| Cadillac Allanté | | | Manufacturer: | GM redirects here. For other uses, see GM (disambiguation). General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM), also known as GM, is a United States-based automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Daewoo, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Oldsmobile, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab, and Vauxhall. Chevrolet and GMC divisions produce...
General Motors | | Production: | 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. Events Environmental change Varroa destructor, an invasive parasite is found in the US October 15 - Hurricane force winds cause extensive damage in southern England. January January 1 - Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories, changes its name to Iqaluit. In 1999...
1987– 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003) Events January January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic. January 3 - In Moscow, George H. W. Bush and...
1993 | | Class: | A luxury car is a relatively expensive car. They are sometimes targets of special taxes. In contrast to a sports car, economy car or utility vehicle, luxury cars place more emphasis on comfort, appearance, and amenities than on performance, economy, or utility. See also: Limousine Acura Audi BMW Cadillac Infiniti...
Luxury car | | Successor: | Categories: Automobile stubs | Cadillac vehicles | Rear wheel drive vehicles | Luxury vehicles | Sports cars ...
Cadillac XLR | | Platform: | The V platform, or V-body, automobile platform name was used twice by General Motors. 1978-1988/1989-1993/1994-present The first V-Bodies were rear wheel drive cars and have been ever since. The fourth character in the Vehicle Identification Number for a V-body car is V...
V-body | | Related: | The Buick Reatta was a hand-made luxurious sports coupe produced from early 1988 through 1992. It was based on the E-body mechanicals used by the larger Buick Riviera (among others), but sported a trim European design that was penned by Giugiaro. Initially offered as a hardtop coupe, a...
Buick Reatta
1965 Buick Riviera The Buick Riviera was an automobile produced by Buick in the United States between the 1963 and 1999 model years. A full_size coupe or personal luxury car, the early models of the Riviera in particular have been highly praised by automotive journalists and writers. Origin of the...
Buick Riviera
1973 Eldorado convertible The Eldorado name was part of the Cadillac line from 1953 to 2003. The name refers to a legendary city of gold and was reputedly suggested by a secretary at Cadillacs home office, who considered it the only name rich enough for such an opulent model...
Cadillac Eldorado | | Body Styles: | In Automobile design, an FR, or Front-engine, Rear wheel drive, layout places the engine in the front of the vehicle and drive wheels at the rear. This was the traditional automobile layout for most of the 20th century. This layout is typically chosen for its simple design and weight...
FR 2-door Saab 900 Convertible Convertible can also refer to a convertible (security) A convertible is an automobile with a folding, retracting, or removable roof. The collapsible roof section is typically made from flexible canvas or vinyl, although plastic, aluminium and steel have occasionally been used in elaborate folding designs. Unlike a...
convertible | | Engines: | 4.1 L Cadillac was the first automobile maker to mass produce a V8 engine. The company has produced eight generations of V8s since 1914, and today is the only General Motors division to retain its own V8 design. L_Head The Type 51 was the first Cadillac V8. Introduced in 1914, it was...
HT-4100 The Liberty V8 aircraft engine clearly shows the configuration :See also V8 (beverage) A V8 engine is a V engine with eight cylinders. Overview The V8 is a very common configuration for large automobile engines. V8 engines are rarely less than 3 litres in displacement and in automobile use have...
V8
4.5 L Cadillac was the first automobile maker to mass produce a V8 engine. The company has produced eight generations of V8s since 1914, and today is the only General Motors division to retain its own V8 design. L_Head The Type 51 was the first Cadillac V8. Introduced in 1914, it was...
HT-4500 The Liberty V8 aircraft engine clearly shows the configuration :See also V8 (beverage) A V8 engine is a V engine with eight cylinders. Overview The V8 is a very common configuration for large automobile engines. V8 engines are rarely less than 3 litres in displacement and in automobile use have...
V8
4.6 L Northstar is Cadillacs name for its DOHC V8 engine. The engine was introduced in 1992 in the Cadillac Allante and continues to be used in the Cadillac STS, Cadillac SRX, and Cadillac XLR. It was sold exclusively by Cadillac for over a decade before being introduced in the Pontiac...
