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    Italian Week: 1993 Cadillac Allanté for $22,436!

    The Only Way To Travel Is Cadillac Style: 1989 Allanté By Cadillac

    Cadillac Car! Allante!
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    04/24/09

    In reply to Italian Week: 1993 Cadillac Allanté for $22,436!
    Drop the price to the mid-teens and it would be tempting, but for $22,436 (How, exactly, did he arrive at that number?), I'm gonna mosey on over to Booth #2.
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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    04/24/09

    In reply to Italian Week: 1993 Cadillac Allanté for $22,436!
    It is a box.


    It's a freakin box.

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    Image of junkman junkman
    04/24/09

    In reply to Italian Week: 1993 Cadillac Allanté for $22,436!
    Cool car but still too many of them out there for less. No crack but still an illegal substance.
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    04/24/09

    In reply to Italian Week: 1993 Cadillac Allanté for $22,436!
    Is it beautiful? Debatable

    Is it fast? Guess not

    Is it beautiful sounding? Guess not either.

    My verdict? Crack pipe.
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    04/24/09

    In reply to Italian Week: 1993 Cadillac Allanté for $22,436!
    Early '90s GM FWD? If I could sell 21K+ in parts of it, I'd enter it in LeMons and try for the People's Curse.
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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    04/24/09

    In reply to Italian Week: 1993 Cadillac Allanté for $22,436!
    In the GTA, there are just so many crack pipe-priced early 90's Hondas and Toyotas (say two grand for a rusted out example with 300k kms) that by virtue of comparison, this is a great price. Plus, Northstar and all.
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    Image of acarr260 acarr260
    04/24/09

    @Maymar bans bare chassis hoonage: I usually just steal the cars I want in GTA.
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    Image of Mike Delozier Mike Delozier
    04/24/09

    @acarr260: Northstar doesnt mean anything, other than an engine that will grenade around 100K Miles. Another joke name by GM. Pinnafarina should be ashamed to put their name on this ugly POS.
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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    04/24/09

    @Mike Delozier: Well, sure, but it's a grenade with considerably more power than the other grenades in the Allante.
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    04/24/09

    In reply to Italian Week: 1993 Cadillac Allanté for $22,436!
    The Allante is, without question, my favorite of the FWD Cadillacs, but $22,436 is well into Crack Pipe territory. I've seen nice drivers for under $5k, and gorgeous, low mileage examples still fetch less than $10k.


    I had to look through several ads to find its intended competition for even close to (as high as) the $22k mark.


    Here's a 2000 Mercedes Benz 500 SL with a buy it now of $18,900. [cgi.ebay.com]

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    04/24/09

    @smalleyxb122: Yummy! That is most certainly "nice price."
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    Image of 413wedge 413wedge
    04/24/09

    In reply to Italian Week: 1993 Cadillac Allanté for $22,436!
    Generic styling and a TERRIBLE engine. Early northstars weren't much better than the pathetic 4200.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    04/24/09

    @ImperialCommander: You mean the 4900?
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    Image of Ash78, tryptophanatic Ash78, tryptophanatic
    04/24/09

    In reply to Italian Week: 1993 Cadillac Allanté for $22,436!
    Transverse V8 = no thanks


    I won't vote out of ignorance, but I see these every few days down here in the Sun Belt. I guess I don't see enough scarcity to warrant that kind of money. The design has held up well, though.

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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    04/24/09

    In reply to Italian Week: 1993 Cadillac Allanté for $22,436!
    Crank pipe unless it comes with Kelly Bundy and her bounce.
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    Image of zeeboid zeeboid
    04/24/09

    In reply to Italian Week: 1993 Cadillac Allanté for $22,436!
    FWD instantly dumbs the price down 10k, leaving this beast's value somewhere around 200 bucks.
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    04/24/09

    @zeeboid: LeMons beckons.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    04/24/09

    In reply to Italian Week: 1993 Cadillac Allanté for $22,436!
    The Allante was a watershed car for Cadillac, beginning their march back from being just an expensive Caprice with softer seats, more chrome and twice the price tag. For that kind of money I could get a nice 450 SL, an XJS convertible, a 740, or Lexus, or any number of luxo barges, rag top or not.


