Generalizations: the Five Best GM Cars Ever and the Five Worst

February 19, 2018

Cadillac Cimarron

Where to begin with the Cadillac Cimarron? Well, the name seems a decent place. Cimarron honestly sounds like the name of some kind of medication the vet would give you to deworm your dog. If only that was its biggest sin. This Caddy was an attempt to compete with European prestige cars that were becoming fashionable at the time, such as Mercs and BMWs. It lacked just about everything they had. It was just a J-Body sedan, like the Chevy Cavalier, it was not a Caddy in any way. The car was loaded up with a grim, gaudy interior, with fabrics so tacky that if Michael Jackson had bought them on a shopping spree, you’d think he’d finally lost it.

Even worse than the misleading choice of name was the price. The car cost $12,000 new, or around $31,000 today. For a Chevrolet Cavalier with an ostensibly-upgraded interior. According to insider accounts of the time, engineers hated working on the car, and salespeople were told not to refer to the car specifically as a Cadillac. This was a car which almost killed Cadillac’s reputation stone dead, and a testament to GM’s astonishing arrogance during this period.

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