Northstar The Liberty V8 aircraft engine clearly shows the configuration :See also V8 (beverage) A V8 engine is a V engine with eight cylinders. Overview The V8 is a very common configuration for large automobile engines. V8 engines are rarely less than 3 litres in displacement and in automobile use have...
V8 | The Cadillac Allanté was Cadillac, when used alone, can refer to: Cadillac, Michigan Cadillac, General Motors luxury car brand. Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac (1658-1730), for whom the above are named Cadillac, a commune in the Gironde département, in France Cadillac, a Spanish pop group This is a disambiguation...
Cadillac's first venture into the luxury A roadster is a two-seat, open car, traditionally without side windows (possibly with pluggable doortops), so that even with the lightweight convertible top raised the driver and passenger remain exposed to the elements. In modern times, the word is often used to describe a two-seat convertible without fixed...
roadster market and was sold from 1987 to 1993. Its chassis and engine were taken from the 1973 Eldorado convertible The Eldorado name was part of the Cadillac line from 1953 to 2003. The name refers to a legendary city of gold and was reputedly suggested by a secretary at Cadillacs home office, who considered it the only name rich enough for such an opulent model...
Cadillac Eldorado.
Introduced in 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. Events Environmental change Varroa destructor, an invasive parasite is found in the US October 15 - Hurricane force winds cause extensive damage in southern England. January January 1 - Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories, changes its name to Iqaluit. In 1999...
1987, its primary competitor was the The Mercedes-Benz SL-Class is a series of automobiles with some of the most prestigious nameplates in the motor industry. The designation, which means Sport Light or in German, Sport Leicht, first appeared on the 1954 300SL Gullwing so nicknamed because of its passenger doors which opened upwards. The...
Mercedes-Benz 560 SL. The car, when introduced, had a 4.1 L port fuel injected (PFI) The Liberty V8 aircraft engine clearly shows the configuration :See also V8 (beverage) A V8 engine is a V engine with eight cylinders. Overview The V8 is a very common configuration for large automobile engines. V8 engines are rarely less than 3 litres in displacement and in automobile use have...
V8 engine (based on the standard Cadillac throttle-body injected V8 engine block of that time), although this was later enlarged to a 4.5 L PFI V8 rated at 200 hp (150 kW). This remained unchanged until 1993, the last year of production when the Allanté received the 4.6 L Northstar is Cadillacs name for its DOHC V8 engine. The engine was introduced in 1992 in the Cadillac Allante and continues to be used in the Cadillac STS, Cadillac SRX, and Cadillac XLR. It was sold exclusively by Cadillac for over a decade before being introduced in the Pontiac...
Northstar A double overhead cam (also called a dual overhead cam, DOHC, or twincam) engine is a type of internal combustion engine where the camshafts that operate the intake and exhaust valves are mounted above the cylinders, and where there are separate camshafts for inlet and exhaust valves. In engines with...
DOHC engine with Variable valve timing, or VVT, is a generic term for an automobile piston engine technology. VVT allows the lift, duration, and timing (or all three) of the intake or exhaust valves (or both) to be changed while the engine is in operation. Overview Piston engines normally use poppet valves for...
VVT rated at 295 L (220 kW).
The car ran with few changes through 1993 when it ceased production. Only 21,000 were built.
The A chassis (plural: chassis) consists of a framework which supports an inanimate object, analogous to an animals skeleton; for example in the construction of an automobile or of a firearm. Examples of use In the case of an automobile, the term chassis can refer to the frame and to...
chassis of the Allanté was made in This article refers to the largest city of Michigan. For other places with this name, see Detroit (disambiguation). City nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in the state of Michigan Founded July 24, 1701 County Wayne County Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (Dem) Area - Total - Water 370.2 km...
Detroit then was loaded onto specially equipped jets and shipped to The Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Repubblica Italiana or Italia) is a country in southern Europe. It comprises a boot-shaped peninsula and two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia, and shares its northern alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent countries of San...
