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This car damaged Cadillac's reputation so badly that GM actually considered killing the brand completely at one point. Just think about that.
@Tim I'm right there with you man. This is atrocious. I'm embarrassed that it's even wearing Cadillac's emblem.
Description: The Cimarron was not the first rebadged car to fail, but it has become a symbol of why rebadging doesn't work partly because it failed so spectacularly and partly because there is evidence that e...
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Description: Interestingly, Cadillac preferred not to call it the Cadillac Cimarron, but rather "Cimarron by Cadillac", suggesting that it knew the car to be an embarrassment right from the beginning, an...
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I always see a couple in auto trader magazines, usually with a very, um, optimistic asking price.
Description: Mercedes-Benz in particular made Cadillac especially nervous, and it was decided that a smaller and less barge-like model would keep them from losing sales to the Huns. GM had been working on a new pl...
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Description: The differences between the Cimarron and the econobox Chevrolet Cavalier were few, and were all cosmetic. There have been successful badge-engineered luxury cars before, but these have always been car...
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The difference is the Cygnet only exists to meet with the EU's fleet mileage requirements. The Cimarron was a cynical attempt to make an entry luxury car on the cheap and turn a profit to make up for past mistakes.
Haha, the Cygnet. Atl east it still has Aston cues in it. This has no Cadillac cues.
That is an absolutely awful looking interior. ESPECIALLY for a Cadillac. Who in the world sat down in this in the dealership and went "I like it, this is pretty nice, I'll take it"? I'll bet the salesman was like "Seriously? Ok cool then."
I normally dislike Erich's commentary, but I'll defend him here. His V8 comment was directed at Lee calling it a "small block" which refers to a V8, which this car is not. He was asking why Lee would even think an engine like this could be a V8.
Description: But the Cygnet is different, it's so obviously done to meet fleet fuel economy regulations that nobody is really taking it seriously. This includes Aston Martin, who haven't set unrealistic ...
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I have no clue Anton, I was thinking the same thing. Must have just been such a sad era for cars that people were used to the ugliness and just wanted a cheap new car. Who knows?
I'm surprised it sold that many. That's more than all Suzuki sales last year.
Description: The 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine and its 88 horsepower certainly didn't help convince anyone that this was a real Cadillac, and even the later addition of a V6 was too little too late. But a bi...
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My guess is there's a percentage of Caddy buyers who put down money on neat anything with a Cadillac badge. People who want something easy to park and don't care what their bhp figure is.
Cadillac tried an experiment to see there was a market, there wasn't and the experiment failed. But at least they tried.
And that's a 1980's four banger, which meant it was excessively noisy and would start burning oil after a few thousand miles.
Description: It carried with it a huge sticker shock, never a good quality in a shockingly terrible car. So Cadillac's first car to come with a manual transmission since 1953 and its first four-cylinder engin...
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@Colby Was that really necessary? I think he was just referring to Cadillac having a small sport sedan; not the badge swapping aspect.
At least with the Catera they had the sense to rebadge a car from another country that was of decent quality. It's not what I would call luxury but I still see plenty of them in good condition these days.
Cody are you stupid? The ATS was built from the ground up as a Cadillac and shares no badge with anything. It also beats every competition in its price range, is cheaper, and looks great. Completely different. Ignorance must be contagious...
Awful
I'm with Connor. Articles of this type are interesting because we are informed about the history of an automobile and manufacturer in a unique fashion that we otherwise would never have known.
Bean counters running things
Love these types of series! Hah