1986 Cadillac Eldorado Promo
For 1986, yet another downsizing occurred, and it was fairly extreme. The Eldorado lost about 16″ in length, and some 350 pounds in weight. The convertible was discontinued. Just like in previous generations, the Eldorado shared its chassis with the Oldsmobile Toronado and Buick Riviera, as well as Eldorado’s four-door companion, the Cadillac Seville. However, the coupes from Buick and Oldsmobile both utilized Buick’s 3.8 liter V6 engine, while Cadillac continued to use their exclusive 4.1 liter V8. The $24,251 Eldorado was now the same size that GM’s own compact cars had been only a few years earlier, and considerably smaller than Lincoln’s competing Mark VII. Its styling seemed stubby, and in a final unfortunate flourish, for the first time the Eldorado abandoned its “hardtop” heritage and featured framed door glass. News reports later indicated that GM had been led astray by a consultant’s prediction that gasoline would be at $3 per gallon in the U.S. by 1986, and that small luxury cars would be in demand. In fact, gasoline prices were less than half that. With a sales drop of 60%, seldom has any model experienced a more precipitous fall. Production was only about a fifth of what it had been just two years earlier. wiki
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These old Cadillac Video’s say “road car” quite a bit.
“Be prepared for: What did you do to my Eldorado?”.
They did to much to my Eldorado…..
Fit and finish wasn´t “world class” as said here, but this cars biggest problem was it´s total lack of presence!
OMG this car is so totally ugly in my, and as showed in the figures below, many other persons eyes too!
Sales went down. In 1985 close to 80 000 Eldorados were produced, in 1986 a little more than 20 000 units came off the line….. Milestone car? Don´t think so!
1967 was not the first gen Eldorado… Just google it and search wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Eldorado
I LIKE CADILLAC ELDORADO SO SEXY FWD LUXURY CAR AWESOME 😀
It’s telling that GM was prepping its sales reps to defend their product against accusations of being crap.
1986 was a bit too much of a change over the previous generation. The 1988 refresh was an improvement and resulted in much better sales than the 1986-87.
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