HudsonHawk
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That's great isight. I always wonder how disasters like that happen. While the Cimmaron might have been the nail in the coffin (as someone else just said), the phrase, which I remember well, "the Cadillac of X" was probably doomed anyway as luxury foreign cars entered the US market in mass in the 1980s and 90s. Until then, the pecking order at GM was clear with Cadillac sitting at the top competing only with Lincoln (and the US market was all about the Big Three). But with all these new-to-the-US luxury brands coming in, and many of them more expensive than Cadillacs, the phrase didn't stand a chance.
Rolls Royce...the Cadillac of automobiles.