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Was the diesel really standard on these?

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Typical Ford of the era: Sloppy steering, sloppy handling, sloppy fit, sloppy carburetion and overall, just a a heap. Not that GM was any better back then, but they were the better of the lot among the (then) Big 4.

My favorite is the 1956 Lincoln premier.

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I bet this kind of real-world testing is not done anymore. Just computer simulations.

Listen to how he speaks. His diction. That's called English.

That test was 40 years ago but i bet you remember it like yesterday. Not everyone gets the opportunity to drive a Rolls for a week.

Better off with a fox body fairmont futura.

Squeek?

My dads 92 fleetwood brougham is practically the same very nice vehicle.

Thanks anyway ill keep my vega.

This car was built on a Friday or Monday.

Unfortunately, I owned two of these rolling garbage cans😢

This was arguably the best-designed and well-engineered Cadillac Eldorado since the 1967-69 generation. I owned the 1983 model in Western Saddle Copper Firemist and can attest to the fabulous driveability and controlled, smooth ride of this generation. That 4-wheel, independent suspension was well thought-out and truly made the 1979-85 generation Eldorado the best handling of all generations, save for the 1992-2002 ETC. The sophisticated and complex electronics all performed flawlessly. Cadillac had vastly improved their Climate Control system. My 1983 model always blew ice-cold air conditioning. Fantastic Bose Sound system. My only, sole complaint of the 1979-1985 generation is of the engines of the 1982-1985 models. That so-called, "HT4100" boat anchor was only good for a boat anchor. Though mine never gave any problems of widely-reported coolant and oil leaks, it was just dead slow. Around town, no problems. Freeway and passing problems were terrible. Top speed was around 85mph. Too undersized displacement for such a heavy automobile. Cadillac should have kept the trusty, Cadillac 368cid EFI big block in this car. However, my fuel mileage was phenomenal @ 18mpg.

I fondly remember the introduction of this new-sized Cadillac in April 1975. I went crazy over it. I was only 14 years old then, but I had gasoline surging in my veins. I just knew that even with the high price tag, Cadillac would sell everyone of them that they could build. Begged my father to trade in my mother's 2-year-old Cadillac Calais. "Absolutely no way!" Fast forward to the early 1980s - Our design office had a 1978 Cadillac Seville company car of which 5 of us shared. I "drove the wheels off" of that car! I eagerly looked forward to every time I drove that beautiful car. Cadillac had scored a huge hit! The first-generation Seville was without a doubt, one of the greatest automobiles of the era. BTW.........these cars were far more fuel efficient than this video suggests. Our office Seville had a digital dash panel with the Cadillac Trip Computer. That car always delivered a consistent 15mpg in town! It achieved nearly 19mpg on extended highway trips.

Vietnam. I have a distinct memory, from about age ten, of watching Huntley and Brinkley giving the weekly casualty reports from the Vietnam War.

In the late 80's, I had one of these as a race car. It was the biggest straight 6 you could get, with the dodge being 225 and Chev being 250. On top of that a 318 dodge 2bbl cerb would bolt right up, making this a no brainer...till the officials caught on...

Journalism has risen to a new low.

We have short memories it seems.

My parents bought a Toyota Celica GT in 1977. It was perfect from the get go. No loose panels, squeaks and rattles or crappy paint. It's not wonder the Japanese captured so much of the market when the Big Three would putting out turds like that.

This was the only one that came with the best engine Oldsmobile 5.7 EFI

This Broadcast was Not on May 18, 1980

1:59 No that's Not Mt. Helens Eruption

1:59 No that Not Mt. Helens Eruption

AMC: “Bet nobody will ever design a car as ugly as the Pacer.” Ford: “Hold my beer.”

With all due respect the taxpayers were subsidizing the interstate and state highways in Miami too in 1994. 2:39 This Danny Alvarez guy hit the nail on the head about development though. I rode Metromover yesterday and there is development all around the stations now.

Should’ve kept them out now look at what’s happened to south Florida

Whenever I see a Chrysler from this area I always think of The Simpsons episode when krusty the clown was a kid and his Rabbi father was asked "Would you buy a Chrysler"?

The only thing missing is the "Not starting" light on the instrument panel.

$7K for this crap what was beyond crazy even back then.

Huh consider me lucky mine only have a small water leak in the trunk

A month before this broadcast (June 25) Chet was a guest on the Dick Cavett Show on the ABC network. Also on the show was Janis Joplin and Raquel Welch. Chet had a good time.

Have a good look at a pre WWII Zephyr...the body shell alone is more expensively built than THREE of these!

The anchorwoman with Bob also worked at kwqc tv6 in davenport Iowa.

Lee was way ahead of his time. “Where have all the leaders gone!”

The ideal car to blow a fart in.

I still like the reviews for the American luxury cars and the quality issues they had lol

$65,000 in 1980. Ford did a comparison in 1980 for a Rolls-Royce and a $7500 LTD.

Quite complimentary!

That thing had HAIR on it! If I'd forked out $7100 for that bucket of malevolent junk, I'd wanna hurt someone.

Power steering like that is dangerous.

These were actually excellent cars. They became the Lincoln Town Car - they had the same basic body until I believe 1989. They were known for routinely going 200,000 miles no problem.

An engineer came up with the idea of not rolling the rear windows down 😂

Disgusting...there is no excuse for such crappy quality. $6000 could by a LOT of used car in 1979...I dunno - like an old Volvo, or a decent AMC Hornet was probably only $1000.

Pretty silly - if they wanted their return on the unbuilt CKDs, Latin America would have probably been a good market: Renault had a big presence in Argentina and Brazil.

Nothing saves automotive aggravation quite like some basic mechanical and product knowledge, a set of tools and some elbow grease - get an old, proven design for chicken feed, prepare it for the road and service it on time...enjoy your savings!

Far out, Man...with all those annoyances, one would be better off in a secondhand '64 Imperial or something like it - instead of $12,000, you could pay $800, add new tyres, brakes and shocks and still have over ten grand to play with! They deserved to go bankrupt.

There was a strike going on at the time a lot of these cars were built. They had a skeleton crew and the cars were just thrown together and if there was an issue a supervisor or Foreman would just say "its the dealer's problem.

This was Tesla's quality benchmark