El Camino, el, el, Camino. the front looks like a car, the back looks like a truck, the front is where you ride, the back is where you.......

......Put you beer.

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I kind of hope there is an extra fee for having to use a commercial license. There is little need for ANYONE to be driving around in anything over 6 thousand pounds.

First and foremost I would never spend that much money for any vehicle.

I require very little from a vehicle. Take me where I want to go and bring me back safely and be stingy with the gas.

I live six miles out on a dirt road in the country woods and none of these would last one week out here.

It might look pretty on the highway but they would be useless out here in the true country.

I think all US cars were basically trucks, just smaller.
No new design for years.
The Corvette was a highly praised design.
I suppose the first Thunderbird as well.

Independent wheel suspension and rack and pinion steering
was foreign.

US had leaf springs used on wagon trains or horse cabs.
GM has a spring suspension.

Ground effects that even Lyne had a hand in is seen under
some chassis now.


ED: I want to add a thought I had about making a new design.
Look at the problem DeLorian had.


[edit on 5/31/2009 by TeslaandLyne]

I think thats how Cadillac started.
Making trucks.
Although a History Channel show about the car industry indicated
that the new company was the first to have a motor starter instead
of a hand crank.

Yet trucks were around and hardly think they had hand crank starters.
So taking the truck start technology to the car was first by Cadillac.

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Cadillacs are reliable, good looking, smooth handling cars or trucks. So I have a thought. What if Cadillac started a pickup truck line up? Does anyone know if G.M. is working on a Cadillac pickup truck concept? I would love to see how they do with a pickup truck design.

Originally posted by paranormal78
Cadillacs are reliable, good looking, smooth handling cars or trucks. So I have a thought. What if Cadillac started a pickup truck line up? Does anyone know if G.M. is working on a Cadillac pickup truck concept? I would love to see how they do with a pickup truck design.

Trucks are for people to use for work, people that buy a brand new Cadillac don't work... at least in the sense most people know

Joking aside, I don't think a straight up truck is the image that Cadillac wants, basically for the previously mentioned reasons. A truck is a working class vehicle, a Cadillac is a status symbol for a different kind of people (or, at least that's what Cadillac WANTS to be)

Plus, if Cadillac were to release an actual truck, it would just be some re-badged Chevy, just like the Escalade is. If someone wants a truck for utility reasons, odds are they wouldn't pay 10 grand more for a Caddy vs. a Chevy. And if you are pretty well-off, what do you need a truck for? You hire illegal immigrants to do everything for you.

The only Cadillac I like is the CTS-V. That thing is a beast, and looks good too. I had a lot of trim driving a friend's V6 CTS, I liked it quite a bit, but WAY too much money for what you get. I'd rather buy a used Audi S6 to be honest. Although I do like the way the Cadillac looks more.

Speaking of untrucklike trucks (if that's a word) I LOVE the GMC Cylone. I used to have a Typhoon, those trucks are absolutely crazy fast. If someone agrees to race you, they probably don't know what they are, and will most likely loose. I used to love getting the "You want to try and race me in THAT!?" look from the ricers. Followed by the "I can't believe you just beat me in THAT!" look.

Car companies make money by volume.

So they basically stamp out the same piece parts and reconfigure them into different Brands in order to increase profits.

Look at the muscle car era for example. The early Muscle Cars such as the GTO.

What was a GTO ? A Pontiac Tempest Lemans sedan (meaning bucket seats) with a GTO option meaning bigger V8 engine, suspension and badges. But thousands more than the standard Tempest.

What was a Plymouth Roadrunner ?
A plain jane Plymouth Satellite with a bigger Engine, suspension and Badges....

My people used to by the basic sedans and outfit them as GTOs .....and were called Sleepers.
Performed like a GTO but said Lemans on the side....for alot less than paying for the GTO badges.
AND saved you alot on your Insurance Premiums !!!



A Chevy Tahoe, GMC Yukon or a Cadillac Escalade are essentially the same vehicle.
The only difference being, the badge on the grill, the plastic grill itself and possibly the engine options.

If you were to take them apart they're essentially the same vehicle.

A Cadillac Truck ?!

Don't make me laugh, it's a marketing solution to use existing Truck parts and merely place a Cadillac badge on front and rear for Profit !

That's why you can bolt on a Cadillac Grill to a GM Truck for example...

It's as if you could take a $20. out of your wallet ....add a zero to the "20" instantly making it worth $200. !!

Wouldn't you do it , If you could ?!

This is essentially what the car companies are doing.


And That's also how the Car companies make money.....It's called Badge Engineering.

that's an awesome ride Cheesefacedogbone! Do you know the guy who did the work on this thing? It looks like someone took a Chevy Silverado and swapped the front end with a Cadillac.