Robert de La Rive Box Cadillac - Cadillac - Der amerikanische Traumwagen von Robert de la Rive Box

Paperback - 80 pages - many illustrations - 1993 - German

"Standard for the world" - this is how this car brand named after a French nobleman understands itself. For nine decades, Cadillac has embodied the American luxury car par excellence. Eight-cylinder, twelve-cylinder, sixteen-cylinder... In the 1930s Cadillac announced its claim to leadership in automotive engineering with top-class engines. During the 50s and 60s, the chrome-decorated road cruisers with their gigantic tail fins shaped the sense of style of an entire epoch. The disillusionments of the 70s and 80s were followed by a reorientation: class instead of mass. The traditional model names De Ville, Eldorado and Fleetwood, Sixty Special, Brougham and Seville have remained to this day.

In this illustrated book, Robert de La Rive Box describes the development of Cadillac automobiles from the archaic "Type A" with single-cylinder engine from 1902 to the saloons, coups and convertibles of 1993.