35 Facts About Cadillac

Cadillac Motor Car Division is a division of the American automobile manufacturer General Motors that designs and builds luxury vehicles.

Cadillac automobiles are at the top of the luxury field within the United States.

Cadillac is among the first automotive brands in the world, fourth in the United States only to Autocar Company and fellow GM marques Oldsmobile and Buick .

Cadillac had the first U S car to win the Royal Automobile Club of the United Kingdom's Dewar Trophy by successfully demonstrating the interchangeability of its component parts during a reliability test in 1908; this spawned the firm's slogan "Standard of the World".

Cadillac was formed from the remnants of the Henry Ford Company.

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Cadillac's biggest selling point was precision manufacturing, and therefore, reliability; a Cadillac was simply a better-made vehicle than its competitors.

From its earliest years, Cadillac aimed for precision engineering and stylish luxury finishes, causing its cars to be ranked amongst the finest in the United States.

Cadillac was the first volume manufacturer of a fully enclosed car, in 1906.

Cadillac participated in the 1908 interchangeability test in the United Kingdom, and was awarded the Dewar Trophy for the most important advancement of the year in the automobile industry.

Cadillac became General Motors' prestige division, devoted to the production of large luxury vehicles.

The Cadillac line was GM's default marque for "commercial chassis" institutional vehicles, such as limousines, ambulances, hearses and funeral home flower cars, the last three of which were custom-built by aftermarket manufacturers.

In 1912, Cadillac was the first automobile manufacturer to incorporate an electrical system enabling starting, ignition, and lighting.

In 1915, Cadillac introduced a 90-degree flathead V8 engine with 70 horsepower at 2400 rpm and 180 pound force-feet of torque, allowing its cars to attain 65 miles per hour .

In 1928 Cadillac introduced the first clashless Synchro-Mesh manual transmission, utilizing constant mesh gears.

In 1926, Cadillac recruited automobile stylist Harley Earl in a one-time consulting capacity, but his employment lasted considerably longer: by 1928, Earl was the head of the new Art and Color division and he would ultimately work for GM until he retired, over 30 years later.

Cadillac introduced the "turret top", the first all-steel roof on a passenger car.

Exacerbating sales performance for the Cadillac brand was a policy, reflective of the times, which discouraged sales to African Americans.

Nick Dreystadt, mechanic and national head of Cadillac service, urged a committee—set up to decide whether the Cadillac brand would live on—to revoke that policy.

Cadillac entered into talks with General Motors and convinced the Cadillac group his new screws would speed assembly times and therefore increase profits.

Cadillac was the first automaker to use the Phillips technology, in 1937, which was widely adopted in 1940.

Postwar Cadillac vehicles innovated many of the styling features that came to be synonymous with the late 1940s and 1950s American automobile.

On 25 November 1949, Cadillac produced its one-millionth car, a 1950 Coupe de Ville.

In 1951, Cadillac began production of the M41 Walker Bulldog army tank, which saw service in the Korean and Vietnam wars.

In 1957, Cadillac attempted to move further upmarket, creating the hand-built Series 70 Eldorado Brougham.

Cadillac's success grew against rivals Lincoln and Imperial, which had division sales topping all of Chrysler for the first time in 1970.

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Cadillac experienced record sales in 1973 and again in the late 1970s.

Cadillac brought out a dramatic redesign for the Seville in 1980 featuring a bustle-back rear-end styling theme and a move to the same front-wheel-drive chassis as the Eldorado.

In 1991, Cadillac introduced the Northstar engine, which was a family of high-performance 90° V engines produced by General Motors from 1991 to 2010.

The related Northstar System was Cadillac's trademarked name for a package of performance features introduced in mid-1992 that coupled variable valve timing, road sensing suspension, variable power steering, and four-wheel disc brakes to the Division's high-output and high-torque Northstar engines.

In 2005, the Cadillac STS was introduced as the successor to the Cadillac Seville, which beginning in 1988 was available as an upscale performance-oriented STS version, and comfort-oriented SLS .

In 2016, the Cadillac CT6 was introduced and was the brand's first full-size rear-wheel-drive sedan since the discontinuation of the Fleetwood in 1996.

In early 2017, Cadillac launched Book By Cadillac, a vehicle subscription service which was initially available in New York City.

Cadillac has won the Motor Trend Car of the Year award five times:.

Cadillac powered the Cadillac Northstar LMP a Le Mans Prototype in the early years of the American Le Mans Series from 2000 to 2002.

Cadillac returned to prototype racing in 2017 with the Cadillac DPi-V.