98 or the Cadillac Eldorado MK1-MK20 or even just Cadillac Eldorado MK1-MK22 was produced up till 2011. But by then, we ain’t talking about those classic land yachts, and definitely not vintage cars. The Cadillac Eldorado was made from 1915 to 1978. The first two generations were called Phaeton, then the third and fourth were called V16 from 1930 to about 1940, and the fifth generation was called Series 75.

Series 75 was also a separate series produced in eleven generations from 1936 to 1987. This car was one of the last truly cool land yachts to go out of production.
Ford Lincoln Mark lasted until 1981 and the Cadillac model until 1991, but under the name Fleetwood. But these weren’t nearly as cool or carried the same land yacht status as the Eldorado. After 1991, they were produced as Fleetwood until 1996/1999 and as Seville Deville until 2004 and 2011. These aren’t real vintage cars and not truly Eldorado models or land yachts. Fleetwood and Deville are not, according to real data, the proper successors but much smaller versions that resembled Seville, the smallest of these. Since these were way too small, I don't agree they are successors. But anyway, they’re not vintage cars or land yachts but barely land yachts and soon-to-be vintage cars.


The term "land yacht" was the name for those big American cars, wide and long, with especially long hoods and huge pointed tailfins at the back. The tailfins, in particular, were a symbol of land yacht cult status. The more and sharper the tailfins you had, the more you were the king of the street! Especially the Eldorado I’m talking about here had cult status. It had the most prominent tailfins, especially the fifth, sixth, and seventh generations. The seventh generation Eldorado was truly the king of all land yachts and tailfin cars—and has been ever since.

Tailfin cars usually came from the US’s big push in space exploration in the 50s and 60s. The USA wanted to show the world they were the king of all superpowers. Elvis Presley supposedly bought and owned a whole bunch of pink seventh-generation Cadillacs. If you think pink is ugly, I disagree. If the King of Rock from the '50s, Elvis Presley, could drive multiple pink Cadillacs, pink can never be ugly.

While we’re on the subject, it’s a shame all cars today are black and gray. Couldn’t folks be a bit more imaginative for once? Nowadays, you barely see a pink car for weeks, and you have to really search to find a few yellow cars on a drive with your kids where you’re playing a game to spot the most yellow cars.

So hop in a pink or purple Cadillac, and you’re the king of rock from the '50s and the king of the vintage car world for retirees from the '50s!



Cadillac Fleetwood from the 80s was the last successor to the original Cadillac Eldorado.


Cadillac Phaeton from around the mid to late 1920s. 
     
















































































Two pictures above, you have a collection of Cadillac Eldorado, also known as Seville Deville Fleetwood, about 30 years old from                                                     the early to mid-1990s. These are not true vintage cars, right?


Above and below are definitely the very last remnants of the final design of the Cadillac Eldorado from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Here, as some poor reproductions known as                                                                  Eldorado, alias Deville Seville. NOT vintage cars, about 15-25 years old or less.








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