balthazar

I sold a set of '66 Catalina buckets, white, that I bought out of a junkyard for $75 for $325, tho this was the early '90s.

2-D design is even easier to make dreamy (vs. productionized) than a million dollar concept. ESP in a bird's eye view.

Yep, tho it may have been tough to accumulate 'a batch'. I've read the estimated '59 Eldo Biarritz's with buckets was around 100 units, and that is likely the most frequent installation.

It's merely photoshop, no?

Also saw a pair of buckets from a B-60 Invicta Custom, well torn up, sell for $1800. The early buckets are worth huge coin.

Cadillac is taking the XTS off the retail market?? XTS would be particularly unsuited for such unless completely discontented. I do not remotely see that happening.

Whether you like it or not, the CTS is a solid contender in it's segment, and the V has put the german twins on notice. Cadillac wasn't even in this segment before the CTS (OK; and the Catera)- since then its' taken marketshare from the german twins in this market. Sales are fine to chase.... if you're VW or Ford or toyoyo, but it shouldn't be the direction a lux brand focuses on. Building garbage trucks, cargo vans, minivans and tens of thousands of fleet vehicles doesn't make nor improve your image. mercedees didn't make it in this country by doing that before (tho they did spend decades 'Americanizing' their tinny, plain sedans), but some of that they do here now, and they've massively ramped that up overseas. Now image-crumbling FWD econoboxes are on the way, and more than 1. All to chase volume. 'Mercedes-Benz' only has 85-some years under their belt- the 2 were independent & competing companies before 1926. It'd be the same thing if Chevy & Ford merged and said they dated to 1902. I don't see how that can be ignored. And they didn't "invent" the car; numerous self-propelled vehicles were designed / built far earlier. But thanks for the quotes from mercedees.com.

And that should be free, why again? Camino is Job #1.

^ Make a little side cash, perhaps?

^ That's the sentiment spoken 5 years ago when anyone suggested BMW build ANYTHING that was FWD. BMW internal data shows their buyers WANT FWD; it'll spread. Image comes with time - BMW had ZERO image when they started importing here, and mercedes had next to nothing. Things change.

what's the market like on these Camino, or haven't you researched it yet?

^ interesting that BMW / MB are followers on that business model...

It's got one major thing going for it; it ain't white. Seems 75% of the '58-60s were. Ford didn't even show a non-white T-bird in print ads all thru '58 & '59, and a bunch of the '60 ads featured white, too.

^ Agreed - the whole flagship mantra is overblown. The 7-series doesn't sell a single 3-series.

'58 Biscayne 2-dr sedan, turquoise over black, chrome mags, very sharp, rolling.

Interesting take on sales numbers : http://tsort.info/music/faq_album_sales.htm

^ See above for the AMG window air conditioner look... This is more what I'm thinking about :

Yet mercedees, Bentley, Audi.... A lot of lux brands have a 'supercar' somehow.... RE V-10s & V-12s.... IMO it's not so much a trend as a correction to sustainable levels. We have multi-cylinder (more than 8 ) engines from so many brands, including 'entry level ones' like VW, Ford & Dodge. The business case isn't there for so many, esp when their power advantages are being eroded from below (V8s). I believe there's still a business case for a 'work of art' V-12, making it more than just a call-out on the rear deck, or looking like a window A/C unit underhood :

RE the O/P : I'd much prefer this ferrari kicking come from Cadillac than Chevy. Helluva lot more buzz factor...

everything is too narrow these days, so; probably.

It's sharp in person, looks upscale (ESP for the size it is).

^ OK, but does that mean they no longer "compete" ?

In that GM owns 50% of VM, would it be totally weird for the same engine to show up under the hood of a SIlverado?

How is it again that the Malibu "doesn't compete" with the Fusion & sonata??

It would not be a huge deal to machine a unique displacement on the LS architecture for a Cadillac-only application. Question is, what would the development cost?? I still maintain actual sales would average out much closer to 200 than 1000.