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Cadillac Fleetwood.

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The Cadillac Fleetwood was one of the most luxurious cars Cadillac ever made.

The illustration above shows what a new-generation Fleetwood could look like if Cadillac was still in the big luxury sedan business. The Fleetwood name was usually added to a more mainstream Cadillac sedan like the DeVille.

Starting in 1993, the Cadillac Fleetwood became its own model, based on the Cadillac Brougham platform. Which dated from the late 1970s Cadillac Deville. The 1993 Fleetwood was quite a modern design when it came out. It almost looked like a weird production version of a Syd Mead design from some angles. No wonder the master itself was actually driving one for a while.

The Fleetwood courageously held on until 1996, with sales shrinking every year. By that time, a giant RWD sedan from Cadillac wasn’t what people wanted anymore. The CT6 and XTS were on their way. And especially, the truck-based Cadillac Escalade. Which somehow ended up ruling Cadillac…

Still, we keep hearing Cadillac is working on two all-new sedan models based on the Ultium platform.

Why not dream of a longer, more luxurious version of the largest one?

Somehting very, very different from the Cadilalc Escalade…

Conversation 25 comments

  2. Owned a couple of Cadillacs 94 wood and a2011 DTS THE 11 is not a real car Too many problems so I buy 15 Chevrolet impala may not think of Cadillac Again

  3. Well, I am 63 now and I remember the Cadillac Fleetwood Bro ham it was a beautiful vehicle to watch it. Go down the streets of Detroit where I grew up. It was a site to see so I am definitely hoping To see GM build the Cadillac Fleetwood, Once again, keep up the good work GM some of us still care

  4. Still have my 96 Fleetwood Brougham parked in garage. Nothing like a bench front seat. If Cadi brings this back, please offer a car without oversized useless consoles. Make a Fleetwood for a tall guy again ….please.

  6. As Cadillac fan…I bought a used 1979 Cadillac sedandeville from a coworker back during the 90 Olympic in Atlanta….i loved that car first time driving i took a trip from Ga to Ohio to see my grandmother in Sandusky & another trip down to Daytona Beach, fla i tell ya that thing drove like a dream…& roomy whooooo…lol…so if Cadillac planning on bringing back the big boy sedan again I will welcome it back with open arms…the other car version is just too compact & snug like but still a nice car

  7. I love it! Waiting for cadillac to bring back the car that rides as if you are on a cloud.

  8. My dad had a 1976 Sedan deVille when I was a kid. 3 tons, 500 cubes, and room for 6 6 foot plus tall adults. He went on to own 7 or 8 Cadillac’s before he passed, and I fell in love with them too. I hate what they have become over the last few years, for that matter what GM has become. I own one today, and would love to buy another soon, but they aren’t making what I want anymore. Everything is an SUV now. I want a coupe, or a sedan. GM says there is no demand for them, but look at the imports! Honda, VW, Kia, Audi. They all make cars and sell the crap out of them. Its not a supply and demand thing, its a negative perception that they need to overcome by building a better product.

  9. Cadillac needs to build the Escala. It was the most buetiful and practical concept they ever mane

  10. This site really annoys me when it comes to predictions regarding the reservation of a bygone era that will never return no matter how you ‘see’ it! NOT GONNA HAPPEN!

  12. Hideously UGLY CAR!! CADILLAC GETS UGLIER, CRAZIER & WEIRDER LOOKING IN DESIGN!!! AFTER 1993?? CADILLAC WAS NOT A NICE LOOKING CAR EVER AGAIN!! ONLY THE 2015 TO PRESENT ESCALADES ARE TOLERABLE!! BUT THAT IS IT!!! NOTHING ELSE IN A SHITTY UGLYLOOKING CADILLAC EVER AGAIN!! THEY NEED NEW CAR DESIGNERS FOR SURE!!

  13. Went to the dealership and drove a CT5. 4 cyl / dual turbo. Really snappy little car, little being the key take away.
    Don’t want another SUV, but———-?
    Bring back a big Cadillac!!!!!

