I thought the government made abusing cars like this a crime. If they didn’t, they should.
/Pimp voice/
I’s wondrin’ what fool done gone an jacked my ride. When I finds him he’s gon get his ass smoked.
/Pimp voice/
Dear. God.
The second one is less bad than it could be. My sister rented a limo made out of a Chevy SUV (I forget what model), for her Birthday Extravaganza a few weeks ago. They seat more people more comfortably than a car-limo. The very fact that there’s a Cadillac SUV, of course, is horribly wrong.
That doesn’t even look like a Caddy - more like a GMC truck
[hi-jack]
For Mr. Airman. 
[/hi-jack]
If there were sound, I’d be blessing your name, since that is my oft-stated ambition.
Even without the sound, though, that’s pretty cool, and almost certainly my new wallpaper. 
That first one is just sick and wrong. I mean, its…its…its brown!
[george carlin]
Oh, that’s not brown, it’s Cinnamon Firemist!
[/george carlin]
-mdf
Oh puke.
Actually, the one in the first link looks better than any in the new Cadillac line. (I think the new Cadillacs are absolutely hideous.)
[Camp accent]
They make me want to throw right up!
[/Camp accent]
Johnny… I dunno if they all look hideous…
http://www.cadillac.com/cadillacjsp/futuremodels/xlr/nmxlr.html
IMHO, the new Cadillac’s are grotesque not only because of their styling, but because they’re trying to be something they’re not, i.e. a status symbol. For quite some time now, regular people who’ve “made it” all drive 500/600/700 series Mercedes and BMWs, or a 400 series Lexus. Or maybe a Jaguar.
A Cadillac is just another American car. A nice American car, but still perceived as a joke on the consumer. There’s still half a generation to go before the '80’s are forgotten.
Like, what’s the deal with painting the ugly-ass Chevy Avalanche/GMC Yukon a champagne-beige and changing the grille and calling it a Cadillac? I imagine you get a better keychain, or something. It’s not like they’ve installed a push-button Automatic D___ Licker.
Robert Lutz, who’s taken over GM after introducing some of Chryslers fabulous new designs has been hacking away at the various GM divisions, trying to get the designers to create decent looking cars again. Hopefully, Cadillac is next on his list.
The limo picture raises a question in my mind, as I know nothing about them.
Is it common for limos to have no passenger entrance on one side of the vehicle? There are none in the picture, so presumably they are all on the curb side.
It’s there, but there’s only one door and you can just barely see the handle above the fender well.
That could be a gas cap. I don’t see any seem farther forward to indicate where the door hinge would be. Buth then again, there is also that silver thing that looks like a stepping plate.
Tain’t the gas gap. The gas cap is covered by a round panel on those things. If you look on the running board, just in front of the rear wheel, you’ll see an anti-slip pad that’s been put on there. The only reason for having those, of course, is if someone’s going to be stepping on the thing to get in or out of the vehicle. You’ll notice the only other spot on the running board that has one is located directly below the driver’s door. There’s also a barely visible notch in the plastic trim that runs along the bottom quarter of the side panel of the vehicle. The only reason for this notch to be there is so that a door can open.
All I have here is an MP3 of the Air Force Marching band, the Air Force Hymn and something with bagpipes. (Highland Cathedral or somthing…)
Yup, I was including that one. Look at the nose. It’s just sort of chopped off; and then someone said, “Hey, let’s add a couple of chrome strips.” It’s the least ugly of the three on the Cadillac homepage though.
Well, if I had to go to the opera, I’d certainly pick this first one.