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1982 Cadillac Cimarron 
Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: 
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◊ 2012-11-22 14:02 |
1982 |
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◊ 2012-11-22 16:41 |
Oh, yeah. .gif ":)") Cadillac did offer manual transmission version for the first time since the 1940's. |
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◊ 2012-11-22 18:58 |
I actually purchased a 1983 D'Oro edition for around $800.00 after talking down the original price of 1 thousand. It has 80k on the odometer and it is a fairly good car. It's FF so it is very good in the snow so far. I don't intend to keep it very long, but I like it so far. It's comfortable for its size and the look is pretty cool with the golden wheels and the stripe along the rocker panels.  I think that because it was a Cadillac, thats what caused so much anguish. If it were a Ford or a Chrysler, it would be given multiple awards for its achievements. The original price of one, though, is what I think put the nails in the coffin for the Cimarron. The name, too. Cimarron.  It sounds like a cooking instruction. |
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mister car from 971 ◊ 2013-01-04 22:48 |
Why Cadillac made this stupid car?!!! |
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◊ 2013-01-04 22:58 |
Perhaps to compete with compact luxury cars?   |
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◊ 2013-01-04 23:34 |
Because they thought people might buy it, that's usually why car companies make cars. |
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◊ 2020-10-30 12:03 |
Why was the Cadillac Cimarron horrible? |
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◊ 2020-10-30 17:19 |
on paper it wasn't a bad idea, luxury car with little fuel consumption its more the fact that the Cadillac name got related to what was mainly a rich Cavalier that buyers didn't liked there might have been also some quality/reliability issues that didn't helped -- Last edit: 2020-10-30 17:21:09 |
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◊ 2020-10-30 17:46 |
I call such cars 'candy boxes'. The cheap cartoon outside, however many chocolates inside.  |
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◊ 2020-10-30 17:47 |
At the time, Cadillac had the impression that quite a lot of their customers buying their very first Cadillac also bought their very last Cadillac at the same time - because most of them weren't everlasting Keith Richards. That was indeed a problem and they tried to solve it with a fresh, young, small Cadillac sort of thing. On the one hand, probably a wise decision using an existing concept instead of developing an entirely new one, because it failed. On the other hand, it might have worked if they actually built something entirely new rather than upgrade the J body platform. On the third hand (mmh?!) a compact Cadillac really wasn't what the world was waiting for. "Really? No way! Come on, let's try that again..." *fast forward* The Catera didn't work out either. But still: I liked the Cimarron and mine would have been a 1988, silver with red interior - but someone else bought it in the end. We had another one, looking exactly like the one above - but vomit metallic really wasn't my color...  -- Last edit: 2020-10-30 17:48:59 |
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◊ 2020-10-30 17:50 |
 would be such a wonderful color name to put in the brochure... once we stop lauging at the color name, your vision of the Cimarron's failure looks way better than mine.. -- Last edit: 2020-10-30 17:53:02 |
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◊ 2020-10-30 18:50 |
Up against the Audis, BMWs and Mercédès models of the time, not a hope, sank without trace. -- Last edit: 2020-10-30 18:50:36 |
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