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03/09/09
03/09/09
The first bustle back Seville was for model year 1980, NOT 1983.
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Hes owned dozens of Cadillacs and Lincolns, but still swears that the Bustleback Cadillac was his favourite.
03/07/09
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It even had the option of a BMW Turbo Diesel, at least for a short time.
03/07/09
/anal cartentive
03/07/09
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Long hoods with no butts
03/07/09
07/10/09
There is an odd-shaped car I like even more than the 1980 Seville, apparently.
03/06/09
The group think in Detroit is something to behold. What's most astonishing to me is that it hasn't gotten a whole lot better after all these years. Look at the current crop of faux pony cars. Ford comes out with a bloated, retro Mustang and in short order GM and Chrysler simply MUST follow suit. Another lemming leap into the ocean!
03/06/09
On the other hand, the Lincoln at least had a 302.
03/06/09
Normally I try to concentrate my thoughts into one post but I just had a "EUREKA" moment.
I just got what this was trying to be.
This car was TRYING (AND FAILED) to be a Citroen DS in the rear.
I can see the weird Citroen cut along the tail but the execution... oh lord.
This car MIGHT have MAYBE been okay if the front had been styled similarly to match the front and if it weren't so utterly useless mechanically then maybe it wouldn't be such an awful car.
But no, it was an attempt to add Citroen bodylines to an already terrible Cadillac. I get the "french" influence now.
For shame.
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That's a pain in the ass job, too. My mom had a '75 Hornet hatchback with a vinyl roof. It eventually cracked and faded to the point where it just looked like crap and she wanted it removed. Somehow, a body shop guy agreed to do it. When we got the car back, he said something to the effect of "I'm never doing that again."
03/06/09
Still, gotta give them credit for trying to, uh, combine the hideous neoclassical Zimmer with the cynicism of a Malaise era GM?
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I have always hated this car with a passion and though I admire your passion for this quirky, WEIRD vehicle, I hate them because I'd walk by one every day on my way home from school in highschool, and I always thought, GOD, that is an UGLY car.
Nice article but... that car.
Ugh. That car.
I guess what the Cadillac Seville has become my posterchild car for everything that was wrong with cars during the Malaise era and this car really seems to be the pinnacle of it.
03/06/09
The J30 was useless on the inside, with subcompact-like room, while the Seville was fine. However, the Seville was mechanically a piece of shit, while the J30 was fine.
Hmm. Nissan-powered Sevillamino, anyone?
03/06/09