Italy where the body (which was designed by Battista Pinin Farina Battista Pinin Farina (November 2, 1893 - April 3, 1966) was the founder of the Pininfarina S.p.A., synonymous with some of the best-known classic Italian sports cars. He changed his name in 1961 to Pininfarina, the change was authorized by President of the Italian Republic...
Pininfarina of The Ferrari Gestione Industriale logo Ferrari is an Italian manufacturer of racing cars and high-performance sports cars formed by Enzo Ferrari in 1929. At first, Scuderia Ferrari sponsored drivers and manufactured racecars; the company went into independent car production in 1946, eventually became Ferrari S.p.A., and is...
Ferrari fame) was mounted to the chassis. Afterward the cars were loaded back on the jetliners and shipped back to the The word Usa has more than one meaning: U.S.A. - The United States of America Usa, Oita - A city in Japan This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you...
USA for completion. This led to a few interesting nicknames, such as "the flying Cadillac from Italy" and "the world's longest assembly line."
The Allanté was initially priced at The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. It is also widely used as a reserve currency outside of the United States. Currently, the issuance of currency is controlled by the Federal Reserve Banking system. The most commonly used symbol for the U.S. dollar is...
US$54,000, far above the price of any other contemporary Cadillac. Today's Categories: Automobile stubs | Cadillac vehicles | Rear wheel drive vehicles | Luxury vehicles | Sports cars ...
Cadillac XLR, also a convertible roadster, at roughly $70,000 is similarly priced at the top of the Cadillac range.
The car has appeared in the movies Cadillac Man, Terminal Velocity and Lethal Weapon 3 is a 1992 film starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci and Rene Russo. It is a sequel to Lethal Weapon and Lethal Weapon 2. The movie is set in 1992, five years after Riggs (Gibson) and Murtaugh (Glover) originally meet. The pair are joined by their...
Lethal Weapon 3.
External links
- Allante Owners' Association (http://www.allante.com)
- Delaware Valley Allanté/XLR Appreciation Group (http://www.allante-xlr.com)
| Cadillac is a brand of luxury automobile, part of the General Motors corporation, produced and mostly sold in the USA; outside of North America, they have been less successful. In the United States, the name became a synonym for high quality, used in such phrases as the Cadillac of clocks...
Cadillac road car timeline, 1930s-present ( edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Cadillac_timeline&action=edit)) | | Type | Events and trends Technology Jet engine invented Science Nuclear fission discovered by Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann Pluto, the ninth planet from the Sun, is discovered by Clyde Tombaugh British biologist Arthur Tansley coins term ecosystem War, peace and politics Socialists proclaim The death of Capitalism Rise to...
1930s | Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s Years: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Events and trends Technology First nuclear bomb First cruise missile, the V1 flying bomb and the first ballistic missile, the...
1940s | Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb. See History of nuclear weapons Sputnik, the first man-made satellite, and thus the Sputnik crisis The De Havilland Comet enters service as the worlds first jet airliner Charles Townes builds a maser in 1953 at Columbia University...
1950s | Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Years: 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. Many of the trends of...
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1970s | Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends Technology Bulletin board system popularity Popularization of personal computers, Walkmans, VHS videocassette recorders, and compact disc (CD) players Introduction of the IBM PC Home video games become enormously popular, most notably Atari until the market crashes in 1983; the rise...
1980s | Events and trends Technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology Reduction in size and cost of mobile phones leads to a massive surge in their popularity Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K) Microsoft Windows operating system becomes virtually ubiquitous on IBM...
1990s | This article is about the decade starting at the beginning of 2000 and ending at the end of 2009. For the century or millennium starting in 2000, see the links below. Millennia: 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium - 4th millennium Centuries: 20th century - 21st century - 22nd century Decades: 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s...
2000s | | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | | Entry | | The Cadillac Series 60 was the companys mid-priced vehicle line when it appeared in 1936. It was replaced by the Series 61 in 1940, but the offshoot Sixty Special continued through 1993. Note that the model names of the 1930s used the year as well. So a Series...