  14. Well it’s about time for Cadillac come out with a bigger sedan the last was the CT6 Which I have now 2020 and there was nothing wrong with the car when they discontinued it only because it didn’t sell like they wanted it to but to make those very small Cadillac was a shame but hopefully they get it right I love bigger car and that’s what Cadillac is known for DO RIGHT BY THIS

  15. I’m a prior Cadillac owner and it would be great to see a big Fleetwood back on the road in this era, showing them what a real car looks like, luxurious, comfort, elegance.

  16. Beginning in 1948 The Cadillac Fleetwood Sixty Special was a separate car and the designation Fleetwood was reserved for the very high-end Cadillacs and was not applied to the more pedestrian Coupe de Villes, Sedan de Villes, Series 61, and Series 62 cars. Fleetwood was a company that built custom bodies for very expensive high-end cars. General Motors purchased the company and used it to build bodies for their bigger, more luxurious cars. The lesser series cars usually had a logo in the step plates that said “Body By Fisher.” A Cadillac Fleetwood was always easy to distinguish from the lesser cars by virtue of its extra length, more luxurious appointments, and some other visual cues which changed over the years. Fleetwood was also applied to the early, big, frontwheel-drive Eldorados.

  17. I own a 1972 Fleetwood Brougham and there is not a better riding automobile.That is when a Cadillac was a Cadillac.

  18. That picture I think could make for a seller, especially if they retained what appears to be clap-door configuration. That certainly would be a trump-card on Lincoln, which made its name with clap-door cars, making it much harder for them to compete without looking like copycats. Truth be told, the “suicide” perception is a moot point with all the safety components developed since the 1930s; those doors would actually be “suicide-proof.” But, being biased in favor of Lincolns, I think it’s all the better that this is nothing more than a designer’s imagination.

    Others have said that Buick makes better cars. As I do have a soft spot for Buick, especially the old Electra cars (and the ’90s Roadmasters, which I think were designed and built better than the contemporary Fleetwoods), I have to agree.

  19. I THINK CADDY is going in a GOOD DIRECTION love the V series cars make the CT4 a convertible work on more quality and reliability & some different colors inside/out with chrome and black wheels options

  20. Please built this automobile. We are in the funeral home business. We need this automobile.

  21. Germany has ruled for far to long with the S class, 7 series, A8, etc. if we truly want to make America Great again please bring the Brougham back so that I can take that nice ride down south to see relatives with now my grand kids in the big Caddie like I use to with my dad! We use to call her the road hog King!!! Stop playing GM let’s go! Make her big fly and opulent and Americans as well as everyone else will buy her off the shelf!!!!!!!!!!

  22. At the age of 21 I bought my first Cadillac elegance and I’ve been and Cadillacs every sentence with my last one is the 2014 platinum waiting for a new body style

  23. In 1972 my parents purchased a new Fleetwood brougham in 1975 the car wouldn’t start they gave me the car just to sit in and listen to the 8tracks they forgot I had always watched older men working on car I redid corborator and had it running at 14years of age I drove it to store bowling and skating what a great time and great vehicle love my Cadillacs

  24. You can build A Cadillac it does not have to have metal. We can have a fiberglass Cadillac, but a new design may be electric with a Cadillac horn.

  25. Well the first Cadillac I ever owned was in 1984 I had a coup DeVille and man that thing was beautiful in color it was like the Coco copper brown looking it was beautiful but it was a big Cadillac I stepped down to a 89 small coupe it was good but not like the big one I stepped up in 2000 the DTs it was great I went from there to the 2006 DTS I really love that car it was champagne in color dark brown leather seats I went from there to what I have now which is a 2018 Ct6 so I really wish Cadillac will bring the big Cadillacs back that’s what Cadillac is named for but it need to be affordable so let’s go Cadillac bring a affordable big Cadillac back and I know I will continue to buy a Cadillac if they start being bigger and affordable.

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