Cadillac Eldorado (7th Generation)

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Cadillac Eldorado

1986 - 1991
Country:
USA
Engine:
V8
Capacity:
4.1 L V8 1986-1987
4.5 L V8 1988-1990
4.9 L V8 1991
Power:
n/a
Transmission:
4-spd THM440-T4 auto
Top Speed:
n/a
Number Built:
n/a
Collectability:
0 star
For 1986, yet another downsizing occurred, and it was fairly extreme. In fact, the costly Eldorado was now the same size that GM's own compact cars had been only a few years earlier, and much smaller than Lincoln's competing Mark VII.

Its styling seemed stubby, and in a final unfortunate flourish, for the first time the Eldorado abandoned its hardtop heritage and had sedan frames around its windows.

News reports later indicated that GM had been led astray by a consultant's prediction that gasoline would be at $3 per US gallon in the U.S. by 1986 and that very small luxury cars would be in demand.

In fact, gasoline prices were less than half that and the market reacted with horror. Seldom has any model experienced a more precipitous fall. Sales were only about a fifth of what they had been two years earlier.

Despite some frantic facelifting and a slight sales recovery, this Eldorado never engaged the esteem of buyers or critics and is now generally regarded as a mistake.

It staggered on through 1991.

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