60 | 61 | | 61 | | | | | The Cadillac Cimarron car was first introduced by General Motors for model year 1982. Although GM had experimented before with smaller Cadillacs such as the Seville models, the Cimarron was by far the smallest and, in many opinions, the least distinguished Cadillac model ever produced, before or since. General Motors...
Cimarron | | | | The BLS is Cadillacs 2006 entry level front wheel drive sedan designed specifically for the European market. The car is based on the automakers Epsilon architecture and is built in the same plant in Trollhättan, Sweden that builds the Saab 9-3. A range of engines...
BLS | | Value | 355 | The Series 70 (models 70 and 75) was Cadillacs full-size V8-powered car from the 1930s through 1950s. It replaced the 1935 355-D as the companys mainstream car just as the much less-expensive Series 60 was introduced. The Series 80 (models 80 and 85) were...
70/80 | 62 | | Series 62 | 6200 | In 1965 Cadillac renamed the entry-level Cadillac Series 62 the Calais, after the French resort town of Calais. It was available in 2 and 4-door hardtop versions as well as the formal-roof 4-door sedan, which was a hybrid with frameless, hardtop-like windows, but with a...
Calais | | | | The Cadillac Catera was a mid-sized automobile that was, essentially, a rebadged version of the 1994 model year Opel Omega MV6 made in Rüsselheim, Germany. It was marketed in North America as an entry-level Cadillac, but with softened suspension settings compared to the original Opel. The Catera...
Catera | | Cadillac CTS The CTS is Cadillacs entry-level luxury sedan. Introduced in 2003, the CTS rode on General Motors new Sigma rear-wheel drive architecture and signified both a return to rear-wheel drive and was the first Cadillac with a manual transmission since the Cadillac Cimarron. The CTS...
CTS | | Mainstream | | | | | The prestigious Coupe de Ville name (sometimes written Coupe Deville or Coupe DeVille) entered the Cadillac line in 1949 on the new pillarless hardtop coupe bodystyle. The four-door hardtop Sedan de Ville was unveiled to complement its two-door stablemate in 1956, and the two were mainstays of the...
Coupe de Ville/ The Cadillac Deville is Cadillacs largest and most luxurious car model. It is sometimes converted for limousine use. Partly to justify its high price, it tends to feature leading-edge automotive technology. It was one of the first cars to feature airbags, Night-vision technology, XM Satellite Radio, OnStar...
Sedan de Ville | The Cadillac DTS replaces the Cadillac DeVille as that carmakers largest luxury car for the 2006 model year. The DTS follows the naming and styling direction set by the earlier CTS and STS. The design of the DTS was introduced in a unique way. A special DTS limousine was...
DTS | | Large | 355 | The Series 70 (models 70 and 75) was Cadillacs full-size V8-powered car from the 1930s through 1950s. It replaced the 1935 355-D as the companys mainstream car just as the much less-expensive Series 60 was introduced. The Series 80 (models 80 and 85) were...
72/75/85 | | The Series 70 (models 70 and 75) was Cadillacs full-size V8-powered car from the 1930s through 1950s. It replaced the 1935 355-D as the companys mainstream car just as the much less-expensive Series 60 was introduced. The Series 80 (models 80 and 85) were...
Series 75 | The Series 70 (models 70 and 75) was Cadillacs full-size V8-powered car from the 1930s through 1950s. It replaced the 1935 355-D as the companys mainstream car just as the much less-expensive Series 60 was introduced. The Series 80 (models 80 and 85) were...
6700 | The Fleetwood name was used on the top of the Cadillac line since 1927. The name comes from Fleetwood Metal Body, the in-house coachbuilder which began producing custom Cadillac bodies years earlier. In 1946, Cadillac created a special version of the Series 60 called the Series 60 Special Fleetwood...
Fleetwood 75 | The Fleetwood name was used on the top of the Cadillac line since 1927. The name comes from Fleetwood Metal Body, the in-house coachbuilder which began producing custom Cadillac bodies years earlier. In 1946, Cadillac created a special version of the Series 60 called the Series 60 Special Fleetwood...