    The upside is that your soon to be extinct GM dealer can order the parts, hell, some are even down at Pep boys. But those body panels may be made of pure unobtanium.

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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    04/24/09

    In reply to Italian Week: 1993 Cadillac Allanté for $22,436!
    Well, I guess someone needs to do it...



    + Watch video
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    04/24/09

    @SCROGGZILLA!!: Whatever happened to David Faustino?
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    04/24/09

    @SCROGGZILLA!!: That's like the start of a very bad porn film.
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    Image of dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity dwegmull comments for the purpose of obscurity
    04/24/09

    @SCROGGZILLA!!: I've been watching the reruns on Spike (thank you, Tivo!): I had forgotten how funny this show was and how dumb "pumpkin" was...
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    04/24/09

    In reply to Italian Week: 1993 Cadillac Allanté for $22,436!
    Nice Price.


    I've seen '93 Allante's in good shape going for $25k, so this price is not outrageous. You also have to consider that the original price was about $55k, or about $80k in today's dollars. Also throw in the fact that this is the best looking Caddy EVAR, and you have a win-win.


    Of course, that whole FWD thing still bothers me.

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    Image of mikedrawcar mikedrawcar
    04/24/09

    @engineerd: The best looking Caddy EVAR??!?


    I'm sorry, I'm just... I don't know where to begin.

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    Image of PetroSapien PetroSapien
    04/24/09

    @mikedrawcar: ok, assuming you were a product of the 70's also, Evar in our lifetime.
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    04/24/09

    @engineerd:


    Best looking Caddy ever, really?

    Hell, it's not even the best looking wrong-wheel-drive Caddy.
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    Image of Dhillaz 2.0 Dhillaz 2.0
    04/24/09

    @mikedrawcar: I think he's trolling, but I propose...


    CADILLAC WARS


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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    04/24/09

    @Dhillaz:

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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    04/24/09

    @Dhillaz:
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    Image of Burning_(CH2-CH=CH-CH2)n Burning_(CH2-CH=CH-CH2)n
    04/24/09

    @engineerd: I'm thinking this one...Best Caddy Ever
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    Image of Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
    04/24/09

    @Ash225/6:
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    Image of Dhillaz 2.0 Dhillaz 2.0
    04/24/09

    @Burning_(CH2-CH=CH-CH2)n: Tie in with the Green theme.


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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    04/24/09

    @Dhillaz: Best looking Cadillac? Are concepts eligible?



    And what Obama should have used as his presidential limo:


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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    04/24/09

    @PetroSapien: I guess I should have qualified that.


    Because there were also these:



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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    04/24/09

    @engineerd: F***ing lack of preview!



    OK, the '48 maybe wasn't the best looking, but I have a thing for '40s and early '50s cars, before the tailfins.


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    Image of mikedrawcar mikedrawcar
    04/24/09

    @Dhillaz: no, he's legit. Probably hit his head after he woke up this morning. You okay engineerd?
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    Image of Dhillaz 2.0 Dhillaz 2.0
    04/24/09

    @mikedrawcar: I have a better explanation:


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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    04/24/09

    @Dhillaz: Yes. Yes. Yes. Please!


    Let's call it a combination of lack of caffeine, too much blood in my alcohol stream, and rushing to get a drawing package out this morning so I can go home and enjoy the nice weather.

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    Image of danio3834 danio3834
    01/27/09

    In reply to The Only Way To Travel Is Cadillac Style: 1989 Allanté By Cadillac
    I could see why the '89 would be viewed as...uninspiring.


    The later models with the Northstar engine were hot rods by early 90s standards. Quick even by todays standards.

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