FL | The Fleetwood name was used on the top of the Cadillac line since 1927. The name comes from Fleetwood Metal Body, the in-house coachbuilder which began producing custom Cadillac bodies years earlier. In 1946, Cadillac created a special version of the Series 60 called the Series 60 Special Fleetwood...
FB | The Cadillac Brougham was the last rear wheel drive Cadillac in the 1990s. It used the super-long 121.5 in wheelbase D-body platform, and used 5.0 L and 5.7 L Chevrolet small-block V8 engines. The Brougham was retired in 1992 as the...
Brougham | The Fleetwood name was used on the top of the Cadillac line since 1927. The name comes from Fleetwood Metal Body, the in-house coachbuilder which began producing custom Cadillac bodies years earlier. In 1946, Cadillac created a special version of the Series 60 called the Series 60 Special Fleetwood...
Flwd | | | | Premium | | | | | | | | The Seville, introduced in 1975, was Cadillacs answer to the fuel crunch of the early 1970s, and the rising popularity of luxury imports in the USA from Europe, such as Mercedes_Benz and BMW. At one time, Cadillac toyed with the idea of bringing back the LaSalle moniker for its...
Seville | The STS is a luxury car sold by Cadillac. The STS name was previously an upscale trim level of the Cadillac Seville, but that name was retired for 2005. 2005 It is based on the GM Sigma platform, and replaces the Cadillac Seville. It is a rear wheel drive car...
STS | | Luxury | | The Sixty Special name has been used at Cadillac to denote a special model since the 1938 Bill Mitchell-designed Series 60 derivative. Though the Series 60 was replaced by the Series 61 in 1941, the Series Sixty name continued for decades. 1938 A special version of the Series 60...
60S | | The Sixty Special name has been used at Cadillac to denote a special model since the 1938 Bill Mitchell-designed Series 60 derivative. Though the Series 60 was replaced by the Series 61 in 1941, the Series Sixty name continued for decades. 1938 A special version of the Series 60...
Sixty Special Fleetwood | The Sixty Special name has been used at Cadillac to denote a special model since the 1938 Bill Mitchell-designed Series 60 derivative. Though the Series 60 was replaced by the Series 61 in 1941, the Series Sixty name continued for decades. 1938 A special version of the Series 60...
Flwd60S | The Fleetwood name was used on the top of the Cadillac line since 1927. The name comes from Fleetwood Metal Body, the in-house coachbuilder which began producing custom Cadillac bodies years earlier. In 1946, Cadillac created a special version of the Series 60 called the Series 60 Special Fleetwood...
Fleetwood | | | | Personal | | | | | | 1973 Eldorado convertible The Eldorado name was part of the Cadillac line from 1953 to 2003. The name refers to a legendary city of gold and was reputedly suggested by a secretary at Cadillacs home office, who considered it the only name rich enough for such an opulent model...
Eldorado | | | Truck | | | | | | | | | | This article needs cleanup. Please edit this article to conform to a higher standard of article quality. A Cadillac Escalade in front of a Wal-Mart in Los Lunas, New Mexico The Cadillac Escalade was introduced for the 1999 model year in response to German, Japanese competitors and Fords...
Escalade | | Crossover | | | | | | | | | | | The Cadillac SRX is a luxury SUV based on the companys rear wheel drive Sigma automobile platform. Engine options include the 4.6 L Northstar V8 and High-Feature V6. The SRX won Car and Drivers Five Best Trucks luxury SUV award for 2004 and was nominated...
SRX | | Roadster | | | | | | | | | Allanté | | | Categories: Automobile stubs | Cadillac vehicles | Rear wheel drive vehicles | Luxury vehicles | Sports cars ...
XLR | | Halo | The Cadillac V-16 was Cadillacs top-of-the-line car from its January 1930 launch until production ceased in 1940 as the war in Europe killed sales. All were finished to custom order, and the car was built in very small numbers; only 4076 cars were constructed in...
V-16 | | | | | 1973 Eldorado convertible The Eldorado name was part of the Cadillac line from 1953 to 2003. The name refers to a legendary city of gold and was reputedly suggested by a secretary at Cadillacs home office, who considered it the only name rich enough for such an opulent model...
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